Endwalker Main Scenario Commentary & Feedback

[JeanneOrnitier]

Well finished it. A very fulfilling ending.

Venat's scene in Amaurot with Answers playing was my favorite part of the expansion. So good.

Getting my only real disappointment out of the way because I don't like dwelling on the negative: the lack of Shadowbringers characters. I know most are stuck on another world but Azem's crystal could have summoned Ryne in the climax, and I wish Ardbert had even gotten just one cutscene talking to us in our mindscape.

I wasn't as emotionally invested in Meteion as a villain as I was Emet-Selch or Elidibus, nor Ultima Thule as a final area as much as Amaurot, but I did really like how the conflict she instigated embodied the themes of forging hope despite hardships and such that the game has pretty much always been about since at least ARR. In that sense she was similar to Necron from FF9 in the way both of them embody an abstract concept that is the main theme of the game that the other villains have fought futilely against and the heroes persevere despite the odds, though she at least was set up quite a while before literally the final boss with her like Necron was.

Also THANK GOD the cause of the Final Days wasn't some ancient alien in the core of the planet like tons of people were suggesting the last two years. I always hated that suggestion and would have hated if it was what they went with. For a chunk of Elpis I was dreading that the Meteions were going to accidentally like, call in an alien invasion from Jenova expies or something.

On the other end of Endwalker vs Shadowbringers, I feel like Endwalker didn't have ShB's lows either. Il Mheg and the talos/miners part of Amh Araeng absolutely dragged, but in Endwalker there was never a low point where I just wanted the part of the story I was in to move on already. I was on a high from beginning to end.

I wish Garlemald had gotten more time in the spotlight than it did, though I liked what there was and I imagine it will have more screentime in the patches as we deal with the aftermath and what to do with the Garleans going forward.

Even as someone who absolutely hates Zenos and always has, that final fight with him was extremely hype, especially playing a reaper just like him.

Corvos getting mentioned constantly during the MSQ means it is absolutely going to be part of some questline somewhere. Trials or relic weapons or something.

Endwalker was a great ending for the story and I'm eager to start our next chapter.