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

[Teraq]

He's Asahi, he's Amon, he's a generic Elezen until the dungeon.

Speaking of models, there's something about Amon that just sits uneasy with me honestly: he's just a FFIII monster touched up. I feel the same toward Xande; I just can't connect to them as actual people that lived in the world of FFXIV because they look so bizarre and improbable for the setting. Fandaniel's Echo flashbacks show him interacting both with Xande and with perfectly normal Midlander Hyurs. The thing is, to me he will just always be this FFIII fanservice cameo in Syrcus Tower with a ridiculous boss model rather than a true person that lived in the Allagan Empire.

If anything, he's shown to have what looks like dark grey/purple pointy ears. I would have really appreciated it if the game had shown us what he actually looked like under his tacky costume. I am picturing a Duskwight that looks exactly like Hermes, as poetic irony for him insisting he is nothing like the man Fandaniel used to be.

Answers and Flow can both die in a fire but I'm OK with the rest.

Fully onboard with Flow dying in a fire to be honest.

I wish I could have the other two phases of Close In The Distance still playing in Ultima Thule. I appreciated the full song as part of the MSQ and walking up there, but it just feels awkward playing all the time while I'm just mining chondrite. The first phase that just droned on and on was one real mood.

(Also, every time I hear the "promises made so long ago" line, I cringe.)