FINAL FANTASY: Every DEATH Scene of the Party Members.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Very Important DISCLAIMER: I fought against Copyright in 15 attempts, but I could not make it so there's two big moments of the FF13 franchise left out (mindful of spoilers): - FFXIII Vanille and Fang Sacrifice at the ENDING sequence, as they turn into a crystal pillar to save Cocoon. - FFXIII-2 Serah's death at the ENDING sequence of that game, which is one of my favorites because how crude it is and I tried so hard to include it, I think it's the perfect example of why FF7R is bad. Speaking of FF7R... ...The scene is slightly edited to make it less stupid and more emotional, the death happens, there's no interaction or eyes opened that turn the emotions off in my opinion, I purely did it to make it look more meaningful that the scene actually is. Specially if you compare it with the crudeness of the original version.

[@AlternativeTendo-ne4qz]

Didn't you have to blur the entirety of Lightning Returns final 30 minutes, too?

[@Fall-oo6mt]

FF7R is bad? lol sure

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

@@Fall-oo6mt FF7R ending execution specifically. Not just FF7R. I think it's the best game I've played in 25 years as a whole

[@lucarioalucard]

Don't forget Final Fantasy Type 0 (previously Final Fantasy Agito XIII on the beta) the Ending when all the students of class Zero gave their lives to save the world, leaving peacefuly in the ruins of their classroom, and Machina and Rem promising they will never forget them

[@noobdude5933]

@@lucarioalucard I guess it was just for the mainline Final Fantasys ^^

[@КонстантинПаршуков-о6б]

Tellah: "I must cast Meteor!" Sephiroth: "How dare you use my favourite spell?! You don't even have the Black Materia to begin with!"

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I know right? As someone who played FF7 first and years later catch up with the rest of the games, when I saw White mages casting Holy like crazy I was like "damn, it was that easy huh?"

[@Drumming_Dragon]

That animation looked more like the FF7 comet than meteor

[@TalesDelma]

tellah: amateur i dont need black materia, im chad

[@granturismo-megaspeed8988]

Came for the death scene of Dream Yuna (mistook FFX shot in thumbnail for FFX-2 scene), stayed for the unconvoluted version of Aerith's murder scene

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

It's funny, when making the thumbnail I was like "I shouldn't put explicit spoilers there" so putting Yuna during Tidus' death was a kind of way to do so 😅 but yes! Thank you, I saw someone suggesting editing her death purely with Rebirth footage but without stupidity and I think it was the way to go to including it here

[@haileeraestout5567]

Bro Tidus Death Made Me Cry And I Like How Aerith Knew What Was Happening As If She Created A "Clone" Of Herself And Run Away And Cloud Ended Up LOSING IT Upon Seeing Her End Up DEAD Again It's Like Aeris Loves To "REPLAY" Her Death And Cause Cloud's Trauma To Go Skyrocket So It's Funny To Her

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Also, not to make 10 disclaimers but, as far as I'm aware, the purpose of FF16 was to make it an open ending? So I didn't want to include Clive as a definitive answer, and Joshua counts as party member when he appears late? The party member/guest member of FF16 is confusing AAAA, so instead I just put good ol' Cid, because he was a nice fella 😎

[@Vayne_Solidor]

Well, you include Cid, by that logic Joshua counts in too. He is clearly gone and at some point a permanent guest character. Clive however is most likely alive. The petrification stopped at his hand after trying to use magic. The symbolism of the dawn and Jill looking sort of reliefed. Someone even mentioned there is a boat. Only Clive could name the book Final Fantasy. "The only fantasy here is yours, and we shall be its final witness"

[@therest9281]

You know ff15 story wise actually really good it about a king that destiny to die so it can stop the calamity and the ending is for everyone to find closure as we always know they are always happy ending in fairy tail

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I'm someone who played XV way later after all the development hell so I could enjoy it fully honestly, I think it has one of my favorite bad dudes and endings in general. Even with the contentious Lunafreya I think that ending with the wedding and closing their eyes into the logo was perfect still

[@ClaireYunFarronXIII]

Nice job editing Aerith's death in Rebirth. Now it's actually quite decent.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

lmao I got that idea from someone else, that if you change a little bit you could get some of a "psych!" moment and a sad one, but the official one is a mess, there's like 5 instances where she is more active than in the rest of the game, so I took some liberties

[@aarond7662]

I like how the original moment was so simple yet heavily impactful, meanwhile in rebirth it's so needlessly complicated that the weight of the scene is lost to that fact, yet the simplest edit restores that weight to it. The official feels like a change that'd be made in a Star Wars special edition, I literally have no idea why they felt the need to change it, coz all they did was make a huge fucking mess

[@-BuddyGuy]

​@@aarond7662 I think they made a conscious decision to smooth the edges off the story so as not to offend newer audiences. You can do more when your audience is 90s 14 year old nerds

[@davidecarminati8730]

@@aarond7662 Hopefully, we will get the whole scene in Part 3 of Remake, when Cloud’s mind is mended and his memories return. I’m pretty sure of it since we still need to hear the famous lines he said in the original; here, we can see him speaking, but can’t hear the sound yet. That, and the water burial. There must be a reason they cut it out for the time being, and that has to be that they will show the full sequence in the final game.

[@Fall-oo6mt]

Gotta be honest, I loved the way they handled Aerith's death on Rebirth.

[@Vayne_Solidor]

What? Instead of having a "death scene" close to the OG, it was a confusing back-and-forth between her surviving and dying. I was really disappointed.

[@zelighollow5772]

Sorry, but I felt just the opposite. They could've given a very emotional end to Aerith, but instead, they just introduced more confusion with the terrible plot of the echos... The worst is that they supposed to be gone. Why did we have to confront them and erase them in the previous game? Why did they tell that the fate was changed because the echos are gone, if in the next game they bring them back again? All that just to mess with the story and the narrative. I expected to cry with Aerith's death, but I just got bored.

[@Final_fantasy_fanatic]

Galuf's death is probably my favorite one, the man went down sacrificing himself in the most badass way. (Btw you forgot shadow from ff6)

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

He was more badass than I remembered indeed, I think doing it for his granddaugther mainly makes it even better, it's sweet. Yeah, I put him for a little bit but then it looks slightly awkward and YT didn't like the music so forgot to fix it 😅

[@someguy1ification]

old man too stubborn to die.

[@haileeraestout5567]

Aerith's Brain Be Like: O__O

[@M1ster_S1R]

If Final Fantasy ii was remade with cg cutscenes it would literally take up half of this video.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

So true. It's kinda funny how most side/guest characters die to the point they have their own dungeon in hell lmao

[@hopelCie]

Thanks for leaving Serah's death out of it. I couldn't bear to see it again 😢

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I think it's actually my favorite because the crudeness (and how I didn't expect it AT ALL), and now more than ever is my favorite...granted, that doesn't mean is a good memory, so the copyright did its best to not allow me to post it 😎👍

[@elryck94]

​@@DroWarriorOfLight which ff is it again

[@TheEmpressReborn]

​@@elryck94Final Fantasy XIII-2.

[@hp2546]

For starters, Sereh is alive in the alternate timeline. Think about this. Why is it that in Final Fantasy 13-2, your main character is Serah? With time travels, their deaths technically don't count as deaths because in an alternate timeline, everything changed.

[@Vayne_Solidor]

Interesting topic for sure. Noctis hits me the hardest. At least he found peace in the Beyond with Luna. Galuf's death was intense for such a lighthearted adventure. Tidus' fading is bittersweet. Glad there is no sequel to ruin that. I just reached that point in XVI. Damn....I thought he would become a permanent member. Also, lets not forget the deaths of Serah (edit: copyright, I see), Zack and Class Zero. Theoretically Reks would also fit in here. He was the party member in the prologue.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I wanted to show Serah so much lmao, it was the main reason for it to show how death is instant and not involving many spirits of such character being active 1 minute later. I realized there's a couple of guests like Reddas Reks, other FF2 ones, but I stuck with the main ones to not make it too convoluted. Which also includes spin offs like CC and T-0, I try to make it as specific as possible.

[@КонстантинПаршуков-о6б]

Who said Noctis and Lunafreya are dead? As far as I remember, devs didn't confirm it. Plus, Astrals and especially Bahamut can resurrect people with their power. Noctis and Luna are hardly dead or else the throne room would be intact to make it too perfect to be real.

[@philip3221]

1q

[@Vayne_Solidor]

​@@КонстантинПаршуков-о6бThey are dead. Luna was killed by Ardyn, Noctis sacrificed himself. The scene after his death and flashback are their reunion in the Beyond. That is canon.

[@TalesDelma]

galuf went out like he lived: a gigachad

[@jaidenjohnson9394]

The edit at the end confirmed for me that rebirths ending was just fine and making it the same as the 1997 game but in high def would’ve been a mistake

[@nitopygameplays]

Especially since sephiroth this time doesn't only want to destroy the world, but all worlds/alternate realities.

[@PedroLOPEZ-oz4hy]

You know, I wonder if all the FF4 deaths were going to be included because they act as such and then it's like "nvm they are fine!" 😂

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

That's the worst 🤣

[@yungswisha]

DAmn i should have never clicked on this video knowing I haven’t finish rebirth yet and just got to the temple of ancient. Guess I’ll find something else to play now

[@adrianschaeuffler7513]

Your loss if you wanna miss out on the end

[@yungswisha]

@@adrianschaeuffler7513 it’s all good Im sure after her death I probably have to fight sephiroth and if I know Square they probably made her a ghost and is going to be around for part 3

[@adrianschaeuffler7513]

@@yungswisha i don't understand why you'd decide to not finish it just because you know a part of the ending... why not just watch the cutscenes instead of bothering to play the game in the first place if you won't finish it

[@BrothaJM]

@@yungswishaat least get your money’s worth and finish the game haha

[@Yonko_Kaido2]

I'm kinda surprised Auron from FFX wasn't included. Though I'm guessing it's because he was technically dead the whole game.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I considered it but the way it showed it was like in parts, so there's no big "Auron dies" scene, you have the Yunalesca hit, and then him admitting he die later, and then he vanishing with the sending so it's a little bit hard to unify in one single moment for simplicity

[@ImPuLsErAwR]

FF5 is so underrated man, only made seeing yuna desperation sadder 😭

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

It's underrated and iconic for many reasons. I love it

[@jifour99]

The final boss of KZbin spoiler videos

[@jifour99]

Like why did you make this

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Because people are free to decide whether click or not a video to watch it, that's the beauty of this site

[@Cloudcolin]

Where is General Leo from FF 6?

[@aarond7662]

it felt too much like Square was trying to have their cake and eat it too with Rebirth by trying to strike some odd middleground where Aerith is alive but also isn't at the same time as to not upset fans -- only to end up creating more polarity around the matter. The result leads to a recreation of one of the most impactful and shocking scenes in video game history that is so botched that people can't even make heads nor tails of what even happened due to the layers upon layers of timeline BS surrounding it (istg whenever the Whispers are around, the writing quality just takes a nosedive). I wish they viewed Aerith's death as an achievement gained from excellent storytelling and character writing rather than an error that needed to be fixed. It was so jarring to see that the biggest scene in the game was so mishandled especially after the game handled everything else perfectly. At the very least, I hope Part 3 can justify all of this

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

To be fair, I think everything but Aerith is well written in Rebirth, so I don't think it surprises me how a mess the end is, in a way. I don't know if I need Part 3 to justify it specifically, as I care about the journey itself and what happens in the middle as I did with Rebirth, not the conclusion of the main beats at this point

[@danielramsey6141]

I don’t think the Whispers were ever well written. But yeah. Concerning some aspects. Yes, but everything in Part 1 felt WAY TOO DRAWN OUT!!!

[@AigisVibes720]

⁠@@danielramsey6141Not everything, but the only times it’s been drawing out was during the return to the sewers and the ghost train area. That’s the only 2 areas where I thought part 1 was drawing out.

[@AlternativeTendo-ne4qz]

You know, as much as I have Galuf's death as the one that inspired Aerith's so it was less of an heroic deed and more of a tragic unexpected event, that was pretty badass of him. Specially when his motivation was his cute grandaughter, that's better

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Fraternal relationships sometimes are more emotional when it's about "inspiration" to go full power or something

[@madambutterfly1997]

The Pain…😢

[@cheemslord9917]

noctis death still sad

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

It does get me. It's probably one of my favorite endings if you count that scene at the throne+the "wedding" one with Luna and transition into the logo. It's beautiful

[@armandosirgo6388]

Could Shadow from VI also be here?

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Definetely, I had it in my first draft but the scene by itself I wasn't sure it convey that well without context soI ended up leaving it but it could pretty much count too, yes

[@hp2546]

Suppose you keep Shadow in your party after the world is destroyed, they are not going to show Shadow's death but after the defeat of Kefka, it did show Shadow choosing to stay behind but did not show what happened to him. We just have to assume off screen death cannot count as actual death because there is no proof of death shown.

[@jonatascristian4391]

FF ttpe 0 the most sad your party die in the end 😢😢 only Maquina and Rem survive

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

It's actually my favorite ending of them all. I didn't inclue spin offs because I feel I would miss a lot as I'm aware of the likes of Crisis Core and Type-0, but no idea about the more obscure ones

[@jonatascristian4391]

@@DroWarriorOfLight yeah i konw just a comentary 😅

[@Smolharuharu]

Hey you sure you wanna have all that in the thumbnail and just passively diminish people’s experiences who don’t want to see spoilers?

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I am, I made sure none of the pictures showed a dead character. The logo is covering who's dying on top left, Sephiroth is on top right being a menace, the bottom left is a hand and sword, and bottom right is Yuna crying (not the one that dies)

[@Smolharuharu]

@@DroWarriorOfLight lots of people know a bloody sword means Aerith will be killed and they don’t know live or not in rebirth and that’s like the biggest question they have about the game. I got it day one and only beat it a few days ago and this would have really ruined it for me

[@Joebob24789]

@@Smolharuharuthe thumbnail didn’t spoil a thing lol what was the thumbnail supposed to be? Just a black picture?

[@Smolharuharu]

@@Joebob24789 dunno, blood was on sephiroths sword at the place and kind of the whole hook to rebirth was whether or not that was going to happen or not

[@Joebob24789]

@@Smolharuharu idk I didn’t immediately expect it because it happens in the original he probably put that in there to throw people off and make them think it happen for the people that wanted to know. Ya gotta hook someone to look at the video and u definitely don’t see aerith in the picture

[@jaykknight2248]

Special shoutout to Syldra 😢

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

The mascots and pets deserve their own spot. I did make a video about them and FF5 have a lot of fantasy ones, is so good

[@jaykknight2248]

@@DroWarriorOfLight 😍😍😍 omg i have to watch!!! 5 is my absolute favorite!

[@Vayne_Solidor]

​@@jaykknight2248Its my favorite from the Pixel Remasters.

[@jaiandersonsilva8550]

Fran and Balthier from Final Fantasy XII. Zidane from ffIX

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Fair, but those are fake out deaths, similar to the ones in FF4. They surely are treated as "nooo I can't believe Cid died too! ;;" but then you see him sleeping elsewhere so not really worthy to include in my eyes at least, of course.

[@jeannettewilliams1189]

So Joshua and Clive didnt die?

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

This might be my mistake but I think they left it ambiguous? So I wasn't sure to establish them as dead. I thought Joshua did but the book written by him threw me off

[@Vayne_Solidor]

​​@@DroWarriorOfLightYes but I am quite sure he is dead. It was said Phoenix cant heal the spirit and Joshua was long gone, so Clive failed at healing him. I believe Clive wrote the book in his name. Just like he took Cids name. Best explanation is the title, FF. Only Clive was there, fighting Ultimalius. " The only FANTASY here is yours, and we shall be it's FINAL witness."

[@madambutterfly1997]

16 Cid was the best Cid. Idc what anyone says

[@Vayne_Solidor]

My favorite is Doktor Cidolfus but XVI Cid is amazing nonetheless.

[@SirPhillip23]

I thought only aerith have died! Played ff6,7,8 and 9

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

FF2 is so funny to me, because not only a lot of death happen, but also in the GBA re release they added an extra dungeon in the afterlife consisting of everyone that died 😅 they had a lot of options

[@SirPhillip23]

@@DroWarriorOfLight one thing i dont understang, why aerith's death is so famous if it wasn't the first neither the last?

[@carbon6111]

@@SirPhillip23 Because it came from the most sold aka the most well known FF game. This means that more people know about it/talk about it.

[@chancecarlson2023]

Play 10. So underrated

[@SirPhillip23]

@@chancecarlson2023 i Will, but 5,6 and 9 first

[@febripratama7107]

Ashe is not die. What are you on about?

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

what? Where did I show Ashe dying?

[@febripratama7107]

@@DroWarriorOfLight You dont but whats the point of adding timestamp of character is not shown om the video at all?

[@madambutterfly1997]

And here I was thinking she was going to survive in rebirth given how they’re doing this whole alternate timeline BS

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I never in 4 years thought that was going to happen, but the execution was still bad lmao, I edited a little bit so it feels more emotional and up to the original tho

[@starvoltnexus3139]

Please keep in mind that Nomura had NOTHING to do with it

[@UltimaTaylortho]

In a way she did tho, considering the multiverse that they are doing but they are heavily implying that no matter what she and Zack will die. Its their fate

[@narutokurosaki128]

Cid 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@miguelaguitago2732]

Vivi?

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Could count, but I assume that happened offscreen during the epilogue time right? I was even very slow about it until I realized that was the case lmao

[@MattsFTRTheMisanthropist]

You forgot Auron

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

Yeah, that's fair. I mentioned before that the reason I ended up not having him is because I have like 3 different scenes to show that, the Yunalesca hit where he was mortally wounded, but also he telling how he crawled to the Ronso and die there, or when he was sent at the very end, so I felt there was more context needed than just 1 scene and ended up not including it.

[@BMO9K]

You forgot Auron, & probably more.

[@DroWarriorOfLight]

I thought about Auron and you are right, but also, I was confused about which unique scene to use about him, because you have him being slashed by Yunaleska, then him saying "yes I'm dead, I died crawling to Mt Gagazet", and then him dissapearing at the end. So instead went for "single scenes"

[@hp2546]

So that sounds like revived characters don't count for this video because as proof, any character that died can be revived and being called the unsent. If this person counts revived characters as dead, then they have to count Cloud as dead because in Advent Children, Aerith used her limit break powers to revive Cloud.