Yeah people deciding they liked Zenos is some fan dumb. The guy sucked when he was introduced as a one note villain that was contrived to be stronger than you, he sucked when he was defeated and came back for poorly-explored reasons, and he never redeemed himself or anything. I think the story would have benefited if the WoL killed him alongside Zodiark on the moon, though I will concede that he is a nice counterpoint to the themes of the real final boss - instead of becoming a monster out of nihilism and despair, he becomes a monster out of a single-minded pursuit of his life's goal, which is some nice symmetry.
All that said I fucking loved Endwalker. There are so, so, so many long running series that fumble the ending, but minus a couple of small bugbears FF14 slam dunked it.
Fordola shows up again in the healer role quests during Endwalker. Her relationship with the Ala Mhigans is interesting - what do you do with fascist collaborators after a successful revolution? FFXIV isn’t grimdark enough for what I think is the correct choice, but the character development afterwards is engaging.
Yeah people deciding they liked Zenos is some fan dumb. The guy sucked when he was introduced as a one note villain that was contrived to be stronger than you, he sucked when he was defeated and came back for poorly-explored reasons, and he never redeemed himself or anything. I think the story would have benefited if the WoL killed him alongside Zodiark on the moon, though I will concede that he is a nice counterpoint to the themes of the real final boss - instead of becoming a monster out of nihilism and despair, he becomes a monster out of a single-minded pursuit of his life's goal, which is some nice symmetry.
All that said I fucking loved Endwalker. There are so, so, so many long running series that fumble the ending, but minus a couple of small bugbears FF14 slam dunked it.
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Fordola shows up again in the healer role quests during Endwalker. Her relationship with the Ala Mhigans is interesting - what do you do with fascist collaborators after a successful revolution? FFXIV isn’t grimdark enough for what I think is the correct choice, but the character development afterwards is engaging.