Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
Themis in particular, I think, is a problem - I'm not sure how you would depict the actual event of her fighting him without ruining the vibe they were going for, given established events.
I've no doubt this was intentional along with not showing an accurate depiction of events and instead getting an abridged version from Venat's biased POV. EW did its best to gaslight the player into loving her, a faithful retelling of what happened would have painted her as an unforgivable monster and doubtful anyone would have pity or fondness for her after that. I also wonder if that's why Elidibus got the shaft because his version of events would have also clashed with their vision for Venat.

I feel like I've mostly made my peace with Endwalker.
I'm not quite there yet. I'm mostly over my initial anger, now it's mourning the story we never got because for some reason the powers that be decided they didn't want to bother with it anymore. I'm not sure a couple of short stories on the Lodestone are going to fix that either. I still feel like we only saw Venat's side. Elidibus was memory impaired in ShB and then conveniently left out in EW except for time travel fuel and the raid storyline that has nothing to do with the Final Days. The Ascians were also lacking crucial information the whole time. There really wasn't a Zodiark in the finale, it was all the Hydaelyn show with a gundam suit battle with Fandaniel at level 83.

I did like Garlemald, but it needed more focus. Much like the Ancients, I feel like they didn't get as much attention as they needed but at least in their case it can be addressed in the future whereas it seems we're just done with the fundamental lore of the world and existence as we know it. :P I actually liked Zenos in EW and I wasn't a fan of his prior to that. The scene where he's telling the WoL he wants all their hatred directed towards him I thought, "Joke's on you, I don't hate you!"

The pacing was terrible though. "We heard you loved the trolley and talos parts in ShB, here's EW's version of them except they don't lead to a climax!" :P I think about the time wasted on those parts as opposed to adding more to Garlemald or Elpis and I'm just annoyed.

Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
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
It's funny how little it takes to turn Venat into a sinister villain. Just adding that she had a deep seated hatred of Azem (or Emet) is enough then change the post-Elpis dialog to, "I'll destroy you, everything you love, and then manipulate your reincarnation into killing your best friend who I purposely left unsundered and made your enemy." :P