Final Zone Theme 1 "Bygone Serenity" - FFXIV OST
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Everyone had died, we were just there to turn the lights off in the house.
Nobody's home, who the hells left the lights on!? What a waste of electrope.
this comment made me ill 👍 what a beautiful sentiment. i'll be putting it that way for a long time
Emouvant dit comme ça, bien joué 👌
Now we got an ugly ass zone.
@@aceplatini859It took balls for the devs to do that in an mmo.
Amaurot: Learning to let go of the past.
Dead Ends: Learning to live through suffering.
Alexandria: Learning to accept death.
I wonder if the next expansion may end up being about learning to accept no one is perfect in life.
@@orrthehunter I think it’ll be about that too and also more about learning how to move ahead and build something new. That’s why this expansion is the start of putting the past to rest and accepting death. Now we move to build the next future in further expansions rather than simply reacting to external forces attacking us and choose for ourselves how to go on in life.
That’s my theory at least.
Rofl.
Let go of the past? FF14 is abaout a Super N@zi who slaughtered all life on the planet and distorted it and you are the tool of it to make it stay that way.
What suffering? Absolut bullshit. Scions and WoL are 100% Mary Sues, they don't even need any kind of plan, they just win by default. If anyone knows suffering it's the Ascians and Garlemald.
Learning to accept death? Whole settin is about being reincarnated anyway, so who even cares? The only problem is the distortion of all life and that all shards will die sooner or later anyway if not saved.
ShB: genocide bad
EW: genocide bad
DT: genocide bad
@@orrthehunter considering on what note DT ended, maybe the post or even the next expansion will be something like ... our character looking back at Azem's work, finding clues about them and what they have done and left , doubting themselves but Azem is like '' You don't have to be me, although you inherited my soul, you're your own person with your own flaws, just be you and everything will be well.''
I know yoship said that leaving Azem to remain unknown is the charm in said character but tbh I'd love to know more about them, everything we heard or seen is always by second hand
this music fucks me up more than close in the distance ngl
2:32 is like getting hit with a sledgehammer made of haunting bittersweet nostalgia.
It's omouness plus familiar, like an old friend trying to reach out. Are you ready to accept its arrival?
to think we have come to this place as the Angel of Death
yeah i felt this area was much more effective than ultima thule at making you feel something. I was always close to tearing up going through living memory, I didn't have the same experience with ultima thule.
I remember as I was doing the final sequence here, someone said in shout chat “This zone is kicking my ass, and I haven’t even fought anything” and I lost it 😂
While doing this zone there were a lot of other players doing MSQ simultaneously and in shout chat they had the same reactions, it felt so surreal
As you progress through Ultima Thule, you add elements to the scenery as a symbol of the hope for a new beggining. As you progress through the Living Memory, you take elements from the scenery as a symbol of acceptance for the end of a cycle.
Ultima Thule: Embracing a New Future
Living Memory: Letting go of the Past
All of this has been taken away from the people of Alexandria. None of the living know what this place looks like, none of them even remember the people whose simulacra now roam these streets. All this - it was ripped out of them. Every day, every moment, every second, they are stripped of their precious memories of friends and loved ones, because some people a long long time ago thought that they were doing everyone a favor by forcibly eliminating the grief of loss by amnesia.
When we're shutting this place down, we're turning off a colossal and tremendously costly vanity/trauma-cope project that is meant to be seen by nobody that could conceivably remember it. And those that roam the streets, they want it to end. Just like on the Thirteenth, the dead (and even their simulacra) yearn to return to the Lifestream, to be reborn as new life, not held in place forever. By walking these streets, by listening to the Endless trapped here and by remembering their stories, we do for them more than this gilded tombstone could ever do. We give them closure.
This is beautifully said. It is hard but right to let go - to have closure, to have release. Because clinging can do more harm than good. Letting go is part how we're meant to live.
"You may know failure, and burning regret...but these too shall become beacons to guide you. So come what may, hold your head high and carry on with conviction. And wherever your journeys take you, keep me close to your heart, will you?"
what i find most interesting about this zone (and dawntrail in general) is how it takes the quote “for those we have lost and those we can yet save” from earlier expansions and sort of flips it on its head by essentially pitting the two against each other. if its either those we have lost or those we can yet save, its better to move on and accept that those who are gone are truly gone. idk i just found that cool
Pitting those two against each other was the entire point of Emet-Selch's story
@@ksNanoSquid thats true, but it definitely feels far more direct here. Emet was trying to revive a civilization that had been long gone via rejoinings, and everything we knew about the ancients was from him specifically (im speaking about base shadowbringers). The people here are as alive as they can possibly be and aware of their situation, and again they aren’t from a civilization so ancient that its completely foreign. The three end zones of the most recent expansions are definitely adjacent to each other in theme, all being “ghost towns” of a sort, but they do have a different aspect that they emphasize on, I am fond of the “ending the facade kept up at the expense of all others” that was shown here, and its given a more personal touch with the main cast having something to actually lose by shutting it down
The fact that we had to turn the place off killed me but the message of letting go is so powerful I can’t even be mad still sad but wow
Yeah, I was really bummed. Then I found out you can restore it with any earlier chapter of New Game+, so I just toggle that on when doing FATEs, etc.
“We want to make players look back fondly on memories they never had.”
Soken: “Say no more.”
And Ishikawa made it happen with the writing too
@@FireLordVahn but soken didn't compose this ost and ishikawa has nothing to do with this expansion's story...
@@Vitalywow123 she was the senior story designer? That's even more influence than a writer would have
@@FireLordVahn Ishikawa had a supervisory role this time, she didn't write the MSQ. The writers are mentioned to be Daichi Hiroi, Tomohiro Kawasaki and Megumi Onozuka on IMDB.
Yeah, Ishikawa got promoted.
I dont know what the haters are saying. This is more heartbreaking than Ultima Thule, because there we knew the Scions were gonna come back. Here, it really is about saying goodbye and being okay with it no matter how hard it is.
yea devs didn't pull any punches for once, and it's what makes it poignant
This whole expansion is about making the most of life and accepting loss, at the end. Because it's part of life. I love it because it's, like Endwalker, fearless - it looks death right in the face, and challenges the player to process their own personal losses.
Honestly Ultima Thule was a culmination of the death fake out stupidity present throughout 14.
Well we had a whole journey with each scion, their sacrifice was about their growth more than about loss, and that was emotional. Here it's sad but we didn't personally knew them so it didn't hit as hard for me.
@@magnainsomnia My issue with this place is that it is largely the concept along with scenery and music cueing me in to feel sad. There's a couple of good scenes in isolation in this area, but it comes in the context of a story that didn't make me care about its characters, because generally they're planks of wood that do little past explaining their motivations like Sphene; I couldn't tell you a single thing about her beyond "she's nice and she cares really, really hard".
The end makes this big deal about her relationship with Wuk Lamat, but we only met this character 75% of the way through and their conversations are just "You're nice and you care. I am also nice and caring. We are both conflicted about having to do a murder." It comes off as a bad imitation of the end of Shadowbringers more than anything.
Maybe I'm overthinking, but this song feels like it can end in a lot of moments, but refuses to end an continues on and on and on. I mean, some parts of the song can easily be the end in another songs, but here it just continues.
It's honestly very clever of the song to represent the zone. It needs to end, but keeps going, sometimes in an unnatural way - the keyshift before the song loops is a very awkward way to keep the song going. Just like the Endless. The fact that it's such a cheery, warm fuzzy nostalgia song like in a Pixar or Disney movie adds to the vibe. It's so desperately trying to keep that feeling going when it needs to resolve.
@@chronoxtreme2427 you're both so right! this insight is making me cry all over again 😭
I can hear someone close in the distance says:
"You're lucky... looks like my summer vacation is over."
CLOSE IN THE DISTANCE MENTIONED
Roxas..
Definitely got major KH vibes in this place, TT and Roxas' town immediately came to mind.
the fact they decided to make such a detailed and beautiful place for a couple hours of gameplay, just to make you erase it yourself is a very brave choice
It’s Scala Ad Caelum all over again.
@@Darksaviour This zone honestly reminded me quite a bit of Twilight Town (especially the data version in Kingdom Hearts 2).
Kinda sad I didn't do lots of gposes before I turn everything off
@@sbricksful Worse case, you can NG+ and Gpose to return everythin as was but. That pulls the impact away huh.
@@gulusgammamon That isn't really the same as restoring it canonically, though, right? It's not coming back for real.
Reminds me of Tidus’ Zanarkand: A collective memory that needed to end.
Looked for the City of Gold but i found City of Tears.
THIS 😭
scions look around "why are there talking bugs everywhere"
Really makes you wish we could talk to those we've lost just one more time. Haurchefant, Ysayle, Moenbryda, Papalymo, Minfillia, Ardbert, Emet Selch, Hythlodeus, Elidibus, Venat...
Knowing them, they'd want us to keep going forward. And that's what we'll do.
When G'raha asked if there was someone you wished were still around, my mind basically screamed Venat, lol. Of course, we didn't get to answer it. And if we did, none of the 4 or so offered answers would probably be satisfactory to me.
I get why narratively it wouldn't make sense for any of them to be here, but God I wanted just once chance to say goodbye to Moenbryda, for me. Fuck do I miss her...
100% was Emet and Hythlo for me. I still wonder if the trio(the Azem they always refer to and them) will still be able to return to the star together or if they already have. So much left unanswered about those three that I would love to sit and learn all about.
My Elene'shpya 😭
why you make us cry once more...
my clever mallard…
This area just made me cry; to be able to talk to someone you lost so dearly again....tears of joy, tears of sadness.
This zone broke me a few times. There was a point where I wasn't sure if I could keep going.
I deff had to step away a few times to go hang out with my wife and work through the emotions hahahah
A lot of music doesn't immediately hit me in game unless i have a fond immediate attachment to it like to the FFIX music in game cause I have delayed emotional reactions at times and it took listening to this track and the comment "Everyone had died, we were just there to turn the lights off in the house." to set me off into near tears, as this nostalgic sound to set in place how much loss we all go through in our everyday life without realizing it, but not only that. time will move forward and those happy memories of bygone days will pass through but it means you shouldn't take what you had for granted and acknowledge that even if life sucks, the people and good days will always be with you in someway.
I miss my pet dog so much after he passed, I've moved away from my mom to live in a new location with my best friend, and the intense loneliness i feel from my mom's distance, even when i've been entirely frustrated with her at times, hits because I don't know if it'll be the last time i see her, like how Erenville losing his mom and only getting one more chance to spend time with her.
Fuck, I'm sorry. I know I'm just a random stranger crying online and feeling everything suddenly but, Living Memory is a zone that's not bad when you turn it all off. Complaining about how pretty it is and losing it isn't the point of the zone. The point of the zone is accepting not everything lasts forever cause if everything was a happy day, living in only the good times, is that really living. The pain is part of living and being trapped in only a dream is only letting yourself be blinded and you might as well be dead at that point.
The ache and hurt of loss isn't fair, may it be loss of someone close to you, a break up, a job, etc.
It's important to take the lessons you've learned from what you loss and grow from it. It's scary to hurt, to lose, to ache, but like every wound, it'll heal. It'll be a scar, but it's a reminder that you're going to be okay, that you'll be okay but different. Cause not everything can be the same as it was, but you're still alive.
the piano part kills me every time. this zone was incredible
This song is filled with the loneliness of a theme park before it closes, the warmth of holding someone's hand, and the gentle feelings you get when thinking about a loved one.
Good night everyone.
The oboe is emotional kryptonite to me and Soken uses it perfectly here. Wistfulness and nostalgia in a perfect melody on an instrument with a singular, clear voice. Stunningly beautiful.
The color, the music, the architecture.
Twilight Town anyone?
i got that vibe as well!
The story vibes, too. Twilight Town is about the loss of childhood innocence. The idea that your summer vacation can't last forever. That you'll have to fade away and pass the torch on to someone else.
...and also that you're trapped in a simulation.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who had this thought!
Heh, both the gf and I were saying the same thing.
I thought the same. Whole area gave me putting Roxas to sleep vibes.
Contrary to what seems to be the popular opinion, I don't want Living Memory to ever be golden again. I've learned the lesson of the MSQ. Look back and remember the past fondly, but keep it there. If you expend energy to try to keep the past alive, you'll only end up like Alexandria as it truly is...desolate and lonely. Don't be afraid of moving on, continue to grow and don't be fooled bu the beauty of the past.
At least, that's the symbolism I read.
so many people online totally missed the message. (also half of them seemed to have just skipped the cutscenes so its like.....why yall here?!)
I do want to see it changed in the patches, but not back to what it was. I want them to do something with this unknown reflection
the inevitability of death and importance of processing grief VS the unmatched power of new game plus
@@ashencometmom5291 The NG+ that isn't out yet, has to be activated separately, and you still need to go through the entire back half of Dawntrail?
@@ShabadoobieVTif you activate even ARR Ch1 it sets every zone back to their original states
I cannot stop thinking about this piece of music. At the risk of sounding cringe, this is the sort of music I want played at my funeral. Mournful and nostalgic, with a tiny bit of whimsy to remind people that maybe I made them smile now and then, and gentle in its finality.
Won't lie--if I had my choice of "funeral music", it could be much worse. Between this and Tchaikovsky's 6th...yeah, both would feel appropriate.
I had to go to work right after unlocking the final dungeon and boy, I was not in a great state of mind after having just finished this zone.
Final dungeon is a banger! Make sure full volume bgm and look at the background.
Literally my favorite bgm and dungeon for now. Did not expect a bgm from a MSQ dungeon took my top spot.
@@bigfoxkiYup, finished the expac back on Monday. I’m still thinking about this map in particular, even now.
Both this song and zone are epitomes of the word bittersweet, it was so surprising to start the final segment on this note.
The tone in particular is so beautiful, yet so somber, perfectly capturing the essence of losing yourself in nostalgic memories.
This theme hits more personally for me than I realized. Erenville's relationship with his mother feels a lot like my relationship with mine. I could see us in them. My mother is still here, but I know there will come a time when she won't be. I don't know if I'll be ready when that time comes, but I have hope that I will
This zone was very hard for me to get through as it spurred feelings of grief over my grandpa, coupled with the vibe I got from the zone of being full of people unable to move on made it a very emotionally taxing zone the I just wanted to be done with.
What really surprised me here
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was that many of the Endless were perfectly fine with being erased. Unlike their Queen who desperately holds on to this place, they could move on, making her efforts even worse
It's because there's a difference between living and existing. Being put in a simulation, forgotten by your friends and relatives with nothing to do but exist in a pleasant memory isn't a real life. I think that's why I appreciate the rite of succession so much, by passing down the torch and fostering a legacy to future generations is how you can, in a sense, live forever. Thats kinda what the four characters in living memory wanted more than anything, Wuk Lamats mother passing on her kindness to her daughter, Otis realising that Alexandria still exists as a great and wonderous nation, Kriles parents realizing that their child lived a happy and fruitful existence and Caucia inspiring Erenville to live out his dreams and aspirations that she always wanted. I think it makes sense how legacy is the central theme of the expansion
@@shareyy8129 That's a great point. Well said
@@shareyy8129 The biggest thing I noticed was that Alexandria had Emet Selch written all over it.
@@hellgoramaI see your point, but a difference here was Emet made Amaurot to show us/remind him what he was fighting for.
Sphene actively wanted under her programming to keep her people + alive+, there wasn't any other way to stop her, otherwise it would be shard genocide.
@@Krysta1Rose Yea but Emet Selch and the ascians were actively going around and messing with people's affairs in the source and shards. Emet Selch especially said he orchestrated the creation of various imperial states. my point is he was probably involved in helping/teaching the alexandrians to create this soul capture and manipulation tech.
Preservation, the endless, and alexandria as a whole feels like the leftovers of an ascian plot that just... kept living on without supervision.
That was the impression I got. The Ascians were prepping this world to be rejoined in a calamity, but then we killed Emet and Elidibus and the plan collapsed, leaving Alexandria to languish.
@@KisiroKitsune maybe, but if I have the timescale of events right I think they just left it to languish after they were done pushing sphene's reflection over to lightning: much like how they discarded the remnants and survivors of the 13th and let the void sent fester and invade every now and then
The reflection of them is already dead. The lightning calamity was the first to struck on the source, and i belive this world was the first the ascians successfuly rejoined provoking the "thunder wars" on that reflection.
@@Zantier There are only 8 "elements" but 13 shards, which means at some point the elements would have to be used again, the lightning calamity was was the 2nd, while the Milala travelled from the source to Alexandria's shard during the 5th(ice), suggesting that this calamity of lightning was not the same one that caused a rejoining.
P.S. the First Calamity was the Calamity of Wind
@@austinmartin612 hey you are right, maybe it is another reflection. And yea, I completely forgot the first was wind
I never had the chance to say goodbye to my girlfriend when she passed away. So many times had I wished for one last miracle to say some last words, to have our true parting. When G'raha was asking if my WoL ever grieved so much she wanted the miracle to happen, I just broke in a million pieces. By the end of the zone, I had no tears left to shed.
For years, it really has been our bygone serenity, hasn't it? Rest well, my love, we will see each other again, one day. I love you so much.
Congratz ff14 devs, once again (the tone shift at 2:30 is magical, feels like the music reminds us that they found joy even "after" death)
This point just kills me. Floored. Sooooo good.
"All this time, it was here - the city of gold."
Soken's ability to make you nostalgic for a place you've never been before is unparalleled. What a potent song.
And they say this is a happy expansion...a summer vacation...!!!!
And somewhere, far in the distance, we can hear Yoshi-P gloating over our collective naivety
It's safe to say that that was marketing. But it was a fun thought! And I think it can carry on in spirit in its own way.
I broke down just seeing the area for the first time. Lost my dad months ago and my granddad weeks before the expansion's early release. I told my friends I was gonna rush through the last area so we could raid, and I spent the night mourning again.
It’s interesting how SPOILERS
everyone in this zone, every Endless NPC, was okay with the WoL and the gang turning everything off. They were satisfied, and the Queen did a good job of giving them a chance at fulfilling incomplete wishes. If they had to go, then at least they spent some time in heaven for a bit.
Seven years.
I've been playing this game for Seven years. And in all that time; this was the first and only place that had lingering emotional impact.
Coming back to this area post msq... the hollow feint notes of this bygone halcyon theme only murmering in the wind. Like a memory, truly fading with time
It makes me stop and wander. Every time. I need the time to process. To remember. To *feel*.
Dawn trail chain of memories
that whole final section gave me "Angel Beats" vibes in concept (albeit a bit diffrent ofc), i absolutely loved it and the music fits so damn well.
yea i thought the same xD, felt like angel beats + plastic memories a bit
The piano part playing after i just saw all the children in yesterland 💔
Probably the best zone theyve ever done. So beautiful yet so morbid
lmao, worse 6th zone to ever be made
@@1jidion Lochs
Ultima Thule > Living Memory (Pre-termination) > Amaurot > Living Memory (Post-termination) > Mor Dhona > Azys Lla > The Lochs
@@waterboiledpizzaAzys Lla is better than Mor Dhona but I pretty much agree with the rest of your list.
Azys is horribly underused. Loads of interesting areas and hidden jewels and they used none of it.
@@TheWally02 Only thing Azys Lla needs is another Aetheryte then it's all good
I was not prepared for this zone. At all.
I refuse to restore this zone via NG+ because it goes against the entire point of it, but it's nice to still be able to see it's glory days via recordings, much like an actual memory c:
Indeed, it feels similar to deleting your save file at the end of NieR Automata, it's part of the experience
You know I find the interesting that the zone is like ultima thule but instead of a place full of Memories of despair it a place full of memories of happiness and when one or all the zones reveal what they truly are It kind of looks like the final area before going through the final walk I don't know I just get ultima thule vibes from this place especially when you're done with the MSQ part
It's like Ultima Thule, but this is memories of lives well-lived instead of lives of those who gave up on living. The golden light evokes the notion of memories and sepia photographs, in my mind. I really appreciated the notion of "gold" being more a metaphor than about plundering treasure. The treasure is those memories returning to the Lifestream to become new lives.
@@laerwen Rather beautifully, the weather in Living Memory before you shut it all down is just called "Reminiscence"
Why is this song giving me more KH2 nostalgia vibes then KH3s Twilight Town
I won't lie, I broke down in tears many times in this Zone. This song is beautiful and make me feel Nostalgic, even though I never heard t before this expansion. When you turn off parts of the city and the music just gone, that was a real knife turn in the heart for me. It was a good move on the devs but damn did that sting.
Anyone else cry during this zone? Please don't tell me I'm alone.
I definitely did, seeing everyone happy and family reunited, only to have to bring those memories to an end
@@Naoto-kun1085 It's so much more than that for me. It was the way it was structured to keep hitting you harder each time. We start simple with someone who the characters have already taken the time to grieve for, so they get through it easier. This is followed by someone who had died not long ago who they had NOT yet grieved for. Next, they round up the conclusion of a plot thread while giving us people who we understand the emotional weight but which we know are still kinda disconnected. You're taking a beat down.
Then they bust out the end which is so connected! You've been having to watch the turmoil unfold. The tragedy of it all, a slow confrontation, and its victim has yet to come to terms with it. Through this whole part, it's all about setting that up that happening. You know it. And that makes the fleeting happiness it tries to act out feel so painful.
@@hythrainI agree, I found this entitr zone so impactful. It feels sad having to end the happiness of all the Endless, but in the end we have no choice but to put them to rest.
This was my favourite zone in DT, my man Otis is the GOAT
I hadn’t cried much this expansion until this goddamned zone, Ho boy even this music just slaughters me. Such a gentle and loving hug. I love this game.
This place at the start, especially with this music, gave me huge Twilight Town vibes from Kingdom Hearts.
already teary :(. Such a beautiful piece.
I fucking broke when Cahciua teared up….goodbyes really are hard
What a journey Dawntrail have been, absolutely amazing, a shame that so many people did not enjoy it.
Might want to keep this in mind: complainers on the internet don't represent all the many, many people who enjoy it and aren't complaining. It's an amazing expac.
for what its worth, i haven't seen anyone who actually played the entire msq say it was a bad expac
Honestly i worried about it too, but what others in the replies are right. Complainers tend to speak out the most to confirm themselves. For the most part I've seen them write essays of what's essentially nitpicking or actually understanding writing. I've seen most of the music and bits and pieces of the story so i can't wait to play through all of this myself when i got time.
Nah, it was awful till like 97 lvl. And even after that it was just mid at best.
I loved it from start to finish but in the end haters are always loud while people who enjoy it are too busy enjoying it (plus lots of hater just be skipping cut scenes)
hauntingly beautiful and sad theme, gives me an existential crisis kinda
This track has left an irreparable scar on my heart that just aches whenever it plays. The songs just steadily tugs at your heartstrings as you go through Living Memory. You feel nostalgic at first upon hearing it, then melancholy as you hear it more, then just end up crying buckets the more you explore the place while it’s playing. I legitimately didn’t believe my heart could break into any more pieces this place tortured me so. Fantastic job
"Memories are nice, but that's all they are" -- Rikku, FFX.
As soon as I started the first 'segment' of this area and it clicked in me that the thematic of this final zone and thus the ending of the story would be about learning to let go and move on whilst cherishing the memories of loved ones long past, I started crying. Like. Proper crying. I barely made it to the 2nd segment before I had to stop for the night but because of the song as soon as I logged back in the next day it hit me again. I think next expansion I'll be having tissues with me for the finale cause I clearly didn't learn my lesson from the previous 2 expansions and DT LOL
Like the eeriness that fell over the place when turning off the first terminal was a gut punch and as soon as I realized every terminal would have someone there to make it feel harder for us made me go 'oh noooooo...'
The emotions were heightened more by the fact that one of my grandmothers has recently passed, and within the last 10 years or so I've also lost both grandfathers, and also currently live with the crippling internal sorrow of the fact that there will be more loved ones passing in the future (because yknow. that's literally how life is, sadly). Heck even typing this has got me teary eyed. I'm scared to return to the zone because I know I'll cry, but I also need to feel that emotional pain, because I severely need to come to terms with things and learn to love and let go
It's kind of funny. Before I got to Solution Nine and here, I had just finished Persona 3 Reload. A game based around momento mori as one of its themes and how the social links were about helping people who have death as a major factor in their life one way or another and helping them through it. And now we have a society that tries to deny death in multiple different ways. Ranging from actively removing memories to prevent sadness to making ghosts so they can still continue
I get such Twilight Town vibes from this theme that it brought a tear to my eye hearing it
I think it's the leitmotiv at (for example) around 0:42; it's almost the same as the one in Twilight town's theme (which i love since it's one of my favorite tracks)
Sleep tight, everyone...
If you're reading this and tearing up, its because you're remembering and accepting the pain.
It's reminding you of all the good times you had with the people you've lost. They aren't gone...so long as you keep their memory on.
The pain you feel now is part of the joy of remembering them,
Feeling the pain means you had a lot of love for them... and they loved you back too..
GDI I triggered myself writing this whilst listening to the music and doing some of the blue aethercurrent quests
This was a bold choice for a final boss theme. Can't believe I wiped 4 times to the Flowing Tears mechanic
This zone is called Living Memory. To put it bluntly: You have found out that there's another world, and it's home to the Alexandrian people called the Endless, who are being kept alive by an AI who was made for the sole purpose of preserving life. This is done by harvesting living people of their aether, collecting their souls and memories, and preserving the memories using the aether from the collected souls. Basically, the people have been turned into living data.
As someone put it: Everyone here has died, and we are just here to turn the lights off in the house. You are tasked with shutting down the terminals in Living Memory to grant the Endless a merciful, peaceful end.
I am someone who has had four family members on what is essentially life support. They were, in order: My brother, my great grandmother, and my adopted parents (grandparents). I had to witness my brother be taken off at 13, my great grandmom a few years later, I was woken up to my adopted mom having removed her trachea tube and dying from such, and I was at home when my adopted dad died while on life support.
As I had to pull what was essentially life support for fictional characters, the quest put me in a dark place, and I ended up sobbing myself to sleep after shutting down the final terminal and wishing Cahciua farewell.
I have alts, but I don't think I can go through this zone again, ever. I don't have the strength or will power to endure this for several other characters, and I'm currently just soul and heart broken over how close the story for Living Memory hit home.
Known as the, 'I can't stop sobbing theme!'
When I got to this zone, it reminded me so much of the digital Twilight Town in Kingdom Hearts II. Even the song has that nostalgic tone.
I really hope in the patch content we are able to reinstate this zone in some limited capacity. The common sentiment among the endless was that they did not want to be kept alive if it meant hurting others, but they were grateful for the opportunity to see their loved ones again. Rather than sustaining the dead indefinitely, Living Memory could be a place where the living can have one last holiday with the departed.
Thing is, the Endless here are like how Johnny Silverhand is in CP2077
The original person and consciousness has already died and gone, what is left is just merely a simulacrum of memories collected before their passing
It looks like the person, it behaves like the person, but the soul and being is already gone
@@SoranPrydeyou could argue the same for the recreated beings of Ultima Thule. But the Omicron Beast Tribes have shown while you can’t bring back the dead, those with memories can still carry on and create new hopes.
@@pll3827the price for their existence wasn’t the extinguishing of another’s…..
I think you are GREATLY understimating the horror of the underlying tech behind living memory. The endless were sustained by the aether of previous living things.
@@ComicalConqueror I'm aware of that, but in the beginning it was sustained by the souls of the departed within Alexandria itself. With a limited lifespan for the "endless" Living Memory could be sustainable. The Alexandrians are still free to use their souls however they like, and I think this idea is a little less morbid than using those souls as 1ups.
This zone didn’t just hit close to home for me, it hit it right through the roof 😭 a specific area here was so on the nose for me and my grief hit me like a firetruck, I had to step away from the game. Absolutely the hardest xiv has made me cry and I loved it 😭❤️ it’s hard to let go sometimes but it’ll be alright
It was supposed to be a fun beach episode, why am I crying even more then I did from EW
Couldn't stop crying here - it is a very moving peice of music that Soken made here. Definitely had trouble completing this last part - definitely felt like the story was helping us who have lost loved ones say goodbye once more before letting them rest in peice :(
It makes me so sad that when all the lights are out, it feels more beautiful than when it was glowing golden... How can feel so beautiful...
I adored Ultima Thule, but after shutting down the first tower in Living Memory and seeing what happened to that area, I spent a solid hour running around the next one and taking pictures, almost in tears refusing to continue the msq because I didn't want to ruin this beautiful place and its people. This area took me a lot longer than any other in the whole game. Ultima Thule made me want to keep going, but Living Memory made me want to freeze time...This theme is like a punch in the heart but at the same time a warm embrace, how they managed to convey such a feeling amazes me.
Can't wait for NG+...I love both before and after vibe.
Whats up with final zones in DLCs having absolute banger OSTs?
The Lochs from Stormblood is underrated af.
Expansions, but yes.
Ever since hearing this melody in the launch trailer, I’d been waiting all msq for it to appear. When it did…many tears were shed
This game went from kingmaker to "Switch off your parents' life support" simulator.
Depression: The Zone
This zone made me cry more than Shadowbringers and Endwalker put together.
The first half of Dawntrail story was meh (though I believe it was intentionally that way), but the second half I liked more than both of the previous expansions.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVED both ShB and EW but something REALLY resonated with me with the second half of DT
that's what i'm saying like the moment i loaded into the area i felt like i got ran over by an 18 wheeler and it just kept hurting the more and more i progressed. i really didn't wanna continue after the first area. and the music just... disappearing after each one turned off... the silence was so loud but then going back to the start to move onto the next area and hearing it start playing again :((((((((( i cried from the moment i stepped in here to the final trial it was just endless tears
I actually disagree that the 1st half was meh. In terms of theme, maybe, to each their own. But for me, the story structure, the way they introduced the characters, the plot, the struggle and the journey or the main character was very well structured that I was invested in it, despite the low stakes.
The 2nd half definitely had the more interesting plot despite the story going all over the place.
@@GENOSANDIEGO There were things that could've been better, but overall, I kind of enjoyed our little jaunt in relative normalcy during the rites. It wasn't the most titillating or out there, but it was a nice little journey. Again, not one I would consider devoid of flaws. Definitely a few "stupidly noble/idealistic" moments as well, or plot conveniences. But it was fine. I absolutely don't object to it.
And then it popped off in the second half.
So I'd say it was mostly good (first half) and great (second half).
I agree, I really think this final zone was executed better than both Shadowbringers and Endwalker; Shadowbringers final zone we didn't get to see what Amaurot was truly like before the disaster (until Endwalker Elpis) so we didn't know what we were missing, and Endwalker final zone just felt like a victory lap lol. Here, it hurts because you had to personally take away everything that was beautiful and witness the transformation yourself; really makes you empathize with Sphene which just made the final fight better. This was really one of the high points of the entire FFXIV story imo
We really couldn't have the last half without the first half. I loved the first half - I loved the journey involved and the character development I witnessed. As a WoL, I was glad to be there to help someone grow. What happens in the last half, we could not do without having gone through what we did before. It's all part of the journey imo.
Anybody else getting Traverse Town vibes from this?
When I first got here I smiled because the music reminded me of kingdom hearts... the cutscenes however started to hit to close to home. I got to let half of what we do here stew for a day due to being tired and having work...
Last night I did the second half and I just broke down. The fire zone was emotional but the air zone... I just stopped and couldn't stop crying. I didn't want to do this. It wasn't fair to make our friends do this... but it was that scene in the gondola that really messed up once it sat there...
I was crying so much all I could do was text my friend who was in call with me waiting for me to reach the dungeon and trial. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Even once it was said and done... I needed a moment to calm down cause it just started to hit all at once...
Thank you Soken... for giving us a song that fits wanting that one more day to spend with that one person...
this place and theme gives me Twilight Town vibes from Kingdom Hearts II
I just wanted to comment and say thank you for not using the actual name of the zone like so many other channels I've been seeing recently. I actually got spoiled on the final dungeon because youtube decided to just autoplay into it and the creator put the name right in the title. So for that you're getting a like and a sub. ♥
I started this zone on a maintenance night, 20 minutes to be exact
I didn’t have time to process the first quest and got logged out after I sat my character down because I was in tears 😭
I can't help but be reminded of Kingdom Heart's Twilight Town when I hear this
living memories in my heart forever
So happy , yet so sad. Not gonna lie, i kinda had to take breaks between completing this zone as it was so sad 😢
it's so peaceful
Just a reminder that you can use new game + to get Living Memory back to how it was.
Now we got to enjoy both vibe. DT instantly got a big thumb up there.
Guess they really want us to use NG+.
Is still not upload yet, i hope first patch already be there
@@vierabunn8931You dont have to go back to start of dawntrail. Anything pre-dawntrail would work
You can use any previous msq chapter to get living memory to revert @vierabunn8931
Given how things were going, I eventually anticipated Memoria... they put it in the same "position" on top of the "Iifa tree."
But I didn't expect it to be filled with these kinds of memories. Happy but to remember them brings a weight of time that admittedly makes me glad I got to play IX when it was fresh... because in a way, I was there then and they helped me remember the other locations in FFIX. From Clerya to the Dwarves of Conte Petie.
holy shit i didnt even think of that!!
Given that Memoria Misera was already a thing in the Bozja/Save the Queen questline, I wasn't confident we'd get something to that effect going into the expansion. But what a way to make the "Memory" bit work as part of the final zone's namesake. And good call on its location being above the Iifa Tree equivalent.
The way the final zone even included elements from the Desert Palace and Oeilvert was pretty neat!
This zone tore my heart to freakin' pieces from start to finish. Entered the zone i awe of the look, only to be completely broken at the end😭💔
Have to say, did not expect the main themes of Dawntrail to be "The Burden of Expectations" and "Dealing woth Loss and Grief".
I'm not complaining, I've enjoyed the expansion so far (its not ShB or EW, but its still good), just was not expect those to be the reoccuring theme.
As much as I love this music it reminds me of Kingdom Hearts Twilight Town, at the same time hearing it breaks my heart but it will take time to get adjusted to it, ever since that and when I watched the cutscenes with Erenville’s Mother Cahciua it made me think of the loved ones I lost. I miss them so much.
Lastly, This part at 6:15 gives me a feeling of hope, peace, and strength.
If you pay attention, this song has some reminiscence with the main theme of FFIX.
I was really quite emotional during the whole area, since it's like having a part of FFIX in the game and even more an area as iconic and representative as Alexandria is...
I feel that this zone hits harder when you previously played FFIX and understand all the symbolisms that exist in the zone.
One aspect I haven’t really seen talked about is the theme of parenthood. You see it in Gulool Jaja, in Bakool Jana’s parents, in Zoraal Ja, in Otis, in Namikka, in Krile’s parents and of course in Cahciua. Even possibly Sphene. All different forms of parents, all with different impacts on the children.
Something I found out today, if you start NG+ on any previous expansion it will make Zone 6 appear as it did when you first arrived
Kinda kills the impact of the zone after the MSQ and the consequences of your actions, but yes.
@@Zakjuh sure sure, but I want to go back with flying to take screenshots. On a similar subject I want to go back to Zero's domain for the same reason.
the way i ugly cried when krile wondered if her parents might be here
Only remembering what happened in the cutscenes and think of what's about to happen was enough to make me cry while I was just standing in some random place in this area with this song...