Gonna echo Twi with Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Not only was it a horrible follow-up to my favorite JRPG, but the story itself was stupid even in a vacuum. Extremely contrived motivations, no one acting in-character (except maybe Zelos), and some plot devices so bad I swear I was watching a daytime soap opera. Who in the hell thought Evil Lloyd was a good idea?
Close second would be Bravely Default. While the setup is kinda nice, albeit simple, the direction it goes after chapter 4 makes the characters feel so mind-numbingly freaking stupid I question why I kept up with it. Even separating the moronic characters from the overall plot, the entire setup felt like a poor excuse to just recycle content forever, and it just became hard to care about anything after doing the same thing over and over again.
If you asked me a year ago, I would have said Fire Emblem: Fates, but after playing through all the routes and the story-relevant DLC, my opinion has since been updated from "Stupid story" to "Interesting story told in a really stupid way." Honestly the lyrics to "Lost in Thoughts All Alone", the translated texts, and the DLC probably tell the story better than the actual story did. Obviously not a good thing by any means, but I can at least appreciate what the writers were going for...at least at some point in time, as it does feel like the story went through rewrites without properly connecting everything.
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