So, this has happened a few times now. First there was the Alphinaud fight, then there was Y\\'Sthola, Lamitt, and just completed Thancred\\'s fight against Ran\\'Jit.
They all suffer from similar problems: They take you right of your character\\'s story, which would be fine for me if not for the second problem, they\\'re boring and have no real stakes. Alphinaud just gets returned to the group, Y\\'Shtola gets hit on, and Thancred\\'s felt like he shouldn\\'t have even been there.
I love Thancred and Y\\'Shtola, don\\'t get me wrong on that, but both of their fights were just completely empty, and the fight mechanics were just frustrating for how utterly uninteresting they are. You spend both fights button mashing a single attack, and moving slightly to avoid really obvious patterns, then throw an occasional heal. If the fights were at least short, that would be a bit more excusable, but it feels like they were massively padded out, and the solution is pretty much the same each time: Keeping spamming the attacks until you unlock whichever game ending ability you\\'ve been assigned.
I\\'d have rather even had a cutscene fight, where I at least get to watch some decent action or something.
Y\\'Shtola\\'s probably annoys me more, since you literally get pulled out mid-duel to do it, and your character concludes the duel off camera. Alphinaud\\'s and Lamitt\\'s made a certain basic sense, since there was no other way to participate otherwise.
Thancred, though.... Why\\'d they do him dirty like that? Seriously, I did NOTHING in that cutscene. And there was no reason for me to be there personally. Thancred could\\'ve gone, left me to fight Ran\\'Jit, and I see the scene through the Echo. It could\\'ve even added emotional weight as Thancred has to accept Minfilia is gone, and say his goodbyes. I mean, come on, they had an open shot to kick my heart in the dick, and wussed out on it.
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They all suffer from similar problems: They take you right of your character\\'s story, which would be fine for me if not for the second problem, they\\'re boring and have no real stakes. Alphinaud just gets returned to the group, Y\\'Shtola gets hit on, and Thancred\\'s felt like he shouldn\\'t have even been there.
I love Thancred and Y\\'Shtola, don\\'t get me wrong on that, but both of their fights were just completely empty, and the fight mechanics were just frustrating for how utterly uninteresting they are. You spend both fights button mashing a single attack, and moving slightly to avoid really obvious patterns, then throw an occasional heal. If the fights were at least short, that would be a bit more excusable, but it feels like they were massively padded out, and the solution is pretty much the same each time: Keeping spamming the attacks until you unlock whichever game ending ability you\\'ve been assigned.
I\\'d have rather even had a cutscene fight, where I at least get to watch some decent action or something.
Y\\'Shtola\\'s probably annoys me more, since you literally get pulled out mid-duel to do it, and your character concludes the duel off camera. Alphinaud\\'s and Lamitt\\'s made a certain basic sense, since there was no other way to participate otherwise.
Thancred, though.... Why\\'d they do him dirty like that? Seriously, I did NOTHING in that cutscene. And there was no reason for me to be there personally. Thancred could\\'ve gone, left me to fight Ran\\'Jit, and I see the scene through the Echo. It could\\'ve even added emotional weight as Thancred has to accept Minfilia is gone, and say his goodbyes. I mean, come on, they had an open shot to kick my heart in the dick, and wussed out on it.
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