1 thought on “Final Fantasy XIV: The End of Endwalker”
As a former wow player, when I chose "I won't forsake our cause" it had a very Saurfang "you cannot kill hope" energy.
I must have watched that scene before The Dead Ends a couple dozen times by now… this is the first time it landed on my what happens to Meteion, what changes. It's not just that the blooms prove that hope is factual around them without the Scions manufacturing it… it reveals it in her – her hope for Hermes to be happy, which is why she wanted to find the answer in the first place, same reason she asked us for help in Elpis, all of it was to make him happy. That's what she remembers when the flowers appear. it's what splits her back off from the hive mind.
I think WoL sending the Scions back to the ship and facing Meteion alone is my favorite thing you do as WoL in the whole game. You just got them back and you'd rather face the end alone than lose them again.
I think the Endsinger isn't just the other Meteia, but also the empathically absorbed emotion/dynamis of basically all the worlds they visited. Revisit the cutscene in Ktisis, she says they "welcomed their shadowed hearts into our own". It's empathic entelechy overdrive. You can actually hear the Ea voice effect in the swarm of birds that transform into the Endsinger, for example.
I wasn't humoring him; I meant it. Saw right through me. "you had me at 'adventurer'". I mean, I remember back in Stormblood when I saw you do get to engage him in Rhaelgr's Reach, I was excited, I was like "now you gon learn" and then you *lose*. I honestly felt like WoL was holding that L the whole time, fighting Shinryu-form just didn't… count, y'know? I'd have fought him before this if it were just up to my WoL, there was just always more important stuff to do.
As a former wow player, when I chose "I won't forsake our cause" it had a very Saurfang "you cannot kill hope" energy.
I must have watched that scene before The Dead Ends a couple dozen times by now… this is the first time it landed on my what happens to Meteion, what changes. It's not just that the blooms prove that hope is factual around them without the Scions manufacturing it… it reveals it in her – her hope for Hermes to be happy, which is why she wanted to find the answer in the first place, same reason she asked us for help in Elpis, all of it was to make him happy. That's what she remembers when the flowers appear. it's what splits her back off from the hive mind.
I think WoL sending the Scions back to the ship and facing Meteion alone is my favorite thing you do as WoL in the whole game. You just got them back and you'd rather face the end alone than lose them again.
I think the Endsinger isn't just the other Meteia, but also the empathically absorbed emotion/dynamis of basically all the worlds they visited. Revisit the cutscene in Ktisis, she says they "welcomed their shadowed hearts into our own". It's empathic entelechy overdrive. You can actually hear the Ea voice effect in the swarm of birds that transform into the Endsinger, for example.
I wasn't humoring him; I meant it. Saw right through me. "you had me at 'adventurer'". I mean, I remember back in Stormblood when I saw you do get to engage him in Rhaelgr's Reach, I was excited, I was like "now you gon learn" and then you *lose*. I honestly felt like WoL was holding that L the whole time, fighting Shinryu-form just didn't… count, y'know? I'd have fought him before this if it were just up to my WoL, there was just always more important stuff to do.