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Hey guys, how's it going? Chris Connor here and welcome to another episode of filmmaker reacts for my channel. Seat back, relax and lets study the filmmaking techniques as well as talk about what visual effects can be pulled of within after effects! This week we are reacting and taking a look at FF XIV Flames of Truth cinematic trailer!
In part 1 I react to the final fantasy flames of truth cinematic video and in part 2 we dive in to have a trailer analysis! Make sure to let me know which trailer you would like me to react next!
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I think Bahamut is a bit anxty cause he has been in lockdown for a while :)
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Can you do the rainbow six seige cinematic. I think it's called hammer and needle. It's a little different from what you have already been doing however I would love to see your input!!
React to league of legends fiddlesticks cinematic
Try World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, you will like
Chris your reaction was great and I felt the emotion through you. One thing though! FFXIV is primarily a RPG! You can't do anything without the story and cut scenes are always solo orientated, unless it's a big raid or something .
Loved the reaction but can you please react to Light and Shadow it's the star guardian cinematic plsss?
Square: We need to shut down the game and reboot it.
Yoshida: Let's blow up the world.
Definitely how the conference went :)
@@ChrisConnorFilms Also, your expression from about the time the screen went white (after the teleport) until the end was the same most of my Free Company had when we did the Binding Coils of Bahamut and that cinematic played as part of a major story twist. Square's never been one to get cheap on their cinematics and FFXIV proudly maintains the trend.
That is exactly how it happened. 1.0 was at an end and it was time for a new beginning.
@@Thagesthoughts The first time I cleared that turn (2014 I think?) I thought the game crashed LOL
@@aasilashlily6681 I remember it, I was there watching the countdown, seeing Dalamud ominously hanging in the sky.
This whole cinematic takes on an entirely new meaning for me when I view it through Bahamut's perspective. You were once a great wyrm, eldest son of Midgardsomr, betrothed to Tiamat, and you led a grand life full of honor and wisdom as well as patience and kindness. Faced with the greed of mankind, you stood and fell valiantly in battle to protect your kind against the ancient Allagan empire, only to be brought back to life via your spouse's and children's call of grief. Not only are you no longer yourself but a husk summoned via the dark arts by the sufferings of your kin, you are now captured and your life force is used to power the enemy's ambitions. They put your children into eternal captivity and misery to force you into existence and they bind that existence for all time via mechanical chains inside a giant ball of steel, sapping away your endless powers for millennia. Then all of a sudden the shackles break loose, you put more and more pressure into the jail until it finally falls apart into a million pieces.
After thousands and thousands of years with only hatred and anger to call company, you are now once again spreading your wings in the open skies and crying out a primal roar of grief. What would you do, then, if not destroy everything in sight.
as if this comment went a whole week without a like
But it wasn't bahamut brought back to life, but a facsimile of him, with a personality wrought from immense grief, and arguably never being meant to live in the first place.
Very sad really what the allag did you him imprisoning him and his followers in an endless sleep with nothing but hatred for mankind and driven mad shit they even captured and impressions tiamat his beloved tho her fate was far kinder the her love
That isn't the original bahamut though. The one trapped in Dalamud was just a primal version of him.
And at the end of the day, humans are monsters.
Can we get an F for Louisoix, who was sacrificed so FF14 could get a fresh start?
Louisoix is Yoshi-P's freedom... Now bound to the game forever, his aether's sparkling in the air...
Still went out like a boss
For what it's worth, Louisoix is now technically a primal, and could be summoned if the plot ever had an "in case of emergency break glass" moment
What F, he is alive and well somewhere in the questline there, lol.
@@FabbrizioPlays that's a spoiler though ;)
"My kind of Final Fantasy games are the story driven ones"
which is EXACTLY why you need to play 14 asap!! The base game's story is so-so, but the expansions are phenomenal. Shadowbringers, the latest expansion, is the best story I have experienced in a Final Fantasy game bar none. Do yourself a favor and play it.
Yeah, probably most story driven MMO out there, I've played singleplayer games that was less story driven than FF XIV.
Haurchefant, Moenbryda, Ysayle, Tsuyu, The Dying Gasp, Seat of Sacrifice... so many hits to the feels.
Can confirm this
Should probably warn him to bring SO MUCH Tissue for how much sad crying and happy crying he's going to do if he does
@@JonpaulGee i can confirm this aswell 😢
One of the few times where the nuclear options is the right one, and probably the first time the series has adequately shown just how insanely terrifying Bahamut actually is.
Square legitimately nuked the game, not just pulling a reset but having a massive in-game event as the moon came crashing down, destroying the old game and setting up a new one.
When the clock hit zero, this cutscene played. Or more specifically, it played up through the moment when the man teleported the other heroes away. This scene is the culmination of the raid series "The Binding Coils of Bahamut" which explains what happened at the very end of 1.0. Or at least what happened with these characters.
And yes, you called it. That guy is in fact this game's Cid.
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Here's a bit of a lore breakdown for anybody watching or wanting an answer to some of the questions Chris asked. This is gonna be a bit of a doozy because it's a bloody MMO, but here's the really really condensed version.
The game Final Fantasy 14 takes place on a planet called Hydaelyn, and the primary location is a continent called "Eorzea", which is composed of a small group of city-states in a mutual defense alliance with each other. The leaders of these states is seen in that shot with the people standing around the chocobo on the cliff. Together their armies are called the Grand Companies, and they're the majority of the uniformed forces fighting in the battle, alongside what's called the Free Companies, which are just random adventurers who banded together for a singular goal. This is the Eorzean Alliance.
As the story goes on, these nations are being invaded by an outside power called the Garlean Empire who want to move into the region and subjugate it. This empire is notable in that generally they cannot access magic, but they do have a remarkable skill with technology, more than making up for it. As they move into a region, they subjugate the local populace based on the controlling Legion's needs. Two Legions moved to fight in Eorzea, the VIIth, and the XIVth. As they moved into the region, they found ancient ruins from a much larger civilization that let them access control of the moon Dalamud, which unknown to them was a prison made for the Elder Primal Bahamut. The Garlean Empire draws a very firm line with regards to religion, namely that the act of summoning is strictly forbidden, and they will go to extreme lengths to invade any nation they border that engages in such things out of immense and justified fear of Primals.
A Primal is a god, or more specifically it can be just the idea of a god made manifest, supplicated to with enough power and crystal to draw it into existence. Bahamut went to war against an ancient empire called the "Allagans", who with their immense power managed to imprison him. Primals are incredibly dangerous, not only for their immense magical and physical power but also an ability known as "Tempering". Basically, a Primal can brainwash anyone who is not already brainwashed by a different Primal, and it isn't entirely clear if they do it knowingly or simply by their sheer presence and power, and because it need only be an idea prayed to with sufficient fervor and fuel of crystals, killing Bahamut wouldn't do anything. He could simply be re-summoned again with even more desperation from his people. So they imprisoned him in the moon, hoping to use that power as a battery while they found more permanent solutions. They never did find a proper solution to the Primal threat, and eventually were wiped out in an event known as an Umbral Era. This scene is depicting what's called the Seventh Umbral Era.
So when the Garlean Empire's VIIth Legion moved in, and started accessing the Allagan ruins, they were monkeying with a god's prison, and the god tempered all of them, driving them to crash the moon into the planet as an extinction level event. The XIVth Legion, led by Gaius (the man on the airship earlier) refused to help the VIIth, thinking the Meteor Project as it was called was nothing but an act of genocide. He believed in the Empire's goals and expansion, but he wanted there to be a land to be ruled over left, nor did he trust that the moon Dalamud was as it seemed. He pulled his forces back from their support of the VIIth Legion, and let slip information that would help the Eorzeans stop the Meteor Project, not out of mercy, but pure practicality.
And this is where the players come in, they allied with two groups. The Path of the Twelve, named in reference to the twelve gods of Eorzea (who are not Primals), and the Circle of Knowing, a group of researchers and adventurers to try and preserve Eorzea and its peoples. So all of these groups met at the Battle of Cartenau. The Eorzean Alliance tried to fight through and stop the pull of Dalamud down onto the planet, but ultimately failed. The moon shattered, and released Bahamut. The Circle of Knowing knew that Bahamut was inside the moon, and enacted their last ditch attempt to salvage the situation.
They enacted a massive scale ritual to summon the power of the Twelve Gods in an attempt to bind Bahamut back into his prison. This is why there are a few shots of people praying as bright lights shoot through the sky. Those are the Circle of Knowing trying to give power to the ritual. Unfortunately, it failed. They couldn't gather enough power to contain Bahamut, so their leader Louisoix (the elf man with the staff) realized there was no way to stop what was coming. He used the ritual's power to send the few adventurers who came to the battle with him as far away as possible, before he used the ritual's power to try and kill Bahamut.
It wouldn't stop Bahamut potentially being summoned again, but it would prevent the calamity that was unfolding before him. He did succeed, but it's a bit more complicated and spoils some interesting things from the raid storyline. All those heroes who were teleported away are called "Warriors of Light" because nobody who survived the battle could recall their appearance as anything more than vague shapes amidst a blinding light. And this leads into the rebirth of the game as "A Realm Reborn".
The Eorzean Alliance survived, but was badly maimed by Bahamut's wrath. The XIVth Legion survived the battle and still intends to invade to subjugate the region. And our heroes are left to pick up the pieces.
Some minor clarification, though it could be semi-inaccurate, is that the Bahamut pictured here is not the original Bahamut and that he was dead long before this form of him was imprisoned. The Bahamut found here is actually a primal summoned by a legion of Bahamut's children, imprisoned aboard an Allagan ship and frozen in a state of despair/rage, thus supplying the desire necessary to manifest Bahamut. Afaik this meant Bahamut had the capacity to endlessly regenerate, which you learn during the Coil raids.
Basically, Square had to do the job of Inquisitor and declare exterminatus in Typhon Primaris, condemning 10 billion souls into the oblivion.
Everybody jokes in Warhammer comunity about declaring exterminatus, but this vide shows exactly what the mood of declaring it is: dread and sadness, but with the hope of a better future for all.
@@akkiko While true, when you go into Coils, you actually find remnants of Bahamut at the end of each of the Coils series (First, Second, and Final). I may be wrong, but my way of thinking is that's the corpse of the original Bahamut, which has been kept partially alive in a sense of "not allowed to die, but not alive". The use of the imprisoned and tortured children to have them cry out with the wish to summon him again and again to end their torture grants him his Primal form and powers, but I feel like his "not alive but not dead" corpse is still there.
We see a similar case with Tiamat being imprisoned but also being alive. Though she's considerably less...undeadish?
At the very least, I think it's accurate to say that's his real/original corpse. We know the summoned body of a Primal is made of energy and not "physical" in a sense because when they are defeated/killed, they disintegrate, while the Bahamut corpse was very clearly not disintegrating. You could argue Allegan technology rebuilding it (or the wishes of Bahamut's children), but we've never seen a Primal summoning work by summoning a corpse and then building the body up.
Taken together, I think that means that the corpse/body of the original Bahamut IS there, and that's what you're seeing being rebuilt. Even if the Primal form is a projection, the actual corpse is still kept there. Like in the fight where you fight the little Bahamut most of the time but the big version shows up to use an attack. At least, that's been my take on it all this time.
@@SubduedRadical there are things you have right and things you have wrong, perhaps due to a lack of understanding of the distinction between Primals and the ancient and powerful beings known as Dragons.
Within the lore, dragons first arrived on Hydaelyn eons ago after Midgardsormr, the great dragon king, fled the destruction of the dragonstar, traveling across the vast reaches of space to Hydaelyn, carrying with him a clutch of seven eggs which would become The First Brood, themselves powerful dragons in their own right. Among this brood were Tiamat and Bahamut, along with Nidhogg, Hraesvelgr, Ratatoskr, Vrtra, and Azdaja.
These dragons were NOT primals, they were incredibly long lived and powerful beings composed of living flesh, with powerful concentrations of Aether located in their eyes. Primals are entities composed of aether and crystal given form by the wishes of living mortal beings. When you meet the imprisoned Tiamat, she is still very much alive and not a primal, simply a living being who has been stuck in a cage for a very, very, very long time.
Understanding what Bahamut is on the other hand, requires some knowledge of what transpired eons ago during the time of the Allagan Empire. During one of the many calamities, the Allagans made a pact with the Cloud of Darkness to help them fight the dragon horde, and Bahamut, who at this time was a living True Dragon, fell in battle. In their sadness and anger, Tiamat and her brood summoned Bahamut as an Elder Primal, a different entity from the Dragon he was in life. Fueled by the emotions and wishes of those who summoned him, he became a vengeful being who sought the destruction of the mortals who had killed him in life. Due to Ascian meddling however, the Allagans were able to capture this primal and bind it within the lesser moon Dalamud, using it as a power source for their empire. Tiamat stays in her imprisonment to atone for bringing the Elder Primal Bahamut into existence, because he is not the dragon he was in life and because his shade was imprisoned by those who had killed him and used to create further suffering. It is this being that emerged from Dalamud and fought with Louisoix at the end of 1.0, however even though the Elder Primal Bahamut was defeated, it was not fully destroyed.
Perhaps as a function of being an elder primal or perhaps due to the Allagan technology that served to continually resummon and empower him, his will kept the pieces of his Elder Primal form in existence and slowly drained Aether from the land to reconstitute himself, that is the "Corpse" that you see in the coils raids: the Shards of the Aether and Crystal that make up the Elder Primal Bahamut, held together by his will of destruction and Allagan technology. The size changing Bahamut Prime that you fight is the spectre of his rage, manifest inside the crystal of the primal's body which you jouney into in turn 13.
Well, to be precise the civilisation-destroying events are known as Umbral Calamities. Umbral Eras are what follow them, a period of time where survivors are left to pick up the pieces and rebuild. Once civilisation has recovered enough, the powers that be declare the beginning of a new Astral Era. So technically the whole "era" thing is nothing more than a formality first to mark significant tragedy, and then a light bit of propaganda to get peoples' minds off of that tragedy some time later.
The theme of this entire animation was: *"The world is fucking dying and you can't do shit but watch it"*
It's even more sad when watching the last moment from players walking around the quiet areas with the song echoing before the scene started. Never seen such a devastating moment from an mmo.
...you're absolutely spot-on. Maybe he should watch one of the archived 1.0 clips as the world is ticking down to oblivion.
kinda like 2020
Pretty sure that grandpa did actually do something and goku-fisted through Bahamuth's heart, lel.
@@azure5584 See the thing is, is that that scene with Louisoix beating Bahamut didn't play when FF14 1.0 shut down. The scene literally cut with Louisoix being swallowed by Bahamut's flames. Players didn't get this version of the cutscene till the game relaunched and if I remember correctly they needed to beat Coil to get it as well to see the part with Louisoix. So for the players of 1.0 it basically was the end of the world.
Two things:
1) FF14 has an amazing story, don't skip it just because it is an MMO
2) The old guy doing the teleporting is sending them into the future, not the past.
Can't support your first point hard enough. It's very tempting to skip dialogue since very little is voiced at first and the game is very slow-paced. They only had 1.5 years to get it done, and you can feel it.
But for the love of the Twelve, never skip dialogue. Everything said in the base game lays the groundwork for everything else. You need to suffer through the base game to get to the gem that is everything beyond that.
@Orc Peon I noticed a change of sentiment towards ARR since the massive increase in player numbers began a month ago.
I see three factors that help ARR to be more bearable for new players:
1) Most new players are currently used to MMOs, mainly WoW. Being used to "the grind" and being content with the slow pacing.
2) Now, there is the incentive of Heavensward and Shadowbringers which are regarded as some of the best stories the entire franchise has to offer. It's easier to enjoy the bread sticks when there's actually a main course waiting for you.
3) They changed the ARR experience dramatically. They cut out and shortened a few quests which saves you over a dozen hours. And not only that! You gain a lot more EXP. They increased the EXP the Main Scenario Quests give you, and with the "preferred server" buff or the EXP earring for preordering Endwalker, you are outleveling the Main Scenario Quests quickly. Instead of doing two quests, being outleveled by the MSQ forcing you to spam dungeons and clear quests during queue times, you now just need to play the MSQ and you're dandy. You never need to catch up. There is notthing halting you progress.
I think for a lot of people who played this game since 2013, they remember a grind that has now been mostly removed. I myself quit FFXIV during the post-ARR grind (which was shortened considerably). And I was not alone.
I am currently replaying the game on an alt character since I forgot a good amount of details after 7 years. And I have to agree with you that "suffering through" ARR is not a thing anymore. I will still say that the amount of time you have to invest is enormous until the game picks up pace in 2.4 and I will continue to encourage people not to skip cutscenes because they miss out on one of the best stories games have to offer.
@@MelvaCross This is a spot on assessment. I really think most people who downplay ARR are people who went through it before the XP changes. The pacing was just kinda bad before that and that's why many have less than great feelings about it. SWTOR was the same way in the beginning until they also made XP changes to tighten up the story pacing.
@@darthfinality I started xiv a month ago, and I still think ARR is the worst experience I had in gaming, post ARR is better because it introduced the characters and story the expansions built upon
@@nicogalax there's a reason I said "most people". I could even change it to "some people" and it would still get the point across. Also, Stormblood and Shadowbringers put the lie to your assertion that post ARR is where the buildup began. Endwalker does as well for that matter.
FF14 can basically be treated as a single player game if you really want to. The story is that good.
Truth. It genuinely stands up well beside the best titles in the franchise
Indeed!. The game is incredibly story centric - leaving how much you want to interact with other players (anywhere from scenery to true companions) entirely up to you~
Indeed. Ever since 3.1 I have been playing it mostly solo.
Came here to say this. If you're a fan of the franchise, FFXIV lives up to all of the epic stories from all the previous games easily. Each expansion has it's own spin and is well worth playing through alone. I've disliked most MMO's I've played because they've had watered down stories, but XI and XIV are both exceptional cases.
Also dropped in to add this: it's so worth it, the story is EPIC and I'm sure you'd be blown away if you gave it a chance.
Can't wait to see if you're gonna react to more of the FFXIV cinematics, they're all extremely good!
Facts.
Square Enix knows how to make amazing cinematics.
Hell ya they only get better
Agreeeee. I read below someone said to skip over the ARR intro, but I'd even include that since it does such a great job of setting the storyline in motion. ...but yeah, Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbreakers all have years of experience and blow it away.
@@tristantoole7363 shadowbringers
"Who summoned him though?"
He wasn't "summoned". He was "Released"
Basically, he was imprisoned in that big ball (Dalamud) for hundreds of years.
The Garleans (the bad guys) though Dalamud was some sort of weapon and decided to use it in the war. Instead, the released Bahamut, to get the result we see in the first half of the video.
It was also used, lore-wise, as the trigger to close the first version of the game, so they could move over to "A Realm Reborn", which is the "fixed" version of the game, that is so popular today.
Also, the bit where he transports "us" away and sacrifices himself. The sad smile he has after ALWAYS makes me tear up. Doesn't matter that I've seen this video a hundred time. Every single time, I'll tear up. It's so emotional, and they portrayed his feelings so well, despite not using any dialogue.
Everything is right except the bit about him not being summoned.
The elder primal Bahamut was summoned by the dragons of Meracydia and Tiamat in her grief of the Allagan killing her brother. And they are all kept sealed and alive either in Dalamud or Tiamat's case at Azys La, to perpetuate the summon and use it as an aether battery basically
@@CC-df3pn Well sure. I was mostly speaking in regards to this video, since Chris was wondering which side of the war summoned him.
@@RyushiroK again you can argue he was summoned through enthralling Nael and Cid's dad leading to the meteor project which is what caused his release
and he get locked again after that
I'm always jealous that I didnt get to experience the thought of "Is the 2nd moon getting bigger?" from 1.0
I am in agreement with everyone else that you should definitely see the other cinematics for Final Fantasy 14; you can probably safely ignore the intro cinematic for A Realm Reborn but the rest are, in order: Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and most recently Endwalker (the full version of that isn't out yet but it shouldn't be too long).
ignore a realm reborn? nice
@@loup067 well the cinematic anyway, the content itself is much better now
@@loup067 well, other than watching the WoL ride around on a chocobo, its fairly similar to the Flames of War/End of an Era cinematic.
@@loup067 I would ignore stormblood too, he should do a reaction to it but not a long one.
Up until the last 1 min of the video he watch, it pretty much was the ARR cinematic lol. I believe this was the cinematic you get after beating coils of bahamut raid where you find out what happens to gandolf, haha.
My favorite 'detail' is rather small, but at 7:16 as the "protagonist stand-in" character watches the destruction and he swallows back all the emotions he's feeling. It's immediately clear that he's in a state of shock, more than shock, as he watches the world literally ending in front of him. His utter helplessness is clearly expressed; in-game, he had fought Primals, he had faced powerful members of the Garlean Empire, and all kinds of other threats, but in the face of this he was powerless. He could do nothing to stop Bahamut as it rampaged, merely watch in abject horror as everything he knew was destroyed.
My favorite part of the cinematic is the WoL's face after all the destruction, so full of anguish and hopelessness. I also really like how the party's frontline, the paladin, takes a step back in fear as Bahamut flies past and thats probably the first time he's been genuinely fearful to the point of instinctively running away in a while.
That's what the theme song is about, too.
Now open your eyes, while our plight is repeated
Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated
Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken
Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken
The title of the song is Answers. One of my two favorite theme songs in FFXIV, along with Dragonsong (the theme song of the Heavensward expansion).
@@Noobzlikeu Is that really what it’s about though? :)
@@arseniykorchevskiy1564 Yes. But it's not the only thing. When the song was first written, Endwalker's story was still being written, if it had even been an idea at that point. The song fits perfectly with Endwalker, but it was originally meant to show the anguish felt by the victims of Bahamut's attack, and their thoughts and feelings.
Ommmg finally you're reacting to FFXIV cinematics !!
I'm sure everyone's told it in the comments already but basically
the game did launch in an horrible state and by the time they decided to rework it they realized they would have to close the current game and make a new one. So they weaved the closing of the current servers into the game story, with quests to find and stop what the "Project meteor" was. Ultimately the players failed and couldn't stop it, so they'd had to watch as the former moon, Dalamud, was brought down on Eorza until the server closed. Then, as the lost connection to the servers, this cinematic played.
Honestly this has to be the most epic end of a game ever
So basically, Louisoix, the old Elf, gets imbued with the power of Phoenix. He literally One shots Bahamut and dies in the next second. as for the characters they are teleported to the future, 5 years into the future, every memory of them (they are known as the warriors of light) disappears from everyone's mind. So it explained why NPCs would barely remember the older players and then the new players would just hear about the Calamity and the coming of Bahamut as smth of the past
i thought he got power from hydaelyn?
@@icefox94 louisoix? Technically he gets the blessing of the twelve (deities) and imbued with aether, it's that process that creates Phoenix
@@icefox94 Nope.. he wasnt blessed/given power from Hydaelyn
*spoiler alert, dont read the rest unless you want to know*
What happened is the Scions were using the power of 'prayer', tapping into the fact that everyone within Eorzea was praying for the success of the battle at Cartenau, combined with the Aetheric power being channeled threw the Guardian stones, to 'summon the twelve' to try to counteract Meteor (they didnt know about the grumpy dragon-god inside it). "The Twelve" are the 12 runs you see swinging up slowly in an attempt to re-bind Bahamut.
When that attempt failed, but the prayers for salvation were still going strong, Louisoix decided to make the ultimate sacrifice and tapped directly into that power of faith + Aether itself, using his own body as a conduit for it. And with that, combined with his struggle against Bahamut (which he vary nearly lost), he essentially 'summoned' Phoenix into himself, and used his own life-force in his newfound primal form to strike at Bahamut. Only doing so used up all of his own Aether.
Actually when you payed 3 full months while they worked on FF14 you whould get a lagacy reward which ment that you whould get a tatoo a blessing of the twelveon your back, an older version of your chocobo and in some scenes people whould remenber you being the worrior of light.
@@RavenDragunes true, but that's while you play the msq, at first even with a legacy account he NPCs were like 'Oooh the warriors of light helped us and vanished and no one remembers them how sad'
Hence why I said they wouldn't remember u ^^
Louisoix, never let your sacrifice be forgotten.
- An Alpha Tester for Legacy.
This video does require a little addendum.
In FFXIV, at the time that the game sucked and was about to be pulled offline to be reworked, a plot was playing out in game where the Garleans wanted to literally drop the second moon 'Dalamud' onto the land. Grim music was playing, the red moon was getting closer and closer. Monsters ran rampant and then, suddenly, for everyone playing in the game this video started playing and ended at the fade-to-white, where the old man's face faded away into nothingness.
Then, at the launch of A Realm Reborn, the game started with the cutscene and the follow-up from where you see the five adventureres suddenly re-appear in a forest. That is meant to represent a time-skip of five years. Louisoix, the old sage, sent the heroes five years into the future to protect hope. And the thing is, nobody who was there actually even still remembered what happened.
It's like everyones memory was erased.
At the endgame of A Realm Reborn, you could go to an optional story raid "The Unending Coils of Bahamut". There you learn what actually is going on and as a reward, after a particular fight, the people doing the raid were rewarded with the full video of the "Flames of Truth" where we finally get to see what REALLY happened and how Bahamut was REALLY defeated; this video.
just a little correction here: the name of the raid is "The Binding Coils of Bahamut", "Unending Coils of Bahamut" or UCoB would be the lvl70 high-high-end raid^^
LIttle correction here, The Unending Coil is not from A Realm Reborn. You're thinking of the Binding Coil, the Second Coil and the Final Coil. Unending Coil is in the endgame of the Stormblood Expansion.
FFXIV is an MMO, but it is still VERY story driven.
This is an important point. It's an MMO, but it's very much a Final Fantasy game first.
The latest expansion, Shadowbringers, is considered by fairly large swathes of players to be the flat out best Final Fantasy story too.
Yeah, it's more 'Do you want some MMO in your FF?' than 'Do you want some FF in your MMO?'
@Senshi I don’t really consider him a villain per say.
i always desribe it to people as like playing Single Player FF...with other people lol
I can NOT wait for you to react to Shadowbringers. MY BODY IS READY!!
Holminster Switch cutscenes, let's gooooo
@@kaltoren LOLOL
@@kaltoren LOL
*me as FFXIV player*
Me: ohh this video gonna be cool!!
Song: *to all of my childern...*
Me: *full of tears*
Im waiting for you to react to Heavensward or Shadowbringer !
I'm impressed you were able to figure out that was Cid just by looking at him :D
Same here. Probably he's figuring it out by the goggles. Every Cid (i guess) always have goggles on their heads or smth like that
@@KaeyinSe yeah Cid is often an engineer of some kind
IMO, that's the scariest Bahamut ever.
Of all the times Bahamut appears he rarely if ever was portrayed as pure force of destruction like he is here, were being a Primal all he has in terms of goal, is really boiling down to anihilating everything.
@@Nimi450 Bahamut from 9 was pretty scary.
Please do more of FFXIV! There's so many cinematic expansion you NEED to see!!
Thank you for the reaction to this cinematic. It's my favorite.. It's basically when the servers got shut down for 2 years to remake the game. They burned the world and burned the servers. One part was shown when the game ended (when he teleported them away). And the other one, when the game was remade.
As a player in FFXIV: ARR you start 5 years after this. Louisoix teleported the characters (one of which is basically us - the main protagonist) 5 years into the future.
"To all of my children
In whom life flows abundant.
To all of my children in
whom death hath past his judgment.
The soul yearns for honor
And the life the hereafter.
...look to those who've come before
to lead those who walk after."
Gives me chills.
Now OPEN YOUR EYES WHILST OUR PLIGHT IS REPEATED!
Still DEAF TO OUR CRIES, LOST IN HOPE WE LIE DEFEATED!
"Ooh I have chills!"
Yeah thats pretty normal for an ff14 cinematic. This is also technically the 2nd cinematic and marks the end of 1.0 and the beginning of A Realm Reborn (arr). The first came out with the release of ff14 1.0.
The music for that cinematic despite being the 6th year this game has run give or take still gives me chills.
Shadowbringers still hits, HARD. One of the best cinematics I have ever seen.
@@zeterzero4356 I think heavensward trailer tops all of them next to shadowbringer. Stormblood trailer was very underwhelming and the least liked expansion too. We'll see if endwalker will beat shadowbringer trailer.
@@charlotteplimley2815 That song was in 1.0. Hints of it were in the cinematics that played upon making a new character -- at least for if you started in Limsa, I can't speak from firsthand memories about the starting cinematics for Ul'Dah and Gridania in 1.0.
So... ten years. 2021 will mark year 11 once we reach that point of the calendar.
It's actually the 3rd cinematic. The first one was played at the end of 1.0 and ended when the WoL is sent to the future. The second one was played when ARR released and added the scenes 5 years later when you see the main character and his group appear after Louisoix yeeted them into the future and then this one which added the scenes of the fight between Louisoix and Bahamat showing the truth of happened after the WoL was transported to the future.
YES! I'm so happy you're finally taking a look at the XIV cinematics, hoping to see your reaction/analysis of the rest of them as well!
"The music is beautiful"
*Laug...*
*Cries in Dragonsong*
finally FFXIV, i'm so pumped knowing that the best is still to come with the SdB trailer, oh man i can't wait.
That's a good one, my personal favorite is "Distant Worlds" from FF11
Despite being an MMORPG, it is aggressively story-driven, and worth a playthrough of the main story. Honestly probably my favorite.
The context of this cinematic makes it even more beautiful. The red moon that was encapsulating Bahamut actually appeared in game at the end of the first version that was badly reviewed. The most dedicated players got to see it and fight under it, basically like you see in the scene here. The warriors the Elf teleported away definitely represented those players, essentially teleported away while they had to redo the game and create the new version of it eventually called, "A Realm Reborn." Bahamut caused a calamity in the story and the world was different after all that destruction, and it mirrored what happened with the game in our reality. It came back different, but used the context of the meta story to frame everything.
Making this even better - originally the first version of this cinematic ended when you see of Louisoux (the Elf that was facing up against Bahamut) smile and seemingly die in the explosion (cinematic was called End of an Era). When the relaunch of the game was announced, players got to see a new ending tacked onto the trailer that showed the heroes/players rematerializing after they were teleported away (a cinematic called A New Beginning which is not seen in the footage you reviewed). So when new players came back to the new game, they still didn't know Louisoux had actually defeated Bahamut, only that Bahamut was no longer around. Eventually, after getting to high level and beating a tough end game raid, you did learn that Louisoux beat Bahamut and you saw the end of this cinematic where the gods empower Louisoux and he's given one last shot before passing on (this cinematic, called Flames of Truth).
Honestly I still get choked up watching this and thinking about the heart it took for Yoshi P and team to save this game, and they did it with an intelligence and art that not only delivered a beautiful new game, but actually helped explain the large change in the games story despite real world events. Honestly, it helped a lot of players heal from the let down of the 1.0 version and it started a fantastic new story that they've been working on ever since.
I hope we're still doing you proud, Master Louisouix
This made me teary eyed. I hope we are as well.
fun fact even in the game they really drive home his massive size by having one of the fights in Bahamut's raid use his palm as the arena because its so big
Merlwyb: he's bigger than a bloody city
Even though it is an MMO, the story treats YOU as the main character. Next time there is a free trial or something, you should play a little.
The free trial was extended to play the game up until the beginning of the second expansion StormBlood. You can play ARR and Heavensward up to level 60 for free!
27:45 "It's just like a god, basically" * unknowingly defining Primals *
Bahamut was not technically summoned, he was imprisoned by an ancient civilization known as the allagan empire, many, many years later the garlean empire (the ones with mechs) try to release bahamut to deal with the primals (ifrit, shiva ect) but bahamut would destroy everything and bring an end to the sixth umbral era. the protagonists (the guy with the axe and his friends) try to stop the garleans before bahamut can fall to eorzea, they are unable to stop it so louisoix (the old elf guy) summons the 12 archons to try to seal bahamut away but this doesnt work and he resorts to saving as many as he can by transporting them away, by the end he takes on the prayers of the people of eorzea and becomes a primal himself to defeat bahamut ending his own life to do so. that is how the original FF14 game came to an end and FF14 a realm reborn was made
To add to that nice summary: louisoix send the protagonists 5 years into the future, which is where the relaunched version of the game takes place.
@@julianjanda5720 oh i forgot about that part! thanks :D
It'll break your noodle to tell him Bahamut is a summon. A summon that was captured and used basically as a power source by the Allag.
Corrections:
- Bahamut was sealed in the lesser moon, but no one knew he was in the moon. The Garleans intended to use it as a weapon to crash onto the land to kill all their enemies.
- The Twelve are the gods of Eorzea, not the Archons. They’re the members of the Circle of Knowing. The people as part of Louisoix’s plan was to pray to them and summon their power to seal Bahamut.
- Flames of Truth was never released during the end of XIV 1.0. This is revealed after learning the truth behind the events called the Battle of Carteneau.
The original Bahamut was not summoned yes, BUT, as stated by Tiamat who is his mate and brood sister during the events of Heavensward, Bahamut was killed by the Allagan Empire and Tiamat was sealed. It was then that the Ascians came to her and manipulated her into summoning him back as a Primal which led to the Ascians aiding the Allagan Empire in sealing Bahamut in Dalamud until the 7th Umbral Calamity.
Even in death, the power released from Bahamut's shattering form still utterly devastates the area. That's how powerful of a being it was.
Reminds me of Tolkien's War of Wrath at he end of the First Age, where the black dragon Ancalagon still destroyed three mountains after being slain by Eärendil.
I love how much of a FF fan he is!
Me too!
It's here! The glory of these cinematics + the analysis, this is what I've been waiting for~
If you listen to the lyrics, the male choir is the people calling out to Hydaelyn, which is both the name of the planet and the Crystal that grants you the blessing of light, while the female vocals are Hydaelyn answering. I love the song, this rock version is so amazing.
I still get chills every time I see this cinematic. The quality is astounding. You can feel the passion everyone had in making it, from the music to the story throughout the cinematic, and of course the visuals. For a game that was not received well and was coming to an end, you can see how much they cared and I’m glad that those seeds of of passion grew into such an amazing game to date.
FF14 is a story driven game. Most of the 'traditional' MMO parts really only exist to keep you entertained until the next part of the story comes out.
"It's like Meteor." No. That IS Meteor. In 1.0, we lost. The bad guy won and cast Meteor destroying the world.
Except the bad guy blown up too
it wasnt meteor as far as i know, bahamut doesnt have access to that magic. that was probably either mega or giga flare, more in line with bahamut/
@@NarutoLikesSherbit01 meteor was the spell the Imperial dude(brainfarting his name atm) used to pull Dalamud back to Eorzea.
XIV is a very story driven MMO, I was like you thinking of only single player--XIV feels like a "real" final fantasy. It's really great.
I love that these reaction videos or more like analysis videos are so in depth and they are really educational. They are really not like most other reaction videos. Awesome work!
Was waiting for this one, thanks for doing it!
They don't get transported back in the past, but 5 years later actually.
"Gone away, gone ahead..."
No they go to the future not the past
Someone probably have said it already but there has been 3 versions of this trailer. First version was End of an Era which was the end of the first iteration of the game. The ending was the part where the characters were teleported away and his smile. Second version is A New Beginning, it took End of an Era and showed how the world is 5 years after which is the trailer of the 2nd iteration: A Realm Reborn. The final version is this trailer which shows how Bahamut was defeated.
Super happy you've reacted this. The cinematics they release are truly amazing. Always give me goosebumps and shivers
I'm so glad you finally reacted to this one. Thank you. It made me unbelievably happy that you were as moved as I am each time I watch it.
Glad to be one of the people to suggest this :D
YUUUSSS!! i been waiting for you to react to these, you better watch them all >:O
they are all amazing!
Yeees, I was waiting for this!
I was waiting for this day!
For me is one of the best cinematic's ever!
Shadownbringer is really good to.
I still feel emotional watching this masterpiece.
SO happy you're doing FFXIV videos. Cannot wait to see more
I has been waithing for this moment for sooo long! :D
Love how you recognised Cid straight away
i mean come on, he is always the technician in every final fantasy.
honestly rewatching it over and over, you really feel Louisoux's desperation at the end there.
The emotions captured in Final Fantasy trailers is magical. I'm so glad you are doing this one.
Finally dude, i was waitting this for a long time
I really cannot decide if Chris is THE best bro to open a beer and watch a movie with, or if he is the worst..
"Siiiick bro!", "Perfection..!", "Oh My God!"
Still, loving the content and the analyses! Really have made me look at cinematics and effects in movies a lot differently!
It doesn't matter how many times or where I see the cinematics...I will tear up and start shaking ; ;
Hard same.
@@Volkai Same, hard same. I literally start stuttering with my breathing and tears fill my eyes just from the sheer masterpiece that is the vocals and cinematics.
@@zeuslorne7005 for me, honestly, the excellent music is incidental. It’s about how it transports me to that time when “service for the current version is concluding” became “Bahamut has lit the world aflame and there is no stopping him”. When “we are working on a new version” did not mean “we’re making a five year time skip” but instead only meant “an unknown future lies ahead”.
Before ‘A Realm Reborn’, before ‘Flames of Truth’ - when there was only ‘End of an Era’ and the unknown.
When our world died in dragon fire.
yeah knowing the story behind and the song... oh god the song is so beautiful... makes me teary eyed everytime
This cinematic with the music and all gives me tears everytime I watch it...
oh man i was really hoping for this one!
Lets go!
I love your content sir, always entertaining and insightful. Will you do a review of the Total War Warhammer 3 trailer?
I'm sure this has been answered dozens of times already, lol, but Bahamut was summoned centuries ago, and then sealed in a prison that was suspended in the heavens. It came to be known as our second moon, its origins forgotten. In this game, summons survive through prayer and faith, and they are able to make mind slaves of people to sustain their own lives. From the heavens, Bahamut claimed someone in the empire who made it their mission to free their new master, calling down this moon-prison on the heads of their enemies. In the original FFXIV 1.0, you try, and fail, to stop the descent, and this cutscene played as the servers shut down. The characters that got teleported away represent you as the player and your friends, and they were sent 5 years into the future, where a Realm Reborn (FFXIV 2.0) takes place after the world has had time to heal.
Actually around 5 thousand years during the Allaghan Empire final years
I've been following your channel for a while and was super hyped when I noticed this video come up in my suggestions. I've been a huge FF fan since all the way back to the very first Final Fantasy game on the Famicom. As a single player game lover and super into story, I actually highly suggest playing this. You can honestly solo most of the game if you really don't want to group with people, but it has a rich storyline to it, and honestly one of the FRIENDLIEST communities I have ever been a part of in any mmo.
YES! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE! :)
Suggestion: Total War Warhammer 1, 2 and 3 Cinematic trailers
Love the channel keep it up my man!
i hope so mutch that he will watch them all ! :D
The only game I wish I started playing when it first came out, the story is so hitting & deep. I absolutely hate I only started playing it when stormblood came out. Heavensward story for me so far is my favourite as I’m not caught up to shadowbringers yet!
I love the breakdown this is wonderful going to do some comp studies from this :) (I'm learning storyboarding)
This is awesome cinematic! Thanks for reaction 👍
If you are a fan of Final fantasy then dont be put off by the MMO aspect of FFXIV, it is a Story first and an MMO second, emphasis on story like all the other games.
Hey Chris! Longtime FFXIV player here. First of all: thanks for your reaction to this, I'm an aspiring writer/filmmaker and your breakdowns are very welcoming to me.
Second, you can pretty much easily just go and play FFXIV. It may have the MMO classification, but it is, like every FF game, a story driven experience above all else. Our community is very chill and we universally welcome all new players into our community. There will be some toxic assholes but they are so rare that I only reported around 3 to 4 people in all my years playing this game (and boy I sinked *thousands* of hours into FFXIV). FFXIV is pretty much unique in everything related to an MMO. If you love Final Fantasy, XIV is akin to a gigantic theme park for this series.
Thanks again, and I hope you give it a try someday!
i just LOVE watching your reactions to cinematics omgg
Yeah!!! SO stoked!!
Thats no summon my friend thats the real bahamut!!!
Wings Of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void: All awesome Starcraft 2 cinematics
I'm so stoked to see you checking out these FFXIV cinematics.
The lyrics of the song are amazing as well, the whole thing just comes together into one beautiful package (chef's kiss).
You are a cool man! I like this channel! And I will really happy if you make a reaction to the "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Killing Monsters Cinematic Trailer"! Thank you!)
FFXIV, while it is an online game, you can enjoy the entire story without the usual baggage that comes with an MMO.
I loved you loving this :)
As a FFXIV player and someone with a film production background, really enjoy this video. Hope you do the other expansions trailers, they’re all solid and very fun :)
Actually, after rewatching Heavensward and Stormblood trailer... I would just recommend doing Shadowbringers. ARR and ShB trailers are a cut above HW and SB trailers
I love this so much!!! I have been begging some reactors (nongamers) to check out this cinematic so happy you checked it out!!!!
Also the male character that appears in this video, the warrior with the axe, it represents the player (your character) in the game. You need to have this in mind for the next trailers (and the journey).
Also you started with the 1.5 trailer, the first one is "a real reborn", then this one, following: heavensward, stormblood, shadowbringers, and finally the teaser of endwalker
Finally xo the cinematics are soooo goooooood!
Hi Chris! I actually just found you today, and I have to say, I also for the longest time was the single-player fan for the franchise and not playing XIV. Even though it's online and a big mmo w/ times of needing to play with other players, you still have a lot of solo content and a great story through the different installments and with the different classes. I do recommend possibly trying it, they do have a trial version for pc.
Awesome. Looking forward to more XIV trailers commentary :)
Knowing the story leading to this scene, I think this is one of the greatest pieces of digital art. The direction and design are just perfect and it never fails to get an emotional response. Even while the battle rages, the music is subdued and somber, because this is not an exciting battle, it's knowing that the end is here and that nothing can be done to stop it. That's what I like most about the direction behind this, it's not about the people on the ground; it's about Bahamut and the Calamity. It must have been incredible to experience it happening in real time. I wonder what it must have been like to work on something like this.
I love the way it demonstrates the scale of Dalamud because it can be hard to relate something the size of a moon to a battle between people down on the ground. At first it looks like the 'seal' might be like the size and shape of a greatsword, then it shoots down to the ground and the shockwave from a few hundred feet of metal blasts people away, the dust cloud portrays the scale so well. Same for when Bahamut dives and destroys Limsa Lominsa (I think that's the city in the scene?) to show that he isn't just big, he is as big as the city and levelled it just by flying over.
Great video. Also nice to see a critic reacting that's actually familiar with the franchise and the game itself to some extent.
If you plan to react to the recent Endwalker trailer, I'd suggest waiting until late May, once the full cinematic is available. The current one is only a teaser trailer.
Ok, now i wanted to see you reacts the other FFXIV cinematics, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers even the Endwalker teaser recently launched, all is amazing
It's amazing how your reactions were much like my own the first time I watched this video. I started around 2.2 (after the game was re-launched) and the first time I watched the first half of this (for those that don't know, the half after the party is teleported away is actually a secret video you originally saw - in game - on defeating the second to final boss of ARR, which was a huge shock to anyone winning that raid battle for the first time!) and had similar reactions to you. The music is perfect, and the places where it picks up in power and sweeps you away (for example, you're "Here we go" when the music picks up and it shows the moon, Dalamud, starting to break apart with Bahamut being freed), as well as the sheer feeling of "Well...this would suck" as you see all the destruction and see the heroes on the ground, basically overwhelmed by the fact there's genuinely nothing they have that can fight against THAT, the feeling of the IMPACT when Louisouix's Protect shield shatters, and then you see Bahamut descend and just how massive he is, and likewise the chills when the music changes and the sealing spell is attempted...but then fails!
And the "Oh...they're SCREWED" feeling that follows.
You really have to understand that the original video up to the teleport was played when the original game ENDED. That is literally how they took the servers down. They had a countdown for the moon's falling, and then everyone's screen went black and the first half played up to the teleport. That's what all the people online at the time saw. Then they got sent to the home screen with "The Server is Unavailable". There's a CZcams video that's something like "the last 10 minutes of FFXIV 1.0" that you can watch to see. And you have to imagine, players at the time had NO IDEA what would happen. They saw the world destroyed and their characters teleported away...but no idea what was coming next.
The ARR (2.0) launch video also stopped at the teleport, then time skips 5 years to the future to show the characters. Basically, the old man teleported them 5 years into the future so they would survive, and you see them in a forest and they get to the edge of it to see the world survived, somehow. The players had no idea how.
THIS video played IN GAME (and still does), after the second to last fight in the Final Coils of Bahamut raid series (which you can solo or duo at this point in max level Shadowbringers gear). The first time people cleared the raid, it was a total surprise gift from Square-Enix to them that no one was expecting, that explains (a) how the world survived and (b) what happened to Louisouix, the old man. The super short version [spoilers] is that, about to die, he basically gave himself over to the summon Phoenix (it's not exactly apparent, but when he's in that blue form, he's basically an avatar of Phoenix) using the hopes and prayers of the people there to fuel his hasty/partial summoning. More spoilers if I say anything else, but he saved the world, but it was damaged in the process.
There's a lot of other spoilers related to the Red Moon, Dalamud. The short, non-spoiler version is that an ancient civilization of technology and magic manged to summon an Elder Primal, Bahamut, but he was too powerful for even them to control, so instead they locked him away and sent his prison into orbit as the Second Moon/Red Moon, Dalamud. In the modern era, though, the Garleans - the army with the Magitech (who cannot use Magic themselves, biologically) thought it was an ancient weapon, so they tried to unleash it. Part of this was because they didn't realize what it was, and part of it was because the trapped Bahamut was able to exert some mental influence on their lead researchers and basically mind control/manipulate them into their research and effort so that they would free him unknowingly.
Obviously, this was the result.
And, as others have said, you should play it sometime. The game's 100% free up through the end of the first expansion (Heavensward/3.X). The ARR story was a lot of fluff and filler at the time, but they've streamlined it now, and from HW on it picks up. The latest expansion, Shadowbringers, I caught myself looking for save points before logging out for the night and had to remind myself this was an MMO, not a single player RPG, I was THAT invested in the story. Shadowbringers' story really hit it out of the park, and if you ever get a chance to play it, I don't think you'd be disappointed. It's gotten rave reviews from basically everyone who has.
It's not often you see the heroes pull out some last-second trick and it just not work.
The sage's big protect-bubble comes in to save the heroes... then shatters.
he rebuilds it and it shatters again before he can even get it set back up.
They summon 12 gods at once to try to seal Baphomet, and the seal doesn't even get completed before it blasts it's way out.
Really gives the impression of fighting a force of nature.
They're throwing their best shit at it and it's just shrugging it off.
The chills! Yeah man. I still have them too and I've seen it like a thousand times.
That hum you did at the end before the ad roll is basically the leitmotif of the entire series
Your setup color matches the red-blue contrasts of the cinematic a lot!
6:18 You know you're hyped when the filmmaker gets up from his cozy chair :D
Gotta love how when the camera is panning over the meteors, raining down from the red moon, Dalamud, are sort of in the background bringing front and centre our main heroes and two factions clash in their war, seemingly unaware or otherwise ignoring the destruction happening far away. Sort of a story connotation that these two sides were so set and focused on destroying each other they didn't notice the brewing catastrophe which would likely see both sides decimated and the established heroes of the shot would be forced to look on as the people who's hopes and dreams they guarded were reduced to cinders.
Love how all the fires go out from the shockwave after the blue seal-thingy lands on the battlefield. :)