The next "Oh, shit its Ranjit" post...

[Raven2014]

The PROBLEM with the Ranjit crap in shb is...who the H is Ranjit? Hes a serious threat to an on-the-regular godpuncher, because....Funny Master Asia reference?

Sometime writer just follow a formula without thinking too much about it. And the formula is "the protagonist always gonna get his butt kicked on the first encounter, going on the journey to power up, then go back and have a rematch". SB did the samethign with zenos, but at least it somewhat made sense.

Ranjit though? Absolutely none sense.

- It doesn't matter how much experience he has, the WoL's resume will make his look like a green recruit.
- He didn't just face the WoL, he had the ENTIRE scions + WoL gang up on him and bring all of them to their knee without breaking a sweat.


But those are not even the worst thing. After Endwalker Ranjit became even a worse in retrospect. The Scion being there as botched summon I can understand, but the WoL was summoned to the first in flesh and blood. As a being whose soul had 3-4 rejoining, even without accounting the experience, the raw power balance would be completely lopsided in the WoL's favor.

I mean, I get the intent behind Ran'jit's character. He's supposed to be a fallen hero, who's spent so long fighting the sin eaters and watching Minfilias die that it's broken him, convincing him that it's hopeless and the best he can do is enforce peace so at least the people of Eulmore can ride out the end of the world in peace and pleasure because there's just nothing else that can be done. The problem is that he's never shown actually doing anything other than being an arrogant dick. We never really get to know him or see who he actually is, so it falls kinda flat. Kinda reminded me of the Heavens' Ward.

Ranjit's role in the story should be as an antagonist to Thrance and Rin, not as a formulaic obstacle to the player. In fact, I was anticipating for having my butt kicked by another random NPC as per tradition in Endwalker, and was pleasantly suprised it didn't happen. I only hope it means the writer learnt the lesson.