Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
I think what makes all strange is that the usual response from writers who put out something which doesn't quite come out the way they intended (and since pretty much every public discussion about Venat on any platform gets some degree of derailment along these lines, I think it's reasonable to say it didn't) is to self-correct, so that at least that dissonance doesn't linger going forward. And a lot of post-EW content, like the Omega quest and Pandaemonium, does feel like self-correction to some degree.

But then you have things like this short story that don't, and just double down on the vibe of the original in one way or the other. So it all feels very discordant...

If I might get a little conspiratorial, it feels like a lot of the writers are kind of dying on hills for their take on the story without really considering how they will impact the broader picture. So in one corner you have Ishikawa writing the Nier Reincarnation story that portrays the Sundering in basically the most horrific light possible, while in the other you have stuff like this - probably written by Yoshi-P or someone on the same page as him - that's basically treating Venat like a saint. Ishikawa obviously doesn't think of Venat as a "tragic heroine" and so feels comfortable injecting all this ambiguity, but the core narrative voice is insistent in spite of her contributions.

It feels like we're listening to two different songs being played at the same time. In isolation, both songs are fine, and if we parse them that way it's possible to enjoy them. But if we try to treat them as one melody, the result is bizarre.
what the hell has nier reincarnation got to do with this? that's a completely different series, just because nier had a crossover here doesn't mean reincarnation relates to ff14 in any way.