So I just started Shadowbringers and I have been absolutely blasted away by this one scene that happens incredibly early in the game.. holy crap lets talk about it.
0:00 “That” Scene
0:24 Live Reaction
5:07 WTF Was That?!
9:41 Shadowbringers Trailer Reaction
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Don't worry… it gets worse! *
*better
"What is that NOISE??" lol
I like this quest like first. Really sets the stage of what is going on here and how dangerous it is.
The puking the light fluid reminds me of when my brother bit into a glowstick on a dare and was spitting out glowing green fluid everywhere.
THE first really huge moment in Shadowbringers is coming very soon. Bigger than this one, even.
Yep, this is definitely one of the most defining moments of FFXIV
It was going to be so much worse but they feared the game being banned in countries, the cacoon was meant to censor what happened, basically we would see her contort completely
Don't mind me, I'm just venting a personal gripe here.
I really hate the "welcome to Shadowbringers" meme.
I really hate it.
That is all.
Stay in Shadowbringers please. Don't go to Dawntrail, it'll make you unsubscribe.
Best ff patch if they ever top this id be shocked
Now, compare this to DT. Its so sad 🙁
Proceeded by countless faceroll cringe cutscenes of Alisaie bleeding her heart out for Halric. Would have rather kept Tesleen.
This is the moment that FF14 broke out of the really stupid trope of "There must be a balance of good vs evil". I hate that kind of storytelling where you need to let evil exist or else the world will be out of balance. So in this case, light and dark are not delegated to good and evil. They are merely aetheral attributes just like fire is opposed to ice. And that makes the narrative much more enjoyable.
"Made it that much darker" You mean it made it that much brighter? 😀
A little bit that most people miss in Ardbert's voice over before you first reach the Crystarium. He says something about the great conflict "between dark and light, the pure and the corrupt". By the order he listed them, he's saying that Dark is Pure, and Light is Corrupt.
Sleep right after that scene!? What a bold man. I wouldn’t pick my dream to be that
Personally, I prefer going with Alphinuad first for pacing reasons, but his story is just as important and in fact combines perfectly with this one. This isn't natural, there's no reasoning with this type of monster, it's a mockery of holy power and this isn't a "Just misunderstood" species. Remember that, going into Alphinaud's half.
Do you stream on twitch or no?
Alisaie first is the correct choice IMO lol
Really gives you time to let what just happened marinate
That "Hello there." popping up in the middle of all this is hilariously inappropriate.
i heard the orginal one was way way darker…..
Just a little trivia: This whole expansion is inspired by Final Fantasy 3.
The Warriors of Darkness, The Crystal Tower, The Crystal Exarch theme.. this just tells you how great Square Enix is at using ideas from their previous games and going with it to a new arching story for 14.
I hope you enjoy this expansion and the rest of the game.. enjoy
It should be made note that FFXIV takes inspiration from Shinto, which is the indigenous religion/philosophy of Japan. What this scene is portraying and may come as shock to westerners is that it encompasses the foil to Shinto, which shows that not even "light" is necessarily "good", which runs contrary to western ideology's understanding of good and evil as "light vs dark."
To Shinto, what is "good" is not exactly that which is "light," but rather that harmony and balance in all things is the ultimate goal. In the world FFXIV, we are constantly battling forces of chaos and disharmony, things which push the scale too much one way or another, which is the real sin of Shinto.
While I enjoy the meme, I really discourage from spoiling with the thumbnail, be considerate for those who may come later.
shadowbringer is, after HW my favorite expansion in any MMORPG ever.
IT was so good.
Relic was good.
savage.. ex.. story.. was PERFECT.
I straight up cried 2 or 3 times because of how good it was written.
The newest expansion, I have no bought.
Ff14 is losingplayers because they let some D tier writer handle it.
And I am so disappointed..
You film this segment from the 1st? Your windows look a bit…. blinding 😏
FFXIV had a panel at Pax West 2019, the year Shadowbringers released. They had a whole segment where the art team lead showed how they did the effects on Tesleen's transformation with art assets that are overlapped and positioned in certain ways to achieve the final look. Interestingly that's kind of like how housing decorators overlap furniture pieces together to make all sorts of neat stuff like modern appliances.
btw do NOT search for that Pax West panel video on youtube until you have cleared 5.0 as it has spoiler references up till 5.0's MSQ conclusion.
Thumbnail is a bit spoilery ngl..
Welcome to shb lol it gets better
Remembered watching this scene for the first time, and decided to be a Dark Knight to the end. A very fitting class to save these people from the horrors of the light.
That scene is nothing comprared to whats to come… also please change ghr thumbnail for anyone who hasnt reached it yet Papa Caffeinated
that scene are always immortalized as the greatest shocking moment of entire FF14 story so far. btw, was male highlander like urs since 1.0, but post-haste change to hrothy & seemed way more appropriate especially when experiencing ShB & further on my end. 😉
(short funny story being silly promise made on start of 3.0 seeing Au'Ra introduced, joked would fantasia to FF10's Ronso if that would ever made happens, which shockingly… DOES! lol)
Welcome to Shadowbringers 🙂
Seriously though, this scene is incredible. I remember when it first game out and social media went wild with that pic of Tesleen with the "wax" pouring from her eyes.. still shiver-inducing to this day. Since then, we emotional vampires in the FFXIV, nothing gets us to prick our ears up quite like catching wind of someone new reaching this moment and reacting to it. It's harrowing, and really sets the tone for the expansion. Obviously it won't all be highs like this, but it stays in the back of your mind, waiting to see what's coming next…
Meme aside, legitimately welcome to Shadowbringers, I – we – hope you enjoy the ride!
Hildibrand nearly ruined this moment for me. My thought process during that scene was…
"You know, I know they're trying to go for dramatic effect, but the whole G-Mod Idiot Box facial animations really takes me out of—Oh! OH GODS! THAT WAS INTENTIONAL! AHH!"
The thing is with this scene is that it shows that the writer and devs want you to understand that despite some of the angelic look some of sin eaters have, they is nothing holy about them. Like the NPCs said, they appeared shortly after the Flood of Light was stopped. They're a primal force of Light continuing what the Flood couldn't, it doesn't have a morality per se, it just is. It is nature running its course because nature has been deprived of Darkness.
And it comes to reason they'd want the player to experience this since, so far, everything has been about fighting back the Darkness, the Ascians who want to bring about the Rejoining in the name of Zodiark. But at the same time, you have to consider Ardbert and his crew who showed up in the Source. Their reason to be coming to the Source was undeniably noble, wanting to save their world from overflowing Light (even if they were tricked in thinking that killing the WoL would achieve that) even if it meant being presented as villains and having an agenda that, from the standpoint of the WoL and the Scions, was evil.
It was already the first hint that, despite what you've had been presented so far, Darkness isn't inherently evil, it doesn't have a morality either… *it also just is*. The outcome might have been the same if, say, you had been the Warrior of Fire and Ardbert and his allies came in as the Warriors of Water, for example. It's a matter of balance… and it just happens that since the Source and, by extension, Hydaelyn represent Light, that the Ascians would naturally choose to use Darkness.
So without saying more, for now, about the plot, I'll simply say this : remember that the First is a world tethering desperately on the edge and people have had to live with that reality for a hundred years. Some, like the merchant you meet when you arrive in the First, takes it all in stride in humor but you can tell that's him coping, that he needs something 'normal' to do to keep going. Despair and resignation can sometime be a very dangerous path to tread since you may end up not caring anymore.
After all, what can you really do when you know the end is coming anyway other than trying to not fall into utter despair?
This scene never bothered me. As the WoL you should be able to handle things like this by now.
(Oh btw that's not meant to be condescending or dismissive if you felt that way – I'm just pointing out that the WoL has seen his share of f'ed up things already.)
One of the greatest expansions the game has at this time.
why do i get the feeling that yoko taro was involved in shadowbringers
Rumor has it that the Hildibrand quests are the animator’s way of learning how to better use the models for more extensive and expressive cutscenes etc.
Hildibrand walked so that Shadowbringers could run!
"I just got back from Amh Araeng and all I got was UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS, TRAUMA and this lousy T-Shirt." Now why does it say "Welcome to Shadowbringers"?
It's been a long time since the last time I watched ff14 content.
Love your content and will definitely follow to see your reaction to some other stuff in SB
This is why Shadowbringers is the best expansion
whenever someone starts FFXIV i stay around to see if they ever get to this lol. welcome to shadowbringers!
This scene is also a reference to one of the most iconic scenes from FF7.
This is the reason I would advice any newcomer to first go to Alphi and do Ali second. After this, dont know about you, but I wanted to kill stuff and go berserk.
Also, dont think of "dark" and "light" as "evil" and "good" – even if its easy to think of it that way. It has nothing to do with that.