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MysteriousStan posted...

Sounds like you're knee deep in bad part of Zestiria. Not that I'd know since I never played it and I don't think I will!

Yeah, don't bother. Most of the game is incredibly dull. And then things finally start to speed up and... it's a mess. Let's go over what happened during the confrontation with Mayvin, shall we?

He takes us to a monolith that has at some point been placed in the center of the tower - the same room where, a thousand years earlier, his asshole ancestor copied the formula of Siegfried. The irony of the fact that the Mayvin clan would end here, at the pride and joy of their patriarch, is not lost on me. This monolith lets him do some storyteller mumbo-jumbo that warps me to the past, to show an innocent village being ransacked by Hyland after it was abandoned by Heldalf, the military commander in charge of the area.

The interesting part is, at the Empyrean"s Throne, when Shepherd Michael takes a baby from his sister Muse and sacrifices it to do some witchcraft that pushes the hellionized Maotelus (no explanation given as to what happened) into Heldalf, who then kills some Hyland valkyries and shakes of anything that comes at him. He became a hellion because he was made one by a dying Shepherd.

A dying Shepherd who so happened to be Sorry's father. And one who so happened to be Mikleo's uncle. Yeah, that's right, the two ruin nerds are cousins, and Mikleo was the sacrifice made to do whatever nonsense was done with Heldalf. Muse uses the last of her strength to bring what's left of Mikleo to safety... Gramps, who came along. Being her brother's squire, she of course could see seraphim. She was shocked to see that her brother had knocked up one of the other villagers, who... I don't know how the hell it happened, but she had given herself a C-section and delivered Sorry three months premature in order to let him have a chance at life. Something that makes no sense in reality, mind you. Gramps takes the two boys in with the intent for them to become Shepherd and Sub-lord 17 years later. And now, those two boys, her son and her nephew, are witnessing her death at the onset of this Age of Chaos. Chaos as in the utter disaster this story is becoming. I take it Sorry only survived because Gramps.

Afterward, Mayvin attacks us as a test. I'm equipped with mythril now, so that should help. He's not too difficult, save for the Mystic Arte he abuses after getting down to half health. Rose takes all four times he uses it, though, so I end up just spamming arrows at him. Water armatization is so dull. After I beat him, something something bonds of whatever blah blah blah this doesn't make any sense. Apparently, like Dezel gave himself up? I have to sever something and use my seraphs' lives to do it. Sorry hesitates because he doesn't want to kill Mayvin. Mayvin says to do it if he wants to prove he has conviction. Sorry concedes. He and Mikleo fuse and Sorry fires Siegfried and...

...Mayvin suddenly has a heart attack and dies. Apparently it was taboo for him to tell this tale and that cost him his immortality, which was probably hax made by Melchior wanting the Philosopher's Stone and trying to replicate it. Or something. Because he's probably a few hundred y/o at this point, it wasn't going to take long for something to kill him. He's shocked to have people at his side in his final moments, but he relishes it. He knew this was coming, but it had to. He didn't want the important parts lost to time.

The gang gives the old man a proper burial outside the tower and sets out for Elysia, where there's access to his origin village. Gramps had closed the entire thing off so nobody could go there. That's where I end for the night. Explanation of any of the nonsense parts - particularly the "bonds of fate" or whatever that was - would be appreciated!