FFXIV Endwalker MSQ 29-In From the Cold

1:35-This quest jumps almost immediately into the cutscene.

You know I don't mind our characters getting so easily kidnapped. I mean Ascian portals are great for that. I do not want an invincible character. I prefer one who depends on their comrades as much as they depend on her. She protects them and they protect her. Basically they have each others backs.

24:45-DUTY
But that duty...I don't know if it was because I had trouble with it and failed it, because I didn't completely understand where to go and what the objectives were. I went in blind to keep any potential spoilers at bay and I didn't read the event text right away so even on easy mode I made quite a few mistakes. I was very frustrated by the end of this. My editing is a little rough on this one not that I edit many of my videos but this one was bad.

Maybe it is the body snatching that had me disturbed. That was creepy. I think I would have preferred a daring escape or rescue. Still good storytelling.

35:39 Back to cutscene
There is always a creepiness factor when Zenos is involved, our psychopathic whack job of a stalker whom we have never actually beaten on our own. It is hard to count our win at the end of the main Stormblood MSQ. We were sent with an "elite force of adventurers" for the final quest to kill Zenos as per Pipin's words. The story-line has us take other adventurers and we didn't even kill him, he took care of that for us, though staying dead didn't last..which I think I would have preferred.

Though my opinion on him is probably not the popular one. I guess a lot people liked him in Endwalker. He doesn't detract from the story though, I just don't like him. I have never liked pure psychopaths. I prefer enemies that you can sympathize/empathize with. The ones where you might not choose the choices they made but can see why they made the choices they made.

With that being said I thought Endwalker was amazing. I used to think Shadowbringers couldn't be topped...but wow just wow. SE never ceases to amaze me with their storytelling.