The major story twist that Cayenne is the true Big Bad and pulled a Kill and Replace on Shayne Muscat is given little foreshadowing in-game.Not helping is that this whole revelation doesn't have any impact on the story, meaning that it can be cut (or in the Sequel Hook's case, saved for Fuga 3) without any difference. Some also take issue with Jin choosing to give her such mercy at all, given how- revenge or no revenge- she was still the one responsible for the death of his father (and mocked him for it to boot), making it hard to believe that he would help her, especially as he still remarked to himself that he never wanted to see her again just before her death in the first game. Some players take issue with the revelation that Jin rescued Flam Kish back from death and is nursing her back to health, given how she was eaten alive by flames in the last game and how Jin would've only been able to take her in a significant amount of time afterwards.Is the Belenos somehow corrupting Jihl with its power, or have Jihl's traumatic experiences have made the act of controlling it too overwhelming a task? Alternate Character Interpretation: As the Belenos becomes more powerful in-game, it begins to drain Jihl of his memories and sanity, but the Crusade Archives note that the Belenos requires a strong degree of emotional awareness and control to operate. So the aesop ends up coming off less like "revenge is bad" and more "if you don't pursue revenge, the loved ones you lost will come back".
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