Final Fantasy - A Realm Reborn! Reaction

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

Great reaction. If you're not worried about spoiling the story for yourself, here's the full run down: Final Fantasy 1.0 trailer (go back and watch this, it's worth it and is referenced again later) Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn is actually two videos in one. The first half up to the old man's sacrifice was the video that played when the servers were shut down at the end of 1.0 and the part from "Square Enix" onward is the actual "Realm Reborn" launch trailer, but they were made into one video for the full trailer. Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn: The Flames of Truth was a video that played during the final raid of A Realm Reborn and reveals the full truth of what happened after the heroes were teleported away. Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is the next trailer and contains spoilers for the end of A Realm Reborn's story Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (this one is why it's worth having watched the previous all the way to 1.0 as there are nice call backs) Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (I can't describe how impactful this expansion's story was and how meaningful it is at its fundamental level) Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (we will see the full trailer in January. We have the first two iterations released so far. Each fan festival this year/Jan 2024 reveals a little more each time) Obviously some things will make more sense if you've played the game as there are characters and story elements that hit harder in the trailers (along with utter confusion as they didn't make sense at time of trailer release). If you've any inclination to play an MMO, or a Final Fantasy game, though, I highly recommend playing XIV. A Realm Reborn through Stormblood are all free to play and the entire story from A Realm Reborn to Endwalker (the full arc of the "Hydaelyn/Zodiark Saga") can be played about 90% as a single player RPG experience. People will tell you A Realm Reborn is slow, but it's like the first book of a series. It has a lot of work to do world building, establishing lore, introducing characters and concepts that make the world function, various factions. And it's very VERY much like a book series. Nothing is wasted content, nothing is wasted story. You'll do a quest at level 30 thinking it's just a filler sidetrack and it comes back in a HUGE way at the end of the following expansion at level 60. Side content all have stories around them and you can never be certain what will be coming back up as a crucial element to the story later on. Everything is treated as a part of your story.

[@adamsreactionzone]

I appreciate that long comment but I do kinda wanna learn it myself as I go through the cinematics and such, but I promise you once I'm done I will read this comment fully:)

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

@@adamsreactionzone OH, the comment doesn't spoil it as much as the trailers will. I meant if you don't mind spoiling it a bit by watching trailers in order rather than playing the game for the complete story. My comment was giving the full order of all trailers vids.

[@adamsreactionzone]

Oh right. I see now haha. That's insanely informative buddy tysm! I'll definitely use this going forward 🤣

[@Reycied]

Finally managed to watch this and subscribe! Loved your Heavensward video, so I'm watching in reverse order XD. As I did last time, I'll give as spoiler-lite an explanation as I can of who the players are and what's happening. The setting: Eorzea, a continent that has been subjected to successive "Astral Eras" where great progress is made, and "Umbral Eras", where that progress is snatched away by some truly catastrophic disaster. What you see is the Elder Dragon Bahamut, freed from his millennia-long prison sealed inside an artificial red moon called Dalamud, whereupon he immediately kicks off the Seventh Umbral Era by causing massive damage all across the continent. Even regional climates are forever changed by the powers he unleashes here. The Elezen (fancy word for 'elf', really) sorcerer that protects the heroes is Louisoix Leveilleur, one of the greatest mages of his era, and a prodigy of Sharlayan, a nation of scholars. Instead of teleporting our heroes to safety, he actually shunts them forward five years in time to a point where the worst of the Umbral Calamity's effects have been mitigated. Most of this video actually played at the end of FF14 1.0--a notoriously poorly-received game--and returning five years later, you really do find a 'Realm Reborn'. As for the players: I already mentioned Louisoix, and the Meteor Survivor (guy with the big axe) and his team don't have canon names, since they're meant to be a player party. As for everyone else... The three people atop the cliff watching the battle: these are the leaders of Eorzea's city-states. The man with the horned helmet is Raubahn Aldynn, who you might remember from getting his arm lopped off in the HW trailer. Not the ruler of his city-state, called Ul'dah, but rather the master of its armies and personal bodyguard and friend of the ruling Sultana. Ul'dah is a desert trading mecca, the 'Jewel of Eorzea'. The pale woman in the black coat is Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn, the admiral of the thalassocratic nation of Limsa Lominsa, home to sailors and with a fierce legacy of pirating. The woman in white with the staff is the Elder Seedseer Kan-e-Senna, ruler of Gridania. They live in harmony with nature and commune with the spirits of an enormous, magical forest called the Twelveswood. The dude in the Horny Darth Vader™ mask on the airship is Gaius van Baelsar, the Black Wolf. He is a soldier for the evil Garlean Empire, and regent of the occupied nation of Ala Mhigo. You can think of him as one of the primary villains of A Realm Reborn. The white-haired dude on the cliff: Cid Garlond, who you also saw in the HW trailer. Awesome engineer, tinkerer and all-around Skinny Kenny Rogers Impersonator. The folks praying at the shrines: Gonna skim through these, as getting to know them in-game is the fun part. Consider them the 'adventuring party' your character amasses while playing any other JRPG. If you play the game, fair warning: they WILL make you cry multiple times. The catgirl is Y'shtola Rhuul. She gives people sass. She's VERY good at it. The gray-haired man is Thancred Waters. He's sex personified. He's VERY good at it. The masked woman is Yda Hext. She punches stuff. She's VERY good at it. The little guy with the staff: Papalymo Totolymo. He blows stuff up. He's VERY good at it. Sorry for leaving a second Great American Novel in the comments section. Hope to see you in-game someday, and belated congrats on 100 subs! Add mine to the pile!~♪

[@adamsreactionzone]

Dude.. Seriously... the amount of stuff you know about this game is unreal lol. Again.. Thanks for the info, I definitely won't be able to remember all of it, but I will most certainly come back to this for references and refreshers lol. Thanks man!

[@flavioromano8754]

Watch flames of truth. It starts the same but the ending is different, kinda like showing two perspectives

[@adamsreactionzone]

Ooo sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out! Thanks man:)

[@reeceholmes8546]

thanks Adam even though I had to watch it in 360p because of my terrible Internet speeds it was good, great stuff

[@adamsreactionzone]

Nothing worse than bad internet. Hopefully it gets better soon!

[@originalninjah7916]

good video adam - very good reaction. 10/10

[@adamsreactionzone]

Cheers mate

[@apljack]

This cinematic at least up to the point where the old man (Louisoix) teleports the 5 away(the stand ins for the player characters of Final Fantasy 14) was actually created as a literal world ending event. 1.0 was a horrible release and a generally poor game overall, and so they decided to pull the plug on it quite literally to rebuild it. When the time came to shut the servers down to do this, this was the cinematic that played for all the players. The 'egg' is the Red Moon of Dalamud, which was created a log time ago to entrap an elder primal, a god like being, which the Empire brought down and released. This ushers in the 8th Umbral Calamity which does kill many people, leaves the world scarred and forever changed. The part where everyone comes back in is meant to represent the players returning to a reborn game, hence the title, "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn." Version 2.0 is now the base level of the game, where every new character starts. If you have a 1.0 character, you can restart them with a special in-game nod to them teleporting in like in the cinematic, rather than just the normal intro scenes. Someone below pointed out another scene 'Flames of Truth' which you can get at the end of the 2.x raid series 'Coils of Bahamut.' It shows what happens immediately after Louisoix teleports the players away, and how Bahamut was stopped from rampaging.

[@LinksRoyal]

warhammer darktide Class trailers please! they have 4

[@adamsreactionzone]

I'll put them on the list and check them out sometime!