These forums are a minority, endwalker was great

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I felt more of a deeper emotional response during 5.3 when Ardbert spoke with Seto/when Alphinaud said farewell to the people of Eulmore than I did through the entirety of Endwalker.

That's not even to say that EW was bad; just, as a finale to an 11 year old story, it felt like that moment in Avengers Endgame where all the heroes show up at the same time just so the fans can have their fangasm over it. Felt like pandering without substance. The lowest point imo was in Ultima Thule, when certain characters were thought to be dead for all of five minutes before the cowardly writers just brought them back to life, like they respect their audience so little at that point that they think we'll unalive ourselves if our fictional friends are gone for too long. The high point was where Zenos did the body thing but that quickly went downhill when nothing really came of it. So many moments in EW that had potential to be emotionally captivating and then fell flat at the last minute because the writers lacked the guts to follow through. Or like, they brought in loads of characters... too many, even, so that everyone had a really shallow cameo. I was thrilled when Magnai came back, but they flanderdized him to hell and made being a giga-simp-reject his entire personality. This is a guy who runs the baddest tribe on the Steppe, and that's barely explored because teehee simp man funny. I'm just over it at this point. If you think Endwalker was "great," unironically just ... play any other final fantasy game, actually. I'm not even gonna say something condescending like "read a book," just go play final fantasy 10 and see what the FF writers are actually capable of producing.

People always give 14 a pass to have a really slow start and kind of a meandering/plodding pace because it's an mmo, but the writers for ff games have usually been very good about making a captivating start for a game that doesn't really lose the pace that often. Maybe the mmo side is holding it back. Or maybe the writers are just phoning it in. I don't really know. But yeah 100% please go check out some other media or something because if you thought EW was great, ff10 will blow your mind it's absolutely incredible compared to this imo.