Emet Selch aside, I think my favorite thing is how Zenos' is delivered. His VA did a great job of creating a different intonation for Elidibus-Zenos, making it clear its not the Zenos we knew
Agreed, this is something that struck me when I saw the first voiced cutscene with Elezen!Zenos after this one. Zenos is such a melodramatic motherfucker with huge modulations in his volume and tons of sass. Elidibus is the opposite, a slithery but understated seriousness.
I had heard very good things about him, but Emet-Selch's first scene really was glorious to witness in person. After the spooky serious villains ominously portend at each other we have this guy step out from behind his throne, call the emperor of Garlemald a twit, insult him directly to his face, gives a theatrical soliloquy, gets shot, falls down the stairs in the most mocking way possible, reappears, mocks the emperor some more, and then practically prances out of the room. A+ debut, and then he gets even better!
"This early" lmao This is 4.4, about 9 months before 5.0 dropped. If you don't think Shadowbringer's plot was not completely hashed out long before this, I don't know what to tell you.
I wasn't talking about early for the devs, I was talking about early for the players. Back when 4.4 dropped, there wasn't a single non-dev player who knew what was coming with Shadowbringers.
As someone who binged SB, ShB, and EW over the past several months this year I knew people absolutely loved this guy before getting to this part. What I did NOT expect was him showing up as early as the end of Stormblood, I thought he’d start to show up at the beginning of Shadowbringers, so this scene was quite the interesting surprise lol
Same! I just went through Stormblood earlier this month and I was so caught off guard seeing him, I was freaking out like omg that's himmm! Lovely lad he is though fr, I love him.
7:02 Solus: Such a waste of time- *BAM. He dies, then reappears* Solus: -and energy. Both yours and mine. *BAM. Varis shoots him again* Solus: My my aren't you bloodthirsty today, my grandson? *BAM. Varis shoots him again* Solus: Alright that's enough! Does it look like my bodies grow on trees? *Bam. Varis shoots him again* Solus: okay they grow in tubes, but you're wasting some resources here!
What's even funnier is the fact that the guards just watch his body roll down the stairs and then as he slumps he has the look of chaotic delight, like "You know I'm not dead... Right??"
