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

[RyuDragnier]

It was Meteion trying to break us into despair, I believe. "All these worlds failed, were destroyed by themselves, what makes you think your world will be any different? What makes you think that your planet is any different from the rest of the ones that tried?" In essence, that's what she was trying to get across with the dungeon.

[Boblawblah]

It was Meteion trying to break us into despair, I believe. "All these worlds failed, were destroyed by themselves, what makes you think your world will be any different? What makes you think that your planet is any different from the rest of the ones that tried?" In essence, that's what she was trying to get across with the dungeon.

I get that that was the message, but it rang really hollow for me. The whole time I was thinking, "of course people die, and civilizations end, does that make life not worth living?" And honestly the whole expansion was just constant "oh woe is us, life sucks". good lord, I get it, I went through depression too, but 30 hours of cutscenes just repeating the same message starts to drain on you. What's insane is that in the end, it took us just beating the shit out of a silly bird to knock some sense into her. It was just ridiculous.

[SentioftheHoukai]

I get that that was the message, but it rang really hollow for me. The whole time I was thinking, "of course people die, and civilizations end, does that make life not worth living?" And honestly the whole expansion was just constant "oh woe is us, life sucks". good lord, I get it, I went through depression too, but 30 hours of cutscenes just repeating the same message starts to drain on you. What's insane is that in the end, it took us just beating the shit out of a silly bird to knock some sense into her. It was just ridiculous.

You know the expansion sucks when ZENOS provides the most profound and understandable rationale for dealing with life's travails and travesties.

Zenos: "Life sucks, and then you die. But regardless, you have to find your own reason for living and fuck everyone else."

Gabranth is one of my favorite villains in the series and he had his own redemption as well and he was completely lifted from FFXII and placed in Bozja but I don’t have a problem with it. Some people I’ve been talking to are fans of FFIV and were ecstatic to see Golbez.

Everyone is going to have their own opinion, but considering Yoshi-P has been up front about crossovers for the past 10 years, I wouldn’t take it as a surprise when they appear and are slightly different from their source. This is just the type of game this is and always has been.

Okay. I'm gonna be honest with you. If Square shits the bed with Golbez in XIV (it's too early to tell definitively, but it's certainly looking that way so far with two Archfiends dead in a single patch), then those who you talked to aren't true fans of IV. Considering Golbez' characterization and story in the game he's from, any so called fan who liked he showed up in XIV but was ultimately disrespected and done nothing with is either a lame fan only interested in the superficial, or no fan at all of IV.

[Kazhar]

It was Meteion trying to break us into despair, I believe. "All these worlds failed, were destroyed by themselves, what makes you think your world will be any different? What makes you think that your planet is any different from the rest of the ones that tried?" In essence, that's what she was trying to get across with the dungeon.

I get that the game explained the reason why we go there at some point, but what narrative sense did it make? You could probably cut the Dead Ends section entirely and not lose anything storywise (it retreads a lot of what was already shown in Ultima Thule). But it'd be much harder to argue the same for Amaurot.