The Final Battle | FFXIV: Shadowbringers Cutscenes

Definitely one of the coolest scenes in the entirety of Shadowbringers. Gotta admit the soundtrack here bangs so much.
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[@GolDRoger-hy4ei]

I fucking love how Graha Tia comes in clutch to canonically summon the goddamn Duty Finder. Hades would've slaughtered the WoL in a solo duty.

[@cruye9633]

We'll see about that when Rath Games gets to shadowbringers

[@TheAlderisAstari]

maybe, but Hades would've also cried, after all, his smile is never so genuine as when seeing Azem off...

[@frozenflame5858]

When the WoL merges with Ardbert and main theme starts playing and the WoL starts talking (for the first time ever after years!) in Ardbert’s voice has got to be the most hype things I’ve ever experienced in any medium

[@FlamesofZodiac]

No matter how many times I see it, Emet seeing you as Azem always gives me goosebumps!

[@bakacdaz]

One thing I really love is how he drop the quote from trailer just before the BGM come out. “Fool, who are you? No one.” “No fight leave to fight no lives leave to live.” And then guitar come…

[@justrosie7521]

Right? And the sheer VENOM oozing from his mockery... Emet's VA knocked it out of the park.

[@BlackDahlya]

I always interpret the "remember us" as both all of the ancient people and the relationship between Emet and Azem. This always, always brings me tears. It can't be easy to lose a friend/loved one, and/or, even worse, see him/her alive and then realize that your friend/loved one no longer remembers who you are, what you used to have.

[@xehanort6]

It's also him telling them to carry on.

[@justrosie7521]

After EW especially, god. I'm so sorry it had to be this way, Emet.

[@jakekgfn]

Yea this broke me lol

[@TwilightWolf2508]

4:39 "You cannot be entrusted with our legacy." The difference in his attitude between here and Endwalker is so good

[@15ironreaver]

“Take it. We fight as one” Ya’ll I was SOOOO HYPED 😭😭😭

[@galpalaven7439]

Emet 1000% saw Azem for a moment because it was right after WoL and Ardbert fused to become a little more whole :") Also, fun fact: If you call G'raha by his name when he's first revealed after the battle with Innocence, you can say, "'Tis good to see you awake, G'raha Tia," and he will CRY and I am iN LOVE WITH HIM

[@CryBlueofZ]

I know I did

[@rachelkelley5930]

I love how when Ryne is struck down the music stops, it helps to hammer in the hopelessness and despair of the situation. To make it actually feel like the last hope of help is gone.

[@Nempo13]

I always want to smack these people for choosing the boring dialogue choice with Ardbert. The "What? All by myself?" Is a cheeky quip and Ardbert's response to it is so much better. "Heh, no. Take it, we fight as one." It sounds far, FAR more like actual soldiers and their dark humor in the face of death.

[@rachelkelley5930]

@@Nempo13 … Why did you put this in a reply to me? All I said is that I like the way they made the music stop.

[@Shiirow]

If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you save our worlds? > What, all by myself? Heh. Take it. We fight as one!

[@euugato12]

Sassy until the end XD

[@Raptor747]

Man, I really, really love how the developers treated Emet-Selch as a character and as one of the chief antagonists of the entire setting. Rather than him just being evil through choice or evil through a lack of empathy, he's portrayed as a tragic monster who is himself a victim of circumstances. Sure, he still chooses to commit atrocity after atrocity, but it's also quite understandable that the trauma of seeing his world sundered, his people's struggles in vain, his paradise destroyed and forgotten, his entire civilization erased, and the only way for him to restore it being those very atrocities...yeah, it's no no wonder he is the way he is. If there was a better way, he'd have gladly gone for it. But he's so lost in his grief, in his outrage, in his loneliness, that he cannot accept the path of just letting the one hope he has of restoring his world go forever, that he cannot accept that his world and people are dead and forgotten and move on. This also makes him being so accepting and amicable with his ultimate death believable--once it's clear that there is zero chance of his dream coming to fruition, he only asks that you remember his people, his world, and dies with a smile, because he ultimately doesn't bear any real malice towards the people of the post-sundering era, and so even if they're pale shadows of what his people were, they're still *A* legacy, a small light in the darkness of despair. And even if he never really admits it, his time with the Scions and Exarch DID affect him. He finally had people he was fully open and honest with, including about his past and his lost people. And the Scions understood and sympathized with his loss and his reasons. In essence, he died knowing that there were still people who knew him, who sympathized with him and his cause, who understood all that he'd lost and wished there was some way to bring them back without being at the expense of everyone and everything else.

[@althelor]

I feel like, in the end, we also gave him new hope that the world might be restored, but in a way that he never expected to be possible. He saw how broken we were, but then we were able to beat him in the end. We actually passed his test and safely contained the light of the first. And the WoL actually went through a rejoining right in front of his eyes, but without needing to ruin a world in order to do it. He seemingly never considered bringing the different parts of a soul together and allowing them to willingly rejoin on their own, and seeing us do that, and rise up to fight him when we could barely stand moments ago, gave him new hope that there might be another way, and that even if he died, we could actually carry on his mission in his stead and rebuild the world in ways that he never even dreamed of.

[@jakekgfn]

That soft smile at the end gets me every time

[@j.jbinks9669]

If Survivor's Guilt was an NPC

[@Kenshin6321]

There ain't no reason for an MMO to bring tears to my eyes, again! I'll never forget when I first made it here. That whole expansion was so freakin good. This has to be one of the best Final Fantasy moments of all time, and not just FF14, but the entire franchise.

[@aspara4788]

Let expanse contract, eon become instant. CHAMPIONS FROM BEYOND THE RIFF, HEED MY CALL!!

[@FlyinElk212]

It is a crime that arguably the best villain in Final Fantasy is gated behind three expansions. Thank God I powered through Stormblood lol

[@DaishDaishDaish]

the part when the other heroes warp in at the start of the fight is the best thing but people keep leaving it out

[@Kanetsuguru]

ooof someone didn't finish crystal tower or just didn't set up the quest progress on book

[@BlackDahlya]

Yes! I was hoping to see again that reaction when the WoL says that one specific sentence. xD

[@kitronics4379]

@@BlackDahlya ok i must ask what do you mean?

[@KingZeus96]

@@kitronics4379 theres a 3rd option where you say "glad to see you awake, Graha Tia" but you have to call him by his name after you fight vauthry

[@bakacdaz]

@@kitronics4379 He sealed himself with the tower at the end of Crystal Tower quest. If you do that quest you will has 3rd option in this cutscene to mention about he finally waking up.

[@althelor]

I thought that if you didn't finish the crystal tower raids, you couldn't even begin the shadowbringers expansion?

[@neinlives9424]

The first time playing thru the confrontation with Emet I was in tears. The only time a game ever made me feel so much. When Ardbert offered his axe and the music started I was a fucking mess. By the time the Crystal Exarch summoned in the heroes of the realms I could solo Godzilla. FF14 is the best RPG ever made, the best movie ever made, the best soundtrack ever made, with the best devs and writers in our history. This game should be 10x bigger than it is.

[@Colbio]

And even considering everything, I still didn't want to see the old grumpy bastard go.

[@LordRemiem]

I loved this part and I will always love it, especially when Ardbert sacrifices himself to help us 😢 Also sometimes I wonder how would our WoL look as a Sin Eater 😮 ... and also your WoL is really cute!

[@Ioun267]

Honestly, I wish they'd stayed in monochrome from 20:57 to the point the finishing blow is dealt. It's a really cool effect.

[@DeNihility]

This is peak Final Fantasy. Not even Endwalker topped this. (It came close though.)

[@nemnymeria7873]

The writer did good to wrap up Endwalker, shoehorned in the blue bird but ended up making her a decent final boss.

[@envy_7237]

Hey i just finished shadowbringers about week ago and just be honest the best storyline than endwalker for me

[@rickboy7290]

Ardbert is my favirite character in the entrire fking game... What a "G".

[@TreibHolzAble]

Can someone please tell me the name of the song starting right where the video ends?

[@bladeofdeath21]

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

[@wanderingpaladin4927]

Ardbert's words will always be my rez macro and Shadowbringers will always be my era ❤

[@winterfoxcloud]

anyone who doesn't pick "i challenge you, emet-selch" gets an L in my book - the other option is so corny

[@MyshKatze]

same but "What, all by myself?" is sooooo much better than the other option too

[@rachelkelley5930]

What does corny mean again, assume you aren’t talking about it being 🌽 Also I like “It ends this day, one way or another it ends” because… idk why I like it, I just do.

[@Nempo13]

@@rachelkelley5930 It has more gravitas. Also finality. "I challenge you" is actually the corny option. Corny means lame, stereotypical, boring. The challenge dialogue is very formal, very boring, very stereotypical hero. It ends one way or another has gravitas and finality to it. A fight tot he death in which everything is on the table, no backup, no reinforcements, one dies and the conflict is over. It has weight and also a tired "I am done with your shit" vibes in it.

[@rachelkelley5930]

@@Nempo13 my question was mostly a joke, but thank you anyways :)

[@artbunker]

I choose to tell him one way or the other it ends.