Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
If the rest of the story wasn't lacking, it would be fine. But what happened in patch really? We went on a 357th mission to get some aether, now with a dash of penguin genocide. Then we rode a dragon to another shard, just to fight Golbez, where we won, but actually didn't. End of a patch.

SoL is fine, but not when it's clear that it's there only as a filler. This is not a slice of life anime, this is supposed to be fantasy story, adding this kind of stuff should be done with low priority, you need to have decent story first. It really just comes of as an attempt to distract players from poor story.
Is that really all that happened? I guess we gloss over more of Golbez' and Zeros back story. The alliance Garl now has that will allow them to rebuild their nation without compromising themselves. The creation of Zeromus? Like you can't purposely leave very key story beats out to make a point, that doesn't breed a fair discussion especially with the point you're making.

How can one of the shortest scenes in the patch be filler? And even if it was that little segment lasted no time so why is that even a point? Last I checked Fantasy can incorporate anything, slice of life included. You say it should be done with low priority but it was factually the shortest part of the patch...if you honestly think this scene is there to "cover up" a poor story that makes little sense. If that were the case wouldn't it be far longer? "Hey guys we have a 3 hour story segment we'd like you guys to play but we're gonna stick a 30 second scene in to cover up how bad the other 2 hours and 59 minutes are". Come on now...

And the story being good, bad, decent etc is purely just opinion.