Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
I thought that was dumb. Even Captain Madison from Sastasha can trounce the player if they fought him mono e mono. The game from the very start has conditioned us to fight bosses with a party, so having to fight a tough boss one on one establishes nothing.


And it's a stereotypical anime villain setup. "I'm so powerful, I don't have to care." Or "Your 1000 years too early to face me!" No reason for why he's powerful, no backstory for why he's so sadistic, no reason why he's got the loyalty of so many disloyal ashats. I can't even say he's two dimensional. Just another insane person that's been given power in the world because we needed a bad guy to do bad things.
"He's the most diplomatic man I've ever met! Promote him to Ambassador at once!" - Probably Zenos


Lady Iceheart made a better villain because she was three dimensional. She had motivations, beliefs and could be reasoned with. She wasn't all about power or destroying the world. Some may even debate if she was a villain. That's the mark of better writing.
This reasoning doesn't work because with the Sastacha captain....you just can't enter a dungeon under-leveled no matter what and only are allowed to go solo if you're unsynced above the level cap

In all solo instances however,the game always trained you that all enemies are at the same level as you even ones you're scripted to lose against......not Zenos though and it that helped emphasized the power he had over the Warrior of Light at the time and how,in story,the WoL worked his/her way up freeing both Ala Mhigo and Doma and gaining bit by bit enough strength that would culminate in the Battle with shinryu in the Royal Manigerie