Is this the best narrative sequence in the history of games? I'd vote... yes.

"Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles" incarnet, I love Venat

I'd ask why is this not a official vid.. But the game loves to hurt us, the moment all the lore clicked for me.

Shell shocked has 15% chance if enemy get stun for 2 turns.

@6:08 hits hard from the SHB MSQ...OMG!!!

"Amidst deepest Despair, light everlasting" We need to remember this now, more than ever.

11:28 💙🏳️‍⚧️

nice to see a mod user ... the eyes arent that bright in a normal cutszene and hydaelins weapon isnt that bright either ;) but my heart aches for emet ... miss him so much ( maybe its just a shader over the game )

Venat the deceiver.

Lol, I remember playing this on newgrounds or maybe it was ebaumsworld before I even knew about WoW, I thought it was an original flash game. Ironically it got me into the RPG genre as a whole and eventually WoW.

7:18 for the best part

Venat, the second-to-last Azem, sundered us all and suffered interminable agony and sorrow over twelve thousand years, all so the last Azem could walk to the end and save the entire universe.

thank you I'm been struggling to find a map for this

The first time i ever saw this scene i truly felt my spine tingle, it sent chills to my very core to realize what had occurred and how the world was underestimate and shattered. Ugh the agony of ff14 is the GREATEST fantasy tale written. So much meaning and purpose and so many mysteries answered. Never let anyone say ff14 is boring 🥹

This cutscene truly endures as one of the most emotionally manipulative pieces of writing I've ever seen. It is so telling that nothing you see portrayed here is actually happening based on the facts as we know them, (For example, in actuality, the Final Days are stopped, and Zodiark is not receiving new sacrifices) but the developers used all this imagery and allegorical dialogue to make Venat appear far more righteous than she actually is. I'm very glad the Omega quest allows you to say that she was not justified, but this is still impressively constructed in all the worst ways.

She, who stood in the way of worldwide peace, and prosperity. We finally got to see exactly what kind of manipulative villain Hydaelyn was, from the very beginning.

I presume Blizzard let it be as the only thing this game might achieve is be a free draw for people into wow. Memory lane hits hard tho xd

"Thouse must all die, be forgotten and distorted", actually.

My hate for dawntrail is the same as my hate for this cutscene (no, I'm not joking) I think this cutscene destroys Venat as a character... Because lore wise, everything that is happening here never really happened at all! This is just a really bad abridged version of the beginning conflict between zodiark and hydaelyn...

I notice that in all of the rift travel cutscenes this is the only one where your WoL doesnt cross their arms to protect themselves and actively reaches for the memory You protected yourself when entering the First, The Void and Elpis But for this fragment of time your WoL wanted to witness, you reach for it without shielding yourself

Endwalker was such a great journey, this is one of the most impactfull scenes!

comparing dawntrail to this is just... man

I was sobbing throughout this particular cutscene

Ah yes I do recall being emotionally broken by this and sobbing like crazy at my keyboard

The hard cut in Answers to the Turn 12 theme was genius

I still tear up when I watch this.

8:52 "Not yet!! If you want to win against The Apocalypse!!"

Crazy that this is in the same game as the shit show that was dawntrails writing

The original uncensored idea for this cutscene would have been kinda butal NGL. The black oil stuff on Venat as shes walking was supposed to be blood in the original pitch but when the rating commitee saw it they had to bump it to an M rating due to the viscera. as it is is still a FANTASTIC scene, one of the best in the game, I just can't help but think of how rough the original idea would have looked.

Gotta admit I didn’t understand one bit of this 😅

I dont know how they could ever top this scene.

It tackles the question of 'why humans suffer'nicely. The Ascians were perfect beings until one of their own wanted more (Hermes). But why should humanity be perfect? A society without desires grows uniform, stagnant and will birth people who inevitably want for more. It will produce another Hermes. Humanity did not receive sin, it received choice. And it's up to humanity to decide what they do with that choice. The Ascians decided that they're already perfect and needed an even more perfect being to save them, whereas the imperfect Eorzeans chose to defy their destiny at every step and succeeded. We are what we are, not out of punishment, but because imperfection is the true perfection. So don't think you're too big to share your burdens. Let us 'Flow Together'.

Who's the person in that void in the beginning?

I vaguely remember playing this game in Y8, but i couldn't remember the name i had to reverse search the image i found on an instagram meme.

Got a sore throat even at the begin, iknew what was coming. Not only is she the core reason of why FF14 lore exists since you start a new game but also the symbolic life lessons that are key to inner happiness, even irl. This is the best written story in a game ever in history.

I don't suppose you'd happen to know if any workaround for these 2 A-presses has been found in the last six years? I've been chipping away at the 0 jumps emblems that were added in a recent minor update, and this is one of the very few levels that seems to be no-way, no-how impossible using the techniques I'm aware of. Since I'm optimizing for jumps, rather than A-presses themselves, using the ice hat in multiplayer to scale walls is on the table, but it seems like the only walls available at the start of this stage are unusable for that particular glitch.

I like to think the Lalafells were a joke from Venat to the player

Blizz could've easily made this into a mobile game franchise like cmon man

LO ENCONTRE PORFIN

how Murloc's language ia called?

cool game

It might be no exaggrearation to say that this is the greatest cutscene in a video game ever

As someone who played since A Realm Reborn, doubted Hydaelyn since Heavensward, doubled down on that doubt during Shadowbringers and told Hydaelyn direct to her face that I didn't trust her at the start of Endwalker, this cutscene HURT to watch.

8:23 😂

Hyadaelin is forever my Goddess.

plunderers rings are 2 , 1 in the cave by breaking a wall and the other is at the beginning of the game in a wall i tell you right now this is not it, you best bet to farm gold is in the cave's.. where did you get the nose glasses?

As a student of philosophy, I cannot justify Venat’s decisions. Her robbing her fellow ancients of knowledge, agency, and ultimately lives is unjustifiable. As a parent, Venat’s actions to save “her children” are completely justified. The world be damned, her own soul be damned. The children will get their chance to live, no matter what.

13:31 I legit did it first try LOL

Bro I was searching for this game for SO long

This cutscene shatters me every time