Quote Originally Posted by MagiusNecros View Post
I don't understand how DRK questline can be so good but the story be so bad. And I think Ishikawa wrote both?

I mean personally even ShB story I felt was good but the pacing overall in Endwalker is so rushed and all over the place that it comes off as cheap anime garbage.

And I'm seeing more of the same overall with Buried Memory.

The fights are amazing. The story not so much.
what I believe, is that the game becoming so popular made SE completely lose control of things. They have no idea what the players like, so whatever becomes popular, they amplify in the story, but they do it so intensely it gets sickening.

Why do I think so?

Graha'tia - character adored by everyone in SHB, and many talked about the scene in which he is embarrassed because they think it's cute. Now Graha doesn't stop following us, being cute. It's just an expendable character.

Characters not dying - they are simply afraid to kill any character and make the fanbase angry. No one relevant has died since post HW, if I'm not mistaken.

Attempts to make it very emotional - one of the most popular video themes on SHB was about players crying with 5.3. Now, even in praetorium our character does a scene worthy of a Mexican soap opera, because a robot stopped working.