Feedback: Feeling disappointed by 6.55's narrative, and thus unsure about Dawntrail

[Ath192]

your points are equivalent to "dr frankenstein did nothing wrong "

Incorrect. Everyone did a bunch of mistakes in the story. Even Alphinaud admitted as much when the crystal braves turned on him. Every being is flawed, and the game goes to great lengths to showcase everyone as human-like, with both good and bad in them. This theme was central to shadowbringers as we get to know Emet.

Even Zenos at the end. You could argue that without him the final days would have succeeded and therefore he was a net positive despite his blood thirsty nature. Although his motivations would put him in the evil category, as he wasn’t trying to save anyone, unlike the others. Regardless he was capable of good deeds.

What’s central to this theme and important to get is that so often we are quick to assume what’s right and wrong and become incredibly prejudiced against others based on the narrative we are told. However, things are always much more complex and nuanced in most cases. Everyone believes in what they are doing, and consider it good.

SE actually does a good job here, never letting their villains just be this mind numbing evil being that needs to be put down because he is just bad and irredeemable.