Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
The fact that Zenos killed Varis, a character with so much more potential and history behind him is a travesty and a writing decision i’ll never agree with.
Varis had so much potential in the first half of the meeting at the tail end of SB's patches. Shame he went off the deep end in the second half and then was killed off by Zenos.

I don't necessarily hate selfish, chaotic villains. But Zenos doesn't do it for me. I can get behind a shallow but fun villain like Kefka or the Emperor from Star Wars. Even Fandaniel's starting to grow on me in that regard. But Zenos just bores me. It doesn't help that he feels like a villain sue who just one shots everything in his path and never has to actually struggle, scheme or work toward everything. In his partnership with Fandaniel it feels like Fandaniel's doing most of the actual work and Zenos is just along for the ride. They missed a golden opportunity to actually put Zenos under pressure having to use inferior bodies to reclaim his own but he never has any trouble or struggle to overcome. Even making Elidibus flee his body and warp off to the void without a real fight.

Zenos is one of those villains that's invincible until the story says it's time for the hero to defeat them and that's just not satisfying for me, at all. Kefka for example had to spend the first half of the game using underhanded tricks, running away when things got too hot, and scheming/betraying his way into power when the time was right. He didn't just show up into the story with the power to toss the main characters around.

I just find nothing there to engage with. He doesn't need to be sympathetic but I need SOMETHING and right now he just isn't offering anything for me.