Zenos: The Big Bad (The Feedback Thread, Part 1)

[EaraGrace]

Tbh, it’s very obvious that 5.3 was changed/rushed. One of the most telling things is the whole plot line about the crystarium people wanting to be WoL. They spent a lot of 5.2 to set it up almost as if we were going to have to fight them in 5.3, but then at the start of 5.3 they just write it off in one random dialogue sentence of “oh they decided not to become WoL.” And then of course there’s Elidibus just absolutely feeling like a completely different character. They didn’t seem to even look back at ARR to see his goals and how even all the way back then he was already setting stuff up.

Perhaps I’m giving too much credit but I don’t think that really fits.

The interview, unless I’m misreading it, doesn’t really say these decisions were rushed. Those kind of discussions of are part of any long running story, and could have happened at any point in the development process, including long before 5.3 launched.

5.2 as well wasn’t hand waved away, many of those who wanted to be WoL did become ones after gaining the echo, only some stayed. And the whole reason Elidibus did what he did wasn’t to create an army, but whip people into a Warrior of Light frenzy and feed off that hope and reverence as quasi-primal, allowing him overcome the power difference that had developed post-shadowbringers.

Not too mention I felt they did a pretty good job justifying why Elidibus acted the way he was acting. His compulsion to act as a mediator for the convocation, coupled with an only vague recollection of his time before becoming Zodiarks core fits his actions in ARR, where he largely tried to mediate the two sides and act as ambassador while still ultimately sticking with the unsundered.