Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
Garlemald would still be a smoking ruin by the time we got to it since Anima would still have been a thing. Zenos would’ve been much more in focus than he was in EW if Garlemald had its own expansion and would’ve just been Stormblood all over again. Every second Zenos was on-screen in EW made me wish his death stuck in Stormblood and I could not have taken it again if he was the main feature of a whole other expansion.

There’s a lot of things they should and could have done, but a Zenos-lead Garlemald expansion is not one of those unless the Garlemald events of ShB didn’t happen and Zenos was somewhere else or just being a nuisance. That then would mean a Garlemald too strong for Eorzea to fight since the 1.0 writers made Garlemald too strong and they’d still need to self-destruct or get wrecked by deus ex machina to be defeated.




Venat’s arc was not condensed. Emet-Selch exposed the whole everything about the world PLUS his side of events in a post-dungeon cutscene midway through ShB and just half a zone at the very end. Venat’s side of events being what it was is just bad writing at worst and awkward storytelling at best and not anything to do with EW going zoom. In no way I can think of did it need to be longer to be better.

There was plenty of opportunity for her story to be explained better, but instead they decided to introduce brand new concepts and characters at the very end of everything that just muddled it all up culminating in a confusing Final Days cutscene that isn’t even canon to how Hydaelyn was summoned since that whole thing happened after the Final Days.

Her whole arc could’ve been salvaged with a change in the dialogue or cutscene after Kairos and/or when we meet her as Hydaelyn in the Lifestream. Instead we have the intention for how it was supposed to go, albeit with a lot of holes.
Her whole arc could have been salvaged if they had, I dunno, just made the Sundering an accident?