5.0 Finale Reaction (Part 2) | FFXIV Shadowbringers

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First time playthrough and reaction to the FFXIV Shadowbringers finale!

We take on Emet-Selch in the epic battle for the First, concluding Shadowbringers 5.0. I hope you enjoy!

5.0 Finale Part 1:
https://youtu.be/tXRhYcyjfJc

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TIMESTAMPS:
Recap 0:00 – 1:13
The Dying Gasp (Trial) 1:13 – 14:20
Post-Trial Cutscenes 14:20 – 30:16
Credits 30:16 – 31:59
The Ocular 31:59 – 41:55
Imperial Palace 41:55 – 48:35
Return to the Source 48:35 – 51:03
Final Cutscenes 51:03 – 56:19
G’raha Tia 56:19 – 58:44
Thoughts & Outro 58:44 – 1:02:37

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20 thoughts on “5.0 Finale Reaction (Part 2) | FFXIV Shadowbringers”

  3. Been waiting for this stuff for a while. Congrats on making it! As much as I look forward to your 5.x MSQ videos, I'm still hoping you stagger in the raid content in between patches instead of waiting until the end. This was the hardest it's ever relied on continuity up to this point.

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  4. I love Emet so much. Notice how, throughout your time seeing him, he's hunched over, bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders. After your fight with him, he's standing straight up, relieved of his burden, as he has confidence leaving the world in our hands.

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  7. Emet said that the vanquished would become the villain of the tale the victor would write, but Emet was never the villain of this story. His final words will always be burned in my mind.

    Also, take note that at the start of the trial, there was no subtext to his name, and that it simply said "Hades". He said just before the trial: "Let us cast aside titles and pretense…" Keep all the in mind when you start going through Endwalker.

    But congrats on finishing 5.0! Now onto the exciting content for the entire post-Shadowbringers. Both the story and the raid series were some of my favorite content to go through.

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  8. You did it! 5.0 hit me so hard, Emet-Selch's story and the idea of losing everyone you loved is a story beat that will always resonate with me because it's my biggest fear, so seeing that ghost of a city and going through that fight with him when I know I have to stop him but I'm also completely relating with him and want him to be okay … You'll hear people saying "just wait for what comes next" but for me 5.0 is the peak. Glad you enjoyed, always happy to watch.

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  9. 17:03 Yup, we got Bravura, Ardy's axe.

    22:00 Crystal Tower was only made mandatory partway through Shadowbringers. If you hadn't done the raid series you wouldn't have that bottom option, which is the only one which makes him cry.

    25:15 He HAS gotten better. Though who do we know who hasn't? ^.^

    26:16 Remember how Y'shtola said Uri would "wash up sooner or later?" Look in the bottom left. ^.^

    28:28 His armor isn't dyed black and his axe isn't bloodstained anymore. He's finally forgiven himself and is at peace.

    29:42 Don't that boy look like a young Ardy? Maybe there some some hero when Ardy was a boy who inspired him to take that path.

    44:25 Ha ha ha ha!

    48:32 They can totally do that. Enjoy waiting 4 months for the next bit.

    55:40 That's the stinger for the normal raid series. Like Bahamut's roar after the alliance treaty. Like how Cid saw Alexander appear after we beat Gigaope. And how Nero teased on Omega after Shinryu.

    1:01:10 Good of you to mention Emet's closure and release of burden. At the end that as he removes his hood and speaks to you the last time it's the only time he's not seen slouching.

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  18. "Tis good to see you awake, G'raha Tia."

    "Well, 'tis good to be awake."

    I could write a whole goddamn doctorial decertation on the brilliance of those two lines. The first carries so many layers of meaning (and, as a good writer knows, such things are best not initially consciously recognized, but FELT by the audience) by saying, "I remember you, my friend," "I forgive you," "I missed you," and "I hope that you remember who you were as well, before you were the Crystal Exarch" all at once.

    The Exarch's/G'raha's response, the other hand, is a brilliant summary of this expansion's moral argument: You cannot find happiness, nor a fulfilling life, by submitting to the inevitable in order to live the easier life. You can only find it in acknowledging life's uncertainties and inevitable pain, yet moving forward regardless. Ran'jit chose to give up by following Vauthry's vision of "at least some might know a sliver of salvation" because he was tired of training Minfilia's only to inevitably lose them on the battlefield, whereas when Ryne chose to oppose him in Nabaath Areng, to stand on her own two feet knowing full well the pain and hardships it would bring, yet still embracing it undaunted, she chose the path of affirming life, in all its good and bad.

    G'raha, however, spent 90-100 years, depending on your source, planning his own death, and through all those years he was able to move forward because he knew there would be an end to give his life meaning. Now that that's all down the proverbial toilet, he has nothing to "guide his every deed" like he used to. He has no plan, no direction, everything from here on out is new, unpredictable, and unplanned. And yet, he's happy to be alive, to experience what life has to offer in all its multitudes; he affirming and embracing life, how it's "good to be awake."

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