Do babies play this game.

[Larirawiel]

My Elezen is not a baby. So no, babies do not play this game.


Cheers

[ronibosch]

No, English translation made it sound worst than it was. It just takes a bigger toll on her but if she rests she'll be fine. It's like she's casting a low level spell the entire time she's awake. Read her unending codex to see. Also ppl convinced themselves that matoya said it shortens her life span when she didn't. She says it uses her life force

English localization strikes again, I guess.

[SassyAssassin]

I am baby, hold me close oh tiny Zenos

[Celine_Aurora]

Oh please, we only ever had two good deaths ever, Haurchefant and Tesleen, Moen? she was literally introduced to die, Ysayle? killed off because they couldn't figure out what to do with her next and has zero impact on the story, Papalymo? fridged to kick off Lyse's development, with the goal of his sacrifice undone the next patch, Yotsuyu? a shallow end to an amazing arc, I guess redemption truly doesn't exist, nevermind that she never truly went back her evil ways and the entire Tsukuyomi thing was forcing our hand because she couldn't bear her own guilt any longer.

Haurchen dying serves to make Thordan into a true villain whom the player wants to take down(even if Thordan is still one of the weakest villains in the game), and Tesleen's death serves to rapidly and efficiently contextualize the brutality of life in the First, none of the other deaths in this game make me feel anything but disatisfaction or confusion.

you cna't be comparing Moenbryda and Tesleen's deaths favorably for Moenbryda. Tesleen is the one who was "literally introduced to die", she has like a dozen lines before she's discarded just to show us how horrific getting killed by a Sin Eater is.

Moenbryda meanwhile was meant to have a greater role, but if I recall correctly, the writer for that quest wanted to give Minfilia a tragic end, but was stopped and they had Moenbryda take her place.

Ysayle's death concludes and redeems her arc I think, she was struggling with the crimes she committed for believing in a lie, same as Ishgard, and she found redemption in fighting to give us a fighting chance. Or at least that's how I chose to see it, of course it's all post her death so I might be trying to read it into the writers shoving her in the fridge because they were done with her, as you said.

Yotsuyu, you seem to think that she was redeemed and she essentially committed suicide by cop, but that's not how I saw her. I think that she was only "redeemed" because she was free of pain, but as soon as it came back, her original reaction reasserted itself, that is, lashing back a hundredfold worse. It was frankly a bit dumb how Hien was willing to let bygones be bygones just because of a head injury, and the true conclusion to this arc was when it came back to bit all of his nation in the ass in Endwalker.

Papalymo, yeah, grossly mishandled, I agree.

[VeyaAkemi]

Moenbryda meanwhile was meant to have a greater role, but if I recall correctly, the writer for that quest wanted to give Minfilia a tragic end, but was stopped and they had Moenbryda take her place.

It doesn't matter to me what her role was meant to be, it matters what was realized, the outcome is still a character who gets introduced and immediately dies, her death doesn't even truly accomplish anything, Tesleen gets compared positively because Tesleen had a very specific goal in putting an image to the horror of Sin Eaters, that assists the narrative in my eyes far better than anything around Moen.

Yotsuyu, you seem to think that she was redeemed and she essentially committed suicide by cop, but that's not how I saw her. I think that she was only "redeemed" because she was free of pain, but as soon as it came back, her original reaction reasserted itself, that is, lashing back a hundredfold worse.

The crux of Yotsuyu's arc to me is specifically the scene with her parents, she is pushed too far, and she snaps at the sight of them, but the thing is, how does she react to it? she sees her anger returning as the sign that she will always be the Witch of Doma, her anger will always return, and thus she must die, the monster must be put down, which puts her in the spot where she must drive a hero to kill her.

To me it feels very purposeful the only people Yotsuyu harms after her character arc proper starts are people that destroyed her life and nobody would blame her for lashing out against(and the WoL but eh we can take the beating), and she goes out congratulating the WoL for slaying her and putting an end to the suffering she caused, when if she had enough strength left to kill Asahi, she could absolutely have at least tried to kill the WoL, compare that to the first time she thought she was going to die and she was defiant to the end, decided to take as many as she could with her, she even gets a glimpse of hope towards the end of the Nightbloom sequence, when we managed to calm her down by quite literally beating the shit out of her inner demons, but then Tsukuyomi takes over again and the battle resumes.

[DragonFlyy]

Yeah, Alphinaud acting like a brat was a very deep mature story.

Those guys that "wanted more freedoms, no matter the cost" in Dead Ends that end up nuking all life on the planet on the other hand is a story for kids.

Right?

Don't forget the part in the story made for kids where a Garlean Officer blew his brains out.

[aveyond-dreams]

Don't forget the part in the story made for kids where a Garlean Officer blew his brains out.

Garlemald was my favorite part of Endwalker. A pity the rest of the base expansion was ruined by a burger eating catboy and silly moon rabbits.

[BRVV]

Garlemald was my favorite part of Endwalker. A pity the rest of the base expansion was ruined by a burger eating catboy and silly moon rabbits.

Ultima Anime Clichès Area & Edgegirl Singer were worse for me... and the time travel... not to mention that the problem of getting to the edge of the universe was solved very easily and Zenos just became a nice guy. Not hurting the gang. No consequences anymore. Can't wait for FFXIV:ABC-Adventures

[Bunnycake]

Just keep in mind that when someone has to die it is Alisaie.

She has basically no purpose in the party, her story was more or less over with Coil and since then she just hangs around. Her death would also open the way for new character development for Alphinaud.

While G'raha also has no real purpose of existing, we know that Krile will play a bigger role in the next expansion and it is likely that G'raha will as well since both are part of the Students of Baldesion.

God, please let Krile be a Beastmaster.

[BRVV]

God, please let Krile be a Beastmaster.

Beastmaster and Shaman for 7.0 confirmed!