What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[AwesomeJr44]

Such as aveyond-dreams. aveyond-dreams is a very bad poster with certifiably bad opinions, and you need to be reminded he is bad once every few pages. Quick, aveyond-dreams posted something that is perfectly on topic as it is a direct continuation of the discussion on the previous page! He urgently needs to be mocked!

Careful, if you point out how Aveyond is held to a different standard than everyone else, you'll be called a simp for it.

All I know is I'd rather be living the alternate timeline where Bozja wasn't ended prematurely and we received its Dalmasca arc complete with more FFXII and Ivalice themed outfits. Far as I'm concerned this expansion has permanently soured me on anything Hildibrand-related. If I had to choose between having a joke of a game and a one that takes itself seriously then the choice is obvious.

I still maintain that the optimal way to order the expansions would have been: ARR -> HW -> SB -> Cancelled Garlemald Expansion -> SHB -> EW, and I think if they started Bozja in said Garlemald expansion, they could have continued it in SHB and it would have had the time to be properly wrapped up instead of having to be 'finished' through exposition in the field notes.

This. Time loops suck balls. It only worked in the Alexander raids because it was self contained. To intentionally merc your own people to preserve a time loop? Pretty frickin' stupid.

Time travel in stories is nearly always bad, regardless of what type of time travel it is. It's just too hard of a topic to write well, and most people who attempt it fail. Time loops still are one of the worst forms of it though.

It's funny how time after time aveyond leaves a message where he has his opinion on something and has nothing to do with the current discussion.

You're ignoring literally everyone else who does this. If one person's opinion is worthless, then why is everyone else's opinions worth hearing?

We did technically finish Bozja's story... in post-it notes.

And it wasn't a good way of telling the ending.

It does kind of bug me a little that we're essentially being denied both a trial storyline and a relic storyline due to them now being baked into the MSQ and Hildibrand respectively.

I think that having trials in the MSQ patch quests is a good idea... if we're getting something worthwhile in exchange for the missing trial storyline. Tataru's Grand Waste of Time isn't cutting it. As for Hildibrand, it should never have been tied to the relics.

[Midareyukki]

And it wasn't a good way of telling the ending.

Indeed it was not. It's not just that the story itself was kind of trash (zero consequences for the bad guys except one dude, all the consequences on our side while the Warrior of Light holds a sign saying "IRRELEVANT"), the method of storytelling is trash.

This is one of the things that led to FF13 and FF15 being poorly received. Plot points should not be resolved in fluff text hidden away somewhere.