The best part of endwalker

[Carin-Eri]

I had several, but the ones that really stood out for me:

- The launch of the Ragnarok. That was just awesomesauce. Seeing it take off, the benevolant Primals being summoned to assist. Garuda being sassy about helping us and Susano living up to his title, and 'Torn from the Heavens' playing through it all. A fantastic moment which I've revisited through the Unending Journey countless times.

- Zenos. I, for one, actually enjoyed the direction they took with him. Prior to Endwalker I'd found him underwhelming to say the least. However, I found his role fascinating in Endwalker.... because he was unimportant to it - and he decides to not let that bother him. In an story where everyone is pondering the meaning of happiness, here is a guy who's found his own interpretation of it and the only element of that which is missing for him is finding a way to reach it. And he does, because when Alisaie calls him out of his behavior he listens. And after hearing Meteion talk about the inevitability of suffering, Zenos popping up from nowhere*, calling it all nonsense and beneath the WoL, was really cathartic and a nice wake-up call.
After two whole expacs of being a forced rival, he actually earned my respect at the very last moment to the point where I actually wanted to give him the fight to the death he'd sought me out for. And I'll be honest - I LOVED that fight, particularly the closing moments, when we were weaponless and just plain punching the living crap out of each other. I only wish it were possible to revisit that specific part via Unending Journey.

*Also have to note that the numerous reaction videos on Youtube suggest that a healthy number of players were as surprised at Zenos' appearance as I was!

- The music. I absolutely adore 'Footfalls'. 'Close in the Distance' and 'Flow' are beautiful pieces of music in their own rights too. The game almost never disappoints when it comes to music and the aforementioned pieces were no exception!

- Sharlayan in general. Absolutely stunning map

I'll probably think of more and hopefully this discussion can continue without becoming yet another thread bemoaning the negatives.

What do you mean? Whether intentional or no, they built up her character to be more akin to a fallen angel than a benevolent goddess. It was satisfying to lay low the entity responsible for the untold amounts of suffering inflicted by the sundering on our closest friends and all humanity besides.

Yeah, I get that - but it'd be FAR too easy for this thread to become another 'lets discuss Venat and her actions' discussion.