(WARNING: Endwalker spoilers ahead!)
I edited this part out but at the end of this video I just sat there staring at my screen in sadness for a good 10 minutes. This is so heartwrenching.
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I loved being able to do a dungeon with those three….
Love the quotes at the beginning
I thought this was a very good time loop/paradox.
I think Hyth calls us his new old friend because we're 9/14 Azem, not because of the time in Elpis- that's my read based on Shadowbringers and Endwalker up to this point.
And I always liked "Answers", but it's so much more powerful after this.
Enjoy the roller coaster of emotions that's the end of endwalker. And thus we have the tale of Answers.
This was the cutscene that truly broke me. I was a mess for over an hour just trying to recover and comprehend everything it revealed. Knowing that every trial we ever faced she bore the brunt of it from her blessing that shielded us (thus the blood), she never abandoned us or left us… it broke me. It also made me see the sense in what midgardsormr did when he removed her blessing from us back for 3.0. He was allowing her time to recover and regain some strength to continue giving us her power of protection (while he judged our worthiness of her bounty, since he deemed man too fleeting and fickle to be gifted something so precious). Everything just hit all at once and this was the single most impactful moment in the expansion for me up to this point. Just remembering it makes me tear up lol this expansion was sooooooooo good 😭😭😭😭 it’s hard to believe it only gets better and the feels get that much stronger
I cried when I saw Venat's journey into her future during my own playthrough, a few days ago, and now that's repeated as I watch this video on the bus home from work.
Can't help thinking about how she was attacked by some of her dearest friends over the course of thousands of years, because of Zodiark's tempering and their inability to remember the truth of the Final Days.
Keiros was mentioned earlier,at lower settings its used to reset the minds of concepts being tested. This is why I tell you to take notes
30:33 remember us :v
In case the screen flashes hurting her was a bit lost in translation, as it was for many of us (myself included), Venat's suffering during her walk were events we knew about. Each rejoining, each calamity, her protecting us at the end of 2.0 against Ultima, everything she did has only added to her strain, her suffering. She is one person holding up the world and all the misery it contains, a burden that by all rights should crush her in an instant. And despite it all, she keeps walking, she keeps moving, no matter how much pain she takes. Just like you, finding the strength to keep walking forward even when all strength has left you.
That is the kind of person Venat was… The kind of person Hydaelyn is.
And so it is revealed we were in a tragic stable time loop all along. Not only that the way I see it, while the blessing of light gave you strength, through the eons it was the image of what you would become that gave Hydaelyn strength.
This broke all of us.
The moment our character reaches for Emet Selch, you just feel the absolute despair they must be feeling…
What a scene, what a goddamn game! ;w;
I love Venat so much. Such an amazing character
was looking forward to you reaching this bit
Emet's look of pain after he watches Hythlodaeus walk away for the last time is just brutal.
Personally, I interpret each of those "hits" you see Venat take as she walks through history in the role of Hydaelyn as representing the rejoinings – each one a brutal blow to her. The emotional toll it takes is evident in what she is witnessing, but that physical toll is the damage that was done to her by the Ascians working to undo the Sundering.
Watching Hythlodaeus walk away to sacrifice himself with a smile and watching it break Hades with every passing second felt like a punch in the gut. Losing him and Azem abandoning the 14 in opposition to the idea of creating Zodiark, is it any wonder Hades ended up walking a darker path of dispair without his trusted and dear friends there by his side?
And Venat, doing what she did so that mankind would not take the easy way out and use Zodiark to give them an easy life, to wipe the memories of the world as it was so people would find a way forward rather then looking back, in order to face the song of oblivion.
This scene alone has so much meaning and feelings tied to it. It is dark yet it is beautiful.
The single best moment, where all the 'Hydaelyn Deniers' ate their words and learned she'd literally done nothing wrong and had always been helping us.