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

[DevonEllwood]

This week's ramblings

The moon! Yeah it can be seen in Elpis and though my first though is it's an oversight because EW shenanigans. I just wanted to reflect on the moon being a spaceship again. It's a ship with it's own pilots who communicated with Sharlyan, and who also already plotted a course to other planets. Escape to another planet was considered the B plan but so many resources were put into it that it seems more the A plan than fighting Hydaelyn to "prove ourselves" and use her to power another ship. Even the rabbits only found a few livable planets and they weren't even sure about. B plan was only meant to buy more time, but as it's been mentioned before, Meteion would have just nuked whatever planet they landed on if the planet's inhabitants didn't do it themselves. Both of these plans are incredibly stupid. But Venat wanted to deal with Meteion her way and her people were too dummy so she wanted new ones. Run away from the problem until the odds might be better in your favor, this is the A plan. But I'm probably thinking too much about it, sorry Yoshida. I'll try not to use my brain to make sense of this story.

Dynamis would have worked if they took a completely different approach to it. We already have stories of people exceeding their capabilities, lifting multiple times their weight in times of desperation, etc. With adventurers constantly throwing themselves into combat situation, this could be something they had over the Ancients, who only fight on rare occasions outside of a few individuals. Doing so may have likened the Ancients more to the Dragons, which were a sad tragedy and we can't have that. Instead we get...the power of friendship and emotions. Why.

I swear if they start putting story in random places like in other games, I am officially done caring about the story.

I don't need a "complex" story. Some of the best stories are extremely basic at their core, but it's what the writers do with that story that matters. Most of the expansions have been extremely simple and we've heard these stories so many times before. What makes them interesting is the finer details put into that simple story. EW was not a simple story and I think that's one of it's major problems. It puts in too much effort making its base story be complex.

Talking about characters that didn't get fleshed out enough, what about a concept? I was really excited for the Geiger-ish looking stuff shown in the trailer. I was wanting to see more of it and I guess I assumed some of it would be in the open world or other instances? I don't know what I expected. I guess I expected something darker for "end of the world" Since EW I have watched no trailers, no liveletters. I used to love them, but I've just kind of given up caring that much anymore. I still care, I'm just incredibly disappointed. I've had one friend finish patch 6.1 and he said it was "pretty good" He also liked EW, but more or less sees it as a "stupid, goofy anime". Still considered Venat crazy, that's pretty consistent among us.

EW, cherry picking at its absolute finest. Only the sweetest, most hypocritical cherries for our protagonists.

I actually got Ensinger a few days ago in trial roulette for the first time. My brain must have completely blocked it out because I completely forgot the absolute, for lack of a better word, cringe scion scene. Someone stated they loved it in the chat. Could I have said nothing? Yes, but I didn't. I said I hated it. I got called mean. All those memories of this godsforsaken story just came back to me and how EW could have been so much better. The really good parts are made all that much worse knowing there was good writing in the expansion. But it was just so little.

I thought I was going crazy. I really enjoyed the plot and then I come online and everyone is saying it's the worst thing ever written. I'm not saying it's fantastic but it's a lot better than what people are trying to make it out to be.

I envy you. Continue to do what Yoshida asks of us and don't think too much about it.