Critique of Endwalker Characters

[Kolsykol]

Couldn't agree more. The orchestrators of the Final Days got way too little screen time. These two characters and dynamis were what started the whole plot behind FFXIV, yet they feel like they were just shoehorned in. Furthermore, they didn't even seem like proper villains which led to, what I personally felt was, an overall unsatisfying and corny ending. Was the entire story of FFXIV really just started by a science experiment that couldn't control their "emotions?"

Wasn't it that Meteion was actually created through the use of Dynamis and to be especially sensitive to emotions?
One of the first things she says to you is to ask you to share your thoughts and emotions with her which makes sense with the purpose of her creation.
So I don't think it's just that she couldn't control it it's that she was overwhelmed by it and was especially sensitive to it.
She was also connected to her sisters and was basically bombarded with all they had gathered at once.
I think your framing is perhaps downplaying it a bit much.

I kinda wanted more screen time of them tho but I think they got enough for what their purpose was.
I wonder if they had gotten more if people would've felt the opposite way and that it was too dragged out.
Ultimately I feel like the final days and all that isn't necessarily '' the plot ''.
It was '' a plot '', the other expansions still stood on their own legs and still do.
Obviously this was a more grand plot that affected the universe basically but I still think that FFXIV has always been about more than just the Ascians and all that.

Don’t forget how they completely retconned the whole, her life is slowly sapping away plotline.It’s literally never even mentioned after Hw. Guess can’t have the cat lady who has to shill money for the game die.

Have they actually retconned it tho?
Or is it just that not all that much time has actually passed?
Remember that in Shadowbringers she wasn't actually using her real body, they were basically spirits manifesting physical form.

It might come up again later but I think it's more of a background thing that is just always there that she won't live to see a really old age.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Wasn't it that Meteion was actually created through the use of Dynamis and to be especially sensitive to emotions?
One of the first things she says to you is to ask you to share your thoughts and emotions with her which makes sense with the purpose of her creation.
So I don't think it's just that she couldn't control it it's that she was overwhelmed by it and was especially sensitive to it.
She was also connected to her sisters and was basically bombarded with all they had gathered at once.
I think your framing is perhaps downplaying it a bit much.

I kinda wanted more screen time of them tho but I think they got enough for what their purpose was.
I wonder if they had gotten more if people would've felt the opposite way and that it was too dragged out.
Ultimately I feel like the final days and all that isn't necessarily '' the plot ''.
It was '' a plot '', the other expansions still stood on their own legs and still do.
Obviously this was a more grand plot that affected the universe basically but I still think that FFXIV has always been about more than just the Ascians and all that.



Have they actually retconned it tho?
Or is it just that not all that much time has actually passed?
Remember that in Shadowbringers she wasn't actually using her real body, they were basically spirits manifesting physical form.

It might come up again later but I think it's more of a background thing that is just always there that she won't live to see a really old age.

We know at the very least 6 months have passed. It’s moreso the fact she has continued to do more daring and dangerous feats, requiring vast amounts of aether and she’s shown 0 signs of degradation. The opposite in fact that she’s actually gotten stronger despite her life supposedly sapping away. Pretty sure it’s a retconned since it hasn’t been mentioned for literally 3 expansions now.