Endwalker is the most controversial expansion

[KurohNeko]

You cannot try to insult others' intelligence and then act like EW's basic middle school philosophy of "suffering good, accept it!" is some amazing mindblowing message. It wasn't good story writing, it's basic and not thought provoking in the slightest with how they played it, it's very typical anime-esque writing.
I even enjoyed EW too but it's not some amazing piece of literary "perfection" come on man lol

Ain't middle school philosophy when most games, shows, etc, say the exact opposite. Most games have some 2D hero philosophy of no one being sacrificed and all suffering can be solved with effort and friendship. This is real world philosophy in a game. It's called Existentialism and was Friedrich Nietzsche's solution to Nihilism. Most works including real world philosophies preach slave morality or objectivism. Also it was quite thought provoking given it's answer to the Fermi's Paradox. That being a dead space due to Nihilism and even civilizations that reached perfection died to it due to post-scarcity. If it doesn't seem groundbreaking it's more than likely due to the fact you reached it outside of a game in which case, you're not the audience my comment was directed to as like me you understand philosophy.

Also I've more than likely seen more anime than you and also no, most anime goes with slave morality and the 2D writing found in most fantasy. Only some actually go for real world.

[AziraSyuren]

Ain't middle school philosophy when most games, shows, etc, say the exact opposite. Most games have some 2D hero philosophy of no one being sacrificed and all suffering can be solved with effort and friendship. This is real world philosophy in a game. It's called Existentialism and was Friedrich Nietzsche's solution to Nihilism. Most works including real world philosophies preach slave morality or objectivism. Also it was quite thought provoking given it's answer to the Fermi's Paradox. That being a dead space due to Nihilism and even civilizations that reached perfection died to it due to post-scarcity. If it doesn't seem groundbreaking it's more than likely due to the fact you reached it outside of a game in which case, you're not the audience my comment was directed to as like me you understand philosophy.

Also I've more than likely seen more anime than you and also no, most anime goes with slave morality and the 2D writing found in most fantasy. Only some actually go for real world.

If you want answers to the question of nihilism, Endwalker was pretty mid at best. Games like Nier Automata handled it a lot better. And if you want a love letter to Nietzschean philosophy, Xenosaga is leagues better. It's really nothing groundbreaking, regardless of its actual quality.