The Final Battle | FFXIV: Shadowbringers Cutscenes 

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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!

That soft smile at the end gets me every time

If Survivor's Guilt was an NPC

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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