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

[iheartlove42]

I’ve played every final fantasy game barring 11. If we really want to go down the “14 is like the other ff’s” then shall i bring up how the past ff games have actually had consequences for the protagonists and killed off their characters? If you read some of these posts you’d see that while people do take issue with meteion or what have you, there’s much more being said about the actual themes, how they’re contradicted numerous times, and(in peoples opinion) the overall poor writing for this end of a 10 year long arc.

I've also played pretty much every Final Fantasy game as well as various other JRPG's. FFXIV itself gave the impression of wanting to tell a mature, coherent story rather than plunge into the pitfalls that led so many other games in the genre astray.

In addition, as someone who left WoW due to that game jumping the shark with its own storytelling? Well, it's a shame to see yet another MMO arguably make some of the same mistakes!

They do kill off characters in previous expansions. The Scions heavily followed in Endwalker were the core members that everyone stans. If any one of them died you two would be writing an essay in a different thread about how that's bad writing according to this Youtube channel you watched or just being mad your favorite character died. The last major Scion they killed off (Papalymo) made a lot of people seethe.

Not everything has to be grimdark or GoT style where characters die left and right, eventually the shock wears off. For example, Avatar: The Last Airbender manages to be mature leaning while having every main character make it through to the end and most of humanity loves that show. I always got the feeling FF14 had a similar tone to that show. I'll admit when I started the xpac I thought some of the Scions would die, but after Garlemald I realized they're probably all gonna make it and I accepted it because it means I can commission more lewd art of my WoL and Y'shtola.