🌱 Sprout LOSES IT at the Crystal Exarch reveal | 1st FFXIV Playthrough 

Graha’s villain arch lasted about 45 seconds

This is one of the hardest hitting story beats. The idea of having us fail, of having everything we accomplished thus far fall apart. It makes all that joy we felt, and joy we brought to the people of Norvrandt suddenly turn to ash. It gives us that sense of triumph and then rips it all away. It's brilliant. What better way to have you identify with the characters of your WoL and Ardbert, then by putting you the player through the same experience as the characters. Failure, loss, guilt, frustration... and then having to find the resolve to continue regardless.

And this is why completing the Crystal Tower Alliance Raid in ARR is mandatory

you and i had similar reactions to the Exarch's reveal. I got so pissed until Y'shtola said that he would not live to see another world. I began to cry when the Exarch began to speak. Hood flies back and I just scream "WHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!?!?!?!" I later asked my now husband "Was that G'Raha?" his response: "Yes and he's been waiting for you here this whole time."

All powerful being who can summon literally anything he wants: *gun*

Even knowing it's just part of the story and I have no control over it, the moment when my character opened the window and saw the Light back in the sky, I felt like I had personally failed.

What pushed me to finally buy and play this game, was actually that cutscene with the reveal of the Exarch There's a Guild Wars 2 streamer I watch (Laranity) who also sometimes play FFXIV and was going through the story. I'd mostly been uninterested because no matter how amazing everyone called it, I never wanted to touch a game with a sub fee. But one day I decided "why not? I'll watch some of the stream today. Since spoilers rarely ruin experiences for me and I don't plan on playing anyway." It was that exact moment: 'call him by his name'. And I went: "Damn. OK. Fuck it, I'm buying this game." And the rest is history lmao. I still haven't reached this part myself, I'm VERY slow, so I skipped through just to see your reaction to that part. I've started to care about spoiling myself a bit, at least for MSQ. SOMETIMES spoilers are a good thing 🤭 I would've never played this masterpiece otherwise.

I love Feo Ul: She says what she thinks, she loves the WoL, even when mad she is cute.

The moment i saw the light and the music afterwards in the Crystarium was one the most depressing moments in the game for me. Of cause i love Gwaha :3

Oh, she is not ready for Ultima Thul.

If I could, I would forget everything I experienced playing this game, just to go through it all over again

Moral of the story, ONCE AGAIN, is that Urianger is the GOAT

I love watching your journey, just subscribed. I can not WAIT until you hit Endwalker....

Ok, but the healer pulling you into Innocence's final AOE was EVIL, and it gave me a really good laugh!

"I shall achieve through despair." Wow, that really means something now... without any spoilers.

Shadowbringers was the expansion that cemented my love for the game, I was enjoying the game, but this expansion really did it for me, enjoy the ride and buckle up cuz it gets more and more awesome.

emet-selch is such a tragic villain. that’s why people love him. because he lost everything he had, and everything he does is in desperation to see his friends and family again. it’s the same reason so many people love ardyn of Final Fantasy 15, or any number of other tragic villains

Hey do you have VODs of your playthrough anywhere or just on twitch?

When Shadowbringers first launched, the Crystal Tower raids were optional and many people had got here and the reveal didn't mean anything to them. I had stopped playing after Heavensward and had never done any raids, but thankfully someone told me ahead of time that it would be in my best interest to do so and I did the raids before I got here.

bro i cried so freaking hard when i saw graha tia in this scene

Hope you’re enjoying the game so far!

i just did that trial for the first time last night. funny seeing this pop into my feed haaha

48:35 "How does everyone like this guy!" You're not there yet!

love how everyones response is allways "why is he hot?!"

The main Shadowbringers story is done, but you still have patch content to go through. Shadowbringers is not done with the feels train yet.

I only recently finished Shadowbringers myself..... and I have to admit my reaction was a little different. Because it went ".... I know you survive, I've seen the gifs of you eating a Taco. I know I survive, because there's literally an expansion after this and then one after that coming out soon, and they're not going to kill off a PC in an MMORPG that's still ongoing." It did cement my love for Raha though. That did happen.

after i saw this reaction i was like i wanna see your reaction to 5.3 but then i saw that you just uploaded this video xDD looking forward to that! ;D Also your Au Ra is pretty

One of the most powerful sorcerers ever to exist: uses gun

Not me seeing someones comment in chat about loving Titania's VA - and jumping to try and type > It's Yshtola xD xD

Shots fired!! I couldn’t stop playing after that cutscene, our precious lil cinnamon boi 😿

Loved SHB, best story ever in any game!

Bon Jovi - Shot Through The Heart and Emet-Selch to blame

Emet is a good boy

In my opinion, Emet is the best villain in the FF series so far.

Oh no, wait till you get to the emotional part!

Vauthry's triple chin echo

I don't understand how people can act so surprised at this "reveal". It was super obvious who he was from the very start of the expansion.

are u allergic to technical step?????

Damn, you sure are emotional. Not a bad thing, just a bit hard for me to comprehend.

you are not a good actor

Graha is one of the best characters friggin love him 🤗 PS: May want to buy quadruple toilet rolls for Endwalker 🥲