Quote Originally Posted by Lucida3b View Post
To touch upon some of what has been said, I feel like part of the issue is that it's easy to sympathize with 'do terrible things for the sake of family/loved ones' that Emet is motivated by, vs the 'do terrible things for the sake of a ideal/fiat' that Venat has if that makes sense. On the whole writing elsewhere, I feel like I could agree with the idea of writer bias for the simple reason of the end of elpis cutscene, that scene makes no sense outside of it being metaphorical but then the question becomes, 'Why was it metaphorical' and the only reason I can think of is either budget or to make Venat look better by underselling the horror of what she was doing.
I think you touch on a big part of it, but then it makes it feel very strange that they went for the arc they went for with Venat. It doesn't feel like she was meant to be a malevolent figure but then the sundering seems to have written in such a way there there is no reason for it other that an act of spite by her towards the people of Etheryis as she just condemns to thousands of years of suffering and most likely the fate of the worlds Meition visits where the populations destroyed there own worlds