Final Boss Phase 1 Theme - FFXIV OST
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- Warping the spacetime continuum
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>Goes to corner with flare marker
>Nearest safespot is 2 circles away
> "Fuck"
the ground grid warping was so sick. Really creative way of visualising the mechanic
Yes, much more of a fan of that type of telegraph vs "obvious orange cone"
real talk first time they used it I didnt see it until just before it was too late. Didnt get out in time
I'm the sort of nerd who screamed "IS THAT A FUCKING PENROSE DIAGRAM" when I saw it
it's not jsut grid warping, it's using a physics diagram used to show the infinite past and future and infinite space (in 1 dimension anyways) in a finite space
the edges are the infinite future
she uses a diagram showing the infinite future to kill you, to protect her dream of an infinite future for the endless.
@@sylviafloof5674*pushes up glasses*
UV Mapping go brrrrrrrt.
> Are you still alive? Activating reserve power.
> Are you still alive? Disengaging safeties.
> Target area delineated. Commencing erasure.
And then chaos ensues...
being the first in my discord to clear, and then joining some others, genuinly enjoyed seeing them react to surprise EX mechanic
As a Scholar, that is the time when I'm like okay Expedience go! Need all the movement. Plus throw on as fat as a shield on everyone as I can just to be safe.
@@WhiskaAliapoh can confirm, Expedience is a GODSEND there lmao
fucking hitting us with prey marks after a spread flare x4 and then an acceleration bomb immediately followed while dodging the entire room for a normal trail was ridiculous and i loved it
That entire externination segment was "no thought, just panic" for me. I got sniped by the very last mechanic 😂
Theres a million good and cool things to say about the trial and Dawntrail.
But my biggest joy was that the Azem Crystal was saved for a special occasion. EW patchs really overplayed that hand but its special and cool again, so thank you writers.
I think I actually prefer the crystal more than how the scions were handled this expansion. Trial 2 felt a bit forced with the appearances. At least the crystal is a canonical way we don’t have to fight alone without needing a full roster. The fact it gets played as one of azem’s main fighting tactics I think has some charm in that as their successor we also now hold that power.
I think the real big issue is that we don't go solo into dungeons anymore so it feels weird not to use the trust system @@phenik403
yeah a shame theres as many bad things to say about DT. although most of them are just abuot story writing and some bad voice acting (mostly wuk lamat)
At least the dungeons and mechanics and music are excellent.
@@zeehero7280 Nah, the direction hasn't been this poor since ARR. Some of the scenes have the proper volume to them, others are yelled in lowercase. Sena just gets the worst of it because Wuk Lamat has, like, a third of the voiced lines this expansion.
@@jacobkern2060 Yeah, some of the scions sound really off. Most of the newer characters sound well.
Wuk lamat has some issues, but the VA has a lot of lines and does a really good job in most scenes. The issues is that, be it the actor, accent or direction, fail to reach higher notes. So scenes where she is supposed to be yelling is more aggressive talking.
Legit the coolest trial they've done yet. Dawntrail has the best dungeons and trials by far
Still can't get over Emet Selch, Elidibus
@@AresLodin Hades fight I've kinda soured on, just kinda boring running it now. Seat is still one of the peaks though
They really upped the difficulty of the dungeons this go around. Some real tight checks and new mechanics that I can see reappearing down the line.
They definetely amped up regular content difficulty this xpac, and as if that wasnt enough role quests require you to understand and take on multiple mechanics such as tanks needing to mitigate raidwides to save healer, take tank buster towers, intercept tethers and so on.
I honestly really like it and look forward to what they are cooking for savage.
@nevy4256 I'm just talking like pinnacle of hype. Hades, Elidibus, Hydaelyn, and Endsinger. Literally in order of "there's no way they can top this" and they did
What mechanics do you want in this fight?
“Yes”
When i saw the wall appear... all i could think about was the show Hole in the wall on TV... i loved getting hit by it!
@@ravennesvr8103 SAME I yell HOLE IN THE WALL watching that show randomly as a child led me to this
The Thordan Extreme experience. Do all mechanics on after another and then do them all at the same time
Me, a Scholar Main: YAY EXPEDIENT VALUE
The realisation that Queen Eternal looks like a locust... Considering what they do is a big think
Uh, it's... actually supposed to be a huge mechanical dragon, not a locust.
@@warriorofdawn876 according to whom exactly?
a giant robo locust!
I knew she looked like some sort of insect, I just couldn’t figure it out
Who thought it would be a good idea to put a young girl's mind into a processor that is designed to turn the souls of the innocent into fuel?
Poor Sphene.
YEAH I kinda got the suspicion that she wasn’t acting ENTIRELY of her own accord, I feel like Preservation’s scientists could have programmed her to prioritize the Endless above all else.
@@DigitalCoffee08 Tbh i have more the feeling it is some kind of "What happens when you give a KI all of your memories without the emotions?" stuff like using technic to bring someone back "from the dead"
She know she must protect her people, but she dont fully understand _why_
@@DigitalCoffee08 Yeah, it was the program that forced her to endanger the world.
But the love for her people was real.
@@DigitalCoffee08I think Krile's parents straight up said that. Preservation manipulated the memory data so Sphene would overly prioritize preserving the Endless.
It is a bit too subtle, but yeah Sphene's prime directive is to sustain the Endless. She can't think of or entertain defying it, at least directly... hence her hinting to use several time to stop her through the MSQ.
When the countdown hits and you panic, wondering if it's tank LB3 time or not.
That was me LOL. I hit LB3 then cotank hit LB3 on next countdown and didn't know whether we were supposed to lol
That's why I was glad I had someone in the trial who'd already done it. They said "don't panic," so I didn't LB.
Then everyone else panicked and we wiped like four times. Awesome fight!
The LB is refunded. Let the first timers tank LB, it's a good moment let's not ruin it for sprouts
@@steveh1474 Good to know! That was smart of them
THAT WAS ME I JUST DID IT ANYWAY CAUSE I GOT SCARED
It's funny. I finished Dawntrail just 24 hours ago and I did it as dps, which means I sat in this boss room with this music playing while waiting half an hour in the queue, yet here I am coming back and listening to it again already
As someone that did the same because of Picto Brain, I'm in the same boat. Just did the fight last night and waited 40 minutes for the queue, but those opening notes had me HOOKED even before the rest of the song played, and here I am for even more lol
ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
@@kyushuplays4872 I'm a big fan of "Legitimate Force"
I liked how Endwalker was about the fact that pain is inevitable in life, but Dawntrail was about finding the people that make life worth living and remembering the good times we had with them. 7.0 MSQ had some clunky portions but it was the most human story we’ve ever gotten and it was very touching
Thank you for just....GETTING IT. All the complaining on the internet is so tiring.
It's also largely about accepting death
Yes, time circles endlessly, the hands of fate trained ahead
All things change, drawn to the flame, to rise from the ashes
To begin, we first must see the end...
@@UmbreonMessiahidea good, but how they write dialogues and script, geez
@@skyash7566 exactly. People gotta understand the criticisms. I personally enjoyed Dawntrail's main story, but my final ranking for JUST STORY probably goes
Shadowbringers > Endwalker > Dawntrail > = Heavensward > Stormblood > ARR
We now have a balance in the X.0 final boss category. We now have:
- 2 individuals from a warmongering nation with access to deific powers (Gaius, Shinryuu)
- 2 old men with a vision (Thordan, Emet-Selch)
- 2 girls packing reality-warping firepower (Endsinger, Queen Eternal)
Don't forget 2 insane lizzards hellbent on killing everyone - Nidhogg and Zoraal Ja
@@TenebrisGladiusneither are x.0 final bosses.
'Are you still alive?'
me bleeding from the eyes and spitting out a tooth: yeah, hit it again, this time with feeling
This was the most JRPG Boss ending to an FFXIV expansion and I'm fucking here for it.
Meteion and Sphene kinda parallel each other. Meteion was all about killing everyone so that no one needed to suffer anymore, but Sphere was about keeping her people alive forever so no one would have to grieve or be forgotten. Both initially had good intentions, but their ideologies were twisted by circumstances that were put upon them.
The last worlds also mirror each other. While we were bringing hope and adding new connections to Ultima Thule, we were quite literally killing the Memory zone and everyone in it. Turning that beautiful golden world into a gray tomb HURT.
@@0332288both are lessons about how to deal with loss. UT is about having hopes for the future, while LM is about how to let go of the past and move on. Both teaches us that life is beautiful because it is fleeting, just because it may end or doesn’t last forever doesn’t make life not worth living
its reflected on the final map too.
As in Ultima Thule for instance, the music, is quiet and distorded but as we progress it gets lively and loud.
In Living Memory the music is there , 'alive' and we , as we progress, shut it down, into the silent tomb that it is
Sphere is literally just emet selch. Her plan is to kill everyone else to save her people
living memory literally is Emet’s last words manifested “Remember us, Remember we once lived”
That piano mixed in with the riffs. God tier
Amen.
Funny story, when I fought her for the first time, there were two separate instances where 3/4 of the party got wiped out… but both times, one of the healers survived and we somehow managed to bounce back.
We won first try.
In my first time going through this I had to use the healer LB3 after seeing me and the tank survive after Absolute Authority had finished - very satisfying considering I died to the very first mechanic lol!
Same! I'm a Sage and my Cohealer was a Scholar, even with us having used LB3 like three times we somehow beat it first pull lol, I thought it was over so many times
My only singular complaint about this boss is that we have to wait until 7.1 for the EX version of this trail.
Oh we wiped again? Darn, I guess we got to keep listening to this!
The EX of this is gonna murder the shit out of me but I want those goddamned wings
The more I hear this I'm pretty sure this is a "happy" necron theme. Fitting. Well played.
I think you've scratched that familiar itch of mine! There's a bit of "Unforgettable Sorrow"/"Fleeting Life" in there from the dungeon and zone, too.
I honestly don't hear any of them though I'm sure I would if pointed out @@emigohome
When it started I thought necron as well
2:13 why did my eyes become watery!!!!!!
This motif is one of the best in the series. It's so fucking good.
There's something very tragic about it all. We just had the ancients and their utopia, but the Alexandrians' artificial world isn't that. It's a decaying unsustainable digital world filled with tacky attractions and inhabitants that are just recordings of when the place had real people in it.
Also just to really make it obvious, the final zone's music is playing on dead mall speakers. The unlost world is a dead mall and your quest is to turn the lights off and close up shop.
It's so disturbing and beautiful yet sadness everywhere. The final area is like hitting the weakness of humanity.
Emet Selch: "Yet you claim I recreated Amaurot and populated it with phantoms of our people. A bizarre indulgence that would be insulting to their memory."
@@SoooooooooooonicableLiving Memory is somehow even more sad. The illusionary Amaurot served a purpose for Emet; to remind him what he is fighting for and to show us his people's way of life.
Living Memory is not a means to the end, it is the goal. An eternal mural of what was painted with the blood of all that lived.
Living Memory may have been unsustainable, but it wasn't a twisted/empty heaven!! IDK where people keep getting this from. They had no right to juice all of reality to fuel it, but the people we killed were happy. They were real. Children who never were happy in life, lovers who never got to be together. We don't get to pretend we just emptied the recycling bin to save ourselves the trauma.
We "wiped" an entire shard, the only survivors are the ones who merged in the source...that's, gruesome to say the least, tragic at best...
I don’t know why but when this started playing and the boss revealed herself I couldn’t help but smile, this game is fun.
It might have just been nostalgia but this particular summoning circle seemed brighter and to pulse more when the pillars emerged. Also do remember this isn't our body, this is our SOUL we're using, Dawntrail's final boss is sending our soul into cyberspace and summoning the souls of other heroes to fight a reality eating super computer in the remnants of a dead world we just permanently took offline
Something I love about this is that Sphene doesn't have a proper boss name.
She's just the Queen Eternal.
I think this might be a reference to Necron, known as "Eternal Darkness" (永遠の闇) in Japanese, from FF9
Gotta love how Absolute Authority was as close to a savage mech that normal can get
3 Flares
Triangle Stack markers
2 Gazes
on top of only have 2 safe spots for others.
Actually goated
The giant Infinity symb9ol being the wheels on the Mech is a really nice touch.
Has anyone else noticed something similar to the Azem Symbol at the top of the Key to the Dimensions?
its probably a relic made by azem pre-sundering
Good eye, I saw it too. Definitely connected to Azem somehow. Probably.
Yeah probably the next big setup, who is Azem and what have they been doing? They knew of the WoL arriving to help Elidibus in Panda, they're seemingly involved with this new shard travel tech that's unlike anything the Ascians have done and would have ever done.
Correct me if im wrong.
Milalas used the azem key (lets just call it this wat) to escape the 5th rejoining calamity of ice into the shard that was already destroyed from the sources point by the 2nd calamity - lightning?
I know they can explain this by shard havung different time flows most of the time.
But if not then isnt it technically possible to move across time and spac to go back to Alexandria and save their ppl by taking them to another shard? This opens the nasty can of time travel worms tho.
Also another thing lalas originate from southern isles... last time azem was mentioned pre sundering was saving an island from a volcano eruption so they key can be OG Azems.
@@system6bro ShB showed us that time travel with shard travel is possible but until that's covered up fully and we're told time travel was involved I'm going to assume this is the timeline of events
Alexandria's shard gets fucked by Levin and the world dies
Alexandria figures out a way to save their kingdom and region with the stone technology
Lalafells from 5th Calamity arrive some time after rejoining and integrate into the new kingdom,
Alexandria starts to suffer from lack of resources to sustain their eternal life system, start to look into shard travel artifact to harvest life elsewhere
Lalafells hide the relics away in order to prevent Alexandria from causing harm to others
Sphene reaches out to someone for help, events of game happen.
PEAAAAAAAAK ALSO THIS IS THE BEST NORMAL TRIAL IN THE GAME
God this theme is so good
This song really hits a form melancholy that I love.
i really dig them using parts of the alexandria theme from the prior dungeon, really hits that feeling of melancholy and loss
i had to tank this as a machinist for 3 minutes straight
Hoping that this is the mount theme when the extreme comes out, I love her phase 1 theme and will gladly suffer for the mount to hear it in the overworld
Watching this boss vore 5 of my duty members was horrifying ngl
Okay guess Yoko Shimomura barged into the recording booth for this as MY CHRIST THE PIANO
I was thinking more along the lines of xi or taishi, but either way every aspect of this song SLAPS
That final quest did not want me to live, neither the dungeon bosses nor the trial
man i love ffxiv so much
The mechanical storytelling in this fight is so cool. Right after Sphene uses Absolute Authority, the LB bar fills up to max. That attack drained so much Aether from us that were flooding with Dynamis.
at first try i thought i need to do tank lb there XD
That or it's just the busiest mechanic ever put in a normal mode so they just wanted more casual players to have a healer lb in the pocket just in case :P
@@lighttheabsol6177 you are aware something can have a mechanical and thematic meaning, right?
@@kllcmd8980 I believe that's called 'ludonarrative harmony'. And a damn fine example!
@@kllcmd8980 Yes, but I don't think that every choice has thematic meaning. In this case, I just think it was a mercy throw.
"Are you still alive?"「まだ生きていますか？」でportalを思い出した
そもそもエターナルクイーンとGLaDOSって共通点多いんだよな、人格のコピーってところとか良心消してるところとか
The only difference is that Queen Eternal is sincere while GlaDOS is (very) sarcastic/snarky.
That "Random Bullshit, Go" attack during the final phase got me every time. idk if i somehow trigger the acceleration bomb (I've delt with them enough), but I always eat a 1-2 hit knockout.
I've seen people calling Sphene a "copy/paste Emet" already but I feel like you'd have to be painting in pretty broad strokes to think that way. The biggest difference between the two being just how remorseful Sphene is about what she's doing. Emet didn't feel bad about his actions to the very end. He said so just before he poofed for the second time. Sphene on the other hand declares her hatred of the queen she was based on because it turns out being created from a kind woman's memories makes large-scale genocide harder to do. She even goes so far as to delete those memories and reduce herself to the unfeeling Queen Eternal just so that inherited kindness won't stop her from doing what she needs to anymore.
Considering the exp's theming on tradition, I feel like there's something more to it.
I can see how people might see her as a "copy" of Emet-Selch but, really, the Alexandria situation and Sphene herself are heavily borrowing from FFIX's end of disc 3 reveals and threats. It's an interesting way to open the gates to future MSQ involving crossing the rift, too! I know that post-EW was heavy handed with the FFIV and DT with the FFIX but... I think it's fun that there's shards that are like alternative universes of FF stories.
If sphene is similar to anyone, it’s Eldi, not Emet. She’s been programmed to be a primal like entity guarding her entire people. I actually found the similarities really poignant as a further exploration of Zodiark and how people reach the point where they find soul sacrifice ok.
And what if it's Emet who put that idea of saving memories in their minds, hm?
It's still unclear of the Ascien influence on this doomed Shard.
Saying Emet-Selch didn't feel bad is also a lack of understanding tbh, one of the very reasons he even approaches you in shb is his underlying guilt about the bloody path his kind has taken. It's even mentioned by Y'Shtola how the illusions in amaurot treat you as children, unlike the ancients who treat you as a familiar, because Emet subconsciously recognized modern humans as people, but very immature ones, which added to the guilt. The "not truly living" speech is clearly shown as something he *needs* to tell himself to continue, which is also cemented by the side stories.
Yes, he does not regret having fought for his people and won't change his mind on that, but saying he absolutely had no regrets or empathy about the way they chose to do it is a very gross misunderstanding of his whole character.
If the final dungeon theme was Sphene's normal battle music, then THIS is her Theme Music Power-Up! Also: gives me major Phantasy Star Online 2 vibes.
it really does. Even one of the attacks is similar to a Dark Falz fight
I begin think they temporarily hired pso2 composer lol
@@TheWallacemartin The wall isnt it
@@bellgems4091 pso2 is a bit different in music style. but it still has bangers. and I love the glorious engrish. like in Battle Stars
@zeehero7280 uhh, Dark Falz Double?
i like how this was structured this time
every dungeon and trial except this had the option of trust NPC'S and for the final trial its 8 warriors of light story wise it makes you think
WoL 2: wait i thought you were on vacati- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT
me: i dunno trouble somehow always finds me
basically at least thats how i did it
I took it as our characters finally taking shit serious enough to consider needing help that’s on a comparable level to them. Everything until then seemed to imply our character wasn’t putting in 100%.
I didn't expect GRAND CROSS OMEGA in a normal trial. That's a new one.
The boss gave me Megaman Battle Network vibes.
Gotta be my favorite fight in the game. The visuals, music, mechanics and story are all so damn good.
I am actually tempted to learn the Extreme once it comes out. Still never done any besides trying and falling at one in ShB.
Yeah, until phase 2.
@@4mb127 Naw, phase 2 is what nicely completes it at the end to make it the best fight in the game.
@@RoyalCrustle FR
Man did the cook something extra for this one. Even by FFXIV standards. That intro is absolutely godly
I'm not the only one thinking that during the fight , she briefly brought us to the Third and Fifth right?
Those were the shards ravaged by Earth and Wind if y'all remember
I'm not sure, because while she does absorb the key with Azem's energy from our invocation before the fight starts, the move is all called Virtual X, and we're supposed to be inside the central processor for Everkeep, though maybe it ends up ringing true because of Wuk Lamat commenting on her breaking reality. Very curious thought
It would have to be simulations. The Third and Fifth are gone. Once a Reflection has been rejoined to the source, it no longer exists. You'd need to time travel, like G'raha did with the Crystal Tower, which is a different function than the weird time dilation stuff between Reflections.
Sphene is definitely an alternate take on Garnet/Dagger if she never met Zidane (Wuk Lamat being the Zidane of this expansion).
Instead we get alternate version of Kuja being Zoraal Ja coming in contact with her first. She ends up becoming a mix of Garland and Brahne now.
I love when the writers for FFXIV remix the characters and themes of previous FF entries. It feels great when you notice a similarity but get to think about it in a whole new way.
Heartening to see others out there noticing this too! It's unfortunate that it's kind of so specific that only the acquainted stand a chance of realising it
it's cool af
And incidentally, a Steiner in the form of Otis. Both are very rusty.
1:49 PEAK
Man that bit is peak af. It’s by far the best part
Can you guys think of any specific song using similar instruments-genre like when this one pops off at your timestamp? I need more of this in my life 🥺
I can't believe they're finally adding artcore into FFXIV
Man i finally made it and finished story, and its hurts. Yoshida, you said it was going to be a chill vacation, damn it T_T
D E P L O Y I N G D R O N E S
First glance at this boss and I was reminded of the final boss of Xenogears
It does have strong Deus vibes, true.
yeah the mecha design is very Xeno-core
Sphene is basically Myyah if you think about it.
remember that time in FF14 when we became NetNavis and had to defeat a powerful virus?
WoL.EXE! Battle routine, set!
Execute!
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who had some serious MMBN vibes. Loved it!
I gotta say using nothing but our Souls to fight a reality eating supercomputer in the remnants of a dead world we just took offline was not on my list of things I thought would happen. But I'm not complaining
Found the other Megaman Battle Network fans, hello my people
Hell ya!
"Light Man! Jack in!"
Remember, people wanted that difficulty spike…
Yes, and I’m glad we got it.
The surprise EX mechanics took me by surprised, and killed my friend who actually is good at savage lol
I'm shocked I even survived that
this song had me at tears the more i hear it.
Thanks for using a no spoiler thumbnail. For that alone your channel as my support
I love how as soon as we left yeehaw land it was PSO2 PSO2 PSO2 PSO2 PSO2 PSO2 all the way to the end
the most Dark Falz ass ending sequence and bgm and i wouldn't have it any other way
HONESTLY!!! Got more PSO2 energy than NGS ever made!
I was so happy for the ENTIRETY of the second half of dawntrail. So good
Zoraal Ja literally turns into Dark Falz Hunar too...
This is the theme that plays when there's only one thing left to do and all doubts about the sacrifices you made are gone. The path only goes forward Warriors of Light. March onward to the future!
Forge Ahead!
I wonder if those Wind and Earth bits are meant to be visions of the 1st and 4th rejoinings given the bigger focus on showing us more of the calamities this time such as the survivors of the Levin infested shard and then descendants of those who escaped the 5th calamity on the source.
What a spectacular fight and song!
Can't blame her for fighting us...
During the shift phases you enter two dead reflections where calamity struck.
The first one was that of wind, there is so much wind ether around that she begins using only Wind themed attacks.
The other one is Earth in a similar manner.
Both planets are completely destroyed as well, they are beyond saving, but the planes still exist, which really means that only parts of them get reclaimed by Hydaelyn.
Let Soken cook with electronic stuff more, the Solution 9 theme with its 808s and the breakcore drums in this theme got me so hyped on first listen.
To me this sounds more like Saya Yasaki than Soken. It feels stylistically quite similar to Fleeting Moment from P11.
Could've also been Takafumi Imamura, I need the song credits and I need them now to properly thank the composers
@@rallivsalado6806 It might be! I'm just going off feeling here haha. I do wish they'd hurry up with releasing the soundtrack disc, but it's most likely going to be a few more months still.
This fight be like "How many mechanics will we deal with?"
*THAT part* "...Are you still alive?"
Sokken once more popping out bangers like a factory
Me and my friends did this raid , the 8 of us got chills doing content like this , can’t wait for extreme
2:13 I a s c e n d
Thank you for making this spoiler friendly with the thumbnail and title. I've already done this trial, but it's a nice gesture for those who haven't. :)
This boss reminds me amix between Esca Falz Mother and Dark Falz Aegis from PSO2
Ah one of my favorite mechanics
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Show us....THE HOLE IN THE WALL 🧱
I'm kind of impressed by how much better of a final boss this was then EW's overall.
The only thing Endsinger did better was the final burn phase.
Yeah the final phase of this fight was a forced reminder that this isn't your characters story then the attack patterns are heavily simplified to the point you'd swear it's a realm reborn trial
Last part truly is the cute thematic bow on the fight but they really gave us the boss with the ungodly layered Absolute Authority and couldnt have given us a little spice at the end that maybe couldve been extra thematic with Wuk blocking mechanics from hitting us or something, either way its one poor mark against one of my favorite fights in the game.
Yeah thinking about it, the Endsinger fight was mid af except for the story part at the and
This fight and story reminded me of a Lostbelt from FGO, a reality that should not exist nor deserve to exist so we need to delete it for the sake of the living...
FGOのLostbelt思い出した人いて安心した
ff14 and fgo have SO many similarities, fgo is from the perspective of the original world wanting things to go back to the way they were, ff14 is from the perspective of the newly birthed worlds just wanting to continue existing. WoL and Chaldea Master would get along as people, but as combatants, they're on distinctly opposite sides of the same conflict. Besides that Koyansaka has some Emet/Elidibus parallels, Temple of Solomon and the Final Day have us march onwards and persevere thanks to the bonds we'd forged, both games have a character get replaced by a younger insecure combatant trying to live up the original, etc. Easily my two favorite pieces of fiction and they just share so much in common
‘Konnichiwa…..soshite sayounara’
having duty support for the first two trials was great and something i wasn't expecting but ngl i popped off once we pulled out our azem cystal here LOL
Absolute banger.
Sphene: I am a God who reaps souls to recreate my dead people
WoL: I see your mistake there
She turned herself into a pure robot bc she knew that to continue her plan to keep her people alive meant she had to discard all of her humanity
THEY COOKED
My hopes, my dreams, i wont give up on them anymore!
This game has gone full sci fantasy and I love it
Peak trial.
Everytime I hear this theme I'm bopping along until a certain part that plays and then my brain immediately starts singing "oh my hero! Far away now!"
Say what you want about dawntrial but this music is so tragic
Skydeep Cenote and the final two duties... man
Everything about this boss was better than Endsinger, amazing fight and music!
I loved this fight. I got so hype the moment I heard this theme. Definitely a fantastic finale trial. Looking forward to EX
This fight really resonated with me once you realize that Sphene and Wuk Lamat are two sides of the same coin. They want to do right by their people, for their people. But go about it 2 completely different ways
You mean….once you read the dialogue that is basically beating you over the head with that message?
@@MayHugger bold of you to assume i read
We have Xenoblade Chronicles 4 at home.
Man, while I know it would never happen, I would LOVE to see the FF14 collab come back to PSO and this to be added as a fight in ngs lol. Absolute pipe dream, but man setting aside my massive bias towards robots, this genuinely might be my favorite trial in the game. A lot of really fun and cool looking mechanics.
PSO is kinda dead right now. If Sega took the PSO seriously, it would be an excellent collaboration.
@@Sir.Cavalcante while i might not say *dead* I definitely agree NGS isn't in the best state as of right now. As someone who played before chapter 6 even released on JP servers, it definitely feels like SEGA lost the magic that made PSO work. I come back when we get major story updates and they are finally starting to move in a good direction, but content is still lacking and for a lot it's far too late. Which sucks because PSO base/NGS have some of the best feeling combat for an MMO, and Base had some absolutely amazing boss fights and challenge battles.
4:50 Finally, all of my Minecraft Hole in the Wall training has paid off.
"Boss, we already killed gods, what do we do now?"
"MECHAGODDESS"
Not even a god, just a reality eating supercomputer who we fight with our very souls
DEPLOYING DRONES
GOAT
And I thought Mother from PSO2 had it bad
BEST SONGG
When I set out to go help a cute lion woman be king, shutting down an interdimensional block chain that feeds on planets was not on my bingo sheet
Edit: A part of me wonders how this fight would go if we had our G-Warrior mech from ShB
the way they separated WoL and the rest of the group was really cool.
D A R K
F A L Z
A E G I S
But with good lore.
The design of this boss is literally from Phantasy Star Online 2
Congratulations ?
Mother brain....🤔