(06-23-2017, 10:19 AM)Nero Wrote: -Zenos was a boring villain. Every time he's on screen he's twirling his mustache about the Hunt and MY CUP RUNNETH OVER and it's just annoying. The only time they really get into his character is at the very end after Shinryu. He has exactly one note, and he keeps pushing it over and over again. His whole shtick was to make the Warrior of Light hate him so that the WoL would feel the same bloodlust that Zenos felt, but I don't think it worked here.
He was very two-dimensional without a single redeeming quality. That made it very hard to care overly much about him, except to be annoyed when he strolled idly off and we somehow weren't able to catch him.
Quote:-The bulk of Yotsuyu's character is revealed in an exposition dump at the end of Doma Castle. That was very melodramatic.
It also didn't make me give a shit about her "motivations." They were so shallow - she was just an awful person.
Quote:-There are a lot of little minor moments that make me scratch my head. For example, Yotsuyu stomping on that little fishing village with a single bodyguard. I get that she takes pleasure in oppressing Domans, but as acting viceroy does she really not have better shit to do? Also, with only a single bodyguard (and said bodyguard guarded by plot armor) she really should have been in way more danger.
She had other guards there. If you approached after the initial cutscene, but before you go to rescue Gosetsu, there are Garlean NPCs in the town itself. Additionally, there were supposed to be unseen-but-present Kojiin of the Red.
Quote:-Gosetsu's "death" was originally going to be in the "pro's" section, but SQUARE ENIX, YOU HAVE NO BALLS. WHAT THE FUCK. Way to completely RUIN a good moment by bullshit handwaving away his and Yotsuyu's survival. How did he survive getting shot three times!? How did Yotsuyu survive getting slashed across the body by Hien!? How did they survive a castle getting dropped on them!? Because....that kind of kills most people!
This was honestly my biggest gripe. The scene where Gosetsu "died" had me in tears. I really felt that. THEN IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING. It just...it just cheapened the entire scene. :-\ Very disappointing.
Quote:Krile gets kidnapped and experimented on and presumably drained of some kind...and lives.
And, the text of Zenos talking about Krile after they've taken her captive suggested to me that she was going to end up tortured or something. But, nope - they just stuck her in a weird void ark-esque box and drained her aether or...something.
Quote:Gosetsu surviving did way more damage than it initially appears. That moment revealing he survived at the end single-handedly killed any sense of tension or drama that the future story could possibly hold, because now we know for certain that Square Enix is just going to give every character bullshit plot armor, and the only characters who will die will be paper-thin nobodies like Conrad, or people like Moenbryda who are introduced for exactly one patch just to die at the end.
I just...am really mad about that. lol. I really loved Gosetsu, and I still think the character is awesome, but...his death was supposed to hurt. I just felt tricked, tbh.
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