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

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Echo chamber aside. Zenos works as a simple antagonist. Shame about that middle bit with the Fandaniel/Hermes nonsense. Also having Venat play antagonist would just turn 14 into another cliché jrpg story.

If Zenos had more scenes where he actually did things instead of endless teasing he would have likely been received better. It's like watching one of those movies about relationship abuse, it's the scenes where the abuser does something that makes us afraid and angry at him. Or scenes from serial killer or masked killer movies where they pick people off one by one and in doing so create a sense of tension.

I disagree that Venat as the main antagonist would be too cliche, not if they went with a "fallen angel" scenario for her. She is presented to us as our best friend, anyone remember what happened with our "best friend" in the Devilman series? The manipulations and the betrayal on that scale would have made for a lot better than Hermoine Granger +10 times the arrogance becomes a goddess.