This frequency of English localization issues is unacceptable

[MikkoAkure]

And yet in either case the character, through a combination of both localization and writing problems, ended up in a situation they shouldn't have been. And this has happened multiple times for multiple characters.

Instead of trying so hard to tell jokes and make memes perhaps the localization efforts should be more focused on fleshing out the progression of actual character arcs (of which there are now barely any) and breathing as much detail and life into new locations as the team from ARR/Heavensward successfully did.

The localization team wasn't responsible for that scene and it was under the direction of Yoshi-P. He did say that he doesn't want to drag out character traits that just appear once so that's the limit from what we'll see of that with her, as well as the fact that he won't break characters any more than this.

The interviewer mentioned that because of that scene Y'shtola is getting more popular in the community and he was happy to see a glimpse of her past, which makes me think that the average person doesn't care as much as the average forum-goer. Video games are allowed to have fun moments and I don't think 1 line of her being silly against her will because of a spell she made when she was a child detracts from the story to the degree that some people are thinking it does. We already had flying pigs going around fixing brainwashing and people didn't have a problem with that despite being done by the same team. People here will laud Shadowbringers and talk about how it was the best and the writers reached their peak with Emet-Selch but at the same time say that G'raha is terrible and the writers are bad despite both of them being made by the same team at the same time.

Oh, and it would be fantastic if they were on the same page about how to explain the motivations/actions of key characters in the story. Especially ones that have as much drama surrounding them as Venat.

I do agree with this though.