Launch Trailer Hype Thread

[Cilia]

Clarification: I am not against losing a fight with Zenos. I understand why it needs to happen: as a villain he needs to establish that he is a credible threat and an obstacle we need to overcome. The story would be very boring, not to mention short, if we just showed up and all the enemies rolled over and died. I hate that. It's what made the Knights of the Round, arguably one of the most (in)famous summons from the franchise, such a letdown as the final boss of 3.0 - it was waaaaaay too easy of a fight. Even the Ascian Prime was more difficult! In terms of story the Knights were probably tougher, but... ehh.

I am only questioning how he is seemingly able to defeat us so handily. We gave gone up against a massive array of powerful and skilled opponents, Blessing or no Blessing, alone or not alone. That we could be trounced in turn despite our strength and skill is just a bit far-fetched for my taste.

I am fine with losing a fight. In fact I've been hoping for a Beatrix-style fight where we are allowed to fight until our opponent beats us down. I'm only questioning how we lose given our strength and skill. I acknowledge that it could just be because Zenos is naturally that much stronger and/or skilled, but personally I find that too easy an explanation - it comes up way too often in shonen manga and I'd like to believe this game (story) has more class than that. While it is often the case that protagonists have to work their way up to defeating the villain, they are usually very green - we've gone up against, again, a massive array of extremely powerful and highly skilled foes already. That has to count for something.

I hate the "they just dat much more powerful duh xD (wy don'tchu get dis?)" explanation... because it makes our long battle history feel like it's worthless in the face of a new villain for the sake of making said villain threatening. I only question how, not why, though.

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