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Did you ever post that yoshi p clip to youtube, because you need to! What a cool interaction!
The squirrel is called Nutkin and was a censor to Thancred's… nuts when he recalled how he emerged from the Lifestream naked during post Heavensward. XD
The character as the Pictomancer is Krile which you meet during post Heavensward (before you encountered the Warriors of Darkness) and has appeared several times in MSQ since then.
I know you were looking for the female race at the end. It's the Hrothgar ladies. 😀 So, yes, you were correct towards the end!
Nah the Lalafel with the new Pictomancer job isn't a new character. Thats Krile, she's been in the story for a while, but has been more of a support in the main crew. Now that they gave her this new Job in Dawntrail, she can finally join in combat with the rest of the Scions!
I would be down for some ffxiv with you and Aliya! I remember you said you played, where did you stopped? It is really worth it, story is great. Oh and Krile, the Lalafel who introduced the new job has her debut in the Heavensward post patches (:
The cat-eared outfitted lalafell displaying the new caster job is Krile, she has been part of the Scions since Heavensward but has not had any front-line role other than support, leadership at times and has very specifically gifted magic abilities to pinpointedly find pretty much anyone anywhere, so long as she can recognise their aether. She is a lovable bean that fans have bene wanting much more character development from, even though we did get quite a bit for her during Endwalker.
The lion woman is a new character called Wuk Lamat , yes she's a hrothgar (basically the Ronso from FFX), and a character who has only been revealed in-game as a pair of legs.
Originally you could only play as male, leaving the fan-base wondering what they'd look like since 2019. I'm enthralled by their designs and can't wait to play as one!
Ishikawa is probably the writer you were thinking of. Before/during Endwalker, she transitioned to be a Lead/Manager of the writing staff after all of the amazing work she did with things like the Alchemist job quests, Dark Knight job quests, and most notably, Shadowbringers MSQ. She still gets in on some things, I believe she did some of the Endwalker post game story, but she isn't as involved on the day to day writing, but overseeing and helping to deliver the overall image. So still heavily involved with production process.
And yes, she is a beloved member of the staff. I got to attend the Fan Fest in Vegas this year, and while she was on stage, she got a rousing cheer/chant from the crowd, bringing her to tears. It was an incredible moment to show support to someone that has given us something so amazing. You can find clips of the moment, like this one, scattered around (cause technically it was during a part of the event where recordings weren't supposed to be happening) 🙂 oops https://youtu.be/QQ9vd9qifKI?si=M5c3xMFuVFebuuLF
You say G'raha Tia as "gra-hah tee-ah"
And several people have mentioned the lalafell is Krile, but she and her grandfather Galuf are named for a grandfather and granddaughter from FFV
There are also videos for the new class called Pictomancer … as well as as you guessed a new waell half of a race Hrohgar for player characters – specifically Hrothgar Females are will become available for character creation.
With Shadowbringers the game introduced for players 2 new races each originally gender restricted:
Viera – bunny people – were limited to only females so bunny girls basically
Hrothgar – Large cat people more well furry …. were limited to males
In Endwalker they then added Bunny Boys with introducing Male Viera
and now with Dawntraile they are finishing the set with Female Hrothgar …
The last new race option for a bit.
Also the Lalafel character showcasing the new class is Called Krile … she is an ally that makes her first appearance in HW through she is more a back line rear character until well now recently lamenting her inability to help her friends directly on the frontline
The class being premiered by Krile (the cat ear hooded lalafell and callback to FFV, via name and grandfather) is called Pictomancer, which is 100% a FFVI/Relm nod.
Always getting One Piece vibes watching this…and I really like it
This squirrel can't let go of Thancred's nuts…
Usual problem of the FF14 trailer, zero story and even what it shown won't be like that in game.
Clearly the worst trailer by far was Shadowbringer, which was a complete lie, the trailer telling you that there will be all this suffering, the failure, being abandoned, even fought by the light and you switch sides, but instead you just stay the plot armor murder hobo who just wins by existing and the antagonists all dumb.
This also ruins all tension meanwhile, because you got these big guys in there or that fire god like thing, but who cares? WoL is the invincible ultra god (without any voice or character) and Estinien is right next to that, the master of mega slaughter who just crushes everything as he pleases, even more powerful than ever after he lost the power of the dragon eye – what makes no sense, but who cares.
Square just doesn't care. They not focus on keeping the fans by throwing shallow anime shit at them and IG merchandising for dozens of dollars, milking the game as long as they can.
It's pretty disgusting. FF14 could have become such a good game, but they got the absolute worst developer/publisher who ruined it – and the fans who cheer for that shitshow while brutally attacking anyone who doesn't are part of the problem.
There is a reason that FF14 lost so many players and had to replace them with fake advertisement by luring in replacement – who meanwhile also left, since they realized the had been lied to.
Ah dang it, this is gonna make me resub to FFXIV.
I have to be honest, though I am a big fan of FFXIV trailers and the game, this one didn't really do it for me. I don't wanna say it's bad per se, but it just didn't really have anything that created that awe-factor that I get from all the other trailers. Overall my feeling when it was over was "well that was indeed a trailer".
I do have to give props though, the environment work in the city portion of this trailer is absolutely insane. Just pause at 2:18 (trailer, not this video) and take a minute to really explore the frame. Even the stuff far in the background has super high attention to detail and basically everything is hand sculpted and textured like its a hero asset even when it's only a background object in frame for 3/4 of a second with motion blur and basically nobody will see it unless you frame-by-frame. Also there is shockingly little of the standard copy-paste-rotate and other corner cutting techniques that save a lot of time for background stuff.
There are many other points in the trailer where you can pause and explore and it almost feels like you're looking at a photograph of a real place rather than a cg shot that was composed with detail that layers up as you approach the focal point.
It's really impressive work.
Unfortunately impeccable environments alone cannot carry a trailer and I personally just didn't get big hype from this one. Also while the environments were amazing, the skin texturing and facial animation (aside from the WOL closeup shots) felt like a substantial step down from Shadowbringers and even Endwalker to me. I was actually getting some mild uncanny valley vibes from characters talking.
It had some cool stuff and the overall production value is big but for me personally this is definitely the weakest entry in the FFXIV trailer catalogue.
23:00 pronounced exactly how it is written G'raha Tia (So Gra-ha tia)
Krile's changed her job into a pictomancer like Relm from FF6, but her character itself is an homage to Krile Baldesion from FF5
XIV BROS WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK
"guh-RAW-HAH—tea-ah". The "tea-ah" syllable definitely trends toward "chi-ah" for many speakers.
Lala woman in yellow is Krile, introduced in Heavensward, a Sharlayan scholar and healer who spends through Endwalker firmly as a non-combatant support cast character.
Krile is the lala, she's actually encountered as early as Heavensward, maybe sooner don't remember, she just becomes a lot more important in Endwalker since she lives in Sharlyan
I remember in Phil's stream when he first met Estinien, he said something to the like of "Wait, is it just me or is the cinematography suddenly better when this guy's on screen?"
Another great breakdown, Phil! One exciting thing about this Dawntrail stuff is that they've been planting seeds about this "New World" in the lore since at least A Realm Reborn, and possibly even the original XIV 1.0, so these lands have been speculated about in the fandom for a decade.
"Who is the squirrel?" That my good sir is not a squirrel, that is Sir Nutkin, Defender of Decency! (those that know, know!)
The squirrel is a running joke in the game. You see, at one point Thancred found himself in the buff, and in the flashbacks while he's telling this story, the squirrel was… shall we say, strategically placed. He then kept the squirrel as a pet, so you see it was just doing its job.
Cockblocking Thancred.
It is also known as a Nutkin for further hilarity.
Estinien used Arm's Length for sure!
they pretty much took ur hair & Face for the Trailer
Everytime a new XIV trailer drops, I always wait for your video with the shot analysis segments
Pictomancer is sung by the divine Amanda Achen, there are high d notes in there, it’s not a guitar riff!
I cant waiiitttt
I hope that the eye reference will be related to Zenos. He always talks about Us becoming "slavering beasts" and whatnot, so it would be cool if we actually became more of a brutal uncaring character and had flashbacks to Zenos evaluations of us
for me the music is a bit off sometimes dont matches what i see i mean. but yeah ff has always nice rendercins 😀