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EFEX PELMY
I need new game+ if only to back and take pics before it becomes like this 😭
this is so heartbreaking.
Unlike Ultima Thule where the theme gets fuller and fuller as you explore, here once you return after the Msq, there is almost nothing left…only the faintest echo of something that was once beautiful.
I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this zone at the end of msq.
Then I flew around it, at night and in the rain. Just this soft music playing, all the silent and dead buildings in the background. Vibe really unlike anything else in the game. (Yes, Ultima Thule is thematically similar, but operates as an inverse of what's being done here).
straight up music playing in a dead mall vibes. i love it
It feels like a world Meteion would have found in her travels.
Honestly I have to respect the absolute balls the devs have to construct an insanely detailed area before shutting it down permanently (barring time travel via NG+), with you being the one who pulls the trigger.
Still hurts every single terminal
reminds me of "From Mud" from Saint Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard), love it
One thing that I wonder now… Apparently the whole reflection was practically destroyed by lightning and that's why there was need for the dome. The excess lightning was most likely a Rejoining attempt that never went through since the Ascians already had lightning aspected to the Source, Light was the last component they needed hence Shadowbringers.
However, now that we've turned the lights off, the days just look… normal. Is the entire reflection fine now, or is the whole planet dead? Wonder if we'll get to explore outside of Living Memory.
Im glad i took plenty of pictures before it got like this because man how is this more depressing than ultima thule 😭
Depressing beats to gather unspoiled nodes to
worst zone to be made, didnt really have the emotional bearing that ultima thule and the tempest had
I am willing to bet that one of the Allied Societies in later patches will be Alexandrians, and their storyline is going to involve reclaiming and repurposing Living Memory to be habitable for living people. Either that or another restoration-style piece of content for crafters.
POV: You are Meteion, erasing yet another civilization.
The mall is closing…
So empty… it reminds me of the Land of Morytha for those familiar with Xenoblade. I wish we got to see more of Alexandria and its people.
Despair
Please let us revive this to pre-termination…my heart can't take it
I CAN STILL SAVE CAHCIUA
I’d hope that the idea for this came from someone on the team listening to a lot of “empty mall” videos, because it means that some dev in Japan took interest in aesthetics from the western end of the internet.
Unless there are some Japanese videos of empty mall music that have gone unnoticed?
I remember the first terminal. I just sat there, staring at my screen, unable to click "yes".
Hearing it again breaks my heart.
It sucks you have to kill the most visually stunning zone to progress the story. Goodbye Rainbow Hottub.
Easily one of the best zones they've ever created. Incredibly morbid and depressing and yet was once a joyous utopia for the already deceased. All living things must die eventually.
Seeing the zone turn into this after all is said and done is just awful. All that's left is roaming wildlife, plants, weathered electrope, and robots that don't seem to realize their charges are long gone. All the while the faint echo of music blows through the area.
By all intents and purposes, it's a gigantic weathered grave…
Part of me wants to use ng+ to revert this place but it would go against the theme of the story. Maybe it's better to let go.
The way I describe this place is what happens if Zidane never existed in FF9.
I'm really glad the devs stuck to their guns and didn't like… somehow bring everything back after you beat the final trial
I cannot fathom how strong this song is for me. Everytime I ended up deactivating a terminal I would take a good look at the area and all the people I interacted with.
It feels even worse when I get flashes of it when going through the lifeless husk that is this zone, and it's even worse when I see their souls at night…
You will all live on through me, I will never forget you.
Clearing Dawntrail first before collecting Aether Currents and sidequests was the worst mistake.. Clearing during sidequests while driving around on the bleak streets trying not break down is not a good feeling..
It's like waking from Kololint Island all over again… just, look at that sunrise once you can fly. Maybe just maybe we'll remember a bird flying by, reminding us to not lose heart.
Though grateful these echoes linger… for the heart knows the missing pieces of a song playing by memory.
The only thing peopel want to know is if we will be able to explore this reflection like we sis the first. The 13th was so far gone they didnt bother making a whole map for it. We left Zero and that pthwr dude to fix that reflection.
I appreciate that they had the balls to commit to making the zone dull and soulless after MSQ. I was sorely convinced they would have somehow found a way to make Living Memory beautiful again at the end of the MSQ like how Ultima Thule walks back the "sacrifices" of the scions.
You made your choice. Live with it.
This version sounds like if you were trying to remember….. But in this case, music. It's distant… Some things and lyrics forgotten… Trying to make up melodies as you remember it. Only the prominent melodies are remembered and not the ones in between. Just a distant memory now.
dead mall speakers baby just in case you have the media literacy of a brick