Hell yeah! NEVER regret those feelings! They're yours and this was YOUR story as much as it was mine and everyone's! It's so personal and yet so beautifully relatable at the same time. Own that ugly cry!
I think you are freaking ONTO SOMETHING HERE. And you know what, I will whole heartedly give her every tear should she continue writing freaking glorious stories like this one, GOSH.
@@elibbabats Sort of like Soken is the Bard of Light? Side note, dunno if you knew this, but the singer for the Ultima Thule theme was Raubahns VA, Jason Miller.
@@omegagilgamesh You're right. It was the ARR VA, as I believe the characters VA was changed to Nicholas Boulton later. Specifically in Stormblood is when the change was made.
To quote a friend re: Emet-Selch. In the span of 10 minutes he: 1: comes back from the afterlife 2: Complains 3: Calls a little girl mid. 4: Makes her cry. 5: Compliments you. 6: Calls himself cringe 7: Says "I'm still right tho'" 8: Makes YOU cry 9: Calls you a slacker 10: Peace out to spite a dead goddess and old friend. … Inviolate principles indeed. No. 1 hater energy. I love him so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed the journey.
This is the best thing I’ve ever read, omg 😂 I absolutely needed this while going through Las Vegas Airport (Savage) post Fan Fest right now. I freaking love Emet with my whole being and I’m so curious how they’ll weave him back into the story in the future. 🥹
This has been my favorite thing to do on UA-cam. Watching other people's reactions to experience the pain through others once more. It's all I have left, since I'm now just doing Hildibrand quests, lol
I remember the literal pain I felt in my chest with Estinien and the realization that they might NOT come back after all. As cheesy as this might sound, it's honestly something I will never ever forget and I'm so grateful for the experience of going through such an impactful story. holy MOLY. ;-;
Even to this day when I go to Ultima Thule to farm, I am greeted with this overwhelming rush of emotions. You can't help but to hum the tunes and think about all those years of adventures.
Agreed! There's been many times where I've gone there to farm something and I just end up flying up to the Elpis-flower grove and just sit there, feeling all the feels. I won't lie, though... It took me awhile to work up the courage to go back there with the music playing, lol. I was just so distraught (but... in a good way? *thinks*) after going through all of this, Close in the Distance just tore the wound in my heart open each time I heard it for awhile. I just know I'm going to be a balling MESS at Fan Fest when I hear it! I'm SO ready for that, lol.
The fact that Close In The Distance isn't complete until after G'raha's sacrifice, that the lyrics don't come into play until after he fades... It's almost like he's the one singing to us. His part broke me, especially once the song played in full. G'raha is the reason I even continued playing XIV. During Stormblood's launch when Crystal Tower was still optional, I was close to quitting for good due to various reasons. But, doing the side quests on a whim, and seeing him go to sleep knowing that his future would be guided by our legacy, gave me enough incentive to keep going. And I'm glad I did.
I’m so glad you did too!! I hope you continue to love the game and have a great time with it! ❤️ More adventures with G’raha to be had! We made him a promise. 😭🥹
I chose Graha to visit me at the inn. Rough time in my life. He said words I needed to hear. So this part felt like "too soon!" I rarely cry but I cried here. Even tho I had asked a friend to spoil me that he'd be ok I WAS REKT.
I finished last week. I’m 43, stepdad, veteran, Jiu Jitsu player. The moment the music with vocals came on I was in pieces. The voices of the past made it even worse. I texted my wife that I’m crying in the other room. She came over to hug me. I can rarely cry. This one did me in.
It’s so wonderful she was there to give you a hug and console you! I feel like everyone deserves that after going through something as emotionally powerful as Endwalker was! ❤️ Can’t wait to see what Ishikawa has in store for us for the next story arc! 🤩
Aww, I hope so TOO! That literally brought tears to my eyes right now, haha! I just love this game so much and all of the wonderful people I've met because of it... and continue to meet!
Girl, you are not alone, and you're not a freak. I cried along with you watching this, even though I've seen so many others go through the same story. Most of us went through the exact same emotions in this zone, and we still do every time we see it played out. This zone killed us all, only to bring us back around for a beautiful finale. Genuinely, FF14 went from another MMO I hated 10 years ago to, quite literally, my favorite game I've ever played. I'm so glad you were able to experience it and enjoy it. Welcome to the FF14 community! Even if you move on to other games or endeavors, you're always welcome back.♥
This truly is my favorite game as well and has truly changed my life for the better. I feel so grateful to have experienced this game and I have enjoyed sharing it here on UA-cam with people who’d like to watch. It’s just brought even more wonderful people (yourself included-your comment was lovely! 😭) my way and it’s all just made me so happy. Can’t wait for more adventures!
Honestly what sold me on them being gone for good this time wasn’t the 10 years of this storyline coming to an end, but the fact that everything lose end wise was tied up before we arrived here. Urianger made peace Moenbryda’s family, the twins came to an understanding with their father, and then we spent segments of time with each of them: taking naps, eating good food and having a few alcoholic drinks and then Alphinaud’s trailer speech about wanting to thank us before it was too late…on top of this being like the 5th time (I think?) Y’shtola has “died” now I was ready for them to just be gone, especially after they decided to have her explain that Azem’s magic could bring them back but it would destroy all the work they did to get us this far…boy was I a mess when they actually came back…
The whole Azem's Magic thing i thought at the time was just an excuse so they can allow the Trust system to be used in the next Dungeon and trial after all those are normally the times you summon ppl in anyways.
The magic used to bring them back I guess was the previous Azem’s magic, but I feel like some might forget the specifics while sobbing. Also aside from the sword wound in Stormblood I think Y’shtola has only been in the life stream twice, so I have no idea where that 5 times comes from.
@@Kozmokast two times in the lifestream, stabbed by Zenos, Emet using his magic to knock her and the rest of the Scions out, and Ultima Thule. I guess it depends on if you believed they were dead during the scene before you fight Hades where they were all out for the count. That’s 5 times they tried to convince you she may have died altogether. I’m not sure what that’s really supposed to mean? I knew it was the previous Azem’s magic it doesn’t change the fact that they had Y’shtola exposition to every single player as to why doing it was impossible at the moment of her demise. Unless you were expecting some kind of power of friendship overcoming the burden of them trying to uphold a path for you ending it wasn’t very intuitive at all that they would exposition dump “no don’t do this” only for it to be like “just kidding you do it anyways :)”
Ahhh, that's such a great point! Everything really WAS tied up before they left! I guess, thinking back on things, I even knew that something monumental was going to happen because of all of that... because we were tying things up, so to speak, before we departed Etheirys... never in my wildest dreams did I think that ALL of them would be dying though, and man, I was in such denial at first, lmao. What a heart-wrenching journey, and one I wish I could go back in time and do all over again.
The thing for me that gave it away that none of them were really gone was when it happened to all of them. I was definitely convinced Thancred was gone and could have bought Estinien as well. But the more it happened, the more I felt that everybody would be fine at the end. The parting scenes still hit me but overall I very much began to expect things to go well. Which is, I admit, kind of bittersweet to me. On one hand I'm glad they're all okay and still with us but on the other, that everyone came out of this physically completely unscathed is one of the very few small complaints I have with this expansion. The stakes were immensely high but we made it through without any permanent sacrifice (potential psychological scars aside) and when it comes to story telling that usually doesn't sit quite right with me, personally. Alphinaud's trailer speech is most likely factoring into that, too, as well as the death fake-outs we had for the Scions throughout the game so far.
Ultima Thule ruined everyone =3 Welcome to the club of FFXIV suffering, one where everyone whos a part of it endlessly cries at these scenes, no matter how many times you see them. And ironically, that makes it wonderful. -- edit: how about that music in there? the transitions kill me everytime as the music ramps up until the final full vocal part lands, literally tearing you apart inside. Also Tomorrow and Tomorrow playing during Rahas section is always gutwrenching.
If Ultima Thule didn't break you, I'd be more worried. I cried when I went through this, and I still cry everytime I watch someone else make the journey.
The music just amplified every ounce of despair I was feeling every stinkin' time, lol! Soken is an absolute wizard-genius. Tomorrow and Tomorrow literally tore my heart to shreds. I think I was so distraught after G'raha, it didn't hit me that Close in the Distance had lyrics until I had left the area to go the Crystaline Path.... and then it slapped me in the face again with every feel, lol. I remember having to mute Close in the Distance whenever I needed to go to Ultima Thule to farm for awhile because it was like opening a wound every time I heard it and I would sob, haha! The MAGIC OF MUSIC.
@@elibbabats glad you liked it so much, being a gamer is a blessing and a curse after ffxiv... nothing even compares, but as long as we remember.... =3
@@shangriisgamecornerI was already broken by the time I got to Ultima Thule, especially the part with Moenbryda's parents. I was hanging onto hope the entire time they would come back because if they weren't I was going to break down even further and have a major depressive episode.
@@wavesofbabies I completely understand. I had actually resigned myself they weren't coming back when Y'shtolla told us not to bring them back. So much that when we did the summon and I saw 2 lights, I actually thought "I hope it's the twins at least..." I almost lost it when I saw the robes.
*leaves some huggies* this is and will be hard even if you see it happen to another player ... therefor we are the emotional vampires watching you ... thank you for playing this emotional rollercoaster of a game called FF14
This is what happens when you read/watch/listen to a good story. You become part of the characters, and when one may die, it makes a little bit of you die too. Don't worry about the tears, the tears mean you're human, you have emotion. It is much better to let those tears out than to bottle them in. That's where the bad things come from. No matter how many times I watch people play through this, it still feels like the first time. I think seeing the same emotions that you felt being expressed creates a... union of sorts.
Absolutely, yes! I think that's the beauty in watching other people go through Ultima Thule, it's like feeling it all over again, but feeling it WITH people this time. Total solidarity in tapping into our emotions and letting go, should we let ourselves. I'm SO glad to add my journey here in the mix on UA-cam for people to enjoy, and I can't wait to see others go through theirs as well. Ty for watching!
He is the sassiest grumpiest man’s and I love home SO much for it. Genuinely felt so good to laugh in those moments (and then cry profusely one second later of course).
Thank you for posting your playthrough of this zone. I felt the weight of each scion sacrificing themselves and I finally, absolutely buckled on The Walk. I'm 35 years old, I've been gaming since i was 5 and went through some amazing storylines. But this, was the absolutely first time I ever shed tears for a game. But now a new expansion is on the horizon, quite literally, and excited to see what new story is coming.
Thank YOU for watching! I'm really happy to share my journey with whoever wants to watch it and I always love hearing they stories people share in the comments in return. This game was life changing for me and I know it was for so many as well. I'm glad it could touch your heart in the same way! I can't WAIT for Dawntrail!!!! I love this pre-expansion hype so much!
This is the one! I was here! Everything that happens in UT is one of the most charged "final" sequences in games that I've ever played, even within the Final Fantasy series. Every sacrifice spurring me onward. Every quest title becoming more and more distorted and cryptic. Every shade's voiced line on the final walk, I repeated their names. The appearance of Elpis flowers made me gasp in sheer awe. Beyond this, the final dungeon, trial and instance. It was a MOMENT. Now, we're on the cusp of another expansion announcement (because we *all* know it's coming), and I positively shudder to think what CBU3 has in store for what comes next.
I love Ultma Thule. I only recently finally caught up to everything a few months ago and i ended up finishing all the way from Elpis through to the ending credits in a single soul destroying session of 9 hours. I did this all the day prior to the 12th anniversary of my fathers passing and i was already in a bad spot mentally. To have a piece of media resonate with you at such a perfect moment in life has re-solidified my love for this game and community. I somehow, someway managed to hit a time on the server that NO ONE was in the zone, so when it came time to do the walk with the twins and then THE WALK, the only person i had with me was my spouse quietly letting me go through it. To this day i break at The Walk. It opening and been bookended by Ardbert, the quotes from people we've befriended. The line that absolutely devastates me without remorse is always Midgardsormrs: "Strong thou art Mortal." this was kinda of a rambling post but its nice to see a kindred spirit ALSO felt so so heavily throughout this sequence.
Oh my gosh, tell me everything, please! There’s nothing I enjoy more than hearing others experience with this game! That’s why I posted all of these so we can all enjoy together. I’m not gonna lie, what you wrote made me cry, lol. I am so sorry you’ve had to go through such a difficult time but grateful that this game can be a cathartic haven as well. It has been for me, too, I’m more ways than I can count. Thank you so much for the lovely comment! ❤️
I will always cherish and have the highest of love for the story parts of FFXIV. It's one of the most emotional experiences I've ever had with any game or movie. Shadowbringers and Endwalker in particular. Music and pictures from those two games still invoke incredible emotion to this day. It all just came together so beautifully. It's crazy how you can feel loss when the characters are all fictional. But none the less, thinking of Emet-Selch, Elidibus, Hermes, Hythlodaeus and Venat... It invokes that feeling. I will never forget how great of an experience this game has been. I've played a lot of games, and nothing has or probably ever will surpass those experiences. Excellence in all aspects.
It is SO crazy how much these characters have imprinted upon our hearts. I have never read or experienced another form of fiction that has made me so emotionally invested quite like FFXIV. I was lucky enough to attend the Eorzean Symphony last night and hearing the music and seeing the clips from FFXIV being played at the same time made me weep like a baby (to no one’s surprise). The best part was that everyone else was, too. 🥹🩷
Fun fact: The game was delayed for roughly 2 weeks, and one of the major reasons for it is the speech Emet gives at the end about visiting other places in Eorzea and being the bearer of Azem's crystal. Appparently it ended with them just disappearing after the " why we fought and i lost" part, but Yoshi-P felt it was just too abrupt an ending and wanted to expand on it.
I swear every time this fabrication gets posted, it gets embellished more and more. The real reason as said by them was that there were some text issues and they wanted QA to go through them and the game again to see that nothing broke. But I guess the truth is too boring to tell so people have to make up some random shit just to try and make it "better".
I am glad I live alone. The NOISE that came out of me at 2 am on release weekend Monday when my little brother and sister DISSOLVED in front of me without me being able to do anything about it was - as my younger and cooler friends say - not human.
I believe it!!! I still laugh hearing some of the noises that came out of me while editing. 😂 I kept apologizing while I was going through it but I take so much comfort from everyone here in the comments saying the made the same noises/sobbed uncontrollably as well. 😭❤️
I managed to hold it in during this zone until the walk. hearing all of our allies' words, especially papalymo and minfillia touched me deeply, it brought me back to the arr days when things were so much simpler.
I too cried throughout this final leg of the journey, "The Walk" most of all....took me an hour to calm down and i'm 37, these events still effect me the way they did the first time when I did them last year. What I learned is this from my own journey: Remember the events of the past to live for the present so that we can stand for a brighter future, fight on for those we have lost to protect those whom we can yet save. Never give up, walk on and forge your path forward for friends and loved ones past and present stand by us every step of the way
From graha, i was a blithering mess right until the credits. That part snacked me in the face hard, and then just dragged ne through mud. I love your laugh, it reminds me of a friend i knew. Masterpiece
I am 41... and I cried. Like a baby. I've played FF all my life, and this ins one of the MOST impactful moment in any of them. In any game I've played really.
It’s so awesome how this game just rips away so many walls and gets in deep to make us feel the things we need to feel. I’m so glad it touched your heart the way that it did and hope that it continues to do so as more MSQ releases! 🥹 ❤️
/hug Yeah, I bawled my eyes out, a 56 year old guy sobbing at his pc. No game has ever hit me as hard as Endwalker did. The walk, and Venat's question to us. Those two moments absolutely wrecked me. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I have plenty of gripes with endwalker, but the way the song changed every time we lost someone was such an incredible detail. The culmination into the full song with lyrics as we reached the ending was so intense and added so much emotion once you realized it.
Denial: Thancred isn't gone! He can't be! Anger: They better not take Estinien from me! Bargaining: They've got to come back, right? Depression: Welcome to the Endwalker experience. Acceptance: At long last!
@@elibbabats On a purely emotional level, the Devs basically treated us like a wet rag. Just twist, twist, twist until there's no liquid left in us and then twist, twist, twist just a wee little bit more... And yet you can't hate, or even be angry with the little birb once you stand there in front of her... (I'm just utterly amazed that they keep topping themselves.)
Omg I JUST finished the Endwalker story today and WOW the part where we walk and hear the voices of all our old friends we made along the way absolutely destroyed me. I cried so freaking much. Also the part when the scions come back to life I was balling my eyes out 😭
CONGRAAAATS!!! Yay!!! Welcome to the joys of watching others go through Endwalker! I’m so glad you found my video and could relive the emotions. ❤️ That’s exactly what I did as well! Hope you enjoy the patches!!! Some really cool stuff in them as well! 🤩
HAHA! I had to take a break after Estinien for sure. There’s actually one more to upload and will be posted when I get back from Fanfest! Thank you so much for watching, it really means a lot that you‘be enjoyed! 🥹❤️
Seeing our scion friends sacrificing themselves to help us carry on hits me to the core. And the endwalk by hearing the voices of the past really indeed hits me hard. Being in Ultima Thul really does indeed hurts us so. But we never gave up, never looked back and most of all we forged ahead til the end we pray!
As someone who has several alts alongside my main and playing through the story from beginning to current over and over I cried Everytime through every sad and tragic event even if I knew they were coming. But my first playthrough was the toughest I couldn't stop crying it took me 20mins to compose myself enough to keep going. So your not weird or a freak you are simply normal my friend. I'm glad others are emotionally invested 😊❤. Congratulations on your playthrough and may the crystal forever guide your way.
The whole area of Ultima Thule made you go through the five stages of grief... it attacked you on your most basic level... The good thing is, you added a sixth stage. Rebellion. No matter what it threw at you, no matter who it took from you, you walked on. You overcame every challenge and prevailed. That is not an experience easily forgotten.
It was so freaking hard, and I wanted so badly to just turn it off and go cry in bed, but you’re RIGHT! I freaking did! Forged ahead and everything 😭❤️
As someone addicted to watching peoples reaction to this kind of stuff, i appreciate the time and effort you put into adding time stamps, have seen this part so much i kinda skip the inbetween important scenes, so thank you for making it easier for people like me.
Aww yeah, for sure! It’s a long video and I know people have their favorite parts that they like to watch so figured it’d be helpful. And at the same time, I can keep it all together as a nice memory for myself! Happy it all works out for whoever’d like to watch. 😊
You and me BOTH! I got so excited meeting someone going through the game for the first time at Fan Fest this weekend. (She’s in Shadowbringer’s) I was pumping her up and telling her to not rush because we all wanted to be where she was in the game, haha! If only Kairos were real… 🥹
2 of the losses honestly got me the most... I actually had to walk away from my desk just to sob for a hour n calm myself (happy and lucky I have a good group of friends to help me through this part other wise idk how I would have tbh cause emotionally this was really difficult for me)... so there is absolutely no shame to cry during this part cuz it really does hit deep after all the time, adventures, and bond u build with the same group...
I was hit so hard thinking about my entire journey through this section for sure. One of the best parts of this game was streaming it and sharing the experience with others. So to have others join me in Ultima Thule, it did my heart in so much. And now to hear from so many people on UA-cam and their experiences through ultima Thule, it’s like appreciating it all even more now and I didn’t think that was possible! Love hearing about yours and others walks through this zone! Thanks for watching. ❤️
55:11 I also remember spending a lot of time here crying, when the lyrics kicked in. My father had passed away very unexpectedly under very tragic circumstances a couple of months before EW came out and I was severely depressed, and going through ultima Thule felt like torture but almost ended up feeling like grief therapy by the end. When these lyrics kicked in, I seriously felt like they had written and made this song for ME, to tell ME it was going to be ok. I'm sure there are a lot of people who had similar experiences. Anyway, just wanted to say you're not alone in this journey through EW and FF14 in general. Here's hoping DT is at least as equally painful/therapeutic. 😂
I'm so sorry for your loss 😭Sending you big hugs through the internet, truly. I am so grateful that Endwalker could be so therapeutic in so many different ways for people. It's pretty freaking special. Hope you're having a blast with Dawntrail! I can't wait to start MSQ!
After seeing your compilation about Elpis I went to your twitch to watch your full stream recordings :D Even if I was not part of the live audiance (btw two years?!! :O ) I watched trough from end to finish and sent hugs every time in spirit
You caught on pretty quick what this zone was going to do to you and you knew it was going to devastate you, but you walked the path to its end regardless. That's emotional strength.
I tried my heckin’ best. It was literally one of the hardest things I’ve ever done lmao. That and Crisis Core but I’m not done processing that story…GOSH 😭😭😭😭😭
I think the Scions, and you, were originally supposed to die in Endwalker. By that, I mean the original plan was to have Endwalker wrap up not just the Ascion arc, but FF XIV in its totality. As the game continued to ramp up in popularity the team decided XIV should continue and they altered the plan to keep you all alive.
You and me both. I felt like I let their parents down, too. I’ve been an aunt for the majority of my life and it just felt like my young family being ripped away from me and I was NOT OKAY LOL.
53:06 For me it was after this scene and the vocals came in that was the moment that I lost my composure and just cried. There are very few games that have me tear up (example Asura's Wrath. There's a scene where a small village gets bombed to hell and the female that Asura was trying to protect dies along with eveyone else there. Now the girl looks just like his daughter that he thought was long dead. After seeing her lifeless body Asura went completely berserk.) I literally cried for about 15 to 20 minutes during this part.
I still hold that Shadowbringers is the greatest story ever told in the gaming medium, but this part alone put EW in contention. To say I "ugly cried" would be an understatement and I can't hear Close in the Distance without getting misty-eyed
Close in the Distance makes me weep still to this day if I let myself sit down and reminisce. I’m going to be a WRECK hearing it during Fan Fest, I just know it. 😭
Best part about the Crystal path part to me was back when i did it and the Expansion was new i kinda broke down and couldn't bare myself to walk faster then RP walk speed. random ppl would just come and hug you and walk with you. ofc streamers will still get that now.. but for just random ppl on the journey to get that kind of aid.
Omg, that made me tear up thinking about it! I was so emotionally touched by all the viewers and friends that walked with me on my journey up the crystaline path, but just reading that random people stopped to hug you and walk with you... DAMN, that just makes my heart so happy. That's just one of the many reasons I adore this game so very much. They people I've met, even just in passing, because of this game have been nothing but kind and awesome. I'm so glad you had a great experience like that! Also, Emet's smile literally kills me every time as well. It's animated so well and just like, carries SO much in that expression. UGH SO GOOD ToT
Through the whole of Endwalker, but especially the walk and the follwing scene, I was just muttering 'F*** you, Yoshi-P', 'F*** you, Soken', 'F*** you, Ishikawa' and especially 'F*** you, game'. With deep admiration and gratitude, obviously.
Oh hell yeah. The outrage I felt combined with the complete adoration. This freakin’ expansion did a number on all of our souls, holy MOLY. There were no breaks on this rollercoaster. 🩷
@@elibbabats I liked that at the fanfest Ishikawa started crying from the standing ovation, and Yoshi-P was 'Please don't make her cry!' and all of us are like 'She made hundreds of thousands of us ugly-cry in dark rooms! She can take a hit!'
@@CaitSithDubh omg, RIGHT?! It was so awesome chanting her name and seeing it all go down in person. You made us cry, Ishikawa, now we celebrate you and your writing prowess and make YOU cry! And then Yoshida asking us to not make the most adorable member of their team cry... which in turn made us chant even louder... making her cry more, lolol. One of the best, most wholesome moments EVER.
If only your viewers had shown even a modicum of restraint and not been with you throughout the zone. The entire zone, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, is about loss and loneliness, and it was robbed tbh. The streamers whose chat stay away and only appear at the end have such a transcendent reaction to it, knowing they weren't alone and others were with them all along. Was a great video regardless of that personal gripe, and your reactions to the events were pretty much mirrored by a lot of us who played this game. Hope you continue to have fun!
Some say FF10 is the best FF bcs it made them cry and left a strong imprint as they were growing up. For my generation it was Aerith Gainsborough's and FF7. Trust me when I say that having lived in the moment those games were shiny and new, having played them, having waited for them for days and months in anticipation with only magazines to hype myself up, getting wrecked emotionally and feeling satiisfied by the end of the journey certainly makes me understand the people that say such things. Trust me when I say that FF14 stands, to me, head and shoulders above those games, because it wrecked me like none of those did, and at the added difficulty of me being a hardened by the school of hard knocks that is life cynical grown ass 40 year old. FF7 and 10 were playing on easy mode, while 14 was on frigging nightmare mode. This game is really something especial. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, so that we can relive those moments along with you.
Alisaie: "The fact we can breathe and press on is proof they're still with us. They are...they are...aren't they?" This line was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, the second time in 30+ years of gaming that a game made me cry.
YES. Alisaie’s hesitation when she’s usually so determined and sure was quite vulnerable and emotional and AHHH those twins and our walk was the hardest thing… 😭
That and Alisaie wishing it was all a dream broke me. My brave “little sister” is scared. I felt like she and Alphinaud knew what might happen next. I felt like I was leading them to their doom. I was NOT ok during the crystal path.
I knew what they were trying to pull on us and I didn't believe for a second they were truly gone. But that damn catboi, I knew their tricks but they made it personal with him. Safe to say the water works didnt stop after the promise 😂
I absolutely relate to this, we’re in this together lmao. I just love watching others go through it too and will always click on these videos every time they pop up. It’s like watching a rite of passage and we’re all just cheering (crying) them on on the sides or something lol!
Just finished EW. I struggle to cry. I may shed a few tears, but it's hard. But Shadowbringers & Endwalker had me sobbing. Sitting quietly with my head down with tears pouring down my face for a long time... For days after. I thought nothing could give me that feeling anymore and this story showed me I'm not dead inside. It's so incredible
It's so crazy how much this story has touched SO many hearts, and especially people who aren't generally emotional/moved by things. I'm so glad EW and SHB could stir your heart!
Ah yes this zone had me so upset and almost angry about losing them one all one after the other it wasn’t until the walk that the emotions hit me all at once and broke me. Genuinely can’t wait for what’s next
Forever glad I sold it with my crocodile tears over Estinien's death! My best lolgottie moment! 😉 ALSO WATCHING THIS ALL OVER AGAIN HURTS MY SOUL Ultima Thule is just PAIN. But what a journey it had been... 😭
You are the BESTEST. Thank you for making my journey ever more magical. I CRI. IM SO GLAD FOR FFXIV AND THE FRIENDSHIP WE FORGED BECAUSE OF IT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ToT
I never thought a game would pull so many heart strings until i played ffxiv. Between ultima thule and shb i have used multiple boxes of tissues and i was 39/40 when i finished it. The story and ending are sooooo good. I cant even go to ultima thule without tearing up. Even watching this video hit me again.
This bastard of a game helped me through one of the hardest points of my life. I don't know how I'd get through the loss of my dog without it, but im so grateful for that one fateful day when i decided to pick it up thinking "this looks fun" Not knowing itd emotionally destroy and help me. God bless.
I am SO glad it helped you! It brings me the greatest joy whenever I read comments like this. And now we get to be destroyed all over again with a new expansion to come! 🥳😂😭
I had my suspicions about them living at the end, but the possibility of them being dead dead was always there since this was the end of the saga, and the sacrifices were written well enough. But there were a few moments that really got me. Thancred's set the stage but not the status quo, so the most tension came right after the horror film feeling on the ship and his disappearance. The others were done well, but I was hit hard again once it was just the WoL and the twins. It didn't escape me that they're still just kids, and their dialogue was painful while climbing the crystal path. Alisaie's especially, as I got quite attached to her character in the lead up to SHB, and then more so throughout SHB and EW. She was written in a very human way with a lot of anxiety and frustration, and her empathetic treatment of the WoL was charming. So her emotional dilemma after Graha's sacrifice busted my heart wide open. And then the Walk with a capital W. I was fairly convinced the scions come back by that point, but I was very immersed in the weight the WoL must have felt; alone at the end of the universe, facing existential despair, the only person standing in the way of complete annihilation of everyone he knew and loved. And so when the music hit, and then the voices of other characters spoke up, that's when I really just broke down and let the tears go. The last big moment for me was the elpis flower field and Meteon remembering Hermes' promise of a flower. The entire expansion once the plot twist about the villain was revealed, I felt really sorry for meteor and hoped we could save her, so I was invested in that moment when she remembered the promise of hope. All in all, the zone tore it out of me, and I enjoyed it immensely :)
AHH, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I don’t know what it is about the Elpis flower field scene and meteion (I mean I do, it was well constructed scene with animation and music and shtuff) but it tears me apart every. single. time. I watch it. It’s just so heart wrenching to see her crumble knowing she’s seen so much and yet these flowers were the key to opening her heart. AHHHH. It’s SO good. 😭
I love how the scene is refered simply as "The Walk". It could have been given other names. Some other names that my friends and I came up with were: - Path of Memories - Stroll of Hope - Solemn Walk - Alone but not path But we all agree to just use "The Walk"
Finished this expansion not too long ago with no breathing room after shadowbringers... now, there are things that have made me sad, but talk about a gutpunch to the feels. I literally had to stop and process after Estinien was gone, both his and Thancred's sacrifice were a shock to me. I cried when Urianger told us he was going to sacrifice himself, then he *and* Y’shtola left. I had to take a break when it came down to G'raha and the twins, I broke down. I could barely see during The Walk. Then it was happy tears when [redacted] and I got [redacted]... then sad (and also happy, because they need to rest) tears when [redacted] again. Then happy tears when [redacted]. When I tell you, I NEEDED [redacted]. It was just a nice cathartic release.
I'm pretty sure I understand all of the [redacted] parts and can totally relate, lol. I just remember people telling me the kind of pain that was in store for me when I got to the last zone, but I just didn't realize how potent it would be. I honestly think I was only able to get through it because I was streaming and had chats support, haha! I definitely feel fortunate on that end. From one sensitive heart to another, cheers to cathartic releases! ❤️
I wanted SO badly to finish 16 before fanfest but alas, I couldn’t. It is totally on the agenda when I get back! I can’t wait to find out what’s going to happen! 😭
A note about what you said at the end: . . . Chat and your friend weren't lying.They were really gone. Every single one of them die and are unmade in front of you. They still live through that experience and face it willingly, one by one. It's just that this is a story of magic and just like Emet plucking Y'shtola from the life stream in Shadowbringers or Zenos coming back in Stormblood or two half-faded souls of the dead showing up here, strong enough magics can still pull a person back from the dead.
I think I was so distraught after G’raha, it took me a bit to realize there were gut wrenching lyrics being sung and it just was another punch to the emotional guy, lmao. Soken, Jason, Ishikaw, and Kate with their freaking song-making wizardry 😭😭😭😭
I'm a Guy in my 30's I play Fem Miqo'te when I play a character I really get into it there feelings become my feelings so this was my honest reaction, I reached part with G'raha being lost and latterly stopped playing for a week straight because losing him again broke me that much. I was literally ocean of happy tears when got him back... all of them back. but mostly him... >_> ( BIG SIGH OF RELIEF )
I remember being here for this, am the cute Xaela, Mumui Uru, with the 9S doll for those who dont know me. It was lots of fun to experience this with the bat lady herself
After losing all the others, with G'raha breaking me almost immediatey..I told myself I wouldn't cry for the Walk. But the second spectre, Haurchefant, made me say fuck it. Spent 15 minutes crying before I could take another step
COMPLETELY understandable. It just hits the soul so hard, this game, these characters. Both of those character particularly... gosh, SE just knew what they were doing and I ADORE them for it.
I, as a grown as man that's almost 40, ugly cried throughout this whole part. Specifically during 'The Walk'. And I will never regret those feelings.
Hell yeah! NEVER regret those feelings! They're yours and this was YOUR story as much as it was mine and everyone's! It's so personal and yet so beautifully relatable at the same time. Own that ugly cry!
Same and same! lol
Walk Slowly Forward (Extreme)
I had to stop and take a walk around the house when midgarsormor line played.
I was crying with you as I watched! GRaha was my hardest one
FF14 writer Ishikawa is a primal that feeds off of our tears, and no one can convince me otherwise.
She's basically Meteion. It's pretty much a self insert.
I think you are freaking ONTO SOMETHING HERE. And you know what, I will whole heartedly give her every tear should she continue writing freaking glorious stories like this one, GOSH.
@@elibbabats Sort of like Soken is the Bard of Light? Side note, dunno if you knew this, but the singer for the Ultima Thule theme was Raubahns VA, Jason Miller.
@@rednova2212specifically Raubhan's ARR voice actor.
@@omegagilgamesh You're right. It was the ARR VA, as I believe the characters VA was changed to Nicholas Boulton later. Specifically in Stormblood is when the change was made.
To quote a friend re: Emet-Selch.
In the span of 10 minutes he:
1: comes back from the afterlife
2: Complains
3: Calls a little girl mid.
4: Makes her cry.
5: Compliments you.
6: Calls himself cringe
7: Says "I'm still right tho'"
8: Makes YOU cry
9: Calls you a slacker
10: Peace out to spite a dead goddess and old friend.
… Inviolate principles indeed.
No. 1 hater energy.
I love him so much.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the journey.
This is the best thing I’ve ever read, omg 😂 I absolutely needed this while going through Las Vegas Airport (Savage) post Fan Fest right now. I freaking love Emet with my whole being and I’m so curious how they’ll weave him back into the story in the future. 🥹
@@elibbabats oh, I hate Vegas airport. I am really glad I could lighten that experience.
nothing will ever beat watching someone else suffer through the same pain and getting to be sad all over again knowing what awaits at journeys end
As a person who also loves to watch others go through it, I completely agree!
This has been my favorite thing to do on UA-cam. Watching other people's reactions to experience the pain through others once more. It's all I have left, since I'm now just doing Hildibrand quests, lol
Ah Endwalker, we laughed, we cried, we cried, we cried, we cried, we ugly cried, we cried, we... well you'll see.
We tested our reflexes.
WE UGLY CRY TOGETHER! ToT
@@Khailward We were his for the taking
The only game I've ever played that made me feel actual despair, and then real hope. What a meta experience
I remember the literal pain I felt in my chest with Estinien and the realization that they might NOT come back after all. As cheesy as this might sound, it's honestly something I will never ever forget and I'm so grateful for the experience of going through such an impactful story. holy MOLY. ;-;
Even to this day when I go to Ultima Thule to farm, I am greeted with this overwhelming rush of emotions. You can't help but to hum the tunes and think about all those years of adventures.
Agreed! There's been many times where I've gone there to farm something and I just end up flying up to the Elpis-flower grove and just sit there, feeling all the feels. I won't lie, though... It took me awhile to work up the courage to go back there with the music playing, lol. I was just so distraught (but... in a good way? *thinks*) after going through all of this, Close in the Distance just tore the wound in my heart open each time I heard it for awhile. I just know I'm going to be a balling MESS at Fan Fest when I hear it! I'm SO ready for that, lol.
I wish they kept the distortion it feels so empty inside
The fact that Close In The Distance isn't complete until after G'raha's sacrifice, that the lyrics don't come into play until after he fades... It's almost like he's the one singing to us.
His part broke me, especially once the song played in full. G'raha is the reason I even continued playing XIV. During Stormblood's launch when Crystal Tower was still optional, I was close to quitting for good due to various reasons. But, doing the side quests on a whim, and seeing him go to sleep knowing that his future would be guided by our legacy, gave me enough incentive to keep going. And I'm glad I did.
I’m so glad you did too!! I hope you continue to love the game and have a great time with it! ❤️ More adventures with G’raha to be had! We made him a promise. 😭🥹
I have heard that the Japanese lyrics to the song pretty much confirms from context that it is G'raha that is singing/talking to us.
I chose Graha to visit me at the inn. Rough time in my life. He said words I needed to hear. So this part felt like "too soon!" I rarely cry but I cried here. Even tho I had asked a friend to spoil me that he'd be ok I WAS REKT.
I finished last week. I’m 43, stepdad, veteran, Jiu Jitsu player. The moment the music with vocals came on I was in pieces. The voices of the past made it even worse. I texted my wife that I’m crying in the other room. She came over to hug me. I can rarely cry. This one did me in.
It’s so wonderful she was there to give you a hug and console you! I feel like everyone deserves that after going through something as emotionally powerful as Endwalker was! ❤️ Can’t wait to see what Ishikawa has in store for us for the next story arc! 🤩
this whole zone broke my soul, you are the kind of kindred spirit I hope to find in this game one day. I'm glad you loved it as much as I did.
Aww, I hope so TOO! That literally brought tears to my eyes right now, haha! I just love this game so much and all of the wonderful people I've met because of it... and continue to meet!
Girl, you are not alone, and you're not a freak. I cried along with you watching this, even though I've seen so many others go through the same story. Most of us went through the exact same emotions in this zone, and we still do every time we see it played out. This zone killed us all, only to bring us back around for a beautiful finale. Genuinely, FF14 went from another MMO I hated 10 years ago to, quite literally, my favorite game I've ever played. I'm so glad you were able to experience it and enjoy it. Welcome to the FF14 community! Even if you move on to other games or endeavors, you're always welcome back.♥
This truly is my favorite game as well and has truly changed my life for the better. I feel so grateful to have experienced this game and I have enjoyed sharing it here on UA-cam with people who’d like to watch. It’s just brought even more wonderful people (yourself included-your comment was lovely! 😭) my way and it’s all just made me so happy. Can’t wait for more adventures!
Honestly what sold me on them being gone for good this time wasn’t the 10 years of this storyline coming to an end, but the fact that everything lose end wise was tied up before we arrived here. Urianger made peace Moenbryda’s family, the twins came to an understanding with their father, and then we spent segments of time with each of them: taking naps, eating good food and having a few alcoholic drinks and then Alphinaud’s trailer speech about wanting to thank us before it was too late…on top of this being like the 5th time (I think?) Y’shtola has “died” now I was ready for them to just be gone, especially after they decided to have her explain that Azem’s magic could bring them back but it would destroy all the work they did to get us this far…boy was I a mess when they actually came back…
The whole Azem's Magic thing i thought at the time was just an excuse so they can allow the Trust system to be used in the next Dungeon and trial after all those are normally the times you summon ppl in anyways.
The magic used to bring them back I guess was the previous Azem’s magic, but I feel like some might forget the specifics while sobbing.
Also aside from the sword wound in Stormblood I think Y’shtola has only been in the life stream twice, so I have no idea where that 5 times comes from.
@@Kozmokast two times in the lifestream, stabbed by Zenos, Emet using his magic to knock her and the rest of the Scions out, and Ultima Thule. I guess it depends on if you believed they were dead during the scene before you fight Hades where they were all out for the count. That’s 5 times they tried to convince you she may have died altogether.
I’m not sure what that’s really supposed to mean? I knew it was the previous Azem’s magic it doesn’t change the fact that they had Y’shtola exposition to every single player as to why doing it was impossible at the moment of her demise. Unless you were expecting some kind of power of friendship overcoming the burden of them trying to uphold a path for you ending it wasn’t very intuitive at all that they would exposition dump “no don’t do this” only for it to be like “just kidding you do it anyways :)”
Ahhh, that's such a great point! Everything really WAS tied up before they left! I guess, thinking back on things, I even knew that something monumental was going to happen because of all of that... because we were tying things up, so to speak, before we departed Etheirys... never in my wildest dreams did I think that ALL of them would be dying though, and man, I was in such denial at first, lmao. What a heart-wrenching journey, and one I wish I could go back in time and do all over again.
The thing for me that gave it away that none of them were really gone was when it happened to all of them. I was definitely convinced Thancred was gone and could have bought Estinien as well. But the more it happened, the more I felt that everybody would be fine at the end. The parting scenes still hit me but overall I very much began to expect things to go well. Which is, I admit, kind of bittersweet to me.
On one hand I'm glad they're all okay and still with us but on the other, that everyone came out of this physically completely unscathed is one of the very few small complaints I have with this expansion. The stakes were immensely high but we made it through without any permanent sacrifice (potential psychological scars aside) and when it comes to story telling that usually doesn't sit quite right with me, personally. Alphinaud's trailer speech is most likely factoring into that, too, as well as the death fake-outs we had for the Scions throughout the game so far.
Ultima Thule ruined everyone =3 Welcome to the club of FFXIV suffering, one where everyone whos a part of it endlessly cries at these scenes, no matter how many times you see them. And ironically, that makes it wonderful. -- edit: how about that music in there? the transitions kill me everytime as the music ramps up until the final full vocal part lands, literally tearing you apart inside. Also Tomorrow and Tomorrow playing during Rahas section is always gutwrenching.
If Ultima Thule didn't break you, I'd be more worried. I cried when I went through this, and I still cry everytime I watch someone else make the journey.
The music just amplified every ounce of despair I was feeling every stinkin' time, lol! Soken is an absolute wizard-genius. Tomorrow and Tomorrow literally tore my heart to shreds. I think I was so distraught after G'raha, it didn't hit me that Close in the Distance had lyrics until I had left the area to go the Crystaline Path.... and then it slapped me in the face again with every feel, lol. I remember having to mute Close in the Distance whenever I needed to go to Ultima Thule to farm for awhile because it was like opening a wound every time I heard it and I would sob, haha! The MAGIC OF MUSIC.
@@elibbabats glad you liked it so much, being a gamer is a blessing and a curse after ffxiv... nothing even compares, but as long as we remember.... =3
@@shangriisgamecornerI was already broken by the time I got to Ultima Thule, especially the part with Moenbryda's parents. I was hanging onto hope the entire time they would come back because if they weren't I was going to break down even further and have a major depressive episode.
@@wavesofbabies I completely understand. I had actually resigned myself they weren't coming back when Y'shtolla told us not to bring them back. So much that when we did the summon and I saw 2 lights, I actually thought "I hope it's the twins at least..." I almost lost it when I saw the robes.
Yoshida is playing us like a fiddle, I also cry at every sad moment lmao. Love this game
*leaves some huggies* this is and will be hard even if you see it happen to another player ... therefor we are the emotional vampires watching you ... thank you for playing this emotional rollercoaster of a game called FF14
I am happy to feed the fellow emotional vampires, haha! Can't wait to learn more about the next expansion!!! YAY! LOVE this game!
This is what happens when you read/watch/listen to a good story. You become part of the characters, and when one may die, it makes a little bit of you die too. Don't worry about the tears, the tears mean you're human, you have emotion. It is much better to let those tears out than to bottle them in. That's where the bad things come from. No matter how many times I watch people play through this, it still feels like the first time. I think seeing the same emotions that you felt being expressed creates a... union of sorts.
Absolutely, yes! I think that's the beauty in watching other people go through Ultima Thule, it's like feeling it all over again, but feeling it WITH people this time. Total solidarity in tapping into our emotions and letting go, should we let ourselves. I'm SO glad to add my journey here in the mix on UA-cam for people to enjoy, and I can't wait to see others go through theirs as well. Ty for watching!
I love how Emet looks at Hythlo when Hythlo is saying he hopes we met again. He is like: "What? No, you two are trouble. I want to take a nap." 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
He is the sassiest grumpiest man’s and I love home SO much for it. Genuinely felt so good to laugh in those moments (and then cry profusely one second later of course).
Thank you for posting your playthrough of this zone.
I felt the weight of each scion sacrificing themselves and I finally, absolutely buckled on The Walk. I'm 35 years old, I've been gaming since i was 5 and went through some amazing storylines. But this, was the absolutely first time I ever shed tears for a game.
But now a new expansion is on the horizon, quite literally, and excited to see what new story is coming.
Thank YOU for watching! I'm really happy to share my journey with whoever wants to watch it and I always love hearing they stories people share in the comments in return. This game was life changing for me and I know it was for so many as well. I'm glad it could touch your heart in the same way! I can't WAIT for Dawntrail!!!! I love this pre-expansion hype so much!
This is the one! I was here!
Everything that happens in UT is one of the most charged "final" sequences in games that I've ever played, even within the Final Fantasy series. Every sacrifice spurring me onward. Every quest title becoming more and more distorted and cryptic. Every shade's voiced line on the final walk, I repeated their names. The appearance of Elpis flowers made me gasp in sheer awe. Beyond this, the final dungeon, trial and instance. It was a MOMENT.
Now, we're on the cusp of another expansion announcement (because we *all* know it's coming), and I positively shudder to think what CBU3 has in store for what comes next.
YOU WERE! Thank you so much for walking with me, Robnicks! ❤️ Can’t wait to adventure with you and everyone once more in a brand new expansion!!!
This area truly is just...yeah, it's something else when it comes to storytelling.
Press on and do not look back! ❤️
It certainly is! It is one heck of a place and I'm so glad I can share it once more with others.
I love Ultma Thule. I only recently finally caught up to everything a few months ago and i ended up finishing all the way from Elpis through to the ending credits in a single soul destroying session of 9 hours. I did this all the day prior to the 12th anniversary of my fathers passing and i was already in a bad spot mentally. To have a piece of media resonate with you at such a perfect moment in life has re-solidified my love for this game and community.
I somehow, someway managed to hit a time on the server that NO ONE was in the zone, so when it came time to do the walk with the twins and then THE WALK, the only person i had with me was my spouse quietly letting me go through it. To this day i break at The Walk. It opening and been bookended by Ardbert, the quotes from people we've befriended. The line that absolutely devastates me without remorse is always Midgardsormrs: "Strong thou art Mortal."
this was kinda of a rambling post but its nice to see a kindred spirit ALSO felt so so heavily throughout this sequence.
Oh my gosh, tell me everything, please! There’s nothing I enjoy more than hearing others experience with this game! That’s why I posted all of these so we can all enjoy together. I’m not gonna lie, what you wrote made me cry, lol. I am so sorry you’ve had to go through such a difficult time but grateful that this game can be a cathartic haven as well. It has been for me, too, I’m more ways than I can count. Thank you so much for the lovely comment! ❤️
I will always cherish and have the highest of love for the story parts of FFXIV. It's one of the most emotional experiences I've ever had with any game or movie. Shadowbringers and Endwalker in particular. Music and pictures from those two games still invoke incredible emotion to this day. It all just came together so beautifully.
It's crazy how you can feel loss when the characters are all fictional. But none the less, thinking of Emet-Selch, Elidibus, Hermes, Hythlodaeus and Venat... It invokes that feeling.
I will never forget how great of an experience this game has been. I've played a lot of games, and nothing has or probably ever will surpass those experiences. Excellence in all aspects.
It is SO crazy how much these characters have imprinted upon our hearts. I have never read or experienced another form of fiction that has made me so emotionally invested quite like FFXIV. I was lucky enough to attend the Eorzean Symphony last night and hearing the music and seeing the clips from FFXIV being played at the same time made me weep like a baby (to no one’s surprise). The best part was that everyone else was, too. 🥹🩷
Fun fact: The game was delayed for roughly 2 weeks, and one of the major reasons for it is the speech Emet gives at the end about visiting other places in Eorzea and being the bearer of Azem's crystal. Appparently it ended with them just disappearing after the " why we fought and i lost" part, but Yoshi-P felt it was just too abrupt an ending and wanted to expand on it.
The man truly does care, holy MOLY, THANK YOU YOSHIDA 😭 I honestly didn’t know that! Thank you for sharing!!
I swear every time this fabrication gets posted, it gets embellished more and more. The real reason as said by them was that there were some text issues and they wanted QA to go through them and the game again to see that nothing broke. But I guess the truth is too boring to tell so people have to make up some random shit just to try and make it "better".
@@kn0bhe4d Ich wichse und scheiße im Ford Focus
I am glad I live alone. The NOISE that came out of me at 2 am on release weekend Monday when my little brother and sister DISSOLVED in front of me without me being able to do anything about it was - as my younger and cooler friends say - not human.
I believe it!!! I still laugh hearing some of the noises that came out of me while editing. 😂 I kept apologizing while I was going through it but I take so much comfort from everyone here in the comments saying the made the same noises/sobbed uncontrollably as well. 😭❤️
I managed to hold it in during this zone until the walk. hearing all of our allies' words, especially papalymo and minfillia touched me deeply, it brought me back to the arr days when things were so much simpler.
I too cried throughout this final leg of the journey, "The Walk" most of all....took me an hour to calm down and i'm 37, these events still effect me the way they did the first time when I did them last year. What I learned is this from my own journey: Remember the events of the past to live for the present so that we can stand for a brighter future, fight on for those we have lost to protect those whom we can yet save. Never give up, walk on and forge your path forward for friends and loved ones past and present stand by us every step of the way
Well said! That honestly brought a tear to my eye, lol! 🥹 This game made me appreciate my friends, particularly my online friends SO much. ❤️
From graha, i was a blithering mess right until the credits. That part snacked me in the face hard, and then just dragged ne through mud.
I love your laugh, it reminds me of a friend i knew.
Masterpiece
You and me both, gosh G’raha just did me in completely. 😭 And thank yoooou! So glad you enjoy! ❤️
I am 41... and I cried. Like a baby. I've played FF all my life, and this ins one of the MOST impactful moment in any of them. In any game I've played really.
It’s so awesome how this game just rips away so many walls and gets in deep to make us feel the things we need to feel. I’m so glad it touched your heart the way that it did and hope that it continues to do so as more MSQ releases! 🥹 ❤️
I love watching this again with the reactions, such an amazing journey I'll never forget
/hug Yeah, I bawled my eyes out, a 56 year old guy sobbing at his pc. No game has ever hit me as hard as Endwalker did. The walk, and Venat's question to us. Those two moments absolutely wrecked me. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I have plenty of gripes with endwalker, but the way the song changed every time we lost someone was such an incredible detail. The culmination into the full song with lyrics as we reached the ending was so intense and added so much emotion once you realized it.
Denial: Thancred isn't gone! He can't be!
Anger: They better not take Estinien from me!
Bargaining: They've got to come back, right?
Depression: Welcome to the Endwalker experience.
Acceptance: At long last!
Truly went through every stage of grief, didn't we? ToT Can't believe the Dev team did this to us... (I HOPE THEY DO IT TO US AGAIN :D)
@@elibbabats On a purely emotional level, the Devs basically treated us like a wet rag. Just twist, twist, twist until there's no liquid left in us and then twist, twist, twist just a wee little bit more... And yet you can't hate, or even be angry with the little birb once you stand there in front of her... (I'm just utterly amazed that they keep topping themselves.)
This section is just as impactful every time you go through it. The despair, the hopelessness, the relief, and the love. Its so strong.
I love that your friends told you that the scions actually were gone. So evil. Can't wait for the final days upload :D
I’m so glad they did, haha!!! It was the best experience! 🤩
Omg I JUST finished the Endwalker story today and WOW the part where we walk and hear the voices of all our old friends we made along the way absolutely destroyed me. I cried so freaking much. Also the part when the scions come back to life I was balling my eyes out 😭
CONGRAAAATS!!! Yay!!! Welcome to the joys of watching others go through Endwalker! I’m so glad you found my video and could relive the emotions. ❤️ That’s exactly what I did as well! Hope you enjoy the patches!!! Some really cool stuff in them as well! 🤩
GIRL! It's hard to do a days work with all of these FEELS!!!!
I'M SORRY LMAOOOO. We can... cry together!
@elibbabats Ts'all good! My Boss is a FF fan too! He cried before I did! 🤣
Ultima Thul is an incredible culmination of all the experiences we have had in a 10 year long story. So many emotions and tears.
I WILL ALWAYS CRY EVERY TIME I SEE SOMEONE GO THROUGH THIS. Side note thank you for posting your reaction
Forge ahead! Lovely video as always, Elibba! Can't get enough of your videos
AHH! Thank you so much! That literally made my entire night!
thanks for sharing.
no worries about the tears, it's all part of the game. =)
I've got so many tears to provide, it seems, lol! This game sure does a number on my heart. Thank you so much for watching! :D
That 4 hour gap from Estinien to leaving the ea. 😅 so glad you've been able to finish uploading these for us. Amazing reactions as always.
HAHA! I had to take a break after Estinien for sure. There’s actually one more to upload and will be posted when I get back from Fanfest! Thank you so much for watching, it really means a lot that you‘be enjoyed! 🥹❤️
Seeing our scion friends sacrificing themselves to help us carry on hits me to the core. And the endwalk by hearing the voices of the past really indeed hits me hard. Being in Ultima Thul really does indeed hurts us so. But we never gave up, never looked back and most of all we forged ahead til the end we pray!
We did! We absolutely forged ahead! ❤️
As someone who has several alts alongside my main and playing through the story from beginning to current over and over I cried Everytime through every sad and tragic event even if I knew they were coming. But my first playthrough was the toughest I couldn't stop crying it took me 20mins to compose myself enough to keep going. So your not weird or a freak you are simply normal my friend. I'm glad others are emotionally invested 😊❤. Congratulations on your playthrough and may the crystal forever guide your way.
Emotional vampires getting this in their recommended: "Ah, yes. Another one. 😈"
As a bat (Elibbabats) I am very happy to feed the emotional vampires. 😌😂
We've got our tears squeezed out in alike manner. Gotta replenish somehow 😅
@@elibbabats this emotional vampire appreciates it. Though i must confess G'rahas part always rips me in half emotionally.
The whole area of Ultima Thule made you go through the five stages of grief... it attacked you on your most basic level... The good thing is, you added a sixth stage. Rebellion. No matter what it threw at you, no matter who it took from you, you walked on. You overcame every challenge and prevailed.
That is not an experience easily forgotten.
It was so freaking hard, and I wanted so badly to just turn it off and go cry in bed, but you’re RIGHT! I freaking did! Forged ahead and everything 😭❤️
@@elibbabatskeep on keeping on, you shining soul, and may you ever walk in the light ❤
As someone addicted to watching peoples reaction to this kind of stuff, i appreciate the time and effort you put into adding time stamps, have seen this part so much i kinda skip the inbetween important scenes, so thank you for making it easier for people like me.
Aww yeah, for sure! It’s a long video and I know people have their favorite parts that they like to watch so figured it’d be helpful. And at the same time, I can keep it all together as a nice memory for myself! Happy it all works out for whoever’d like to watch. 😊
I wish I could WIPE the memory of this game from my mind...
So that I could relive it for the first time, again.
You and me BOTH! I got so excited meeting someone going through the game for the first time at Fan Fest this weekend. (She’s in Shadowbringer’s) I was pumping her up and telling her to not rush because we all wanted to be where she was in the game, haha! If only Kairos were real… 🥹
Damnit.. I’ve watched a whole bunch of streamers go through this, seen EW probably more than 10x already and yet I still ugly cried with you😭😭😭😭😭
Then we ugly cry TOGETHER because I am often in the same boat with others’ videos lol ❤️
2 of the losses honestly got me the most... I actually had to walk away from my desk just to sob for a hour n calm myself (happy and lucky I have a good group of friends to help me through this part other wise idk how I would have tbh cause emotionally this was really difficult for me)... so there is absolutely no shame to cry during this part cuz it really does hit deep after all the time, adventures, and bond u build with the same group...
I was hit so hard thinking about my entire journey through this section for sure. One of the best parts of this game was streaming it and sharing the experience with others. So to have others join me in Ultima Thule, it did my heart in so much. And now to hear from so many people on UA-cam and their experiences through ultima Thule, it’s like appreciating it all even more now and I didn’t think that was possible! Love hearing about yours and others walks through this zone! Thanks for watching. ❤️
55:11 I also remember spending a lot of time here crying, when the lyrics kicked in.
My father had passed away very unexpectedly under very tragic circumstances a couple of months before EW came out and I was severely depressed, and going through ultima Thule felt like torture but almost ended up feeling like grief therapy by the end. When these lyrics kicked in, I seriously felt like they had written and made this song for ME, to tell ME it was going to be ok. I'm sure there are a lot of people who had similar experiences.
Anyway, just wanted to say you're not alone in this journey through EW and FF14 in general. Here's hoping DT is at least as equally painful/therapeutic. 😂
I'm so sorry for your loss 😭Sending you big hugs through the internet, truly. I am so grateful that Endwalker could be so therapeutic in so many different ways for people. It's pretty freaking special. Hope you're having a blast with Dawntrail! I can't wait to start MSQ!
The lyrics to the song coming about after G'raha's sacrifice is always such a punch to the gut.
After seeing your compilation about Elpis I went to your twitch to watch your full stream recordings :D Even if I was not part of the live audiance (btw two years?!! :O ) I watched trough from end to finish and sent hugs every time in spirit
Awww, thank you SO much for watching!!!! And for the hugs!
You caught on pretty quick what this zone was going to do to you and you knew it was going to devastate you, but you walked the path to its end regardless. That's emotional strength.
I tried my heckin’ best. It was literally one of the hardest things I’ve ever done lmao. That and Crisis Core but I’m not done processing that story…GOSH 😭😭😭😭😭
poor bats! I balled my eyes out on this part too D:
Mr. V!!!! Well we cried together in solidarity then, haha!
@@elibbabats of course! I gotta support the second best whm afterall!
I think the Scions, and you, were originally supposed to die in Endwalker. By that, I mean the original plan was to have Endwalker wrap up not just the Ascion arc, but FF XIV in its totality. As the game continued to ramp up in popularity the team decided XIV should continue and they altered the plan to keep you all alive.
When Alphinaud and Alisae sacrficed themselves, I felt like I lost my adopted children. 😢
You and me both. I felt like I let their parents down, too. I’ve been an aunt for the majority of my life and it just felt like my young family being ripped away from me and I was NOT OKAY LOL.
53:06
For me it was after this scene and the vocals came in that was the moment that I lost my composure and just cried. There are very few games that have me tear up (example Asura's Wrath. There's a scene where a small village gets bombed to hell and the female that Asura was trying to protect dies along with eveyone else there. Now the girl looks just like his daughter that he thought was long dead. After seeing her lifeless body Asura went completely berserk.) I literally cried for about 15 to 20 minutes during this part.
Ah yes the infamous sacrifices where they got turned into the soundtrack to make the music clearer and complete😢
I still hold that Shadowbringers is the greatest story ever told in the gaming medium, but this part alone put EW in contention. To say I "ugly cried" would be an understatement and I can't hear Close in the Distance without getting misty-eyed
Close in the Distance makes me weep still to this day if I let myself sit down and reminisce. I’m going to be a WRECK hearing it during Fan Fest, I just know it. 😭
Best part about the Crystal path part to me was back when i did it and the Expansion was new i kinda broke down and couldn't bare myself to walk faster then RP walk speed. random ppl would just come and hug you and walk with you.
ofc streamers will still get that now.. but for just random ppl on the journey to get that kind of aid.
Omg, that made me tear up thinking about it! I was so emotionally touched by all the viewers and friends that walked with me on my journey up the crystaline path, but just reading that random people stopped to hug you and walk with you... DAMN, that just makes my heart so happy. That's just one of the many reasons I adore this game so very much. They people I've met, even just in passing, because of this game have been nothing but kind and awesome. I'm so glad you had a great experience like that! Also, Emet's smile literally kills me every time as well. It's animated so well and just like, carries SO much in that expression. UGH SO GOOD ToT
Through the whole of Endwalker, but especially the walk and the follwing scene, I was just muttering 'F*** you, Yoshi-P', 'F*** you, Soken', 'F*** you, Ishikawa' and especially 'F*** you, game'. With deep admiration and gratitude, obviously.
Oh hell yeah. The outrage I felt combined with the complete adoration. This freakin’ expansion did a number on all of our souls, holy MOLY. There were no breaks on this rollercoaster. 🩷
@@elibbabats I liked that at the fanfest Ishikawa started crying from the standing ovation, and Yoshi-P was 'Please don't make her cry!' and all of us are like 'She made hundreds of thousands of us ugly-cry in dark rooms! She can take a hit!'
@@CaitSithDubh omg, RIGHT?! It was so awesome chanting her name and seeing it all go down in person. You made us cry, Ishikawa, now we celebrate you and your writing prowess and make YOU cry! And then Yoshida asking us to not make the most adorable member of their team cry... which in turn made us chant even louder... making her cry more, lolol. One of the best, most wholesome moments EVER.
If only your viewers had shown even a modicum of restraint and not been with you throughout the zone. The entire zone, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, is about loss and loneliness, and it was robbed tbh. The streamers whose chat stay away and only appear at the end have such a transcendent reaction to it, knowing they weren't alone and others were with them all along. Was a great video regardless of that personal gripe, and your reactions to the events were pretty much mirrored by a lot of us who played this game. Hope you continue to have fun!
Some say FF10 is the best FF bcs it made them cry and left a strong imprint as they were growing up. For my generation it was Aerith Gainsborough's and FF7. Trust me when I say that having lived in the moment those games were shiny and new, having played them, having waited for them for days and months in anticipation with only magazines to hype myself up, getting wrecked emotionally and feeling satiisfied by the end of the journey certainly makes me understand the people that say such things.
Trust me when I say that FF14 stands, to me, head and shoulders above those games, because it wrecked me like none of those did, and at the added difficulty of me being a hardened by the school of hard knocks that is life cynical grown ass 40 year old. FF7 and 10 were playing on easy mode, while 14 was on frigging nightmare mode.
This game is really something especial. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, so that we can relive those moments along with you.
Alisaie: "The fact we can breathe and press on is proof they're still with us. They are...they are...aren't they?"
This line was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, the second time in 30+ years of gaming that a game made me cry.
YES. Alisaie’s hesitation when she’s usually so determined and sure was quite vulnerable and emotional and AHHH those twins and our walk was the hardest thing… 😭
That and Alisaie wishing it was all a dream broke me. My brave “little sister” is scared. I felt like she and Alphinaud knew what might happen next. I felt like I was leading them to their doom. I was NOT ok during the crystal path.
I ugly cried during G'raha and the twins goodbyes. I love G'raha and the walk with the voices had me bawling love this game so much
Ah I remember this part. I teared up during it too. Then was determined to get to the end in hope of bringing them back
I knew what they were trying to pull on us and I didn't believe for a second they were truly gone. But that damn catboi, I knew their tricks but they made it personal with him. Safe to say the water works didnt stop after the promise 😂
That FIST BUMP. And the MUSIC. The complete wizardry they used to pull our heartstrings with G’raha 😭
BIG hugs. I love this game so much.
The catharsis I get from watching people cry through this part of the story is probably a reason to go to therapy, but it feels so good
I absolutely relate to this, we’re in this together lmao. I just love watching others go through it too and will always click on these videos every time they pop up. It’s like watching a rite of passage and we’re all just cheering (crying) them on on the sides or something lol!
Welcome to us survivers of the crywalk!
They really just kept stabbing us in our feels
Just finished EW. I struggle to cry. I may shed a few tears, but it's hard. But Shadowbringers & Endwalker had me sobbing. Sitting quietly with my head down with tears pouring down my face for a long time... For days after. I thought nothing could give me that feeling anymore and this story showed me I'm not dead inside. It's so incredible
It's so crazy how much this story has touched SO many hearts, and especially people who aren't generally emotional/moved by things. I'm so glad EW and SHB could stir your heart!
Ah yes this zone had me so upset and almost angry about losing them one all one after the other it wasn’t until the walk that the emotions hit me all at once and broke me. Genuinely can’t wait for what’s next
Me toooo!! So excited to get a taste of what’s to come TOMORROW! New trailer AHHHH! 🤩
Forever glad I sold it with my crocodile tears over Estinien's death! My best lolgottie moment! 😉
ALSO WATCHING THIS ALL OVER AGAIN HURTS MY SOUL Ultima Thule is just PAIN. But what a journey it had been... 😭
good job on that selling bit ;3c and I feel ya even now watching those scenes make me tear up
took me a while to stop hating the music of Thule and start loving it too. XD
You are the BESTEST. Thank you for making my journey ever more magical. I CRI. IM SO GLAD FOR FFXIV AND THE FRIENDSHIP WE FORGED BECAUSE OF IT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ToT
1:37:13 "A smile ...better suites a hero."
I never thought a game would pull so many heart strings until i played ffxiv. Between ultima thule and shb i have used multiple boxes of tissues and i was 39/40 when i finished it. The story and ending are sooooo good. I cant even go to ultima thule without tearing up. Even watching this video hit me again.
This bastard of a game helped me through one of the hardest points of my life. I don't know how I'd get through the loss of my dog without it, but im so grateful for that one fateful day when i decided to pick it up thinking "this looks fun"
Not knowing itd emotionally destroy and help me. God bless.
I am SO glad it helped you! It brings me the greatest joy whenever I read comments like this. And now we get to be destroyed all over again with a new expansion to come! 🥳😂😭
@@elibbabats It seems like itll just be a nice summer vacation vibe, but maybe beyond that our hearts will get torn to shreds again
As soon as we lost Thancred, I knew exactly what was going to happen. It was like knowing a train was going to crash and not being able to stop it.
They should’ve add, “It’s the little things that make life worth living, don’t you think?” That scene hit me hard too. 😅
Congratulations on Endwalking
We were all crying during the last zone lol
I had my suspicions about them living at the end, but the possibility of them being dead dead was always there since this was the end of the saga, and the sacrifices were written well enough. But there were a few moments that really got me.
Thancred's set the stage but not the status quo, so the most tension came right after the horror film feeling on the ship and his disappearance. The others were done well, but I was hit hard again once it was just the WoL and the twins. It didn't escape me that they're still just kids, and their dialogue was painful while climbing the crystal path. Alisaie's especially, as I got quite attached to her character in the lead up to SHB, and then more so throughout SHB and EW. She was written in a very human way with a lot of anxiety and frustration, and her empathetic treatment of the WoL was charming. So her emotional dilemma after Graha's sacrifice busted my heart wide open.
And then the Walk with a capital W. I was fairly convinced the scions come back by that point, but I was very immersed in the weight the WoL must have felt; alone at the end of the universe, facing existential despair, the only person standing in the way of complete annihilation of everyone he knew and loved. And so when the music hit, and then the voices of other characters spoke up, that's when I really just broke down and let the tears go.
The last big moment for me was the elpis flower field and Meteon remembering Hermes' promise of a flower. The entire expansion once the plot twist about the villain was revealed, I felt really sorry for meteor and hoped we could save her, so I was invested in that moment when she remembered the promise of hope.
All in all, the zone tore it out of me, and I enjoyed it immensely :)
AHH, I’m so glad you enjoyed it! I don’t know what it is about the Elpis flower field scene and meteion (I mean I do, it was well constructed scene with animation and music and shtuff) but it tears me apart every. single. time. I watch it. It’s just so heart wrenching to see her crumble knowing she’s seen so much and yet these flowers were the key to opening her heart. AHHHH. It’s SO good. 😭
I love how the scene is refered simply as "The Walk".
It could have been given other names. Some other names that my friends and I came up with were:
- Path of Memories
- Stroll of Hope
- Solemn Walk
- Alone but not path
But we all agree to just use "The Walk"
It’s so simple, but so powerful. If you know, you know. I honestly love it, too! 🥹
Close in the Distance brings a tear to my eye.
Finished this expansion not too long ago with no breathing room after shadowbringers... now, there are things that have made me sad, but talk about a gutpunch to the feels. I literally had to stop and process after Estinien was gone, both his and Thancred's sacrifice were a shock to me. I cried when Urianger told us he was going to sacrifice himself, then he *and* Y’shtola left. I had to take a break when it came down to G'raha and the twins, I broke down. I could barely see during The Walk.
Then it was happy tears when [redacted] and I got [redacted]... then sad (and also happy, because they need to rest) tears when [redacted] again. Then happy tears when [redacted]. When I tell you, I NEEDED [redacted]. It was just a nice cathartic release.
I'm pretty sure I understand all of the [redacted] parts and can totally relate, lol. I just remember people telling me the kind of pain that was in store for me when I got to the last zone, but I just didn't realize how potent it would be. I honestly think I was only able to get through it because I was streaming and had chats support, haha! I definitely feel fortunate on that end. From one sensitive heart to another, cheers to cathartic releases! ❤️
Hi Bats!!! Good to see you're back in the youtube grind.
Hope you finish 16 soon!
I wanted SO badly to finish 16 before fanfest but alas, I couldn’t. It is totally on the agenda when I get back! I can’t wait to find out what’s going to happen! 😭
As someone who has two WOLs played through Endwalker, I still cry every time…
A note about what you said at the end:
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Chat and your friend weren't lying.They were really gone. Every single one of them die and are unmade in front of you. They still live through that experience and face it willingly, one by one.
It's just that this is a story of magic and just like Emet plucking Y'shtola from the life stream in Shadowbringers or Zenos coming back in Stormblood or two half-faded souls of the dead showing up here, strong enough magics can still pull a person back from the dead.
I got through most of it but the reprise of Hermes' line and the flowers got me good and I shall never recover from this.
Lovely done ^ ^
A True Masterpiece of a game. and TRuly understandble Reaction. I cryed and feelt the same.
I don’t think people realize how terrified Alphie and Alie are. We forget that they’re essentially teens dealing with Universe Ending trauma.
Emotional Vampire checking in!
Hello again!
Best quote from this vid: OH MY GAWD THIS SONG! T^T
I think I was so distraught after G’raha, it took me a bit to realize there were gut wrenching lyrics being sung and it just was another punch to the emotional guy, lmao. Soken, Jason, Ishikaw, and Kate with their freaking song-making wizardry 😭😭😭😭
Thought provoking :)
I'm a Guy in my 30's I play Fem Miqo'te when I play a character I really get into it there feelings become my feelings so this was my honest reaction, I reached part with G'raha being lost and latterly stopped playing for a week straight because losing him again broke me that much. I was literally ocean of happy tears when got him back... all of them back. but mostly him... >_> ( BIG SIGH OF RELIEF )
A funny little thing near the very beginning: those red cubes that spawn on the bridge when Meteion appears? They're displaying 404 errors XD
I remember being here for this, am the cute Xaela, Mumui Uru, with the 9S doll for those who dont know me. It was lots of fun to experience this with the bat lady herself
Hi Mumui! 💖
@@elibbabats heya Bats, hope you enjoyed fanfest!
I wouldn't have believed that 02:20 would be the last funny moment for a long time.
After losing all the others, with G'raha breaking me almost immediatey..I told myself I wouldn't cry for the Walk. But the second spectre, Haurchefant, made me say fuck it. Spent 15 minutes crying before I could take another step
COMPLETELY understandable. It just hits the soul so hard, this game, these characters. Both of those character particularly... gosh, SE just knew what they were doing and I ADORE them for it.