Please don't harass people for ignoring/disliking the story

[Lauront]

This... isn't entirely related to the topic on hand, but this thread made me think of it - some friends of mine really adored EW's story, like, a LOT, and say stuff like YoshiP was trying to send a message to the players through the story, like a moral that we need to learn or we're doomed as a species or something. I'm just a bit uh... confused on what that point is, and I watched and read everything related to the MSQ. Is it just that we need to be careful not to become stagnant as a civilization? Or something else? The way they talk I feel like I missed some sort of big revelation.

There was good discussion on the "themes" (such as they are) here and also here. I don't think it's quite so deep as him sending a message directed at us lest we fall prey to some "doom" as it is the writers playing with themes that they struggled to execute well in tandem with squashing two future intended expansions into one and thus producing a rather muddled hodgepodge that is inconsistent in parts with some of the game's own prior themes.

I almost feel for zodiark, just a pathetic shell that ended up doing nothing. Total letdown. It'd be like Kefka just tripping and falling off the floating Island and dying. womp womp

Yes, minus keeping the star alive for some 12k years and counting...

I think I've seen far more meltdowns over people criticising the burger scene than criticism of the burger scene in question at this point.

It's ironic, really. I don't recall ever reading a post I'd consider even remotely thought provoking from the poster just above you. He was going to come back and "educate" certain other posters on the Japanese script in the past but never really came back on that. Possibly because it was little more than hot air.