Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
I honestly don't understand why more people don't have a problem with this, but I also view the sundering as a violent act and for my Azem it would have been non-consensual. Her being permanently gone is a small karmic justice. I'm still in disbelief that they turned an antagonist to the Ancients into a heroine. I wonder if Ishikawa will ever do any interviews addressing this.
If she did, it would only confirm Hydaelyn is good. I remember hearing about how she was a bit upset that two of her characters, Horsefart and Icequeen (not bothering to look up the spelling of their names) were killed off. I love her ability to give characterization to well, characters and make darker moments for the story, but at the other end her ideas for a one sided story where the scions win and badguys always lose everything is not what I want.

Which moves me to my next point, something that I haven't really seen much about because a lot of people agree it's kinda stupid is Ultima Thule, the scion "sacrifice", and the whole nihilism/gaining strength through suffering stuff. I'm not going to say that the writers have no pony in this race, there may be some who want to tell this story, my problem comes from the fact they use the scions to tell it. The scions who have been reduced to just an entity and not separate characters, who have lost others, yes, but who hasn't, who have the most impenetrable plot armour, and go on tea parties after or before their battles. These are not the characters you want to approach this topic through. It came off as extremely tactless. The only character I feel would make sense is Thancred and Estinien and I feel even they would be a weak case because we never really delve into or see their struggles that much.

The first time a tea party came off as really bad was in 5.3. Id only think I have ever been angry about the story in this game, but 5.3 set me off. Elidibus being built up and the rushed out the door was stupid, the conversation afterward with the scions irritated me, I hated the scene going to the crystal tower, and I couldn't enjoy the animation because I was beyond irritated at that point.
I went through the entirety of Endwalker with a hood on. People would remark about the WoL's expression for certain scenes and I saw none of it, and I'm glad. I could imagine any expression I wanted and to me my character had resting BF all the way through.

I do not have hopes for the patch story and I am in no way motivated to go through it. I feel it's going to be an absolute struggle for me just like 5.3 onward. The things I want my character to do is not going to happen, but I want to rip that scion link pearl off and shuck it far into the ocean. Get me away from those people, grab a dragonscale charm, find a magician to remove this stupid blessing of light, and find a way to visit a person in the underworld, who pre-acian, seemed one of the least crazy people in Elpis ironically.

I'm trying to remain positive about the next expansion, but it's kind of hard. I think about all the things that Endwalker was up against and Yoshida just wanting to end it and not caring being the bulk of the reasons why it ended up so bad.

On another note, an acquaintance at work that knew I played the game asked about how the expansion was going I don't know if it was my pausing or something else, but he said " I heard it was pretty bad?". Where would people be saying Endwalker, or the story for it was bad? Because it's not in the reviews, not on reddit.