Thread: 6.4 patch speculation

Originally Posted by Teah_Kaye

inb4 "noooo, let them rest!" but I honestly think we might see Emet and Hyth again while we're gallivanting in the Lifestream. At least in Pandaemonium.

Golbez's face being plastered on the announcement for the trial makes me think it's a red herring and he might not actually be the main enemy we fight.

Then who would we fight instead?

Originally Posted by Teah_Kaye

Potentially someone we haven't met yet. People were saying in some other languages the name of the trial is more like "Seat of the Exile" and specifically a feminine exile.

I do still think we are going to fight Golbez, I just have a feeling there's going to be a twist. Putting it front and center like that seems strange given how they usually go about discussing story beats.

I also didn't necessarily mean to imply Golbez himself is a red herring because I don't think so. I just meant that I think his appearance as the main focus of the LL trial reveal might be.

They usually discuss trial fights like these straight-up unless they're blatantly spoilers, and we've obviously been leading up to fighting Golbez, so it's not a spoiler that we're fighting him. I think you're just used to it being spoilers and therefore hidden because the last time a trial wasn't hidden like this were the Weapon trials.

I'm also against 'surprise, Golbez ISN'T the real villain', because them doing that in IV was the worst part of IV since it just kills Golbez as a character. (And seems to be so unpopular within S-E that they've never tried to retread it despite Golbez being in every single FF crossover thing.) They'd have to do some major work to make that compelling instead of just feeling like Golbez was a waste of time and characterization.

That said, I do think they're hiding something, and I don't even think it's that hard to see what. I don't think it's even an extra twist beyond 'fight Golbez'... but it is still technically some kind of spoiler.

Golbez is going to be somehow controlling Azdaja as part of the trial. Golbez is known for using a Shadow Dragon in combat, and that dragon seems to be the loose inspiration for Azdaja's design, so... yeah, obviously that's gonna happen.