Quote Originally Posted by Bonoki View Post
I actually thought 6.5's story was fine. I think it ended much stronger than it began. I love how all these "It was predictable" arguments come up AFTER the patch story, not before it while we're theory crafting. So I doubt it was that predictable. I have played FF4 to the ends of the earth and I wasn't expecting Zero to go full PLD Cecil in the heat of the moment. Nor was I expecting Goblez to join our side despite that also happening in FF4, albeit for other reasons. These things were not all that predictable. And you can say you don't like the story without labelling it as predictable. Like, I'm going to miss Reaper Zero because I don't really see us getting another Reaper party member after this. I think it's okay to say you don't like the story and the direction, I just disagree about things being as predictable as people want to lead them to be. I was actually kind of hyped up during the story and on the edge of my seat. That's my opinion.
So ... you didn't see two things that happened in Final Fantasy IV happening? Zero was hinted at as the Cecil expy since the start and they teased the Golbez thing repeatedly.

If anything I gave the writing team too much credit, I thought they'd link Zero to Zeromus in some way, and or connect her to the Baron Royal family to get Cecil and Rosa in on the story.