Thread: [Spoiler] 3.4 End Cutscene Rant

Honestly, main story sucks this patch, the only thing really remotely good about it is that they kept the Warriors of Darkness consistent with other Final Fantasy games (not making them bad guys, making them balanced with light/darkness). I thought it was okay until MINFILLIA shows up, and then it all went to shit.

Also last patch when Alphinaud is like "quick! throw the eyes into the abyss!"...... okay, lets just chuck them over a bridge and just think NO ONE is going to find them again. And all the characters just seem content with that being the way you discard things like that. Dumb. Just dumb.

Generally I like to blame the loc team on a lot of the bad presentation of the story in this game... but I think the story is just getting plain bad.

Originally Posted by SessionZero

So you liked it until the last like four minutes of cutscenes?

I thought it was okay, on the side of being generic and boring. It wasn't anything that enraged me at least and I felt like they had the potential to move the story into a cool and interesting direction... but then the last bit happened and really just killed it for me.

The eyes will probably be used to awaken Omega weapon by the Ala Mhigan resistance but it will be taken over by the Ascians. That'll be what happens I'm guessing?

The nature of the dragon eyes is yet a mistery. Of course, together they were able to become nidhogg's shadow (niddy himself dead by Estinien hands, and we banished his shadow, so no more niddy as individual consciousness with a purpose is left). Separated they were powerful enough to fuel a god-banishing-from-existence sword...

I think the eyes are first, nearly indestructible, only be able to be either consumed (as the first heavensward did) or you get possessed by them, the first heavensward went a long shot thanks to consuming the eyes, fighting a fully powered niddy and taking one of his eyes out, and even that wasn't enough as thordan died in that encounter, haldrath the first loldrg finished it off, and then they decided to not consume them (something we never got explained, we know they ultimately sealed Haldrath away cause he also got consumed by the eyes).

So is either a thing of consuming the eyes first, before they consume you, there is maybe a diference between Ratatoskr and Niddy, since she, for all we know, was much more peaceful, she might have been weaker, her escense more easily tamed and that alone was enough to allow the first heavensward to consume her eyes, yet they were not strong enough to do the same with Niddy's, his personality and escense had to be first purified from the eyes, thing we did, just like you prepare food for their consumption, we prepared those eyes, purified them and now they are ready to fuel a new master.

I also think, the eyes are nearly, if not completely, indistructible... They only logical reason to do with them at that time being was to quickly cast them away somewhere no one will ever reach them (Azhys Lla was the location picked by the first heavensward and we saw how that went...) The abyss underneath Ishgard wasn't honestly a bad choice, once again, we were attacked by an Ascian Ex Machina.

Either way, it makes a lot of sense, at least for my and my crazy theories, that the eyes are back.

Meanwhile I'm over here, thinking about how much I enjoyed the MSQ >___>

Well,... Ever since when they decided to throw the eyes in an abyss instead of destroying them or guarding them separately (like, one in Ishgard and the other in Thavnair or even farther away) I knew for SURE they would be coming back.

It's most likely that Estinien will be back in the nick of time to save the WoL and co. from who ever is using the eye. In fact, I think he'll be back by 3.5 telling us that he still senses Nidhogg's eye. By then end, I'm sure Estinnien will take the eyes back and go to a faraway place to guard them like he was originally planning in 3.0

Remember the opening movie of 3.0 where Ishgard is razed by the Dravanian horde and Dragoons are flying around killing Wyverns with DKs firing everywhere? I wanted to believe that was the Final Steps of Faith, but the horde never attacked Ishgard at the end of 3.3 (and there were no Dragoons mobilized in the cutscenes). I want to believe the Griffon will use the eyes and be revived as Nidhogg and mobilize the horde to attack Ishgard for realsies and the final trial of 3.x will be an in-game version of the opening CS.

Also where there's Omega....there's Shinryu. Maybe Middy's final form, or one of his offspring yet to be revealed?