Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Kefka Palazzo, one of the franchise's best villains from one of the franchise's best told stories, never actually kills any of the main cast. I suppose you could say Shadow dies, but this is up to the player if he does and if so, this death isn't intentional but happenstance due to Kefka destroying the world as it was. Shadow also does not become part of the main cast permanently until you locate him in the World of Ruin. You can't kill a character just for the sake of killing off a character. I get the feeling that this comment is targeted more at the Scions than Zenos.
I don't care who it would be, I wanted something beyond a weather change and forgotten npcs starring and dying in the same expansion becoming worthless gil. I wanted to believe the world was actually ending. I wanted there to be a level of bleak like World of Ruin. I wanted quests to become inaccessible later on if they had no worthwhile rewards (minions, mounts, etc) attached to them, which would be deposited into the Calamity Salvager so you can still get them once you complete a certain quest. I wanted the villain to do villain things and not basically yeet himself out of the story until the final boss, that's terrible writing that only works in E10 rated games or maybe Yoko Taro games. I wanted to feel like trash was going down and would continue to go down. Endwalker failed on all of this.

I am not familiar with this. The only Black Cat I know of is Felicia Hardy from the Marvel Comics. You'll have to use a villain I am more familiar with so I understand better where you are coming from.
Creed Diskenth is Zenos and Train Heartnet is the WoL. It's an anime.

This is fair. It's your view and take on how things played out, and it wasn't to your approval. Nothing wrong with that at all. For me, Zenos coming to the Dead Sun was immensely poetic, and because my WoL is female, I also romanticized it. This is the only way Zenos could ever be romantic due to way his character is. And while I never considered Zenos and my WoL to be lovers in the traditional sense, a love they shared was the thrill of battle, and the two clashing amidst the stars in an illuminated section of outer space at the edge of existence was absolutely epic! My heart melted.
Zenos did nothing to earn that. He vanished from the story after we kill Fandark, gets emasculated by girl Alphinaud, smells the roses, then out of nowhere comes and saves us. Which by the way would require flying all the way to the edge of existence without the Ragnarok. It's literally "I hid myself while I repaired myself.", everything is told but nothing is shown, and when it is shown it's so miniscule that it genuinely does not matter.

I don't think that's trash, but I also know there was no way Zenos would have met your approval with such expectations. I am sorry he fell short of those.
Those expectations are why I enjoy Xenoblade Chronicles, Radiant Historia, Kingdom Hearts II, Dust: An Elysian Tail, both Freedom Planets, both Baten Kaitos, many Final Fantasys, few of the Mana games, few of the Tales games, Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, SMTIV and A even though I think A was mid, Soul Hackers, Chaos Rings III, Shadow Man Remastered (The Horror blows), too many Mario games, too many Sonic games, the list goes on. Zenos would have lived up to my standards if they took any inspiration from any other RPGs, hell Live-A-Live without spoiling it would have been good for him. Same with Octopath Traveller 2. Chained Echoes, there's another.