Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[aquarys]

The worst part about the second half of the story is that it completely undid all of the progress she made in the first half. We were helping her become the Dawnservant because she's a good leader for her people, and in the second half she comes with us to fight Zoraal Ja/Sphene and her people didn't even need her, her brother Koana handled everything just fine on his own, even making strategic alliances to protect the people and stuff. Why did we even help her become the leader of her country if she is not even needed then???

This is why stories like Shadowbringers worked so much better, we had multiple plot points and storytelling spread out across multiple different characters, instead of just one single character doing all of the things, succeeding at everything, and never failing. The story in Dawntrail is incoherent because they tried to do TOO MUCH with Wuk Lamat.

I honestly think they wrote Wuk Lamat and Koana to be "one and done" characters for Dawntrail only, similar to Lyse. I would be surprised if we saw them again as main characters in the future. The reason I say that is because they already seem to become "perfect" rulers immediately during the course of the Dawntrail main story, and there's really nothing else for them to improve or change as characters.

Edit: That being said, Vrtra was also kind of in that position, but he was written SO much better.

[Voidmage]

I honestly think they wrote Wuk Lamat and Koana to be "one and done" characters for Dawntrail only, similar to Lyse. I would be surprised if we saw them again as main characters in the future. The reason I say that is because they already seem to become "perfect" rulers immediately during the course of the Dawntrail main story, and there's really nothing else for them to improve or change as characters.

Edit: That being said, Vrtra was also kind of in that position, but he was written SO much better.

I also think they wrote Dawntrail like this. They probably wanted to test the waters on how players reacted to not being the main character and having more of a mentor / free role. If the reception was good they would continue it and leave her in the team but if it was bad... then I hope they learn.

I don't even say that this concept is bad or impossible but they did it completely wrong.
I guess, how FlowerMilk implied, most players would have been more accepting if there had been anything for our character, like the second half.

Wuk lamat was fine in the first part, even though she was imo badly written but she really overstayed her welcome and I don't know who's brilliant idea it was to have her cover the WoL in certain cutscenes but this person needs to lose one sock in the washing machien... repeatedly.

I think these initial reactions to the story will be seen as overblown in a few years, which is exactly what happened to Stormblood. Seeing comments that are saying stuff like “WuK is tHe WorSt cHaRaCTer sinCe LYsE” really cements this for me. Hating Lyse that much in 2024 is just hilarious.

That may very well be but for a video game the future is not important but the initial impression.
Otherwise 1.0 wouldn't have blown up because the game might have become better later.