This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Absimiliard]

Guy was a psychopath, and made no apologies for it. He had nobody who could challenge him at his level - until he met you. All he wanted was to experience that 'feeling', the thrill again. The enjoyment of the hunt. No real tragic backstory, or being a villain who was the hero in their own story. It was a breath of fresh air.

I dunno. I would call his childhood pretty bloody tragic. Being the Garlean-equivalent of a designer baby whose parents couldn't even be arsed to glance in his general direction, whose caretakers (not to mention everyone else around) were absolutely horrified of him, and whose supposed swordsmanship teacher kept trying to kill him... well, with that in mind, the man he grew up to be makes perfect sense. The Garleans wanted to create a monster -- and they did, but they mishandled everything that came afterward so badly that any hope of keeping him under control went out the window before he was even an adult.

It's basically just a retelling of Sephiroth's backstory, which makes sense considering Zenos himself was a rather blatant expy. At any rate, I find it curious how people will regard Sephiroth's upbringing as a terrible tragedy and ample explanation for what he became, whereas Zenos, whose backstory is the largely same, is apparently widely considered wholly unjustified in becoming a monster.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

I dunno. I would call his childhood pretty bloody tragic. Being the Garlean-equivalent of a designer baby whose parents couldn't even be arsed to glance in his general direction, whose caretakers (not to mention everyone else around) were absolutely horrified of him, and whose supposed swordsmanship teacher kept trying to kill him... well, with that in mind, the man he grew up to be makes perfect sense. The Garleans wanted to create a monster -- and they did, but they mishandled everything that came afterward so badly that any hope of keeping him under control went out the window before he was even an adult.

It's basically just a retelling of Sephiroth's backstory, which makes sense considering Zenos himself was a rather blatant expy. At any rate, I find it curious how people will regard Sephiroth's upbringing as a terrible tragedy and ample explanation for what he became, whereas Zenos, whose backstory is the largely same, is apparently widely considered wholly unjustified in becoming a monster.

He could have been a just as amazing final boss. I was recently thinking it would be a twist 8 man where you queue as a 4 man but halfway through the fight he completely immobilizes the first party and removes them, but then the second party shows up and bring the first party back. The fight would then have no mechanics like anything seen before and be completely random. These are things I've been seeing in some games and XIV could have gotten something as great. But no, flailing wings were more important. They didn't even let Hades have Black Cauldron as anything cool, literally just flaps his wings and you die. Even Endsinger's hair looks like Sephiroth's, to say Zenos got cheated is like saying water is wet. But Yoshi personally doesn't like him, so whatever, it is what it is.