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Endwalker is amazing. Seeing old friends and enemies in the Aitiascope was very well done and the Mothercrystal trial was amazing, especially doing it with trusts! Crystal mommy loves us so much.
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i didn't really get to say it during chat, but i really like your waiting and end cards.
This expansion hits harder if you are a parent: Moenbryda's family, Venat's motherly love and unrest, the Leveilleurs, Hermes and Meteion, the Garlean sisters, Jullus' past…
God, I love how Tataru sings her little "Muahahahaha". Looking forward to playing this again in New Game Plus, and knowing that's how it's performed whenever she laughs.
So after we built the Talos in Shadowbringers, the scene near the end of the last vid and beginning of this vid where every single ally, friend, companion, and trusted advisor we made over the course of a decade of MSQ coming in and helping us out was absolutely a requirement. I still, to this day, get a stupid grin on my face with every single person that just wanders in. Just a never ending stream of "Hey remember me! I'm back and I brought treasure!"
There's just so much here that only works because it's been such a long form story.
And my favourite part is literally Alpha and Omega just hanging around with the Ironworks folk. I screamed.
If you take/run the OG crew into that dungeon (Uri, Tola, and Thanc) you get the best dialog with all the souls you meet along the way. I love running that one.
Crying my eyes out all over again
I cried when venat vanished because it was truely the point where I felt "I can never go back" to how things were before. We must now look to the future and walk free
I loved Alphinaud giving all of Eorzea and half of Othard a massive fetch quest, with one linkpearl call.
You can't play this game, watch the story, and not be an emotional wreck by the end. So many happy and sad moments in this story
Alphi got that Amazon Prime XD
Venat best character.
Yet another moment of every single person stopping to allow main characters to get closure. In the second video in a row.
Also, I love the emotional reaction to literally every character interaction except for when Asahi shows up. I really hope that he and Hermes both never come back. They're both pieces of shit and deserve to stay dead forever.
Not gonna lie, the cutscene after the 89 trial broke me. Legit, I cried like a fucking baby.
Still weakest trial in the expansion, imo though.
But GOD this hurt so bad.
venat is so beautiful as hydaelyn, i can't even! <3
her defeat is so sad though, not just because she's now gone. i can't help but fixate on her saying "not even my soul remaineth" or something along those lines, so she used up so much of her aether that her being just dissipates, she can't even return to the aetherial sea and be reborn one day because there's nothing left of her to return, just like elidibus and everyone that were turned into blasphemies.
Venat doesn't have mom energy. She IS mom energy
I think because of Shadowbringers and this, we shouldn't be called Warriors of Light anymore. We are Warriors of Hope!!!
oh boy, i was waiting for this one T_T <3
The best bit is this isn't even the bit that made me ugly cry the hardest, that's coming up.
Jesus this expansion is amazing.
"Long after I have gone, though not even my soul remaineth… my love will be with you forever, my dearest children."
Hello, Amazon? I don't remember ordering all these tears. I'd like a full refund please, because they won't stop coming and I need them to cease delivery.
There are so many good moments in this part of the story, I think the two things that broke me the most was when the original FF14 theme plays when you realize the thing powering the ship to Meteion will be the literal Mothercrystal that we've been seeing/hearing for over 10 years. I donno why that got me as much as it did, but the second the piano started, I lost it. As if the game itself is sending us off for one last fight.
And then when you call her Venat at the end, showing that despite literally everybody she's ever known and loved have completely forgotten about her (By her own hand, no less), but not you. You still remember. Also Flow playing doesn't help the tears from not falling! Ishikawa and Soken LB4ing us all over the place in Endwalker.
OMG, I love that you did a countdown for the Scions, and it was PERFECT that Thancred pulled early!
Spoilers for an event shown in the video!
It's probably only tangentially-relevant to what's going on here, but when Fourchenault was making his apology speech to the Scions I couldn't help but be a massive Trekkie nerd & draw a comparison to Ambassador Sarek's words to his son, Spock, near the end of the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home about how "Your associates are people of good character".
Flow just reading like a lullaby hits SO HARD 🤧
58:00 thancred probably said under his breath “My Turn”
it really paid off doing all the raid content in the end didn't it 😀
It's odd, I've just started playing NieR:Automata and I can't help but think of the opening monologue of that game in the context of FFXIV up through this point. The answer was 'yes', apparently
It was amazing seeing everything come together from all the expansions and alliance raids. Everyone coming to our support in supply and skill for a GODDAMN SPACE SHIP. Finally WE are the ones who sent everyone on raids, duties and fetch quests.
19:36 this scene and pose between fourchenault and his children is a callback to the exact same one between their grandfather and them back in Coils when he was freed of the tempering.
This part had me broken; I was sobbing at the end. Especially when we spoke "We will find our way Venat" and she responded "Of this, I have no doubt. For yours is a light beyond measure." The feels man, the FEELS. <3 <3 We will find our way mommy Hydaelyn, WE WILL.