Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
We don't need the latest attempt of modern media to reincarnate Hermoine Granger to join the party, certainly not in Lalafell form.
If this joke was used on Y'shtola, it would have actually been funny. Because she fits the bill a thousand times better then Krile.
I dont even remember the last time Krile was a Know-it-all Mage/Wizard that Won at Existing. Christ, she was barly even used.
But Y'shtola sure fits that bill.
Not that I dislike her at all, but if you gonna make such a comparison, this would have worked better.

But anyway moving foreword.

Quote Originally Posted by Kazhar View Post
YouTube seems to be lacking in any kind of in-depth story analysis of Endwalker or FFXIV in general, positive or negative. It's all about story reactions with fake crying and exagerated marketable faces, or superlative adjectives but nobody to try and take it to the next level. Isn't it weird? Where is it? Even dumb shonen manga I follow get their videos essays.
I mean.....there are people unlike ya'll that did actually enjoy the story and the events that happened and legit got invested.
Its fine to not agree with them, but no need to completely dismissive just because you dont agree with it. Especially without proof.



But, getting off of all of that.
Upon multiple viewings and reactions to endwalker, Ive said before that it has its problems. The problem became bigger as I was able to watch it more critically, Im better at that after my 2nd or 3rd viewing. Elpis was good world-building, but kind of slow, and the ending of it while very interesting, did make me ask questions. Some of them being kinda "outside looking in" which you can do to any situation. But just overall Ive discovered that there is NO WAY you can ever write time travel stuff and NOT screw up something major at the end.
Then Ultima Thule WAS cool, all the way till the end at the final part with Metion and our 2 favorite Ascians....which then made you think why didnt we just use The Azem Crystal immediately?....The reasoning for it....was non-sensible, especially at the end.

Zodiark & Fandaniel was entertaining. I LOVED that twist, very 5head. But....it literally Neutered ALL of that Building up and storytelling.
I dont hate that Zodiark was solved early for a MUCH bigger plot. But I do hate how quick it was....Probly a contradiction. But I guess I mean it would have been cool if Zodiark himself was an actual threat, like he HIMSELF actually did some stuff and caused some havok and we had to make a plan to chase him and take him down. Could have even been a threat to the Lopperots and the Moon. Naw...just became a Puppet that got taken over, and INCOMPLETE puppet at that. So we didnt even fight him at full Power!
Again, there was a much bigger plot, so Zodiark Not being the final boss is fine. Just how little time and effort we spent on dealing with him is the issue.

And then we have the Final Days itself.
Only real issue that I think has been echoed many times...we can all mostly agree.....they didnt do as much with it as they could have.
Now Im not advocating from All this Suffering and stuff that Others love to harp and drone on about.....but I just think they didnt do much with it at all.
I quite enjoyed the Side stories; The Role Quests. (Although I think the Physical Ranged one was the weakest) I think they could have tried to mix in some of their narratives into the MSQ.
It probly would create some padding, but the scale fight to resist the Final Days would have been much bigger, and abit more satisfying.
Heck, would have been really cool if like the Benchmark, we eventually win over Garlemald and become temp allies and they helped around Eoarzea to help the innocents, slay the Blasphemies, and even start to bridge that once HUGE gap between the alliance and the Imperials.
Maybe we still wouldnt become Friends right away, and there would still be ALOT of bad blood to work through...but I do personally like stories were differences can be put aside for the greater good.
Plus it would have been more content and even lore for Garlemald.

Ok there is my rambling and my thoughts on the story.
Just to show and prove that I do agree that Endwalker isnt perfect, I have my grievances, I agree on some points that have been brought up.
Ill also agree that we should have some content creators speak and give some critiques. Maybe in the future
I personally doubt there are too afraid because of fan backlash, but more so that they also just enjoy the ride enough that they dont feel motivated to harp on and attack its weak points.

Ok, Done.