FFXIV: Botched Potential The Watcher
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- The Watcher was a fascinating, yet underutilized asset in the game.
Today, I'd like to take a look at this missed opportunity from Endwalker, and see what options we have moving forward.
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Link to Zodiark: A Fumbled Finale Part 2 below
• FFXIV Zodiark: A Fumbl...
I thought about the Watcher. I thought about how sad it is to have most of your soul and memories taken away and then left on the moon without purpose as it seems you've simply been forgotten. I don't even know if he's been left with enough personhood to even want for anything, including to want for an end to a miserable, lonely existence.
And now that his purpose is complete, he’s genuinely left with nothing but to wait for someone else to give him meaning again.
It’s pretty horrific, honestly.
risky venture, criticizing the ff14 story, but i appreciate it. the story has good emotional beats, but the worldbuilding and writing doesn't stand to scrutiny. it's pretty anime
Yeah. And not a good anime.
It’s definitely not a popular opinion. But EW really was that bad. I just couldn’t keep quiet any more.
The Elementals were confirmed to be products of Elpis in Elpis sidequests and Myths of the Realms. We just didn't tell Gridania because... telling people the truth is bad, mmmkay.
Will definitely enjoy hearing you tear into kratocrat barbie.
As far as The Watcher goes... I don't really see him as missed potential in the same way. He is literally just a shade, made by Venat, and so he doesn't even actually have his full faculties. He doesn't even know his own name. He is an even more polluted source of information than the shade version of Hythlodaeus.
Oh, I’m aware of all that about the Watcher. That’s precisely what I’m criticizing about EW’s writing. There was so much more that could have been done with a bit more effort exerted. Hence the title, botched potential.
And he’s hardly the only one.
I'm actually interested in what you will have to say about Venat and Endwalker in general.
I enjoy the expansion overall, but I do have many writing, gameplay and pacing issues with it. It could have been a lot better.
Yeah, it could’ve.
And just wait. I got a lot to say about that psycho woman.
I'm so glad to see others being critical of Endwalker.
Same. I only know of one other channel so far. Hopefully DT won’t make the same mistakes.
Its an interesting take but everyone whos played endwalker that ive met seems to have enjoyed it also always remember charecters could be lying or remember more as time goes on as you said he was created by a control freak
I know mine may be the less popular opinion. But there is a lot of problems with the writing and characters.
I hope you stick around and see what those issues are.
@durantes im not saying its not interesting just we havent got the whole story yet so it doesnt always age well i mean people didint like ff14 original and realm reborn devicive but through updates and expations things have been built on improved or retconed into a stronger naritive its the problem with any ongoing media it happens in nearly any book series i bet Tolkien even did it to some degree and that guys world building was nuts i find it best to comment stronger opinions at the end in my personal veiw but obviously i did find this content engaging i would prefur more nuance (sorry obout lack of punctuation and spelling feeling lazy and dyslexic today)
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Heh. No worries about the spelling. I gotcha. And fair enough. We'll just hafta see what happens next.
i bet this guy hated pandaria too.
You mean from WoW? Never played it
Though the advertisements reminded me of Kung Fu Panda. Very whimsical.
Venat was a monster, so I am not surprised that she didn't give the poor Watcher much context or restore any of his memories. Gods, I hate EW so much. So glad to see more criticism of how shit everything about the expansion was. From the horrible writing to the literal retelling of FFIV, start to finish, everything about EW sucked ass. You could tell Yoshi P was not involved in EW as he was consumed by 16. I am not excited in the least about DT. Nothing about the story looks remotely appealing.
I'ma play it, though. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy your vids ♥
The hilarity of the statement of YoshiP being consumed by FF16 is that... 16 was also ass.
@@Very_Bord I can agree that parts of 16 were ass, but I still feel EW was worse.