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

[jameseoakes]

Honestly, you can't logically dismiss the complaints as baseless "bashing" when practically all of the post-EW interviews were having to explain things that should've been obvious within the story itself.

Yoshi P having to come out and say "No really, Venat/Hydaelyn is a good person" is particularly telling since that would suggest there was evidently enough people who thought otherwise to get his attention.

This is what I find most odd in Endwalker they really didn't seem to actually be telling the story they intended to.

[Carin-Eri]

This is what I find most odd in Endwalker they really didn't seem to actually be telling the story they intended to.

Agreed.

To me at least, it feels like they had intended to do something more with regard to the moon. There was a lot of emphasis on it in the Endwalker trailer and cinematic:
- The implication that there were Blasphemy's on the moon.
- The 'flier' which shows what I assume became the Ragnarok
- The Watcher's Palace feels very underutilized - possibly because they'd intended for us to have more to do there?
- Personally, it feels as the Loporrit's delaying tactics had some basis in reality

And overall it feels as if there was supposed to be more for us to do there.

[redheadturk]

Agreed.

To me at least, it feels like they had intended to do something more with regard to the moon. There was a lot of emphasis on it in the Endwalker trailer and cinematic:
- The implication that there were Blasphemy's on the moon.
- The 'flier' which shows what I assume became the Ragnarok
- The Watcher's Palace feels very underutilized - possibly because they'd intended for us to have more to do there?
- Personally, it feels as the Loporrit's delaying tactics had some basis in reality

And overall it feels as if there was supposed to be more for us to do there.

This. I wanted us to be going to the moon to defend Zodiark from Fandaniel and Zenos. I personally would have preferred us beating Fandaniel to mantling Him.