Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Nalien]

I'd say stick with what we have in the MSQ... Let the Scions have cinematic fights, while we get actual fights in the form of instanced trials... I loved the Grand Melee and our fight with Regula for that... Perhaps our final encounter with Derplander can function a bit more like that, with some Praetorium mixed in; Lets say you go in against all of them with all our Scion buddies. We get them down to a certain %, then a cutscene triggers, perhaps Blanhaerz and Y'shtola get an involved cutscene that takes them out of the fight proper, and we carry on with them removed, then that continues until it's just us against Derplander, with the final blow knocking him back in a cutscene similar to what we saw with Gaius. Would we be involved much in those epic cutscenes? No, not at all... I don't think we need to be though...

Actually, thinking about it... The Anima quests could be perfect for a more involved fight scene... You're locked to a specific weapon for it, so all the animations can be tied to that... Would likely involve giving us some actual unique content for the upgrade process, but I've been arguing for that since forever... Tired of these lifeless grinds, I want something akin to the Balrahn fight in XI... Can easily have something more than; "Beat trial, cut to cutscene, big bad gets knocked back" with something like that... You could have White Mages throwing out Stone II against the big bad, while Dragoons could use some Jumps... Could even have the Anima itself get involved (assuming we're not fighting the Anima) and just make a really interesting set of cutscenes...