What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[KizuyaKatogami]

Is the story completely perfect? Of course not. I really disliked everything about Zenos myself and rolled my eyes when he appeared at the end. Most stories rarely are, especially when they go on this long. But I've also learned to enjoy stories for the story telling itself. I try not to overanalzye things too far- don't get me wrong, analyzation of themes and plot is fine, but when people overdo it, they tend to stop enjoying things altogether. We had a friend who did that with every Marvel movie we went to. We knew there were issues with them at times, but we just went to enjoy the characters, the story and the action while he would constantly talk about the implausibility of certain things, or how it didn't make sense plotwise, or how it was too corny or how it wasn't like the comics. Eventually, we stopped inviting him to go with us because he sucked all the fun out of just enjoying a story for what it is.

And "A portion of the community" is a bit of an understatement. It's got a 94% use approval on metacritic and 91% critical approval. Most of the dislike actually seems to be concentrated on the forums here. I get that some people don't like it, but personally I'm glad all my Scion friends survived. I like happy endings. I like being drawn in by the characters and the emotions. Doesn't make my enjoyment of the game any less valid like some here seem to believe.

I don’t know how much metacritic reviews matter in the grand scheme of things. I personally don’t really look at anything if that measure because a lot of that stuff has a history of being rigged. I don’t think there’s any such thing as a perfect story, however i expected at least the same tier of story as shadowbringers had. This expansion however, for being a conclusion missed numerous marks. Even without hyper analyzing, just the simple thing like the scion plot in Ultima Thule completely contradicting the expansions theme threw me for a loop, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The thing is as well, i’d like to just say eh, well sucks the story was bad at least i have other stuff but…i mean even content wise we kind of missed out on stuff between all the gear reusing and the missing dungeon set etc. It makes me wonder what all the delay and hype was for.

[Conundrum]

I don’t know how much metacritic reviews matter in the grand scheme of things.

Literally not a single entertainment scoring system on the internet has any credibility.

Bought reviews...

Fanboys/Haters skewing reviews..

Scores based on things other than the quality of the media...

"Agendas"

etc...