[VOD] 🌱Post Shadowbringers 5.3! | 1st FFXIV Playthrough 

Forge Ahead!

5.3 is such a masterpiece of storytelling. It really shows that it was supposed to be an entire expansion not just a patch.

You know at first at the 6 hour mark when you said you had to go to bed and i looked at the 3 hours left on the video i was concerned that chat talked you into somethint foolish. Im glad you took your time with it, it made the tears i drink up as an FF14 emotional vampire all the sweeter.

Seto remains undefeated. such a great patch

Fun Fact the Warriors Elidbus summons in the seat of sacrifice are the party members or at least some of them from Final Fantasy 4. The Lala's that he summons use twincast and the only characters to ever use twincast was Palom and Porom, since we don't have children in the game they must of used them as their models for it, both were a white mage and a black mage. There is a Dark Knight that is clearly Cecil, if you look closely it's very similar to his actual dark knight gear. The Bard can Cast holy just like Rosa, and used a bow, and plays a white mage in 4, The Bard and the Dark Knight actually come out togethor which I believe was to symbolize the two being together. and when the Wyrm is summoned it looks like FF4's version of Bahamut that Rydia summons. but has the color of DArk Bahamut from 4. The Ninja is very clearly Edge because it uses Water and Fire. the Warrior there is likely Cid, he mainly used hammers, but could wield axes as well. Shadowbringers feels like a big nod to Cecils story but flipped.

@5:07:00 Yet another poor unfortunate soul makes the _mistake_ of asking the WoL/WoD "What/Who are you?" ... the Unknowable Question, that ends up in asskicking, lol.

I think the metaphor that Hythlodaeus was making gets lost in translation a bit. In Japanese, the word star is used for every single space object beyond the Earth, Sun, and Moon. Which is the reason Eorzea throughout the game is referred to, even in English, as a star. In Japanese, he was saying that the convocation members were comparable to the 13 Zodiac signs, which is why they’re etched onto their sigils. The 14th members sigil, had the Sun, and had the power to summon those constellations to their side…but often chose their friends instead. There’s also a second comparison being made, but won’t get into it because spoilers…but that part often confuses people due to its wording. Hope it’s helpful!

Other folks have said this, but this was the first patch that came out after the pandemic hit and it took almost twice as long as we had been accustomed to. There were so many reasons this story could've underwhelmed. That it didn't is almost miraculous.

in the JP version from 5:55:13 point forward Crystal Exarch's name on the subtitle would be changed to G'raha Tia (even his jp voice would have this distinct young boi Raha tone) and it's an interesting detail that I wished they also put in the English subtitle🥺

As a dog owner 7:05:38 will never fail to make me an absolute mess

And on this day, a new G'raha fan girl was born. Welcome haha

The dialog is completely different for all four; also, all four unlocks a fifth that's also an option here, and furthermore along with the primals series from HW unlocks another quest string in EW.

There's a shadowbringers short story on the lodestone site that tells the story of ardbert and seto and seto's medallion.

Never before have I seen someone fail so hard and consistently at Action Time Maneuvers lol Just pick two buttons to alternatively spam with both hands' index fingers, like G and H or something, then go taka-taka-taka-taka-taka-taka-taka-taka.

I think my biggest gripe with Shadowbringers is that the cutscene between The Crystal Exarch and Lyna on the way back to the tower wasn't voice acted

"We fall" that is all lol

Emotional vampires Assemble!

7:08:12

By the way, for the active times, my trick is to put three fingers on the arrow keys and drum my fingers so I'm spamming three keys.

Fellow emotion vampires we are eating good today.

Emet just watching you fail the time event, rolling his eyes and debating if he should even save you

i feel like all things possible to break immersion just keep happening to you