Why go to the trouble of giving Luna one of the best voice actors in the game if they're just gonna off her though. Ugh. So much more they could have done with her. Even if it was just more letters between her and Noct..
It half works for me, on one hand I love the idea of a parallel character to Noct. Someone who accepted their destiny while he's still a child ignoring his fate. On the other hand..... yeah she needed more screen time. Plus if we ignore the movie and anime we don't have enough information to know why she's so important.
Separate point I'm still in love with the game (I have problems with it, but they are far more minor) but when I hear people say the story was worse than 13 for them.... I feel like I played a different game than most of what I'm reading. Characters worked for me, story beats clicked for me, and while the last 4 chapters felt like a rushed production cycle (I get the irony) it still felt like an amazing game and character arc to me.
Let me explain what worked for me, half of the game was building up these characters for me. Not even heavy story just, getting to feel the group dynamic. That's what makes the open world so appealing, it felt like a road trip. We have a prince who loses everything and for most of the game until chapter 9 just doesn't take it seriously. He treats it like I did with college, just going through the expected motions.
The game got male bonds down and the lack of communication. They bicker, they complain, they say everything except the damn thing on their mind. So shit got real, his friends got hurt and one is even missing. People who were thought to be established were executed or easily thrown. Everything we thought we knew was played with by a villain who knew how to pull the strings.
Chapter 13 was sloppy, sloppy as fuck. But seeing the empire without any actual people, hell seeing just the city around it empty was creepy as fuck. Gameplay wise, no defense the stealth was terrible. The scenario was poorly explained as well, I eventually put the pieces together but I understood the stakes.
Chapter 14, the world is fucked. This is a wonderful wonderful idea, while it was quick and most of it was told to us rather than shown the suddenness of it made it scarier. We had to run past everything, it was terror.
By this point the prince finally accepted his fate, as did the people who stood beside him. The ending was powerful, the shot of those people hanging in the throne room was epic and the final battle felt like advent children in playable form.
To me this was the polar opposite of 13. 13 had a decent scenario but because I didn't care about anyone's arc or just them as people it was a waste. Here I gave a shit, they felt more real as friends then most that use "friendship" as a word that has any meaning. Sorry it didn't work for the most of you.
