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Kenri posted...

See this is what I mean about major details being hidden where the average player won't notice them! Almost everyone in Ivalice was just someone from St. Ivalice memory wiped and transformed into a new role based on how much Mewt liked them. His best friends and family became the ungodly powerful heroes and rulers, people he didn't care about became "NPCs", and the people he hated became monsters/outlaws for the heroes to hunt down and defeat. There are a handful of exceptions, characters like Babus (transformed from Mewt's teddy bear) and Llednar (just another aspect of Mewt). And even then I don't think either of them actually died because the game pulls its punch and Marche doesn't actually end up destroying Ivalice! The number of people Marche canonically kills is super low, if not zero!

The nonsensical reactions are weird if you think Ivalice is a fully formed world, but they make perfect sense if you consider that Ivalice is just wish fulfillment. It's a world created based on Marche's unconscious desires and explicitly modeled after his favorite video game. Of course the average person helps him with his quest. Why would he create a world where he's the hero but everyone wants to stop him? This is why the only real opposition is from Mewt and the other kids, and their allies.

See, here's the thing. The narrative doesn't care that the people of the old world were erased/memory wiped/transformed. It's not at all something that anyone is concerned with. Marche's angle is that the world is 'fake', not that he's rescuing people. The game COULD have gone that route to make things more morally gray, discussing if it's worth destroying a new world to revive an old one, but it doesn't. It's all about escapism.

There's one endgame fight where a person asks Marche why he's doing what he's doing. He literally answers "I don't know."

And while the world was formed based on the core cast's subconscious desires, it's still a real world. The people in it have their own thoughts, dreams, and emotions. Marche's callous disregard for their lives while the narrative paints him as a hero is entirely tone deaf.

Basically I think everything in the story contradicts everything else and nothing works.

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