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

[EaraGrace]

Opinion poll time! :P Are you more confident, less confident, unchanged, or undecided about Ishikawa possibly (I'm not sure it's been confirmed) having done the outline for the next 10 years?

I'd have to say undecided. I wish they'd talked about Venat. Ishikawa admitting despite Hermes being her favorite character she thought 80% of players would hate him indicates she has her finger on the pulse more than Yoshi-P does, but without knowing the same about Venat it's hard to say.

I'm significantly less confident regarding Yoshi-P. I don't know how much influence he has in the story, but I'm as baffled by his responses to things as he is to ours.

I really gotta side with Yoshi P on this one. Both were motivated by emotional needs and wants, both acted to bring about death on massive scale in service of those emotional needs, and both were wrong to do so. Hermes existential crisis and need for meaning is no less understandable to me than Emets loneliness as a motivator after all. There’s not much reason to be ok with one over the other morally speaking.

I’ve liked Ishikawas work since Ysayle and Moenbryda so she’s got my support. Endwalker has only made me more a fan.