Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
Nah, Venat is still a very, very popular character in Japan, too. Again, there were two 2ch-based polls of "favorite Endwalker NPC" that were commonly cited before Famitsu's own poll--and Venat scored #3, and then #2, below Emet. Even in Famitsu, Endwalker was voted in as "favorite expansion." There are people who have criticisms and feel very strongly about them, same as here, of course. But it's probably best to not fall into the trap of "I bet those other people whose feedback I don't have direct access to hate it, though." Not that I don't understand, and not that Yoshi's attitude in the Q&A regarding her wasn't pretty curious.
All I said was "I think that there must be more debate happening in Japan" because if Yoshi-P is only going by Reddit, Twitter, and streamers (their most often cited sources of feedback) there's no reason to believe everyone doesn't adore Venat which, yes, would make his response to the sundering question quite odd. Why would he need to defend a widely beloved character?

I've said before, Venat was likeable until the end of Elpis and I know in Japan she's voiced by a popular actress as well. The phrasing of that particular question in the LL was the sundering being necessary. It's possible they like Venat, but didn't like her actions. Most Emet fans don't like the rejoinings, but they like him.

As far as EW goes, even if I didn't hate Venat it still wouldn't rank above HW or ShB for me. I liked Garlemald and I liked Elpis, but the rest of it was kind of meh. Personally, I think Elpis carried EW hard, which is evidenced in the character polls. Were it not for the sour taste it left in my mouth, I might rank it higher just because questing with my two favorite characters in "the world unsundered" including a trust was pretty damn awesome.