Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
Great storytelling.
To me it is? Like, don't get me wrong, after we killed him I was certain a bit disappointed. Like ... that"s it? I doubt there are many out there that didn't feel that way "at that moment". The point is, after present with the whole picture and appreciate the story in its entirely, it makes sense. It would have been disappointed if his death doesn't mean anything, we kill him and everyone get to go home happy. But no, his death trigger the real calamity, so it's not at all pointless. I treat him as another wheel of the whole store, you seem to want him to be "the" story.

And no, they did the samething in Stormblood. If Metion/EndSinger is an asspull character for you, then Zenos should be one as well. The leading up at the end of Heavenward had not mention of him. Rather, it was Varis. We met him on Azylla, we attacked his province, we even meet and hand him the official declaration of war. When I first ran into Zenos I thought him as nothing more than a powerful general, certainly didn't aspect him to attend godhood while Varis (the emperor of the freaking Empire) was like ... completely sideline, not to mention also died unceremoniously. I don't know about you, but like I said if you think EndWalker is ass-pull, then FF14 has been ass-pulling all alone, so just maybe ... it isn't that?

Again, that's a style, the story has been supervising our expectation of what is a true threat. Think about it, in a way, Germlan is pretty much given the same treatment as Zodiak: what's supposed to be the ultimate obstacle turned out just a stepping stone in the larger story.