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Rewrite? I'm down
Excellent rewrite. Definitely would've left me crying longer as the credits rolled.
Wow, someone went that far? 😮
I'm fine with that ending we got, even though we knew as players they'd be coming back, but yours would have been cool. I'd have just died if I was made to choose at any point 😅
Wow, still the same ending really, just reworked… Let me call Yoshi-P, tell him to get you on the team
Honestly tho, that was the best shower thought if i ever heard one.
Edit: Happy to see this channel growing, I wanna see some competition for Ethys Ashers previous works.
I am so sorry to hear people have been being rude to you and others in the comments. I appreciate your content and what you do to keep your channel a safe and creative place to express ideas.
My idea for how I would've changed EW's ending honestly was hardly much changing at all. In all honestly, I think it pales in comparison to your brilliant and creative rewrite of the ending. I can tell you really thought this out! It addresses the issues of the ending while keeping the MSQ's original themes intact. Too bad we won't be able to see this kind of ending executed at this point as what's done is done.
This was awesome.
Although, the one problem I have is that this ruins our final fight with Zenos in my opinion.
Better ending
Well done sir
I was going to comment this on the last video, but I decided against it. I think I will now.
I agree wholeheartedly that the fake deaths were lame. I understood what was happening when it looked like Estinien was going to do the same as Thancred. The current Scions we have right now are too popular to die. knowing how fans (of almost any fandom) can be when something happens to their favorite characters, there would be riots no matter how much sense it would have made to have them die. My theory goes back to Papalymo, Minfillia, and Lyse either dying or leaving the Scions, the reason being that they were not popular enough with the fans and needed to be replaced with more popular characters. Now that we have a well liked roster, I doubt anything serious will happen to them.
Your ending at least would have put some doubt in players minds on them really being gone, and give the WoL a bigger internal struggle to face. I like your ending a lot.
Personally though, I think Thancred should have died back in ShB. I don't hate any of the Scions but his death at that point would have made sense. His character arc was basically complete. Sure he wants to see Ryne again, but she's living her own life and isn't alone, she has Gaia now. It would be a nice bittersweet thing and in Endwalker, we'd get to see his spirit help us and walk alongside Minfillia.
Y'sthola doesn't have to die, (there would be riots) but we seriously should start seeing the repercussions of her using aethersight all the time. We were told long ago that it was slowly killing her, that should come up again since it was mentioned. I imagine that she'd become weaker and we'd go on a quest to either fix her sight or give her something to slow down the effects.
(and this totally is not an elaborate way to kill off Thancred because he's a tank so that we can somehow get Aymeric as our new tank and Atoriel take over as lord speaker. no. nope. not at all. don't look at me like that. )
if only you could have seen my face in pure shookethness when you said the WOL could only bring two scions back o: i think this rewrite would have been a lot more impactful especially after you speak with each Scion at the room before you sleep. THAT was what i wanted to see more of honestly. Don't get me wrong i loved endwalker and it was a great expansion but i honestly felt it was a little too fanservicey for me and i think this ending would have made it a bit easier to handle. Its the little things ya know 🙂 great rewrite 10/10 would play again
Love the rewrite the dead ends would probably have to stay a dungeon since there seems to be a quota each expansion and have some way of explaining why there’s three others helping the wol go through the dungeon
that is a very nice rewrite! not saying the current story is not good but i, too, think that the fake deaths trope is a little over used by this time. (especially Y'sthola ..)
I do agree with the change with y'shtola on her basically spelling it out for you it's not permanent death, The only slight change I would make is that Meteion comes back after your fight with zenos and picks up your crystal reminding you that you do have friends from the ages long pass that can help you before setting back in your hand. That when the WOL has the idea to summon Emet and hythlodaeus back to help them summon scions back with the same good bye as from the unedited version
Man, I'm sorry that someone reacted like to something you posted. There are way too many people that take "I didn't like this one thing" as "I HATED EVERY MOMENT AND IT"S ALL TRASH!!!111!!!!" I absolutely love the idea of the Dead Ends as a solo instance.
That ending would have been incredible!
Another thing I would've changed in Endwalker would be that the tempered Garleans would be sacrificed to help break the shackles binding Zodiark, or perhaps to empower him, and that's why the city would be largely vacant and abandoned. That would've revealed even further the depravity of Fandaniel and Zenos, and worked perfectly with the lore. Plus to see the entire nation sacrificed for such evil ends would've just been an astonishing revelation and a truly gut-wrenching moment, imo.
Would that have been better? Hard to say. Zenos especially I think ONLY works in this expansion because he's so patient for you, after you beat Zodiark. Routinely he tells you "I'll wait my turn so long as I get a turn" even to the point where he helps you. Him being responsible for the scions almost dying would ruin that.
My personal rewrite would be to have the scions Just be drained, and unable to push on at each juncture. Maybe Thancred passes out because he was the first and he was hit so hard, but the others just /winded. The message then unfortunately becomes pushing on in the face of exhaustion, not despair, but there was no despair anyway. Ultimately this isn't really a quick fix kinda problem, just a single sour note nestled in the middle of a beautiful riff at the end of the song.
I like that version a lot. I think it would have made it feel like there was more at stake. Coming across a wall that can't easily be hurdled.
Everything is ok until 2:33
The idea behind Zenos helping you is that he understood that in order to have what he wants, he need to give something in return. Not take something, force you to or cause harm. This part is him understanding what social interaction are about. Because this character is Anti-social (different meaning than asocial).
I like how you would done it. Only thing I would have changed is I would have brought back the kids, and left the others dead. Their story is over, and now it's time for a new generation of heroes.
I think this would have been better. I didn't care for all the fake deaths either. Like, they weren't even attempting to make us think they were dead so they could surprise us later. I guess we should at least be thankful they weren't insulting our intelligence by trying to make it like it was some big reveal? Yeah, we full well knew they would all be coming back. The whole thing was devoid of any emotional impact whatsoever. Pointless.
The only minor issue I see is Zenos. I don't think he would have forced you into a fight knowing had such a big weight pressing on you. He wanted to make sure he fought you when he had your undivided attention.