Hello! Hope you enjoy this one!
A few things to say!
Originally I was supposed to post this on Thursday but I noticed mistakes in some parts of the video that I had to delay it and render the video again. I really appreciate the patience if you waited!
As for story stuff..
I think Emet-Selch’s explanation in the Ocular somewhat confuses me a bit, so I might need to look up on it a little more to understand much better.
I also can’t help but love Alphinaud more than ever? I feel this part of the Kholusia section made his character whole, and completely redeemed.
But of course that is my opinion XD
The part about the meol, I said that it could be possible that eating meol could have them turned into sin eaters as well, but I could be wrong.
Anyways, yes!
Next part will not take long to wait(i hope!!) so please look forward to it as always! (((o(*°▽°*)o)))
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Sorry for the wait! Please enjoy! 😀
Is it just me or the volume of Ysa's videos is too low ? I can't play whilst watching >:
I feel like you and Bree are on the same release scheduel or something 😛 Almost always within hours of eachother. 👀
yay ysa uploaded a new vid!
Vis a vis Emet-Selch's explanation: the original unsundered world was split into 14 parts, with the Source being the "main" world and the other 13 being the Shards/reflections (I'm not actually sure what distinguishes the Source from the Shards, beyond the fact that the calamities merge the Shards with the Source specifically). The first attempt at a rejoining/calamity failed and resulted in the Thirteenth Shard becoming "The World of Darkness" (in the beginning of ShB, when Emet first reveals himself to you, he says that the world needs a perfect balance of light to bring a rejoining; on the Thirteenth, the balance fell in the wrong direction and the world is now flooded with darkness and unable to rejoin the Source) which was central Crystal Tower/Void Ark alliance raids as well as The Warring Triad plotline. Because 7 calamities have passed, your soul is 8/14th of the way to "reconstructed," hence why Emet-Selch is sticking around: he's a little curious as to whether you're what he considers "alive."
Ran'jit… first character of the Reaper Job.
Oo yay a new ShB vid, the road to the end is here
Also hello I was the BRD the other day in copied factory o/
Almost there boys and girls !
1:11:44 never noticed the poor dude XD
I always enjoy watching you going through the story! I love Emet so much, he is so dramatic! I also love the Chai couple, I think it's the first time in the game that we see a sweet healthy couple hahaha
I loved the moment you realized you had to do math 😱 in the shipyard. 😆
In case it wasn't apparent Il Mheg is a mirror of Coerthas
Emet explained it earlier in the video. What you "remember" is the past, as all of creation was once a single world composed of a single race which lived perpetually and in harmony with itself. It wasn't until the calamity and the summoning of Zodiark that disagreement tore apart their people. All current races are the splintered parts of this elder race's souls, forced to live limited lives, suffer sickness and disease, to be frail, weak, and ignorant of their former existence. The Warrior of Light is the most rejoined being Emet has encountered, outside of his other two peers, explaining your special strength as you are closer to your previous form than others and that is what makes him consider allying with the WoL as he is a very lonely soul. Essentially, it's Emet's plan to forcefully rejoin all of existence back together in the hopes of returning the world and it's people to the state they were before Zodiark and the calamity. The downside is the plan requires the deaths of 13 other worlds and all that live on them as well as uncountable destruction on the Source. The goal is eternal peace, harmony, and power returned to all of creation.
1:06:55 Rewatching/-playing really lets you see all the intricacies …
Maybe this is when it started to dawn on him, is it?
Hey Ysa, you seemed a little confused about the addition to the explanation part by Emet. It's not a spoiler so no worries there, but what he meant was that the people on the star were split as well. When he sees us, he sees what we were once and it sad and sickened by our imperfections. That we don't remember what we had, and that's why we fight so hard against him. The Source has been rejoined 7 times, that means the people on the Source– yourself as he pointed out– is seven times rejoined making your physical, mental, and soul power all 7 times stronger than when the original sundering happened. If the First were rejoined you would be 8 times rejoined and another step closer to being 'whole' again, from his perspective. Not only is he trying to bring back Zodiark, but his people– to make them 'whole' again.
A shame that such a great warrior such as Ranjit had to perish, but I understand why he did what he did in the end. "Doubt can kill even the strongest of warriors." Having seen so many grow up, train, fight and die under his tutliage its no wonder he chose this path, I guess it was ineviatable that we would cross blades. And now we head into the home stretch of ShB. Prepare yourself Warrior of Darkness, one warden remains, and like all the others he will not go down with out a fight. Can't wait for the next vid, we're so close to my favorite part of ShB!
It’s 14 worlds because it’s the Source and 13 shards, thus 14 worlds.
I find it hilarious you just stopped yourself mid sentence when Vauthry turned his head around like an owl. But we're almost there! 😀
21:00 OH SHIT. OH FUCK.
It's been so long since i watched this part of the game and man, the writing for Emet, the directing and the interpretation for the character are fantastic. A story is as good as its antagonist and Emet really elevates this one
6:22
Thancred: "oh bloody hell now I've got two to worry about"
Alphinaud has the best character development in the whole game, dont convince me! He is Louisoux the 2nd! xD
Cant wait to see the end
Finally, I can talk about the Ran'jit in the room. Much as I dislike the Ran'jit duel in Amh Araeng for it's gameplay. I hate the second one for it's story. Cause Ran'jit is after all our rival, our foil, the one opposed to our ideals of letting our surrogate daughter Ryne live her life the way she chooses… oh wait no, that's Thancred! Being the Foil to Thancred, Ran'jit would've been better off dying in Amh Araeng as the capstone to Thancred's arc. Having us repeat the same fight and the same mechanics again just waters it down. Thancred only gets to have a look at Ran'jit after we killed him and nothing more.
He had potential, but it felt like most of Ran'jit's development had to be left on the cutting room floor in order to get SHB out on time. It's a shame cause from the bits and pieces you get from that Thancred fight and his death quote you can infer more about what his actual motivations are, yet after chasing us through the whole expansion we only get those insights just before he's written out. They could have shaved down the Twine arc by a quest or two and found a spot to just toss in a simple Echo to Younger Ran'jit beaming with pride over how fast his current Minfilia was picking up his training. Or devastated and ugly crying over her eventual death and given us a much greater understanding of why he would go along with Vauthry.
/endrant
21:10 I don't know why but this made laugh so much. I was in bed laughing out loud!
I was so expecting an Oh MY GOD that the "fuck" killed me. 🤣
I do think Alphinaud redeemed himself. I did hate him a lot in ARR with him constantly sending me do his errands but Shadowbringer made me care about him and all the scions.
They feel way more like partners/friends now while before they were (for me) just glorified quest givers.
Ardbert and Emet are such well writter characters!
you're so right about alphinaud. the fact that there are still people who hate on him for his 2.0 self even though he's grown from there :/
Hey there were no tears this episode! Feelsbringers lays off for a little bit!
The "Ah, there you are… my precious girls…" line from Ran'jit is a sad moment.
In his dying moments, he sees the faces of all the previous Minfilias that he thought of as his daughters.
this is making me cry all over again :')
and thank you for those videos, they fill me with so much joy :3
So many people miss out on the lore bomb that Emet basically tells you he knew you before the sundering here.
It's only after you get to the final area at the very end of shadowbringers did I recall and finally understand what Emet Selch meant when he said "Not that you would remember"
SOmething I'm not sure if you did or not, but at one point, when you can talk to Emet before heading out again, (this was after qutana reval) in talking to him, he reveals that he, and his brethren, are all TEMPERED to Zodiark.
This was a serious revelation to me, and made me realize, there is nothing we can say, or do to dissuade him from his cause.
He HAS to do whatever it takes to revive zodiark because that's a part of him. Everything else is justifying his actions.
For more on the inspiration behing Shadowbringers, read Thomas Moore’s book Utopia.
That au ra singer hits everyone that remembers like a truck.
🙁
okay, so this got reccomended to me cause I been watching other playthroughs.
I've been watching Lucien ever since he started with Shadowbringers, and while he does fanTASTIC editing work,
he kind of gets caught up in some of the mechanics of the moment.
YOUR playthrough is YOU reacting to this as you and your chara would.
THAT's what I'm looking for.
Oh…
Oh no
5.3 is going to break her..