Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
Tbh I think that if a significant portion felt the way some of you do about the story then the game wouldn't have a 9.4 metacritic score.
I love how this is consistently the only evidence I see provided of some overwhelming majority thinking EW is good when it's based on less than 1500 reviews, all of which are not positive. I thought maybe reviewing games on there is difficult? No, turns out it's not. Since people continue to bring up the site as some gold standard, I figured I may as well make an account there and give EW the 5 rating it deserves.

Just to clarify, I don't think we're the majority, but I do think there's enough of us to make a difference. Were that not the case then Yoshi-P wouldn't need to "communicate Hydaelyn's not a bad guy" or Ishikawa have to write a quest chain that significantly walks back the positivity (and even justification) of Venat. I understand this can feel threatening if you enjoyed the MSQ. I'm certainly seeing some defensiveness here trying to marginalize our opinions, but it's not just us. Frankly, Yoshi-P having negative feedback at the time of the LL Q&A likely wouldn't have come from the west, which would suggest that JP audiences had similar issues and were perhaps more freely able to discuss them on their social media platforms.

I looked at the comments on one of the character favorites polls in JP shortly after EW's release. One of them described the post-Elpis cutscene as "self-indulgent", one said Venat and Hermes were "co-conspirators", one said the sundering was "selfish", and several criticized Venat for not telling anyone about Meteion claiming it was unfair and she wasn't a sympathetic character.