SYLVANAS 2.0! Asmongold Reacts to HUGE WoW Cinematic
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2021
- Asmongold's COMPLETE breakdown of "Shattered Legacies", a game-changing cinematic for the final patch of World of Warcraft Shadowlands that was just leaked today. This is the most thorough analysis on the new Sylvanas cinematic, as well as the first look at new voice-overs and the resh Sylvanas model on the 9.2 Eternity's End PTR. Personal thoughts on the future of WoW's story at the end of the video.
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Baine:
- Travels to the afterlife.
- Gets kidnapped, almost killed, kidnapped again and rescued.
- Sits in Oribos for 3 patches.
- “Maybe she shouldn’t”.
- Refuses to elaborate further.
- Leaves.
what do you spect him to do, hes just a tauren, no special powers
Based cow
Warriors, Hunters, and Rogues should just leave. They're just normal dudes after all.
@@DreadnaughtZero actually thanks to profeccions and materials form the shadow lands they are useful
Bane was so useless i still wonder why we even wasted time to save him
"so long as her soul remains divided, she cannot wake"
"Maybe she shouldn't"
Based bull spitting facts
Dont blame the bull , blame the awfully shitty writers
He spent a year sitting on the floor thinking of that zinger.
@@tommenno a year well spent then
Where's Arthas? Like classical take of sleeping beauty for her to wake up all he needs to do is kiss her, then she's awake all solved!
lol, i dont play wow but i heard she fucked people over alot…. and apparently redemption shouldnt be possible…
"Never in a thousand lifetimes would I betray everything I stood for!"
I'm sure Arthas thought the very same, alongside every paladin, and virtuous knight who followed him into damnation.
True.
@Rose's Zen Garden Yeah, the two-faction system chafes at times. I loved Warcraft 3 and it's lore, and the Alliance-Horde split works fine in classic. But even back then, giving the player the option to join or assist other factions independant of their starting faction, or even *betray* their starting faction, to join another(an Orc joining the dark horde under Nefarian for instance) would have been cool. It wasn't feasible at the time, but if the game ever gets a reboot. Or if Blizzard loses the IP someday, I would be thrilled to take all the good lore and storytelling the universe ever had, and reconstruct it into something Awe-inspiring. For now, we're stuck with Blizzard's choices. It makes sense for the Forsaken players to follow Sylvanas, less sense for the rest. Blood elves especially.
@@raneerickson3398 Yup. Blizzard is running the game kinda like our 2-party system, since that seems to be working so well.
Arthas did nothing wrong
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions
I miss the Old Pre Legion Sylvanas that only cared about saving her forsaken and keeping her allegiance with the Horde intact to benefit from their protection. Blizzard taking her in this direction in my opinion failed 1 of their greatest characters and was hard for this forsaken/blood elf to see her mistreated like this. For the Dark Lady!!
Interns must be writing the story nowadays. They really just destroyed her entire character. Everything Sylvanas accomplished with the forsaken is gone.
The part that pisses me off the most is that all of the people clamoring to kill Sylvanas when they only know her story past Legion and ignore the shitloads of lore. I quit Wow when this expansion hit because I didn't want to watch the Forsaken leader get driven into the ground.
Honestly, if they kept her ties to the forsaken and that Sylvanas was doing everything she can to prevent the Forsaken from suffering the Maw, that would have been okay-ish. Definitely hundreds of times better than this train crash.
@@SlocumJoe7740 Frankly Sylvanas' story was all but destroyed with Cataclysm.
In the Silverpine Forest, she personally oversaw the mass-resurrection of humans her people had killed and threw them at the encroaching alliance to die as cannon fodder. This is the Lich King's modus operandi, word for word. It's uncanny how the writers didn't realize she was endorsing and using the tactics of her biggest enemy - the very same tactic that was used against her *personally.*
The release of Cataclysm marks a very clear line where the resurrected ranger-general that's torn between personal revenge and protection of a people that had no-one else to protect them is replaced by Baby's Second Lich King.
Honestly legion sylvanas still felt like she was trying to save the forsaken.
Blizzard’s favorite line to skip story telling: “You will never understand”
I mean, when the writers themselves don't, how could you?
"ENOUGH!"
"I'll explain later."
@@brianp6682 xD
the only suitable reply to that is "Well maybe if you explained more and did genocide less!?"
This isn't a reaction. This is a movie.
Lol
lmao
Cat dany
Thank you CatDany
dude has really mastered the art of react videos
I'm convinced that the cinematics team runs everything through at .75x speed for the final cut of these cinematics. Watching and listening to this at 1.25x and 1.5x speed sounds so much more natural than the long, drawn out way it sounds on normal playback speed
1.25x is almost perfect.
"Catches the arrow like a wiffle ball and the jailer thinks its funny" I would love to see Asmon do break downs on WoW lore but in that tone 😂
Sylvanas needs a redemption arc like Bobby Kotick needs another yacht.
So she doesn't then
@@puppetstudio4989
Exactly.
I've been bored of her for years and years.
Based
Maybe zorval should restore Bobby soul so we can see a redemption arc
Players: "Sylvanas story is so lame and inconsistent"
Blizzard: "Hey, alright, check out this new HOTTER model we made for her"
They were careful not to show boobs or they'd have to turn her into fruits next patch
@@crboxRTS a basket full of oranges and pears burning down Teldrassil would have been a more interesting hook.
It looks pretty ass to me. Compared to other models.
You already know she’s coming back with this much effort.
Jokes on them, I'm into fruit now
Am I the only one who find Uther and Sylvanas' living model to be really weird in the cinematic? Like they look extremely cartoony. I feel the previous model have more gritness to them, but their models looks too clean.
it was intentionally styled to view more like a warcraft 3 cinematic since thats the last time we've seen ranger general sylvanus
uther looks like a st bernard
Her eyes really dont make sense either really bothers me , looks more human than elf
@@benacewoofstorm they dont look human they glow ...
also all 3 sisters dont look the same lol
It’s styled to match the terrible WC3 update and I’m salty
You missed more of the foreshadowing of her death, as she's laying there, everyone leaves slowly, just like in the scene with voljins death, as they all deal with the demise of the warchief and sylvanas became warchief.
she wont die i bet she gets ressuercted and turn into a living being again ...
Sylvanas’ “good soul fragment” looks like she’s from a free-to-play mobile game
@@medigoomnis that's true : )
thats what i was thinking! i was getting clash of clan vibes from that whole scene...
Hahaha you guys are funny.. 😂
@@metarra yeah human uther looks a LOT worse than HotS Uther, why not just copy it
They look like fortnite Warcraft skins
The reason why the scar being in the wrong place matters, is because it shows that Blizzard doesn't care enough about their characters to even get the SMALL details correct about them.
Especially since they know they're dealing with a bunch of anal retentives!
@@Keldiur Well, you know the answer to that question don't ya?
post-modernism
The scar has never been there before either. We would have seen it with all of her revealing outfits.
If I may, I think the scar that is shown here is the one caused by the Jailer when returning her soul fragment to Sylvanas.
Sylvanas is the one character that got me into caring about WoW lore. I remeber thinking how badass her brutal pragmatism seemed. To see them butcher her character like this has been so fucking sad. I'd rather have her dead than degraded like this...
Than*
@@northwestclasspnw7974 You're gonna correct him on the use of then/than but not point out he spelled pragmatism without one of its Ms? What kind of literacy nazi are you?
@@camobranson09 Blizzard level literacy nazi.
Sylvanas was my favorite character in Vanilla. Its a crying shame what they did to her.
@@camobranson09 lol
How i'm reading all this: She gets kill, soul gets splited (like Uther's), one soul fragment is TAKEN HOSTAGE by frostmourne, the other either goes to Shadowlands (Uther's case) or it's use for necromancy (Sylvana's case). Lets go with Uther's case, soul gets splited in two "Good" Uther and "Emo" Uther. "Good" Uther is held hostage in forstmourne (he talks to us in Halls in reflection), "Emo" Uther goes into Bastion and becomes a Forsworn. When Arthas/The Lich King dies all the soul fragments held hostage GET RELEASED (We see it in the ICC end cinematic) and go to Torghast (because it is conected to ICC). It is at this point that the Jailer gets to keep this souls in his secret S&M room. In the case of Silvanas the "Emo" soul stays in Azeroth as the Banshee Queen. She is not necessary pure evil as "Emo" Uther isn't either. The Banshee Quen gets character devolpment during WotLK, she acomplished her revenge and kills her self. At this point The Jailer has the "Good" fragment and (maybe cause she dies in ICC) the "Emo" soul goes to Torghast as well. In the dispair od the maw the "Emo" fragment gets recruited by the Jailer and sended back to Azeroth. From this point on, The Bansheed Queen (Emo fragment) slowly starts acting as The Jailer pawn but she is on copium thinking is for a "good cause". She finally makes her play in BFA and in Shadowlands she slowly realized she fucked up and she is serving the Jailer. She tries to the right thing on the 9.1 end cinematic, but The Jailer is amused and decides to give back the "Good" soul fragment held hostage so both fragments confront and torture each other. But now that her soul is whole again, by the power of friendship, redemptions arcs and therapist Uther she is gona overcome the situation and help us stop the jailer.
I was thinking similar stuff about ICC and Torgast connection but does it make sense for Sylvanas to open a portal for everyone to Shadowlands? When Jailer can get what he need without breaking the veil by simply bringing it to ICC.
A+ report sir
1. There is no indication that she is being controlled by tha jailer when she commits the warcrimes, Blizzard just tells you that you're supposed to believe this.
2. You will have to believe that the jailer left Sylvannas living, who is the only person knowing his plan and is the only key to stop him, and that giving her her soul back was his plan of keeping her mouth shut, as Uther says "learning that I've become the Jailer's pawn nearly destroyed me, and I have no doubt that he thinks it would you", even though Uther wasn't destroyed by this realization and clearly the "heroes" made her overcome her inner conflict that was supposed to destroy her, now providing them with the key to stop the Jailer.
Watch it, every time a person in story telling has a Plothole it gets excused by "temporary arrogance".
It's all just stupid and you shouldn't make excuses for hacks. You need to call them on their fucking bullshit.
@@Schleicherfreund
1. She is not controlled. She was divided against her will, and making bad decisions becouse of that, so all responsibility is still hers and it does seem to be something enough to destroy a person. Blizzard probably tries to play this kind of tragedy. When a penalty becomes justice, the will of criminal notwithstanding.
2. Probably giving back the soul fragment to the soul was supposed to be incapacitating for any being so she would be no danger to anyone. Uther... is not a regular person. That knight order he created with that undead guy - these were the best of the best people, hand picked on merit and faith, among big human Kingdom, and he was one of the best among them. His "evil", "emo" fragment was good enough to end up in Bastion, where the chosen souls end up. The good one in icecrown spoke of Arthas with caring. Compare with Sylvanas who was not evil before her death. With such integrity and faith, he might be an exception to many things. Sylvanas happend to have kyrian therapist from Azeroth who was no regular human AND shares her experience, which means knowledge what to do to help (Shadowlands host souls from whole universe so she was lucky)
These writers are so...unbelivably...... deep.... into their own butts.
It's incredible.
think i saw tht vid online
It looks like they are in panic mode, and trying to create epic moments without thinking about it for 2 seconds. Desperation is not a good look IMO
they put in charge bad writters, the good ones were playing games in another room, so its the shitty ones vs the lazy ones.
@@Cerenduil same writers since wc1, so if u feel tht way go enjoy a diff game
@@BlueDragonWereWolf Is that actually true?
Lol people in chat telling asmon to read the books is so damn stupid. You shouldn't have to buy and read a book just to understand the main villain's motivation and backstory in a damn videogame. People who still shill for Blizzard baffle me.
Because they were condition that way by Blizzard. And they can't see they're being toyed by Blizzard.
*The book's not even fucking out yet!*
I have most of the books, it still doesnt make sense AT ALL. Just as an example, in the book before WoD, War Crimes, she is planning to kill Verissa and her two children so she can "reunite with her family in undeath". She literally tries to kill herself after Arthas is gone, since she feels like she has no purpose anymore. She has always been a bitter, border-line evil character.
The copium they inhale is too big for their lungs
Isn’t “Read the book” a giant meme though? I think most of those people are being facetious.
I am here wondering why Sylvanas's eyes (before banshee form) do not glow. I haven't play for a while. Did they change elves' eyes in retail? Without a glow, she looks more human than elf.
underrated comment
it's because sylvanas, before becoming a banshee, was a high elf, a nigh extinct branch of the elves that blood elves branched off from. she herself is sister to vereesa and alleria, both of whom are also living high elves.
@@mcslam_ ...yeah. That was original question. She's a high elf. Her eyes should glow blue.
I really like your idea for an ending. You raise a lot of good points with discrepancies in the written and spoken story. I wish that all the lore was told in the game instead of forcing the player to seek it outside of the game.
It doesnt match up outside of the game either ... still too many incongruities ... its just enough to hold it together and thats it
I think Baine is symbolic of the entire wow playerbase, you see him once in the beginning of an expansion and then basically disappears. He shows up to state the obvious but blizzard ignores him and goes ahead with a dumb plan
haha exactly you are spot on.
based lol
Baine's the best. Major respect, and I'm a Night Elf.
@@kengetkamulos The Night Elves and the Tauren have worked together for ages. The whole Alliance/Horde thing is just temporary. The Cenarion Circle is not.
I've cracked the matrix so instead, I only show up at the end of an expansion, keep busy doing all the content for two months and disappear.
"So long as the Developers remains divided, WoW cannot heal."
"Maybe it SHOULDN'T.."
Damn thats deep
Some thing to consider, frostmourn splits souls into light and darkness, not good and evil and the jailer receives those light based soul parts.
The jailer sent the helm of domination and frostmourn to the living world, we also see he is after Anduin for his power/connection to the light.
We also know from Arthas that before he dawned the helm of domination that he was getting whispered to from frostmourn, more of a compulsion than a mind control.
This might have been the case with Sylvanas as well and maybe the compulsion grew stronger the closer she got to the jailer. Like when she jumped.
This Sylvanas twist is something a 14 year old would write about their self insert.
Sylvanas: "Her crime..."
Chat: " YOURS BITCH" lmao
“We have to continue the story. “
“We have to continue the patch cycle.”
*MAYBE WE SHOULDN’T*
only actual good take
"You are fired"
the most beautifull cinematics in a game I have seen so far were the cinematics in Homeworld. The Warbringers series for BFA promotion were similar. If they could use that sort of cinematics and produce more of them, to really tell the story, would be the best imo.
What I think is that they should have shown every character's motivations. Developed their backstory. Gave us actual real hints on their plans well in advance, and unfolded that story across the expansion. They should've, but they couldn't. They don't think ahead unless it's on how to make a profit. They have lost that drive that defined them in the past and have recently only created content that will earn them more money, not the happiness of their fans. In the long term, they will lose everything. I guarantee it. Even with how loyal fans have been, you can only be burned by these pathetic efforts for so many times.
Bro they fucked up ever since legion. They are lucky that they had a few real ones left even then. Which is why legion was somewhat decent, but then major cuts, mass firing followed by hiring of fucking accountants and sales teams, led to acti shizzard led to sexual assault led to bullshit led to basically the biggest disappointment in fucking game history if you ask me. I don't know how blizzard haven't been fucked off and sacked the cunts. Will never spend a a single PENNY on them. SMH.
Hopefully the next cinematic begins right after this one ends, with Baine crushing her head with a totem while Tyrande and Genn high five in the background
Dude if they spare her Greymane's gonna be pissed lol
That would be perfect
@@lucky_ramen9803 100% she sacrifices herself to save the day and graymane says something about being wrong
Lmao
@@NEPAAlchey oh my god i could actually see that happen.
The most important thing to remember when it comes to WoW's lore is that at this point the devs only care about telling whatever cool new story they've come up with for the current expansion, and will treat everything that came before like a pile of magazines they're making a collage out of.
yup, I clearly remember sylvanas as a blue skin night elf in war3
@@yav1n Dude, she was a high elf in wc3, not a night elf.
I think they used half those magazines for something else when they ran out of tissue paper, and the other half when they ran out of socks.
close. they treat everything prior as a Brand.
It's good for nothing to them, except as leverage to market their current story.
If you can call the garbage writing or the lack of actual writing " Cool "
This was mentioned - in one form or another - a few times by others throughout the video, but I think Blizz are relying on the "undead (or, in this case, those struck by a Mourne-blade) don't have emotions" trope.
I think that Banshee Sylvanas kept her "self", but lost her empathy. She understands what is "bad" and what is "good", but she is no longer capable of "feeling" which is which. Sometimes such things are obvious - few would think that killing your sister is not an "evil" act - but other times it's not. And the more time passed, the more blurry that distinction became for her.
Banshee Sylvanas didn't want to be a villain, however, she didn't have the sense of morality to help her prevent that from happening only cold logic. And she failed.
Soul Sylvanas was, basically, in denial of that failure. And had she stayed in denial, she would not have woken.
It's not an uncommon trope - amnesia. The character did something they came to deeply regret, then simply forgot about ever doing it, and are now subconsciously rejecting their involvement, attributing it to someone else (which is what we see in the cinematic) - hence the "fracture".
But it is more than amnesia though.
Soul Sylvanas was never part of banshee Sylvanas, she was kept in the shadowlands.
She only just now see what someone else did while using her skin her body, her name.
Why must she accept and take blame for something someone else did.
Do I to accept blame when someone steals my id and use my money to buy a hitman?
Am I accessory to murder because it was my name and money when I can prove it wasn't me.
Like Sylvanas can prove this wasn't her.
Just like Arthas was suddenly "Emotional" in his fathers arms after Frostmourne was shattered and the glow faded.
Its a notch to the wc3 Campaign where a stone tablet reads that it requiers a soul as sacrafice.
Arthas picking it up caused a shockwave of sorts that "knocks" muradin out. All assume it killed him but we see him well in wrath.
And during the wc3 campain it is Arthas that without being killed amd raised suddenly has grey skin, white hair and acts very cold.
Im fact he is like this during all his time as Lich King until he is seperated from his weapon and all souls are free including his own.
Thing is back then it was the whole soul, now its half. But regardless the phrase "Is it over?" Isnt something an evil King who planned all this and knew and loved what he was doing would say. Instead he became "Undead" losing his soul. And but a husk how Ner'zhul wanted him. Only for it to backfire.
Evil/Dark Sylvanas didn't want to nuke Theramore
This means nuking Theramore was the morally good option
Nice one blizz
Evil/Dark Sylvanas wanted her people to be safe and secure
This means purging the dead no matter the circumstances is morally good, the alliance is right
Nice one blizz
@@rsmith8113 remember that the Old Gods say that 3 kings will rule and 3 kings will lie
and all shall go at war ...
Forsaken are not Sylvanas' people. She hates them and uses them as victims to take on Arthas and cope with what he did because she couldn't Kill Arthas herself.
She is a an usurper and a murderer
Uther: "We cannot change the past"
Meanwhile the Bronze Dragonflight and the Infinite Dragonflight laughing their butts off (with time travel shenanigans).
Are you sure we can't change the past?, just look how the f*** we got WoD.
It was the jailer plan all along
"bUt wOd Is An AlTeRnAtE tImElInE"
-Said every copium addict.
..... They can't change the past. Not because it's without their reach, but because they really shouldn't. We did plenty of dungeons and stories aboit that, c'mon.
@@MrJesuisOMG copium
thats why the moment something decides to go the time-travel route its almost 100% irredemably fucked
its never her fault whenever she does anything wrong. "Leave it to Blizzard to take agency against another female." had me dying.
I think it's just as simple as this. "Bad" Sylvanas experienced death by frostmourne and everything after and it changed her and "good" Sylvanas just existed as that crystal thing after dying by frostmourne untill she gets conscious again and finds out she's a banshee that has done all these things and couldn't accept that that banshee was herself. My point is she was not mind controlled. Like if the parts of Sylvanas switched places and the other one experienced what banshee Sylvanas did she would do the same things.
Bingo.
You watched the same cinematic, right? The one, even Silvanas realize: IT was her fault, not "hers".
The music at 6:47 is the same music that played when they were removing Vol'jin's corpse and she was standing over him.
It's almost a re-creation, only now she's the "corpse"
No I think it shows a quite opposite situation. Vol`jin died sourrounded by friends, Sylvanas is alone sourrounded by people, who hate her. But she makes a choice, waking up and choosing to be puniched.
Holy crap... That is my music compilation playing in the background in this video. Aaaah!! Love you Zach!! Thanks for choosing to listen to my remix.
“Inaction damns us all!” That’s a pretty ironic line considering everything going on at ACTIVISION Blizzard…
It's probably why this scene is the way it is
Jailor=Bobby kotick
Sylvanis=some blizzard dev
I don't even play WoW and this seems like it's intend to tell players hey, we're sorry for all the bad that has happened but it's not our fault and we are gonna do better we promise.
"To ignore the plight of those we might conceivably save is not wisdom, it is indolence." - some dude, and his grandkids
Inactivision
@@bangormc3rd562 ba dum tss
KOTOR 2: Apathy is death
after all this 4D chess, the endgame after all turned out to be, "the Jailer's just a really mean mean guy, just a MEANboi, and Sylvanas wasn't Sylvanas so everything she did wrong didn't count."
Fuck...this game...
Literally Kerrigan - and I will explain how.
Both were initially victims,
both had a mean streak of a personality,
both ended up embracing the power granted to them by their circumstances (Scourge/Zerg), in their quest for revenge,
both not just acknowledging, but even accepting and relishing the cruelty of their actions -
both Sylvanas and Kerrigan would set their aims to conquer the universe/Azeroth, and at long last, despite being proven to be pragmatically irredeemable,
both were given the exact same free get out of jail card by ascribing ALL of their misdeeds and agency to the ultimate big bad evil aka Amon/Jailer.
It was garbage in SC2 and garbage in WoW.
@@ipot399 Both were fucked up by "politically correct" writing in which having an unpologetical villain is problematic, so they gotta play hot potato with everything concerning responsibility and agency. And bald headed man (not asmon) fit the bill to unload Sylvanas' on.
its such a tragedy because there were countless opportunities for good stories. And it never came to fruition..
@@Ryuouken Literally they could've built thousands of different ways, each of them better than the current iteration.
Sylvanas didn't want to "conquer" Azeroth wdym
If I had to guess how we're gonna get Anduin back. We're gonna use the locket that he dropped to find Varian somewhere in the Maw, and he'll give Anduin a big heroic peptalk and then he'll shatter the Jailer's control over him with the Light.
They're probably saving the reveal of Zovalls plan and why Sylvanas joined him for the book so they can paygate even understanding the basics of the entire story
Or they want to use a far superior storytelling vehicle. Games are game play first if they're good. It'd fair to not like it but let's not pretend there isn't tradeoffs
@@lukeredinger4827 there are some trade-offs but at the same time,there are some stories that can only be told trough games and would lose most if not all of their impact if you tried to turn them into a book or movie.
Hellblade, Stanley parable, return of the obra dinn, nier automata, Undertale, journey, Ori, dark souls, and many many other games would not have been able to reach the same heights of storytelling if they were not games.
There is only a trade-off when people forget that games need to be interactive, people almost unanimously love games that tell stories that the player is actively involved in.
@@lukeredinger4827 David Cage? Is that you?
@@lukeredinger4827 IDK man, I know some games that have manage to push out a lot of story. As long as it isn’t essential to the main story at the current moment I believe books are fine
@@lukeredinger4827 no Games are a just a good if not better story telling vehicles. It's easier to feel connected to the world when you are someone in it. Wow just does that poorly.
By the cinematic's logic, Arthas should also get redeemed because he was a victim to "muh fate".
Who said she is getting redeemed? she even said it herself her actions where unforgivable. They just need her to know the plans of the jailer and to save anduin. And after that she'll probably kill herself for some reason.
Correct. Get ready for it because it's coming.
@@EpixWingz Lol ,
He wasn't stabbed by a runeblade and committed atrotices before he ever even got Frostmourne so no he doesn't.
@@EpixWingz so she can be working at revendreth
4 minute cinematic makes for a 50 min video. I love the indepth discussion.
Maybe getting killed by frostmourn doesn't make you a pawn of the jailer, just that one of the uthers chose to serve him like sylvanas did
Sylvanas was one of my favorite characters in wow and I hate seeing what they've done with her.
She was a tragic figure that was making the best of her dammed existence by literally liberating and caring for slaves. She lived for revenge and had to search for new purpose after getting it. She went too far at various points morally but was always smart and cared for those in similar circumstances to her.
Fuck Blizzard man.
Great comment. You’re absolutely right
This!
She's always been a shit character at least since after WC3.
I feel you man. Sylvanas was for me an intriguing character (since wc3) that had so many possibilities to went to so interesting paths. But they chose all the wrong ones. This reminds me of what they have done with my boy Kael'thas. After that wow was dead for me, at least lore-wise.
So fucking shit that they made sylvanas agreed what she has done is wrong and turn all the tough decisions she has made into being ‘mind control’. This crap is equivalent to after 5 seasons we learn Walter White broke bad because he was abducted by mind-control alien, even then would the ‘cleanse Walter’ look at ‘Bad ass Walter’ in disgust? Fuck no. The whole damned point for these characters were driven by desperation, they chose to fight, they made tough choices to be ‘bad’; to have this character turned on itself and look at their entire past in fucking disgust just destroy everything about the character. After decades of development she now gets to be a generic good female. Fucking claps. They killed her legacy.
It's just embarassing. The split personality crap with zero setup is the kind of copout you'd expect from a rookie writer making a fanfiction.
They desperately want us to care about Sylvanas (probably so she can sacrifice herself next patch and have it mean something to players) but they obviously had no grand scheme or plan for why she did all the crap of the last few years, so they resorted to this. I just feel so sorry for the few people left that actually give a damn about the story of WoW
So what does this mean about Frost Death Knights, and the fact that they are reusing the shards of Frostmourne reforged into their artifact weapon?
"I have a Crown of Wills" - cracked me up!
RUclipsrs like Captain Grimm and Platinum Wow make higher quality videos than the actual devs
I can’t wait for Captain Grim to get his hands on this.
They're giving us the worst ending possible. I almost respect it
Destroy it until you can rebuild it.
@@dazzlemasseur ffxiv techniques
I think it could go in a good direction. They showed that her soul is "tortured". The fact that she's alive an in constant pain is much more deserving than her just dying and ending up in Bastion or wherever.
Water weed dune hair, B?
@@ChrisPC39 dont worry, her atrocities will be hand waved soon enough. she will be "tortured" for like half a patch then forgotten.
i thought the thumbnail was the wrong version of the sylvanas cutscene but then i remembered this is youtube.
23:16 when the cleric has had enough and casts hold person
Man they are really going to try and redeem her aren't they?
Well... They said She's the key to defeat nipple guy . Maybe she ends up betraying us and gets killed right there
Yup. This Slyvanas hasn't been shown since the powerslide into froustmourne. Everything after that? Was Evil Slyvanas. This is "Good" Slyvanas!
they redeemed the death knights
That's the only arc they know, and they can't even get that right.
@@Krigzulv undeads were always able to break free from the scourge, just like Sylvanas.
But frostmourne didn't always split souls. That's why it seem out of place and out of nowhere.
Blizzard employees didn't harass woman, it was their evil splitted soul side who did it. Blizzard is innocent
Sylvanas overcame the mind control with a power of friendship and love
Always got a kick out of the size difference between the large size of frost mourn & the tiny stab wound comparison 😆
That’s not the frostmourne wound. It is on her stomach, which is why she was updated to cover that area with armor. That little scar near her shoulder is from when the jailer put that soul gem into her .
Since the beginning of this expansion, I was hoping to see Arthas again. As the "story" went on, I thought perhaps it was better he doesn't show up less he gets ripped apart by the writing team.
They said they didn't want to touch him because they wouldn't do it justice and it should be left alone. But honestly, it's just weird, his soul was here the entire expansion and we just ignored him. I wish we at least got a cutscene between him and jaina. Or we put his tortured soul to rest and turned him into anima or something.
letäs just hope they keep arthas out of this mess expansion,
i will sell my account if they are going to do redemption arc to arthas
@@RumandCocaine Why would he need one? He wasn't evil the begin with. Others in this cinematic did so much more than him.
It's a shame cause they would ruin his story, but I feel for Shadowlands to be "complete", they needed Arthas in it. Arthas, Sylvanas, Uther; just some of the characters affected by the Jailer, but only 2 who had huge key roles in his plans and 1 that wasn't horribly butchered by their terrible storytelling.
If they made Shadowlands more about him, following him through a journey of redemption as he seeks to bring down the Jailer at all cost, going through trials as he meets souls he'd tormented and killed, being shunned and him even accepting his fate as being hated, hating himself even, and his quest to stop the Jailer is not to seek forgiveness but to do the right thing, all the while he's struggling to come to terms with continuing his existence from what he did.
It'd been a much more engaging story that way, and then give Arthas the rest he deserves at the end, permanently killing him just as he gets redeemed for all he did in other people's eyes whilst also being rid of the burden of "living" with his guilt anymore.
@@MrNetrizhul they changed illidan's story so i'm just afraid they will do it again
Watching this after just finishing Endwalker really puts into perspective how ham-fisted WoW's storytelling is.
You already finished ew??
That's a very polite way to put it, my dude. I would personally describe WoW's storytelling as *_dogshit_*.
@@jaekawang Anyone that had the early access is finishing up the story. there are some that skip a bunch of cut scenes. i'm on the final stretch of MSQ myself. if it wasn't for work and Login (savage) i'd be done already.
its more like what story telling? "the story" only exist so they can launch another shitty expansion
its not short. id say around the 40-50hour mark. Theres alot of story being told.
Mirrored the death of Voljin scene in Legion when she became Warchief.
What I would like to know is where has the "good" part of her soul been all this time? Uther gets killed by frostmourne and his soul is damaged but since he is not raised as a deathknight or undead he went to Bastion. His soul was damaged but remained pure enough to get sent to Bastion. Sylvannus got killed and turned into an undead but in her case her soul wasn't just damaged it was fragmented. Part of her soul stayed on Azeroth as the Banshee Queen and the other part did...what? If you look at the covenants that are shown to us in Shadowlands, I think she would have either gone to Bastion, sacrificing herself to save her people/doing everything she could to save her people, or Ardenweald, being a night elf and the connection to nature that implies. It is also mentioned that there are thousands or millions of afterlives in the shadowlands that she could have been sent to.
So where has the good part of her soul been all this time?
She's not a Night Elf she's a High Elf
So during the final fight, sylvannas will absorb the last first one and become a giant godess of fire, and then will fire a beam to kill zoovall and sacrifice herself.
*that sounds familiar*
Stop giving them ideas please
It's like the Buffy finale except Sylvanas didn't try to rape anyone.
people loved stacraft 2 ending so much, blizz should totally end every story just like that
Nah. The true ending is that Jaina wakes up from her bed and looks in the shower to see N’Zoth in there
What they need is to get the Warrior of Light to sort out the Jailer, that'll do it.
The explanation of how the jailer is doing things around 22 minutes sounds like it came straight out of The Princess Bride, lol
I think Sylvanas started working for the Jailer after she threw herself off of Icecrown. "Her path began when yours ended," means when Arthas killed her and Frostmourne took part of her soul. When she became the Banshee Queen, which I don't necessarily think is the same time she started serving the Jailer.
It has to be impossible to get immersed when the whole community can watch the entire story before it even launches.
@@TheAdarkerglow That’s so true.
half the community jumped ship and only want to get some closure lol
Honestly that is such a horrible way to give lore. You should be able to get the entire story from just playing the game, who the hell though putting important plot points in a book and not the main game was a good idea?
@@sorakh4119 Danuser. He's a big proponent of what's known as the Trans-Media Narrative System. One story split over several media (books, comics, games).
It can be done right (Dragon Age and FFXIV being good examples) but its very easy to fuck up and get wrong.
Danuser's been getting it wrong in practically every company he's ever worked with - EverQuest (went to shit), Landmark (went to shit), EverQuest 2 (lmao), Kingdoms of Amalur (lmao). He's just not good at it, and he's deluded enough that he thinks he's some kind of genius, when in reality he's a fucking moron.
The worst part is that he's not a very good writer to begin with - he wrote the Hunter Order Hall, generally regarded to be the absolute worst Class Order Hall quests in terms of story. So in addition to fucking up how the story is told, he's an untalented hack of a creator.
This is the same dude who think GoT Season Eight was the best story of our times - that should tell you all you need to know.
@@DoomTrooper90 Ah I see. Thank you for the information friend. Dear god this dude is a mess. Nothing but fuck up after fuck up. I feel so bad for the people who truly love the lore of WoW that they have to deal with this dude messing up everything.
The chat spamming "read the book" while Asmon rants on the story of the jailer.. c'mon. You're not supposed to have to read the book too. That should be optional. The story should be in the game FFS. Imagine if you went to a movie, and there were a bunch of plot holes or characters without clear motivations, and when you criticized it, people went: "You gotta read the book that came out with the movie" *facepalm*
That is what happen with star wars
i think the "read the book" spam is a meme now, mocking WoW storytelling, just like what you talked about.
I vaguely remember, was it Disney with their last Star Wars movie (I don't remember the name already)? They have put an intro or something to that extent into a fucking Fortnite's time limited event.
And this here is the very same shit.
This is like FF15 all over again.
At least blizz is not getting away with this shit anymore
@@qaztim11 yes but FF15 was the only FF like that, not the rest
"catches that shit like a wiffle ball" XD that was funny as hell
What I thought was going on here wasn’t that Sylvanas was a pawn of the Jailer the moment she died, but rather this was the part of her soul that was torn away when she died struggling to come to terms with who she was in the present. Especially since Sylvanas at the point of her death wouldn’t even conceive of doing what the Sylvanas of the present has, not at that point in her life. She hadn't gone through all the character development that present Sylvanas has. I mean, if you were suddenly confronted with yourself, say, twenty years in the future wouldn’t it be really jarring? A lot can happen to a person between now and then
As for Uther, I thought he was showing her that he did in fact know what it was like to have to struggle with both being torn in half and having to come to terms with the things his other half did, things HE did, because both halves are him. These were things he chose to do, and he had to accept that. He couldn’t put the blame on it being the ‘evil half of his soul’ and thus not him, because it was him. Just like with her
Goes to show what I know -_-
I truly love how literally every morally dark gray and villainous character in modern blizzard games is "corrupted"
Nobody just decides to become bad or is born bad (outside of MAYBE the Old Gods)
It is lazy writing. A free choice to do evil is hard to write.
@@oklahomahank2378 It wasn't that hard to write during Warcraft 3 when Sylvanas allied with the human remnants of Lordaeron only to betray and butcher them once she had a shot at controlling most of the kingdom with her army of freed undead. It likewise wasn't that hard to do during Cataclysm when she brought back the Val'kyr specifically to kill people and bring them into her army, or when she chose to plague bomb the entire kingdom of Gilneas when she invaded it.
Old gods are corrupted by the void lords so they are innocent.
@@Keyce0013 "bUt ThAt WaSn'T rEalLy HeR cHoIcE bEcAuSe ShE wAs MiSsInG hAlF oF hEr SoUl!!1!" ~Blizzard -retconners- writers
@@shinymetagross1666 So where's the other half of King Terenas's soul? And why was the Matthias kid in Icecrown if the good half of Arthas's soul was gone too? And what about the Dreadlord that Arthas killled with Frostmourne? Where is its soul?
Me: "What do you mean Zovaal has not voice lines?"
Also Me: *Flash back to one of many Captain Grim videos* Ohhh right, that was not cannon.
"Hello. You've entered the maw and will be tortured for all eternity. We hope you'll enjoy your stay!"
your windows notifications keep making me think my peripherals are disconnecting lol
Garrosh: "I bow to no one!"
Jailor: "My only weakness!"
Sounds like cheesy Blizzard writing. Let it happen. KEK
It’s like her helping the jailer was part of her plan the whole time, but part of her plan was forgetting that she had a plan until she needed to remember she had a plan.
It's like the writers have no plan and are just making it up as they go along.
The past 8 years have literally been a Sylvanas Fan-Fiction we've been forced to endure
Seriously. Sylvanas was never as important as Danuser's erection would have you believe, but now they're bending and breaking everything in WC so it revolves around her.
How Blizzard isn't embarrassed by this is beyond me.
Shadowlands is the my immortal of wow
High elf Sylvanas is the soul fragment that got returned by Zovaal. She said that what she last remembered is being killed by Arthas, a monster only to wake up (Zovall returned her) to see herself doing monster things. Banshee Sylvanas is like another fragment that experienced the pain of being a banshee etc. etc. She's not necessarily evil, just a shattered fragment. High elf Sylvanas had it easy sleeping inside Froustmourne.
No, its not. Do you watch the cinematic? Her begging to be released from the torture watch herself do all the shit? Thinking its someone stolen her face cause she cant accept that she is watching herself?
Sylvanas goes nagasaki on teldrassil, np.
Jailor: there is no gender inequality.
Sylvanas: fk it you've crossed the line.
Questions:
If Sylvanas was The Jailer's pawn since Arthas stab her in Warcraft3, why did she says "I will not serve" and fire an arrow at the Jailer BEFORE he gets her soul back?
If Frostmourne split souls and gives the Jailer control of the stabed, why Uther was not controled?
If only the bad Sylvanas, the butcher, the murderer, was in control of the body and the good one was emprisoned in that body, unable to do anything but watch atrocities made by her dark side, then why did she sing a beautiful, heartbreaking, sorrow song to the character who gives back to her a necklace that reminds her of her life before she was bansheed?
Answer:
Same raison to anything in the WoW stories since... since a while. Because it gives a cool cinematic. They doesn't care about consistencies, only about having a cool scene.
They don't know what they will write for their next cinemetic.
agreed
Because they don't respect their story or you.
@@Lionimia That can be but nowhere it is said. What is said is that the Frostmourne split Sylvanas soul when Arthas used it to kill her.
Of course players can come with many interpretations, some more convencing than others, but at the end the story doesn't say anything on this.
Answer: You are 100% wrong!
You clearly have zero lore knowledge but somehow you want to have an opinion on it.. You are what is wrong with this community...
@@NickStrife If i'm wrong and if you have the answers to the questions of my post, please enlighten us.
Right now your comment bare no argument.
blizzard: so how will we bring Sylvannas back? the fans hate her
Ion: We'll blame it on her evil side and bring out her good side
blizzard: but that's inconsistence, we have never give her good side any cover time
Ion: YOU FINALLY CARE ABOUT LORE NOW?
It's pitiful. They rewinded back to Warcraft 3 to justify shitty writing. It was established multiple times during Warcraft 3 and WoW that she acted on her own free will. And now they blame it on an evil clone.
@@Ryotbh This is it, this is the comment. lmao, that whole bullshit they talked about "this plot has started in warcraft 3" had made me laugh so hard
The good and bad side thing might have work if they actually introduce it in like 3 expansion beforehand and continue expanding on that. Pulling it now out of nowhere after all the shit she's done is just fucking bullshit
Sylvanas is bae and will always be
They are actually refrencing dungeons 3 with the elf with a good and bad side
From another video, what is implied is that the good part was gone, a long past self, until it was thrown back into her body years later and the good/past part was shocked at what she had done in the intervening years. The two pieces of soul were so far apart they could not live with each other.
does anybody know the background music playing at 42:20?
Blizzard are so in touch with their community they even decided to write just like fanfic writers do, incredible dedication, bravo.
Blizzard even forgot the High Elves's eyes glow... Is there anything Blizzard actually remembers!?!
They remember to charge your credit card when they want money.
Blizzard hasn't understood their own elf lore for many, many years.
I think they did this to give her something more human
Am I just missing these streams somehow? Where are these clips coming from?
By "I woke up haunted by someone with my face" she ment, that her soulpart (ranger general sylv) was basicly struck by arthas and then stuck in time and when zovaal returned her, she was stuck with the banshee that moved on, they are not one yet, it's like... the same person from two different timelines at this point fighting in her head and ranger general sylv got to face everything that banshee sylv had done to this point, there is no good and bad in this in the classic sense they were just split at one point and the whole character development that banshee sylv went through is not part of ranger general yet...they are both sylvanas but with a different backstory and character if that makes any sense. And I think zovaal is not really controlling sylvanas or uther, I think the word pawn is kinda wrong, the jailer is controlling anduin, that's what control looks like, domination magic to force anduin to follow him, but is that really what he did to good old sylvie and uther? no...they acted the way they did, because they thought it's the right thing to do, behind all that was the jailers greater plan, that's most likely why he is called "cunning" in the first place, he didn't need to control them, his plans were running in the back and people played into his hands without recognizing until he revealed himself and they still followed him
“Deceptively cunning” like Azmodan is a “master strategist”?
Please, the writing team have families. RIP.
Apparently they forgot Sylvanas was High Elf and needed the blue arcane eyes
its the same as in warbringers
shes half human, plot twist her mom cheated she dont got the same dad as her sisters like mother liek daughter... her sisters all like humans...
@@BlueDragonWereWolf That wouldn't surprise me since the Windrunner family became a meme for their love for human men. One case is okay, second is not needed, third is absolutely cringe and ridiculous.
Go look at her description in the original books, cinematics, etc. This matches her original design, they didn't forget anything. The original warcraft designs were never consistent to actual descriptions, it was for gameplay. Idk why your comment has likes.
I feel like if sylvanas is gonna die it’ll be during either the Anduin fight or the Zoval fight. I guess that would more or less be at the end of one of those 2 fights in a cinematic
Slyvanis must've hit avoidance cap the way shes dodging all the accountability for her actions.
I hear the “you wouldn’t understand” line and immediately think of the greatest cut scene alive from diablo 2. Except that gave me goosebumps and this made me lol
Wait which cutscene is that? The one I think of is the “what would you know about sacrifice?!” From Diablo 3
@@Dyrvega Baal reveal probably
Even for Diablo I was like meh
Uther: "We cannot change the past-"
Nozdormu: "Lemme stop you right there."
@@UltimateGamerCC More useless characters
@@UltimateGamerCC so how garrosh traveled into the others universe past?
@@UltimateGamerCC just give him some sigils m8
@@UltimateGamerCC Bronze dragon helped him, so did Noz really lose his power?
@@UltimateGamerCC it's in the garrosh wiki page, what proof do u want?
There was a Crown of Will questline with the concept of the ogre leader breaking free from Sylvanas's domination (WC3). This concept has already been done, imo even to a far lesser degree and unrelated to the current plotline.
I think that it would make more sense if the soul is not split in to the good and bag half but into two identical pieces one that when to do everything that Sylvanas did and one that was essentially asleep. So it is still Sylvanas who made those choices but the split piece when it rejoined refused to accept who she became.
"condemned her to endlessly relive her atrocities"
Good, leave her there.
*Fin*
WTF I LOVE THE JAILER NOW!?
Jailer stays based on my book
Man,I really miss the old lore days about the first and second wars.The Horde enslaving dragons and using them to fight the alliance,Zul’jin’s hatred for the elves and hunting them,Anduin Lothar vs Orgrim Doomhammer.That era was far more interesting that this shit show we have now.
hooooly ngl when she opened her eyes and they were blue, gave me goosebumps
They're the same person, thats the point of the cinematic, they're not split in good and evil, the "good" one was just frozen in time at the time of her death and now has to accept that "bad" sylvanas is what she would have developed into. "bad" sylvanas is too far gone to be reasoned with but now that shes back with her old more idealistic self it'll be easier to talk to her. She will not completely be ranger general again, but definetly have more boundaries again.
This
so this is basically like anakin skywalker/darth vader?
@@justsomeguywithnoeyes7303 A shitty version, yes
Imagine Uther working this hard to understand and comune with Arthas, his protégée... nop he yeeted him to the maw without a 2nd thought
Danuser effect.
Pretty much a big FU to all the Arthas fans
to be fair, he had that chick screaming on his back lol
that'd make anyone rush.
since warcraft 3 there was already writing hacks
Bcs arthas was asshole before he took frostmourne.
Blizzard be like, "look if we can forgive Sylvanas, you can forgive us."
sylvanas is not the first time we forgive bad people in lore
Again they gonna pull Kerrigan from Starcraft 2 on us
Something seemed off about Sylvanas on the first watch and after watching this vid I realized it's her eyes (the ranger general model). She just has normal eyes and not the elf glow.
I was expecting Wrathion apears with his Cloack Fetich again and makes us a new legendary cape to not fall on the Jailers Domination Magic. But hey, this time will be a Crown.