Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
If they hadn't tried to cram everything into one expansion so they could brush the whole story to the side, they could have built up Venat as a likeable character with some actual plot reasons as to why a Sundering was the only option.

But no, they didn't and the result was pure nonsense that didn't connect at all. The comic is nice, but the best thing SE could have done was not rushed the conclusion to a decade worth of story build up.
Agreed, but I also do feel like some of this was becoming...long winded? Im not saying rushing the ending was the right decision. But I also feel like there was plenty of fluff in past expansions that could have been easily cut for a more focused story around Venat and Zodiark, and the ancients on both sides, and why each side could be seen as both right and wrong. I still dont get the usefulness of the majority of stormblood outside giving us prettyboy Zenos. Had they cut out the majority of it and made shadowbringers take its place, and viseversa with EW and shadowbringers so they had more time to explore stuff between venat and the others, I feel like the ending would have felt alot better.