Dawntrail PVE Role Quests

[Valence]

First I'd like to say I found them pretty mediocre. It is pretty obvious that the aim was to make us go after villains that aren't very smart and are pretty unhinged with "comedy" undertones to it, but unlike Hildibrand those are swinging between a serious setting and tone and obvious clown moments. It's hard to tell whether this is supposed to be comedic or actually serious, because let's be honest, we have serious themes and moments with each allied NPC and their cultures, and then suddenly jump to evil, sometime mustache twirling villains accompanied with goofy hildi music (the music really is a big mood breaker on those quests).

I still have to do the melee one (and I assume the secret one that all of them unlock?), but after having done the caster dps series I have also been left relatively sick seeing it to its conclusion. Perhaps it is just me but the villain here, on top of being unhinged, is pretty obviously sick in the head and unlike the others I found him very pathetic and it just felt sad. And at a certain point I did hope they would not go for the punishing end of the other quests, but alas, we just beat the crap out of him, strip him of his dignity (or what was left of it), and we even get a line that "perhaps some time spent in a jail away from the sun will make him think again about it all". I found this frankly pretty crass and ignorant. This doesnt excuse the man's actions but is this really something you'd tell to someone obviously suffering from serious mental illness?

I honestly don't know if I'm just dreaming the parallels with mental illness or if this was a totally different intent on the writers' end, but the fact remains that it's the first time in this game I actually found a questline pretty uncomfortable morally.