I still cannot help but laugh at your reaction to the ending cutscene. When I saw that point I just remembered thinking, "Oh Jesse's going to LOVE this scene."
I will forever love what they did with the Ascians. Turning what was originally pure evil, borderline power rangers villains, into sad beings twisted to the point of madness by grief, for the loved ones that they could not save. The victories against them in SHB didn't make me happy, but sorrowful that I could not help them. I will always remember them.
@@brittanyhayes1043 To us as the player, they are undeniably evil yes. They seek nothing less than the complete destruction of the world and all the people in it. But from their point of view, they are heroes fighting to save their entire species from extinction. Everyone they ever knew, loved, their entire civilization. It was all lost to save the world from The Final Days. So they will sacrifice anything, ANYTHING, to bring those people back. Isn't that what heroes do all the time in stories? Despite impossible odds, never giving up, always trying to save the day?
Yep. All throughout his appearances, they made sure you saw him do the snap and the hand wave. Now a faceless ancient shows up at the most crucial time, called by their most dearest friend. Amazing.
You know what gets me? What brings a tear to my eye? As soon as the Exarch turned to crystal Ryne took over as narrator. That was the moment I realized he died. It's not stasis. That version of the Exarch died. Then the took it back an hour later. What a relief that was!
It's his "Dancing Mad" as well. The full track is 14 minutes long. So not only did he compose such an emotional hard-hitting song while in a hospital bed, it's his longest song ever.
Lyna broke my heart with that speech, she deserved a life with him too. Hopefully Y'shtola can put her money where her mouth is and make travel between the First and Source possible.
Uhh didn't she have like a huge life with him already ? Aren't Viera like super young looking while being 100± years old? I always presumed that Luna help to build the Crystarium since she was a child some years after the beginning of the Flood. To me she is in her 50's ( still young for a Viera and young enough to never have seen the true black night while also having the experience of a veteran ). Well you can't really call the survival during the Flood a "life" but I think it's close enough. But yeah, if Y'shtola can find the way to travel between Shards for everyone ( without having to die and not only for the WoL ) we could see Luna again even if 100+ years happens on the First due to time compression.
@@randomstreamer2868 It depends on if they want to do more stuff in the first but i think they should move away from it. According to lore they can live to 240 so when the exarch came to the first he said he missed the time by a hundred or so years. We dont know when she was born or joined so even if we assumed she was there from start. She would only be about 100-120 or so which is just half her life. The only issue would be if they choose to unsync the time between the two planets after 5.5
it's actualy a big concern of mine. Now that the Shadowbringer arc is finished, there's... nothing left to do in the First. Being his own separate place means that storylines started in the source will never take us back there. At least we could revisit Ishgard, Ala Migho, the steppes... but the First? It's gonna be a desert when the next expansion hits. But we can't just simply link the two world together. Even if it could be justified story-wise, it would just wreck the political landscape and balance of the game story, in unmendable ways.
Watching this bit of the story again, now I realize that G'raha is to the Warrior of Light as Elidibus was to Azem. Sometimes there is a companion so loyal to what you stand for that they will carry on in your name.
@@menmaroart4087 He is right. The entire thing with Elidibus creating various heroes throughout the ages was all based on the fact that he took inspiration on (probably) the first hero he ever met, the first WoL, our PC. Even after forgetting almost everything about his past life and his friends, he still beared the mark that our heroic persona made on him and carried on with it.
Yeah, the WoL primal is essentially Elidibus pulling a Ysale and summoning a primal version of Azem, the person who he saw as the most ideal hero, within himself.
@@menmaroart4087 As already stated, no not really. Azem (you, before The Sundering) were the traveling hero Elidibus admired and looked up to as a kid and aspired to be. He then accepted Zodiark and became his core trying to be as heroic as he believed Azem was. And here in the end, he forgot who exactly his "hero" was after all these years, not realizing that YOU were his Hero. So yeah, the G'raha Tia parallel is almost spot on minus the obvious time/sundering stuff.
Even sadder... idolizing the 14th Convocation member and emulating his/her heroism to become the first Warrior of Light... and here, at the end, he can't even remember that we're his inspiration and guiding star.
@@cnkclark But that's the thing... the rains have ceased, and we have been graced by another beautiful day... but Elidibus is wrong. We are there to see it... we are there to see his last stand, and how he held out hope even to the end. His hero was standing right before him... and saw him at his best.
ya i never saw elidibus as a bad guy, like ever. He was the scales that had to keep the balance. Lahabrea was going overboard and tilting hydaelyn to the dark, while we tippied it too close to the light. he was just a kid who was chosen to be used as the heart of the planet's spirit, the first primal. its pretty tragic. he was very young and due to it, took his role seriously.. lil too seriously and refused to chill with his mates. i kinda get the feeling he was pushed/told to be the heart as tbh someone else was going to be the heart. and lets not forget elidibus did some good to a degree with the 2 people from the 13th, the lil boy who assisted us with the waring triad, and the elf girl who helped groom albert and crew.
@@azadalamiq He was an interesting and complicated antagonist for sure. I hesitate to say villain because it feels too simplified a term for him despite his unquestionably being a party to acts we would call monstrous. So many shades of gray - Dark and Light mixed.
@@Ossek It got added in 5.4 and went under a lot of people's radars (I don't think it even got mentioned in the patch notes!), I only happened upon it when I was checking the vendor for stuff to decorate my Free Company house. Happy I could help, though! :)
I remember watching you play through 2.X back in like August of last year and literally the moment you said that the Crystal Tower is basically a giant white auracite, I literally just sat there absolutely *gobsmacked* that you managed to figure out the major plot point of 5.3's story.
Every time I watch someone's reaction to the last hour or two of 5.3 I just remind myself how tragic it is that Elidibus is so driven by purpose that he can't even remember the person that he promised it to in the first place. The person he looked up to as a senior in the Convocation and as a friend more than anything, forgotten in more ways than one
*Y'shtola wakes up* Jesse: "Wait, why did she get a great outfit?" Because she's Y'shtola. What, you think just because she's been in a coma she wouldn't look absolutely fabulous? That she'd wake up in rags like the rest of the Scion plebeians? HA! Perish the thought!
True, but it's really because female Miqo'te got the best Hempen Chemise model. The ones for Hyur, Elezen, and Viera are okay but not nearly as good as Miqo'te. Female Au Ra basically got lingerie for that top. It's nice, but not what you'd normally wear out of the house. I really wish they'd separate them out so they're not tied to one race. The Miqo'te Hempen Chemise top is so versatile. They're all wearing pretty basic gear. It's just that Y'shtola is so fabulous that it looks good on her.
@@tjl9458 Totally agree! Roes and Hrothgars got the ugliest models possible while both male Hyur and male Miqo'te are allowed to rock amazing ones. There is no reason to race-lock the different models.
@@MelvaCross Well, they're race-locked because they're only designed to fit those bodies. So, they'd need to do additional work to modify them. But, I still think they should do it.
@@tjl9458 I meant there is no reason to make one item have entirely different models for different body types. The fact that they never repeated this makes me confident to say that they probably see it as a mistake, too. They just never bothered to do something about it. It's super low priority. Creating new items and fitting them to every body type probably doesn't sound worth it. To be honest, I'm just salty how incredibly ugly the Roe and Hrothgar one is while the item is a very good glamour item on every other body type.
Months after he made that call, I STILL can't believe he called the end to 5.3 while still in 2.x Edit: also shout out to my best friend who lost his shit when he beat 5.3 a few hours after Jesse called it.
While this story has issues (most of those issues being due to trying to mix the game mechanics with the story, among others), I think things like this are what make FFXIV's story fairly strong overall. The writers are fully aware of the rules established in their universe, and make use of them really well. Shadowbringers is really a perfect example of this. In order to make the plot they had in mind work, they drew on a LOT of previous content that, if I had to guess, wasn't necessarily meant to set all this up. The result is a story that makes a lot of sense logically, and allows players to have immensely satisfying moments like this, where paying attention to the story and it's lore is rewarded.
@@Bistai949 I remember an interview back in...Heavensward, I believe?...where they said they had the general direction of the story planned out until 6.0, so I'd argue that they very much did intend to set things up as they did. I think that's also, in part, why we should appreciate the "weaker" expansions more, as people sometimes like to call them (namely ARR and SB), because for there to be epic pay-off, you need to set it all up first.
@@sleepysera as another puts it, setup is no excuse for poor execution with great ingredients. Mechanically sb is great, story elements where essential, excution faltered a few times. An easily blamable character was lyse. Lyse development was highly problematic, having wins handed to her for no effort and minimal (implied but not invested enough) costs. Conrad not being her father figure, yda we never possibly met, papalymo whos arc was a butt end of getting dragged along jokes. Fixing these would have costs 2 to 3 cutscenes for conrad, a few quests for yda (legacy of those she helped) a better spats between fredola and lyse ideals instead of typical jabs ( you monster vs you barbarian is very weak and lacks investment) Lyse doesnt even get any blame bringing tempered agents into peace talks. Sir ameryic, got stabbed for saving ishgaurd... if she is purposely to be written as a weak leader then ala migo needs to burn then. Lyse wasnt the only issue, yoyo and fredola the two main villans we deal with paint their side opinions sorely to make us hate them more generally. the npcs as a character dont respond as naturally as one thinks either, the willingness to not help would have been more extreme then the sudden flip to helping is nearly not well fleshed out othrr than a single fetch quest each which cheapens winning them over. Heavensward has far better post war developments, making them trust dragons took patches to settle in. Alas its getting windsome, tldr; great ingedients needs a slighlty better chef.
Same with Rene Zagger, who was the voice for Emet-Selch. It's funny seeing him in older clips where he is in some kind of soap opera and hearing Emet-Selch. I suspect that during the change from ARR to Heavensward (when Square-Enix switched to a different voice acting company for contract reasons) the development team also streamlined the process of how they handled the voice acting.
@@roetheboat1 What I find weird about Rene Zagger is that he looks the spitting image facially of Emet. Either he was the face model for the development team, or its a very freaky coincidence.
00:35 I just noticed G'raha's little smile in the beginning when he looks at the Warrior of Light as they climb. He's finally on an epic adventure with his hero
Honestly never gets old watching peoples reactions to this ending. So damn good. So very glad you uploaded this Jesse, after seeing you were playing from the 5.0 video you uploaded, I was hoping this would come around. Watching Lucron play through now, and I'm waiting in anticipation for when he reaches the end. :P
"The rains have ceased, and we are graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it." Gets me every time. The onion ninjas just come out of nowhere.
The true power of the office-holder of Azem, the Traveler: "Duty Finder". Wheresoever they roam, they shall never truly be without companions to fight at their side.
Maybe the 2010s, but don't forget that we have FFXVI to look forward to, and its development is being led by Yoshida. His games will be competing with themselves for the 2020s :P
If the myriad Eikons all have a different name for their "touched" followers (tempered, drowned, etc) then I guess the answer to their "what are you?” 's would be... Cut? Chiseled? Crystalline? Hell, we could be " the Polished" lol
along time ago for a brief moment I legit got angry at Jesse for shitting on FFXIV during a co-optional podcast and here we are years later and he is gushing over it
It’s ironic to go back to that segment because Dodger’s love of the game was dismissed as her just not being that used to MMO tropes. And now Jesse’s found so much to love BECAUSE he has been burnt out from being OVERexperienced with MMOs. I’m stoked that Jesse found so much to love!
@@Jenyatheawesome If anything, FFXIV corroborates that what people considered innate flaws to MMO were just bad writing and game design and an extremely low bar for quality.
@@torashiki5646 as someone who has tried a couple of MMOs, even WoW for 2 months, I just didn't find the appeal to them since there was no good story or very minimal story to keep me playing. It was just grinding for the sake of grinding just cause they wanted to keep players subscribed in this treadmill of grinding. FFXIV changed that for me. At the start I didn't liked it as much and I almost gave up in-between ARR and Heavensward content but I pushed through and ever since Heavensward and onwards it has become the best MMO for me and one of my favourite FF games
Was this during ARR, Heavensward, or the OG XIV? Because ARR is GW2 "personal story" tier of bad - well, maybe a step or two above that, but the point still stands ARR is comical in terms of writing and post ARR is incredibly dense. Heavensward it gets way better, Stormblood is drawn out and a lot of "go do this" but not nearly as rough as ARR. 1.0 was just a mechanical disaster. There is PLENTY of reason XIV could have gotten shit on for 1.0-2.0. ShB is really what elevated this game for me from "this is an okay to solid MMO" to "this is the best damn game I've played in the past half a decade."
I actually missed the relevance of the handwave my first time through for the dumbest reason -- I'm bad at button mashing and completely lost focus for a bit after the section just before it. Then my friend, who was with me to help but had already done it, questioned why I didn't react as much as he expected (cause I LOVE Emet and he knew that) and then the realization hit me and I just had a delayed freakout the rest of the fight. Was amazing really.
The entire Shadowbringer's story is absolute brilliance. But you're foolin' yourself if the part with Seto didn't hit you the hardest. I just want to coddle that feather dog forever.
@@ashesofaranea If i remember correctly in ARR there was a meeting of ascians and there was a crazy guy laughing I thought it was emet selch at first but this makes more sense
@@ashesofaranea Jesse mentioned that, if his theory was correct, after the Ascian plans were frustrated enough times, one of the remaining ones would snap and try to destroy everything instead of following the original plan. Apparently some similar plot point happened in FFXI, and he was adamant it was going to happen here as well. But he was mistaken about who it was going to be (I think he thought it was going to be Elidibus, but I might be mistaken).
While you didn't react/notice on the pre-fight with Emet, where he taunts the player character with the Weary traveler remark from the trailer... You were among the few that reacted to this part of the no fight left to fight. Its amazing how few notice it and choose it :D
The actual writing ability to take that line and use it as they did multiple times is amazing. --The gremlin mocking the WoL in the trailer, as the WoL struggles to find the will to continue as they are saddled down with all the trauma and PTSD from their past. --Emet-Selch mocking the WoL as they begin to collapse under the strain from the Light Aether infecting their soul. --And the WoL coming to the realization that the fight that Elidibus is engaged in, the very reason for his motivation, no longer exists. Elidibus can no longer recall who he made his vow to, he can no longer recall the majority of the people from his life. It's debatable as to whether or not the Ascians would have even been able to revive those who were sacrificed to create Zodiark. Aether has been shown to be involved in a closed cycle, and the removal of a large chunk of it to create Zodiark means that unless they can find an equal amount to what was lost it's a pointless struggle. Especially when you think about how the 13th Shard was rendered useless by the overwhelming Dark Aether.
silly graha, talking like he isnt a hero, failing to understand a true hero doesnt think of grand adventures or epic showdowns for the fate of the world. they simply do what needs to be done in order to keep those they care about from reaching a tragic end.
The Warrior of Light fight has my absolute favorite FFXIV Easter Egg: the summoned warrior specters are the cast of FF4. The Dark Knight wears Cecil's helm. The twin Lalafells are Palom and Porom and cast Twincast Meteor. The bard casts Holy because Rosa is an archer. The Summoner's Bahamuts have blue fire, as does Rydia's. The Ninja uses Water and Fire attacks as reference to Edge's Ninjitsu abilities. Lastly, the Warrior is Cid, who mostly used hammers, but could also use axes. It's great. Also, yeah, Jesse calling the end of 5.3 back in 2.X is probably one of the most insane correct plot calls and payoffs I've ever seen. Goes to show the care the FFXIV team puts into the game.
Cherish the stars and the light they bring you in the dark. For you are a traveler, are you not? Temulun - Khangan of the Mol. Even during Stormblood, our past was known to some.
I like that. Especially since you only get that dialogue if you talk to her at the right point in the story. It's a completely optional dialogue that's easily missed.
Endwalker has a lot to live up to considering how absolutely amazing Shadowbringers was. I have faith that it'll be awesome, but god damn if the bar isn't set incredibly high. I'm so glad Jesse enjoyed FFXIV so much. I left World of WoWCraft for this game during Legion and never looked back.
This is me from the future a year from now. You were fooling yourself to think it would be hard to live up to. They did so flawlessly and effortlessly that Shadowbringers feels pale compared to Endwalker absolutely mindblowing ending to the game of the year 2022, the latest expansion of the critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 that comes with a free trial up to Stormblood! (In the future they gave one more expansion). Oh and WoW has gone free to play ok byyyye!. *hops back in my time machine*
At this point if any member of the scion's or any number of the side characters meet a grizzly end in the next expansion, I might enter a spiralling depression. Every character in this game is given so much love and personality. If you said to me back in 2.0 I would end up crying my eyes out over the random archaeologist scholar cat boy I would call you crazy, but here we are and I'm cutting onions from him being gone and then even more when he comes back. Cya in the next patch Jesse!
They already said that there would be. Because they bought Graha into the fold when he really wasnt meant to be (So I assume he actually was meant to die at the ending fulfilling his duty). Cant remember which interview it was though.
Reactions were what i was expecting. Everyone reacts the same... "The rains have passed and we are greeted by another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it..."
God this ending was incredible. I didn’t stream it day-of because I knew I’d ugly-cry the whole way through. I’ve leveled three, going on four characters to Shadowbringers and this whole expansion still moves me to tears every single time I play it.
Elidibus poses with the Warriors of Light (matching FFIV jobs) to resemble the FFXIV logo... but what struck me just now was that FFI and FFIV... 1 and 4... 14 lol. A stretch but a cool thought.
Given that in the LftP in February 2022 Yoshida said he's borderline obsessed with the stage composition of cutscenes, I'd go out on a limb and say there's not an ounce of coincidence in that shot. It's all deliberate.
I remember my patch day so vividly, I was so excited I stayed up that entire night to finish the story all in one go. My group I got paired up with died multiple times but we were all so hyped, we were having a time just getting out ass beat lmao. Had such a emotional time with the cutscenes too, probably one of my favorite memories I have of this game. I'm glad you got to experience it too, I hope I get to see your lil lala when we get the data center hopping and cheer you on next expansion. Edit: Also, I think Eden would be something I'd like to see your reactions to uploaded here :)
Agreed, if they ended the entire game with WOL and Graha running off to “the next adventure”, and that was the end of the entire game, I’d have still paid my sub to the end of the year. A perfect ending to a great story.
Poor Elidibus. In the end he was just a kid who wanted his family back. Being made a member of the Convocation so young and then chosen as the one to become Zodiark's heart forced him to grow up way too quickly and then the Sundering took the Convocation, which he saw as his family, away from him. He is also the concept of the Warrior of Light taken to it's ultimate extreme, someone fighting for a cause they believe to be just. Thing is though he forgot what that cause was and now anything that opposes him is the enemy and must be vanquished.
Maan I love watching peoples reaction to this. It makes me feel like I wasn't alone when I first saw this ending. Nearly cried thru the whole ending and on top of that G'raha voices lines when your heading to the crystal tower to bring him back literally makes me cry all the time.. wish I had someone to tell me those encouraging words when I was younger.
@@omensoffate I'm really enjoying the "Odd Couple" vibes they have going with Zenos and Fandaniel. Like, you can just feel that Fandaniel is deliberately trying to lightly antagonize Zenos. Maybe he just wants to see Zenos snap and try to kill him (like Emet-Selch did with Varis). Maybe he just wants to see how far he can push Zenos. Regardless, the two of them make for such an entertaining duo that I'm happy.
Elidibus was supposed to be the one to bring balance between light and dark. However, he did end up fulfilling his duty. He admits in this cutscene that he was the one who pushed you along back at the Waking Sands, to push the realm back towards light. He does so and you become the Warrior of Light, whose legend in Eorzea then inspires G'raha to time travel to rescue you from an early demise. Then as we know, the events of ShB happen, honing your character into the WoD. Now that Elidibus is gone, you are both the Warrior of Light and the Warrior of Darkness. Balance achieved. Can't wait to see how they wrap this whole thing up in Endwalker.
Jesse you should totally check out the Music for the final fight against WoL, the song is called To the Edge and the Lyrics are amazing for it. I love songs that get sang from the other sides view and it just hits home. I love it.
I'm playing JP voice and legit cried last words of Elidibus, Akira Ishida (many people know him as voice actor of Gaara from Naruto) did so well soooooo fricking well. I'm surprised though how good eng acting was too, still i recommend to look up at least for this scene.
This whole thing tore me up, damn ninjas cutting onions all over the place. The emotional roller coaster was incredible, everything from the fight to the cutscenes it was great.
That cutscene from 1:09:00 onwards is just peak FFXIV to me. It is by far one of my favourite cutscenes. The personality, the charisma, the hype, the jests and the glory. It has it all, condensed to the highest concentration.
Big fan of jesse summoning 2 namazu heads and a frog man for the seat of sacrifice, loading into the raid, and they're somehow dancing in perfect time to the music
I came here thinking it was just the elidibus fight so I wasn't going to get too emotional but nope elidibus last scene got me again, then he showed seto and ardbert and then y'stola I want ready for this rollercoaster of emotions again.
For decades we were mentally trained to believe that the Warrior(s) of Light were the good guys and when Shadowbringers flipped that concept on its head....mind blown.
Jesse, I would've loved to see your reaction to the pre-Stormblood cinematic where Papalymo seals Shinryu on top of Baelsar's Wall. That shit made me cry.
When I finished the story arc of the first and got to Rynes goodbye to the scions, and especially Thancred.. I didn't think it would mess me up the amount it actually did. It wasn't epic like the fight against the warrior of light or Emet's death or the Crystal Exarchs end in the First. But it still got me just the same. The feeling of saying goodbye to your friends.. knowing you'll most likely never see them again. Trying to smile but not being able to hold back the tears. I've been there. Many times. It's heartwrenching and you never want to let them go. Even though you know that's not an option. Even though you know you have to keep walking away.. it's always been one of the hardest things for me to do and it always will be. My friends are my family, and every time we part ways a part of me stays with them until we meet again. I've had one of them leave forever 2 years ago and there still hasn't gone a day by that I haven't wished I could hug them or argue with them or just be near them again. Emotional numbing is the only way I knew how to deal with everything, so I guess when Ryne's scene played out infront of me, that was a way to guide me back to those emotions. And it felt like I wasn't alone with it that made me able to open up to all of it. I'll always be thankful for Shadowbringers for teaching me to reconnect with my emotions in the real world. It definitely was an experience and I love coming back to it again now before Endwalker Release! Ah those onions in my room!
The sequence on top of the tower will forever be my favorite scene in any game. It's such a perfect climax to everything the game had been working towards. I'm extremely excited for Endwalker, but I don't know if they can top this.
I love the speech as you go to wake up G'raha its both a speech for the WOL and players because while this story is fantastic memories of it will fade in time.
"The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it." I don't know who his voice actor is. But dear god. That voice crack when he spoke his final lines... It tears my heart out every time. What a beautiful, -beautiful- game.
To pull off this magnitude of a story which was 10 years in the making, to come back to full circle, takes a genius to write this type of story. What's amazing about FF14 is no other single player FF can accomplish this. It requires to be a live service in order to pull this kind of story. And I am so glad that I was part of it from the beginning.
Jesse I just finished 5.3 and waiting to watching this until I got this far. I just want to thank you for pushing me over the edge to get into this game. its make the past couple months so much more fun.
Honestly I would love to see your reactions to some of the 5.4 cutscenes as well. Specifically the parts (Spoilers under Read more): Where Alisae says password, and where G'raha gets to enjoy a journey with you. And of course, the Matoya sassiness and the Relict dungeon, I'm sure you'll love some bosses there.
I've been binge watching people's reaction to shadowbringers ending after finishing it myself and it's amazing how it makes us feel after everything that has happened in the story.
Uh oh :/ For some reason 5.3 didnt hit me nearly as hard as 5.0. I think it's the breaks in story beats between patches. I do seem to be a minority here though.
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I still cannot help but laugh at your reaction to the ending cutscene. When I saw that point I just remembered thinking, "Oh Jesse's going to LOVE this scene."
is there going to be a forward and back about this part of the story?
Thanks for sharing
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@@HoodedLefty there essentially was, though I was more the reaction to the new expansion as well
I will forever love what they did with the Ascians. Turning what was originally pure evil, borderline power rangers villains, into sad beings twisted to the point of madness by grief, for the loved ones that they could not save. The victories against them in SHB didn't make me happy, but sorrowful that I could not help them. I will always remember them.
Same. I keep one of the Hades Auracite shards in my inventory. 'May you ever Remember'
Nah they are still evil despite being sympathetic.
@@brittanyhayes1043 To us as the player, they are undeniably evil yes. They seek nothing less than the complete destruction of the world and all the people in it.
But from their point of view, they are heroes fighting to save their entire species from extinction. Everyone they ever knew, loved, their entire civilization. It was all lost to save the world from The Final Days. So they will sacrifice anything, ANYTHING, to bring those people back. Isn't that what heroes do all the time in stories? Despite impossible odds, never giving up, always trying to save the day?
@@CrashB111 Different perspectives of who is good is evil. A great theme. Another peoples heroes are another peoples monsters.
how dare you make me cry by reminding me of all this emotion
The little Emet-Selch hand-wave is a master class in visual storytelling all by itself. Fucking phenomenal moment.
Yep. All throughout his appearances, they made sure you saw him do the snap and the hand wave. Now a faceless ancient shows up at the most crucial time, called by their most dearest friend. Amazing.
A lesser game would have had Elidibus say his name, but not FFXIV they know damn well that we know who Emet is by just his movements
He’s genocidal
@@brittanyhayes1043 Uh... okay? Doesn't change what I said about the storytelling xD
@@peregrine5327 He's still genocidal.
The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day.
But you are not here to see it.
Gets me every single time.
The clouds have parted and the skies cleared. It is time I bade you... Farewell.
that part borke me hearing that from his firends. Knowinging how much he has given up ohhh the feels! =( Why does this make he feel so =((
The VA did a superb job at choking me with just that deliverance.
Even if the morrow is barren of promises, nothing shall forestall...my return.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate Natsuko Ishikawa the main writer of Shadowbringer and Endwalker. What an amazing journey.
Bit late, but she also wrote the CT raid story as well as the storyline for DRK. Hence why they were so relevant to ShB.
So she's writing for Endwalker too? GOOD. I didn't know.
AND Final Fantasy 16.
Not ff16 but yeah endwalker
@@eljn2737 FF16 will be written by the story writer of Heavensward, which is also very good!
You know what gets me? What brings a tear to my eye? As soon as the Exarch turned to crystal Ryne took over as narrator. That was the moment I realized he died. It's not stasis. That version of the Exarch died.
Then the took it back an hour later. What a relief that was!
Man, knowing that Soken wrote "To the edge" while undergoing chemotherapy... Song really hits differently.
It's his "Dancing Mad" as well. The full track is 14 minutes long. So not only did he compose such an emotional hard-hitting song while in a hospital bed, it's his longest song ever.
“Only alive in fighting death’s amber embrace” hits different now
Lyna broke my heart with that speech, she deserved a life with him too. Hopefully Y'shtola can put her money where her mouth is and make travel between the First and Source possible.
Gets me every time when her voice cracks mid line and she has to breath to continue on
Uhh didn't she have like a huge life with him already ? Aren't Viera like super young looking while being 100± years old? I always presumed that Luna help to build the Crystarium since she was a child some years after the beginning of the Flood. To me she is in her 50's ( still young for a Viera and young enough to never have seen the true black night while also having the experience of a veteran ). Well you can't really call the survival during the Flood a "life" but I think it's close enough. But yeah, if Y'shtola can find the way to travel between Shards for everyone ( without having to die and not only for the WoL ) we could see Luna again even if 100+ years happens on the First due to time compression.
@@randomstreamer2868 It depends on if they want to do more stuff in the first but i think they should move away from it. According to lore they can live to 240 so when the exarch came to the first he said he missed the time by a hundred or so years. We dont know when she was born or joined so even if we assumed she was there from start. She would only be about 100-120 or so which is just half her life. The only issue would be if they choose to unsync the time between the two planets after 5.5
it's actualy a big concern of mine.
Now that the Shadowbringer arc is finished, there's... nothing left to do in the First.
Being his own separate place means that storylines started in the source will never take us back there. At least we could revisit Ishgard, Ala Migho, the steppes... but the First? It's gonna be a desert when the next expansion hits.
But we can't just simply link the two world together. Even if it could be justified story-wise, it would just wreck the political landscape and balance of the game story, in unmendable ways.
Given that time was stated to be all funky, even if she is a Viera she might not be there whenever the opporunity next presents itself.
Watching this bit of the story again, now I realize that G'raha is to the Warrior of Light as Elidibus was to Azem. Sometimes there is a companion so loyal to what you stand for that they will carry on in your name.
Don't you mean what Emet-Selch was to Azem?
@@menmaroart4087 He is right. The entire thing with Elidibus creating various heroes throughout the ages was all based on the fact that he took inspiration on (probably) the first hero he ever met, the first WoL, our PC. Even after forgetting almost everything about his past life and his friends, he still beared the mark that our heroic persona made on him and carried on with it.
Yeah, the WoL primal is essentially Elidibus pulling a Ysale and summoning a primal version of Azem, the person who he saw as the most ideal hero, within himself.
@@menmaroart4087 no meet selch was azem’s bro not his admirer, more like the other scions, elidibus is most like the twins and graha
@@menmaroart4087 As already stated, no not really. Azem (you, before The Sundering) were the traveling hero Elidibus admired and looked up to as a kid and aspired to be. He then accepted Zodiark and became his core trying to be as heroic as he believed Azem was. And here in the end, he forgot who exactly his "hero" was after all these years, not realizing that YOU were his Hero.
So yeah, the G'raha Tia parallel is almost spot on minus the obvious time/sundering stuff.
Elidibus was just a child who wanted to be the hero, fighting for a half-forgotten cause... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa HERE I GO CRYIN' AGAIN
Even sadder... idolizing the 14th Convocation member and emulating his/her heroism to become the first Warrior of Light... and here, at the end, he can't even remember that we're his inspiration and guiding star.
@@cnkclark But that's the thing... the rains have ceased, and we have been graced by another beautiful day... but Elidibus is wrong. We are there to see it... we are there to see his last stand, and how he held out hope even to the end. His hero was standing right before him... and saw him at his best.
@@ChainedFei We remember that he too once lived.
ya i never saw elidibus as a bad guy, like ever. He was the scales that had to keep the balance. Lahabrea was going overboard and tilting hydaelyn to the dark, while we tippied it too close to the light. he was just a kid who was chosen to be used as the heart of the planet's spirit, the first primal. its pretty tragic.
he was very young and due to it, took his role seriously.. lil too seriously and refused to chill with his mates. i kinda get the feeling he was pushed/told to be the heart as tbh someone else was going to be the heart.
and lets not forget elidibus did some good to a degree with the 2 people from the 13th, the lil boy who assisted us with the waring triad, and the elf girl who helped groom albert and crew.
@@azadalamiq He was an interesting and complicated antagonist for sure. I hesitate to say villain because it feels too simplified a term for him despite his unquestionably being a party to acts we would call monstrous. So many shades of gray - Dark and Light mixed.
The scene with Seto and Ardbert made me go and level the remaining 9 jobs I had left to max so I could get my own Amaro mount.
If you haven't already, consider also completing the Shared FATE system. The bicolored gemstone vendor in the Crystarium sells an Amaro minion.
@@NinjaFrog65 I actually have completed that but I never saw that there was a minion! Thanks for the heads-up, I will go look for that.
@@Ossek It got added in 5.4 and went under a lot of people's radars (I don't think it even got mentioned in the patch notes!), I only happened upon it when I was checking the vendor for stuff to decorate my Free Company house. Happy I could help, though! :)
@@NinjaFrog65 You're a saint!
Same, And I named mine Seto Jr. xD
along with my Chocobo, Red Comet.
I remember watching you play through 2.X back in like August of last year and literally the moment you said that the Crystal Tower is basically a giant white auracite, I literally just sat there absolutely *gobsmacked* that you managed to figure out the major plot point of 5.3's story.
Every time I watch someone's reaction to the last hour or two of 5.3 I just remind myself how tragic it is that Elidibus is so driven by purpose that he can't even remember the person that he promised it to in the first place. The person he looked up to as a senior in the Convocation and as a friend more than anything, forgotten in more ways than one
I wonder if he promised it to Azem, but so much time has passed and zodiarks corruption made him forget that this promise has been warped.
And the worst part is.
I bet MONEY its going to turn out to be us.
@@bluestormpony how fucking right on the money you are
*Y'shtola wakes up*
Jesse: "Wait, why did she get a great outfit?"
Because she's Y'shtola. What, you think just because she's been in a coma she wouldn't look absolutely fabulous? That she'd wake up in rags like the rest of the Scion plebeians? HA! Perish the thought!
True, but it's really because female Miqo'te got the best Hempen Chemise model. The ones for Hyur, Elezen, and Viera are okay but not nearly as good as Miqo'te. Female Au Ra basically got lingerie for that top. It's nice, but not what you'd normally wear out of the house. I really wish they'd separate them out so they're not tied to one race. The Miqo'te Hempen Chemise top is so versatile.
They're all wearing pretty basic gear. It's just that Y'shtola is so fabulous that it looks good on her.
@@tjl9458 Totally agree! Roes and Hrothgars got the ugliest models possible while both male Hyur and male Miqo'te are allowed to rock amazing ones. There is no reason to race-lock the different models.
@@MelvaCross Well, they're race-locked because they're only designed to fit those bodies. So, they'd need to do additional work to modify them. But, I still think they should do it.
@@tjl9458 I meant there is no reason to make one item have entirely different models for different body types. The fact that they never repeated this makes me confident to say that they probably see it as a mistake, too. They just never bothered to do something about it. It's super low priority. Creating new items and fitting them to every body type probably doesn't sound worth it.
To be honest, I'm just salty how incredibly ugly the Roe and Hrothgar one is while the item is a very good glamour item on every other body type.
@@tjl9458 the hempen set dates back to 1.0... its was our underwear. used to have a slot of underwear in 1.0.
For those we have lost.
For those we can yet save.
As a doctor during covid...this is so true.
Months after he made that call, I STILL can't believe he called the end to 5.3 while still in 2.x
Edit: also shout out to my best friend who lost his shit when he beat 5.3 a few hours after Jesse called it.
just got here, what call did he make?
@@catssnake4492 see the flashback at 30:45
While this story has issues (most of those issues being due to trying to mix the game mechanics with the story, among others), I think things like this are what make FFXIV's story fairly strong overall. The writers are fully aware of the rules established in their universe, and make use of them really well. Shadowbringers is really a perfect example of this. In order to make the plot they had in mind work, they drew on a LOT of previous content that, if I had to guess, wasn't necessarily meant to set all this up. The result is a story that makes a lot of sense logically, and allows players to have immensely satisfying moments like this, where paying attention to the story and it's lore is rewarded.
@@Bistai949 I remember an interview back in...Heavensward, I believe?...where they said they had the general direction of the story planned out until 6.0, so I'd argue that they very much did intend to set things up as they did.
I think that's also, in part, why we should appreciate the "weaker" expansions more, as people sometimes like to call them (namely ARR and SB), because for there to be epic pay-off, you need to set it all up first.
@@sleepysera as another puts it, setup is no excuse for poor execution with great ingredients. Mechanically sb is great, story elements where essential, excution faltered a few times. An easily blamable character was lyse. Lyse development was highly problematic, having wins handed to her for no effort and minimal (implied but not invested enough) costs. Conrad not being her father figure, yda we never possibly met, papalymo whos arc was a butt end of getting dragged along jokes. Fixing these would have costs 2 to 3 cutscenes for conrad, a few quests for yda (legacy of those she helped) a better spats between fredola and lyse ideals instead of typical jabs ( you monster vs you barbarian is very weak and lacks investment)
Lyse doesnt even get any blame bringing tempered agents into peace talks. Sir ameryic, got stabbed for saving ishgaurd... if she is purposely to be written as a weak leader then ala migo needs to burn then.
Lyse wasnt the only issue, yoyo and fredola the two main villans we deal with paint their side opinions sorely to make us hate them more generally. the npcs as a character dont respond as naturally as one thinks either, the willingness to not help would have been more extreme then the sudden flip to helping is nearly not well fleshed out othrr than a single fetch quest each which cheapens winning them over. Heavensward has far better post war developments, making them trust dragons took patches to settle in. Alas its getting windsome, tldr; great ingedients needs a slighlty better chef.
The Fact that Elidibus' LB4 is called " Ultimate Crossover " just makes this Patch even sweeter.
The name comes from Dissidia, IIRC.
Gra'ha's voice actor is absolutely amazing. He's a traditionally taught actor who was recently in Netflix's Bridgerton.
Same with Rene Zagger, who was the voice for Emet-Selch. It's funny seeing him in older clips where he is in some kind of soap opera and hearing Emet-Selch.
I suspect that during the change from ARR to Heavensward (when Square-Enix switched to a different voice acting company for contract reasons) the development team also streamlined the process of how they handled the voice acting.
@@roetheboat1 What I find weird about Rene Zagger is that he looks the spitting image facially of Emet. Either he was the face model for the development team, or its a very freaky coincidence.
Just realised him and alphinaud were the main characters in a TV show I watched when I was a kid
WHAT?? I just looked it up and was amazed! What an incredible actor 😍
"I will strike you down!"
*_Namazu Bros enter the arena._*
Jesse: *"He's already lost."*
00:35 I just noticed G'raha's little smile in the beginning when he looks at the Warrior of Light as they climb. He's finally on an epic adventure with his hero
Honestly never gets old watching peoples reactions to this ending. So damn good. So very glad you uploaded this Jesse, after seeing you were playing from the 5.0 video you uploaded, I was hoping this would come around. Watching Lucron play through now, and I'm waiting in anticipation for when he reaches the end. :P
I feel ya, slowly but surely
"The rains have ceased, and we are graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it." Gets me every time. The onion ninjas just come out of nowhere.
Agree
Elidibus was evil though.
@@brittanyhayes1043 that comment is a year old bestie
@@brittanyhayes1043 Another necro, Elidibus was also a literal brainwashed child to start and even later had never mentally grown past that
@kirarara8746 I'm not your bestie and do not care if it's a year old.
I never thought this game would get me to cry for two Ascians, but here we are.
Honestly Elidibus got so much development over that patch.
The true power of the office-holder of Azem, the Traveler: "Duty Finder". Wheresoever they roam, they shall never truly be without companions to fight at their side.
The Traveler*
@@rachelkelley5930
Thanks. For some reason I was trying to apparently make Azem one of the Twelve.
@@atraxos no problem!
The Ardbert and Seto moment still gets to me.
It broke me, and continues to do so...
I was hoping for that scene to happen...I was so happy to get the happy ending for the two, but still hit me hard in the feels
I'm a grown ass boomer and every single time the "Seto you have grown" part starts I weep like a fucking baby. It's astonishing, really.
It makes me think of my doggies, makes me lose my shit.
It’s especially heart wrenching for anyone with pets. Even more so for those that have lost pets.
Kid Elidibus always gets me... at this point it's not too far fetched to claim that FFXIV is the defining FF of this decade.
Honestly FFXIV is the defining FF full stop at this point.
Maybe the 2010s, but don't forget that we have FFXVI to look forward to, and its development is being led by Yoshida. His games will be competing with themselves for the 2020s :P
FFXII was the last good mainline release so you ain't giving a really high bar for FFXIV to beat here.
@@knavenformed9436 Hello, based department?
We've got your guy.
@@knavenformed9436 i misread that as XIII and i was like......uh no
Man i love the symmetry between Elidibus and Pope Thordan both asking "What are you?" in their respective trial encounters
Matoyas cave theme in the scene with Yshtola and Runar was also mucho buenes
If the myriad Eikons all have a different name for their "touched" followers (tempered, drowned, etc) then I guess the answer to their "what are you?” 's would be... Cut? Chiseled? Crystalline? Hell, we could be " the Polished" lol
yes, i thought Thordan scene really strange back then
Guess we know what we are now :P
along time ago for a brief moment I legit got angry at Jesse for shitting on FFXIV during a co-optional podcast and here we are years later and he is gushing over it
It's all come full circle.
It’s ironic to go back to that segment because Dodger’s love of the game was dismissed as her just not being that used to MMO tropes. And now Jesse’s found so much to love BECAUSE he has been burnt out from being OVERexperienced with MMOs. I’m stoked that Jesse found so much to love!
@@Jenyatheawesome If anything, FFXIV corroborates that what people considered innate flaws to MMO were just bad writing and game design and an extremely low bar for quality.
@@torashiki5646 as someone who has tried a couple of MMOs, even WoW for 2 months, I just didn't find the appeal to them since there was no good story or very minimal story to keep me playing. It was just grinding for the sake of grinding just cause they wanted to keep players subscribed in this treadmill of grinding.
FFXIV changed that for me. At the start I didn't liked it as much and I almost gave up in-between ARR and Heavensward content but I pushed through and ever since Heavensward and onwards it has become the best MMO for me and one of my favourite FF games
Was this during ARR, Heavensward, or the OG XIV? Because ARR is GW2 "personal story" tier of bad - well, maybe a step or two above that, but the point still stands ARR is comical in terms of writing and post ARR is incredibly dense. Heavensward it gets way better, Stormblood is drawn out and a lot of "go do this" but not nearly as rough as ARR. 1.0 was just a mechanical disaster.
There is PLENTY of reason XIV could have gotten shit on for 1.0-2.0. ShB is really what elevated this game for me from "this is an okay to solid MMO" to "this is the best damn game I've played in the past half a decade."
Don’t mind me, I’m just here for the sassy handwave.
I remember doing this on day one and everyone in the game chat went crazy when we saw the sassy hand wave.
I actually missed the relevance of the handwave my first time through for the dumbest reason -- I'm bad at button mashing and completely lost focus for a bit after the section just before it. Then my friend, who was with me to help but had already done it, questioned why I didn't react as much as he expected (cause I LOVE Emet and he knew that) and then the realization hit me and I just had a delayed freakout the rest of the fight. Was amazing really.
@@udiar once I saw the snap I was like "Nooooo..." then the hand wave... bricks were shat and collective shits lost
@@udiar Yup same, chat was 8 screams of "OH MY GOD IT'S [redacted]"
That's the sign of superb writing when you can recognize a character from just a single gesture.
The entire Shadowbringer's story is absolute brilliance. But you're foolin' yourself if the part with Seto didn't hit you the hardest. I just want to coddle that feather dog forever.
Amaro are so good...
As soon as that cutscene ended, I summoned my Chocobo and we just rode around the First for a bit. She's my bestest friend, my partner in crime.
Apparently the same writers are also doing Endwalker which gives me high hopes for that. And yes Seto was probably the most emotional.
@@PikeBot I really wish we got an Amaro mount with the msq
@@hannahmagram1921 Well, you can get an Amaro mount by getting all jobs to level 80!
"It's him!" *cue insane laughter from Fandaniel* "The crazy one!" I loved that timing.
I dont get It though, was there mention of fandaniel before this?
@@ashesofaranea If i remember correctly in ARR there was a meeting of ascians and there was a crazy guy laughing I thought it was emet selch at first but this makes more sense
@@ashesofaranea Jesse mentioned that, if his theory was correct, after the Ascian plans were frustrated enough times, one of the remaining ones would snap and try to destroy everything instead of following the original plan. Apparently some similar plot point happened in FFXI, and he was adamant it was going to happen here as well. But he was mistaken about who it was going to be (I think he thought it was going to be Elidibus, but I might be mistaken).
While you didn't react/notice on the pre-fight with Emet, where he taunts the player character with the Weary traveler remark from the trailer... You were among the few that reacted to this part of the no fight left to fight. Its amazing how few notice it and choose it :D
The actual writing ability to take that line and use it as they did multiple times is amazing.
--The gremlin mocking the WoL in the trailer, as the WoL struggles to find the will to continue as they are saddled down with all the trauma and PTSD from their past.
--Emet-Selch mocking the WoL as they begin to collapse under the strain from the Light Aether infecting their soul.
--And the WoL coming to the realization that the fight that Elidibus is engaged in, the very reason for his motivation, no longer exists. Elidibus can no longer recall who he made his vow to, he can no longer recall the majority of the people from his life. It's debatable as to whether or not the Ascians would have even been able to revive those who were sacrificed to create Zodiark. Aether has been shown to be involved in a closed cycle, and the removal of a large chunk of it to create Zodiark means that unless they can find an equal amount to what was lost it's a pointless struggle. Especially when you think about how the 13th Shard was rendered useless by the overwhelming Dark Aether.
@@roetheboat1 and yet in 5.5 the 2 people that were saved by elidibus from the 13th before it became the void are looking for a way to restore it
"Remember us"
But HE remembered US
silly graha, talking like he isnt a hero, failing to understand a true hero doesnt think of grand adventures or epic showdowns for the fate of the world. they simply do what needs to be done in order to keep those they care about from reaching a tragic end.
Fordola needs to yell this at him with a megaphone
just like elidibus and emet :(
@@arseniykorchevskiy1564 Elidibus and Emet-Selch are not heroes. They are villains.
The Warrior of Light fight has my absolute favorite FFXIV Easter Egg: the summoned warrior specters are the cast of FF4. The Dark Knight wears Cecil's helm. The twin Lalafells are Palom and Porom and cast Twincast Meteor. The bard casts Holy because Rosa is an archer. The Summoner's Bahamuts have blue fire, as does Rydia's. The Ninja uses Water and Fire attacks as reference to Edge's Ninjitsu abilities. Lastly, the Warrior is Cid, who mostly used hammers, but could also use axes. It's great.
Also, yeah, Jesse calling the end of 5.3 back in 2.X is probably one of the most insane correct plot calls and payoffs I've ever seen. Goes to show the care the FFXIV team puts into the game.
When they do the cutscene to limitbreak 4,they also get in formation to form the ARR logo
huuuge stretch
Once a frog and 2 Namatsu showed up, we knew who the victor would be...
Cherish the stars and the light they bring you in the dark.
For you are a traveler, are you not?
Temulun - Khangan of the Mol.
Even during Stormblood, our past was known to some.
I like that. Especially since you only get that dialogue if you talk to her at the right point in the story. It's a completely optional dialogue that's easily missed.
@@tjl9458 No it's part of a cutscene
I've watched like 5 reactions to this part and I still weep to the last cutscene with Elidibus.
Emet made me tear up and smile when smiled, but Elidibus? Full on tearful breakdown, lol.
@@fgfh10004 And then they hit us with Adbert and Seto shortly afterwards...
@@fgfh10004 Emet and Elidibus deserve what they got. Defeat by the real heros. Our WoL and the Scions.
Endwalker has a lot to live up to considering how absolutely amazing Shadowbringers was. I have faith that it'll be awesome, but god damn if the bar isn't set incredibly high. I'm so glad Jesse enjoyed FFXIV so much. I left World of WoWCraft for this game during Legion and never looked back.
So glad the SHB writer is also doing Endwalker
I wouldn't worry much. Back during HW everyone said the same. Then YoshiP was like "behold, Shadowbringers"
@@NessieNice except Stormblood came after HW
I have a feeling it'll be great despite silly-name-man. boomer with a golfbag for swords is sure to make it pretty cool.
This is me from the future a year from now. You were fooling yourself to think it would be hard to live up to. They did so flawlessly and effortlessly that Shadowbringers feels pale compared to Endwalker absolutely mindblowing ending to the game of the year 2022, the latest expansion of the critically acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy 14 that comes with a free trial up to Stormblood! (In the future they gave one more expansion). Oh and WoW has gone free to play ok byyyye!. *hops back in my time machine*
At this point if any member of the scion's or any number of the side characters meet a grizzly end in the next expansion, I might enter a spiralling depression.
Every character in this game is given so much love and personality.
If you said to me back in 2.0 I would end up crying my eyes out over the random archaeologist scholar cat boy I would call you crazy, but here we are and I'm cutting onions from him being gone and then even more when he comes back.
Cya in the next patch Jesse!
They already said that there would be. Because they bought Graha into the fold when he really wasnt meant to be (So I assume he actually was meant to die at the ending fulfilling his duty). Cant remember which interview it was though.
I still weep for Papalymo
@Flippy Shit my money is Thancred biting the bullet.
I am almost certain one of the twins will die, most likely Alphinaud
@@AntavasSpeaks I doubt either of the wonder twins will die since they’re both important for the binding coils storyline.
Reactions were what i was expecting. Everyone reacts the same...
"The rains have passed and we are greeted by another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it..."
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu *cries*
I miss that dude TB....
That’s where it started but I was crying for like the next hour straight
God this ending was incredible. I didn’t stream it day-of because I knew I’d ugly-cry the whole way through. I’ve leveled three, going on four characters to Shadowbringers and this whole expansion still moves me to tears every single time I play it.
Elidibus poses with the Warriors of Light (matching FFIV jobs) to resemble the FFXIV logo... but what struck me just now was that FFI and FFIV... 1 and 4... 14 lol. A stretch but a cool thought.
Given that in the LftP in February 2022 Yoshida said he's borderline obsessed with the stage composition of cutscenes, I'd go out on a limb and say there's not an ounce of coincidence in that shot. It's all deliberate.
I remember my patch day so vividly, I was so excited I stayed up that entire night to finish the story all in one go. My group I got paired up with died multiple times but we were all so hyped, we were having a time just getting out ass beat lmao. Had such a emotional time with the cutscenes too, probably one of my favorite memories I have of this game. I'm glad you got to experience it too, I hope I get to see your lil lala when we get the data center hopping and cheer you on next expansion.
Edit: Also, I think Eden would be something I'd like to see your reactions to uploaded here :)
Elidibus voice actor range and delivery is so mind bendingly phenomenal, grade A character
Omg I just realized y'shtola winks when she says about mystery's worth solving. She is such a flirt
Fuck that Ardbert and Seto thing legit made me cry.
Seeing Emets final wave off to the character made me smile so hard
Agreed, if they ended the entire game with WOL and Graha running off to “the next adventure”, and that was the end of the entire game, I’d have still paid my sub to the end of the year. A perfect ending to a great story.
elidibus goin poetic and shit in his dialogues just to witness a frog team appear to defeat him lmao.
Second time seeing the Exarch crystalize- I'm crying again, ty ShB :')
Poor Elidibus. In the end he was just a kid who wanted his family back. Being made a member of the Convocation so young and then chosen as the one to become Zodiark's heart forced him to grow up way too quickly and then the Sundering took the Convocation, which he saw as his family, away from him. He is also the concept of the Warrior of Light taken to it's ultimate extreme, someone fighting for a cause they believe to be just. Thing is though he forgot what that cause was and now anything that opposes him is the enemy and must be vanquished.
Alisae is just a MOOD in that last scene. I love her so much XD
Maan I love watching peoples reaction to this. It makes me feel like I wasn't alone when I first saw this ending. Nearly cried thru the whole ending and on top of that G'raha voices lines when your heading to the crystal tower to bring him back literally makes me cry all the time.. wish I had someone to tell me those encouraging words when I was younger.
Glad to see someone else actually happy for the upcoming of Zenos, I felt a bit lonely XD
Zenos speech at the end is 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Zenos is the old school final fantasy villain it’s great
You are not alone. Zenos is zaddy.
@@omensoffate I'm really enjoying the "Odd Couple" vibes they have going with Zenos and Fandaniel. Like, you can just feel that Fandaniel is deliberately trying to lightly antagonize Zenos. Maybe he just wants to see Zenos snap and try to kill him (like Emet-Selch did with Varis). Maybe he just wants to see how far he can push Zenos. Regardless, the two of them make for such an entertaining duo that I'm happy.
On March 26 I finally did this, a year later. Today I finally could watch this video. It was worth it.
Doesn’t matter how many times I watch these scenes with G’raha. I will cry every time.
Elidibus was supposed to be the one to bring balance between light and dark. However, he did end up fulfilling his duty. He admits in this cutscene that he was the one who pushed you along back at the Waking Sands, to push the realm back towards light. He does so and you become the Warrior of Light, whose legend in Eorzea then inspires G'raha to time travel to rescue you from an early demise. Then as we know, the events of ShB happen, honing your character into the WoD. Now that Elidibus is gone, you are both the Warrior of Light and the Warrior of Darkness. Balance achieved. Can't wait to see how they wrap this whole thing up in Endwalker.
I don't think that was the balance he was trying to achieve.
Jesse you should totally check out the Music for the final fight against WoL, the song is called To the Edge and the Lyrics are amazing for it. I love songs that get sang from the other sides view and it just hits home. I love it.
This is easily my favorite trial of all time. You can tell so much love went into making this. Elidibus's voice actor is S+ as well!
The Seto's best friend scene chokes me up more than anything this entire expansion. Every. Damn. Time.
Yeah, that cutscene had my crying. Afterwards, I said, "I need to hold my dog!" And then I did so
I'm playing JP voice and legit cried last words of Elidibus, Akira Ishida (many people know him as voice actor of Gaara from Naruto) did so well soooooo fricking well. I'm surprised though how good eng acting was too, still i recommend to look up at least for this scene.
Sure if I understood JP. But I personally don't get anything out of listening to something being said, how ever well they might have acted.
I love seeing these story reactions from you. I honestly hope that you show your reactions to 5.4, and 5.5 when it comes out!
The memory's end speech at the end always makes me tear up. Every single time.
This very quickly became one of my feelgood videos, and re-watch it like once a month at least.
This whole thing tore me up, damn ninjas cutting onions all over the place. The emotional roller coaster was incredible, everything from the fight to the cutscenes it was great.
I, too, have dust in my eyes.
That cutscene from 1:09:00 onwards is just peak FFXIV to me. It is by far one of my favourite cutscenes. The personality, the charisma, the hype, the jests and the glory. It has it all, condensed to the highest concentration.
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It's the epitome of all of the Scions in one short scene. I love it.
"Will you tell him this?"" cry every single time
I'd REALLY love to see your reaction to the Hildibrand quests. They're so good!
I've finished mine but watching this again the feeling I felt then is still here in my heart damn these tears of mine
I love how he just cracked up seeing the namazu and frog
Ive been waiting to see your reaction since I saw your 5.0 reaction great video!
Big fan of jesse summoning 2 namazu heads and a frog man for the seat of sacrifice, loading into the raid, and they're somehow dancing in perfect time to the music
I came here thinking it was just the elidibus fight so I wasn't going to get too emotional but nope elidibus last scene got me again, then he showed seto and ardbert and then y'stola I want ready for this rollercoaster of emotions again.
For decades we were mentally trained to believe that the Warrior(s) of Light were the good guys and when Shadowbringers flipped that concept on its head....mind blown.
Technically they still were. Even ardbert and company 🤣
Jesse, I would've loved to see your reaction to the pre-Stormblood cinematic where Papalymo seals Shinryu on top of Baelsar's Wall. That shit made me cry.
When I finished the story arc of the first and got to Rynes goodbye to the scions, and especially Thancred.. I didn't think it would mess me up the amount it actually did. It wasn't epic like the fight against the warrior of light or Emet's death or the Crystal Exarchs end in the First. But it still got me just the same. The feeling of saying goodbye to your friends.. knowing you'll most likely never see them again. Trying to smile but not being able to hold back the tears. I've been there. Many times. It's heartwrenching and you never want to let them go. Even though you know that's not an option. Even though you know you have to keep walking away.. it's always been one of the hardest things for me to do and it always will be. My friends are my family, and every time we part ways a part of me stays with them until we meet again. I've had one of them leave forever 2 years ago and there still hasn't gone a day by that I haven't wished I could hug them or argue with them or just be near them again. Emotional numbing is the only way I knew how to deal with everything, so I guess when Ryne's scene played out infront of me, that was a way to guide me back to those emotions. And it felt like I wasn't alone with it that made me able to open up to all of it. I'll always be thankful for Shadowbringers for teaching me to reconnect with my emotions in the real world. It definitely was an experience and I love coming back to it again now before Endwalker Release! Ah those onions in my room!
OH BOY here we go! Time to cry and laugh again :)
Y'shtola: "Alisaie's at that very special age when a girl has only one thing on her mind..."
WoL: "Boys?"
Alisaie: "Homicide."
I still love that he goes doing the Perfect Cell face at the end.
The sequence on top of the tower will forever be my favorite scene in any game. It's such a perfect climax to everything the game had been working towards. I'm extremely excited for Endwalker, but I don't know if they can top this.
There were a lot of onions in this patch, I cried so much!
I got thru the Elidibus stuff this time with no tears but goddammit Lyna got me with that speech again. Her actress just delivers it so well.
34:23 "Boss! You killed a child!"
I love the speech as you go to wake up G'raha its both a speech for the WOL and players because while this story is fantastic memories of it will fade in time.
This was such a fantastic ending. Shadowbringers scenes still get to me, whether they came out a few months ago or over a year. Such amazing writing!
"The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it."
I don't know who his voice actor is. But dear god. That voice crack when he spoke his final lines... It tears my heart out every time. What a beautiful, -beautiful- game.
I guess I will never not start crying when I watch the final cutscenes of 5.3
As soon as the camera cut from Seto and panned up to Ardbert, I couldnt hold back the flood gates any longer
To pull off this magnitude of a story which was 10 years in the making, to come back to full circle, takes a genius to write this type of story. What's amazing about FF14 is no other single player FF can accomplish this. It requires to be a live service in order to pull this kind of story. And I am so glad that I was part of it from the beginning.
I mean, would you expect anything less from the woman who wrote the DRK class quest line?
@@QwertyRulz2 And now she has written Endwalker. I can't wait to cry.
Jesse I just finished 5.3 and waiting to watching this until I got this far. I just want to thank you for pushing me over the edge to get into this game. its make the past couple months so much more fun.
Honestly I would love to see your reactions to some of the 5.4 cutscenes as well. Specifically the parts (Spoilers under Read more):
Where Alisae says password, and where G'raha gets to enjoy a journey with you. And of course, the Matoya sassiness and the Relict dungeon, I'm sure you'll love some bosses there.
I've been binge watching people's reaction to shadowbringers ending after finishing it myself and it's amazing how it makes us feel after everything that has happened in the story.
Anyone who didn't cry playing through 5.3 isn't human.
Uh oh :/
For some reason 5.3 didnt hit me nearly as hard as 5.0. I think it's the breaks in story beats between patches. I do seem to be a minority here though.
I didn't completely shed a tear since I knew Graha was going to be fine but it still hit me emotionally.
Ikr
I didn't :)
ofc im not human im better im a Dragon-person
Agree 100%, that shot with the Crystal Tower could have been a 'role credits' and I wouldn't have even been mad
the scene with seto never fails to make me cry my eyes out aaaaaaah
The whole-being belly laugh I got when your team appeared at 16:45... omg the tears... Seriously, haven't laughed like that in ages. It was bliss.
Do the Hildebrand quests and put up videos of all your reactions. Thanks in advance :)
OH YES
PLEASE DO THIS
Just got her two nights ago! I'm ready for your reactions. Bring on the tears!