Thread: Can we all agree... (3.2 Alexander Spoilers)

I feel like they should have taken the story for Alexander a bit less seriously than they have, and simplified it a bit as well. While Midas is much more interesting than Gordias, it still failed to really grab me.

You know what did grab me? BRUTE JUSTICE. Holy cow A8. The rest of Midas was fun but A8, on top of being a fun fight in general (feeling somewhat like a mobile Titan), had amazing presentation and had my whole group of friends laughing like idiots.

While it would probably would have gotten backlash being a follow-up to Bahamut, I feel like Alexander would have been so much better as a comedy-focused raid and had more floors like A8 (and to a lesser extent with the cat, A7) throughout the entire thing. Make the plot about the Illuminati reviving Alexander to drain the world of aether to use in the creation of THE ULTIMATE CHEESE or something; make Alexander a legitimate threat to the realm, but justify it with the Goblins being dumb (Cid alluded to this when Alexander awoken, exclaiming 'that's not a toy, it's a bloody primal!'). I thought I wanted something as grandiose as a followup to coil but Midas has made me realize that Alexander is at it's best when not trying to be Bahamut 2 in terms of tone.

EDIT: Not trying to imply that the story be something akin to Hildibrand (slaptstick) but something more akin to a Saturday morning action cartoon. Make Alexander a big, scary, legitimate threat but the Illuminati using it to accomplish a really dumb goal, as it's really difficult to take the Illuminati seriously, no matter how much of a legitimate threat they may be.