@@Junweitrustnobody1403 it’s very fun, especially because I spent a lot of the expansion thinking “stupid sexy Zenos” and I absolutely head canon the fight to be my WoL and Zenos having the universe’s biggest flirt-off
Because I started FF14 late, I got to Reaper as soon as I hit Shadowbringers. So in-universe, Zenos ditched his Katanas/Samurai and tried to copy the Warrior of Light and beat him at his own game in Endwalker.
@@VDA19 this is also perfectly in-character for Zenos because regardless of your main, Zenos pretty much considers you the strongest thing in existence
The timing on this is simply perfect. The powerup as they sing "every step we take" and everything else was perfectly synchronised. It couldn't be any more perfect even if someone else tried it, I swear.
That's why I had to record and save it! I know when I touch EWs NG+ I might never get this satisfaction again! The window is so short and specific! You'd also have to go pretty much the entire fight up till the window again if you miss it. That's like 3 to 4 minutes.
There is actually a ton of moments like this in the game. One of the major contributors as to why I loved DSR so much (specifically as paladin) is because the music lined up with all the mechanics and my paladin abilities. Nishogg phase was especially peak encounter design.
I had tears in my eyes from how epic this was when I was playing through it, all the years and experiences coming to a head in one final face off. I’m so glad we get to share this moment
I was happy to use reaper throughout Endwalker MSQ. Made zenos seem as my characters opposite(which he kinda is). Made my character have black and blonde hair(the black taking over the blonde as a sign of “decay”) from using the void in a sense in reaper.
It is kind cool if you used Reaper before him. He sees that the strongest being ever is using Reaper, and is like “DAMN, OK” and switches just for us. It is kind of a cool head canon.
@@diousthomas8878 well, that's exactly what happened to me. I started playing a couple of months before the release of Endwalker, and towards the end of Stormblood I changed class to reaper. So in my story, Zenos in Ala Mhigo was defeated by the Reaper. And then he himself changed his weapon ..)
Thank you so much for the compliment!! I made sure since the beginning of Shadowbringers to have a scenario fit for the story so with EW coming out I wanted the same!! Fun tidbit, the white streaks are from the end of 6.0 where the light consumes your character. I wanted to have some type of physical alteration from that event.
@@temi97 No way! I actually did the same thing with my Xaela, caused by the same event. She had dark blue-ish skin and black hair before, but got turned by the Light's corruption to have white hair and a brighter skin tone as well. I love it how invested people in FF14 can get with their characters, truly making a journey out of the game's events.
I had similar moment when I met Hien on a sunset. These moments when music, scene and other moments connect together, create just immaculate experience.
The funny thing is I fought him in that final Stormblood duel as Samurai without knowing that would happen going into it (intro to Shadowbringers trailer intensifies) then went through Endwalker as Reaper also not really expecting another complete mirror duel even though I knew Zenos job-changed to Reaper as well.
I stayed with my main kind of for the opposite reason. I was DRG when I fought him the first time. He switched jobs since and so had I, to something I enjoyed far more (GNB to be specific). We both moved on from our original jobs to something that suited us better. I felt like since he was fighting me at his best, I could do no less.
Really, the only thing missing from this finale is the "DUTY COMPLETE" prompt after the Warrior of Light knocks out Zenos. Just to really drive home that he won the fight.
@@pforgottonsoul I actually started to level them up right after the cutscene where Zenos possesses your character. I wanted to have a bit of a headcannon that Zenos corrupted a bit of my character's soul but also accidentally gave him the ability to use reaper since it's a Garlean skill canonically. Making this fight, so. damn. SATISFYING!
I was definitely happy to have done this fight as Reaper (I'm a male Au Ra as well, so it felt good to have an all out edgelord duel), but I also think it fits well if you're a Paladin and even Monk. I guess it works just as well with other Tank/Melee jobs, but I bet it does feel silly if you were a ranged DPS or healer and then suddenly you're just throwing fists at Zenos
Oooo that is satisfying, feeling it sync perfectly What i would give for an instance rebattle feature for NG+ i know i could just replay all of 6.0 (which is awesome) but this and the venat fight i would love to revisit.
I love this fight so much coming from the emotions of the endsinger fight straight into this and damn am I thankful for playing reaper for most of the game I got my wish a 1 on 1 reaper fight with zenos at the edge of the stars it’s beautiful and iconic. Thank you for the syncing it makes this moment even better
I keep on returning to watch this battle against zenos. It was one of my favourite final clashes with any bad guys in this game. The music, the atmosphere, the sunset scenery, intense battle to the death. This had it all. Emotions, struggle and so much more. How i want to do this battle again in the game.
Two rivals settling things once and for all at the end of the universe while rock plays in the back ground and finishing with a fist fight. Doesn’t get more anime than this
That sweet sweet final hit to Zenos sending him flying, a bit of blood scattering into the air, with my WoL decked in Tataru's Ninja job set gear (except wearing the Deepgold Mask of Scouting), is still my favorite desktop wallpaper of all time.
Normally, I'd steer clear of videos likes these to avoid spoilers since I'm still in Stormblood, but I like what I see. I got as far as SBLD post-base campaign with one of my two characters I played with the most before I had to halt sub renewal (Partly due to personal reasons and the fact that I have so many games to play). Another reason I'm still in SBD, SCREW having to pain-stakingly grind your gear level just to access end-game quests because that's the one thing that stalled my progression the worst. (enough said there.) It's been about 4 or 5 years since I've last logged on to FF14, but the more I think about it, the I want to come back. I had quite an experience with this game. Any picture, music, or video related makes me wanna return even more and I intend to one of these days. Soon enough, I hope.☺
Recently did this fight on my Miqo Monk, and man I was so damn pumped by the time the cutscene happened. My WoL felt she was going super saiyan throughout the whole thing lol.
When I started this game I did Dark Knight then went into Samurai as soon as I could when going into Stormblood. Then as Endwalker came out I went to Reaper. So every time I saw Zenos we had copied classes. It was such a fun fight.
I like when media that ramps up constantly to the point that the hero is fighting the concept of despair itself always ending with a completely non magical fist fight between two people somehow being more epic than everything before it
Try being a male white mage in the level 90 artifact your just a dude In a frilly robe besting the crap out of a guy in armor i laughed hard during the punching.
Honestly had something just as fitting when i did this. It was funny was, despite not having reaper, I was using the gunblade, which felt fitting as a garlean type of weapon, but more importantly, when the punch out started, the "storm of blood" part of footfalls happened, and it was *so* fitting for the finale to be that
I 100% expected Zenos to stab Meteion in the back of something to get a rise out of us. I was shocked when he let her go. Doubly shocked when he straight up just ASKED to fight. A chad to the end.
I did the fight prior with SCH, and quickly swapped to SMN to face Zenos, and I can't tell you how genuinely funny and awesome it was for my character to go "alright fuck the books, catch these hands" and my dainty ass was tossing up Zenos like a salad LOL Genuinely awesome.
I was conflicted on what class to play in ew between my favourite (sam), my first (Bard), a healer which I had yet to do for a full dlc (sage) or Reaper. And I can say with utmost certainty picking a class purely for how well it fits Endwalker, Reaper was a right choice. It's ties to Garlemald, the generally darker tone of alot of the msq and above all else how awesome it is to mirror match Zenos just makes it perfect.
Actually all cutscenes have them, no matter what race or class you play as. It's most likely that the character models where so tall that their mouths were out of frame.
The games a anime. A bloody good one. Even the final boss is a interlude to the final boss who feels you are his friend. Cause Stronk! After he swoops in to help you.
No one except for minor side characters ever die in this game. That's my main criticism about it, death fake outs for days (regardless of what the fanboys preach). Heavensward is the only expansion that had major side characters die.
@@nimazsheik5152 this entire expansion is about defying the "heroic sacrifice" trope and ACTUALLY SAVING EVERYONE or at least, as close to everyone as you can.
I hate this fight with all my soul. I wanted Zenos to stay there at the end of the universe for the rest of eternity, never scratching the itch that made him do all the atrocities he caused. Death by the hand of the WoL was too good for him.
Uhm... Hate to break this to you, and several others it seems. But most of these fights and cutscenes have "filler" beats, that will repeat until the proper timing. It's one of many tricks they use to add weight to the soundtracks in combat.
Yeah, like if you mean the bit from 0:18 to 0:37 Then of course. That's the bit I'm highlighting for the keen eyed cause the beat is at its lowest till it resumes to the main chorus. We even during that we get dialogue to keep the viewer/player engaged. Notice that after the main chorus kicks back in, the dialogue stops too. The last part speaks for itself as the music hypes up. You can 100% play this fight and end up with the music unmatched.
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God, this hits different if you're doing this as healer, but you started as a pugilist. It's like "I ain't forgot where I came from, *C'MERE* ."
I almost choked on my soda reading this. LOL.
With my pugilist turned scholar, this was basically "The quill is mightier than the sword... BUT THE FIST IS MIGHTIER THAN BOTH!"
Similar for me, I started as a Pug/Monk main and was a SMN main at this point.
Yeah, I started the game as PUG, now I'm a caster. At the disarm I said aloud, "Oh, you have _made a tactical error!"_
@@Wolfdoggie "I summoned these hands, Zenos!" Lol
I did the MSQ almost entirely as Dark Knight since HW, so my final fight was his external darkness vs my internal darkness, it was so goddamn edgy
but sounds so badass
@@Junweitrustnobody1403 it was, but I’m pretty sure we cut each other with our edge more than we did our weapons
@@pillarsofsnow7940 true, then again it's fun to be who you want to be
@@Junweitrustnobody1403 it’s very fun, especially because I spent a lot of the expansion thinking “stupid sexy Zenos” and I absolutely head canon the fight to be my WoL and Zenos having the universe’s biggest flirt-off
@@pillarsofsnow7940 hahaha, that is something i can imagine seeing it
It's so nice that even if as a Reaper you're still his mirror with the fact that your arms and scythes are on opposite sides
Because I started FF14 late, I got to Reaper as soon as I hit Shadowbringers. So in-universe, Zenos ditched his Katanas/Samurai and tried to copy the Warrior of Light and beat him at his own game in Endwalker.
@@VDA19 this is also perfectly in-character for Zenos because regardless of your main, Zenos pretty much considers you the strongest thing in existence
@@Konpekikaminari I'm a summoner/scholar. I read book.
@@ProfessorHanger When you beat Zenos with the power of Knowledge.
@@Endersoul-tx1of He will bow before the power of the Dictionary and Macro Economics 101
The timing on this is simply perfect. The powerup as they sing "every step we take" and everything else was perfectly synchronised. It couldn't be any more perfect even if someone else tried it, I swear.
That's why I had to record and save it! I know when I touch EWs NG+ I might never get this satisfaction again! The window is so short and specific! You'd also have to go pretty much the entire fight up till the window again if you miss it. That's like 3 to 4 minutes.
There is actually a ton of moments like this in the game. One of the major contributors as to why I loved DSR so much (specifically as paladin) is because the music lined up with all the mechanics and my paladin abilities. Nishogg phase was especially peak encounter design.
just now realizing that Zenos is left handed with this comment lol
man we need more stuff like this where the wol has some unique animations
I remember reading somewhere that this sequence was part of why Endwalker was delayed, but IMO definitely worth it
I had tears in my eyes from how epic this was when I was playing through it, all the years and experiences coming to a head in one final face off. I’m so glad we get to share this moment
"This is my moment, OUR moment!"
I was happy to use reaper throughout Endwalker MSQ. Made zenos seem as my characters opposite(which he kinda is). Made my character have black and blonde hair(the black taking over the blonde as a sign of “decay”) from using the void in a sense in reaper.
It is kind cool if you used Reaper before him.
He sees that the strongest being ever is using Reaper, and is like “DAMN, OK” and switches just for us.
It is kind of a cool head canon.
i fought him as a pld myself, it felt pretty cool too because we were the total oposites; absolute darkness vs absolute light xd
@@diousthomas8878 well, that's exactly what happened to me. I started playing a couple of months before the release of Endwalker, and towards the end of Stormblood I changed class to reaper. So in my story, Zenos in Ala Mhigo was defeated by the Reaper. And then he himself changed his weapon ..)
@@serabysswalker5407 And it fits more with Zenos’ style with the whole Voidsent shit.
@@serabysswalker5407 umineko
This is *exactly* how I remember my fight! I should've learned from the venat solo duty to start recording them.
Me too except mine was recorded.
@@usualrain7082you can, but just dont feel the same.
I really loved this moment. To go blow to blow with Zenos with him as a Reaper and me as a Paladin felt so good!
My timing was nearly as perfect as it was here, I had goosebumps thiis entire time.
Also I love your character, awesomely matched hair and glamour.
Thank you so much for the compliment!!
I made sure since the beginning of Shadowbringers to have a scenario fit for the story so with EW coming out I wanted the same!!
Fun tidbit, the white streaks are from the end of 6.0 where the light consumes your character. I wanted to have some type of physical alteration from that event.
@@temi97 No way! I actually did the same thing with my Xaela, caused by the same event. She had dark blue-ish skin and black hair before, but got turned by the Light's corruption to have white hair and a brighter skin tone as well.
I love it how invested people in FF14 can get with their characters, truly making a journey out of the game's events.
I wonder if anyone has managed to time it so that "Finish off the fight" sounds when you prepare to land the final blow. That'd be epic.
I DID!!!! I thought it was honestly supposed to be synced like that XD
Just tweak where the song starts and the fight becomes way more epic than it already is. This is too good man.
I had similar moment when I met Hien on a sunset. These moments when music, scene and other moments connect together, create just immaculate experience.
Gods, I fucking love video games.
I switched to SAM for this fight. It's the only thing that felt right, since our last duel was interrupted.
The funny thing is I fought him in that final Stormblood duel as Samurai without knowing that would happen going into it (intro to Shadowbringers trailer intensifies) then went through Endwalker as Reaper also not really expecting another complete mirror duel even though I knew Zenos job-changed to Reaper as well.
I just found this video and comment
technically that solo duel in SB you didnt fight with Zenos himself but Elidibus controlling Zenos body.
I stayed with my main kind of for the opposite reason. I was DRG when I fought him the first time. He switched jobs since and so had I, to something I enjoyed far more (GNB to be specific).
We both moved on from our original jobs to something that suited us better. I felt like since he was fighting me at his best, I could do no less.
SAAAME
"You tried to kill me with one of these. Let me show you how this blade is used in Doma."
When the, "As we ride again" part hits I pop off
In fairness a lot of FFXIV’s boss fight music let battles feel like this
I remember getting it at the right time with my paladin just like this , it was marvelous
Running this as Sage was hilarious since there was no reason I wouldn't still have my nouliths, excluding the fact you gotta respect the fistfight
Really, the only thing missing from this finale is the "DUTY COMPLETE" prompt after the Warrior of Light knocks out Zenos. Just to really drive home that he won the fight.
All the training, all of these jobs... The anger, the discipline, and in the end... All that was needed was a simple vibe check across his jaw.
I wished I leveled reaper to 90 before this fight.
i leveled reaper first just so i could use it in the MSQ.
@@pforgottonsoul I actually started to level them up right after the cutscene where Zenos possesses your character. I wanted to have a bit of a headcannon that Zenos corrupted a bit of my character's soul but also accidentally gave him the ability to use reaper since it's a Garlean skill canonically.
Making this fight, so. damn. SATISFYING!
I was definitely happy to have done this fight as Reaper (I'm a male Au Ra as well, so it felt good to have an all out edgelord duel), but I also think it fits well if you're a Paladin and even Monk. I guess it works just as well with other Tank/Melee jobs, but I bet it does feel silly if you were a ranged DPS or healer and then suddenly you're just throwing fists at Zenos
@@kungfuvoodoo9889 when Healer got tired of swinging a stick or a book lmao
The blue role called, and Zenos got the receiving end of a lot of metal lol
(I mean, look at the Ignominy gauntlets lmao)
Oooo that is satisfying, feeling it sync perfectly
What i would give for an instance rebattle feature for NG+ i know i could just replay all of 6.0 (which is awesome) but this and the venat fight i would love to revisit.
temi wasn't kidding by the title
I love this fight so much coming from the emotions of the endsinger fight straight into this and damn am I thankful for playing reaper for most of the game I got my wish a 1 on 1 reaper fight with zenos at the edge of the stars it’s beautiful and iconic. Thank you for the syncing it makes this moment even better
I keep on returning to watch this battle against zenos. It was one of my favourite final clashes with any bad guys in this game. The music, the atmosphere, the sunset scenery, intense battle to the death. This had it all. Emotions, struggle and so much more. How i want to do this battle again in the game.
Did this for the first time just today and got this EXACT timing. This scene is now burned into my very soul.
Two rivals settling things once and for all at the end of the universe while rock plays in the back ground and finishing with a fist fight.
Doesn’t get more anime than this
That sweet sweet final hit to Zenos sending him flying, a bit of blood scattering into the air, with my WoL decked in Tataru's Ninja job set gear (except wearing the Deepgold Mask of Scouting), is still my favorite desktop wallpaper of all time.
God this is just such a great fight. Honestly one of my favorite moments in all of FFXiV!
That was pretty amazing, not gonna lie. Awesome avatar too btw.
PERFECTION. ALSO IT ONLY FELT RIGHT TO USE REAPER ON HIM
LIQUIIIIID!!!
SNAAAAAAAKE!!!
Dude. So right
as a red mage, this is the most goofiest cut scene I've ever witnessed. Gotta discord that rapier now.
When dude attempts to throw down with his fists after he loses his weapon but your fists always was your weapons
I have seen may "perfect timing music" Zenos fights, but none as perfect as this
When I did this the Stormblood segment was playing which was appropriate
Oh yeah. Gotta be the Kinna Scythe.
Normally, I'd steer clear of videos likes these to avoid spoilers since I'm still in Stormblood, but I like what I see.
I got as far as SBLD post-base campaign with one of my two characters I played with the most before I had to halt sub renewal (Partly due to personal reasons and the fact that I have so many games to play). Another reason I'm still in SBD, SCREW having to pain-stakingly grind your gear level just to access end-game quests because that's the one thing that stalled my progression the worst. (enough said there.)
It's been about 4 or 5 years since I've last logged on to FF14, but the more I think about it, the I want to come back. I had quite an experience with this game. Any picture, music, or video related makes me wanna return even more and I intend to one of these days. Soon enough, I hope.☺
this is what happened to me too and I loved it!
Perfection...
Recently did this fight on my Miqo Monk, and man I was so damn pumped by the time the cutscene happened. My WoL felt she was going super saiyan throughout the whole thing lol.
Faved! Now if you could make one with my WoL that’d be great 😉
I got the Heavens Ward segment of that music during that cutscene! :O
Doing this as a Monk:
"YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?"
When I started this game I did Dark Knight then went into Samurai as soon as I could when going into Stormblood. Then as Endwalker came out I went to Reaper. So every time I saw Zenos we had copied classes. It was such a fun fight.
i dont know about you guys it look so similar to snake and liquid at least the punching part
I was lucky enough to have the same music timing. but of course I didn't record it...
I like when media that ramps up constantly to the point that the hero is fighting the concept of despair itself always ending with a completely non magical fist fight between two people somehow being more epic than everything before it
I did this fight as a Lalafell, burst out laughing when Zenos went down from my potato punch
Dynamis is dynamis
Try being a male white mage in the level 90 artifact your just a dude In a frilly robe besting the crap out of a guy in armor i laughed hard during the punching.
I just beat EW and I was fortunate enough to have this happen to me, felt like I was playing a Yakuza game.
That thumbnail looks like the WoL saw a spider in their bathtub.
Was that intentional?
@therook6198 nope but i absolutely love that you saw it that way xD
.... i fought him with a damn book.
YOU TELLING ME I COULD HAVE USED A WEAPON THIS ENTIRE TIME?!
Honestly had something just as fitting when i did this.
It was funny was, despite not having reaper, I was using the gunblade, which felt fitting as a garlean type of weapon, but more importantly, when the punch out started, the "storm of blood" part of footfalls happened, and it was *so* fitting for the finale to be that
I did this as MNK.. so the fist fight at the end was precious to me :)
He really tested my reflexes
I wish I recorded my fight, as a DRG it went perfectly timed. the Heavensward section of the song was going during the final bit and it was Hype.
I 100% expected Zenos to stab Meteion in the back of something to get a rise out of us. I was shocked when he let her go. Doubly shocked when he straight up just ASKED to fight. A chad to the end.
He finally genuinely understood you were the hero the world needed at the end.
I did the fight prior with SCH, and quickly swapped to SMN to face Zenos, and I can't tell you how genuinely funny and awesome it was for my character to go "alright fuck the books, catch these hands" and my dainty ass was tossing up Zenos like a salad LOL
Genuinely awesome.
I have to give it, EN dub Zenos killed it hard, probably harder than the JP Zenos IMO.
Timing was great on mine, but it ended up being a femroe WHM punching Zenos in the end. Looked like a princess xD
I was conflicted on what class to play in ew between my favourite (sam), my first (Bard), a healer which I had yet to do for a full dlc (sage) or Reaper.
And I can say with utmost certainty picking a class purely for how well it fits Endwalker, Reaper was a right choice.
It's ties to Garlemald, the generally darker tone of alot of the msq and above all else how awesome it is to mirror match Zenos just makes it perfect.
A test of your reflexes
i think is fun when u did this like a healer drop the staff and start to punch him in the face is like " "I GONNA SHOW U HOW I GONNA HEAL U NOW"
NIce!
A skin on skin slug fest was the best way to end this.
I'm a cross dressing Lalafell and the fight cutscene is hilarious if you're a Lala 😂
Holy shit
I miss my buddy
Waiting for NG+
Pls
I need it
I think I’m more excited for NG+ than I am for the 6.1 MSQ lolol
Well similar but not exactly the same as yours still quite epic though much like yours.
Is it just me or I didnt see the blood effects on my playthrough. Seems like some cutscenes had it for some players others didnt.
Actually all cutscenes have them, no matter what race or class you play as. It's most likely that the character models where so tall that their mouths were out of frame.
How did you get the camera to move around like that? You character isn't tightly centered to the middle of the screen like most people.
How've you made it so the player character isnt centred on the screen
Lock-on and then slightly move the camera.
I play with controller so the Lock-on button is R3
Mf caught 3 straight upheavals to the face.
I ruined this fight by fighting a scholar in my scholarly glam T_T
Imagine Lalafell 😂
How is your camera locked onto zenos like that??
On controller it's R3
Press down the right analogue stick and it locks onto a target.
@@temi97is there a way to do it on PC with a keyboard?
The games a anime. A bloody good one. Even the final boss is a interlude to the final boss who feels you are his friend. Cause Stronk! After he swoops in to help you.
How do those punches work as a Lala...
Zenos is alive?!!
No one except for minor side characters ever die in this game. That's my main criticism about it, death fake outs for days (regardless of what the fanboys preach). Heavensward is the only expansion that had major side characters die.
Why are you watching Endwalker videos if you're not even through Stormblood patch quests?
@@nimazsheik5152 this entire expansion is about defying the "heroic sacrifice" trope and ACTUALLY SAVING EVERYONE or at least, as close to everyone as you can.
He died at the end
@@nimazsheik5152 Wow, you're telling me Venat isn't dead? Crazy.
Lmao couldn't take this seriously when I saw his chr face
Bad reflexes!
I dodged all of his attacks up till that one I swear! xD
I hate this fight with all my soul. I wanted Zenos to stay there at the end of the universe for the rest of eternity, never scratching the itch that made him do all the atrocities he caused. Death by the hand of the WoL was too good for him.
"I never pay attention to story"
Uhm... Hate to break this to you, and several others it seems. But most of these fights and cutscenes have "filler" beats, that will repeat until the proper timing. It's one of many tricks they use to add weight to the soundtracks in combat.
Yeah, like if you mean the bit from 0:18 to 0:37
Then of course. That's the bit I'm highlighting for the keen eyed cause the beat is at its lowest till it resumes to the main chorus. We even during that we get dialogue to keep the viewer/player engaged.
Notice that after the main chorus kicks back in, the dialogue stops too. The last part speaks for itself as the music hypes up.
You can 100% play this fight and end up with the music unmatched.
Look look he plays a male character in a video game, lol
Because I am a male?
@@temi97 are you tho? Im a catgirl.
@@tomlolbob3182 you may be surprised,but not everyone playing ffxiv is a desperately horny mf
Shocking, right? Those kind of people exist, though, believe it or not. I'm a guy irl and I play as a catboy
@@tomlolbob3182 No, you are just horny