Filmmaker Reacts: Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn - End of an Era
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I love FFXIV, it's a fun series for me and I truly enjoy it. Plus there is a mini quest series in it called the Hildibrand questline, which is a Final Fantasy collection in itself containing characters and enemies from FF 4,5,6,8,9,10,13. It's silly and nostalgic at the same time. Also here is a Fun fact, there was a picture online comparing Deathwings size to Bahamut. Deathwing was as big as Bahamut's EYE. The sheer size of the dragon was insane.
There's an extended scene for this that shows the full outcome of the battle. Its titled Flames of Truth. You need to see that one.
The Allagans sealed away Bahamut to use him as a source of energy to power their civilization. When he breaks free, he's basically unleashing thousands of years of pent up anger as well as energy. As the civilization that once used him as a power source long perished, so all that astral aether was just building up inside the Red Moon. And in this cinematic we see it all unleashed. Louisoux knew this and was counting on using all that ambient aether to seal Bahamut back up when he gets loose. Alas, he was literally too angry to die(tm).
Fun Fact: Somebody did the math on Calamity Bahamut's size... and Deathwing from World of Warcraft is a teeny speck on his shoulder... Calamity Bahamut was MASSIVE.
Well, considering we also have some reference as a raid where we sit on Deathwings back with eight people and barely have proper room to move and a raid were we stand in the palm of Bahamuts hand with eight people and fight another dragon on it...
I do believe he had a wingspan of ~45km.
@@Reinhard96 Not quite, just 12.88 km actually. ´xD ..."just 12.88 km" I say, as if that wasn't so unimaginably huge that it boggles the mind to just _try_ to imagine the scale of that dragon... ^^;
Im wondering, how would Omega fare against Bahamut, considering she beaten Shinryiu only by the hair and Shinryiu was born only from Nidhoggs eyes(ok, mostly).
Bahamut was sunbathing for thousands years and was stronger by the magnitudes. Allagans used Omega to capture him in the first place, but that was just "average" primal and he absorbed ALOT of aether while imprisoned in Dalamud.
Simply said, i would love to see that fight, but it would be too much devastation....
@@cyphi474 ever tried to fight a battleship with a handgun?
I love the "heroes" just standing there after the summon. Like, WHAT do you do?
And I will always love his smile after he teleported us away and we were "safe"
When I watch it now I always think of the hallway scene from the movie Rogue One. Just people facing a being so powerful they are absolutely helpless against it.
The way it shows the look of despair on everyone’s face that their last line of defense didn’t work. KILLS me.
this. The look on WoL's face, with the face twitches and everything: just pure despair.
I will never forget logging in with no clue what was going on. Hearing this song subtly on the wind. I then left the town and saw adventurers all grouped on a cliff looking over the battlefield direction. After I waddled over suddenly this cinematic kicked in. My jaw dropped and the sudden realisation the servers were gone...
NO other MMO has had the balls to do what FF XIV did this day. Only for it to then be remembered and lore for future games. Makes players like myself part of the history.
It's why I can never change my character name despite how outdated it feels to me 'cause I'm like...that name is in the CREDITS, how can I possibly change it? I know no one is ever actually gonna read that massive list and remember my name on it amongst thousands...but *I* know it's there.
In a way, WoW did it with cataclysm
"We want to do a huge update to the game that fundamentally changes the world you play in. Let's have a fuckhuge dragon blow everything up"
Though where WoW just had it as a regular expansion and basically just felt like it, xiv was faced with "It's either give up and let this game die due to its lack of success, or rebuild everything from the ground up" and chose the latter
@@pentagonofpeople Yeah was gonna say its way more than just a cataclysm with XIV but then I saw the rest of your comment. xD
@@pentagonofpeople And had Square Enix actually called it quits there, this would have been a great way to end on a high note. Instead, they used it as part of their lore as they rebuilt the entire game, and now it's the new king of MMOs.
This event was the equivalent of the moon landing and you can't change my mind otherwise
Just before he teleports the heroes away from the ruined battlefield there is a symbol that appears in front of his hand, which is the sumbol of Althyk, god of space and time. Nice little detail
As someone caught up with FFXIV, Answer WRECKS me. I'm so excited to witness your journey when you embark upon it. FFVII Rebirth will keep me fed until then! Another amazing reaction & breakdown! All the best to you Phil!
"No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Hensforth, he shall walk." 😭
@@Froggsroxx "- or fly, my children - and never look back!" 😢
I was there day servers went down - There was so much build up to the "End of an Era" . In the weeks leading up you saw Dalamud ( Bhamut ) getting closer and closer in the sky, you saw in increase in garlean ships in the skies. The day servers went down it was like someone spilled coffee on the servers there were mobs inside the cities , soldiers nuking people at Mor Dohna and the sky box was lit up with lightening strikes. Then there was the moment where everything came to an end, and this video started playing.. and i don't know how to describe the feeling that came over me. It was one of the things i will never forget and i feel like i was really apart of gaming history.
Then i forgot to sign up on the website to have my name in the credits XD
Ya, I regret not doing so myself and hate that
So Bahamut lore time since you asked: the Bahamut we see in this trailer is not the "real" Bahamut but a primal summoned by Tiamat and her dragons thousands of years ago. The Allagan empire captured this primal along with a number of its worshipping dragons and launched them into orbit in an artificial moon prison. The idea was that the prison would constantly break down the primal, its captured worshippers would pray and ritually repair the primal, gathering ether from the heavens. The moon would then broadcast this excess ether down to the Crystal Tower for the Allagan's use. However with the burying of the Crystal Tower, all of that excess ether has just been pooling in Bahamut's prison for thousands of years. Now the Garleans, not fully understanding what they had on their hands, were bringing down the moon/Bahamut to lay waste to Eorzea so they could capture it. So not only was this a primal that was already a higher tier primal, but he has been constantly pooling ether for millennia and is now unleashed on the world.
Just to add to the lore dump, it should be noted that these events were entirely played out in-game as the final event of the original FFXIV. The entire war taking place at the beginning of the cinematic was playable with the music playing in the background of the area. When the original servers were shutdown, marking the end of the event, this cinematic was the send-off and de facto conclusion to the original FFXIV storyline. The FFXIV most modern players are familiar with is actually the first expansion. Like Cataclysm did to WoW, A Realm Reborn was basically a reset to the entire game, where the original storyline was no longer playable/accessible, having been replaced by the content 5 years later. In fact, when the characters are teleported away at the end of the cinematic (these represent the player characters), they're actually "trapped" in the Lifestream for those 5 years, detailed memories of their identities erased from everyone, including them.
Fun fact for those that didn't know, if you happened to have a character from the original game carried into ARR they were (lorewise) imprinted with tattoos known as the "Marks of the Twelve", marking them as de facto "Warriors of Light". Now, lorewise, all players are Warriors of Light, but it was initially used to reference the characters from the original story.
@@tsukasadt To further add to this: Nael van Darnus, the Garlean Legatus who led the Garlean legion that was at Cartenaeu, had been present at the Meteor incident that killed Cid Garland's father some decade or two before even that. That's actually why Gaius and Cid have some of the interactions they do in the few times where they talk. Gaius raised Cid for several years after his father's death before Cid defected to Eorzea. He had long since been Tempered by Bahamut during that incident, but no one knew because no one had learned yet that Dalamud was a prison for the Elder Primal. It was his idea to bring Dalamud down on Eorzea to crush their will and make them easier to conquer, because Bahamut knew that being brought that close to the surface would allow him to shatter his bonds. The final in-game quest of V1 was rushing into the control room from which Nael van Darnus was controlling the moonfall to confront and kill him...but we were too late. We could still kill van Darnus, but Dalamud had already been brought close enough for Bahamut's goals.
It was actually NOT known by any characters in the game NOR any players what Dalamud actually was or that it contained Bahamut until it was shown in this cinematic. It was actually believed to really be a moon until after enough patches, it got close enough to see details that made it clear that it was NOT a natural object...but we still didn't understand the nature of it nor know what would happen when it fell until we saw this.
Not sure if you're aware, but the end credits of A Realm Reborn (after you've beaten it) contain the names of many of the players who had stayed with the old version of FFXIV before it was 'broken' to create the newer, better version. For a short time, there was a sign-up form on a web site where you could have your name added to the credits after the change-over. That is why the end credits of A Realm Reborn is over an hour and a half long.
There's a moment in this cinematic that *always* gives me chills, and it's because of how FFXIV portrays your Warrior of Light, there's options you can choose, you can make them stoic, jokey, sullen, or frankly, an idiot, but it's all the little things that *every* WoL shares-- being wary when offered a drink, even if it's by someone you've grown to trust with your life. Always wearing a smile when others are in pain, so they don't lose hope by seeing their hero cry with them, the unabashed *vitriol* towards a certain princeling, these are things all WoLs share, and it gives them a sense of connection to the setting.
The scene that always gives me chills is at 4:35, when Bahamut's Megaflare is raining hellfire down on Limsa Lominsa. At that moment, in my WoL's personal fanon origin, on a small farm in Middle La Noscea, a 17 year old Miqo'te is watching her home explode, the city she's gone to on so many weekends to visit her father in Hawker's Alley, or to apply for, and be turned away from the Yellowjackets for the umpteenth time, because they don't recruit kids.
That was her call to action, that was her inciting moment, the moment she swore she would do everything in her power to stop something like this from ever happening again. The next morning, after the dust had settled, after the wounded have been tended to, after the dead have been counted, Tae'xia Vryxies took up her father's lance and began her life of adventure. Five years later, she would ride into Gridania and stumble into this adventure.
That one shot in the cinematic has so much more weight *because* of the sense of connection I have to Limsa from the MSQ, from the characters there, from the job quests set there, and that's what I adore about FFXIV
The real insanity of this scene is that NOBODY playing 1.0 knew this was coming. All we knew then was the moon was falling. When the servers shut down they played this scene and it was so much more than anyone could have expected.
What Final Fantasy XIV effectively is, is a giant Final Fantasy Themepark.
While the game definitely has its own unique world and universe, it's literally filled to the brim with direct and indirect references to other FF games, with some being outright collabs like the Ivalice Raids which directly references FF Tactics and FFXII or the upcoming Echoes of Vana'diel raids which are an actual collab with FFXI, their previous MMO.
And that's without mentioning the Nier Automata Raids they collabed with back in 2019 or the upcoming Collab with FFXVI.
Fun fact about the axe used by the Warrior of Light in this trailer: it's named "Bravura", and is said to be forged of sky-metals; meteoric metals left behind in the mountains where the blacksmithing clan that forged it lived. The head of the axe is said to weigh around double that of a normal warrior's axe, so your comment about its weight and momentum, and the way it's animated, line up nicely with its lore!
honestly, it's incredible that Eorzea recovered from an event this catastrophic in just 5 years. (I'm aware the recovery is still ongoing during ARR and beyond. BUT! The fact they were able to basically put an infrastructure together, and a semblance of normalcy in 5 years, is incredibly impressive.
Also: As my main is an Ishgardian Dragoon, I have to join. I can't not do it. :3
The armored figure is Gaius Van Baelsar. One of the few Garleans who protested the Dalamud project Nael Van Darnus and his VIIth legion's project to obliterate Eorzea.
Gaius wanted there to be something left to conquer. He insisted that there was no value to leaving Eorzea as a smoking crater, when it would be much better for the empire in the long run to conquer it instead. That, and many other reasons are why I have always had a level of respect for him.
Having played through End Walker. This hits on so many different levels now, but those would be spoilers.
thou must live die and know
It’s great to see you diving into XIV again. Your enthusiasm for this stuff is unparalleled and Im excited for how you’ll engage with one of my favorite games!
For most players this was their introduction, no emotional investment but what you can get as you watch, knowing no one and nothing about this world...
But as a 1.0 player this was a climax. Highly emotionally charged and filled you with a sense of dispair and defeat, because you'd done EVERYTHING to try to save this wotld, and though you knew because of them remaking the game that SOMETHING major would happen, you really didn't know what, and you didn't expect THIS. We actually didn't know Dalamud contained Bahamut until this cinematic...and then we had to watch him destroy everything we loved and we honestly didn't know what if anything or anyone would survive into 2.0.
For reference, in game the emergence of Bahamut is classified as a "Calamity" which marks ends of eras.
10 years later, still gives me goosebumps.
in the Binding Coil raids there is a final sequence to this cinematic that shows how Bahamut was stopped
uhg finally a professional field reaction video that doesnt pause the video every few seconds to talk and actually watches the video first and enjoys it then goes back to review it. i hate the other channels that do that shit. its annoying. the video is not an unrecorded live stream. you can go back through it.
That's why I love XIV so much, as you pointed it out: it's a massive love letter to the whole Final Fantasy Franchise, with elements from every games, even spin offs like tactic are here and thoses who don't know can pass next to them without taking them because it still make sense in it's own universe (the most blatant exemple being the Magiteks and the Crystal Tower but they are 2 in a sea of hundreads) but the old fans who did several others games is also pleased to see them
I was online the day this dropped, sadly the lag was so bad in Mor Dhona (location of the Battle of Carteneau that is shown in this cinematic) I couldn't participate in the chaos. I ended my time in 1.0 staring into the Sagolii Desert, being booted from the server an immediately being treated to this cutscene was quite the experience.
The best part of this opening, is that the destruction symbolizes the reboot of 1.0
I love ARR. Storywise it can be slow but does it set up some fantastic stories to come. This cinematic remains one of my favorites 10 years later. It gave me goosebumps, still does sometimes.
What’s even better is the post Binding Coil version that shows what happened after we were reported away. It’s a big spoiler for the BCOB, but total chef’s kiss!
Ah man, you didn't do the extended one.
Yeah i was waiting for that one lol
@@elcxzyn should come later I think? Wasn't it an ingame thing?
@@angussharington2374 yeah it was later after the first raid
@@angussharington2374 The extended version was indeed at first an in-game reward for finishing the Coils of Bahamut raid. And I would daresay that if he goes to play the game and does the raid it has a better impact really. :D
@@angussharington2374 There are 3 versions of this... I guess you could say 4 if you combine the last 2.
This one. Flames of Truth that extends this bit and shows what happened after the battle. And the full ARR trailer which shows the Warriors Of Light reappearing in Eorzea 5 years later, after the realm was reborn.
I still remembr when I saw the For Answers cinematic on the original servers closing day day when I was just 18 years old, I got chills! I knew at that moment that the relaunch is going to be good and then the added extra bits on relaunch day 2 years later.
As a heads up for anyone unsure where this cutscene fits, this is the event that ended FF14 v1.0 and lead in to v2.0 aka A Realm Reborn.
Bahamut, at least this version of Bahamut, is a Primal. A primal is a being summoned in to existence by the collective will of a group of people/monsters/etc with the help of aether gathered in crystals. A primal may or may not use a living being as a core and that being then becomes the primal and acts as the heart of the primal and is able to guide and possibly control the actions of the primal. Bahamut is not a primal that used a core in its summon.
I say this version, because the original Bahamut was an actual dragon that died. He was killed by the Allagan Empire. This version of Bahamut was summoned by Tiamat, his sister, and Tiamat's children. They were tricked in to believing that Bahamut would be resurrected by doing that, but they just created a primal that looked like Bahamut, but did not have his memories or act like him at all. The Bahamut Primal was then captured by the Ascian Emperor and trapped inside of a massive fake moon and placed in orbit around the planet and used as a giant solar energy farm for their empire. The empire eventually collapsed but Bahamut was still trapped and left in the "Red Moon Dalamud" in orbit.
All that happened before 1.0.
During 1.0 the new evil empire, the Garlean empire, tries to harness the Moon, and Bahamut's power to destroy the other primals on the planet which are summoned by various beast tribes like Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda. The project is headed by a guy who is basically brainwashed by Bahamut to call down the moon, but he's eventually defeated, but not in time to stop the moon from falling. The Garlean army and the collective armies of the 3 major cities in the game fight a war as the moon drops and Bahamut is released.
Louisoix (the old elf guy) tries to stop Bahamut by summoning the Twelve to beat him using the "Prayers for a realm reborn". The spell fails, and Bahamut is able to do a lot of damage to the surrounding area. Louisoix is able to harness the aether gathered for the failed spell and is able to use that to teleport everyone to safety, and is able to defeat Bahamut, though it costs him his life.
2.0 picks up from here.
Depending on when you created your character will impact your starting sequence in 2.0.
If you created your character during 1.0, then 2.0 picks up following Louisoix teleporting your character away from the battle and you teleport to an area outside of one of the major cities. Your character then walks in to town and things proceed from there.
If you created a fresh character from 2.0 or later, then your character did not participate in the events from 1.0 and the game starts with a scene of your character waking up on a carriage riding to whichever starting town you chose.
The story about Louisoix and Bahamut is expanded more in the Binding Coil of Bahamut raid series storyline and there is more to the story than what we got in 1.0.
Allagan Empire sealed Bahamut and put it in the sky to make it a power source. Until it came down many thought it was just another moon I think.
I still tear up whenever I see ARR's trailer. I wished they make the Coils of Bahamut questline part of the Main Story Questline, it covers a lot of important things in relation to the Battle of Carteneau, as well as the fate of Archon Louisoix (the cool old man who sacrificed for us all).
Man, this song really is just amazing. In a different context, this song straight up hurts. Anyone who played endwalker *knows* what scene I'm talking about.
This wasn't the only version of this trailer. There is a longer version that shows how Bahamut was sealed again.
What you're missing however, is the cutscene that plays in the Bahamut raid, just at its end, showing that Louisoix Levellieur was, without a shred of a doubt, the strongest conjurer of the Sixth Astral Era
ruclips.net/video/1xOOFCltZuc/видео.html 5:35 is where you wanna start to see him show that "Throwing hands" does not have class restriction
The cataclysm wrought by Bahamut invokes both terror and awe.
What always gets me is when the party just stands there as Bahamut is rampaging, and the paladin takes a slight step back.
I cant really explain why, but even thinking about this song makes me a bit emotional. Its an absolute masterpiece of music tied to visuals and storytelling. The drama of the battle mixed with the absolute sadness of the situation.
I cant think of many other games with "I was there" moments like this, it's an example of what MMOs should strive to achieve in its failure and rebirth.
I love that YoshiP's whole motivation behind this was so that he could literally burn down the 1.0 game and then re-release his reimagined version of the game. And what a success it has been.
This deserves a fkn award
I dont know if youve recieved this information 1000 times before. but theres a version of the Cinematic called Flames of Truth which adds a little more cinematic.
Louisoix, the hero we needed and deserved, his sacrifice saved us all!
The really haunting thing about this video is everyone who was logged into ff14 version 1 when they shut it down saw this play. At the end of the cinematic, they got a message that the servers could not be reached. It's only actually half of the opening cutscene for A Realm Reborn.
I don't know if you've seen it by now, but there's more to this - it continues right where this one leaves off. It was released a couple days before the official opening sequence for Heavensward, this being a few months before it was released in 2015. Flames of Truth: ruclips.net/video/1xOOFCltZuc/видео.html
Something i really liked about the scene with the warrior 10:26 the moment the axe drops it immediately anchors essentially the rest of the cinematic to the warriors perspective. I know its a minor thing but its a really effective way to visually show "I am here." Idk what to call it lol
@PhilipHarts Hi, the description of the video seems to be incorrect as it says "Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail Full Trailer reaction!"
You didn’t watch the full one! They updated it to add a scene after the end of this one and it makes it so epic!
When I saw this the first time when it ended I fell in love with it. SE has always had such great music. This was a great way to end 1.0 and bring it into 2.0. I cannot imagine how it felt for the players who was actually there. Helpless to stop this from happening and stood there at the final moments before it shut down
0:18 - 0:47 music can be found on youtube with the title:
【ニーアレプリカント ver.1.22 BGM】イニシエノウタ ／ ポポル ｜ NieR Replicant ver.1.22 OST - Song of the Ancients / Popola
Answers is the musical equivalent of the game ... created for the first version of the game ... present all the way in the introduction cutscenes, it was never able to show its original meaning just like 1.0 ... as the games course took a daring new course so did the song gain new purpose as the crescendo at the end of one journey and the beginning of a new one ... its muffled version hauntingly playing as the end of 1.0 approached and unfolding its beauty right as the servers of 1.0 turned off and this breathtaking cutscene played out for all the players present at the time ... taking on a new meaning ... and as the new journey unfolded it would take on more meanings as we explored this first great saga an apex one again reached in Endwalker at the end of this second journey and at the dawn of a new one ...
Answers to me is the song of FF 14.
And yes you will find elements form almost all FF games in FF 14 as Youshi-P says its a theme park for the FF series ..
This is Yoshi P literally destroying the original version of the game. That’s another layer of why this is so powerful
I got to be there when the servers shut down. It was pretty cool.
Need to rewatch the next of this intro to ARR and the secret scene of this first part, we, players known when we accomplished the Final Turn (the T13) of Bahamut raid ;)
I'm pretty sure that's not the full cinematic. There's more that the Louisoix does before dying.
Bahamut is MAAASSSSSSIVE
Im about to finally start EndWalker.
And hearing this song hurts lol
Just wait till you're done endwalker :')
I like to follow your cinematics journeys to get an overview of other MMOs
(because obviously I don't have enough of one life to be able to play more than one MMO... ^^')
Not sure if you plan on playing the game any further than what you have but IF NOT.....watch Flames of Truth for an epic scene continuing the end of this cinematic.
Love your reaction it was just amazing and all the details you gave are perfect compared to people that don't get it. My only negative thing to say is the trailer was the very first one I believe. I wish it was at least the one where they shows the party of warriors of lights and then they show the ff14 logo. There's also a bigger trailer that shows what happens but that is a big spoiler because of lore and coils of bahamuth. Other than that perfect man. Can't wait to watch the rest of your videos.
Isn’t there a complete version called flame of truth?
Should have watch Flames of Truth instead End of and Era because there is actually a continuation of that cinematic.
I can't wait for Phil's FFXIV playthrough
Just slightly confused because I'm sure that wasn't the full trailer as there's more that happens after that, could have sworn
Not even the WHOLE trailer =O
Here's the whole trailer. There's a..."Secret" Cinematic, that you unlock by defeating Bahamut in the Bahamut Raids. (THIS is not that "Secret" Cinematic.)
ruclips.net/video/h542YbZuwkQ/видео.html
"i see references so you nerd can belive me i watched at least two videos on youtube about final fantasy, im likes you"
"im real, not a fake. Belive me"
I have played and beaten every numbered final fantasy and spinoff game.
the description says dawntrail, jsyk
Theres a whole second part you missed T_T
Actually it is not a full version of this intro!
.....gosh FF14 Online are ( was for me..not playing it anymore.. ) an insanely amazingly Online game!!!
From a storytelling perspective, I wish heroes would lose more in games overall.
For someone who knows nothing knows a whole lot about final fantasy 14.
After this I highly recommend you watch Flames of Truth, it shows what happens after this one ends.
I highly dont, unless you are never going to play the game.
These low effort bandwagon videos need to stop. There are enough cinematics out there in the universe that a filmmaker would be desensitized to this by now and not be shocked. I guarantee these comments and reactions would not have happened if you were alone in a room.
You’re right, I’m even more crazy, excited, and analytical of every shot when I’m alone in a room! Your guarantee means absolutely nothing, and is downright creepy and weird to voice in this way.
You know you can just not watch, right? In fact, by clicking on the video and engaging with it by commenting, the algorithm is just going to feed you more.
Gabranth is literally in this game
Something i really liked about the scene with the warrior 10:26 the moment the axe drops it immediately anchors essentially the rest of the cinematic to the warriors perspective. I know its a minor thing but its a really effective way to visually show "I am here." Idk what to call it lol