I did like Odin eventually giving context on why Benedikta became a slave to him. She was so filled with hate and yearned so much to be truly loved that his speech about a new world where the wicked of this one are punished and none allowed again would appeal to her. Even if it put her at odds with Cid. She was broken beyond repair like Clive said. She just wanted the world to burn and take everyone with her. That spark Cid tried save was extinguished a long time ago. Yet even before her death a sliver of it was there. She's that far gone. It's there, but it can never be reached again. That girl is gone.
Her music theme conveys both her rage and her sadness so well. Soken did an amazing job here. I can’t help but shed some tears when listening to Benedikta’s theme now. She became a bad person yeah, cause she had been broken by a wretched world. Not inherently bad.
There is no such thing as inherently bad or good. We are either a good or bad and she was bad. Her circumstances might explain the why, it does no justify her actions. She is a bad person.
Benedikta was a bad person due to her choices there is no sadness. It's all subjective. When you are in power you act all trashy and when you lose them you suddenly remember how sad your past was. That's bs lol
@@desion yes there is. what you said is completely false. as you said every person's circumstances are different and they have a direct influence on how they become in the future but you cant say that a bad person remains a bad person or he is just born bad lol. people can change. there are murderers and criminals who turn a new leaf and become righteous individuals but they need the right guidance. benedikta was a good person during her time with cid and she truly loved him and her intentions were noble at the time but got corrupted when she was influenced by the king mostly under ultima's influence.
Knowing that Clive could have their power without needing to kill them made me wish that she stuck around a bit longer just gradually gaining more anger and frustration as time went on
FF keeps getting more and more beautiful. Most overpowered fight scenes these days just come as flashy to me, but this one I can actually feel the weight of power and destruction. The effect are supernatural but still grounded, much better than giant light cones or explosive spheres/rings. A great work of arts!
41:47 I felt sad hearing Cid talk to Benadikta because he felt like he could save her from Barnabas/Odin’s clutches of manipulation, but in the end, she never followed the truth. To be honest, it reminds me of how the world is right now. Lots of people try to run from the truth and in the end, they would either get hurt or killed verbally or physically.😢
Those who get killed off this early is just a sign that they were never gonna change for the better. Its just like Clive said to Kupka after, she was beyond saving, and someone so set in such flawed views, will get no sympathy from me.
@@NycroLP haha, She was just taken advantage of and led her in the wrong direction, it would be better if they let her live and become Clive's ally, I find Benedikta quite poor
What I don’t understand is how she turned into Garuda after losing her powers? Also for some reason I didn’t think she died here, that’s why I came to this video. Edit: and how did Cid not kill Clive when he took down Ifrit?
Clive didn’t take all of her power. He took a enough of it, comparable to the fragment he got when Joshua blessed him, that in her exhausted state, left her unable to call upon Garuda temporarily. Least until she lost it
Do you kill a bird by taking just one feather? What stopped her from transforming and using magic was not the loss of it, it was mixture of shock due to loss, in a fight unstable mental state and the fact that she was temporarily weakened by both battle fatigue and taking away some of her power.
So stupid they killed her off so early, especially since she started to become interesting Edit: can I just make something clear I enjoy this game quite a bit I’m now doing new game plus it’s a good game, it’s just Benedikta was wasted, they promoted her and the other eikons ssooooo much just for her to die in the first 3 hours I feel it was quite stupid to do that, whatever
How about you grow some pair and understand than in a mature and dark setting, even the most interesting characters can die a dog's death of it comes down to it. Just because they started getting interesting doesn't mean they'll make it through. Benedikta was intentionally killed off the moment we started feeling sympathetic to teach how grim and unforgiving the world of valisthea is.
@@rances4418 do you even hear yourself? If your going to throw a bitch fit every time someone on the internet has an harmless opinion you don’t like then maybe it’s a sign you should be on here less
Both Clive and Benedikta turned into giant regenerating monsters. Both were struck with a massive attack that ended their monster rampage... yet she died and he did not. What are the rules of this Universe? When I got to this point, I didn't even know she was dead. I just assumed she was unconscious like EMO John Snow.
I mean, Clive lost himself to Ifrit by Ifrit taking him over forcibly, Benedikta wanted to die and take the world with her due to a mental breakdown - she was pretty much dead the moment she transformed as it was not a rampage due to lack of control, it was a controlled act of fully giving herself over to the Eikon. You could say that Clive was kidnapped by Eikon while Benedicta commited suicide by Eikon.
@@justinkairouz2007 Yeah, Sleipnir kind of confirmed it when he said to Barnabas "Hugo Kupka, the man who gave his life for a woman's head" so it was either Barnabas or Sleipnir but most likely Barnabas due to who he works for.
I kinda love the irony - the woman that manipulated other peoples psyches and controlled men via sex died during a rape attempt when her own psyche broke and she got irreversibly possessed by Garuda.
-- SPOILER -- . . . I really, really liked her as a well-written character and thought she'd be "back". Oh well, I guess that what makes her a memorable character in the end.
MF be like "Yeah, a crazy psycho bitch, selfish as fuck, murderous, immoral and sexually loose, just my type of girl" only to later cry "Why can't I find any normal girl?" - because you think with your dick bro. Like, holy fuck, just 15 years ago nobody would care about her in a waifu type of way, the hell is wrong with people now?
The game got 20% less awesome when she died this early in the game. With Cid and Clive easily the coolest and most interesting character. Completely wasted!
I kinda like that we able to do away with her early clearly she lost with her powers and she was brutal . She also was so cocky i thought she be a later fight with super strenght . The writters did good job of getting rid of her early she became quite annoying to behonset
I had my concerns going in about how Benedikta would be portrayed, and I was hoping I’d be proven wrong. But this is just… not doing it for me. What we knew of her story was devastating, but I wish it had been given the respect it deserved. Not a fan of how her trauma and death were given little purpose other than to further the arcs of the other male characters. I’m accustomed to seeing women sexualized in video games, and that’s one thing. But Benedikta was clearly abused, manipulated, and victimized throughout her young life, and the game treated her like little more than a sex object for the audience to ogle at and drool over. Disappointed in that.
What? I don’t think you played the game if that’s what you saw. Sure her story was a tragedy but what people don’t understand is having bad things happen to you doesn’t allow you to do shitty things to others. She did a lot of crappy things to people and to be honest I doubt she wanted redemption. Her death is fitting and honestly moved the story forward for a lot of characters in a way. Also she isn’t used a sex object more like she just uses her sex appeal to get her way. Think seductress. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I’ve played the game well past her section and that’s exactly what I saw. I have no problem with her being an antagonist or getting comeuppance for doing terrible things. But her story absolutely plays like "physically powerful but emotionally unstable female character gets punished because she just didn’t let herself be saved by the guy who loved her all along" in my opinion. While some guys are about to kidnap and presumably rape her, she even asks herself if this is her punishment for not listening to Cid, which really shouldn’t be the point. I could see why she might feel that way in the moment, but it just goes to show how desperate in seeking safety and validation she is, and the game cuts short her opportunity to realize that. Like I said, Benedikta’s story is a tragedy, and the fact that she dies in and of itself isn’t an issue. But I don’t care for the fact that she’s one of the few major female characters in the game and her story is cut short to create motivation for other male characters. Meanwhile, she’s heavily sexualized onscreen and shown naked in multiple visions after her death by the men she seduces, which feels to me like a disrespectful way to manage a character who’s been abused and sexually assaulted, especially if you’re not going to do anything else with the character other than show them use and be used by others and then get violently killed. I have no issue with depicting tragedy or showing how cruel the world of Valisthea can be, but the portrayal of Benedikta just wasn’t to my taste. Which is too bad for me because I’ve largely been happy with most of the female characters of Final Fantasy over the years. I’m sure not everyone will agree with me, but that’s what I took away from it.
I felt Benedikta filled her roll just fine. Shes someone who felt like she was better because of her power and wanted to be up there and would use any tool to do so. The one thing that held her back was the love she still had for cid which she finally threw away because he didn't want to serve the king. She tossed away the man who would take her in no matter what and once she lost her powers she finally snapped as she felt like she had nothing and hated the world for it. As a intro boss villain with a dash a tragic past she aint bad. She also was a powerful character being able to dish out damage.
@@supremeoverlorde2109I can see where you are coming from. I just see it as some people realize the very thing that can be taken from them is also a weapon they can use to manipulate/placate others. Her trauma wasn't handled with the most tact. It would have been better if she was in the game longer if that type of abuse was going to be explored. Her thinking about her true love as she lost hope was rather fitting. Honestly all the Dominants seem to live less than desirable lives.
So are you equally upset over cid, who literally just exists to die and give Clive an excuse to move beyond his two bit edgy vengeance modus operandi, or is this just shitty third wave feminism looking for problems where there are none?
I did like Odin eventually giving context on why Benedikta became a slave to him. She was so filled with hate and yearned so much to be truly loved that his speech about a new world where the wicked of this one are punished and none allowed again would appeal to her. Even if it put her at odds with Cid. She was broken beyond repair like Clive said. She just wanted the world to burn and take everyone with her. That spark Cid tried save was extinguished a long time ago. Yet even before her death a sliver of it was there. She's that far gone. It's there, but it can never be reached again. That girl is gone.
Her music theme conveys both her rage and her sadness so well. Soken did an amazing job here. I can’t help but shed some tears when listening to Benedikta’s theme now. She became a bad person yeah, cause she had been broken by a wretched world. Not inherently bad.
There is no such thing as inherently bad or good. We are either a good or bad and she was bad. Her circumstances might explain the why, it does no justify her actions. She is a bad person.
Benedikta was a bad person due to her choices there is no sadness. It's all subjective. When you are in power you act all trashy and when you lose them you suddenly remember how sad your past was.
That's bs lol
@@desion yes there is. what you said is completely false. as you said every person's circumstances are different and they have a direct influence on how they become in the future but you cant say that a bad person remains a bad person or he is just born bad lol. people can change. there are murderers and criminals who turn a new leaf and become righteous individuals but they need the right guidance. benedikta was a good person during her time with cid and she truly loved him and her intentions were noble at the time but got corrupted when she was influenced by the king mostly under ultima's influence.
Soken has done some insane work for ff 14. Up there with nobuo now imo. Check it out
It's the moment where Cid started walking faster that got me.
Knowing that Clive could have their power without needing to kill them made me wish that she stuck around a bit longer just gradually gaining more anger and frustration as time went on
FF keeps getting more and more beautiful. Most overpowered fight scenes these days just come as flashy to me, but this one I can actually feel the weight of power and destruction. The effect are supernatural but still grounded, much better than giant light cones or explosive spheres/rings. A great work of arts!
Benedikta's performance is one of the best voice acting I've seen.
41:47 I felt sad hearing Cid talk to Benadikta because he felt like he could save her from Barnabas/Odin’s clutches of manipulation, but in the end, she never followed the truth.
To be honest, it reminds me of how the world is right now. Lots of people try to run from the truth and in the end, they would either get hurt or killed verbally or physically.😢
Those who get killed off this early is just a sign that they were never gonna change for the better. Its just like Clive said to Kupka after, she was beyond saving, and someone so set in such flawed views, will get no sympathy from me.
You don't have to feel sorry for a character; all that the story asks is that you understand them on some level.
Wow. Most accurate and relatable comment in this comment section
Dang i wish she could have been in most of the game. I wouldn't mind spending time under the warmth of her wings
She was so good, it's a pity she died, fuck
Yes... So sad when Cid called her "Benna...." :(
She will live on in our hearts and r34.
@@NycroLP haha, She was just taken advantage of and led her in the wrong direction, it would be better if they let her live and become Clive's ally, I find Benedikta quite poor
@@AiPhuong98 Agreed. This game definitely lacks character dynamic. Bedikta as an alley definitely would spice things up.
Torgul is such a chad dog.
Ifrit awaking is some of the best ahit ive seen
Bruh, why the heck my waifu died so fast 💀. She is the only hot girl in the story so far.
Why the heck are so many jrpg fan such losers. Seriously, waifu?
Zidane.
Die die die die
Benediktas last words:
What I don’t understand is how she turned into Garuda after losing her powers?
Also for some reason I didn’t think she died here, that’s why I came to this video.
Edit: and how did Cid not kill Clive when he took down Ifrit?
Clive didn’t take all of her power. He took a enough of it, comparable to the fragment he got when Joshua blessed him, that in her exhausted state, left her unable to call upon Garuda temporarily. Least until she lost it
He took her blessing like he did Joshua back in the day. He has the abilities but can not transform into the Summons
Do you kill a bird by taking just one feather? What stopped her from transforming and using magic was not the loss of it, it was mixture of shock due to loss, in a fight unstable mental state and the fact that she was temporarily weakened by both battle fatigue and taking away some of her power.
Thank you all so much for replying. It makes much more sense now.
@@LordBrozart anytime man
So stupid they killed her off so early, especially since she started to become interesting
Edit: can I just make something clear I enjoy this game quite a bit I’m now doing new game plus it’s a good game, it’s just Benedikta was wasted, they promoted her and the other eikons ssooooo much just for her to die in the first 3 hours I feel it was quite stupid to do that, whatever
It's so irritatingly contrived as well, the pacing is botched.
How about you grow some pair and understand than in a mature and dark setting, even the most interesting characters can die a dog's death of it comes down to it. Just because they started getting interesting doesn't mean they'll make it through. Benedikta was intentionally killed off the moment we started feeling sympathetic to teach how grim and unforgiving the world of valisthea is.
@@jonasfadi8213people are allowed to criticise it my god
@@chiarin3461
And we are able to criticize those opinions XD
@@rances4418 do you even hear yourself? If your going to throw a bitch fit every time someone on the internet has an harmless opinion you don’t like then maybe it’s a sign you should be on here less
anyone knows the music track name 24:25
Both Clive and Benedikta turned into giant regenerating monsters. Both were struck with a massive attack that ended their monster rampage... yet she died and he did not. What are the rules of this Universe? When I got to this point, I didn't even know she was dead. I just assumed she was unconscious like EMO John Snow.
The rules?
Rule number 1. Be the main character
Rule 2. Don’t not be the main character.
Clive was hit by an attack by Cid who did not aim to kill him. Clive was in berserk mode when he was attacking Benedikta so he was out to kill.
Clive literally incinerated her as he was out of control.
Ifrit literally burned her alive so that’s probably why…
I mean, Clive lost himself to Ifrit by Ifrit taking him over forcibly, Benedikta wanted to die and take the world with her due to a mental breakdown - she was pretty much dead the moment she transformed as it was not a rampage due to lack of control, it was a controlled act of fully giving herself over to the Eikon.
You could say that Clive was kidnapped by Eikon while Benedicta commited suicide by Eikon.
how her head get chopped off with Hugo scene?
I believe it's Barnabas Tharmr's, the Odin dominant, doing
@@NiCeNuKNaN ah makes sense, thanks!
@@NiCeNuKNaN I always wondered who chopped off her head? Was it actually Barnabas?
@@justinkairouz2007 Yeah, Sleipnir kind of confirmed it when he said to Barnabas "Hugo Kupka, the man who gave his life for a woman's head" so it was either Barnabas or Sleipnir but most likely Barnabas due to who he works for.
Probably Sleipnir.
I kinda love the irony - the woman that manipulated other peoples psyches and controlled men via sex died during a rape attempt when her own psyche broke and she got irreversibly possessed by Garuda.
-- SPOILER --
.
.
.
I really, really liked her as a well-written character and thought she'd be "back".
Oh well, I guess that what makes her a memorable character in the end.
R.I.P. My waifu
thank god RIP Waifu Benedikta to Trash BYE BYE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My Husbando Clive Rosfield and Cidolfus Telamon Best Alive
@@hidownloads4850No margrace fans?
@@axionlightedge6108 Cidolfus Telamon FF16 like.
Typical pathetic incel guy 😂
MF be like "Yeah, a crazy psycho bitch, selfish as fuck, murderous, immoral and sexually loose, just my type of girl" only to later cry "Why can't I find any normal girl?" - because you think with your dick bro.
Like, holy fuck, just 15 years ago nobody would care about her in a waifu type of way, the hell is wrong with people now?
The game got 20% less awesome when she died this early in the game.
With Cid and Clive easily the coolest and most interesting character.
Completely wasted!
She tried to kill Torgal. 900/10 would hellfire again.
I kinda like that we able to do away with her early clearly she lost with her powers and she was brutal . She also was so cocky i thought she be a later fight with super strenght .
The writters did good job of getting rid of her early she became quite annoying to behonset
I wonder why she died so early. 😭
'Girl in the freezer'. Give us a whole trailer for one character, then beat her to death.
Huh.
Because the writers clearly didn't have any more use for her, so into the fridge she goes
🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧵🪀🧠
oh no😢 Is Benedikta dead 😢？
Yep. First to go long time till any more dominant deaths.
Yes bro
Yes. As far as I know totally killing an Eikon form while they are in their Dominant also kills the Dominant.
more
her tragic story is a bait to her early death. wasted character potential really.
More
pretty sad 😭
Her va is so good, such sexy voice
Devil May Cry in FF skin😮.
i love it
I'm so glad she is dead.
I couldn't bring myself to buy the game, but I played the demo and....I am so happy watching this.
So much for the M ratings.🤷♂️
I had my concerns going in about how Benedikta would be portrayed, and I was hoping I’d be proven wrong. But this is just… not doing it for me.
What we knew of her story was devastating, but I wish it had been given the respect it deserved. Not a fan of how her trauma and death were given little purpose other than to further the arcs of the other male characters. I’m accustomed to seeing women sexualized in video games, and that’s one thing. But Benedikta was clearly abused, manipulated, and victimized throughout her young life, and the game treated her like little more than a sex object for the audience to ogle at and drool over. Disappointed in that.
What? I don’t think you played the game if that’s what you saw. Sure her story was a tragedy but what people don’t understand is having bad things happen to you doesn’t allow you to do shitty things to others. She did a lot of crappy things to people and to be honest I doubt she wanted redemption. Her death is fitting and honestly moved the story forward for a lot of characters in a way. Also she isn’t used a sex object more like she just uses her sex appeal to get her way. Think seductress. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I’ve played the game well past her section and that’s exactly what I saw. I have no problem with her being an antagonist or getting comeuppance for doing terrible things. But her story absolutely plays like "physically powerful but emotionally unstable female character gets punished because she just didn’t let herself be saved by the guy who loved her all along" in my opinion. While some guys are about to kidnap and presumably rape her, she even asks herself if this is her punishment for not listening to Cid, which really shouldn’t be the point. I could see why she might feel that way in the moment, but it just goes to show how desperate in seeking safety and validation she is, and the game cuts short her opportunity to realize that.
Like I said, Benedikta’s story is a tragedy, and the fact that she dies in and of itself isn’t an issue. But I don’t care for the fact that she’s one of the few major female characters in the game and her story is cut short to create motivation for other male characters. Meanwhile, she’s heavily sexualized onscreen and shown naked in multiple visions after her death by the men she seduces, which feels to me like a disrespectful way to manage a character who’s been abused and sexually assaulted, especially if you’re not going to do anything else with the character other than show them use and be used by others and then get violently killed.
I have no issue with depicting tragedy or showing how cruel the world of Valisthea can be, but the portrayal of Benedikta just wasn’t to my taste. Which is too bad for me because I’ve largely been happy with most of the female characters of Final Fantasy over the years. I’m sure not everyone will agree with me, but that’s what I took away from it.
I felt Benedikta filled her roll just fine. Shes someone who felt like she was better because of her power and wanted to be up there and would use any tool to do so. The one thing that held her back was the love she still had for cid which she finally threw away because he didn't want to serve the king. She tossed away the man who would take her in no matter what and once she lost her powers she finally snapped as she felt like she had nothing and hated the world for it. As a intro boss villain with a dash a tragic past she aint bad. She also was a powerful character being able to dish out damage.
@@supremeoverlorde2109I can see where you are coming from. I just see it as some people realize the very thing that can be taken from them is also a weapon they can use to manipulate/placate others. Her trauma wasn't handled with the most tact. It would have been better if she was in the game longer if that type of abuse was going to be explored. Her thinking about her true love as she lost hope was rather fitting. Honestly all the Dominants seem to live less than desirable lives.
So are you equally upset over cid, who literally just exists to die and give Clive an excuse to move beyond his two bit edgy vengeance modus operandi, or is this just shitty third wave feminism looking for problems where there are none?