Let's Talk About the Low Quality of Side Stories in this Game

[AwesomeJr44]

There is a quality standard set by the MSQ

I mean, you could argue that after EW's MSQ, that the bar isn't set very high considering how garbage the EW MSQ was for pacing, respecting previous concepts, and storytelling. The EW MSQ eviscerated any standard of quality set up by SHB by disrespecting everything that came before it. Oh that dude Zodiark that's been built up to be the most powerful primal? Yeah, he got completely trashed by the lv x3 quests. The final days that destroyed the ancients? Yeah, those happened because some depressed guy decided to chuck a twitter birb into space. The sundering that destroyed the unsundered world? Yeah, the person who did it decided to sunder everyone because they weren't suffering hard enough for her liking. Not to mention, the final days that previously destroyed an entire world succeeded in killing a total of... oh right, ZERO main characters. Literally everyone of value survived the literal apocalypse.

EW's storytelling has been pretty awful overall, not just in the side stories. So let's not pretend like the current MSQ is some shining bastion of quality writing. You might have been able to say that during SHB, but that's nowhere near the case since 6.0.