The many writing missteps of Dawntrain.

[Granyala]

-The dreaded beast Valigarmanda, hyped as a terrible nightmare of a creature, does not kill a single person. No devastation wrought.

They explained that: after struggling against the ice for 80 years, it's batteries are almost empty. It's basically half dead and just wants out to recharge. We kill it in it's half dead state.

Should it have recharged successfully, things would have turned out differently.

-Through the course of talking with the Endless, those who learn about us deactiving the terminals are all grateful. No one challenges us and says they don't want to die.

That, at least, is not a misstep.
They are TRAPPED inside a tiny dome with a static version of some dumb ass disneyland.

Yah, after 400 years, I too would beg the WoL to turn that forkin' terminal off. That is NOT an existence worth living, especially considering the cost.

-When we follow Sphene to the child who endures sickness from an aetheric imbalance, we never mention porxies or any way to aid his affliction.

Yep, my first thought was "Oi, didn't we found a cure for that already?"
Thee story also really drops the ball in acknowledging that my Kitten is a healer. Multiple NPCs getting hurt and Ifalna does nothing. <_<

-By the end of the game, if you measure by damage done in the final trial. Wuk Lumat is stronger than us, the Warrior of Light, and our entire group. This is the girl who got captured by bandits and swatted aside by Bakool Ja Ja earlier in the story. Again... power of friendship?

Wuk casually taking off 10% Boss HP with one attack irked me as well.
Though technically we were inside the Matrix, so maybe she just ran Cheat Engine. :'D

[Aulainn]

That, at least, is not a misstep.
They are TRAPPED inside a tiny dome with a static version of some dumb ass disneyland.

Yah, after 400 years, I too would beg the WoL to turn that forkin' terminal off. That is NOT an existence worth living, especially considering the cost.

The only people who supported us deleting them were their own parents... a bit of a bias. Literally everyone else was happy and didn't have a say. Also I do not believe it is static by design, you can literally see the world being built/changed, I am convinced the place would change according to what the people want to see under normal circumstances.

[Folsom]

The only people who supported us deleting them were their own parents... a bit of a bias. Literally everyone else was happy and didn't have a say. Also I do not believe it is static by design, you can literally see the world being built/changed, I am convinced the place would change according to what the people want to see under normal circumstances.

What? When you turn off the first tower, there are literally Endless happily waving goodbye, and at least in the first aether current quest, the tour guide happily tells you you're his last customer. If you talk to the knight after the cheesy event, he thanks you for ending his existence on a brighter note. And on and on.

... sometimes I feel like people just don't pay attention on purpose.

[Granyala]

What? When you turn off the first tower, there are literally Endless happily waving goodbye, and at least in the first aether current quest, the tour guide happily tells you you're his last customer. If you talk to the knight after the cheesy event, he thanks you for ending his existence on a brighter note. And on and on.

... sometimes I feel like people just don't pay attention on purpose.

This.
Also I talked to random NPCs and they too said "I don't mind if it ends, I got to do what I wanted."

[Aulainn]

What? When you turn off the first tower, there are literally Endless happily waving goodbye, and at least in the first aether current quest, the tour guide happily tells you you're his last customer. If you talk to the knight after the cheesy event, he thanks you for ending his existence on a brighter note. And on and on.

... sometimes I feel like people just don't pay attention on purpose.

Excuse me? You were the tour guides last customers because you deleted everyone else, he didn't hate his job or anything he just had an unfulfilled wish that you helped fulfill. Also yeah, I bet someone would thank you for making them happy before death, we have real life groups that do that, we even give meal wishes to death row inmates. None of these are examples of people being happy they're disappearing.

[Folsom]

Excuse me?

There is no excuse for you. The point is that he, and virtually everyone else, was clearly, obviously happy with ceasing to be. I'm no fan of the Dawntrail writing or story; it's not great. But the writing made it clear that the endless were fine with dying. People wading around in a mire of headcanon because they don't think they *should have* been fine with dying should be complaining about the writing, not making up garbage interpretations of the story.

[Aulainn]

There is no excuse for you. The point is that he, and virtually everyone else, was clearly, obviously happy with ceasing to be. I'm no fan of the Dawntrail writing or story; it's not great. But the writing made it clear that the endless were fine with dying. People wading around in a mire of headcanon because they don't think they *should have* been fine with dying should be complaining about the writing, not making up garbage interpretations of the story.

Only headcanon here is that "everyone" is fine with it, this is insane, you're projecting your own garbage ideas. How do you, rather how am I supposed to interpret that the guy who waited decades for his girlfriend to join him in Living Memory is HAPPY to die minutes after finally meeting and proposing to her?

[Folsom]

Only headcanon here is that "everyone" is fine with it, this is insane, you're projecting your own garbage ideas. How do you, rather how am I supposed to interpret that the guy who waited decades for his girlfriend to join him in Living Memory is HAPPY to die minutes after finally meeting and proposing to her?

Because the writers gave numerous clues about the endless either being okay with or ambivalent about "dying," which is how writers put general opinion of a populace in every story. The fact remains that literally only sphene objected to her people being erased. The game even goes so far as to show that the people who had a good reason for sticking around did, which is the point of the aether current quests. If the guy who had been waiting for his wife was desperate to spend more time with her, he wouldn't have disappeared.

So, no. That's not headcanon. It's perfectly consistent with the writing. Meanwhile, you can continue to feel bad about the poor man and his wife. Maybe write a fanfic if you like.

[TheMightyMollusk]

They explained that: after struggling against the ice for 80 years, it's batteries are almost empty. It's basically half dead and just wants out to recharge. We kill it in it's half dead state.

Should it have recharged successfully, things would have turned out differently.

It's even stated that the place we go to fight Valigarmanda is full of crystals that it's preparing to feed on to recharge its power.

Made more explicit when unlocking the Extreme fight. The Wandering Minstrel's setup for it is literally "Imagine if he was at full power".