Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Back then given the general vagueness of the EN localization I had assumed that only a fraction of Elidibus had parted from Zodiark and that a greater part of him remained in control of the primal, it being the "true" Elidibus. My interpretation was apparently incorrect seeing as how the story ended up playing out. Overall, I would've liked to have had more interactions with both Elidibus the Ascian and Zodiark the God...instead we got Loporrits and Fandaniel/Hermes. That was some decision making at work.
What, you don't like the magnum opus that is Puddingway and his addiction to all things pudding? Pudding. So funny, so haha. Puddingway.

In seriousness I headcannon that my Warriors of Light, I have gotten my main and 2 alts through Endwalker (it's ironically a whole lot quicker to speedrun Endwalker than Shadowbringers because all Endwalker is is cutscenes), that being so close to Zodiark fried their brains and they passed out for 20 minutes after defeating him and the entirety of the Lopporits segment was a fever dream. And that all Lopporits are hallucinations and figments of my imagination. It doesn't explain why other characters can interact with my hallucinations but unexplainable things happening and huge plotholes are par for the course that is Endwalker. Doing that makes the whole Lopporit scene palatable and not-nonsensical when we're having tea parties and costume parties while the world below is going to hell.

Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
Thus writing something that's not subversive and is predictable.
The entire freaking game/story is predictable honestly. We have always been getting a story dungeon at odd levels and a trial at _5 and _9 levels and another dungeon and trial at _0. It stifles creative thinking when forced to implement a reason for a dungeon/trial to come up. It makes the zones feel rushed when you know that you will be done with the zone in 2 levels. It makes the story feel rushed as well. I hope in 7.0 that they break that formula and do something new.