Clive’s voice actor (Ben Starr) lost his farther during the recording of this game, he said he was able to use all his emotions from that situation and channel them into Clive. Phenomenal job by Ben
Uhhh my heart already hurts for the brothers. I have such a soft spot for kids and Joshua already has my heart, my baby. UPDATE: JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE DEMO AND IM SOBBING, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE
This is like my upteenth time tuning into someone's reaction of this epic demo. Someone mentioned in the comments now this is how you make a demo and that person is 110% correct. If you want to show off your game this is how you do it!
@@divideandconquerasia7051 you know that part of the demo, I was thinking those are only 3 eikon pieces I wonder how many there are? The customization/abilities are going to be crazy in this game. I look forward to seeing how people will set up strategies and build their Clives.
@@carltasticdrew9633 he's talking to a different person, that's why he said that line. More like it was the past Ifrit Eikon bearer that gained control (the creepy fire guy when Clive transformed) Clive is new to this so his control over Ifrit's body is like water running down his hands.
@@calvyn8059 we don’t know yet bro. What if these Eikon’s have a mind of its own? It only depends on the will and emotions of the dominant on how will they act. In this part, Clive wants to save Joshua from phoenix’s rampage so he became Ifrit. But he lost control of him and did what he did. That different perspective of Clive when he’s pleading to stop Ifrit is symbolic that he’s not within Ifrit’s mind compared to Joshua’s mind is within phoenix.
I love the subtext of the show don't tell going on in this game. Good example is 19:23 The mother chastises Joshua for being outside, Joshua apologizes but clenches his fist in annoyance. Clive sees Joshua's frustration so he greets his mother to take her scorn onto himself, protecting Joshua almost like a "shield" would. There are multiple other good story telling touches like this in the demo, seeing this blew me away so I hope the rest of the game is of the same quality because god damn this has the potential to be amazing if so.
There should be a category for best demo, bc this thing DID IT. I've played so many demos and choseN not to purchase bc of that, but this one. DAMN. Let me pre-order the Deluxe! 🤣
@@ShortySensei Square Enix really had two big PS5 games with demos, each with very different results. This and Forspoken are the complete opposite of each other.
@StaticShock42 Aw man, Forspoken's demo was not good at all. I was actually very excited for that game until I played the demo. 😶 Looks like they learned their lesson.
I really thought that the game wouldn't be my style. oh boy I was wrong while doing the demo. chills every moment. The end is a masterpiece. I am poor but I'll still buy the game.
@@shizukun7455 ff14 is a poor amalgam of original ideas, presented with endlessly long and 90% meaningless dialogue. I don't say, the abbreviated core and total story is bad, but it is an mmo at core and you can feel that painfully in all the bad and useless dialogue and padding coupled with the horrible gameplay loop of clicking 100 npcs in a row without any gameplay in between. I played through it all and most of the time I found myself begging for the goddamn story to pick up again. All the filler stuff was so maddening. When it's high, it is high though, but so is literally every true final fantasy.
@@excaligaming2435 I played FF6, 7, 8, 9 , 10, 10-2, 11 Online(not completed), 12, 13, 13-2, 14 1.0, 14 2.0 until endwalker and am at 6.3 content, 15 and will soon play 16. FF14 is one of the better ff games, especially when it comes to story.
Whoever came up with the idea of releasing this demo should get a raise, i was not sold on the story and combat but the prologue managed to sway me on the narrative and the additional combat challenge had me hooked on the combat. What an excellent demo.
@@zeth479 kinda, but thats not entirely true, but also not completely false either. it was predominantly a pc thing, with only very few games getting a demo choice at certain retailer stores. for consoles it really only became a "thing" after the psx. even then, they were also very few as well. then it flourished during the xbx and ps3. before getting discontinued again.
@@marcosdheleno oh yes mostly a PC gamer here. Had a 386 when I was a kid. Demos were pretty common for PC games, but mostly from magazine CDs. I used to sub for PC gamer PC Zone etc. Each issue came with 5 to 10 demos. (Ive got hundreds of these CDs stacked somewhere lol... They also had driver updates and bunch of other useful stuff as well lol) Back then this pretty much covered all the games that would be released each year.
Clive's VA is absolutely insanely good, it's so gutteral and visceral sounding, like he really feels what Clive is going through. That kind of connection is very lost in games now. Hats off to him!
Not many demo's can achieve such emotional investment in such a short period of time, i've seen some of these scenes multiple times now and i still get teary-eyed
THIS is how you make a demo! THIS is how you promote your product! Such a great introduction! Also a wonderful, emotional reaction video as usual, Sarah! :D
Man, that fight between Phoenix and Ifrit was on fire! Titan really rocked that battlefield, Shiva was just SO COOL, and Benedikta was hips. HIP, I MEAN SHE WAS HIP, singular...yeah.
I can only recommend to use the Active Time Lore feature. It lets you take a look behind the motivations and politics of the world and some of them are crucial to understand most of the characters behaviour and the social structure in Valisthea.
@absfinal the game is not released yet. It comes out on Thursday, June 22nd (but some physical copies may have been leaked early). I don't think there is any solid information yet about who Benedikta is and how she relates to everyone else, other than that she is the Dominant of a lightning Eikon. (This is revealed in the 2nd part of the demo, where you can play as adult Clive.)
@@absfinal was it confirmed somewhere in the demo that Garuda is her eikon? I'm not super familiar with the eikon names and elements, but her appearance and design made me think of lightning, not wind. I could certainly be wrong though.
It's easy to assume the secret to Final Fantasy is nailing those big epic bombastic moments (which this one does), but most importantly, it nails the quiet moments too. At 1:17:08 notice the near silence of that moment -- the most important moment. The moment that defines Clive's entire character. Crushing, unbearable silence. "Joshua". Then, the title drops -- no music. The title art is Ifrit and the Phoenix. It seems obvious but it would have been so easy to mess this up in favor of more spectable. But no. You have to face the silence. God DAMN that's good.
I am still so shocked that what we experienced was 2 hrs of the game, that last boss was like equilivent to Sephiroth in FF VII remake. I can't imagine what the actual "Final boss" will be like. From the scene composition, voice acting, expressions, and over all direction of the story, its quite frankly just a masterpiece. Its been along time since I have said that about a FF game but here we are.
Feel like Joshua is alive and is the red hooded figure...but it did also cross my mind that what if phoenix is reborn but the host isn't..so Joshua is gone....either way I'm all in on this story
As far as I know, in all FFs Phoenix can be reborn only once per battle, and he already did it once in this battle (when he says "My flames shall never die!"), so I think he is gone forever T_T
@@motionista Yeah you are right he died do to brutal power of Ifrit. You can see for a few secs that he used "Flames of Rebirth" and that´s how he revived himself but couldn´t stand a chance and the moment Ifrit bites Phoenix he absorbed his firepower and was getting even more powerful and literally ripped the Phoenix apart. Very brutal. :o XD
if that's the case, that's very .hack of them. Something similar happens to Haseo when he overuses/misuses Skeith's power. But if that *was* the case, why did Clive *see* someone turn into Ifrit? and who was the hooded man that only he seemed to notice? Then again, it seems like a lot of people who are Dominants have extremely enhanced physical capabilities.
I'm so happy when you upload here since I can't always make your streams! This is definitely one of the best demos ever. Gets you fully invested in the story and introduces some of the games mechanics. Also, Clive seems like an awesome protagonist. This is gonna be the longest week of my life >_
I've been playing Final Fantasy since it came out in '87' and I have to say that's the best opening I've seen other than 7's opening. Gave me chills. Can't wait for the 22nd.
i was gonna comment that 7's intro was also ground breaking back in the day. but i have to say, the intro for chrono cross still takes the cake for me. also parasite eve's and vagrant story.
@@Cloud_Strife0811 lets be honest, parasite eve isnt perfect, there are 2 problem with parasite eve 1. the walking speed. the loading times... joking aside, parasite eve and vagrant story are such amazing games.
as much as i’m going to relish seeing CBU3 finally getting the full amount of praise and attention they deserve, unchained by PS3 framework and the MMO genre, i’m already feeling a bit sorry for them there’s a good chance they’re going to surge past Nomura in terms of demand from SE, and like they already barely sleep even how/where they ended both parts of the demo was top class i cannot wait for next week
1min into the game and i cryd bcs of how epic the game starts with that soken music and at the end i cryd bcs i was not expecting this masterpiece trauma...
yes, but shiva is a major god in hindu culture. Leviathan is a massive water creature in the bible, diablo is spanish(or latin, cant remember) for devil, alexander is named after the great conqueror and so on. many of their summons are references to other cultures.
I like that Shiva has that dragonesque look, with her cape looking like the wings of a dragon. Dont know if that was the intention, but my brain makes that connection.
this *is* the same team that did FF14, where the first encounter with Shiva is that she was (very much willing) Consort to a Dragon Lord. That's probably intentional.
This demo blew my expectations out of the water. Every part of the direction, story and characters was 10/10. The combat is really, really fun. The game has plenty of epic, booming parts, but I think what makes it shine most is that it's not afraid to be quiet, too.
Y'know, for a while I was like, "WHY ARE THEY SHOWING POTENTIAL ROMANTIC FEELINGS BETWEEN CLIVE AND JILL, she's like 13 or something, that's jailbait!" Then I remember that Clive is only 15.
They aren't siblings, Jill's name is Jill Warrick and Clive is from Rosfield family. Jill is just a ward to their family so they have high romantic potential in future. They are children now so those feelings aren't very deeply explored this early into the game
@@zakiimtiaz Never said they were siblings. I knew who she was before playing the game, and I read the active lore thing on her. The problem was the size disparity between them made it seem like he was an adult macking on a child.
@@joshuarendleman7297 I remember the active lore saying she was from the rebellious northern territories, but I don't remember it ever saying she was a political hostage.
I am starting to think it's common for everyone to skip the lore mechanism of the game, hopefully people don't get confused later and blame the game xD.
@@raskolnikov6443It certainty isn’t vital, but it is nice to have. I imagine that with Yoshi P as producer it will have enough of a story structure to make us understand it without needing a lore grimoire.
Lore mechanism? lmao The tutorial literally mentioned that all of it can be viewed in some sort of codex/database later on. So I seriously don't know why tf some of you trying to act superior and above others just because you used the ATL function.
ive got a feeling joshua is alive, partly due to the fact that his "death" happens while hes in phoenix form, and well the phoenix is the phoenix. plus we saw him "die" at the end of the gameplay segment of the fight, and he just comes right back after that
In the battle, he was at full power, if not entirely controlled. After, during the cutscene, he was badly hurt, and being physically ripped apart, not attacked by flames. If we use even slight gameplay to story conversion, had Ifrit used flames on Joshua, its possible he could have used those flames to re-fuel himself. But if you notice, Ifrit stopped using elemental attacks, and stuck to physical blows, beating and ripping at him. Which means that its possible an Eikon could recover itself if surrounded by/struck by/treated by its own element. But Ifrit went literal savage mode, and when Joshua hit him with the flamethrower, Ifrit tanked it easy, then kept Joshua from doing it again. Then it looked like Ifrit *absorbed* Joshua's powers. If you notice, Phoenix looked a lot less glowy before the end, in fact, it looked like a normal, if giant, red-colored bird, just before it got fisted, then exploded. as well, if you fail the DPS check in that bit before Joshua comes back, he *doesnt* come back. its a game over. if we take that into story account, then that means that Joshua *needed* the extra time, or Ifrit was *too weak* upon DPS check success, to throw his full power. As well there's lore in the demo that says the more power a Dominant uses, the more like their Eikon they become, as well as pushing themselves closer and closer to Actual Death. Joshua already re-raised himself once, its very likely that he would have had to return to Human form, and get a LOT of rest, before he could do it again.
So have you recovered from the experience of meeting Yoshi or are you still in a euphoric daze cause i know I'd be the latter Looking forward to the streams after release! Been a sec since ive been able to tune in
While watching LoneWolfie's FFXVI videos I was thinking "damn this is cool!" Then I bought a PS5 to play the game and now it's my favourite game ever by a long shot
IMO the only hope for Joshua's return is the fact that he is the dominant of Phoenix and he might somehow return to life like a Phoenix being reborn from the ashes
very unlikely. Others in the family line were Phoenix's Dominant and they're Dead dead. And they likely died of old age/power overuse. Also it looked like Ifrit was somehow draining the Phoenix's power just before he performed on-the-spot bare-handed Open Heart Surgery on the poor lad. The second "part" of the demo shows a few hours later into the game and has Clive (unknowingly) doing something similar to what This Ifrit did, to another Dominant; the whole "i'mma drain your power" thing.
Seeing as Joshua was "THE PHEONIX" Eikon/Dominant/whatever you call it.. Part of me suspects he will indeed live, ya know? Plus you don't see corpse or anything and storytelling 101, if you don't see the body (and even then in some cases they come back!) be skeptical of if they are truly dead, ya know? ...ya know..? But yeah, i have no actual idea and i cannot WAIT to play this game the moment my PS5 lets me start it up!!!! Haven't been this hyped for a (non XIV expansion) game in a long long LONG time.
I loved EVERYTHING ABOUt ThIS DEMO and it was so emotionally driven and hooked me I saw the trailer and thought it wasn’t going to be my type of final fantasy but OMG the wife set everything up because of the fact that the father didn’t see Clive how his mother saw him and it set a flame that made her wanna over run her husband
Someone in the comments: "This is just like Florida." Anabella: "The enslavement of the Bearers was good for them; it gave them important skills, such as how to dry clothes using magic, gardening using magic, heating a furnace using magic, and dying of the Crystal's Curse."
I wasnt sure about Wade. Thought he was gonna be a bad guy but im glad i was proven wrong. I'm so happy i played the demo because i wasnt gonna buy it but now im so hyped for it. I'm happy it has more mature themes. This game looks to have an amazing story. I knew Yoshi P and Soken couldn't let us down. Now you gotta do the Eikon challenge mode lol. Although i guess it will be out by then.
I was for a long time really hoping this was good. Was rather disappointed with many of the latest Final Fantasy games in the series. This is on another level. Clive is the coolest main character since Squall. Seems like the best FF game since forever! Love it!
i really dont get why not? they basically showed earlier in the trailers. but also, this is final fantasy, its far from the first kid they killed. not even the cruelest kid death either... not by a long shot...
Ok so Joshua is the phoenix, i might be wrong but if they are smart they will plot twist this and bring Joshua back from the ashes, It just makes sense that'll be so cool
betraying mom - He is worthless, kill Clive now *tries walking away* *Time Freeze* THE PLOT - Bitch, you better save him right now or your dead! *Unfreeze* Betraying Mom - Wait! I have a Genuis idea what we can do with him...
Love watching your react videos. Never fails to put a smile on my face, or when we cry together. Keep it up. But a question for you: Do you plan to do a Let's Play for this game, like how you did for Xenoblade Chronicles? Would be awesome if you did. Would watch it from start to finish.
"If a chocobo dies, I am quitting the game."
Sarah's FF16 playthrough, part 1 of 1
As my wife said watching me play it, "sucks to be a bird in this final fantasy"
Oh come on, she is a liar. They could kill several chocobos and she would still play this game.
@@timurkral3781 that's not a lie, that's a sound of someone who express something they're really liked
@@rizkiputra2154 she would play it anyway!!!!
@@timurkral3781 It's a joke, obviously she's still playing the game.
The Clive voice actor in this demo did an excellent job. 11/10
Agreed you felt the emotion and pain in his voice when he was telling Ifrit to stop bashing Joshua’s skull in.
Absolutely!
Clive's VA deserves a best performance award just from what we've heard from this demo ALONE.
Thank you I tried my best 😂
Ben Starr is an absolute gem. If he doesn't win best VA at awards shows, Imma be MAD.
Clive’s voice actor (Ben Starr) lost his farther during the recording of this game, he said he was able to use all his emotions from that situation and channel them into Clive. Phenomenal job by Ben
And Clive also post such a good dad 😭❤️
dang.........
when you can take real life emotion and channel it to your voice acting, you should win an award
*Crushed by the huge rock an blood spread everywhere
“OMG IS HE OKAY!?”
LMAO I’m sure he’s fine😂😂
i always try to think positive
He is not coming back for Rush Hour 3.
@@Dracobyteman of culture
“I can see his parachute! He’s okay!”
Just a flesh wound...
Uhhh my heart already hurts for the brothers. I have such a soft spot for kids and Joshua already has my heart, my baby. UPDATE: JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE DEMO AND IM SOBBING, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE
he is the pheonix so i'm hoping he is somehow still alive.
That line 'I'll kill you, i'll fucking kill you' hit so god damn hard! Exceptional voice acting
I actually played FF7 Remake in Japanese but I think with this game the English voice acting is way too good to pass up.
Heard the VA for clive lost his father during this gig...so he channeled real emotions for this game.
@@FactIsFact100 That's horrible if true...Respect to the VA.
This is like my upteenth time tuning into someone's reaction of this epic demo. Someone mentioned in the comments now this is how you make a demo and that person is 110% correct. If you want to show off your game this is how you do it!
I react it like a cool glass of lemonade. Phoenix I been doing since 14
Yup Just making the rounds
Lol like on... Hundredth reaction video 😭 so pissed over Joshua
This is only showing the 'first/tutorial' part of the demo. There's another part that's more combat-focused.
@@divideandconquerasia7051 you know that part of the demo, I was thinking those are only 3 eikon pieces I wonder how many there are? The customization/abilities are going to be crazy in this game. I look forward to seeing how people will set up strategies and build their Clives.
The "TAKE YOUR HANDS, OFF MY BROTHER!" line felt so good and so sad, it's unbelievably awesome
Clive is just talking to himself there.
@@carltasticdrew9633I fully expect a full breakdown when he discovers the truth of what he did.
@@carltasticdrew9633 he's talking to a different person, that's why he said that line. More like it was the past Ifrit Eikon bearer that gained control (the creepy fire guy when Clive transformed) Clive is new to this so his control over Ifrit's body is like water running down his hands.
@@dandereninja4750 like dealing with the devil. It ended phoenix’s rampage at what cost.
@@calvyn8059 we don’t know yet bro. What if these Eikon’s have a mind of its own? It only depends on the will and emotions of the dominant on how will they act. In this part, Clive wants to save Joshua from phoenix’s rampage so he became Ifrit. But he lost control of him and did what he did. That different perspective of Clive when he’s pleading to stop Ifrit is symbolic that he’s not within Ifrit’s mind compared to Joshua’s mind is within phoenix.
ff16 writers: i too enjoyed the red wedding lets have it as our demo
I love the subtext of the show don't tell going on in this game.
Good example is 19:23
The mother chastises Joshua for being outside, Joshua apologizes but clenches his fist in annoyance.
Clive sees Joshua's frustration so he greets his mother to take her scorn onto himself, protecting Joshua almost like a "shield" would.
There are multiple other good story telling touches like this in the demo, seeing this blew me away so I hope the rest of the game is of the same quality because god damn this has the potential to be amazing if so.
Can a demo win game of the year?
Yes!
Correction DEMO of the year!
There should be a category for best demo, bc this thing DID IT. I've played so many demos and choseN not to purchase bc of that, but this one. DAMN. Let me pre-order the Deluxe! 🤣
@@ShortySensei Square Enix really had two big PS5 games with demos, each with very different results. This and Forspoken are the complete opposite of each other.
@StaticShock42 Aw man, Forspoken's demo was not good at all. I was actually very excited for that game until I played the demo. 😶 Looks like they learned their lesson.
I really thought that the game wouldn't be my style. oh boy I was wrong while doing the demo. chills every moment. The end is a masterpiece. I am poor but I'll still buy the game.
I thought the same. I thought it was going to be TOO dark and not my style. I was so wrong. I loved it so much. Even though it ripped my heart out. 💔
@@ShortySensei it’s dark enough to shock and make you cry but not free like. It’s enough good just like game of thrones
this literally has the potential of being the best final fantasy ever
like ff14 became
@@ScrewFearMe ff14? did you even play any of the true ff's?
@@excaligaming2435 are you saying ffxiv is not a true ff? lol. As much as I love ff6, the FFXIV shadowbringer far exceeds it.
@@shizukun7455 ff14 is a poor amalgam of original ideas, presented with endlessly long and 90% meaningless dialogue.
I don't say, the abbreviated core and total story is bad, but it is an mmo at core and you can feel that painfully in all the bad and useless dialogue and padding coupled with the horrible gameplay loop of clicking 100 npcs in a row without any gameplay in between.
I played through it all and most of the time I found myself begging for the goddamn story to pick up again. All the filler stuff was so maddening. When it's high, it is high though, but so is literally every true final fantasy.
@@excaligaming2435 I played FF6, 7, 8, 9 , 10, 10-2, 11 Online(not completed), 12, 13, 13-2, 14 1.0, 14 2.0 until endwalker and am at 6.3 content, 15 and will soon play 16.
FF14 is one of the better ff games, especially when it comes to story.
Whoever came up with the idea of releasing this demo should get a raise, i was not sold on the story and combat but the prologue managed to sway me on the narrative and the additional combat challenge had me hooked on the combat.
What an excellent demo.
FF has a long history of releasing demos. all the way back with FF 7. XV also had more than 1 demos.
@@marcosdhelenoold games always had demos. I remember they used to come with CD's on gaming magazines lol... Yes I'm old
@@zeth479 kinda, but thats not entirely true, but also not completely false either.
it was predominantly a pc thing, with only very few games getting a demo choice at certain retailer stores.
for consoles it really only became a "thing" after the psx. even then, they were also very few as well.
then it flourished during the xbx and ps3. before getting discontinued again.
@@marcosdheleno oh yes mostly a PC gamer here. Had a 386 when I was a kid. Demos were pretty common for PC games, but mostly from magazine CDs. I used to sub for PC gamer PC Zone etc. Each issue came with 5 to 10 demos. (Ive got hundreds of these CDs stacked somewhere lol... They also had driver updates and bunch of other useful stuff as well lol) Back then this pretty much covered all the games that would be released each year.
@@zeth479 i remember those times. sometimes they would even come with a full game and a disc with demos.
it was such a great time.
thanks Sarah for uploading this to RUclips!!! always happy to see content!!
Thank you redlox2 for this comment..
No. Thank you BOTH for your comments
No thank all three of you for your comments.
Clive's VA is absolutely insanely good, it's so gutteral and visceral sounding, like he really feels what Clive is going through. That kind of connection is very lost in games now. Hats off to him!
Not many demo's can achieve such emotional investment in such a short period of time, i've seen some of these scenes multiple times now and i still get teary-eyed
THIS is how you make a demo! THIS is how you promote your product! Such a great introduction! Also a wonderful, emotional reaction video as usual, Sarah! :D
It absolutely ripped me apart and then got me so hyped for the full game next week
Honestly I was unsure about FF16 but after playing the demo I’m massively excited. A lot of potential I hope they pull off.
“If a chocobo dies I’m quitting the game”
Oh you poor sweet summer child
Well, a bird did die that night….
Man, that fight between Phoenix and Ifrit was on fire! Titan really rocked that battlefield, Shiva was just SO COOL, and Benedikta was hips. HIP, I MEAN SHE WAS HIP, singular...yeah.
I can only recommend to use the Active Time Lore feature. It lets you take a look behind the motivations and politics of the world and some of them are crucial to understand most of the characters behaviour and the social structure in Valisthea.
can you please tell in what relation Benedikta stands with Clive? are they blood related?
@absfinal the game is not released yet. It comes out on Thursday, June 22nd (but some physical copies may have been leaked early). I don't think there is any solid information yet about who Benedikta is and how she relates to everyone else, other than that she is the Dominant of a lightning Eikon. (This is revealed in the 2nd part of the demo, where you can play as adult Clive.)
@@clearlyrebecca but isn't Garuda wind?
@@absfinal was it confirmed somewhere in the demo that Garuda is her eikon? I'm not super familiar with the eikon names and elements, but her appearance and design made me think of lightning, not wind. I could certainly be wrong though.
@@clearlyrebecca i think in the extended demo she was using aeroga which is the wind spell
Ngl that allon guy in the chat spoiling was pissing me off
luckily i didn't notice D: sorry if you saw it before playing yourself though ;-;
@SarahKey oh it's fine. No worries😌 I've played the demo. I just wanted to watch some of my favourite streamers reactions
It's easy to assume the secret to Final Fantasy is nailing those big epic bombastic moments (which this one does), but most importantly, it nails the quiet moments too. At 1:17:08 notice the near silence of that moment -- the most important moment. The moment that defines Clive's entire character. Crushing, unbearable silence. "Joshua". Then, the title drops -- no music. The title art is Ifrit and the Phoenix. It seems obvious but it would have been so easy to mess this up in favor of more spectable. But no. You have to face the silence. God DAMN that's good.
"Eikon of Fire Vanquished"
*_And we thought they were talking about Ifrit..._*
The OST during the 2nd Eikon battle is absolutely out of this world. Incredible piece of work!
I am still so shocked that what we experienced was 2 hrs of the game, that last boss was like equilivent to Sephiroth in FF VII remake. I can't imagine what the actual "Final boss" will be like. From the scene composition, voice acting, expressions, and over all direction of the story, its quite frankly just a masterpiece. Its been along time since I have said that about a FF game but here we are.
Joshua is phoenix and y'all know phoenix most famous property right? I bet he'll be 'reborn' later in the game in some sort or fashion
imagine at the end of the game you unlock grown up playable joshua lol, or dlc
Yoshi p said he wanted to see if we actually liked the game before making extra content
Feel like Joshua is alive and is the red hooded figure...but it did also cross my mind that what if phoenix is reborn but the host isn't..so Joshua is gone....either way I'm all in on this story
As far as I know, in all FFs Phoenix can be reborn only once per battle, and he already did it once in this battle (when he says "My flames shall never die!"), so I think he is gone forever T_T
@@motionista Yeah you are right he died do to brutal power of Ifrit. You can see for a few secs that he used "Flames of Rebirth" and that´s how he revived himself but couldn´t stand a chance and the moment Ifrit bites Phoenix he absorbed his firepower and was getting even more powerful and literally ripped the Phoenix apart. Very brutal. :o XD
I'm probably living in denial but if they created a character literally known as The Phoenix and DON'T bring him back in some way I'll be shocked 😆
Always enjoyed seeing your reaction to FF content. You never disappoint! Demo was Epic!
I hope that one dude that kept spoiling in the comments got a permaban. That kind of attention seeking is fun for no one
ah yes. its time to watch other people emotionally breakdown at RPGs too
Best demo I've ever played. I ALMOST cried. So good. 😭
Same, and I don't usually cry during video games, but I was close!
@@Altarahhn same, same. I was thoroughly impressed. 👏
@@ShortySensei Ditto! 👏
Clive gets taken over by ifrit his consciousness gets transfered to Torgal.
if that's the case, that's very .hack of them.
Something similar happens to Haseo when he overuses/misuses Skeith's power.
But if that *was* the case, why did Clive *see* someone turn into Ifrit? and who was the hooded man that only he seemed to notice?
Then again, it seems like a lot of people who are Dominants have extremely enhanced physical capabilities.
I'm so happy when you upload here since I can't always make your streams! This is definitely one of the best demos ever. Gets you fully invested in the story and introduces some of the games mechanics. Also, Clive seems like an awesome protagonist. This is gonna be the longest week of my life >_
You know it’s gonna be an excellent game when the demo is a game of the year contender.
I can not wait to play this next week I’m so hyped.
I hope I can still experience the demo when I eventually get a ps5. I'm not sure when that'll be.
If the demo is not available at that time, don’t worry. This is said to be the actual prologue of the game
@@Dsrgreyy thanks for telling me
I loved how Joshua kept on fighting, also how gorgeous was that Phoenix
Clive VA, absolutely nutty job mate
Play the demo and watching you play it and I still get emotion watching them scenes
I've been playing Final Fantasy since it came out in '87' and I have to say that's the best opening I've seen other than 7's opening. Gave me chills. Can't wait for the 22nd.
i was gonna comment that 7's intro was also ground breaking back in the day. but i have to say, the intro for chrono cross still takes the cake for me. also parasite eve's and vagrant story.
@@marcosdheleno Parasite Eve is fantastic from beginning to end. They need to just go ahead and remake that like FF7 Remake. I'm drooling 🤤😂
@@Cloud_Strife0811 lets be honest, parasite eve isnt perfect, there are 2 problem with parasite eve 1.
the walking speed. the loading times...
joking aside, parasite eve and vagrant story are such amazing games.
This FF could be one of the best in the series!
as much as i’m going to relish seeing CBU3 finally getting the full amount of praise and attention they deserve, unchained by PS3 framework and the MMO genre, i’m already feeling a bit sorry for them
there’s a good chance they’re going to surge past Nomura in terms of demand from SE, and like they already barely sleep
even how/where they ended both parts of the demo was top class
i cannot wait for next week
Urianger shows up for 5 seconds and kills our dad..
HELP
I love how everyone’s title is the same 😭. That shit hurt but it was SOOO GOOD. Ben Starr is gonna kill it as Clive.
1min into the game and i cryd bcs of how epic the game starts with that soken music
and at the end i cryd bcs i was not expecting this masterpiece trauma...
In Arab myth, ifrit is a fire djinn and they can possess people or make them go insane... Not sure if that what happened to Clive or not though...
yes, but shiva is a major god in hindu culture. Leviathan is a massive water creature in the bible, diablo is spanish(or latin, cant remember) for devil,
alexander is named after the great conqueror and so on.
many of their summons are references to other cultures.
I like that Shiva has that dragonesque look, with her cape looking like the wings of a dragon. Dont know if that was the intention, but my brain makes that connection.
this *is* the same team that did FF14, where the first encounter with Shiva is that she was (very much willing) Consort to a Dragon Lord.
That's probably intentional.
This demo blew my expectations out of the water. Every part of the direction, story and characters was 10/10. The combat is really, really fun. The game has plenty of epic, booming parts, but I think what makes it shine most is that it's not afraid to be quiet, too.
The Benedikta and Kupka scene definitely gave me the Game of Thrones vibes. 😂
"You Cock!" Best line delivery ever xD
Love LOVE your positivity.! Can’t wait for your play through of the full game :)
Y'know, for a while I was like, "WHY ARE THEY SHOWING POTENTIAL ROMANTIC FEELINGS BETWEEN CLIVE AND JILL, she's like 13 or something, that's jailbait!" Then I remember that Clive is only 15.
They aren't siblings, Jill's name is Jill Warrick and Clive is from Rosfield family. Jill is just a ward to their family so they have high romantic potential in future. They are children now so those feelings aren't very deeply explored this early into the game
@@zakiimtiaz Never said they were siblings. I knew who she was before playing the game, and I read the active lore thing on her. The problem was the size disparity between them made it seem like he was an adult macking on a child.
@@omegagilgamesh Yeah the models make it seem like 20 and 13 lol
I think her active lore says she's a hostage from an earlier war so it might be intended for her to marry Clive to finalize the peace treaty
@@joshuarendleman7297 I remember the active lore saying she was from the rebellious northern territories, but I don't remember it ever saying she was a political hostage.
Joshua is perfect, i havent had my emotions get the best of me like this for a long time
That music to start to, omg brings tears to my eyes :)
someone in chat said to cast a pheonix down on the king im crying
32:16 is like a scene out of ff8
Demo blew me away
I am starting to think it's common for everyone to skip the lore mechanism of the game, hopefully people don't get confused later and blame the game xD.
@@GooseGumlizzardit gives vital information. People miss a lot by not reading at least some of it.
@@raskolnikov6443It certainty isn’t vital, but it is nice to have. I imagine that with Yoshi P as producer it will have enough of a story structure to make us understand it without needing a lore grimoire.
Lore mechanism? lmao The tutorial literally mentioned that all of it can be viewed in some sort of codex/database later on. So I seriously don't know why tf some of you trying to act superior and above others just because you used the ATL function.
@@zeroskaterz92 Are you done? Ok, back to my cup of tea.
@@dohalimilqarasdeldemenanci8483 Ah the superiority complex and look down on people. Thank you for proving my point.
The best demo I've played in a long time.
starting the video with a yoshi-p jumpscare i love it.
ive got a feeling joshua is alive, partly due to the fact that his "death" happens while hes in phoenix form, and well the phoenix is the phoenix. plus we saw him "die" at the end of the gameplay segment of the fight, and he just comes right back after that
In the battle, he was at full power, if not entirely controlled. After, during the cutscene, he was badly hurt, and being physically ripped apart, not attacked by flames. If we use even slight gameplay to story conversion, had Ifrit used flames on Joshua, its possible he could have used those flames to re-fuel himself.
But if you notice, Ifrit stopped using elemental attacks, and stuck to physical blows, beating and ripping at him. Which means that its possible an Eikon could recover itself if surrounded by/struck by/treated by its own element. But Ifrit went literal savage mode, and when Joshua hit him with the flamethrower, Ifrit tanked it easy, then kept Joshua from doing it again.
Then it looked like Ifrit *absorbed* Joshua's powers. If you notice, Phoenix looked a lot less glowy before the end, in fact, it looked like a normal, if giant, red-colored bird, just before it got fisted, then exploded.
as well, if you fail the DPS check in that bit before Joshua comes back, he *doesnt* come back. its a game over. if we take that into story account, then that means that Joshua *needed* the extra time, or Ifrit was *too weak* upon DPS check success, to throw his full power.
As well there's lore in the demo that says the more power a Dominant uses, the more like their Eikon they become, as well as pushing themselves closer and closer to Actual Death.
Joshua already re-raised himself once, its very likely that he would have had to return to Human form, and get a LOT of rest, before he could do it again.
You are correct, the VA for the Dragoon you fight is the same as Estinien.
Wow just beat the demo and what a great video to accompany my immediate thoughts.😭
BTW that is not the end of the demo. There is a part 2. You can actually keep going after it says Thanks for playing.
Level grinding I believe?
@@Struzzylive more like a combat demo where you fight benidikta lol
i really hope we make the "mother" suffer in the worst possible way
They do an excellent job of selling her character as someone everyone wants to hate.
1:03:22 OMG THATS A FFX REFERENCE, ITS THE EXACT SAME WHISTLE YUNA DID AT THE ENDING
Seeing flames of rebirth here after seeing anything Phoenix related in XIV is something.
I know someone else probably said this and I haven't looked it up, but just from listening to the dragoon speak, they definitely sound like Estinien.
This is Legendary!!! Your Content is always a blast to watch!!! BUT DAMN This Demo was absolutely Phenomenal!!
Did anyone else notice Harry McEntire as one of the Shields after the combat tutorial?
This almost as Shulk beat for the best "I'll kill you!" In video games.
Oh this isn’t your usual final fantasy. Amazing
I think this game gonna be awesome, like when playing ff9 for the first time 😊
Yay!!! Your reaction was the one I’ve been anticipating ❤
So have you recovered from the experience of meeting Yoshi or are you still in a euphoric daze cause i know I'd be the latter
Looking forward to the streams after release! Been a sec since ive been able to tune in
This is a first I'm gonna play Final Fantasy on english dub, Clive's VA was awesome
Still love the Cain Highwind pose from the dragoon lol
While watching LoneWolfie's FFXVI videos I was thinking "damn this is cool!" Then I bought a PS5 to play the game and now it's my favourite game ever by a long shot
IMO the only hope for Joshua's return is the fact that he is the dominant of Phoenix and he might somehow return to life like a Phoenix being reborn from the ashes
very unlikely. Others in the family line were Phoenix's Dominant and they're Dead dead. And they likely died of old age/power overuse. Also it looked like Ifrit was somehow draining the Phoenix's power just before he performed on-the-spot bare-handed Open Heart Surgery on the poor lad.
The second "part" of the demo shows a few hours later into the game and has Clive (unknowingly) doing something similar to what This Ifrit did, to another Dominant; the whole "i'mma drain your power" thing.
Seeing as Joshua was "THE PHEONIX" Eikon/Dominant/whatever you call it.. Part of me suspects he will indeed live, ya know? Plus you don't see corpse or anything and storytelling 101, if you don't see the body (and even then in some cases they come back!) be skeptical of if they are truly dead, ya know? ...ya know..? But yeah, i have no actual idea and i cannot WAIT to play this game the moment my PS5 lets me start it up!!!! Haven't been this hyped for a (non XIV expansion) game in a long long LONG time.
I loved EVERYTHING ABOUt ThIS DEMO and it was so emotionally driven and hooked me I saw the trailer and thought it wasn’t going to be my type of final fantasy but OMG the wife set everything up because of the fact that the father didn’t see Clive how his mother saw him and it set a flame that made her wanna over run her husband
Someone in the comments: "This is just like Florida."
Anabella: "The enslavement of the Bearers was good for them; it gave them important skills, such as how to dry clothes using magic, gardening using magic, heating a furnace using magic, and dying of the Crystal's Curse."
I wasnt sure about Wade. Thought he was gonna be a bad guy but im glad i was proven wrong. I'm so happy i played the demo because i wasnt gonna buy it but now im so hyped for it. I'm happy it has more mature themes. This game looks to have an amazing story. I knew Yoshi P and Soken couldn't let us down. Now you gotta do the Eikon challenge mode lol. Although i guess it will be out by then.
my biggest problem with Wade is that, he should've been called Wedge instead.
I was for a long time really hoping this was good. Was rather disappointed with many of the latest Final Fantasy games in the series. This is on another level. Clive is the coolest main character since Squall. Seems like the best FF game since forever! Love it!
Why am I more sad for the chocobos than any of the other characters though :/
phoenix always comes back to life, don't worry.
You know I definitely didn't expect to see child murder when I downloaded this demo... 😢
i really dont get why not? they basically showed earlier in the trailers. but also, this is final fantasy, its far from the first kid they killed. not even the cruelest kid death either... not by a long shot...
there is another mechanic in this game which developers didn't cover on the stream........
"the motorboat" mechanic
We are now in an age where video games are almost more cinematic than ACTUAL movies!
In this case it's even far more cinematic imo
Can't lie i cried i was completely caught off guard
Ok so Joshua is the phoenix, i might be wrong but if they are smart they will plot twist this and bring Joshua back from the ashes, It just makes sense that'll be so cool
Anyone cried for the Joshua father ? Happy father day
*Damnation in 5...4...3...*
Me: tank LB3, tank LB3, TANK LB3 NOW!
betraying mom - He is worthless, kill Clive now *tries walking away*
*Time Freeze* THE PLOT - Bitch, you better save him right now or your dead! *Unfreeze*
Betraying Mom - Wait! I have a Genuis idea what we can do with him...
Them: Thanks for playing:)
Sarah:🥲
Not even two hours in and it’s players shed tears
I’m pretty sure that was Cloud saying “Re…un…ion.” 1:03:38
Lol
Love watching your react videos. Never fails to put a smile on my face, or when we cry together. Keep it up. But a question for you: Do you plan to do a Let's Play for this game, like how you did for Xenoblade Chronicles? Would be awesome if you did. Would watch it from start to finish.