The Complete Evolution of Garuda

[@killerb255]

It's funny how Garuda has become the most common recurring wind summon instead of something like Typhon or Pandemona/Pandemonium.

[@Wolfboss7]

I think the bird motif might have helped. Birds have always been associated with wind, so Garuda's avian design gave it a better chance than the other candidates.

[@gorimbaud]

Typhon definitely has more history as an enemy than as a summon. The only mainline game where you can summon him, wind isn't even one of his elements! But it isn't that hard to be the most recurring wind summon, because most games that have one make up their own. Sure, Fenrir was a recurring summon when it showed up in IX, but that was the only time it was a wind summon, and part-time at that, and Chaos was a recurring character when it appeared as XII's wind summon, but no one was going to take from a set of references to past final bosses to become a standard summon. Pandemona is notable for never havig been anything _other_ than a wind summon, but Pandemona also just never reappeared outside of mobile games, and the closest it came to anything else was being cut from Type-0.

[@SilverwingedBat]

Pandaemonium being recurring wouldn't work because Pandaemonium is also a recurring area in FF games and it'd weird to have them both coexist together since a wind elemental has little to do with the prison-like dark themed pandaemonium in all games its featured in. People that haven't played FF8 prob dont even know the summon version exists. Garuda is more prominent throughout the franchise compared to those. Plus being a bird helps. The name Garuda being from hindu like other mainstay summons such as Shiva also helps.

[@madambutterfly1997]

Garuda just magically elevated herself to being an iconic summon and she's only been a summon in 4 games, with FFXVI being the 4th

[@redlunatic2224]

It's weird. If I didn't know better I'd swear she has always been there. It just makes sense to have a wind summon, and I can't think of a better candidate than Garuda. Add to that the strong showing in FFXIV, and I'm not even surprised FFXVI just takes it for granted.

[@janedoe885]

@@redlunatic2224 I think the only other wind-elemental summon contender I can think of offhand would be Valefor taking notes from FFX? But honestly I'm hyped about Garuda in the role and think it fits very well.

[@EdgeKisaragi]

Honestly I think it was 14 that really shot her to the limelight, along with the 15 cross over event I feel that’s what put her into the summon bracket permanently

[@saladinboss2507]

@@janedoe885 pandemonium was wind elemented associated in VIII

[@eros4434]

@@EdgeKisaragiI agree, her 11 incarnation feels like the blueprint, but 14 brought her to this intimidating bird of prey wind summon that we know now.

[@EvanFarshadow]

Garuda i view as one of the iconic elemental summons in the series. Ifrit: Fire Shiva: Ice Ramuh: Thunder Titan: Earth Garuda: Wind Leviathan: Water Alexander: Holy Odin: Death Bahamut: Neutral

[@GemeinschaftHQ]

What the Garuda in FFVII is holding is not so much a generic rod as it is specifically a Tibetan Vajra Club. Which aligns with the idea that they are meant to be thunder-deitys. Kind of a cool easy-to-miss element that they added to Garuda's character design in VII.

[@notmousse]

I thought it looked familiar.

[@GemeinschaftHQ]

@@notmousse it’s a very distinct shape!

[@Lional]

That's really cool! But Garuda is a wind based summon, Ramuh was the lighting based summon. Also, Garuda was one of the most used summons in FFXI, due to the fact she could cast haste on the entire party.

[@GarredHATES]

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrdddddddd!

[@biswaranjanmallick7407]

Garuda is the king of the skies in Hinduism

[@tommyfraz.]

Wind/Air (element) in general, has been underrepresented in Final Fantasy. The spells usually look awesome; but don’t always have great use (like Tornado being a spell to cause the critical state).

[@xS3T0x]

Good news sorta square Enix did it right in octopath traveller especially 2 where it's secondary effects feel right for the system.

[@xkayne]

There’s also an 8-winged Garuda in the FFXIV Eden’s verse: Furor raid.

[@Duskaria]

This channel hates FFXIV so they will often just gloss over stuff from that game

[@twelfthknight]

It's my hope that Garuda becomes a mainstay Summon archetype for the franchise from now on. After being a name they could slap on any large avian monster design for most of FF's history, since XI they've worked to give it a strong visual identity and thematic concept which I think is as good as an Ifrit or a Shiva.

[@mhiggs8001]

I don’t think she is going anywhere, she has cemented her place in the summon roster. 😊

[@emetanti]

FF16 also helps, that Garuda fight is effectively a classic Kaiju brawl.

[@zoruasnivy]

@@emetanti XVI Garuda is awesome and I love the callback to Suparna and Chirada.

[@jennyf-eg5gl]

I love her in ff15. She was the one who saved my butt the most. Everyone else just sat on their butts during the game. As a persona fan, I am familiar enough with the lore since it is a common persona to get during the games. It was fun to learn more in relation to ff series.

[@iainrobb2076]

I'm pretty sure that she replaces Ramuh once you get her, since before getting Garuda Ramuh appeared a lot and hasn't appeared since I got Garuda. I've seen Siren a bunch of times, but I think she only bothers to show up after the main game is done. I've seen Leviathan a few times. I never have seen Titan.

[@jennyf-eg5gl]

@iainrobb2076 interesting. That may make sense. Although he didn't show up before her either, he may not like me. 🤷 beside the story point, I got him to show up twice. Titan hated me more...he show once the entire game.

[@iainrobb2076]

@@jennyf-eg5gl Ramuh showed up for me a lot. Apparently, Titan has two animations, and one pops up if you do the Adamantoise hunt. I may start that off with the Magitek armour, then see if I can escape it, because there's no way I'm seriously attempting that fight.

[@BigWillTheThrill]

It is weird for the longest time the wind element did not have a specific summon. It always bounced around to a few until Garuda really took it in 11.

[@MP-tw4fc]

To be fair, was wind magic in the older games? I don’t recall it

[@BigWillTheThrill]

@@MP-tw4fc Yeah. Aero is an OG spell

[@maxspecs]

FF5 had Syldra. FF7 had Chocobo and half of Odin as its Wind summon. FF8 had Pandemonia, which itself is a FFII reference. FF9 had Fenrir, with the right accessories. And I suppose the Sylphs have been kind of wind-based for a couple games. But Garuda showed up as a summon in FF11 and hasn’t stopped.

[@matthagen67]

Speaking of "Mystic Quest", I think the boss Pazuzu was more Garuda-ish than the normal Garuda enemies.

[@MrAgilla]

I never realized how familiar Garuda was until you highlighted it. His one of my favorites now I remember battling countless Garudas in ff

[@satinthrone]

Gardua came in hard late in the game to become my fave Summon. Great vid! ♥

[@GerBessa]

"In game X, Garuda is weak to Wind. Then in game Y, as a reference to X, Garuda has an affinity for Wind. In game Z, Garuda has an affinity for Earth, in reference to X where she was immune" You keep using these words, but I don't think they mean what you think they mean...

[@espada9000]

15:30 The best design Garuda right here. Still age well even after the appearance of FF16 Garuda.

[@zoruasnivy]

I had no idea Garuda as a summon was a more recent thing, my first Final Fantasy was XIV, then VII, then XV, then XVI, so I guess it makes sense that Garuda is one of my favourites of the summons... XIV Garuda just carries such a cool aura it's hard to ignore her

[@James-kv3ll]

It’s hard to imagine Garuda as anything but the strangely attractive crazy bird lady with wind powers. Which is weird because it seems like most of the time it’s just a big bird lol.

[@aoto8897]

Garuda started as Male in FF3 just like the Myths before they changed him into a female Waifu.

[@SeannyJay]

Amazing video as always! Just finishing my first ever playthrough of 15 and was pleasantly surprised at the ff14 inclusion of garda at level 120

[@dolebiscuit]

That's one of the best fights in the game. And the sword you unlock that lets you stay airborne basically indefinitely makes every other end game fight so much better.

[@ShadowNinjaMaster93]

Its interesting how XI's design got baton passed over to XIV and from there spring boarded into one of the most recognizable Final Fantasy icons next to the likes of Ifrit and Shiva. Goes to show the power of a little thirst, but it certainly works.

[@gorimbaud]

Quick correction, Sword of Mana wasn't the sequel to Seiken Densetsu, it was the name of its GBA remake. The first sequel to Seiken Densetsu was _Secret_ of Mana. Also, the Garuda from Crisis Core looks like it's a variant of a different bird from the original FFVII, the Needle Kiss found around Mt. Corel.

[@Dracobyte]

From "Flappy Bird" to "Dommy Mommy"!

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Indeed!

[@Malacite]

I always loved her XI model ^^ she had other really strong support movies as well, providing AoE Blink & Haste to the party. She was weak to Ice because in XI Ice beats Wind on the elemental wheel (I always had my suspicions but I never did confirm the Mana devs worked on it - explains a hell of a lot) In fact I always felt 11 was the closest thing to a Mana MMO we'll ever get and now I know why ! Oh, you guys forgot to mention her crossover event between 14 and 15.

[@jeremygriffin620]

Nor shall I forget her XI model. Younger me was a big fan of her thighs and rear sailing gracefully through the air. I think the expanded elemental wheels in the MMO's saved her and gave her a permanent and excellent place.

[@Malacite]

@@jeremygriffin620 Yeah that's the influence of the Mana devs for you. Always suspected they had a hand in XI's design

[@Forever_Zero]

FFXV has my favorite version of Garuda, not just design wise, but I love the smirk she does right before the attack

[@AdachYanas]

FF15 is my favourite too, it was iconic, but if they have to go forward with one, i think id choose the one from FF14, just because the idea of having a crazy maniac lady bird seems to open more ideas compared to a smirk guy bird Dont get me wrong, the one from 15 is still my favourite, i think he's hot 😌

[@AdachYanas]

FF15 is my favourite too, it was iconic, but if they have to go forward with one, i think id choose the one from FF14, just because the idea of having a crazy maniac lady bird seems to open more ideas compared to a smirk guy bird Dont get me wrong, the one from 15 is still my favourite, i think he's hot 😌

[@randomsandwichian]

You should definitely do a list of multiboss battles, like FFVIII's Brothers

[@buddah1978egypt]

Garuda was the main reason alot of players chose smn in ffxi. Predator claws everything! Pretty sure most had a weird crush on her too 😁

[@neato8731]

The garudussy has me feeling summonable.

[@BlaxxShadow]

Garuda is basically a "Started from the bottom" journey and I love it. Now she's taking center stage in an even bigger way in a mainline Final Fantasy game.

[@ThatBeingCed]

I believe Garuda was also a Summon in Bahamut Lagoon

[@eunnette3896]

One error in the video: Garuda did have an elemental weakness in FF3, wind! And the Aero series of spells were castable by White Magic users in 3.

[@saladinboss2507]

I completely forgot that the IX Garuda was essentially a Jayhawk. Lol

[@mrcool9090]

This is really interesting. It’s weird thinking garuda was weak to wind for the longest time

[@arecord86]

Funnily enough we were going through this on the Discord the other day 😂 going so far as finding the original Garuda artwork

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

Yeah garuda i never really paid any attention to until ff14. And now ff16 she got even more of a glow up

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

I love Mystic Quest, it was my first FF game.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Thank you for another great video!

[@Charsept]

This is the only summon I didn't recognize from the FF16 trailers.

[@dloveless3585]

Garuda just emanates the appearance of the representative of Wind, wearing that role like a glove aside the rest of those within the elemental circle. Sylph was smol like Carbuncle, Fenrir is a doggo, I see wolves being more ice related, and Pandemona probably looked too alien, though, I wouldn't mind seeing Pandemona take up a role as 2ndary wind representative like Phoenix does for fire.

[@alexpaul4144]

Wish we got more of benadicta tbh

[@pandaboi551]

Garuda in FF3 was a nightmare

[@CaptToilet]

From a lowly sprite to an absolute mommy in FF15.

[@tonberry50]

Ve your vids are so relaxing to listen while doing chores

[@thegamergang777]

16 had the best design

[@kelly9094]

It was pretty cool in ff9 when that kid in Lindblum gave Zidane a Garuda feather

[@daineko1154]

Topic Suggestion: Complete run down of Final Fantasy 12 Espers - lore, abilities, fun facts... :)

[@golbezu7690]

Still think ff3 is the best Garuda, that fight without a dragoon and at low level can be pretty brutal

[@Lneti_VT]

11's Garuda was always a favorite for Summoners at the 75 endgame. Mostly due to her Predator Claws physical bloodpact, more so when her three hits crit, which is more reliable than the other avatar's physical abilities. Fenrir a close second, and Shiva's Rush third, in my experience. Prior to Endwalker's update for summoner, Garuda-Egi great for AoE use. And even then, before removing Egi's as pets and targetable, she would be second to Ifrit egi for dps, while titan-egi was the, tank type. Watching 16 streams so far. They really, zoned in on 14's personality traits, in addition to appearance upgrades, when compared to her evolution from 11 to 14, which to say, those of us whom adorable the bird lady, are well fed.

[@클라우드스트라이-p8c]

영상 너무 재밌게 봤습니다. 인간형 가루다 모습만 알고 있었는데. 다른 시리즈에서 가루다가 나온지도 모르고 지나갔었네요.

[@enoyna1001]

It also appears in Shin Megami Tensei

[@OtherlingQueen]

my favourite part is where the player decided to call his party members AAAAAA, BBBBBB, CCCCCC, and DDDDDD.

[@davidgeorge1943]

It first became a Summon in 11? I thought that, because she was one in 15, she was a long recurring summon who was just in all the FF's I haven't played yet.

[@Shikasso]

Garuda my beloved

[@shaunakostur2087]

Are you going to add Final Fantasy 16 appearances of the summons once it comes out? It would be interesting to know the lore and stuff for all of them in FF16

[@origialtych]

FFVII Garuda was holding a Vajra not a rod . . .but to be fair I think Vajra does count as a rod weapon and is associated with Hinduism

[@Scrabble12]

is Garuda supposed to be scary/crazy? That’s the vibe it usually gives me.

[@Red_Nokia_edits]

Whispering wind sounds like something I've seen on a Sylph summon on a final fantasy or secret of mana game 🤷‍♂️

[@josephmoore9706]

That cid highwind theme... almost didnt recognize it.

[@Kolton.leonhart]

Great video as always! thank you!

[@Avseraph]

From wild bird to waifu. Just catering to the new tastes.

[@noahwilson3809]

OK, can I just say how creepy it is that Garuda’s design is slowly becoming reminiscent of Lucifer?! I’m not the only one who noticed this when Garuda was revealed in FFXIV and onwards, right?!

[@daviddalrymple2284]

Syldra will always be my favorite Wind Summon, but I think I prefer that they were only in Final Fantasy V. Garuda is a good choice for the recurring wind elemental.

[@hair7272]

FFXIV is best imo, love her design in that game.

[@JesusJRojasGomezcloudstriker]

wonder what relation it has with tetra syphid... because i really think they took FFXI Garuda inspiration to create the sylphid sisters... i would like you talked about it in the video. becuse until garudo arrived to FFBE not long ago who had its place as garudo in FFBE was tetra Sylphid.

[@spiraljumper74]

FF16 Garuda is kinda a baddie though, and I ain’t just talking about Benedikta. She’s got that Mosquito Girl energy.

[@andrieputra]

After many years now FF franchise has wind elemental icon = Garuda

[@hellbillyjr]

With her complete evolution and the changes made in the 7R series, whqts the odds shes a summon in this series?

[@XChronicHash]

I always thought the ff14 just made her up, didn’t know Garuda was an enemy in the previous gamesl

[@bahamutneo4825]

So the what about the Garuda reference in FF5. Wasn’t a bird enemy but the name was in FF5.

[@Blumoon_vii]

The 16 look like Siren from Devilman

[@suparicky8889]

I wonder if were ever gonna get the other crystal chronicle games

[@andrewcarlton6196]

In FF3 he was the second wake up call like salamander that the game kicked it up a knotch

[@FateburnXVII]

i had thought that the summon for 15 was called valefor, huh?

[@rajlaxmisharma5748]

Thank you so much for making this video and can you please make video for ninja

[@Katashi_Asakura]

You forgot about Garuda from FFV.

[@terry85mar]

Who else is in love with and having so much fun with the pixel remasters?

[@eridanuskelpi3908]

Started with 6 and will not work backwards :D

[@allenwong9918]

what is the music he used from 13:00?

[@sebastianricks9459]

I just made the connection between the Garuda in the zelda games and our real world. Eater of snakes.... xD Poor hylian Voes..

[@SnuubScadoob]

I love this channel so much! How does this not have more views?

[@makaliwe4218]

Garuda is National Bird/Symbol of Indonesia

[@Menace_Gaming_]

Looks very much like a character out of devilman

[@Myurridthaekish]

ah yes her... armored... bodice

[@alsta3036]

never fought one in ff7

[@cheffdonty]

Gigametz was the OG dominant

[@lysanderxx1664]

I'm glad that the devs finally saw the light and turn the rather unsexy monster into a very busty, basically nude woman. (Sad for all the people who were turned on by the unsexy monster)

[@PurpleAspiredDreaming]

Ravana video next? :')

[@WarnarI]

Bonus info for FF14 (Warning: Spilers Ahead!) The form that Athena takes in the latest Pandeamonium raid is very much like Garuda in form. And given how Athenas' connection to Azys-Lla, as well Garudas' own there, it would not be surprising either Athena herself drew inspiration from Garuda. Or that the researchers there speciallizing in the aetherial sea saw Athenas form, drawing a depiction of her that later the Ixal ancestors saw while giarding the facility that stuck with them. Or... Athena and the Allagans may have made contact at one point. Whether in the aetherial sea, or with what Athena used later in Endwalker.

[@simonwong5608]

It'sMahabhaRata. You omitted a syllable

[@ellyann4603]

FF XOV garuda > All (I also like the one from FF XI, first time she was more human like, less full bird, and the one from FF XV seems OK)

[@masterseal0418]

Other avian summons like Valefor, Quezacoatl, Sylph, Dragon(FFIV), and Diabolos(who was originally going to be added in FFXVI and have it's own Dominant, but sadly was scrapped because of the similarities to Devilman) are no match to Garuda. She went from a lesser boss to sexy bird lady in FFXIV alongside her Dominant Bernadikta in FFXVI, so Garuda definitely had the most outstanding glowup out of many summons(that includes summons such as Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, and Phoenix when it comes to FFXVI imo).

[@gorimbaud]

avian doesn't mean winged, it means bird, so i don't know why mist dragon or diabolos are in that list. i am also assuming you mean siren when you say sylph.

[@kainrich6183]

You forgot garuda in ff15?

[@silvermoon2608]

17:20

[@andrewd5139]

Who would win in ff3 Garuda or one jumpy boi with wind spear? 😂

[@rajlaxmisharma5748]

Garuda is god of all brids and mout of lord Vishnu in Hinduism

[@GarredHATES]

Garuda>Typhoon

[@specialnewb9821]

Garuda is pretty cool but she's not my favorite FF bird girl. Also I play Brave Exvius and Garuda unlocking for Global in a month IIRC

[@Mr.Pallanza]

Garuda eventually turned into GaruDAMN by FFXVI 🥵 Kidding, it's still amazing to see how Square evolves the various creatures from their original lore.

[@Dracobyte]

Dayum son, don't forget to drink some water!

[@bobincognito]

Bruh couldn't you have waited until ff16 was out? 😅

[@aoto8897]

So Garuda started as male in FF3 just like the Myths? but then became a Waifu in later games 😂

[@franimal86]

It’d be fun if blue mages could capture and summon enemies instead of just learning their abilities. Like “capture Marlboro” “summon Marlboro” “Marlboro uses bad breath” etc.

[@KitsuneMiyazaki]

That's already a job of its own though, "Beastmaster."

[@franimal86]

You right

[@luchajon8480]

How do you exclusively cover Japanese RPGs but not know how to pronounce Seiken?

[@Krizzah47]

Who cares about useless garuda

[@hibanacigam772]

You apparently, as you took the time to click on the video and comment.

[@autumneagle]

A lot of people do

[@dthedarkartist6709]

The weapon Garuda is holding in FF7 is the Vajra. Also relevant to Hinduism and represents lightning. Hence the use of lightning as one of it's attacks.