Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
The thing is some of the characters i’m asking for there to be consequences for i don’t particularly dislike so i’d rather you not try and assume . I love thancred and don’t really mind urianger, but i can still see there needs to be proper consequences for their actions. It does have to do with raising the stakes. You’re free to your opinion, but there are 0 stakes involved when we know the main cast is invincible and nothing will happen to them.

It can be an injury, a wound, anything that would actually negatively affect them in some way. They literally are perfect sponges this entire expansion. A planet decimating apocalypse and the entirety of the main cast is perfectly fine without a scratch? Yeah no sorry, that’s pure plot armor plain and simple, and not good for the story whatsoever, especially when you look at how bloated the cast is and how little some characters have added to this expansion(what did Yshtola do of substance this entire expansion exactly?)
In previous FF games that featured apocalyptic-level events such as FFVI and FFXV, although the main party survives they do not come away completely unscathed-the cast of FFVI showed varying signs of trauma and were heavily emotionally impacted by the events of apocalypse and in FFXV the party is progressively more battered and wounded as the game goes on, in both cases growth and development was shown.

Contrast this to Endwalker, where...nothing happened. No good can come of allowing characters who have fulfilled their roles and finished their storylines to continue taking up space and screentime. The presence of characters like Y'shtola has become insufferable, characters like G'raha Tia who were more respected in their original roles have since become plushies and cannot be removed from the cast due to potential outrage from social media, and our tough guy Estinien is often told to hold back or tone down his personality to fit the ideological perspective of the good guy scions.

At present I cannot think of a less interesting party in the entire series with named party members than the scions. You cannot sell me 10 more years of this, I'm sorry.