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

[Dikatis]

Ever heard of vertical progression? Guess you will be thrilled to fight a random bandit after we defeated the devil, god mommy and entropy.

I mean, WoL will be fighting random bandits every now and then because that's their job as an adventurer. And if they're careless they can be stabbed from behind. They've been caught off guard before and have suffered for it (see Fandaniel's kidnapping or being unable to save Ahewann because they were too busy fighting other Terminus Beasts).

Look at Aymeric. He survived a battle with one of Hraesvelgr's strongest children but nearly got done-in by a random civilian with a knife.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I mean, WoL will be fighting random bandits every now and then because that's their job as an adventurer. And if they're careless they can be stabbed from behind. They've been caught off guard before and have suffered for it (see Fandaniel's kidnapping or being unable to save Ahewann because they were too busy fighting other Terminus Beasts).

Look at Aymeric. He survived a battle with one of Hraesvelgr's strongest children but nearly got done-in by a random civilian with a knife.

Its basically how like Goku who's basically god level in terms of power, but can be easily hurt if he gets caught off guard such as when some bandit shot him and he bled, and the one time when Krillin threw a small pebble at his head while he was sleeping and it hurt him.

[Zakuyia]

• The mighty Zodiark, which has been build up as this mighty(evil) entity over several expansions, turns out to be nothing but filler trash for the first Endwalker trial
• The true cause of the Final Days is a pet-project from an ancient which goes mad after observing countless dead world and possibly causing the death of several world by projecting negative emotions unto them, and is thus dead-set on bringing despair to every world, upon which said ancient goes mad and is now letting her run her course to test humanity if they can withstand/fight despair
• Venat, who hasn't had her memory wiped + still remembers you from being in Elpis, quite apparently doesn't lift a finger to learn about Dynamis herself or to mobilize the other ancients to end Meteion then and there, and instead chooses to turn herself into Hydaelyn, sunder the world and the inhabitants, thereby forcing them to live with and face despair and gambling that their resilience against despair might be enough to face Meteion one day

Really?
This is the best SQ could do in terms of story after ShB?

Naw bruh the real story just beginning just hop on twitter and read the dumpster fire. There Hermes knew what he was doing was saving us from ourselves XD just look at the ff14 forums and the negativity. I think Endwalker did good in its story telling...maybe we should've sided with meteion and emit selch on this on.

[Lunaxia]

I'm not even bothering with the MSQ anymore.

Pandaemonium

Guys, I think I hate it.

Am I more tired than I thought, or was that as big a mess as it felt like it was?

[Vyrerus]

I really hope that

Zeromus

goes to town and eats all of the 13th, and we have to fight a planet sized Voidsent in 6.5

Also, yes, Lunaxia, the Pandy raids were as much of a mess as you felt. One giant mess of tomfoolery.

[Lunaxia]

Ah! Reassuring. Thank you. Truth be told, I've been pretty exhausted by a series of IRL events recently and the ending was such a... Well, That Happened moment, that I struggled to believe it was actually as bad as it was.

My expectations were low, truly. I just had a feeling somehow. But somewhere between the Puella Magi Magical Goth Fairy and "aliens did it" I felt my sanity called into question.

I really hope that

Zeromus

goes to town and eats all of the 13th, and we have to fight a planet sized Voidsent in 6.5

I hope Zeromus eat the entirety of Hydaelyn at this point, because I think it's the only way I could hope to reconcile myself with any part of the story whatsoever.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Ah! Reassuring. Thank you. Truth be told, I've been pretty exhausted by a series of IRL events recently and the ending was such a... Well, That Happened moment, that I struggled to believe it was actually as bad as it was.

My expectations were low, truly. I just had a feeling somehow. But somewhere between the Puella Magi Magical Goth Fairy and "aliens did it" I felt my sanity called into question.



I hope Zeromus eat the entirety of Hydaelyn at this point, because I think it's the only way I could hope to reconcile myself with any part of the story whatsoever.

You have such weird standards if you think just erasing everything somehow makes the writing good. Its such a pre-teen edgelord comment to make

[Lunaxia]

You have such weird standards if you think just erasing everything somehow makes the writing good. Its such a pre-teen edgelord comment to make

It's also what is commonly referred to as a joke.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It's also what is commonly referred to as a joke.

Probably shouldnt quit their day job if thats the material theyre going with

[Lunaxia]

Probably shouldnt quit their day job if thats the material theyre going with

It's not quite up to the standards of ripping story material straight from other games or using ancient space rocks as a Chekhov's gun to bludgeon character development to death, but I'm trying my best.