My Final Fantasy XIV ENDWALKER experience [FINALE part 1]

[@britkcaley]

Enjoy the ugly crying my emotional vampires! Which scion got you the most? Part 2 comes out next sunday! 😭

[@KylerStern366]

G'raha got me the hardest that darn shadowbringers music!!!

[@SubTXT_]

“Emotional vampires” - damn, I feel called out 😂 This might be less common than others, but Alisaie. She has such a witty personality that gets me every time, especially when she calls out her brother haha

[@AStrangeWindmill]

Between Graha and Thancred for me. Graha because that whole thing was beautiful. Thancred because I genuinely thought he and Urianger were death-flagged going into this Expac.

[@65Reidlos]

TBH none, (SPOILERS FOR PART 2) It was setup very early that they really just lost thier bodies so you could progress forward. And yes, if you failed, they would fade and die, but no way you would lose :) I think some people actually got pissy about this at launch, saying how much of bad story telling it was to kill off everyone and then bring them back. but one thing i noticed in common on those that said stuff like that, was they didnt really get it. they used their soul as a dynamis "buff" on the planet to open the path way and trusted you would find a way to win and bring them back ONLY if you won or it wouldnt hinder However, if i had to choose, id go with the theory that at the end, the teleporter was sent to you via "our good friends" last wish. which despite not liking him , was a grand gesture that gave me a bit of a pause.

[@adjwindu70]

Alphie is my bro...

[@guitalex2005]

Right before the G'raha scene my wife heard me sobbing and she was like "Are you OK?" And I replied, sobbing, "No!" Then she asked "How many quests left?" And I said "Hopefully one! I hope it's not three!" Later after she got to the same spot in the story I told her "this is when you asked me if I was OK" and she was sobbing and said "Oh, I get it now".

[@britkcaley]

People just don't understand until you're on the ride and can't get off 😂 😭

[@icefox94]

after estinien disappeared, i had to take a break from msq for a week. i could see the trend of scions disappearing and needed some time to prepare before seeing the rest of them disappear. i cried for basically al of them, but i think the twins got me the most. they've been there since that very first carriage ride and have grown so much alongside us. they're basically my children, i literally said "i'll adopt you" wen Fourchenolt disowned them.

[@kittycatzuka]

G'raha's part absolutely broke me when I first got to it. He means so much to me. I literally would not have continued playing this game if not for him. See, I started playing XIV when Stormblood launched, and back then, the Crystal Tower raids were _optional._ At the time, I was barely at the patch quests for ARR when I realized I wasn't enjoying the game as much as I thought I would. I thought about quitting for good, but then one day, I log on and decide to do the CT raids on a whim. I got attached to Raha immediately and cried when he eventually sealed himself away. However, it did help me find the resolve I needed to keep going through MSQ and everything, because I thought we might get a mention of him later on. Sure enough, Shadowbringers happens two years later, and my prediction comes true in the best way possible. I'm glad I was able to continue playing. I can say with complete confidence that I fully enjoy XIV now, and I owe it all to him.

[@Tetractys72]

1:02:05 "We rise, fall, and rise again!" Me: Just like the PHOENIX! Your grandfather, kids... you made him proud this day! Absolutely the best track to use for the twins, adding that tiny extra layer of callback. They really did follow in their grandfather's footsteps!

[@Xardion55]

I have to admit, even though you are aware that with each civilization, the Scions would have to sacrifice themselves to move forward, hearing the _Shadowbringers_ theme with G'raha almost broke me. 48:56 - "We want to see Brit ugly cry." That, I will not deny.

[@DXAshram]

A variant of Answers for the twins is nice, bit of a Coils of Bahamut throwback. A shame Y'shtola and Urianger only got Thunderer, a glorified boss fight theme.

[@britkcaley]

I hope you feasted well on the tears xD

[@lynq57]

it's about time that darn catboy sent you a friend request! love your content as always Brit!

[@britkcaley]

Haha it literally broke me with his message!

[@AStrangeWindmill]

I will never forgive lalafells for making hugs inconvenient from an animation perspective.

[@britkcaley]

i never knew this was the reason! :o

[@omegagilgamesh]

Actually, hugging animations are a LOT more difficult to animate than most people realize, so if they want them to be frequent, then they need to make EVERYONE the same size, both height- and girth-wise. So, look at a miqote, then look at a male roegadyn.

[@rptrrwr]

Yeah that first "whispers" when when alisae gets mad at raha is....yeah. that hurts every time. This game makes you care so. Damn. Much. About characters. It's why the game is so good. It's so easy to empathize with characters. Absolutely love this game and can't praise it enough, probably the best ff game ever. That's including games I'm looking at with nostalgia glasses. Not to mention the message of this story is perfect. I just..... UGH. SO GOOD. I'm glad I found your channel and got to re-experience the story with you.

[@britkcaley]

I'm so happy I can share my experience with you! Thank you so much for watching

[@ravenmadd3895]

Anyone else notice at 12:30 the MOMENT Meteon said, "unmaking men," Brit went completely still as those words sunk in?

[@Fleur-de-Alys]

The most quieting part of this section to me is the twins. It's playing the triumphant music from Louisoix's triumph over Bahamut in the Flames of Truth trailer. That connection is emotional enough, but the way it just goes absolutely silent in the middle of the victorious theme as they disappear really drives home the absolute solitude that the WoL is now experiencing. It wasn't just grief, it was chills to the soul of being utterly alone in the face of cosmic despair, with the fleeting hopes of the shattered shards of remaining life - and the souls of all your friends who just paved the way for you - resting all on your shoulders. It wasn't a power fantasy - it was sheer weight and dread.

[@Mad-Slick]

I love that they brought back Susanoo for a few lines. One of my favourite parts of Endwalker. Also, 1:03:40, I love how that was probably everyone's exact reaction to that moment.

[@lilporky8565]

54:00 "HELLO DOWN THERE! I say- I say HELLO DOWN THERE!" -Zach Hadel, May 20 2020, Black Baby Returns, Timestamp 6:12.

[@Tehownered]

Man this entire sequence just works every corner of the emotional spectrum.

[@britkcaley]

I love and hate this ride xD

[@SubTXT_]

Haven’t watched yet, just saw this come up on my feed. So excited to dive into this. I beat EW in October and your playthrough videos have been such a fantastic (and funny) way to go through this emotional journey again.

[@calzonexiv]

welcome to the true end game: emotional vampirism via watching other people go through the game. lol :)

[@britkcaley]

Aww yay I'm so glad! Thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed this one

[@CrashB111]

I love that every streamer reaction to 7:21 is the same, the involuntary reflex of cringing at the neck snap sound.

[@britkcaley]

She was animated brilliantly! So creeeppyyyy

[@robikkupegasus7039]

What an absolutely amazing experience this game is... Glad to see you have finally made it to the end - may you walk on, and enjoy what is yet to come in the patches!

[@carriewhite6995]

Brit needs to react to the Community Sings "Close in the Distance", it's so moving ;_; And keep up the amazing work!

[@britkcaley]

I’m actually in the video! 💕 can you spot me? 🥹 I cried on stream when it came out 😭

[@carriewhite6995]

@@britkcaley I'll rewatch and do my best to! That's so cool to hear~

[@britkcaley]

@@carriewhite6995 Yeah! Just an awesome project to be part of. This playthrough is over a year old... I'm just so slow at editing >.

[@ichigojania]

This was such an amazing journey. I couldn't stop playing it. Eventhough I felt very sad. I was going to see it through. Love your t shirt with the cats and Japanse sun. Have one just like it and the relaxolotl too

[@CrystalPrelude]

This game, like many Final Fantasy games, taught me how to stand, to fight, and how to move forward. To fight your suffering, your sorrow. To understand that in these things, there is life and that strengthens you.

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

In addition to that, I think XIV has the strongest message to always strive to set the best example, even when you don't know if others are watching. "For those who walk before, may lead those who walk after."

[@britkcaley]

Agreed! I love the messaging in this game so much.

[@KaedysKor]

"To live is to suffer. And in suffering, find strength, and purpose, and hope."

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

@@KaedysKor And find your way forward!

[@KaedysKor]

@azenafelicia6618 that's exactly how I took it as well. The messaging isn't really to _fight_ those negative emotions, it's to understand and embrace them. Notice that the end of EW is us _redeeming_ the personification of despair, "teaching her a brighter future", not simply destroying her. She gathered the despair of a thousand thousand worlds, and we showed her that hope even from a single world is enough to balance that out. Not to _hide_ from despair, as Zodiark was embodying, but to accept and embrace both the good and the bad and realize they make us who we are.

[@VTsimpingSan]

Holy shirt that Gra painting is amazing

[@britkcaley]

Aahh thank you so much!!

[@KozyToast]

The way I SOBBED when I first experiencing and am now sobbing all over 😭😭😭😭

[@xenomemphate]

One more thing to notice, that Silver touched on at the start of Hello World. Not only did the scions build the path and the music, the quest text is now fully legible as well.

[@Ramotttholl]

Graha and the song broke my ability to see my character run in the game. i RP walked the rest of the map away. and back when 6.0 came out that also included other ppl who already finished it just giving you hugs and pets along the way and walk bits with you.

[@dec222]

I really loved the voices they used for the Ea and the Omicrons. I feel like EW is the first expansion where they really nailed the perfect vibe of "alien-ness" and/or "AI". I mean it was always fine before, but when I heard the Ea speak I was just smitten.

[@britkcaley]

I was pleasantly surprised by this too!! I'm glad they got voices and it wasn't just silent, left for our own imagination.

[@Deckronomicon]

Close In The Distance hit INCREDIBLY HARD, I can't even listen to it without tearing up

[@AlphabetSoup3000]

The way I explain the Scion's actions and attitude in the face of their friends sacrificing themselves is that if they let themselves break down now, the world and the universe would end before they could become functional again. So basically, really deeply repressing it (which they then take out on the WoL... later...). They simply cannot be distraught, too many people on Etheris are counting on them to finish this. If they had finished it and not gotten everyone back, they would have been devastated. Anyway, that's my take on it.

[@Saber583]

From the end of Stormblood to Endwalker, I've been wanting my character to give so many characters a hug lol

[@WolfstarGaming1]

Graha hit me the hardest as well, then the "Walk" destroyed me for every time I completed the MSQ on this.

[@RaynexD]

This is really a feelswalker 😭🥺 cant wait for your finale 6.0 part 2! I ugly cried with you too 🥲

[@britkcaley]

😭😭😭

[@rajabuta]

He's here, there, he's everywhere. Eeeeeew, have I been breathing in thancred!?

[@britkcaley]

this is thancred

[@warlock415]

I was playing this on release, it was 2am and I was already emotionally compromised. It hurt so much. The noise that came out of me when the twins - my little brother and sister - DISSOLVED was not human.

[@VincentOcyris]

I love how at the same time the song says "unbroken" most players ARE broken

[@Hgdrifter]

We're walking to the end now!

[@octapusxft]

Personally I think that the cutscene with the launch of Ragnarok should not had have any cuts in it, it is so perfect

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

One of the best expansions in the history of videogames!

[@mitogenesis]

Can't wait to watch this. This must have taken forever to edit

[@britkcaley]

It did take awhile, but so worth it!

[@SusanChan]

oh dont worry Brit, to be fair i get teary for almost all of the scions, but I remember Graha hit on a different level XD - also I cried at the twins too cause their mah bbies ;A; (especially Alphinaud XD)

[@britkcaley]

Glad I wasn't alone!

[@keithfilibeck2390]

Thancreds inexplicable miracle charge at Meteion saved the universe, its never fully explained how he was able to do it, as what was happening to everyone wasn't a matter of holding your breath, as Meteion had deleted ALL the oxygen in the room, including in everyone's lungs.

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

I kind of like to think it's from Y'shtola's use of "Flow" back in Realm Reborn distorting his aether since aether and dynamis are like opposite & equal opposing forces in a sense. It would also be somewhat poetic that her casting "Flow" altered the current of events that lead to saving the universe, considering the final song shares the name with the spell and the two connect A Realm Reborn to Endwalker. This final expansion brings so much full circle while adding layers to everything before.

[@bransonchic678]

G'raha's my favorite character in the FF series i ugly cried at his part when i did this during my wibtter break

[@Blackwind_Legacy]

We've arrived. Excuse while I got to the store to buy a 12 pack of boxes of tissues and comfort food.

[@britkcaley]

seriously I cut out a part where I went and got more tissues! hahaha

[@VTsimpingSan]

That first Meteion scene jump scared me

[@Idran]

For future reference, if you ever accidentally skip a quest cutscene like that, you can immediately abandon the quest and pick it back up. You'll have to redo the rest of the quest too of course, but better that than miss it. :P I've done that before when I accidentally skipped one, and so long as you don't actually complete the quest the cutscene was part of, it should work?

[@CrimsonKMR]

You can't abandon MSQ questions unfortunately. You can alt+F4 it and restart that way though

[@britkcaley]

yeah it was a whole conundrum lol xD we got it sorted by my friend streaming on discord for me haha

[@Idran]

@@CrimsonKMR oh oof; i thought i was doing MSQ but it must've been something else

[@joshuarendleman7297]

I might have been one of the few that didn't cry at graha going. Mainly I went into the last zone going who's gonna die, who's had a resolved story. Estinien, was at a done point to me, thancred had finished things last expansion, yshtola has been on borrowed time for two expansions. Graha though, that made me stop and look at it like oh, yeah they're all coming back, none of them are dead. So yeah graha didn't make me ugly cry it made me hit the copium and call bs

[@britkcaley]

That's fair! I think I just took everything at face value and I wasn't sure what was going to happen lol

[@specialnewb9821]

Catboy 🎵 🎶 Noble from WoW is the only one I've seen not cry.

[@KedemothThePaladin]

21:25 is the reason I spent nearly a month to complete Ultima Thul.

[@britkcaley]

Smart choice! I wish I took more time tbh haha

[@KedemothThePaladin]

@@britkcaley No amount of time delayed will take away from the pain of this section of our adventure.

[@ItsRinaldo]

Little disappointed the reaction to the Heat Death of the Universe didn't make the cut, unless it wasn't anything remarkable. I've found it interesting how people react to that.

[@RX93Custom]

this zone ruined me i was in such emotional pain it was crazy, my friend is finishing stormblood currently i cant wait for her to get to shadowbringers

[@sakuram69]

Raha is where I completely lost my shit lol I broke so damned hard. I couldn’t even speak at that point. My entire being just shut down. I had to just stop for a while to grieve and process

[@britkcaley]

He seriously broke me so hard TAT

[@FutayuriShironeko]

I never feel sad about bad stuff happening to G'raha after he did my boy Elidibus dirty.

[@SteelfireX3]

Let's gooooooooo!!!

[@TarundiMC]

I think it's actually more emotional watching than when I was playing because I hate fake deaths and it was obvious they weren't going to kill them all off like that, even before Y'stola basically confirmed it. That being said, one of my reasons for thinking so was wrong, I thought they were going to make another Trusts trial so I was expected them all to come back for the final showdown.

[@shinkicker404]

Ugh, wish this wasn't split into two parts. :(

[@britkcaley]

I HAD to!! Next part is coming out this sunday, not too long of a wait I promise

[@Norsy]

The more I watch this, the more Metion sounds like twitter 🤣

[@britkcaley]

you're... not wrong? lol

[@adjwindu70]

31:10 🫨

[@britkcaley]

😂

[@KaliStarchaser]

Scene skipper! *rings the Bell of Shame™* :P

[@britkcaley]

I CAN'T DENY IT NOW 😭

[@KaliStarchaser]

@@britkcaley Looking forward to the rest of your journey, it has been amazing seeing your reactions to the story.

[@michaelstephens359]

-.- you're so mean making us wait another week (good idea creator wise) but curse you !!!

[@britkcaley]

I had to!! hahaha don't worry not a long wait ;]

[@bigDtex79]

Oh, you haven't ugly cried yet. You think you did just now. Wait till the next parts, then you will know what ugly crying is.

[@stinusmeret]

This is an edited playthrough, Brit finished Endwalker over a year ago.

[@britkcaley]

next part is MEGA UGLY CRY lol

[@ravenmadd3895]

The buffering icon on your forehead, now accompanied by the AOE log in...noise? That doesn't seem to do that annoying sound justice.

[@ravenmadd3895]

15:25, I agree, not funny.