Dawntrail’s Narrative Missteps: Why Natsuko Ishikawa’s Touch Is Sorely Missed

[ScartPearl]

It's all well and good saying this,

But this is an utterly unhealthy way of developing talent, and it only exposes the massive skill disparity if the absence of 1 persons touch is enough to do this much 'damage' to a story.


Besides was she still not the Senior Story Designer for Dawntrail anyway?

I see what you mean. At this point, I’m just trying to figure out how such a drastic drop in quality happened—it doesn’t even feel like it was written by the same team. I honestly don’t know where else to look anymore *.*

[Kaurhz]

I see what you mean. At this point, I’m just trying to figure out how such a drastic drop in quality happened—it doesn’t even feel like it was written by the same team. I honestly don’t know where else to look anymore *.*

To be honest, there is no single reason for it. I think it's best to just accept that even the greatest talents can still make mediocre moves, or allow mediocre moves to happen.

I think to some degree the biggest part of the issue is that people were just spoilt far, far too much by the quality of Shadowbringers.