I love how this game starts in a pseudo-medieval setting with magic and spirits and stuff and yet you get side content like this where you're essentially fighting in a Gundam anime.
The setting honestly makes no sense but it's kinda fine. Despite garlean magitek approaching allagan levels, allagan scifi relics everywhere, and sharlayan having fucking spaceships and artifical sky projectors. Somehow eorzea still on sword snd shield made of brass
@@OldSpaghettifactory89 that's kinda what happens when technology advancing that much is still somehow on par with the existence of magic that which empowers such medieval weapons/armors. They don't need to advance their technology because of their magic advancing. While the ones who have little magic but have technology need to continue advancing their technology just to be equal with the ones with magic. So you could say that while the Eorzeans seem to be 'stuck' in regards to their physical technological levels, their magic in this case has taken the place of their technologies. Like, why have the need to use complex vehicles when your technology in this case can be a magical crystal capable of teleporting people between cities of vast distances?
Finally got to these fights, and they're easily my favorite side story in the game! My favorite detail: One of AoE a few of the Weapons share is "Optimized Ultima". Finally, the amount of devastation can be brought in line with the Garlean's intentions.
Yeah these are easily my favorite fights in the game tbh. I also loved the story, I’ve had the Ruby weapon quest on my mission journal ever since I unlocked the fight in order to get the Blu spell, but didn’t initially care, but after clearing it as Reaper and actually reading I started to enjoy it and uhhhh finished the rest in the same day hitting the end around 3am. 10/10 would do again lmao
Me a Lore Nerd: So yeah if you want to know, the Heart of Sabik is connected to Pandaemonium... And it seems it was Auracite, so.. It is connected to the Void, the 13th, Ivalice, and thus, the Allagan Empire too. The Big Fat Tacos were a big fucking plot point from ARR...
Walter, it's the central star of the Ophiucus constellation! It's like, important to Zodiark because HIS heart is made out of Elidibus who was the convocation member with the Ophiucus constellation on their crystal. Ophiucus is meant to be a healer, so it fits with Elidibus' role as the moderator of the convocation to heal them from any disagreements they might have. Plus, Ophiucus carries the snake constellation Serpens everywhere, which has represented the Zodiark summon ever since Final Fantasy tactics where his zodiac stone is that of Serpens!
@@Toksyuryel 100% agree, but I suspect that they never will since souls games was from softwares break away hit franchise that made its own genre making them into what they are today. Armoured core is too much of a niche genre for them now, doesn't make them anywhere near enough money compared to the latest souls game. That said I'd kill for another well done armoured core game. A decent story with multiple endings, balanced combat system with limitations of energy and weight, destructive environments, perhaps a tech tree in the campaign so you head down a similar design concept for your core would all be welcome additions to the next instalment. In my opinion maybe not focus on multiplayer as much so more effort can be put into the campaign but still have it of course.
@@bon7029 It's more likely that she disliked it, as when it was done by Lahabrea the scale of destruction it wreaked was FAR more massive, or easy to see in terms of the sheer amount of power it packed. Whereas her own version of the spell? We shrugged it off. We needed Mommy Hydaelyn to use the power of Light and likely power from the Mothercrystal to Shield us from Ultima when Lahabrea used it, but her? Meh, that's just Tuesday.
The WoL obviously gets stronger each expac, Lahabrea canonically kills us in ARR, we only get revived and succeed with mom's help - whereas we deal with him more or less on our own in HW. We go from getting bodied by Zenos to kicking his fake-echo infused dragon ass in the space of about 7 levels. We literally kill two, count them, two, gods, empowered by the faith of the most powerful people to ever exist in the history of Etheryis in EW, and then Go Even Further Beyond to beat up X. Comparing ARR WoL to post-EW WoL is like comparing post-Dragonball Goku to post-DBZ Goku - it's heaven and earth.@@rednova2212
@@Ax-xo4ux In terms of lore, we've only been fighting for... What... A bit over a year maybe? The Twins are like... the same age as they were when we started the game. 16 or 17, now. I'm talking Aetherically speaking... We shouldn't be TOO much stronger. It's like novel story telling vs power scaling in anime. But you are right, we've gotten TONS stronger than we were back then. We could probably just *walk* through the brass blades troops like a walk in the park now as opposed to back then and confront Lolorito if we wanted.
i have literally grinded those gwibers from these guys and watched lyric videos, and to this day I still forget and giggle because I still hear "big fat tacos" to the point where I just get decimated mid fight cuz I lost concentration
Witness Ultima Witness Ultima Witness Ultima Darkness come, rend the shield of light DESTRUCTION SALVATION ULTIMA! ULTIMA! HOW fucking Badass are the Lyrics?! Fucking Bad ass!
Knights of the Round kinda selection of Garlemald’s Legates ultimate fight, would go so hard. Maybe then I can finally fight Noah van Gabranth I wanna hurt the fucker bozja was hell
We never really did find out what the Heart of Sabik actually was supposed to be, did we? It was just named as some ancient power source and that's it.
from what has been pieced together the characters seem to guess it was a creation of the Ascian's as an attempt to recreate the powers of the alien Ultima, The High Seraph with a sliver of Zodiark's power allowing anyone to use the most power single magic ever seen on the planet.
@@spirto1279 I would guess it is basically a mix of Auracite (the vast quantities of aether contained) and something akin to the Ascians own memory crystals, what with it containing the knowledge to cast Ultima similar to the Crystal of Azem being imbued with their signature ability.
@@TheTriforceDragon Since writing that comment I played through the Ivalice raids, it's a piece of auracite made to mimic Ultima, the High Seraph's powers
Honestly that's probably what's going to happen. I do wonder if there will also be a section with Sapphire Weapon, but we have to fight it on foot instead of with the G-Warrior.
I love the use of Beat and how it loops around using Sabik. And also, not only does beat fit because that's what hearts do, but it has an extra meaning here in that the weapons are attemps to surpass Ultima, or in other words, to beat their predecessor, the heart of sabik.
@@carlfromaccounting1112 and amazingly it does NOT sound like "Big fat tacos" and anyone who thinks it does needs to make an appointment to get their damn ears checked
Shadowbangers, indeed... Such a headbanging classic, my lord. I'm sure in two decades time we'll look back on this soundtrack with just as much love for it as today.
@@dianauwu1312how is that not Gundam? O3O that’s been the crux of the franchise since the og, teenagers having emotional crisis inside of giant Mecha. Granted they tend to not be pilot their own mother (thanks eva) and the robot stays that, a robot, most of the time
Everyone in the comments: [GUNDAM] Me: Ok, so Oversoul is like the drug taken in Xenogears to amplify Gear drivers combat abilities, the G Warrior was excavated from Azys Lla like how Gears were found, there’s a literal Booster effect- this entire quest line is going to be Xenogears like isn’t it lmao (< only on Emerald Weapon) It also doesn’t help that all the helmets of the Garlean generals makes them all look like Grahf.
I love how all the Weapons are based off of Gundams. Ruby is similar to a Dom, cant reslly see a suit to Sapphire, Emerald is like the Kyshatria from Unicorn, and Diamond is like the Sazabi and/or Sinaju. And of course, our G-warrior/Savior is based off the original Gundam, even has the eye power-up sound and the beam saber sound from the OG anime too. ❤
I think they should have used the G-Warrior in the Diamond Weapon trial. Instead of strapping him to the platform, the off-tank has to hop in the G-Warrior and use the shield to protect the party from a wiping attack, kinda like parrying Susano's stuff, and clear out those turrets that harass you during the Sapphire Weapon fight.
I'll forever hear it as "Big Fat Tacos" but full glad am I that the Heart of Sabik has been mentioned again. After replaying Castrum myriad times for mog tomes I always felt a bit sad that it wasn't ever elaborated on or at least mentioned again.
If you play the Ivalice raids and recall that the all the Weapons run on Synthetic Auracite then the Heart of Sabik which the original Ultima Weapon used is definitely a piece of Actual Auracite from the High Seraph herself or at least that is what I think it is.
Agreed. It's bothered me for basically...hm, 2021 - 2013 = 8ish years that this has NEVER BEEN MENTIONED AGAIN. I get it could just be one of those "throwaway lines that makes things sound cool/ancient/epic/powerful", but given how they use hooks like that to tie future stories or retcon things in a way that furthers the plot and expands on the lore, I've been genuinely confused as to why they've never revisited or mentioned that. Then again, they just had someone ask us if we REALLY know who/what the Twelve really are..........so who knows?
Most video game songs that sound Latin, aren't. They usually use gibberish that sounds like Latin. EG: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0WMYL6HuUoI.html The song sounds like some European language, maybe Italian, but it's completely made up.
The original is in nonsense Latin. They gave it English lyrics for UWU (The Weapon's Refrain/Ultima Weapon: Ultimate), and that's what's used here! I wish they'd make a version with the lyrics from UWU but the original instrumentation and certain vocalizations from the OG too, but ah well.
While I do agree, I do also feel that- since everything Jobs can do tends to be grounded in lore pretty well- it'll be some sort of Pseudo-Ultima or something of the sort; still very powerful and (hopefully) exceedingly flashy, but nothing like what Gaius unleashed ofc
Thanks to one of my friends, I don't hear "Big Fat Tacos" (Never did to be honest). Instead I hear; "PIZZA! I TOSS A PIZZA! I TOSS A PIZZA! I TOSS A PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"
While I liked the taco version actually finally knowing the lyrics made this so much better! Now it really feels like the opening theme song of the pilots of Garlemald that are fighting that evil WoL.
tbh I really do prefer Diamond Weapon's theme over this one, it tenderly creates such a good rendition of the original Ultima theme in a more threatening yet hopeful way soaring through the motions of the shining diamond plague upon the skies.
This easily stands tall amongst the best boss fight music tracks ever made. I've probably listened to this track hundreds of times at this point, and it's still fucking awesome every time.
Given that Garlemald is a smouldering ruin of civil war and death, and the current saga is ending in 6.0, unless we go to Meracydia and dig up some other Allagan monstrosity, I don't see any more weapons in the future. Though I shudder to think what sort of abomination the Telophoroi would create as a Weapon, given that these ones are pretty much Magitek Evangelions.
You know how Nier: Automata had a made-up up language for the songs? And how it didn't really matter; the music was part of the ambiance, and understandable lyrics would distract from the experience? I feel like they write most of the songs for this game with that in mind, and purposely use a fucked up diction so you can't understand it.
