Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
spare a thought for the people who didn't like Emet-Selch
I came out of my happy single-player bubble of playing Shadowbringers for the first time, and was seriously confused by all the "greatest villain ever" fanning over Emet-Selch. As far as I was concerned, this guy had been introduced as a nasty manipulative person towards Varis in the Stormblood patches; spent most of Shadowbringers oscillating between "why won't you trust me" and giving us a million reasons not to, culminating in shooting my character's close friend and being quite pleased about the prospect of her turning into a monster that would serve his purposes.

And then, for some reason, the game took a left turn into a too-little-too-late "oh, you were close friends once, isn't it tragic that you're enemies now" which didn't come off well when I was furious at the guy for near-killing my actual friend. (Plus I wasn't keen on the whole reveal that Ascians are just people and not some kind of eldritch immortal force.)

Sure he was a tragic villain in the end, but he only ever felt secondary to the actual core characters and relationships of the story, being G'raha, the Scions and Ardbert.

So all of that, and then coming out to find people talking like the juxtaposition of our character and Emet being the core of the story felt like I'd stepped into discussion of a parallel game and not what I'd actually played.