I got to the Durance of Hate and eventually reached what is formerly known in D2 as DoH level 3, walked like 10 feet and stopped. I GOT GOOSEBUMPS!!! I know this floor layout….
I thought the story was bad when playing it but your narration made it good and digestable. It has some lows and some highs but my god now i want to know what comes next! Keep up the good vids
Hello. I appreciate your comment and your point of view. In my opinion, after being SUPER dissapointed with Diablo 3 after falling in love with Diablo II, this Diablo IV I was expecting again a big sadness. To my surprise, I just finished it today without expansion, and I have to say that the Lore is very very good in my opinion. A lot of debate between what's good and what's evil. A lot of shades of grey about who is helping and who is not. Who will betray you. Why this guy have this motivation. Etc etc.
@@MagicAntuan92 people mad because they cant killl god like diablo mean while diablo 2 fucking stupid when a nephelim can destroy 3 prime evil in one game.
I like the fact that a Prime Evil isn't just easily dispatched by a random character in the world. And therefor he is setting up the revival of his brothers. I do however see the disappointment people experience, because we didn't even get to fight the real mephisto
As long as the eventual fight with the Prime Evil, or Evils, at some point-- does justice to THIS fight,- I'm happy with it. Not sure how they'll pull that off, but, the weight of fighting Mephisto's avatar and having us ONLY win because of Akarat's sacrifice? That was SERIOUSLY epic.
Yes my thoughts exactly. I hope blizzard is not going to rush this story now bc of the backlash from people that wanna fight te big Boyz.
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@@TheCrownedSunif the story goes slow like this. And mephisto plans will actually bear fruit. We might actually experience the war between prime evils and high heavens that imperius so desperately want to. But people will be so disgusted by the amount of DLCs needed to get there.
See, I know logically that this is what they are doing, but it felt like the base story was a setup for mephisto, and this dlc feels like a setup for mephisto. I know the next xpac will go hard, but it's hard not to feel left out in the cold on this, at least where the story is concerned. I'm a life long diablo player, and this xpac has so much great about it, I'm very happy with the state of the game, I just wish the campaign got as much love as the new class
What only happened in this expansion: 1. We saved Neyrelle. 2.......... I was disappointed we didn't get to fight Mephistos Akarat avatar and in the fight he could split his body in a gory ingame cutscene and have him take his true form. So Mephisto is still out there in Sanctuary. Where is Tyrael? Where is Lorath? Especially with this Neyrelle centric expansion. I was expecting some hints/tidbits about them and maybe even some foreshadowing of Baal and Diablo... or Imperius and the Angels (my theory is that Tyrael ran away from the Horadrim because he still has an Angelic connection and he got a vision showing Imperius is preparing his army to have his final war against Sanctuary and the Humans so Tyrael ran away to try to stop this from happening/doing something).
@@NyxVellum Thank you. I find the Angels and especially Imperius so fascinating and cool. I wanna see more of them. And they will come but I have a hard time waiting.
While ending is definately underwhelming, but at the same time it was what I hoped for. Defeating mephisto immediatelly would feel underwhelming, they obviously playing long con, so it all depends if they cook it right
@@vonb2792 Yes. He wanted an alliance with the player, the Wanderer. So Mephisto probably like a lot of times during the Eternal Conflict wants to betray his brothers and be the ultimate winner. Unfortunately the wanderer did not accept this.
This really looks like it was supposed to be the final chapter of the base game, but they decided they would make it the first expansion simply for greed's sake
The best moments is when they focus on Mephisto, neyrelle's struggle and well the evils of hell(And well the Church of Light part was nice to). Felt a bit short I enjoyed it, any parts I didn't mention felt weird/ I didn't care for.
Not sure what everyone is criticizing in D4 writing. Story is solid. Thick with despair and hopelessness. Calls back to every Diablo ever. Darkness comes, avatars are born and we are called to face the wars they bring. Calls further into question our decisions to slay our mother. Was she right? Creates new paths for us to follow in the future. Maybe not the most exciting and somewhat predictable but Diablo has ever been about “the cycle”. And evil lives in that wheel.
They cooked with the trailer but the story overall was ass, the ending felt super forced and pointless. The side vilain of the church felt so out of place as well. At least the new class is fun and there's more to do in the endgame. Hopefully they'll write something better for upcoming expansions.
It's setting up two story beats that will overlap in the future. Mephisto is likely going to hide in the body of Akarat and gain strength and tributes to bring back the other primevals. As for the church, it's more than hinted at that the church is failing. If the church fails then the angels get less tribute and become weaker. I'd imagine that they will eventually 'remedy' it. Can very easily see Imperius finally get the war he always wanted.
I feel bad for all past heroes of Sanctuary, Rathma, Tal Rasha, and now Akarat. They are recycled out to be messed 1 by 1, their shining heroic past and history becoming dull. If i were in Sanctuary, all good heroes bad ending, Heaven closed their door, nothing else can look up and better destroy the planet. Anyway, hope next DLC in Xiansai, where Akarat come from, one of the region never step in in any Diablo franchise yet.
I was really waiting for this video :D Great job as always and I'm looking forward to the story of Akarat. Now speculations going on: the next expansion MUST be about the Light and the Church's road to redemption, hopefully we get the holy-warrior class too finally.
So, Heaven has been remarkably silent, possibly still repairing/rebuilding Heaven after events in D3, Tyreal is MIA, Akarat is dead, and Rathma is dead. Meaning pretty much any meaningful help is either dead or missing, and we know that Mephisto is coming back in a more powerful body (Akarat's).
i didnt get any further than getting into kurast docks and started doing everything else instead of the story XD so thank you for putting this so well together. as i want to run my blood necro and felt underpowered to run my story cannon class... maybe i will finish it at a later date ^^
Thanks for a breakdown of the lore. 40 dollars is a lot for an expansion. Gonna wait for a sale. Hope the writing from the d4 team gets better with time.
I can't remember propperly, but someone said that the expansion's story won't be fully released at lunch and will be added in portions. May be alongside each season... Currently it didin't resolve. Mephysto returned to prepare for his brothers' return. Heavens are eerily silent... Tyrael is nowhere to be found... this is not a complete story. And judging by the Blizzards' Diablo expansions, we might have to wait for Diablo V to continue it...
Who knew that moment when you predicted this whole "expansion" story upon watching the trailer? Hatred now has hold of an entire faith that when revived, coupled with the shaken cathedral of light, will compel sanctuary to side with akarat (mephisto)
I love how the main character in this first-person RPG is ... Neyrelle. Also, has anyone kept track of how many characters follow the "oh, they were so good but they've been corrupted and now I have to kill them" trope? Honestly, in Diablo V we should just preemptively kill anyone who tries to help us before they inevitably turn evil :P
I get that the “light” was corrupted, but they should have made a holy sword and board path that stood up to the corrupted knights. Paladins and crusaders didn’t follow in inarius.
It's so wild how they fooled us all the time with the name of the expansion. When it was revealed i still rememeber hiw everyone was saying "we know it's the girl" When i found out they were basicall foreshadowing the end of the expansion i couldnt believe how smart the title actually was. I wasn't really that much invested into the story while playing and think it wasn't really told very well im still glad they didnt burn mephisto as a Bossfight yet and decided to build up on it instead. This was an incredibly well done video that hooked me every second even if i know the story already!
The whole expansion I was just thinking siding with Lilith would have been a better option. I hate participating in a story with a better solution constantly yelling at me in the back of my mind.
Dude, The game begins by telling you that the sanctuary fell, the prophecy was fulfilled, what you are playing is the past to see how the destruction of the sanctuary happened, you cannot make decisions because they have already been made.
Almost making me want to buy it. Diablo has been a franchise that influenced my enjoyment of datk fantasy and D&D. Just has a special place in my gaming soulstone.
I am looking forward to what's coming, but I wish it didn't come at the cost of using an entire bloody expansion as essentially a setup arc. And, as others have mentioned, the abundance of questions that have remained unanswered. Where the hell are all the angels and what are they doing?
"I saw my corpse, & from my mouth crawled hatred. A father burned his children on a pyre, & a mother molded a new age from the ashes. I saw the weak made strong, a pack of lambs feasting on wolves. Tears of blood rained on a desert jewel, & the way to hell was torn asunder. Then came a spear of light, piercing hatred's heart, & he who was bound in chains was set free." Interesting prophecy. It's broken down into 5 sentences. The 1st & 3rd I'm still stuck on, so maybe someone can fill me in on this with their thoughts. Although Mephisto is associated with the wolf, the lambs feasting on wolves could mean that something rises up to fight Mephisto. But the 2nd - "Father burned his children" makes me think of Inarius or Urivar, & that Reverend Mother Prava is the mother who molds a new age from the ashes (as referenced at the end of VoH). The 4th - "Tears of blood... Hell was torn asunder." obviously refers to Caldeum & how Lilith entered Mephisto's realm of hatred. This could reference the turning of events leading to Mephisto's imprisonment in the soulstone & his release as essentially hell broke loose with the Helltides, Neyrelle's journey in VoH, & how strong Mephisto's influence has been since the gates opened. The 5th - "Then came a spear of light... bound in chains was set free." I'm thinking this has something to do with the Mephisto-possessed Akarat.
It's no secret the writers attempted to sway the audience to appreciate Neyrelle's heroic sacrifice, sympathizing for her struggle, and admiring her strong and independent spirit. However such modern agenda move rang hollow as she looked alot more like a ranaway overconfident teenager who thought she knew better, that she alone could do this, and adults were men whose counsels are not worth consulting. She didnt know what she was doing/going and ended up unleasing disasters followed her wake and cause us to chase and bail her out. At least our D3 girlboss was abit more relatable , less lectury, trying to be helpful but met tragic end of not her choosing. Not sure why they devoted entire exp for this girl who just not long ago injected her way into our story, and dragging down an otherwise strong expansion in terms of gameplay and reworks of content
I was waiting for this video and wow - great job! Thanks Nyx! I saw lots of people criticising the VoH lore, but I really like it. It was a bold decision to not let us kill Meph yet, but I think him possesing Akarat's body opens a cool and nasty way for Mephisto to mess with the people of Sanctuary. Wonder if he will pretend to be Akarat reborn
I agree. I've seen a lot of negative reception to the lore but I'm also quite intrigued as to how we will battle Akarat-Mephisto. Hopfully the build-up will be epic.
Agreed. This just opened a lot of possibilities. With the cathedral of light in shambles, he's surely going to take advantage of bringing in more followers and start a holy war. Is he going to use the zakarum, the triune or start another religion perhaps being the antichrist now? This kinda feels we might get a paladin/crusader/templar like class next expansion as well.
@@MondianP with Prava becoming our bestie we might get a Pale?penitent Knight as a new class I think. And yeah - Meph seems to become an antichrist///antiakarat/ antirat :D
@@ajsti91 only thing I didn't like was Prava suddenly becoming our bff after getting screwed over in hell. Was hoping we took her out and not some nobody like Urivar lol. Kinda expected we wouldnt take out Meph right away though they're trying it differently though and doing it long term despite this expansion being a massive cliffhanger. Still think Lilith and Rathma would be back, Lilith's blood and Rathma's prophecy are still focal points of the story.
Your character literally got stabbed through the back sticking out your chest, with a gaping open chest/back wound you fell into swampy jungle water that in any real world would have parasites swimming up and laying eggs in your weiner, and you came out of it like it never happened. Neyrelle had another man inside her who gave her a relatively mild case of stigmata. Who has the real plot armor here?
@@notbrad4873 The question is WHY did our character get backstabbed so easily? We took out the daughter of a prime evil in a fight, yet we apparently are hopeless to noticing a guy moving behind us, backstabbing us with a dagger, not to mention we have taken far more devistating blows then a dagger that has done far less damage to us. I mean its plot armor with Neryelle is resisting a prime evils influence as the world around her is being corrupted because she gives a prayer? The horadrim struggled to find a way to contain Baal and the Wanderer's only solution was to embed the stone in himself to try and contain the evil. Far more wise and expereinced individuals have tried to find ways to contain a prime evil and quickly fell, yet a little girl can just casually carry the stone around and be fine? MInd you a prime evil that was at pretty much full regenerated power. The D2 hero only held the soulstones of the freshly defeated Prime Evils for a very short time after taking hold, while Marius having the soulstone SEPERATED from Baal in what would of been likely several months at most had mentally deteriorated.
Im honestly amazed and impressed you managed to spread out this story to 40mins. Without all the fluff in game you could easily tell the story in 5mins😂
From a lore stand point the expansion was great, as well as the lessons on grief,regret, guilt etc. All of that was handled really well. The problem is how short it was left alot of things that could have been truly peak moments as lackluster. Duders stabs us in the back and kicks us in water setting up for a major encounter later as well as reminding the player and the wanderer even though theyve killed lilith and have fought through hell they are still fragile and mortal. Dudes hunting down neyrelle as well. So outside the opening does he really pose any threat tension etc? Fuck no. We only see him again one more time when we kill him. He doesnt even come close to getting to neyrelle which could have lead to a proper threat outside mephisto and the stone to her. The ending felt rushed and the mephisto fight kinda just felt anticlimatic and there was basicly 0 actual fight to worry about. I woulf have liked for mephistos herald to feel like a proper threat in the fight as well. The the other dude betraying us felt like a easy to see happening ahead of time thing that was building so i didnt mind it but also i would have liked a bit more, for it to go darker. Neyrelle being saved felt like them wanting to avoid a Leah 2.0 situation which i do get. But the way neyrelles story was going id have actually liked to see the soulstone completely and permentantly take her and we get a full blown reborn mephisto fight. Also where the hell did lorath go? Dude got the lead to chase neyrelle then we never see him. Dude must of have gotten lost wherever the d3 nephillim went on vacation lol Over all from a lore and spectacle stand point and a lesson stand point it was great. But from a expansion and player stand point it was way to short, not enough was fleshed out and it feels like we only got half an expansion worth of length. I finished it all in maybe 6 hours outside of a bug where i had to redo the final quest cause i got dc'd before the portal. End game stuff is enjoyable and spiritborns also enjoyable. Tldr- good lore,good themes. to short, not satisfied,spiritborn fun.
Say what you want but Urivar was smart asf not wasting that opportunity to stab us while we were distracted. Like we the mfer that took out Lilith, it’d be dumb not to do that with how powerful we must be to survive hell as a Victor.
Thanks for this! Im a diablo lore fanatic and didn't want to buy this dlc/xpac. But as you said that you know it will repeat itself, talking about meph.......what if we get to go back to the city of the damned and destroy the soulstones on the hellforge again! GIVE ME THEM RUNES!
When I was playing through the story I was like ok cool I'll finish the rest of the story later. So I was looking for more story quest and couldn't find any and thought I had to finish citadel to progress through. Out of curiosity I checked out your video and was like that was the whole story...... for an expansion it felt underwhelming and thought we would be fighting Mephisto this expansion. Maybe they will include him in one of the seasons? If we have to wait for another year'ish to actually get Mephisto then wow that's gonna be a while. Plus they have to introduce baal and diablo at some point as well as the high heavens so they really are expanding the diablo universe.
I'm often critical of Blizzard, but credit where credit is due: they knocked it out of the park with the new expansion. The new systems are a big improvement, the new class is interesting, the writing is tight and almost poetic in some spots, and the story is scaled down and extremely personal. And its ultimate message about the perseverance of the human spirit was a wonderful change of pace for a series that can sometimes lean too heavily into edgelord nonsense. This is was a story about saving a single soul - a story about people helping each other through incredibly challenging circumstances, not about killing demons, and I love that. 10/10
Not super big on the story myself, felt it deviated from the tone of the series overall and was paced weirdly. That said, it is refreshing to see a different perspective and I appreciate yours
Cutscenes and Cinematics team doing the heavy lifting as usual, from D3 onwards. Meanwhile for the story directiion: MEH When Baal was introduced in LOD expansion, it so satisfying. Act 5 alone beats this plot.
For those that are b*tching that Diablo still didn't have an appearence on D4, here a little story recap: Mephi is the mastermind behind the events of D1 and D2, all three primes were captured and imprisoned, yet Mephisto was the one that was able to free himself and also corrupting the Zakarum. Mephisto was the one who sent Lazarus to free Diablo (D1), and the one ordering him to free Baal (D2). Baal corrupting the worldstone (D2 LoD) was also plan of Mephisto. If the three Primes were a body Diablo is the right hand, Baal the left hand and Mephisto the brain. It is a fresh breeze to not only see brash evil in form of Diablo, but seeing the other side of evil, manipulations, corruption etc. from Mephisto's side.
Inarius most likely got stuck in Hell to get Izual'd Lilith - not sure - Mephisto could ensure her permadeath or arrange for someone to conume her reforming esence. Can go both ways
Urivar was woefully underutilized but that's just my opinion. He could have been a real menace going forward but that's not happening. Side note, glad to see people being at least SOMEWHAT civil in the comments so far, and actually giving ideas instead of just spewing 'game bad, kys blizzard' everywhere. There are a lot of really great moments and while I can completely understand the disappointment that a lot of people felt but I think people either intentionally or unintentionally ignore a lot of the (or at least what I think are) genuinely good parts because they get swept up in the hate. (Go figure, given we are talking about Mephisto related things) Then again, I'm not a writer or a creative type so I'm definitely not the go to for any literary analysis of D4's expansion.
Yeah all this time you were thinking NEYRELLE was the veasel of hatred. That was a trick. Its was AKARAT that turned out to be the vessel. NO LORATH in the story too. Sneaky.
I don't know why but I disliked Nyriel from the very beginning and thought that she was a side NPC. So I was surprised that she became the main character. Anyway, that's just my preference, I'm all limbs for Inarius and Lilith hah. And yeah, where are other Angels and Evils? (At least smth they, the Devs, could have hinted smth, I don't know ) Lorath? I didn't understand what happened to him. Thank you for the video! Respect and extolment for passion for lore and narration skills.
it seems like they really gonna stretch the prime evil story this time, we got full game + xpac without ending any of the prime evils, its all like a set up so far, xpac feels like filler because of it Diablo 2 managed to tell way more with wayyyyy less
Thank you for this video mate. You spared me from having to buy D4, just to know the lore 😊 I love lore videos and I even got a D4 closed beta invite and played it, but when I played it I realised that I really didn’t like the gfx or the gameplay, so it made me wanna buy the game even less. People like you deserve a medal for your work 💪
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I got to the Durance of Hate and eventually reached what is formerly known in D2 as DoH level 3, walked like 10 feet and stopped. I GOT GOOSEBUMPS!!! I know this floor layout….
It was the layout being the exact same that got me. You can even see the knife you recovered in D2 at the docks!
@@Spencercf614 the gidbinn! Also the staff of ormus and khalim’s will fully assembled! Mah heart, mah soul 🤌🔥
Yeah, that really impacted me too. Hell, I was literally on a voice call with some friends at the time and I wasn't quiet about it. Amazing feeling.
Same.
SAME!!!
I thought the story was bad when playing it but your narration made it good and digestable.
It has some lows and some highs but my god now i want to know what comes next!
Keep up the good vids
Glad you enjoyed it!
agreed thank you for doing this!
Hello. I appreciate your comment and your point of view. In my opinion, after being SUPER dissapointed with Diablo 3 after falling in love with Diablo II, this Diablo IV I was expecting again a big sadness. To my surprise, I just finished it today without expansion, and I have to say that the Lore is very very good in my opinion. A lot of debate between what's good and what's evil. A lot of shades of grey about who is helping and who is not. Who will betray you. Why this guy have this motivation. Etc etc.
@@MagicAntuan92 people mad because they cant killl god like diablo mean while diablo 2 fucking stupid when a nephelim can destroy 3 prime evil in one game.
still pretty wokey
Great work. I really enjoyed the breakdown. I don't play the game, but I like the lore and this really helped flesh out the cutscenes I had seen.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are one of the best storyteller and narrator in the UA-cam platform. Hope to see you getting more recognition. Thanks Nyx!
Thank you very much!
Such a great narration... "the water flows dark and thick" .... "his face shows the weight of concern" keep up skillz!
Thank you! Means a lot.
I like the fact that a Prime Evil isn't just easily dispatched by a random character in the world. And therefor he is setting up the revival of his brothers. I do however see the disappointment people experience, because we didn't even get to fight the real mephisto
I agree!
As long as the eventual fight with the Prime Evil, or Evils, at some point-- does justice to THIS fight,- I'm happy with it.
Not sure how they'll pull that off, but, the weight of fighting Mephisto's avatar and having us ONLY win because of Akarat's sacrifice?
That was SERIOUSLY epic.
Yes my thoughts exactly. I hope blizzard is not going to rush this story now bc of the backlash from people that wanna fight te big Boyz.
@@TheCrownedSunif the story goes slow like this. And mephisto plans will actually bear fruit. We might actually experience the war between prime evils and high heavens that imperius so desperately want to. But people will be so disgusted by the amount of DLCs needed to get there.
See, I know logically that this is what they are doing, but it felt like the base story was a setup for mephisto, and this dlc feels like a setup for mephisto.
I know the next xpac will go hard, but it's hard not to feel left out in the cold on this, at least where the story is concerned.
I'm a life long diablo player, and this xpac has so much great about it, I'm very happy with the state of the game, I just wish the campaign got as much love as the new class
Thank you for making the video! Really enjoyed this one you are a great storyteller.
That's very kind of you, thank you! 😊
Thanks for the summary! Saves me the time and money to go through it myself.
You're not helping me get in the good graces of the Diablo team! lol
@@NyxVellum You're doing all you can with your delivery. Not your fault if the plot is sub par.
Same, I may get it on a bargain once more expansions have come out and the story is finally complete (and hopefully decent)
@AlviArin Don't hold your breath
What only happened in this expansion:
1. We saved Neyrelle.
2..........
I was disappointed we didn't get to fight Mephistos Akarat avatar and in the fight he could split his body in a gory ingame cutscene and have him take his true form. So Mephisto is still out there in Sanctuary.
Where is Tyrael? Where is Lorath? Especially with this Neyrelle centric expansion.
I was expecting some hints/tidbits about them and maybe even some foreshadowing of Baal and Diablo... or Imperius and the Angels (my theory is that Tyrael ran away from the Horadrim because he still has an Angelic connection and he got a vision showing Imperius is preparing his army to have his final war against Sanctuary and the Humans so Tyrael ran away to try to stop this from happening/doing something).
Honestly, all good points. I love the idea of seeing Imperius planning something big.
@@NyxVellum Thank you. I find the Angels and especially Imperius so fascinating and cool. I wanna see more of them. And they will come but I have a hard time waiting.
To me it sounds like Meph doesn't want his brothers around. He hinted we will need him for protection, didnt he? Or maybe it was just his lies
While ending is definately underwhelming, but at the same time it was what I hoped for. Defeating mephisto immediatelly would feel underwhelming, they obviously playing long con, so it all depends if they cook it right
@@vonb2792 Yes. He wanted an alliance with the player, the Wanderer. So Mephisto probably like a lot of times during the Eternal Conflict wants to betray his brothers and be the ultimate winner. Unfortunately the wanderer did not accept this.
After this expansion it cements the fact that siding with Lilith would have been the better decision.
It would have been a decision for sure haha
You are clearly blind to see what they are building up to
@@ademord Enjoy the next 5 expansions dummy
I love this video! Your storytelling is compelling and exciting, yet soothing to the ears. Also, this is an ad for your Akarat video right? XD JKJK
So in essence we have to clean up the mess Neyrelle created because she thought she was smarter than everyone else.
Blueprint for the girlboss🙄
Pretty much
This really looks like it was supposed to be the final chapter of the base game, but they decided they would make it the first expansion simply for greed's sake
The best moments is when they focus on Mephisto, neyrelle's struggle and well the evils of hell(And well the Church of Light part was nice to). Felt a bit short I enjoyed it, any parts I didn't mention felt weird/ I didn't care for.
Been waiting for this!!!! Thank you!!!
Hope you like it!
Not sure what everyone is criticizing in D4 writing. Story is solid. Thick with despair and hopelessness. Calls back to every Diablo ever. Darkness comes, avatars are born and we are called to face the wars they bring. Calls further into question our decisions to slay our mother. Was she right? Creates new paths for us to follow in the future.
Maybe not the most exciting and somewhat predictable but Diablo has ever been about “the cycle”. And evil lives in that wheel.
It's got good things and bad things. I like your thoughts!
They cooked with the trailer but the story overall was ass, the ending felt super forced and pointless. The side vilain of the church felt so out of place as well. At least the new class is fun and there's more to do in the endgame. Hopefully they'll write something better for upcoming expansions.
It's setting up two story beats that will overlap in the future. Mephisto is likely going to hide in the body of Akarat and gain strength and tributes to bring back the other primevals.
As for the church, it's more than hinted at that the church is failing. If the church fails then the angels get less tribute and become weaker. I'd imagine that they will eventually 'remedy' it. Can very easily see Imperius finally get the war he always wanted.
Is is weird I found the side villain story much more interesting than Nyrelles story xD
yes, expansions. we are going to fight Mephisto on the 4th expansion and Diablo on the 10th expansion. lots of filler expansion coming soon!!
@MrWiggz69 ya 2 basic ass story beats for 40$ what a great "expansion" 😂😂😂
"Hopefully they'll write something better for upcoming expansions" - disillusion
I think your videos keep getting better and better. Keep up the great work with the content. Another banger from Nyx.
Ah thank you
I feel bad for all past heroes of Sanctuary, Rathma, Tal Rasha, and now Akarat.
They are recycled out to be messed 1 by 1, their shining heroic past and history becoming dull.
If i were in Sanctuary, all good heroes bad ending, Heaven closed their door, nothing else can look up and better destroy the planet.
Anyway, hope next DLC in Xiansai, where Akarat come from, one of the region never step in in any Diablo franchise yet.
Finally was waiting for something like this. :) Dash isn't doing this anymore so you are our only hope now. :)
Really enjoyed the video. Earned a new sub! Keep it coming
Thanks for the sub!
You did a great narrative job! Keep it up!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was really waiting for this video :D Great job as always and I'm looking forward to the story of Akarat.
Now speculations going on: the next expansion MUST be about the Light and the Church's road to redemption, hopefully we get the holy-warrior class too finally.
The last scene was really unsettling, but also really beautifully done. 😨
Great video and thank you for going over this dlc!! 🙏
Thanks for watching!
Love the vid! Keep up the great lore videos
Thanks, will do!
So, Heaven has been remarkably silent, possibly still repairing/rebuilding Heaven after events in D3, Tyreal is MIA, Akarat is dead, and Rathma is dead. Meaning pretty much any meaningful help is either dead or missing, and we know that Mephisto is coming back in a more powerful body (Akarat's).
I dont care how the games are tbh, I just want the lore to expand 😂
i didnt get any further than getting into kurast docks and started doing everything else instead of the story XD so thank you for putting this so well together. as i want to run my blood necro and felt underpowered to run my story cannon class... maybe i will finish it at a later date ^^
Thanks, couldn't stand to sit through this in the game!
This video is 10/10.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Yeah. I was actually shocked that Mephisto managed to corrupt Akarat somehow.
He just took his body. Akarats spirit is gone to heaven.
Thanks for a breakdown of the lore. 40 dollars is a lot for an expansion. Gonna wait for a sale. Hope the writing from the d4 team gets better with time.
I can't remember propperly, but someone said that the expansion's story won't be fully released at lunch and will be added in portions. May be alongside each season... Currently it didin't resolve. Mephysto returned to prepare for his brothers' return. Heavens are eerily silent... Tyrael is nowhere to be found... this is not a complete story. And judging by the Blizzards' Diablo expansions, we might have to wait for Diablo V to continue it...
Interesting
Who knew that moment when you predicted this whole "expansion" story upon watching the trailer? Hatred now has hold of an entire faith that when revived, coupled with the shaken cathedral of light, will compel sanctuary to side with akarat (mephisto)
I’m early!
I’m really interested in how Mephisto talks to the Wanderer, is it still manipulation?
“This is not the end I wanted for us.”
It always is, don't trust him!
That's the issue with this. They had such a good manipulator and mind game player. They blew it. @@NyxVellum
I skipped the entire campaign dialogue cause I’m just no interested in ARPG lore but coming here has peaked my interest
I bet Lorath is seeking Tyriel. Could be Tristram?
I like this idea
It would have done better if the story didn’t seem rushed. Urivar was wasted. I was hoping we got more of him.
We might be getting a paladin or a Crusader or a templar in the new coming up expansion.
Don't give me hope! 😅
@@NyxVellumit’s a popular and most requested class no way blizzard is going to say no to that
Thank you for the awesome video! Your lore vids are brilliant! Can't wait for the next one!!
Thank you! I just released the new one/
Why is Diablo no longer the main villain? they might as well rename Diablo to Mephisto
Well done Bradah 🤙🏽
Do you make audio books? Great voice.
Amazing stuff, good narration, its like Vaati does for souls game.
I love how the main character in this first-person RPG is ... Neyrelle. Also, has anyone kept track of how many characters follow the "oh, they were so good but they've been corrupted and now I have to kill them" trope? Honestly, in Diablo V we should just preemptively kill anyone who tries to help us before they inevitably turn evil :P
Thanks for making this video and saving me money.
Awesome work!
Thank you! Cheers!
I get that the “light” was corrupted, but they should have made a holy sword and board path that stood up to the corrupted knights. Paladins and crusaders didn’t follow in inarius.
It's so wild how they fooled us all the time with the name of the expansion.
When it was revealed i still rememeber hiw everyone was saying "we know it's the girl"
When i found out they were basicall foreshadowing the end of the expansion i couldnt believe how smart the title actually was.
I wasn't really that much invested into the story while playing and think it wasn't really told very well im still glad they didnt burn mephisto as a Bossfight yet and decided to build up on it instead.
This was an incredibly well done video that hooked me every second even if i know the story already!
The whole expansion I was just thinking siding with Lilith would have been a better option. I hate participating in a story with a better solution constantly yelling at me in the back of my mind.
Dude, The game begins by telling you that the sanctuary fell, the prophecy was fulfilled, what you are playing is the past to see how the destruction of the sanctuary happened, you cannot make decisions because they have already been made.
@@Knight_of_Ren We are not playing a prequel. D4 is a continuation of the Diablo story.
Awesome video mate, appreciate it
Almost making me want to buy it. Diablo has been a franchise that influenced my enjoyment of datk fantasy and D&D. Just has a special place in my gaming soulstone.
Great rundown
nice video loved it
I have two words for this. And they're both "Nice"
God Tier narration bro!!!
I am looking forward to what's coming, but I wish it didn't come at the cost of using an entire bloody expansion as essentially a setup arc.
And, as others have mentioned, the abundance of questions that have remained unanswered. Where the hell are all the angels and what are they doing?
Mefisto is now an evil Jesus!!! Amazing narration! 👍
Thanks for this, want to keep up with the story; couldnt justify the purchase of vessel.
cant wait for new expansion
Me too!
Thank you for playing the game for us, so we don’t have to.
"I saw my corpse, & from my mouth crawled hatred. A father burned his children on a pyre, & a mother molded a new age from the ashes. I saw the weak made strong, a pack of lambs feasting on wolves. Tears of blood rained on a desert jewel, & the way to hell was torn asunder. Then came a spear of light, piercing hatred's heart, & he who was bound in chains was set free."
Interesting prophecy. It's broken down into 5 sentences.
The 1st & 3rd I'm still stuck on, so maybe someone can fill me in on this with their thoughts. Although Mephisto is associated with the wolf, the lambs feasting on wolves could mean that something rises up to fight Mephisto.
But the 2nd - "Father burned his children" makes me think of Inarius or Urivar, & that Reverend Mother Prava is the mother who molds a new age from the ashes (as referenced at the end of VoH).
The 4th - "Tears of blood... Hell was torn asunder." obviously refers to Caldeum & how Lilith entered Mephisto's realm of hatred. This could reference the turning of events leading to Mephisto's imprisonment in the soulstone & his release as essentially hell broke loose with the Helltides, Neyrelle's journey in VoH, & how strong Mephisto's influence has been since the gates opened.
The 5th - "Then came a spear of light... bound in chains was set free." I'm thinking this has something to do with the Mephisto-possessed Akarat.
Great narration. It was like listening to an actual book lol
There is a side quest, I forgot the name. Where we help a guy and he gets killed by a demon with a red soulstone. Is that Diablo?
Ouuuuh, what side quest is this??
@@NyxVellum It is in part 2 of Everything Old sside quest
It's no secret the writers attempted to sway the audience to appreciate Neyrelle's heroic sacrifice, sympathizing for her struggle, and admiring her strong and independent spirit. However such modern agenda move rang hollow as she looked alot more like a ranaway overconfident teenager who thought she knew better, that she alone could do this, and adults were men whose counsels are not worth consulting. She didnt know what she was doing/going and ended up unleasing disasters followed her wake and cause us to chase and bail her out. At least our D3 girlboss was abit more relatable , less lectury, trying to be helpful but met tragic end of not her choosing. Not sure why they devoted entire exp for this girl who just not long ago injected her way into our story, and dragging down an otherwise strong expansion in terms of gameplay and reworks of content
Can't stand nyrelle.....weak character....
I was waiting for this video and wow - great job! Thanks Nyx! I saw lots of people criticising the VoH lore, but I really like it. It was a bold decision to not let us kill Meph yet, but I think him possesing Akarat's body opens a cool and nasty way for Mephisto to mess with the people of Sanctuary. Wonder if he will pretend to be Akarat reborn
Thank you for the kind words.
I agree. I've seen a lot of negative reception to the lore but I'm also quite intrigued as to how we will battle Akarat-Mephisto. Hopfully the build-up will be epic.
Agreed. This just opened a lot of possibilities. With the cathedral of light in shambles, he's surely going to take advantage of bringing in more followers and start a holy war. Is he going to use the zakarum, the triune or start another religion perhaps being the antichrist now? This kinda feels we might get a paladin/crusader/templar like class next expansion as well.
@@MondianP with Prava becoming our bestie we might get a Pale?penitent Knight as a new class I think. And yeah - Meph seems to become an antichrist///antiakarat/ antirat :D
@@ajsti91 only thing I didn't like was Prava suddenly becoming our bff after getting screwed over in hell. Was hoping we took her out and not some nobody like Urivar lol. Kinda expected we wouldnt take out Meph right away though they're trying it differently though and doing it long term despite this expansion being a massive cliffhanger. Still think Lilith and Rathma would be back, Lilith's blood and Rathma's prophecy are still focal points of the story.
Glad Nerylelle has insane plot armor. Sure doesn't make me hate a character I disliked already even more.
Your character literally got stabbed through the back sticking out your chest, with a gaping open chest/back wound you fell into swampy jungle water that in any real world would have parasites swimming up and laying eggs in your weiner, and you came out of it like it never happened. Neyrelle had another man inside her who gave her a relatively mild case of stigmata. Who has the real plot armor here?
@@notbrad4873 The question is WHY did our character get backstabbed so easily? We took out the daughter of a prime evil in a fight, yet we apparently are hopeless to noticing a guy moving behind us, backstabbing us with a dagger, not to mention we have taken far more devistating blows then a dagger that has done far less damage to us.
I mean its plot armor with Neryelle is resisting a prime evils influence as the world around her is being corrupted because she gives a prayer? The horadrim struggled to find a way to contain Baal and the Wanderer's only solution was to embed the stone in himself to try and contain the evil. Far more wise and expereinced individuals have tried to find ways to contain a prime evil and quickly fell, yet a little girl can just casually carry the stone around and be fine?
MInd you a prime evil that was at pretty much full regenerated power. The D2 hero only held the soulstones of the freshly defeated Prime Evils for a very short time after taking hold, while Marius having the soulstone SEPERATED from Baal in what would of been likely several months at most had mentally deteriorated.
Every Diablo is the soul stone taking over the host turning into the next Diablo.
Im honestly amazed and impressed you managed to spread out this story to 40mins. Without all the fluff in game you could easily tell the story in 5mins😂
I wanted to cover the entire story. There are some good bits! I have another video which recaps the ending that is about 10 minutes.
@NyxVellum they need more story tellers like you at blizzard
Neryelle.......the worst storyline the diablo franchise has ever spewed out
I loved it
neyrelle cute so it's the best
@JoJoZaka no, it's the worst....by far
Neryelle might be another Leah but that would be too repetitive
@@feanorwindwhispers9936 another every character that has tried to take a soulstone.....it's been dun 4 times now
great video
Thanks!
From a lore stand point the expansion was great, as well as the lessons on grief,regret, guilt etc. All of that was handled really well.
The problem is how short it was left alot of things that could have been truly peak moments as lackluster.
Duders stabs us in the back and kicks us in water setting up for a major encounter later as well as reminding the player and the wanderer even though theyve killed lilith and have fought through hell they are still fragile and mortal. Dudes hunting down neyrelle as well. So outside the opening does he really pose any threat tension etc? Fuck no. We only see him again one more time when we kill him. He doesnt even come close to getting to neyrelle which could have lead to a proper threat outside mephisto and the stone to her.
The ending felt rushed and the mephisto fight kinda just felt anticlimatic and there was basicly 0 actual fight to worry about. I woulf have liked for mephistos herald to feel like a proper threat in the fight as well. The the other dude betraying us felt like a easy to see happening ahead of time thing that was building so i didnt mind it but also i would have liked a bit more, for it to go darker.
Neyrelle being saved felt like them wanting to avoid a Leah 2.0 situation which i do get. But the way neyrelles story was going id have actually liked to see the soulstone completely and permentantly take her and we get a full blown reborn mephisto fight.
Also where the hell did lorath go? Dude got the lead to chase neyrelle then we never see him. Dude must of have gotten lost wherever the d3 nephillim went on vacation lol
Over all from a lore and spectacle stand point and a lesson stand point it was great. But from a expansion and player stand point it was way to short, not enough was fleshed out and it feels like we only got half an expansion worth of length. I finished it all in maybe 6 hours outside of a bug where i had to redo the final quest cause i got dc'd before the portal.
End game stuff is enjoyable and spiritborns also enjoyable.
Tldr- good lore,good themes. to short, not satisfied,spiritborn fun.
Nedeed 2 more acts and kill Mephisto. They cheaped out this one. Was extemelly dissapointed.
Say what you want but Urivar was smart asf not wasting that opportunity to stab us while we were distracted. Like we the mfer that took out Lilith, it’d be dumb not to do that with how powerful we must be to survive hell as a Victor.
I was really invested until the end, it seemed like a bit of a anticlimax but I guess I shouldn’t have expected a 1:1 fight with Mephisto
Thanks for this! Im a diablo lore fanatic and didn't want to buy this dlc/xpac. But as you said that you know it will repeat itself, talking about meph.......what if we get to go back to the city of the damned and destroy the soulstones on the hellforge again! GIVE ME THEM RUNES!
Lorath had so much to say afterwards.. where the hell was he with his drunk a**
He was hungover 😂
When I was playing through the story I was like ok cool I'll finish the rest of the story later. So I was looking for more story quest and couldn't find any and thought I had to finish citadel to progress through. Out of curiosity I checked out your video and was like that was the whole story...... for an expansion it felt underwhelming and thought we would be fighting Mephisto this expansion. Maybe they will include him in one of the seasons? If we have to wait for another year'ish to actually get Mephisto then wow that's gonna be a while. Plus they have to introduce baal and diablo at some point as well as the high heavens so they really are expanding the diablo universe.
I'm often critical of Blizzard, but credit where credit is due: they knocked it out of the park with the new expansion. The new systems are a big improvement, the new class is interesting, the writing is tight and almost poetic in some spots, and the story is scaled down and extremely personal.
And its ultimate message about the perseverance of the human spirit was a wonderful change of pace for a series that can sometimes lean too heavily into edgelord nonsense. This is was a story about saving a single soul - a story about people helping each other through incredibly challenging circumstances, not about killing demons, and I love that.
10/10
Not super big on the story myself, felt it deviated from the tone of the series overall and was paced weirdly. That said, it is refreshing to see a different perspective and I appreciate yours
Thank you for this video.
ah, that`s what's going on behind my huge dmg numbers.
😂
great video, thanks.
Cutscenes and Cinematics team doing the heavy lifting as usual, from D3 onwards.
Meanwhile for the story directiion: MEH
When Baal was introduced in LOD expansion, it so satisfying. Act 5 alone beats this plot.
❤️ this video so much!
For those that are b*tching that Diablo still didn't have an appearence on D4, here a little story recap:
Mephi is the mastermind behind the events of D1 and D2, all three primes were captured and imprisoned, yet Mephisto was the one that was able to free himself and also corrupting the Zakarum.
Mephisto was the one who sent Lazarus to free Diablo (D1), and the one ordering him to free Baal (D2). Baal corrupting the worldstone (D2 LoD) was also plan of Mephisto.
If the three Primes were a body Diablo is the right hand, Baal the left hand and Mephisto the brain.
It is a fresh breeze to not only see brash evil in form of Diablo, but seeing the other side of evil, manipulations, corruption etc. from Mephisto's side.
Can Inarius ever be truly gone with the way angels are reborn? Or Lilith, for that matter.
Inarius most likely got stuck in Hell to get Izual'd
Lilith - not sure - Mephisto could ensure her permadeath or arrange for someone to conume her reforming esence. Can go both ways
Urivar was woefully underutilized but that's just my opinion. He could have been a real menace going forward but that's not happening. Side note, glad to see people being at least SOMEWHAT civil in the comments so far, and actually giving ideas instead of just spewing 'game bad, kys blizzard' everywhere. There are a lot of really great moments and while I can completely understand the disappointment that a lot of people felt but I think people either intentionally or unintentionally ignore a lot of the (or at least what I think are) genuinely good parts because they get swept up in the hate. (Go figure, given we are talking about Mephisto related things) Then again, I'm not a writer or a creative type so I'm definitely not the go to for any literary analysis of D4's expansion.
Well said
0:25 I’m sooo smart I did exactly what didn’t work in the past because I’m a woman!
#GirlBoss
Fetch quest after fetch quest. Just give me 6 quests to kill main bosses and be done with it.
Yeah all this time you were thinking NEYRELLE was the veasel of hatred. That was a trick. Its was AKARAT that turned out to be the vessel. NO LORATH in the story too. Sneaky.
Prava did not deserve a redemption arc especially after the shit she pulled in Hell.
Did you do a video on what’s coming next!
I don't know why but I disliked Nyriel from the very beginning and thought that she was a side NPC. So I was surprised that she became the main character. Anyway, that's just my preference, I'm all limbs for Inarius and Lilith hah.
And yeah, where are other Angels and Evils? (At least smth they, the Devs, could have hinted smth, I don't know ) Lorath? I didn't understand what happened to him.
Thank you for the video! Respect and extolment for passion for lore and narration skills.
So if I get this right. There is a chance Diablo and Baal could return to the series?
If there is ever another expansion or Diablo 5 there better be a Knight class.
it seems like they really gonna stretch the prime evil story this time, we got full game + xpac without ending any of the prime evils, its all like a set up so far, xpac feels like filler because of it
Diablo 2 managed to tell way more with wayyyyy less
It felt like a patch rather than an expansion in terms of story.
Neyrelle is to Diablo what Rey was to Star Wars ….a disappointing mess
Thank you for this video mate. You spared me from having to buy D4, just to know the lore 😊 I love lore videos and I even got a D4 closed beta invite and played it, but when I played it I realised that I really didn’t like the gfx or the gameplay, so it made me wanna buy the game even less.
People like you deserve a medal for your work 💪
What's the music in the background 38:40
Lilith Did Nothing Wrong
She still killed people pretty brutally actually
@flipyapd2321 to be fair how many people did we see our player character kill?
@@brandonvicbossmorgan Yeah but we defend ourselves
@flipyapd2321 Lilith kills 2 people in game we kill 1000's
And one of them Is her ex husband who kills their child