Quote Originally Posted by VelKallor View Post
I actually found Rubicante sympathetic, actually, even an immortal can one day wish to die. I liked the character and his motivation.
Which is where my problems lie with the Archfiends. The fact that Rubicante is still very much a human within a monster's body is a missed opportunity to EXPLORE the fact that these voidsents and archfiends and all that, are human (well humanoid, miqo, hrothgar included you get the idea), and that maybe we can do the whole "this is a gray area thing" all over again.

They're actually treated with as much nuance as Garlaen Soldier #54 back in ARR, which is horrible. Cagnazzo is literally just a "Oh shit hi, you're in the dungeon boss fight now, oh okay i'm dead now." He's literally Endwalker's version of Cape Westwind.

We have a long way to go yet. Patience.
Buddy I'm literally criticizing the story as it is now, and it is bland. It doesn't matter if Zenos finally had character development in Endwalker, you can still call the way they handled Zenos back in Stormblood as pretty mid, and the way he just came back to life as a cop out, and that's with the fact that Zenos is one of the characters I genuinely liked.