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

[MalakRevan]

They put all their eggs in the Wuk basket, almost everyone’s opinion on the story hinges on if they like her or not. The game never really gives you a chance to spend any sort of significant time with characters accompanying you on this journey outside of Wuk with the one singular exception being the lvl 96 quests with Erenville and it doesn’t last. Shadowbringers is the perfect antithesis of this story structure. It moves focus frequently from character to character, every scion in Norvrandt goes through their own arc and if you don’t like a particular character’s story the game usually moves onto another character relatively quickly, it helps things not get stale. Il Mheg alone has significant character moments with Urianger, Thancred, Ryne, and Ardbert. Meanwhile Dawntrail never really moves on from Wuk, she’s constantly the focus of cutscenes and the driving force behind almost the entire journey. It makes me wonder if there were significant rewrites during development. What also makes me thing this is how Krile’s character is handled. Yoshida himself said while on stage at fan fest that she’d be a very pivotal character in Dawntrail and even said “he felt like he owed her one after all these years.” Even not that long after Endwalker came out he stated in an interview that she’d be a very important character for the next expansion. All that came from this was one quick story segment with her parents in Living Memory. We don’t even get to see her real-time reaction to her heritage, Ketenramm tells her offscreen, was this deemed not important enough to show?? Was her screen time lessened to make room for Wuk, what the hell was happening here???

[Kozh]

Ketenramm tells her offscreen, was this deemed not important enough to show??

This is why I also personally have problem with us immediately go to shaaloani after the ceremony, even though gulool ja ja told us that he will tell the story about the gate and also of Galuf's involvement after we make Wuk the dawnservant. Surely the WoL can wait for a few days in Tulliyolal until we hear about it from gulool jaja himself, then either try to open the gate or continue our adventure in Shaaloani. Sure we get the echo after Gulool jaja is slain, but that means we don't have screen time with Krile.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate that area and it's a bit of breath room from Wuk, but in the end it's all about her again as we spend most of our time there retrieving Namikka's bracelet.