Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Alenonimo]

The thing that makes me mad about Wuk Lamat is that she would have been a good character if she wasn't so overplayed. She's nice, wants to help everybody, not very different from your character in general. But the writting was so bad and so repetitive that it makes you get fed up with her.


She talks about feelings all the time. She sounds like she's always trying to discuss relationship. She wants to be friends with everybody even when she shouldn't. It makes her stand out as a big Mary Sue that's always right and always demanding attention just to show how understanding she is. It's incredibly annoying.



She should have more flaws and grow more as a character as the quest progress. She should hate more, even if it's to change her opinion later. She should play more on the dumb warrior stereotype that's good intentioned but then actually has to confront the plight of the people and grow up to be a ruler. But it's like someone was too afraid of making her suck, afraid that people wouldn't like her otherwise. How ironic.


Also, the voice over is horrendous. Not just Wuk Lamat's, but she has more than twice voice lines than everyone else so it's pretty obvious on her. It's very, very, very, very hard to just sit there and listen her mumble, especially when she's meant to be screaming or shouting. I may permanently switch to japanese voices just so I can get some energy in the voice delivery. Which is sad, the voice actors are competent. With some better voice direction, I don't think people would hate the expansion so much.



I feel really depressed knowing that they will never fix this. They will never rewrite the character and replace the voiceovers for the characters in this expansion. It's bad forever. Gameplay is nice, music is great, but it's a Final Fantasy so bad story really kills the mood.

[Barachim]

She should have more flaws and grow more as a character as the quest progress. She should hate more, even if it's to change her opinion later. She should play more on the dumb warrior stereotype that's good intentioned but then actually has to confront the plight of the people and grow up to be a ruler. But it's like someone was too afraid of making her suck, afraid that people wouldn't like her otherwise. How ironic.

I would have preferred her as more of a wild child, who gets out often. She is well meaning, but also ignorant to other people's ways, but it's part of her journey. She shouldn't act completely surprised each time she sees something new, like it's her first time. I really didn't like the approach of the sheltered Warrior princess.

She should have also been a more capable warrior, so her sudden powers ups don't come out of knowhere. But she should have been more of an offensive fighter who really doesn't think things through, while Zoraal Ja is the more tactical mind. And eventually she learns to fight smarter, not harder. Like Zoraal Ja, when he ended the fight againt Bakool Ja Ja with a kidney shot. Now if they had shown in a cutscene how she eventually disarms him and goes after his weak points, then I could accept the win against Bakool Ja Ja. But she essentially just powers through, has enough energy to take on his goons and after everything is done, doesn't show a single sign of exhaustion.

[mihai899]

Just finished the last trial. The moment Wuk Lamat appeared I was fuming.

[Astronis]

Just finished the last trial. The moment Wuk Lamat appeared I was fuming.

Yeah, I just finished last night and that was absolutely infuriating. I don't dislike the character, mostly thought there needed to be 30% less of her...but at that moment, I would have been happy if I never saw her again for the life of the game and now I do not wish to do that trial ever again, despite the fact that I was enjoying it so much until she showed up.

[Hallarem]

Just finished the last trial. The moment Wuk Lamat appeared I was fuming.

That's how I felt when Zenos appeared in the last fight, I hated him. I guess they copied the moment but with a different character, hah! Rehash.

On that note, I don't think Wuk Lamat ruined the story, the WRITERS did.

[SongOfTheWind]

That's how I felt when Zenos appeared in the last fight, I hated him. I guess they copied the moment but with a different character, hah! Rehash.

On that note, I don't think Wuk Lamat ruined the story, the WRITERS did.

I didn’t even hate the fact that Zenos appeared (I got used to it, after 3 expansions, whatever), but the fact that he even offered me to ignore him and leave, which i would rather have done, while the game forced me to stay instead and have that ‘climax’ over the one which was actually story relevant - really angered me and tainted my whole satisfaction over the ending.
These fake choices which are there with “yes” and “yes!” have been present since ShB actually. Probably I should not be too surprised with how everything just doubled down on it in DT.

[Kelg]

Wuk single handedly destroyed the intensity of the final battle with her awful monotone voice acting. Please recast her or better yet just have her never appear again.

[Warlyx]

Wuk Lamat XIV
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[Flay_wind]

Well, while i still have posting privelegies.
Wuk Lamat did single handedly ruin DT experience for me to the point i quit expansion midway.
I won't list all the issues with it, since all of that was covered in this thread by multiple people multiple times. She is a textbook Mary Sue, and i have no idea how this was approved, but here we are.
What actually completely killed all the engagement i had with the story is when out of nowhere Wuk Lamat just easily soloed not only Bakool Ja Ja but also ~30 of his henchmen, while my WoL just stood there. And then Wuk wasn't even out of breath after the fact. While she was easily overpowered by him not too long ago. But hey, power of freindship and all that.
After reading what happens afterwards, and that there's even more focus on Wuk in the second half of the story i am glad that i quit when i did.
Hope you all are having fun.

[fulminating]

I’ve been thinking about this a bit. It’s clear that the promises are intended to embody some aspect of galool jaja. First and most obvious there’s the head of reason, koala is the only candidate here. This aspect seems to be the lynchpin of the throne, capable of stratagems for both times of peace and war. Second is the head of resolve, embodying the combat prowess and might - again this can only have parallels drawn to zorool ja. This aspect however seems to be more vestigial during the time of the story, shining brightest when presented with a threat such as valiangalamana and with GJJ primarily carrying out the orders of reason and resorting to diplomantic sparring matches for entertainment. There is mention that the sheer might of GJJ is what facilitated the formation of the nation alongside his other aspects - binding valigama foremost but I seem to recall that he beat up the mamool and furries at the same time too. Finally - and as proven to exist by zorool ja - there is the head of love, which corresponds nicely with wuk lamat. This is another fundamental aspect of GJJ’s empire, however the desire for peace is enforced by the other two while being motivation in of itself. The stick and the carrot if you like.

This being said, it is unfortunate that WL took the title of “Head of Resolve” rather than the more fitting “Head of Richard”, I think acknowledging her strengths and forging a path suited to her skill set rather than emulating an aspect she’s clearly unfit for.