Wuk Lamat is not the sole problem, but part of it since she is a result of bad writing just as much as the execution of the story is a result of bad writing.
Wuk Lamat had some promising concepts, but because they needed us to like and support her, they were too afraid to give her actual flaws and moments to grow and learn. That's why we and the Scions became mindless cheerleaders rather than actual mentors with life experience. Didn't help that she was forced on us all the time and we had little to no room to breathe.


Just like our support of her has been forced, there were way too many convenient and contrived storylines. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even Stormblood didn't have that problem in my memory.

The plot also sounded promising, but the execution was bad. They wanted too much and therefore achieved too little in the nuance. So in my opinion, rather than making the story longer, they should have cut down on the less interesting parts and lean into the more interesting, intriguing parts. There were so many meaningless cutscenes. I don't know how many times we spent minutes simply deciding who is in the team this time. All that time could have been spent exploring the rivalry between the Scions a little more, characters like Krile and Erenville, or heck, even anything that would have given Wuk Lamat a little more depth.


I get why people say the target audience seemed to be a younger one this time, but I sincerely think that was not their intention ^^'