What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Eldtagg]

Seems like you aren't too interested in jrpg stories then.

You are partly correct since I love western RPG's the most, esp. the CRPG ones; Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, ToEE etc.

Some JRPG characters I really love;

- Cloud from FF7.
- V, Vergil, Dante, Nero from DMC5 (sure it's not a JRPG but it's a Japanese game).
- Urianger, Alphie and Ali from FFXIV.

Endwalkers weak points are not boring "because it's a JRPG" but because the "nietzsche themes" are cringe and overdone.

The only character I can remember I enjoyed in media that had the nietzsche thing going on was Owlman from Justice League: Crisis on Two Worlds because 1. the character is over-the-top and 2. he is an enjoyable psychopath that goes out like a badass.

His reasoning around existence made sense because he is a friggin psychopath that admits that he was never a good man ever, has no trouble in murdering everyone including his associates/lover because he was always an evil douche that just wanted to destroy everything even as a child.

Owlman's reasoning is that every action he takes is pointless because on another Earth he does the opposite choice. On earth 3 he is poor, on earth 4 he is rich etc etc.
So if he ends all creation by destroying "Earth Prime" (which makes all alternate worlds destroyed in the process) he can end the whole existance which is the only choice he can make that fills a purpose.

Is it insane? Yes it absolutely is. Does the reasoning to end all existence being the only meanful choice somewhat makes sense? It absolutely does.

He is not the typically moustache-twirling villain, but instead just wants to destroy all of existence because every other action he can take is just pointless from his view and it was incredibly refreshing to watch a character like that in this day an age where every villain have to have a cringe backstory of "how they were wronged and got lost on their way".

With Endwalker I feel that Square tried to do the thing with; "oooh these characters are so deep, oooh creation, ooooh can we really play gods, though?? LOVE THE CHARACTERS!!!" - It just doesnt work out for me because it's not deep, it's overdone and it's frankly very boring and predictable just like Ultima Thule.

Instead of spending the expac making the Ancients and their civilisation interesting, like Amaurot, and make the Ancients "something else than us" they just end up being another dissapointment followed by a narrative that tries to force me to like them and emphatize with them. I don't. They are annoying. I really hate their robes and their forgettable boring face models.

While I enjoyed the Endwalker story at its whole I can't wait to be done with this "pseudo-greek" blabbering that just keeps getting thrown into my face even after the MSQ is done.

And I am one of those that love greek mythology! The greek themes are just so boring in this story!

edited: to minimize spoilers