Standing There Syndrome

[TaleraRistain]

I still remember my first steps in FF14 years ago together with my wife. We take the fight back to the Garleans, and finally end up in the praetorium... to be met with Nero's 3 minute monologue "when I was little, Cid stole my cookie, wah wah" and Gaius' 4 minute monologue "me am the bestestest of the world".
At one point we looked at each other and asked "why are we even listening to this drivel, why don't we just kick this fool's butt?"
And that's the point. Nobody in their right mind would listen to the bad guy going on and on and on and on... - they would just attack. Remember Guardians of the Galaxy 1? Nebula starting trash talking her sister, only to get shot down by Drax "noboy talks to my friends like that". This is the sort of dialog FF14 needs desperately, no more villains holding endless monologues everybody just quietly listens to.

And there are countless examples of this bad anime trope throughout the MSQ. Ilberd, anyone? We find out he's about to summon a primal, so we go there, kick his sorry behind, and it's over - we could just put his head on a pike atop his very own Ala Mighan dungheap, and call it a day. But no, WoL goes into 10 minute standby, while Ilberd does the exact thing we came to stop. Oh my.

Personally I just accepted this sort of nonsense constantly happening to me. But man did it rub me the wrong way when they finished off Gulool Ja Ja while EVERYBODY was just watching. He desperately tried to fend of his son's magical infused attack for 20+ seconds, and NOBODY came to the rescue - all the saviors of the star just standing there, gaping mouth, drooling from the chin.
I liked the character of Gulool Ja Ja a lot, and seeing him getting killed this super cheap way really p*ssed me off. They did the old lizard wrong, and I'm not going to forget this.

Villain monologuing is a JRPG trope (that Stranger of Paradise poked fun at in a hliarious way) but it does make sense as another poster said because the WoL does tend to try to hear people out. Gulool Ja Ja I will agree was just stupid, though. At the very least we would have tried to disarm or incapacitate Zoraal Ja. All they had to do was throw some tech at us to disable us. We can be disabled by tech. It's happened before. We could get locked up in something like the guy in the gunbreaker job quest used and there would be nothing to stop Zoraal Ja from killing Gulool Ja Ja but we wouldn't be standing around like idiots with Wuk Lamat going on about his "honor" or something when he's getting murdered in front of us. Gulool Ja Ja can be mad at my WoL later. I'd be saving him. That's what the WoL does. They put themselves between the bad things and others.