Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
Sorry, you quoted my post before I edited and expanded on it a bit.

I'm usually the first to criticize the execution of the FFXIV writers, but I don't think it's wrong for a story to have themes. FFXIV is fundamentally about the folly of refusing to let go of lost things, and the need to instead learn from what has been lost and grow. This concept is present in almost every story in the game. Whether or not that theme changes from 7.0 onward, I don't think it's exceptionally strange to continue it here.
It's one thing to have themes. It's another thing to repeat the same theme across many dozens of plots for nine years. We essentially had this exact same story with way more depth and nuance and moving parts seven years ago in Heavensward. And Endwalker was already laser-focused on this idea, so I can't see a good reason to reiterate it, again, after the big crescendo when we're supposed to be moving into new territory.

To be frank, it's just depressing me now. Every time we come back to this I'm just jolted back into remembering this is a predictable fantasy universe and not a breathing world. It sometimes makes me apathetic to the entire setting.