Quote Originally Posted by Tehmon View Post
Small MSQ rant.

I just loooove beating bad guys in trials only for them to win regardless! /s

When Golbez said '' you won the battle, but I won the war '' I was groaning. We beat his ass and he suffers no clear consequences for it. Like yeah we're in the void and we can't kill him but maybe we can at least like, keep him exhausted and occupied while saving Azdaja, ANYTHING really. DO SOMETHING SUCCESSFULLY, PLEASE. At least Zodiark had the good grace of killing himself while claiming his victory over us. This was just pure ass. The sad thing is I was thinking before the trial that oh, they aren't going to do the whole '' my defeat seals my victory '' thing again, we had that with Zodiark. But no. Void nonsense continues smh. I was looking forward to leaving it all behind.
Totally agree - as said in another thread:
I'll confess it annoyed me - I mean, I know there is probably some justification for it in terms of maintaining story progression... but two tropes came into play, which I found really irritating.
The first one was the classic 'Evil Gloating' trope. I mean, Golbez was on his knees, Azdaja - whilst still corrupted - was free of her cage and his control. His weapon had dissolved. Great! So what do we do? We let Golbez monologue at us.
Sorry - we should have booted his sorry ass down the abyss. Yeah, I guess that wouldn't work in terms of keeping the story going but I'm a little tired of this trope - a trope that Disney's 'The Incredibles' outright mocked - being used like this.
To be honest, it felt like a damn turn-based RPG game situation.

The second really ties into the first - the victory fakeout. Where it looks as if we've won but said assumed victory is snatched away (in this case, at least in part, because we decided that standing around listening to Golbez monologue at us was a good idea) and the situation takes a turn for the worst to the point of "oh no - we're powerless against this threat that we totally could've prevented! Run away, back to the Source!"
Run away. Again. No doubt so another convoluted contingency plan can be made.