Guild Wars 2

In the last mission where you fight againts Zhaitan, you are on flying airships or something like that. These airships seem quite buggy.

Yes, the ending was also a bit of messy and all. You just mostly kept pressing the skill 2

They could have done it a bit better. Like, we just need to protect the shooters from all that Zhaitans throws in to the airship. And we should still be able to damage Zhaitan with something different if we would like to.

On the whole, Zhaitan doesn’t do much. We were able to shoot at him for roughly 90% of the ‘battle’ while he just took the punishment. It wasn’t until right up to the end that he started spawning a few enemies on the deck.

Most of our other players were unable to hit him with the other guns. He stayed only in one place, so only 2 guns could hit him at any time in the battle. It was really boring, took really long, and nothing exciting happened. Just Zhaitan sticking to the tower taking hits. He can’t be targeted either. In contrast, the battle with the two dragon minions was brutal, with tons of enemies spawning all over the small deck, and area effects knocking us away from the canons. But Zhaitan’s battle with a much bigger deck surprisingly doesn’t have much happening at all. The foes he spawns are also much easier. He doesn’t even use any breath weapon, and there are no attacks we have to shield ourselves against.

Its also a shame that there are so many cinematics. A lot of these cut scenes might as well be real time, which would make the battle a lot more exciting. But constantly the game cuts to a scripted cut scene, taking control away from the players.

At no point do the players get to activate the lasers that blast him into oblivion. It really feels like we are just an audience, and not participating. Apparently Destiny’s Edge are the main characters, and we are not important.

Our final thoughts were “Can we at least crash the airship into Logan Thackery, or Trahern?” The finale had the worst of all story cliches, with Logan sacrificing himself, but not quite, and magically pulling a huge airship our of his pocket. These characters are so uninteresting and annoying, and constantly it feels our own main characters are pushed to the sideline to make way for this boring group of npc’s.

In the end it’s one of the npc’s that blasts the dragon apart, not us. And it is the npc’s that march bravely into the sunset, not us. This is basically “Not us – the game”. Such a shame.

I liked the look of Zhaitan, although I hoped he would be bigger. Maybe some tweaks can make his battle more interesting.