Quote Originally Posted by Nayukhuut View Post
Yeh. It really feels like at times that they started with a different story and then decided to suddenly shift track halfway through. Then instead of changing the events to back up their new vision, they just sorta told us told us what they wanted us to think and to ignore anything we had seen before that.
Until Yoshida descends from on high and tells me otherwise, I'll never not be convinced that something along those lines was their original course of action all along in regards to Zodiark and the tempering, but at the last second they went back on it when they made the decision to go through with the one expansion pack and suddenly decided they wanted to do something really "profound" and "uplifting" for the ending instead, and narrative coherency be damned. They were banking on the poignancy of the message to resound with the playerbase and compensate for the flimsy plot elements, but for people who were actually here for their ability to tell a decent story, it just wound up being incredibly disappointing.