Endwalker was "meh" (for reasons other than technical issues)

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As a side note, notice how the specific statement that causes Zenos to rethink his approach is Alisae's assertion that he needs to start considering the needs and wants of others. In essence, she's arguing that existentialism still needs to be married with empathy, or else you become a caricature of it. Theologists in real life argue all the time that without a god to constrain our morality and define our purpose, we will devolve into bloodthirsty, selfish animals driven purely by our whims. Sound familiar at all?

Anyway, these themes definitely have been established since the very beginning of the game. Meteion is not and was not meant to be the final antagonist or even an antagonist at all in a thematic sense, she merely serves as the vessel through which the antagonist is actually delivered, because it's quite difficult to punch philosophical concepts in the face, you see, and this is still a game in the end. That's why her relatively late introduction does little to harm the narrative integrity of the story, because if anything, she's just another victim to the self-destructive nihilism that the Scions are, and have been trying to defeat all along through existential nihilism. And in the end, they emerge victorious ー they cast away gods and faith in a supreme being for faith in themselves, each other, and you, which is exactly how you as the WoL are able to reach Meteion at the end of the universe.

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