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

[Vonson]

I never post on these forums and I logged in just to say you're absolutely right.

The writing in general in this story is extremely weak and that feedback should be given.

Something I frequently thought when I was doing the first half of the MSQ was "they weren't mean enough to this character". The writers treat her like she is what her father is afraid she is-- a spoiled royal who's never seen the outside of the throne room.

She effortlessly saves or redeems everyone she interacts with, and in so doing requires the person she redeems or befriends to seem extremely feeble-minded.
Every conflict or tension in this story treats itself like it comes out of a program targeted at a much younger demographic than previous arcs in this game.

The farmers forgot how their own farming worked, to the point that it became the objective of a royal crowning ceremony.
Wuk Lamat befriends xenophobic, power-obsessed, depressed zealots by suggesting that they could learn to love the land they've killed their own children to escape, and they universally agree.
Cowboys in the bleak old west settle their disputes with rubber bullets (safety first).
Zoraal Ja's motivation is extremely unclear, to the point that he seems to be present merely for the sake of providing a powerful antagonist that we'll be forced to fight.
At least 3 hours of questions are waved away as "I can't tell you that now, you'll just have to trust me".
Krile's parents returning to the world in which they are clearly doomed makes no sense.



As numerous people have said, Wuk's idealism isn't a problem because it's naive. It's a problem because it is never treated in the same sobering way that Alphinaud's was.