Bit of a stretch to put “retrospective” in the title but hey! This is a look back at Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker’s main story. It’s a great ending to a 10-year story, but there’s a couple of stumbles on the way. Then there’s what many consider a filler arc in the Newfound Adventure storyline and the setup for Dawntrail.
Check out the full series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXfu05eoFMhwGwU1mGs6fv3GxawMe_g2
This whole thing came about as I wanted to go back through the story in the run up to Dawntrail’s release. FFXIV’s entire 10-year long story arc surrounding Hydaelyn and Zodiark came to an end with the fourth expansion, Endwalker, and I wanted to take a look back and see what it did well, and where it could be improved. This retrospective series is based on a more casual perspective of someone playing the game as a (mostly) single-player JRPG, as opposed to going over every aspect of the MMO (which would take SIGNIFICANTLY longer!). So here it is – the grand finale! Let’s revisit Endwalker in 2024!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:33 Journey Across the Seas
19:30 A Fallen Empire
34:42 To The Moon
45:20 The Final Days
53:58 The World Unsundered
01:11:37 The Mothercrystal
01:21:20 To the Edge of Creation
01:39:20 Newfound Adventure Arc
02:11:52 Dawntrail Setup
02:17:39 Outro
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I have been waiting for this one 🔥🔥🔥
I've been watching your entire FFXIV collection in the lead up to Dawntrail to hype myself. I just wanted to thank you for making such a thoughtful, insightful and well-crafted retrospective into the FFXIV series. I know it'll be useful for future Adventurers starting out their journey in Eorzea. And just for the record, you're correct in your assertion that Stormblood is the most underrated and wrongfully disliked expansion of them all, as well as my personal favorite. 😉
I'm ready for the story to take a backseat to have a bigger focus on gameplay instead
I'm a big fan of long form content. Please keep up the great work!! I can't wait to see what else you make!
I caught it within 20 mins?? I'M LOCKING IN TO YOU BROTHER
Still very early into the video but just got to the part of Thavnair with Vrtra, and I’m so glad when people talk about how good of a character he is. Being part of the first brood who was divided on humans, and the only one of the Brood to not have his own horde. Because he saw his people as the ones he guides and cares for, even when they don’t even know he exists. He’s one of my favorite characters ever from how complex and sweet he is despite being a giant dragon who is near ageless
im gonna miss the log in screen
better buy some sunglasses cause to put simply "OH MY GOD MY EYEEESSS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Hey everyone! Thanks everyone for all your support on these videos! This one took a bit longer than I expected it to, but here it finally is!
What do YOU want to see in Dawntrail (and future expansions)? ❤
As someone who got absolutely stonewalled by Hein in FFIII, and by proxy took offense with the existence of Amon at the end of the game and in the Crystal Tower raids, Fandaniel's reveal literally made me jump out of my chair!
Also congrats on getting all these videos out before Dawntrail, it's been a blast going through these!
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Been loving these videos so far! Dawntrail coming out soon means this is unlikely anytime soon, but I would love to see you covering the stories and give thoughts on the myriad of side content FFXIV has to offer in the future too. Either as shorter videos or collections based on expansion, it would be cool to see you cover the individual trials, raids and alliances series in each expansion and their story impact on both past and future expansions, notable side quest chains and tribal quest lines that build the world further, optional dungeons and the likes.
It's been great to revisit these stories through your videos right before Dawntrail, but there is so much of this game that's easy to overlook or miss, even in the side content, that when looking back is like seeing things under a whole new light. I would love to see those explored again and introduced to more people.
6.1 – 5 is not a filler arc. Is just a set up, like with the warriors of darknes on 3.4
If you plan to do a retrospective on FFXI and its expansions, I'd gladly watch it as someone who has never played it before!
… is it bad that I want to see you cover the Hildebrand quest series? 😅😊 Anyways, excellent work and looking forward to more.
Meteion did nothing wrong. 😗
I am not sure how last minute the Endsinger was added, there's musical queue in the Alexander and Omega raids that give some clues that something cosmic wasn't right with the universe. She might have been nit the inital idea, but it seems like the plan was to have something otherworldly be the ultimate issue!
That being said, I loved this series! Thank you!
Zenos: "Was it good for you, too?"
DynaChris: "Eh, you're mid."
Zenos: "…Shit." [dies]
endwalker is such a breathtaking experience. rewatching the scene in this video with matsya running had me on the edge of my seat even though i already knew it all ended well, and obviously the final walk was a powerful moment for everyone. i really got into ffxiv around november last year, and basically binged it until i reached the end of 6.55 in january because i was so invested. i dont mean to make myself sound super tough or anything but even though video games can make me feel powerful emotions i rarely find myself getting into full on tears over them, however hearing the voices of all the characters i'd come to love over those few weeks and months pat me on the back and give me the strength to push forward was a LOT. had me sobbing! every time i think about it i can only imagine how the people who'd been engaged in the world of ffxiv for years must've felt
enough about me and paragraph aside though, you've gone and made another great video as always! there were a ton of things i hadn't picked up on going in, such as the deal with varis' limbs and the fact that the entire expansion was a huge ff4 tribute (never played it 🤫). this series has been a great joy to watch as well as a great refresher of the story and other things surrounding it so far, and a new entry to look forward to every week has made the final leadup dawntrail much more bearable, so thank you! that being said, with only a week and a half to go until early access, onward to dawntrail!!!
This was one of the best recap series on youtube for everything up to DawnTrail!
I can't imagine the amount of work it was but an amazing job?
One of my favorite things about Zero as a concept is that (I forget where) it's implied/stated that the avatar a Reaper bonds with is their reflection on the 13th. So the WoL's is the 13th shard of Azem, and Zero is the 13th shard of Zenos. (If anyone reading this is confused by her gender, keep in mind that Ardbert is a male hyur no matter what the WoL is.) So through the Endwalker postgame, we're helping a portion of the weirdo stalker who considered us his friend to actually learn about friendship and become a better person.