What's annoying me is the way they are now forcefully pushing the Noctis and Luna romance to the foreground. Probably because fans just didn't see or understood it in the original game, but an iconic romance is such a good selling point...
Instead of showing us
why they love each other, even though they were separated since childhood and barely interacted over the years, they are now just repeatedly affirming in cutscenes
that they indeed love each other so, sooo much.
The Gentiana/Shiva train cutscene, which was perfectly fine before, was altered to make everything about Noctis' and Luna's lost and imo still inexplicable love. It is so over the top melodramatic and cringey now, just compare the old with the new scene.
In the new Episode Ignis trailer, Ravus turns around his sister's corpse and starts a cheesy monologue of how much he wanted her to "live her live and love whoever she wanted."
What?! D: While Ravus did agree to help Noctis in the end, he still deeply disliked and mistrusted him, especially for what his sister had to endure being so devoted to him. Then finding her dead next to Noctis he would of course suddenly want them to be happily married. No grievances at all anymore. This is very one-dimensional writing, it rewrites characters and their motivation, it feels shoehorned in and it actually makes the story worse in my opinion. :/
Now it is not just unfinished and riddled with plotholes, it's also cheesy and on fanfcition.net level.
Hai
Koozek! :D
