The Negative Impact of Poor Character Writing on the Quality of Dawntrail's MSQ

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Ishikawa didn't write the main scenario for Stormblood, 2.X or Heavensward did she?
Not to downplay how well she writes the characters, I just thought the last paragraph was reductive of the other writers' work. I don't think the problem is her absence so much as the supervision, mentoring and dare I say production's oversight towards the de facto scenario writers. Remember, everything goes through Yoshida to check and greenlight, he said so himself in numerous occasions. He read the scenario for this, and he thought it was good.

Ishikawa wrote the Coerthas section of ARR, the Estinien/Y'sayle arc of HW and 3.2 and 3.4, the Doman arc of Stormblood, ROG/DRK/ALC job quests, Omega and the 6.3 follow-up, and ShB/EW. This is what she's been credited for at least, not to say of anything else she might have worked on and not been credited for outright in liveletters. I think, in any case, while there have been other good writers that have worked on the story, her name is undoubtedly associated with some of the highest quality content in the game.