If you call Ardbert "husband" then the game has successfully tricked you into showing self-love 😂

"There's no way FF14 can top this moment." famous last words

A lesser known, but crucial point in Emet's view of mankind is his deliberate creation of flawed societies. From the Allagans to the Garleans, each empire's fate was doomed from the beginning. This has only reinforced his bias against mankind, and drove him further into madness.

Before Emet fights you, he says to cast aside titles. Hades is the only boss with a just name no title on his intro text.

The "Remember us" line was rough but I didn't lose it until the Ardbert camera pan at the end with his friends. Congrats on finishing 5.0!

"Remember us" will always be one of my favorite moments in all of fiction. It broke me so hard... I cry to it every time.

"remember us, remember that we once lived" still tears

I feel like while we can all agree that Emet's active genocide of millions is objectively horrible, we all can empathize with him. Imagine it: your family and friends, all living peacefully. No conflict, everything resolved fairly and kindly. Nobody goes hungry, nobody is made out to be inferior from another. Then the Final Days come, and you sacrifice 75% of your number just to keep the world alive. You make the hard choice of sacrificing some of the other people left on the planet to bring your people back. But the remaining half of them disagree with your plan, summon a god, and she splits nearly everyone's souls and the planet itself into 13.. All 13 of them become individuals, completely unrecognizable to you, and you to them. You spend millenia trying to gauge their worth. You live side by side with them. Share meals with them. Go on adventures. Time and time again. What happens in each generation? Infighting, war, corruption, chaos. Empires rise and fall. Not even remotely akin to the utopia you once knew. What do you do? Do you resign yourself to the fact that the world will forever be rocked by conflict? Or do you say "No, I want to bring that utopia back. I've had enough of these bumbling idiots that are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over." He's such a fantastic villain because he has a point - to us, who have never known what he has, of course we think our cause is greater. But to him, who effectively lived in a paradise, we are all nothing but disappointments.

Notice how at the very end before Emet dies, he was finally standing upright. His burden had been lifted.

I love watching people's reaction to FeelsBringer 5.0 ending so I occasionally search for it on KZfaq to see any new uploads. And here we are! Posted 2 hours ago :D Glad you had a wonderful time playing FF14 ShadowBringers

I've always felt that what you say to Ryne has very different meanings depending on the first choice and then following it up with Haurchefant's dying words "Then you shouldn't hang your head. Fate may be cruel, but a smile better suits a hero." -> "Keep your head high through the tough times, keep smiling for yourself and others" "I'm not asking to be saved. Fate may be cruel, but a smile better suits a hero." -> "No matter what happens, even if this is the end, keep smiling"

Arrived yesterday here. Seeying you is the clear reflection of what we felt. What a trip.

"There's no way FF14 can top this moment. This story is absolutely incredible." Uh huh. See you at the end of 6.0. I can't wait to watch you experience the rest of this story.

The one line u missed while ver flashbanging is Emet saying "That light split the world and every life upon it!". You can see hes still hasnt forgiven Haydelin for doing so. Such a deep character.

Emmet literally said "Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name!" And now we all have Sympathy For The Devil. RIP Hades.

All I'm gonna say this. Shadowbringers isn't done with you yet! 5.1-5.5 here we go!

1:06:20 those are the same eyes that Amy had when she was blaming Gordon for their restaurant being bad.

Congrats on finishing 5.0!! 🎉 Can't wait to watch you play through the rest of the MSQ!

"We only cried a lot, a whole lot." Welcome to Shadowbringers. "It looks like a modern cityscape, only with some extra fluff." There's a fan theory that FF14 takes place in the future. That we evolved into Ascians, then the Sundering happened. Hence why Amaurot looks like a modern city, because it is. Another thing to note is that Emet loved Varis's father and had high hopes for him. But sadly he died young and Emet lost what little faith in humanity he had left. Which might be when he died he sat back and allowed his other son and his grandson Varis duke it out for the throne.

0:50 the ancients were a really advanced civilization, mind you! 22:32 That's... Quite accurate. 44:39 I like how he slimes as he vanishes, may you rest in peace, Emet- 46:45 He didn't just help you, he became one with you. Let's say that you are more "whole" now than you were moments ago. 59:16 Be wary of what you wish! 1:00:43 What you are trying to "fix" doesn't need to be fixed since it is not broken.

So begins the journey of defeating people and it not feeling one bit good.

I didnt give a single crap about ardbert when we first saw him... ShB made him my fave and I cried sooooooo hard at this end! A true hero. I love him so much

"There's no way FF14 can top this moment" Oh, you sweet summer child. I'll subscribe to watch you eat those words, continue on your road! :)

"You cannot be entrusted with our legacy." spoilers below "Do not squander it. The legacy I leave you." damn this games story is something else

I cant be the only one who gets goosebumps when ardbert shows up then the music plays lol. Glad you have made it pretty much all through the content at this point hope you contiune to enjoy the content presented to you.

Trivia: The design on Hades' left hand (36:53) is based upon a Spider Lily, in Japanese called "Higanbana", or "Flower of The Distant Shore", so named because it was believed that they grew on the shore of the other side of Sanzu no Kawa, the river separating the realm of the living from the realm of the dead... Appropriate, considering that Hades is the name of the god and realm of the dead in Hellenistic mythology, which also had a river, Styx, marking the border between the realms of the living and the dead.

0:25 EMET-SELCH: Do you think a depressed person could make all this? No!

Many hugs to you my friend

Man your eduting is awesome by the way, the way you transition to each part is very smooth

dude, i just went through this about a week ago, and was so frustrated at the q times for these battles, but i needed breaks, i cried so hard on this one too. I havent been on a story ride like this ever.

MMORPGs can be emotionally cruel, but a smile better suits a streamer 😊

"There's no way FF14 can top this moment." lol see you at the 6.0 ending. Congrats on the Shb clear, happy new year!

I cried when Emet said remeber us and when G'raha cried. And then seeing Arbert being reunited with his friends again. Man shadowbringers really cemented ff14 as my moat favorite FF game. Lol can't believe how G'raha, Arbert, and Emet managr to capture my heart

The best is yet to come with Endwalker, still, Shadowbringers is definitely filled with moments that touch your heart. I paused the game after I finished 6.0, because I didn't have enough time to play to justify keeping a subscription going. I am very eager to return to this game, not many games managed to genuinly make me cry, especially on so many different occasions. Truly something special.

I know the location in this dungeon reflecting the situation instead of the place name . But did not realized it's continuing to each other until I watch you playing it. I'm pretty surprised when I heard you reading it out lound.

if you go straight back to G'raha before completing the quest for shadowbringers, he panics asking you if the portal didn't work, then calms down when you tell him it was fine lol

When you get to the title quest, I don't know what it is, but that moment is so emotional. It's like, you know, this is it. Wait til you get to the Endwalker one 😂

Okay 100% subbing to this guy

You're saying Emet's math doesn't add up when he says he'll sacrifice the rest of the inhabitants to revive his friends. But it does though. As you said, we are fragments of the souls of his friends. So by sacrificing us and everyone else, all the fragments of souls will go back together, so the revival will bring back the "whole" souls. If we were left alive, then they would only be 13/14th of a soul.

I'm so glad that someone has cried as much as i have in this beautiful game

So glad I saw this in my recommendations, love me some shb reactions :)

Fun fact. During development, Amaurot’s dev code name WAS Atlantis. It wasn’t until the writing team started hammering out the details that it got the name Amaurot.

Congrats on beating Feelsbringer! If you’ve been sobbing and eyes wet for 5.0, idk how you would survive 5.3?😅😅 Btw just subbed! I enjoyed watching your reactions. Lol

Shadowbringers never fails...the feels hit every time. Hell of an ending.

And So began Terras arc to Fix Zenos.

I don’t know how this game does it. I’m a 6’6” man who fought Iraq and this had me balling like a baby when I played it. So good

To answer Emet's question: They already did. The remnants of the Source banded together and sent the Crystal Tower back in time to the First, knowing full well that if their plan succeeded that their timeline and everything they had been through would be rewritten...sacrificed as it were. That the WoL and the Scions are even facing him in that moment already answers his question.

That sideways glance from G'raha? That was the devs letting you know that they're not done with you yet.

Interesting fact in all the cutscenes you see him in, Emet has a slight hunch in his back but once you beat him he stands up straight.

ITS HERE!!!!!

OMG we all went through this... so many feels. *Edit - your narration earned a sub!

If you hadn't yet, I highly recommend checking out the short stories for Shadowbringers. One of them is about Emet in the old days.

The whole "his axe is clean" is needless, nor was it intentional. It's just him reverting to his young body in that form.

Here's what Shadowbrings also does. It makes A Realm Reborn much more interesting on a 2nd playthrough. Now you care about this world. Now you care about its history that the game was trying to piecemeal to you so quickly. But now you context for what has come before. All that was so overwhelming because you were just starting and perhaps unable absorb can be now.

The other cool thing about the 7 people being summoned is that you can sorta think about it as 7 other shards of Azem being summoned from the last 7 unjoined shards. (unless the first and Ardbert would be one of those 7, cant remember)

your soul breaking apart from the light of the lightwardens and your merging with ardbert's soul is the same process the ascians use in rejoining the shards to the source. so it was a mini-rejoining. now that your soul is 8 (i think) joined, emet is starting to see glimpses of your real soul but he shrug it off as a trick of the light

I can hardly wait to see your playthrough of patch 5.3, and Endwalker, for that matter. 😁

Shadowbringers is incredible. Glad you enjoyed it.

Buckle up. Post 5.0 patch content is arguably as good or even better. Enjoyed watching you experience everything!

"I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.". As a cynical jaded 40 yr old, the ending to 5.0 made me cry too. The emotions that the FFXIV team was able to wring out of their audience here just shows how bloody amazing of a story they put together. I'm very glad you enjoyed it man.

14:44 Me, aloud, at this point, with a Male Miqo’te WoL: "You know, I'd like to say we're here to stop you, but I'm not sure if we can. But I do know there's one thing I'm not leaving here without... [clicks option 2] You've got my catboy." Literally Emet-Selch's next line: "Well, you can't have him."

in writing this this exactly how to creat a good vilain. when you understand their motivations their reasoning and can even be agree with them sometimes. if you exchange your places you would do the same as him. this is a good vilain

T_T ah yes here I am watching 5.0 ending on a sunday crying again

It makes me sad everytime I see him cry for real :(

One really big gripe I have with this, is why people didn't let him get the reaslisation on the load in, why have to say it prior if they didn't realise it themselves.

Rejoining of souls

oh man if shadowbringers broke you.... oof. Prepare yourself for what is coming next.

"There's no way ffxiv can top this..." ahahaha hahahaha One of my greatest joys is watching people play through these moments. It brings it all back so strongly. I can't wait to see 5.3 and beyond

By now I live by feeding on the tears of people finishing ShB and EW

emet-"could a depressed person create this?"-selch

I love endwalker's end, but shadowbringers is really the best end of all time in video games I've played. Congrats 👌

How did i never notice the map itself had dialogue??

I've seen a few videos recently asking why FFXIV is the only subscription MMO that is still growing. This is why.

graha made the duty finder cannon

Yes, someone who has my same opinion of the Imperial Palace part! Which is that Gaius was a dumbass and was just going to get Estinien killed. Am now Subscribed to see how you deal with the rest of the game and Zenos being…*waves hands at Zenos*

The thing I love about Emet, and it's something I've argued with a lot of people about, is that we don't have to ask ourselves if we'd do the same in his place. We literally have. He saw his world destroyed in the Sundering, and in the wake of that destruction rose up lesser, degenerate lifeforms. Diminished mockeries of the mankind he knew, us. Now he wants to restore the world to what it once was, and in the process is willing to dispose of those distorted beings to make way for the return of people, proper and true. We saw the First destroyed in the Flood of Light, and in the wake of that destruction rose up lesser, degenerate lifeforms. Diminished mockeries of the mankind we know, the sin eaters. Now we want to restore the world to what it once was, and in the process is willing to dispose of those distorted beings to make way for the return of people, proper and true. He presents a compelling mirror to us, but by virtue of our respective origin points, our goals are fundamentally incompatible.

"Weary wandered...you've no fight left to fight! No life left to live!" Go back and re-watch Shadowbringers' trailer now. Now! DO IT NOW! :D I still love the contrast of this whole culmination. In Rak'tika: "Because this is our history. Our story." Here at the end. "This is our future. Our story." Also the little details... "Let us cast aside titles and pretense" The Trial has no title, just "Hades" Where Titan's trial says "Titan | Lord of Crags" and the like, this one literally does away with titles as he said. And of course as others likely have mentioned....you've passed the trial. You've proven yourself to carry on the weight of the future. In the final moments, Emet-Selch is no longer hunched over, no longer bearing the weight of centuries and millennia on his shoulders. The burden is now yours to bear. Now listen to Tomorrow and Tomorrow and pay close attention to the lyrics. And lastly...Ardbert's axe in the final scene. No longer stained.

There are no errors in Emet's math. They do explain it in ShB but not very well. A much more complete explanation follows. But basically, the people who were sacrficed to Zodiark, didn't return to the lifestream and get Sundered with the rest of the world. They're part of him, trapped in him. Offering up other souls will free them to be reborn. Even if Big Z can't literally bring them back to life exactly as they were, worst case scenario is they'll just get to reincarnate. Which for Emet would still be a Win.

Oh my sweet child, this isn't even the hardest kick to the balls of Shadowbringers. To quote another game: reeling? There is so much worse in store

There is sort of an afterlife, but it’s more of an interim period for souls. The Aetherial Sea or the Lifestream. Souls in this game are subject to reincarnation.

Lol. He wouldn't kill his own fa.... OH!

I really, really wanted to love Shadowbringers, but (to me at least) it feels like several of the quests in between "big" moments drag on a little too much. I felt like I was just doing chores, counting wood and building ladders while waiting for the big lore moments.

I never felt so humble yet almighty going into a final boss battle. The music drop remains one of the best cataclysmic invigorations of all time ❤ forth! My friend, forth!

I’ll be watching for you through Endwalker. Get more tissues.

50:55 name of the track, please?

"There's no way FF14 can top this moment." Laughs in Endwalker Spoilers. :'D

Glad you enjoyed 5.0 :). I don't know what else to say, other than I find the description of the video hilarious. Asmongold's too emotionally dead to get that much out of the rest of the game anyway.

Aaaaaah nooooo I gota start playing the game agen T.T as your reaching the point I'm at eeeeehhhh >.>

If I were to look at Earth objectively, I don't know if I'd trust us to be guardians, either.

The amount of times you said "I can fix him"... Are you in an abusive relationship irl or just this game?

Something to know about the ending: Remember all the way back in A Realm Reborn, it was established that Ascians are effectively immortal and their souls cannot be destroyed unless trapped. Emet-Selch destroyed the white auracite binding him, he wasn't trapped at the end and we had no way of permanently destroying him; but he still died. This means that he chose to die, and to leave their legacy and the future in our hands.

As a fellow Zenos lover, that scene at the end had me SCREAMING in my friends ears. Zenos loves the WoL so much 😂❤

Now that the First has been saved and there should be no more rejoining, you and G'Raha are the only two people of the Source who have been rejoined 8 times. Canonically the strongest heroes in the world now, woot!

Man, Endwalker will destroy you...

I hate this game. Why every single time i watch those scenes i ended up crying more and more hating the fact that i cannot experience this again for the first time. For a lot of people Emet hit really hard but nothing hits harder than watching Ardbert finally reuniting with his party, that broke my soul the first time i saw it. Also, grats on finishing 5.0, ShB isn't done yet so tight your seat belt.

Amidst all the praise, I shall add criticism. It's a personal gripe, but talking over dialog bothers me. That's it. I mostly enjoyed the video aside from that.

I was fine until the redheaded cat boy started crying.