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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro, Meteion’s Monologue
06:22 – Kairos Awakens
09:36 – Venat Breaks Free
12:45 – Hythlo & Emet’s Plan Succeeds
15:55 – A Chat With Venat
20:20 – The Aftermath of Kairos
26:40 – Reacting To What’s Just Happened
31:32 – One Final Moment With Venat
38:46 – The BEST CUTSCENE IN THE ENTIRE GAME!?
51:41 – Final Thoughts
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"do not squander it. The legacy I leave you" kills me every time.
The realization that they don't remember us, even though I knew it was coming, still brought me to tears. My friends q.q
The group of people praying to zodiark at the amaurot second boss location is a nice and sad touch.
Oh this just hurt my soul, I cried when I played through this part, it's like I was walking in pain and anguish with Venat, it was so beautifully done
"Twitter discovers Nihilism and makes it everyones problem"
FFXIV: Take Several Cutscenes
Imagine being the only person who knows why your world is ending, but being unable to convince others that they path they've chosen to take to save everything is the wrong one.
Credit to everyone at CBU3 for adding elements of Cassandra to Venat's character (Cassandra was the prophetess who was cursed by the Greek gods to be able to foretell the future, but be unable to convince anyone she was telling the truth).
As for how much Venat knew of the future, I'd say everything up to you going to Elpis. Proof of that is in Shadowbringers, when Minfilia tells Ardbert "your time has not yet come. When all hangs in the balance, you must give them hope." There's no way Minfilia would have known Ardbert's fate unless she'd been told by Hydaelyn.
I hate Venat. Genocidal bitch.
I had a dream about that scene one day, though. The last walk part.
No music, no speech.
And then the camera zooms at her face in the end and she says "……..It's-"
"MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUSSSSSSSS!"
… and the intro to Monty Python played.
Easily…EASILY…the best and the most poetic line in the entire IP. You know which one I mean.
Glad this popped up on my recommended and I was able to experience these scenes again. TY.
This cutscene STILL – STILL, after years now, breaks me. Every time.
I think of this cutscene every time im suffering or in pain, and it gives me strength. It helps to watch it when I'm sad.
It's strange, I wasted 20 years of my life on Christian bullshit, my biggest regret in life; and one of the reasons being how could God (if they existed) allow suffering and pain. And I went a decade thinking that question could never be answered to a point where I would be satisfied by the answer.
But along comes a freakin GAME, lol, a game of all things, where they present a situation where a god creates a world of suffering, and I fully accept it, based on the situation they are trying to overcome, as an acceptable reason to crate a world of suffering and pain. To defeat despair itself. To silence the song of Oblivion.
T0T God, this game is so friggin good. I can't wait to see what the next big arc turns out to be.
This scene is so powerful, that since I played it, I literally can't listen to Answers without my eyes watering.
Oh man. I am so thankful you shared this. So emotional. So powerful. Such great writing and the story… Oh man. This brought it all back.
Mans saying “how could they beat this” while walking up to the best cutscene in the game
Meteion's entire revelation is actually based on the Fermi Paradox (with a healthy dose of nihilism for extra flavor). Simply put, the Fermi Paradox assumes intelligent alien life exists, but the galaxy (nevermind the universe at large) is simply too large and impossible to traverse that by the time any kind of contact could ever be made, either they or us will be long dead and gone.
Venat is a phenomenal character, and they purposefully hid her from us till now, at least her motives and backstory, now its clear that no one has ever taken on more of a burden than her, all to prove that hope and life and joy can win out over despair, a will of steel.
Yesssss…. emotional vampire mode engage.
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Rewatching this still gave me chills like the first time
"Thou must live, die, and known." The Answer was there all along.
The thought that Emet may have regained his memories as he was disappearing when we ended him in 5.0 crushed me more than any other part of the story up to here
I was in tears during this. So good.
Shadowbringers changes you…
But Endwalker reforges you!
I remember hitting this point about 18 hours i to endwalker release and losing my shit because i had nobody else to talk to 😂
You will never hear "Answers" the same way again. It is stunning thinking about the foresight that, a song used to reboot 1.0 into A Realm Reborn would have this meaning and story behind it 5 bloody expansions later!!!… I will never hear "Answers" the same way, ever…
After you leave Elpis you finally understand the song Answers from the first game's cinematic. A 10 year old song that speaks about how can live have meaning if there is so much suffering and we are meant to die and Venat's answer saying BECAUSE that suffering and death and despite that you bring light and that light is the meaning. A little bit of light to the future generations forever in that quest to beat Meteion's despair. Truly just the best
my new old friend ; – ;
Aww I see you finished the Elpis arc
Hythlodaeus was created (the shade in Shadowbringers that is) by Emet's subconscious. It called you "my new oldest friend". I am certain that Emet remembered us in his sub conscious which is why the shade knew you.
But fuck man, your analysis after the first part, earned another sub.
Mother fucking Graha Tia! I know that's you under that mask and calling yourself "Fervent Ancient"! I recognize your voice!
And before Elpis I think many of us had considered the possibility of Hydaelyn actually being the villain at some point. They TRICKED US!!
EndyD20 has had an amazing journey through FFXIV this past year. I only recently found his videos here on YouTube and have now tried to watch his live streams and VODs whenever possible. You won't find a more honest, thoughtful or engaging streamer. I only wish I had been there from the beginning. Luckily the VODs are there. Absolutely the kind of detailed, analytical mind the devs/writers of FFXIV went to so much effort for. 😀
After starting to somewhat doubt Hydaelyn for not speaking to us for so long and learning she is a primal in Shadowbringers, meeting Venat and seeing she was always there with us even when we set out to put an end to her friend completely destroyed me.
I love how everyone seems to stop playing after that cutscene… but really, how can you not take a break after it?
It just leaves you with so many feelings, so much to think about.
If you don't need a moment after it then clearly the gane isn't landing with you
Months ago when Endy uploaded the stream of 5.3 during the cutscene before the gauntlet of heros, i mentioned in the comments of that video that the elzen man on the balcony of Eulmor said something like he was forgetting something that was dear to him.
This was the same reaction and emotion that overwhelmed hermies had during the true final days in amarot.
An echo in time.
This is so good. Endwalker is just so good. Not as good as shadowbringers but DAMN.
Also, you're gonna love the patches too 🙂 its also pretty neat