New Game Plus is here, so now I can finally relive these moments c:
Full Endwalker playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9JKBGWkVcPFI-hRz22xJPrwj82FciFeZ
Buy the official soundtrack: https://www.jp.square-enix.com/music/sem/page/ff14/ENDWALKER_ost/en/
FINAL FANTASY is a registered trademark of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
FINAL FANTASY XIV © 2010-2022 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
source
They really need to add a 'Instance replay' feature so we can relive fights like this without having to slog through hours of NG+, especially for unique fights like the G-Warrior, or whenever they rework old fights like Rhitatyn or Laha. I wouldn't even care if such a feature didn't offer any rewards, I'd just like to have the option to throw down with mom on command.
Either way, thanks for the moosics.
I was struggling as a blm here x'D when I used up two triple casts
Will never forget when I first did this fight and the guitar + vocals combo at 2:16 made me genuinely freeze on the spot.
Then 3:06 absolutely destroyed me. This song is so powerful, man.
am I hearing it wrong or does this song start off to late? Like theres a bit more before the vocals kick in no?
It's really hard to make me shed tears, but here we are. This game made me feel emotions.
Hey, a fellow Dancer for this fight! So fun
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
Wait, wrong song.
6.0 SPOILERS BELOW
I think this song is a beautiful reprise of what amounted to a war of wills between differing paths, but each of them in their own right meant well by it.
Even the antagonistic paths held merit in their own ways. Hermes, in the end, saw that there was more to existence than merely what the ancients felt — and his anguish at the loss of life, seemingly so callously rendered by those who had given it, led to a frustrated end for the ancients. Hades and Elidibus, both souls wishing to serve and protect their people — where Hades/Emet-Selch wanted to orchestrate the return of his people, his star, Elidibus's service was driven by the wish only to see his friends again.
Then you have Venat, who confides to you that the seemingly 'uncouth' decision to remain in life despite having completed her service to the Convocation was born of an opening, through the Traveler's path, to the realization that the world beyond was so much greater than the ivory tower they'd constructed in Elpis and Amaurot. Where Hermes became mired in the anger at how seemingly cruel the indifferent rendering to aether of creations given life, Venat saw the beauty of the world beyond, and became enthralled by it, unwilling to 'return to the star' voluntarily in order to continue to serve it, rather than just the Convocation or even her people. And through it all, a homecoming — more than merely the Warrior of Light, her protege, the successor to Azem, in part or in full, and the faithful keeping to that dream she and Venat shared.
It's an excellent example of how much more touching antagonism can be when it's not arbitrated as a matter of good against evil, but what is inevitably a far more confusing morass of choices, and the 'villains' that arise often being heroes to their own beliefs.