Is this one of the best cutscenes in Endwalker?! I recently started playing the Endwalker MSQ (main story) and had a very strong reaction to this cutscene telling us about Venat’s epic moment..
This video shows Annie’s reaction of the cutscenes in “Caging the Messenger” and “Thou Must Live, Die, and Know” in Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker patch 6.0
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26:34 Thou Must Live, Die, and Know
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Still remains one of the most impactful scenes in gaming.
venat was supposed to be covered in blood but for ratings wise they couldnt do that so they just made it like mud color
How sad playing games 24 7
The song of hope
She dances on the wind
When Venat's unwillingness to give up walking forward was juxtaposed with ours as we approached Hades at the end of Shadowbringers, I let out a very quiet gasp. When the cutscene ended I got up and took a little walk for about fifteen minutes. It still hits hard enough, more than two and a half years later, to get me choked up. "As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest." That line still comes for me and does not hold back.
Thank you for sharing this walk with us.
venat might be ny favourite character in all video games
24:10 this is why Hythlo’s phantom of the dead remembers you
DO NOT SQUANDER IT, the legacy he leaves you!
Fuck, that line hits so hard now. *tears
Fuck I forgot how hard Venat's walk hits 😭
The most impactful and strongest cutscene in the whole game…
The thing to keep in mind also is that all this happened over 10,000 years ago for the unsundered. There's an excuse that they probably might not remember finer details that were rendered inconsequential encounters by the memory wipe.
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We got her boys. Pack it up.
just gonna say on the whole 'this is our fault' thing- the Meteia were already sent out into space before we got there. things were already set in motion. all we changed is that we and Hydaelyn remember and can do something about it.
Well done well deserved cry for joy and love nothing less
I'm gonna say, consider this expansion came out while Covid still was very powerfully affecting life, Ishikawa saved probably a number of lives that is not zero.
Suicide rates were going up, and a blue bird of despair was poisoning the entire world. ( Then that blue bird turned full black and now called X, but another topic)
I've seen a lot of people react to this and say they decided to keep going on. If even %1 of them actually was going to kill themselves, that's something.
Omg prep a bucket and a towel! Also no need to hold back and cover your face, even the msq skipper i knew begged for explanasion and ugly cried in the end.
That writing, making people feel that things are real, in a very strange fictional universe, is pure and utter genius, the messages, the parallel with real life that people can't help but make in their heads and for anyone that has lost someone significant or even just thought about death and the meaning of life, this hits HARD
This cutscene wrecked me when I first saw it, had to step away from the game for like half an hour and lay down.
Imagine the long game Yoshi P played, this song debuted at the end ov 1.0, all the way back in 2012. And it came full circle.
…And amidst deepest despair…
Gawd I love Meteion, I really wish they made a wind up version. The bird does her no justice.
Ten thousand years of suffering alone, bearing the memory and the torch of humanity's hope. I can't even begin to imagine what that does to a person.
here to join the vampirism. yummy
I'm a grown man. This whole scene was powerful. It reminded me of Jesus taking on all our sins.
We all cry at that scene.
This game is a masterpiece. The level of story telling and relatability is just overwhelming sometimes. Such a genuine experience of the game. Thank you for sharing such a vulnerable moment so others can share their experience and understand they aren't alone.
i get teary eyed at many scenes in this game but not many made me actually cry like this one. The only other one was ardbert handing us his axe and most of the end of EW tbh
The Venat cutscene is my favorite cutscene bar none.
I still think it's so wild that we get two of the best cutscenes in the game in the exact same hour
The issue that I have with how Endwalker played out is that it makes it seem like the other Calamities were essentially allowed to happen because you weren't the Warrior involved. That the only point in the timeline that's actually important is the one that you're directly involved in. It also makes me wonder what the "point" of all the other prior Warriors of Light were if they weren't the ones that defeat the Endsinger.
Venat knows that there were 7 Calamities, by your testimony, and she knows that she cannot alter the timeline. It takes you from being a blessed and strong warrior to being literally the Messiah from God. It just bothers me because it effectively makes every other bit of history irrelevant in hindsight. That you were the finish line, not the racer.
It also really annoyed me how effectively every answer to the larger questions ended up being "the Ancients did it or were involved."
did she forget?
nope, thats the thing. she never did and was waiting for you the ENTIRE time…
I remember right after I finished this cutscene I yelled so loudly I woke up my roommate
Pretty sure we are both crying. hehe
Hermes is one of like three villains in this game that I hate more every single time I see him. It took me hours to give that panicking little girl a hug. His answer was more important to him than that terrified little girl, and he dares to talk about his planet's willingness to sacrifice the imperfect. Just no. Worst dad.
i legit was stunlocked after that cs. i discovered a whole new emotion
the moment she thinks its a happy ending
Suggestion to go back and listen to Fandanial's soliloquy after the Zodiark fight. There are so many parts of it that makes much more sense now that we know what he knew. Also to eccho what was said by others; it's nice to watch reactions from people who is present with the cutscenes and not their chat 🙂
In Hermes Memories, Meteon died up there. : '(
Also afaik we are in a fixed time loop. Hydalin remembered all the way. She did not spoil it to us though. Like a true msq enjoyer.
Light, everlasting.