After all these pages of reactions and complaining I'm curious, what kind of ending would you have actually expected to see or what resolution with the Garleans and Ascians would have made you happy?


Personally I was expecting the Keening to be some sort of monster the Ancients accidentally created through their subconscious fears over the years and then it snowballed into the Final Days but instead we got a little blue bird girl astronaut that Fandaniel made. Zenos piloting Zodiark should have been the last boss before the big Final Days monster we go underground to fight and Anima deserved a trial instead of a dungeon battle but Garlemald went about the way I knew it was going to go.

And I'm super curious about how people expected Venat to be handled. She sings the main theme of the whole game so it would have been awkward to make her bad all of the sudden. The lyrics even reflect how she ended up being and I wonder if they wrote Venat based on the song, which existed before Hydaelyn was even written. "Life sucks sometimes, but you gotta deal with it, now go on and be free". Meanwhile the Ascians specifically use the word "serve" in regards to Zodiark, who they want to bring back the past. Emet-Selch had already betrayed Elidibus after he got his soul cleansed with a whole expansion's worth of light and doomed the whole Ascian plot, which should've been enough of a clue about how the writers were going to do the next bit of the story. If it was meant to be more morally ambiguous, there wouldn't have been a scene of Emet-Selch saving us in the middle of battle so we can kill the last Unsundered Ascian and Zodiark's heart.