Drak's reaction to the knight in black was literally me when i saw all of this. i was jumping in my chair so much and was almost in tears as i was hoping for it after playing EW and seeing the allusions to ff4 in that.
I was this excited as well. I heard the music and I'm like "this sounds like the plotting theme that played during Golbez's plotting against Cecil. It made me so happy. Can't wait for the remix of Golbez Clad in Black and Archfiend's theme.
@@NSBWS the tower of zot and Babel are locations in ff4 the Magus sisters are a boss in tower of zot and you fight all three together. The moon itself. Even that face on the moon that's link to the 3D version of ff4. The lopporits are based on livingway from final fantasy 4. That hum of theirs is part of it too. The blue castle like building is potentially linked to the crystal palace on the moon in four. The music that plays in best way burrows. The battle music in burrows is a direct reference to ff4 battle music. So much haha
I don't know if you've read many of the wind up minion descriptions, but that book in the archives appears to be the journal of the goldsmith who made the wind-up succubus, Cloud of Darkness, and several other voidsent minions. For example, the succubus' text is 'One of countless clockwork servitors discovered in the home of a Gridanian goldsmith recently hanged for the crime of ritual summoning. It is believed while crafting the automata, he became increasingly obsessed with the void, until the darkness bid him do the unthinkable.' The Puff of Darkness says that they tried to exhume his body to find it missing. Just a bit of extra worldbuilding that was awesome to see!
wait... I knew the goldsmith was likely the same throughout those windup but I haven't gotten the Succubus... I didn't know they HANGED HIM..... and his body is MISSING fndsjfs i wonder if we'll get more random info about him since it seems we're gonna go to the 13th?? i would love even just a random sidequest about/from him or something
Drak when playing the drawing guessing game “IS IT GOLBEZ IS IT GOLBEZ!! ITS GOTTA BE GOLBEZ!!” For me i can’t wait for ff14 versions of the four fiends and ff4 music 🙏
My personal theory is that the 4 archfiends are the next 4 trials in these post msq patches, 1 for each upcoming numbered patch. Since we do not need a final for Endwalker it gives them space to fit each of them into a patch, either as part of the main story or still as a trial sidequest. Of course they could also use them for the whole next expansion but i feel they got introduced too early for that.
I’m a bit worried about them being a trial series because that’s only three trials, .2 .4 and .5, unless they combine what four lords and werlyt did in a dungeon for the fourth and a solo instance for the fifth I’m hoping we space them with trials for each patch like ARR did, or they become full-blown raid bosses in the void to be our new relic exploration zone, if the devs intend to keep with that style of relic grind
@@kuronaialtani Someone on Twitter suggested that they'll have one of the Fiends (most likely Cagnazzo since we can't drown) be the boss of a dungeon, and then the other three fiends would be the trials.
@@GayLPer it would be hilarious if cagnazzo gets relegated to dungeon status like genbu because he’s all “haha ima drown u” and we just stand there and take it thanks to soroban If the fuath and the tempest couldn’t drown us, cagnazzo can’t
@@kuronaialtani Well, the only reason previous expansions only had three trials was because .3 was always reserved for the finale of that expansion (Nidhogg, Tsukuyomi, WoL/Elidibus). Since they've already stated that Endwalker ended in 6.0, we may not get an MSQ trial in 6.3, which will leave room for the four elemental lords each getting their own trial. They could shove one of them into a dungeon like with Hell's Lid and make Golbez one of the trials as well.
@@Cabrera_José True, though given Golbez's relation to Cecil in FF4, and the stand-in WoL's shift from DRK to PLD. . .I'm thinking golbez is gonna be a bit more important than being relegated to a trial series trial But we'll see
When I first heard the part about Azdaja being trapped in the void, honestly my first thought was "What if she became the 5-headed dragon boss we fought in World of Darkness?"
Your reaction to the Knight in Black was mine. I recognized the music immediately and I was trying so hard the entire time not to wake up my neighbours and blow out the eardrums of everyone who was in Discord voice chat at the time. It was so exciting as a FF4 fan to see that. I *really* want to see the Four Fiends in ffxiv style now.
@@TarossBlackburn a friend of mine has guessed that Adzaja is going to be Golbez's Shadow Dragon. I will lose it in an incredibly positive way if that happens
1:49 I'm fairly certain that Zemus is the one in that cutscene, not Zenos. Which means we may finally get Zeromus soon in addition to Golbez and the four Archfiends. ...Huh, I only just realized how similar Zemus and Zenos' names are...
@@TheJamieellis Yeah, I realize that now. Still, doesn't mean that we won't be getting Zemus. I kinda only thought it was Zemus because of what little we could see of the voidsent in the first cutscene he popped up in.
My take on Golbez: Our shard of Azem from the 13th. We ARE his Cecil. Meanwhile Azdaja is a dragon lost in the Void. Lost in Shadow. Shadow Dragon. And we have a green haired kid with us as well who would fit perfectly to summon a dragon… considering he is one.
We also have a dragoon who has betrayed us before, twins, a royal of a ruined kingdom who is also a bard, an engineer named Cid...we're just missing the monk and white mage.
@@LeonardoBramante We’re not missing a White Mage. Y’shtola even as a “Sorceress” primarily using Black Mage stuff still hasn’t forgotten her Conjurer past with how she still can use cure and regen spells.
Sometimes I feel like a non-FF fan because I never recognize anything ever, even though I've played every FF game. I'm like "Oh that's a neat enemy armor design I guess" and that's it. Then I see something like Drak's reaction and IMMEDIATELY knowing who it is and it's like...why is only my memory so bad, lol. FF4 is even one of my favourites ;-;
FF4 was the 1st proper old school FF i played (and my 1st version was arguably the hardest, the DS version) I had played bits and pieces of other FFs but 4 was the 1st I fully completed under my own effort before I was able to get my hands on most of the rest of the series to play
My take if Zenos is going to come back in any form, I can see him fighting to restore the 13th, not as a selfless act of heroism, but his own twisted way of trying to understand the WoL in order to become stronger for a rematch.
I have my doubts. He got what he wanted in his fight to the "death," his heart's sole desire, and it left him unfulfilled. When he returns, I feel like instead of looking for another fight he'll be questioning what it is about life WoL finds so satisfying and will pursue learning it.
My money is still on this Golbez thing being a side-story for the 6.2-6.5 trials. The Four Archfiends will be the trial bosses, with Golbez himself either being an additional bonus trial for 6.58, or maybe a solo duty boss, or possibly held off for future side story content.
Remember folks: we already know 2/5 of the warriors of the 13th: Unukalhai (warring triad quests, black mage equivalent) and Cyella/Cylva (ShB role quests, paladin equivalent). We also know that the 13th was originally thrown to chaos by another adventuring party using auracite to harness the power of primals, but the corrupt aether from them leaked, warping their souls into voidsent. My best theory then is that the 4 fiends + golbez are that adventuring party, who were warped into the first voidsent
I got so excited when we saw Golbez, I knew it was him the same moment Drak did!......then I remembered that Golbez has a shadow dragon and now I know how the questline is going to end for the sister.
I'm still curious to see where the story takes us from here since I feel like the four fiends is going to be our trial series. Will be interesting though to see whether or not the .3 trial will be from story or if they'll just use the fiends (or if one becomes dungeon boss/solo instance so that Golbez can be the final one). However seeing Zenos' voidsent reaper buddy does lead me to wonder if that's where they're leading the story and the trial will simply enhance/give us more reason to go...or if watching cut scenes for that place will be a constant kind of end card for the patches to come with bigger n' bigger leadup.
Fun fact: If your active job is Reaper when they start talking about making pacts with voidsent, Y'shtola will say something like, "We know you've made a pact yourself, but you are the exception that proves the rule." It's a nice little nugget that made me glad I went with it. And if what I'm getting from this patch is correct and 7.0 will take us to the void, there's a high chance I'll be maining RPR for it. Also thank you for being excited at potential Zenos return. It warms my heart.
@@kuronaialtani Basically this, yeah. Vtubers who use PNGs (PNGtubers is the term) have this kind of thing happen too. They use a program or app or something that's called "Reactive Image", so when sound is heard by it, it swaps to another PNG image (in that case, of it being the character's mouth being open). Still pretty cool though.
Could be Zeno's voidsent is what's left of the warrior or lights on the 13th. Zeno's used what was left of part of your soul to fight you and because he's so crazy for you and wanted to be closer to you.
There was a bit where I thought we were hearing a little kid in the background, then I realized we were, but it was was her mic picking him up freaking out from the other room.
I lost my mind just like Drak did. I have been waiting for XIV's take on IV ever since the Crystal Tower, and now its finally here. I literally cannot wait for 6.2. I'm shivering with excitement.
I lost my mind at the Knight in Black part too.. the moment the cape twirled that was it. I died. I was screaming, cackling and just.. I'm so excited. But then my realization with the sister dragon... Golbez has a Shadow Dragon. Ooohhh... nooooo...
My reaction to seeing the "black knight" was almost the same as yours, lol! I love FF4, so seeing those elemental sigils gave me thoughts as to what's to come: (my interpretation) -judging by the elements swirling around them (earth, wind, water, and fire), the sigils are indeed the Four Fiends (Scarmiglione, Barbaricia, Cagnasso, and Rubucante) -Golbez (the black knight) is their leader, like in FF4. -I think they will end up being the next set of trials, like the Warring Triad, the Four Lords, and the Weapons were. Hard to say what their story will be right now. They could be the sundered warriors of (b)light from the 13th, like you said, but we'll have to see. That's my prediction on what they'll be for 14, and excited to see! ^^
Small note, if you run Matoya's Relict as a Trust with Y'shtola in the party she actually tells you that she made the second boss in her youth. The various reactions to this from other Trust members is great.
I called it that we'd come across the Four Fiends way back when the Lunar Whale mount and FF4 minions were announced for fanfest. Boy am I so happy I was right.
I was excited for Golbez, sure... but only because he's with THE FOUR FIENDS! The Four Fiends of the Elements from FF4 were great (especially their battle theme!). They had actual personality, unlike the FF1/FF9 ones. I think the story would be more about them (with 3 of them being trials and one being a dungeon boss or solo duty), and maybe Golbez as the climax, rather than being mostly about him and bringing in other FF4 characters. Heck, since they are from the Thirteenth, they might even bring in some of the other characters we already know from there (hint hint). Edit: Also, I think that voidsent at the end is the one Zenos had a pact with. If you do the Reaper story (or really just the unlock quest), the whole deal with the job is that you make a pact with a voidsent and it lends you power that Reapers traditionally use to kill other voidsent (and to assassinate people I guess?). In fact, during one of those cutscenes at the voidgate, if you're a Reaper, Y'shtola makes a comment about how you may have formed a beneficial pact with a voidsent, but that you're the exception and not the rule or something like that.
yeah that is our best friends avatar. Yoshi-P told us to pay attention to it and how Zenos only friend is the Warrior of Light... so that's a big hint. Zenos also died half transformed since one of his arms did not return to normal nor part of his clothing. Yoshi-P remained silent on why & how Zenos became a Reaper and who and what pact he made with his Avatar so I think whoever that is carries his will or part of his consciousness. On the other side I'm equally hyped that Golbez and the Archfiends are going to be a focal point in the storyline, too. That shadow dragon is DEFINITELY Azdaja.
That voidsent is just themself, they always looked like that and Zenos only took on some qualities like the left arm as part of their Enshroud. Zenos is still Dead™ at the edge of the universe
My theory is the Avatar for Zenos is actually our shard of the Thirteenth. With Zenos dead, they return to their world. They know the 13th is bereft of saviours as they failed to save it, and by joining up with Zenos, they were able to see us, and find out if our strength might be enough to save the thirteenth.
Legit me seeing the Knight. I physically ran across the house and back. I had to explain to my friend, whose only experience with FF is 14 and 7r, what I was flipping shit over.
My crack theory is Vrtra will be the Cecil and Mist Dragon and Azdaja will be the Golbez and Shadow Dragon and you're helping Vrtra overcome his regrets and shortcomings from being in the shadows at Radz as well as him feeling like he's failed her in not rescuing her....while you help him save Adzaja, who is probably corrupted to an extent, but not too far to have it undone and is genuinely concerned with the 13th (and kind of mirroring Vrtra with Radz) but manipulated/controlled by Zemus, who is a powerful voidsent.
the "smut" story is in my opinion is actually the story of how Godbert found his wife leading to the eventual birth of the most powerful investigator in the Multiverse
Oh! OH! Maybe that's why [Redacted] shows up in those cut scenes! Maybe they represent Cecil's dark knight side! And it will be when we and them [Redacted] that they 'become a paladin/the warrior of light'. Oh my god I had been thinking since seeing them in those cut scenes what if [Redacted] was the shard of our character from the Void realm. This could support that theory of mine!
By your wanting of Zeno's to come back, now hear me out, this is our future theory crafting, but yes that voidsent is the one that Zenos used, now what if a part of him is inside that voidsent and he becomes your future reaper contracted?
my theory is not cecil being azem but goldbez is the azem. since the 4 elemental thrones are in theory the other warrior of lights then wouldn’t their leader be the azem
Can you imagine the next time we have to fight a primal or some god and WoL and Zenos are super hyped while the rest of the scions are like dreading it.
Maybe everyone is just reading what they want, or maybe we're talking about two different posts, but Yoshi-P's words made it seem Zenos is definitively dead, no cheek.
what if Golbez is Azem's refection from the 13th. I Don't know i just really wanna know more about Azem and all of there reflections. I also wanna know more about the Warriors of light from each Calamity. I'd like a series of side missions too where we live out the events of G'Raha's now gone future, you can B.S the Echo like giving us nightmares of the events.
I still can’t believe they actually just made a 1:1 of golbez, glowing white eye and all And uh, I am not ready to fight his shadow dragon aka definitely-Tiamat-oh-god-Vrtra-I’m-so-sorry
That was just a specculation people had after learning about Ardbert being our counterpart on the first. Unukalhai was a hero of the Thirteenth, but there is nothing hinting that he is a shard of Azem specifically. And the Void quests seem to hint at an entirely different identity.
See, I have not played FF4, or any FF that isn't 14 or 7 Remake so when I saw that dude in black armor I was just like "....Exdeath...?" while being very confused since I know we fought him in Omega. And then my only reaction to the thrones was "where's ice and thunder". I love Y'shtola, but I still took every opportunity to throw her and Estinien under the bus.
@@Gamemaster-64 A good 90% of their design is really similar to someone unfamiliar with their games. The helmet and color scheme are different, and I think the spikes are different, but if I look at Neo-Exdeath???? Friend explained FF4 stuff over Discord but I just...don't really play a lot of JRPGs and have never been interested in the classic FF games.
I'm still MEGA disappointed that we went to the actual FREAKIN' MOON and didn't meet FuSoYa or any of the Lunarians. Like, SUPER missed opportunity guys.
I think one day drak is going to lose it completely and just storm the SE HQ and demand changes wile holding yoshi P hostage till its done. :D As for the texture update not yet but they have updated the lighting how it reacts to textures i believe textures happen in 6.2
What was that voice you ask? A rather pointed reminder that the VA for yshtola also voices Sera from Dragon Age Inquisition. Also if I remember correctly didn't the Devs say that Zenos was done for completely? I don't think they are bringing him back again.
Friendly reminder that Y’shtola’s eng VA also voices Titania.
Drak: - Y'shtola is insufferable
Ishikawa: - Ok. Watch this.
(5 patches of a feral nerd Mahou Shoujo)
Drak's reaction to the knight in black was literally me when i saw all of this. i was jumping in my chair so much and was almost in tears as i was hoping for it after playing EW and seeing the allusions to ff4 in that.
I was this excited as well. I heard the music and I'm like "this sounds like the plotting theme that played during Golbez's plotting against Cecil. It made me so happy. Can't wait for the remix of Golbez Clad in Black and Archfiend's theme.
"Hey. Remember the thing?"
As someone who has only seen ffx other then 14 what us said allusion
@@NSBWS the tower of zot and Babel are locations in ff4 the Magus sisters are a boss in tower of zot and you fight all three together. The moon itself. Even that face on the moon that's link to the 3D version of ff4. The lopporits are based on livingway from final fantasy 4. That hum of theirs is part of it too. The blue castle like building is potentially linked to the crystal palace on the moon in four. The music that plays in best way burrows. The battle music in burrows is a direct reference to ff4 battle music.
So much haha
I don't know if you've read many of the wind up minion descriptions, but that book in the archives appears to be the journal of the goldsmith who made the wind-up succubus, Cloud of Darkness, and several other voidsent minions. For example, the succubus' text is 'One of countless clockwork servitors discovered in the home of a Gridanian goldsmith recently hanged for the crime of ritual summoning. It is believed while crafting the automata, he became increasingly obsessed with the void, until the darkness bid him do the unthinkable.' The Puff of Darkness says that they tried to exhume his body to find it missing.
Just a bit of extra worldbuilding that was awesome to see!
wait... I knew the goldsmith was likely the same throughout those windup but I haven't gotten the Succubus... I didn't know they HANGED HIM..... and his body is MISSING fndsjfs
i wonder if we'll get more random info about him since it seems we're gonna go to the 13th?? i would love even just a random sidequest about/from him or something
Did you not notice that the WoL has already filled Cecil's role? He was a Dark Knight in Shadowbringers and became a paladin for Endwalker.
Drak when playing the drawing guessing game “IS IT GOLBEZ IS IT GOLBEZ!! ITS GOTTA BE GOLBEZ!!” For me i can’t wait for ff14 versions of the four fiends and ff4 music 🙏
I truthfully had the same reaction he did.
@@Gsworld1990 The moment I head "Golbez, Clad in the Dark" I was like YES YES YES YES and then the Four Elemental Thrones?! THEN GOLBEZ?!
I love Yuni. "You're not allowed to buy the cars anymore."
What cars was she talking about? In game?
@@MultiGeorge101 No, in real life.
@@MultiGeorge101 She made that comment after it took Drak a little too long to realize that the kid was part of the scam.
My personal theory is that the 4 archfiends are the next 4 trials in these post msq patches, 1 for each upcoming numbered patch. Since we do not need a final for Endwalker it gives them space to fit each of them into a patch, either as part of the main story or still as a trial sidequest. Of course they could also use them for the whole next expansion but i feel they got introduced too early for that.
I’m a bit worried about them being a trial series because that’s only three trials, .2 .4 and .5, unless they combine what four lords and werlyt did in a dungeon for the fourth and a solo instance for the fifth
I’m hoping we space them with trials for each patch like ARR did, or they become full-blown raid bosses in the void to be our new relic exploration zone, if the devs intend to keep with that style of relic grind
@@kuronaialtani Someone on Twitter suggested that they'll have one of the Fiends (most likely Cagnazzo since we can't drown) be the boss of a dungeon, and then the other three fiends would be the trials.
@@GayLPer it would be hilarious if cagnazzo gets relegated to dungeon status like genbu because he’s all “haha ima drown u” and we just stand there and take it thanks to soroban
If the fuath and the tempest couldn’t drown us, cagnazzo can’t
@@kuronaialtani Well, the only reason previous expansions only had three trials was because .3 was always reserved for the finale of that expansion (Nidhogg, Tsukuyomi, WoL/Elidibus). Since they've already stated that Endwalker ended in 6.0, we may not get an MSQ trial in 6.3, which will leave room for the four elemental lords each getting their own trial. They could shove one of them into a dungeon like with Hell's Lid and make Golbez one of the trials as well.
@@Cabrera_José True, though given Golbez's relation to Cecil in FF4, and the stand-in WoL's shift from DRK to PLD. . .I'm thinking golbez is gonna be a bit more important than being relegated to a trial series trial
But we'll see
When I first heard the part about Azdaja being trapped in the void, honestly my first thought was "What if she became the 5-headed dragon boss we fought in World of Darkness?"
Really? My immediate thought was "Golbez has a Shadow Dragon in FFIV..."
@@EverfreeFire that was my first thought too
Your reaction to the Knight in Black was mine. I recognized the music immediately and I was trying so hard the entire time not to wake up my neighbours and blow out the eardrums of everyone who was in Discord voice chat at the time. It was so exciting as a FF4 fan to see that. I *really* want to see the Four Fiends in ffxiv style now.
That music was an instant give-away.
There is one damning possibility now with Golbez being around for what happened to Azdaja...
@@TarossBlackburn a friend of mine has guessed that Adzaja is going to be Golbez's Shadow Dragon. I will lose it in an incredibly positive way if that happens
This dungeon is all of the Crash Bandicoot vibes. The jungle start, the music, and the spinning.
Ok Drak, you talk about Y’shtola being smug, but then don’t show her being boinked by the book in the library?
Regarding Y’shtola’s voice in the summoning ritual. She sounds like that because her voice actress is also the voice actress of Titania.
I'm so happy, knowing Drak was like "is that Golbez!?" Golbez is the best wtf moment we've had in a while for FF14
The devs quite literally confirmed Zenos's story is ended. There was no "Asterisk"
1:49 I'm fairly certain that Zemus is the one in that cutscene, not Zenos. Which means we may finally get Zeromus soon in addition to Golbez and the four Archfiends.
...Huh, I only just realized how similar Zemus and Zenos' names are...
No, that is 100% Golbez. Zemus didn't wear armor like that. Zemus was more like a mage with his garb.
@@SirVG Its not golbez, thats in a different cutscene
That's Zenos' voidsent that he made a pact with to become a Reaper. Not Zemus, i'm afraid.
@@TheJamieellis Yeah, I realize that now. Still, doesn't mean that we won't be getting Zemus. I kinda only thought it was Zemus because of what little we could see of the voidsent in the first cutscene he popped up in.
My take on Golbez:
Our shard of Azem from the 13th. We ARE his Cecil. Meanwhile Azdaja is a dragon lost in the Void. Lost in Shadow. Shadow Dragon. And we have a green haired kid with us as well who would fit perfectly to summon a dragon… considering he is one.
We also have a dragoon who has betrayed us before, twins, a royal of a ruined kingdom who is also a bard, an engineer named Cid...we're just missing the monk and white mage.
@@LeonardoBramante We’re not missing a White Mage. Y’shtola even as a “Sorceress” primarily using Black Mage stuff still hasn’t forgotten her Conjurer past with how she still can use cure and regen spells.
@@rezahydra No no, she's our FuSoYa.
@@LeonardoBramante Problem with that is FuSoYa is well after the point we’re referring to
The sight of armor and Drak looses it 😆
6:54 grabs the popcorn
12:15 drak's excitment is enough that he's echoing thru yuni's mic lmao and yes, finish 4!
Sometimes I feel like a non-FF fan because I never recognize anything ever, even though I've played every FF game. I'm like "Oh that's a neat enemy armor design I guess" and that's it. Then I see something like Drak's reaction and IMMEDIATELY knowing who it is and it's like...why is only my memory so bad, lol. FF4 is even one of my favourites ;-;
FF4 was the 1st proper old school FF i played (and my 1st version was arguably the hardest, the DS version) I had played bits and pieces of other FFs but 4 was the 1st I fully completed under my own effort before I was able to get my hands on most of the rest of the series to play
My take if Zenos is going to come back in any form, I can see him fighting to restore the 13th, not as a selfless act of heroism, but his own twisted way of trying to understand the WoL in order to become stronger for a rematch.
I have my doubts. He got what he wanted in his fight to the "death," his heart's sole desire, and it left him unfulfilled. When he returns, I feel like instead of looking for another fight he'll be questioning what it is about life WoL finds so satisfying and will pursue learning it.
My money is still on this Golbez thing being a side-story for the 6.2-6.5 trials. The Four Archfiends will be the trial bosses, with Golbez himself either being an additional bonus trial for 6.58, or maybe a solo duty boss, or possibly held off for future side story content.
20:41 Yeah, that's Zenos's Avatar. Anything beyond that is "please look forward to it" material
I wonder what name that 'avatar' goes by? Zalera perhaps?
Yuni: "They can drag it out"...Drak in the background: [Drak-ing it out realizing that Golbez is the new (returning) boss.]
That idea for the relic weapon is actually incredible.
Remember folks: we already know 2/5 of the warriors of the 13th: Unukalhai (warring triad quests, black mage equivalent) and Cyella/Cylva (ShB role quests, paladin equivalent). We also know that the 13th was originally thrown to chaos by another adventuring party using auracite to harness the power of primals, but the corrupt aether from them leaked, warping their souls into voidsent. My best theory then is that the 4 fiends + golbez are that adventuring party, who were warped into the first voidsent
Can't wait to find out that Azdaja isn't the Shadow Dragon, but some bait and switch happens and Vtra becomes the Shadow Dragon
I got so excited when we saw Golbez, I knew it was him the same moment Drak did!......then I remembered that Golbez has a shadow dragon and now I know how the questline is going to end for the sister.
I'm still curious to see where the story takes us from here since I feel like the four fiends is going to be our trial series. Will be interesting though to see whether or not the .3 trial will be from story or if they'll just use the fiends (or if one becomes dungeon boss/solo instance so that Golbez can be the final one). However seeing Zenos' voidsent reaper buddy does lead me to wonder if that's where they're leading the story and the trial will simply enhance/give us more reason to go...or if watching cut scenes for that place will be a constant kind of end card for the patches to come with bigger n' bigger leadup.
Really like your take on them possibly being the warriors of light of the 13th. Now I can't wait to see more story unfold!
Fun fact: If your active job is Reaper when they start talking about making pacts with voidsent, Y'shtola will say something like, "We know you've made a pact yourself, but you are the exception that proves the rule." It's a nice little nugget that made me glad I went with it. And if what I'm getting from this patch is correct and 7.0 will take us to the void, there's a high chance I'll be maining RPR for it.
Also thank you for being excited at potential Zenos return. It warms my heart.
10:04 just realized draks sprite 's mouth is moving as he talks how the hell did ya manage that
I assume it’s just two different sprites, one with the mouth open and one closed, flashing back and forth over each other in a layer
@@kuronaialtani Basically this, yeah. Vtubers who use PNGs (PNGtubers is the term) have this kind of thing happen too. They use a program or app or something that's called "Reactive Image", so when sound is heard by it, it swaps to another PNG image (in that case, of it being the character's mouth being open). Still pretty cool though.
18:55 Y'shtola's English VA also voices Titania so it honestly could have been worse
Could be Zeno's voidsent is what's left of the warrior or lights on the 13th. Zeno's used what was left of part of your soul to fight you and because he's so crazy for you and wanted to be closer to you.
Has Yuni got a muzzle for Drak? I thought he was gonna explode at ~12:00.
There was a bit where I thought we were hearing a little kid in the background, then I realized we were, but it was was her mic picking him up freaking out from the other room.
I lost my mind just like Drak did. I have been waiting for XIV's take on IV ever since the Crystal Tower, and now its finally here. I literally cannot wait for 6.2. I'm shivering with excitement.
Well, this does explain why we can buy the FF4 Gear for Tomestone alot more
I lost my mind at the Knight in Black part too.. the moment the cape twirled that was it. I died. I was screaming, cackling and just..
I'm so excited.
But then my realization with the sister dragon... Golbez has a Shadow Dragon.
Ooohhh... nooooo...
My reaction to seeing the "black knight" was almost the same as yours, lol! I love FF4, so seeing those elemental sigils gave me thoughts as to what's to come: (my interpretation)
-judging by the elements swirling around them (earth, wind, water, and fire), the sigils are indeed the Four Fiends (Scarmiglione, Barbaricia, Cagnasso, and Rubucante)
-Golbez (the black knight) is their leader, like in FF4.
-I think they will end up being the next set of trials, like the Warring Triad, the Four Lords, and the Weapons were. Hard to say what their story will be right now. They could be the sundered warriors of (b)light from the 13th, like you said, but we'll have to see.
That's my prediction on what they'll be for 14, and excited to see! ^^
Aww, love seeing this series back! :D
Small note, if you run Matoya's Relict as a Trust with Y'shtola in the party she actually tells you that she made the second boss in her youth. The various reactions to this from other Trust members is great.
Drak, you gave me hope for how the relic weapons are going to work with that Zenos talk
Why would you instill in me this hope?
Ya, the Golbez scene made the idea that the Paladin was the title job make way more sense.
Shoulder Zenos just goes: Rip and Tear, my only friend. Until nothing remains!"
Drak sees Golbez: "Happy Drak Noises*
I called it that we'd come across the Four Fiends way back when the Lunar Whale mount and FF4 minions were announced for fanfest. Boy am I so happy I was right.
NGL, the idea of a shoulder Zenos being the devil on your shoulder would be pretty neat.
I was excited for Golbez, sure... but only because he's with THE FOUR FIENDS! The Four Fiends of the Elements from FF4 were great (especially their battle theme!). They had actual personality, unlike the FF1/FF9 ones. I think the story would be more about them (with 3 of them being trials and one being a dungeon boss or solo duty), and maybe Golbez as the climax, rather than being mostly about him and bringing in other FF4 characters. Heck, since they are from the Thirteenth, they might even bring in some of the other characters we already know from there (hint hint).
Edit: Also, I think that voidsent at the end is the one Zenos had a pact with. If you do the Reaper story (or really just the unlock quest), the whole deal with the job is that you make a pact with a voidsent and it lends you power that Reapers traditionally use to kill other voidsent (and to assassinate people I guess?). In fact, during one of those cutscenes at the voidgate, if you're a Reaper, Y'shtola makes a comment about how you may have formed a beneficial pact with a voidsent, but that you're the exception and not the rule or something like that.
yeah that is our best friends avatar. Yoshi-P told us to pay attention to it and how Zenos only friend is the Warrior of Light... so that's a big hint. Zenos also died half transformed since one of his arms did not return to normal nor part of his clothing.
Yoshi-P remained silent on why & how Zenos became a Reaper and who and what pact he made with his Avatar so I think whoever that is carries his will or part of his consciousness. On the other side I'm equally hyped that Golbez and the Archfiends are going to be a focal point in the storyline, too. That shadow dragon is DEFINITELY Azdaja.
That voidsent is just themself, they always looked like that and Zenos only took on some qualities like the left arm as part of their Enshroud. Zenos is still Dead™ at the edge of the universe
Drake's excitement for golbez, is just like mine when kefka was announced, visual anime excitement
Everyone else this patch: “ Golbez!”
Me: “Aht Urghan!”
My theory is the Avatar for Zenos is actually our shard of the Thirteenth. With Zenos dead, they return to their world. They know the 13th is bereft of saviours as they failed to save it, and by joining up with Zenos, they were able to see us, and find out if our strength might be enough to save the thirteenth.
Could be. Personally I like to think that our own Avatar as a Reaper is our shard of the Thirteenth, hence why we were able to make a pact with it.
There's nothing more important than FAMILY.
I'm glad Drak and I had the same reaction to Estinien.
You have no idea how happy I was to see the Final Fantasy 4 bosses. I fanboyed harder then you did lol FF4 was my first FF and my favorite.
Legit me seeing the Knight. I physically ran across the house and back. I had to explain to my friend, whose only experience with FF is 14 and 7r, what I was flipping shit over.
Drak with the righteous comment about Smugshtola.
My crack theory is Vrtra will be the Cecil and Mist Dragon and Azdaja will be the Golbez and Shadow Dragon and you're helping Vrtra overcome his regrets and shortcomings from being in the shadows at Radz as well as him feeling like he's failed her in not rescuing her....while you help him save Adzaja, who is probably corrupted to an extent, but not too far to have it undone and is genuinely concerned with the 13th (and kind of mirroring Vrtra with Radz) but manipulated/controlled by Zemus, who is a powerful voidsent.
the "smut" story is in my opinion is actually the story of how Godbert found his wife leading to the eventual birth of the most powerful investigator in the Multiverse
The smut story apparently has a lot of lore going all the way back to a minion from ARR
Oh! OH! Maybe that's why [Redacted] shows up in those cut scenes! Maybe they represent Cecil's dark knight side! And it will be when we and them [Redacted] that they 'become a paladin/the warrior of light'. Oh my god I had been thinking since seeing them in those cut scenes what if [Redacted] was the shard of our character from the Void realm. This could support that theory of mine!
18:50
This is how I learned that Y'shtola and Titania share the same VA
By your wanting of Zeno's to come back, now hear me out, this is our future theory crafting, but yes that voidsent is the one that Zenos used, now what if a part of him is inside that voidsent and he becomes your future reaper contracted?
my theory is not cecil being azem but goldbez is the azem. since the 4 elemental thrones are in theory the other warrior of lights then wouldn’t their leader be the azem
Not necessarily. It's super uncharacteristic of an Azem to want to enslave and slaughter and become the villain.
I think I might hurt Drak's feelings, but I think the void will be relic weapon area and big G is a boss for related content :'D
lmao I enjoy the echo of Draks fangirling
I take it that was Scribble who captioned Tataru as a cinnamon roll?
i know Yuni doesn't show up much but it be nice if you updated her character art
Her eyes turned normal for a moment just to give us that death glare
Finally someone who is fanboying as hard as I did when Golbez showed up.
Can you imagine the next time we have to fight a primal or some god and WoL and Zenos are super hyped while the rest of the scions are like dreading it.
Me and some of my buddies think Azdaja might be the Shadow Dragon, and they might be working with Golbez.
You made him cry! Such emotional devastation, that was not my intention...
Soooo... Cecil could be Zenos's voidsent and 13th's Azem and we will purge him in 6.3 for a trial? Maybe? Welp, who knows
$5 says Unukalhai is gonna be our Cecil counterpart.
I need that version of ink long dry 😭❤️
My guess is that Azdaja is going to be the shadow dragon that Golbez has in FF4
Maybe everyone is just reading what they want, or maybe we're talking about two different posts, but Yoshi-P's words made it seem Zenos is definitively dead, no cheek.
Four Archfiends trials, let's go :D
what if Golbez is Azem's refection from the 13th. I Don't know i just really wanna know more about Azem and all of there reflections. I also wanna know more about the Warriors of light from each Calamity. I'd like a series of side missions too where we live out the events of G'Raha's now gone future, you can B.S the Echo like giving us nightmares of the events.
Very important question that was not asked in this video is it Golbez?
No reaction to Y'shtola getting her head bopped by a book? That was a pretty not smug moment from her. XD
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Golbez forged a contract with a shadow dragon, didn't he? Couldn't that be Azdaja?
Plot twist Golbez is a reflection. Send help before he and Ardbert sit rent free in your head.
Yuni's sprite art is baaaack :D
This patch MSQ be like, "NO, KITTY, THIS IS MY POT PIE!"
I still can’t believe they actually just made a 1:1 of golbez, glowing white eye and all
And uh, I am not ready to fight his shadow dragon aka definitely-Tiamat-oh-god-Vrtra-I’m-so-sorry
"Cecil's another sundered Azem"
Wasn't Unukalhai our sundered self from the Thirteenth?
I think it was implied that he was either Thirteenth version of Nyelbert or Taynor.
That was just a specculation people had after learning about Ardbert being our counterpart on the first. Unukalhai was a hero of the Thirteenth, but there is nothing hinting that he is a shard of Azem specifically. And the Void quests seem to hint at an entirely different identity.
See, I have not played FF4, or any FF that isn't 14 or 7 Remake so when I saw that dude in black armor I was just like "....Exdeath...?" while being very confused since I know we fought him in Omega. And then my only reaction to the thrones was "where's ice and thunder". I love Y'shtola, but I still took every opportunity to throw her and Estinien under the bus.
I can see that when both Exdeath and Golbez are gaint guys in large suit of armor. Also their games being one after the other.
@@Gamemaster-64 A good 90% of their design is really similar to someone unfamiliar with their games. The helmet and color scheme are different, and I think the spikes are different, but if I look at Neo-Exdeath???? Friend explained FF4 stuff over Discord but I just...don't really play a lot of JRPGs and have never been interested in the classic FF games.
Yuni's baaaaaaack!
21:45 how does Fray fit into this then?
I'm still MEGA disappointed that we went to the actual FREAKIN' MOON and didn't meet FuSoYa or any of the Lunarians. Like, SUPER missed opportunity guys.
Hey drak are you looking for new ppl to join your fc by chance?
...they are REALLY enjoying animating M'qote ears lately, huh?
Y'shtola went full anime magical girl
I think one day drak is going to lose it completely and just storm the SE HQ and demand changes wile holding yoshi P hostage till its done. :D
As for the texture update not yet but they have updated the lighting how it reacts to textures i believe textures happen in 6.2
i really need to play the other FF games huh
I never played FF4 so I had no idea who that was.
I only knew who it was because I played dissidia which has golbez in it
What if it's Zemus?
What was that voice you ask?
A rather pointed reminder that the VA for yshtola also voices Sera from Dragon Age Inquisition.
Also if I remember correctly didn't the Devs say that Zenos was done for completely? I don't think they are bringing him back again.
Yet another reason for me to go back and finish that game LOL.