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

[Teraq]

Jeez, I made the mistake of peering at /r/ffxiv and instantly saw people praising Emet's Ultima Thule scene and how it made them cry.

Personally the only reason why it might have made me cry was watching Emet not even being mad at Venat for everything, and going yass queen we dumb Ancients could have never figured this out.

Also I found his line about "I bid you remember, yet it was us who had forgotten" to sound kind of apologetic? But like, dw Emet that's not your fault at all, you couldn't really help it if one crazy dude had a convenient memory-wipe machine and his co-conspirator never told you the truth and just let you toil and suffer for 12,000 years.

I'm not over FFXIV social media yet, let me stay in this bubble some more.

[Kozh]

Jeez, I made the mistake of peering at /r/ffxiv and instantly saw people praising Emet's Ultima Thule scene and how it made them cry.

Personally the only reason why it might have made me cry was watching Emet not even being mad at Venat for everything, and going yass queen we dumb Ancients could have never figured this out.

Also I found his line about "I bid you remember, yet it was us who had forgotten" to sound kind of apologetic? But like, dw Emet that's not your fault at all, you couldn't really help it if one crazy dude had a convenient memory-wipe machine and his co-conspirator never told you the truth and just let you toil and suffer for 12,000 years.

I'm not over FFXIV social media yet, let me stay in this bubble some more.

As Emet fan, 100% this. I cried during the conclusion of Elpis when I realized we can't save him and Hytlo. But in Ultima Thule? I feel it was a disrespect actually by making HIM, out of everyone, to validate Venat's decision. Like, really?? Can we please have one scene where the devs aren't bashing our head with "See? See?? Venat is the right one". I just sit there dumbfounded for a while and went "F that". And I get even more salty that we don't even get the option to say farewell and call his real name, meanwhile we have the option to do so for both Hermes and Venat.

Other people have mentioned it before; but yeah, this game attempted to present morally gray story/point of view, yet at the same time isn't brave enough to commit to the idea that the protagonist side isn't that much different from the "bad guy".