Like all events, did this NEED to be 720 pages? No, of course not. I really liked the ending, though. It does a lot of worldbuilding related to Apocalypse and has the mutants face their first real crisis since the last event, which I also thought worked well. Had it not been so bloated, it’d have been fantastic. I didn’t know much about Apocalypse backstory but this seems like it expands a lot on what was hugely contrived before. Though, the inception of the event was also wildly contrived. A strange contest where people had to find swords and then do weird feats generally not involving swords but it was all machinations. I think if you don’t like the end this would be a massive, massive struggle.