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

[Ardeth]

There is a lot of "tell, but don't show" that I feel kind of hurt EW's presentation.

Like...it would've been nice to see the burning skies of Thavnair fade and appropriate rejoicing, but all the celebration is reserved strictly for Sharlayan which wasn't even subject to the worst of its effects at the time.

Agreed. I'm still stuck on the absolute tonal whiplash that is the Loporrits. They literally Jar Jar Binksed us. Any good will that EW earned with me as a player went down the toliet right then and there.

[Lunaxia]

Agreed. I'm still stuck on the absolute tonal whiplash that is the Loporrits. They literally Jar Jar Binksed us. Any good will that EW earned with me as a player went down the toliet right then and there.

In all honesty, I'm always surprised to hear about someone being deeply bothered by the Loporrits. After witnessing Zenos and Amon appear right at the climax of what had previously been the first genuinely interesting part of the story since 5.0 and soak up what was left of the faceless and thoroughly dehumanised Zodiark soup like a day old crouton, and then realising this was the writer's resolution to the story's most important, decade old plot point, I didn't have much left in the way of a reaction to give anymore. By the time we reached the Loporrits, it was more or less a case of "Ah. Rabbits. Hm. All right then."

Speaking of the moon, I was briefly pondering on this the other day, and was trying to make sense of a) Hydaelyn giving the Sundered a way out via the moon without pausing to consider offering her brethren the same solution and b) the logic in trying to outrun something that ultimately aims to consume the entire universe anyway.

My only conclusion was wishing I could go back to before I contemplated buying this game and living in blissful ignorance of how it all ended. I don't know what's worse, the general brain itch it continues to give me whenever I think about it or the unintentional yet inevitable sense of gaslighting whenever I venture near the community and have to hear about how wonderful and moving the writing was.

It certainly moved me away from the game, I suppose...

[Absurdity]

In all honesty, I'm always surprised to hear about someone being deeply bothered by the Loporrits. After witnessing Zenos and Amon appear right at the climax of what had previously been the first genuinely interesting part of the story since 5.0 and soak up what was left of the faceless and thoroughly dehumanised Zodiark soup like a day old crouton, and then realising this was the writer's resolution to the story's most important, decade old plot point, I didn't have much left in the way of a reaction to give anymore. By the time we reached the Loporrits, it was more or less a case of "Ah. Rabbits. Hm. All right then."

Speaking of the moon, I was briefly pondering on this the other day, and was trying to make sense of a) Hydaelyn giving the Sundered a way out via the moon without pausing to consider offering her brethren the same solution and b) the logic in trying to outrun something that ultimately aims to consume the entire universe anyway.

My only conclusion was wishing I could go back to before I contemplated buying this game and living in blissful ignorance of how it all ended. I don't know what's worse, the general brain itch it continues to give me whenever I think about it or the unintentional yet inevitable sense of gaslighting whenever I venture near the community and have to hear about how wonderful and moving the writing was.

It certainly moved me away from the game, I suppose...

I feel roughly the same. Sure the Lopporits were an utterly jarring tonal shift from "we just slapped the main antagonist of 10 years around like a ragdoll while he wasn't even awake and supposedly unleashed the end of the universe" to "wacky bunny people that look suspiciously merchandisable". But the incredibly botched conclusion to Zodiark's "arc" pretty much drained all interest I had in the MSQ out of me for a long time to the point that I couldn't even hate them, I just felt entirely indifferent.


The fact that MSQ trials are incredibly easy also didn't exactly help with making that "climactic" fight feel any less disappointing. That is however an issue that I personally have with every big MSQ trial, I need to pretend that the extreme version is the canon fight to make it feel impactful.

[BRVV]

Speaking of the moon, I was briefly pondering on this the other day, and was trying to make sense of a) Hydaelyn giving the Sundered a way out via the moon without pausing to consider offering her brethren the same solution and b) the logic in trying to outrun something that ultimately aims to consume the entire universe anyway.

Just imagine a version where the Sundered escaped to the moon. They drink tea and chat with the Loporrits about their new home, watching the "star" (aka planet - why are we calling that multiverse planet thing a star again?) explode. Savingway comes up to them and says: "You are all save here!" Smiling from ear to ear. Then they all get blasted with the moon by the Endsinger. The End.

[Silver-Strider]

Speaking of the moon, I was briefly pondering on this the other day, and was trying to make sense of a) Hydaelyn giving the Sundered a way out via the moon without pausing to consider offering her brethren the same solution and b) the logic in trying to outrun something that ultimately aims to consume the entire universe anyway.

My concern is why would your prison for Zodiark also be the place to house your contingency plan. Surely the Aether released by Zodiark after his defeat would have had SOME effect on the moon considering that his whole purpose was to bring about change. That just seemed like something that could very easily backfire, even with the Watcher/Loporrits supposedly monitoring Zodiark and the Ascians.

[Sheriyana]

Agreed. I'm still stuck on the absolute tonal whiplash that is the Loporrits. They literally Jar Jar Binksed us. Any good will that EW earned with me as a player went down the toliet right then and there.

Same! Can't believe that people are so in love with the damn things... They contribute precisely nothing of worth to the story and all they serve is to absolutely wreck the intended world ending tone of the story. But there's people who think FFXIII had a good story (let's fight against our fate by doing the exact thing our fate has preordained us to do and then win anyway because friendship magic, even though we all practically hate each other! and a whole bunch of other bollocks) so the concept of a well told story really is alien to some people.