A friend of mine pointed out the irony of this zone's entrance being located behind a tomb and now I'm even sadder ;w;

@guilhermecardoso2365

11 күн бұрын

This place is also a tomb, like the one you see at the end of the second dungeon, but this one needs genocide to power it.

@Megabigfox

9 күн бұрын

And it is the only place left behind from the Everkeep.

@NamelessCat77

6 күн бұрын

We already knew this because everyone that departs from the new Alexandria are stored to the cloud. The scions surmise that the gate to the golden city was not only a gate to its Reflection, but will likely lead them to the storage facility. But what I wasn’t ready for was everyone meeting their departed love ones. Krile’s scene made me misty eyed

The section with the kids was pretty brutal on top of all the other stuff. And one of the companions (I think it was Krile?) points out just before you shut down that terminal that because these endless are all shown as their happiest selves that that means that all those kids either died young or only became more miserable as they grew up. I was LOSING it through this whole zone man.

@amsaa91

16 күн бұрын

I love that detail when you see Wuk Lamat’s nanny bc she’s at her happiest as a young adult woman raising Wuk Lamat as a kid after living 30 years without her. But as soon as she sees Wuk Lamat as an adult she becomes old bc now she’s at her happiest as an old woman looking at how that kid grew up.

@jdniemand

11 күн бұрын

One of the side quest NPCs in Yesterland appears as an unusually intelligent kid looking for his brother... until he remembers/realises his brother was outside the dome when it appeared, whereupon he turns into an older man who'd lived his whole life inside the dome.

@Pine_Time

9 күн бұрын

It was Erenville that said it... All the while, he was processing his feelings too..

I cried at pretty much every section of this map, letting go of old faces and new faces alike, saying goodbye to people we'd just met and yet felt as if we'd known all our lives, Namikka, Otis, Robor and Alayla, Cahciua...One by one, peeling away the facade of memory and nostalgia, leaving only the blank, darkened outline beneath the colour. Until we were left with nothing but the sound of gentle winds. One by one releasing the souls of those who had lived for so long in an eternal dream, letting them sleep forever...even after Sphene was gone, it became even more sad, even as the golden glow of the city faded and the true sun rose over the lifeless skyline, this beautiful music now muffled, distant, like playing from somewhere else we can't reach, echoing through the barren streets like one final memory of the lives of those who inhabited this city, a ghost of a memory...what a beautiful place, i only wish I could have stayed there just a little longer...

@yamchayaku

20 күн бұрын

It became the complete opposite of Ultima Thule. The music almost gave the place an almost haunting vibe after all was said and done.

@jpnakashima1224

15 күн бұрын

"I only wish I could have stayed there a little longer" The true embodiment of Living Memory: what would you give for one more day with those you love? What price could you pay? And how long until you fall from it.

@fionnmaccumhail76

12 күн бұрын

That was even the worst part, going around, knowing that you are going to shut it down, and meeting people loved for some of your companions and knowing they are going to go. That killed me.

@Mik-hn7vh

10 күн бұрын

If you like to see old look of the city again, you can use New game+ and see it again as it was

@lulkaku

8 күн бұрын

The moment I heard and met Otis in living memory.... my heart broke into a million pieces. Why do I have to watch this man "die" twice 😭😭😭😭.

This really gives Twilight Town our summer vacation is almost over kind of vibes and I love and hate it at the same time 😢😢😢

@noble7654

14 күн бұрын

Lol, Twilight Town came immediately to mind. Beautiful tones and has a nostalgic feeling as well

@kyleb7047

13 күн бұрын

​@noble7654 Same, as I was questing in this zone last Monday; I mentioned in Shout this had Twlight Town vibes all over, and it was super sad.

@SagaTuber

13 күн бұрын

Thought exactly the same!!

@TheMaxCloud

8 күн бұрын

So I wasnt the only one who thought about Twilight Town when questing in this place

@crystalnephesiahawklaw

3 күн бұрын

My thought exactly. The music and the zone had such similar vibes that I kept thinking about that all the time I was there.

Turns out finding the City of Gold was the easy part. The hardest part was letting go. Thank you Final Fantasy XIV: Dead Money. Thanks for breaking my heart.

@jkdragonjk6895

20 күн бұрын

The only difference was there was no gold bars to cheese to circumnavigate the entire point of the dlc.

@bigfoxki

19 күн бұрын

NG+ is just like the Endless system of Living memory.

@daymanAAAAHHHH

17 күн бұрын

The quest givers move on and disappear when you help them complete their "unfinished business"

@xalmor6044

13 күн бұрын

Yes, consoooom the schlock.

@G-Manfromhalflife

8 күн бұрын

​@@xalmor6044womp womp wowtard

This shit had me messed up at 5am lol

@shiranelle

20 күн бұрын

lol same, it's always in the night

@NovaVor4380

20 күн бұрын

this area destroyed me ngl

@Probably_Gonna_Die

19 күн бұрын

Bruh it's almost 5 am and I'm bawling my eyes out. :(

@redcloud16

17 күн бұрын

SAME

@pipeisreal

16 күн бұрын

me arriving here at 3am: surely i can just power through the last zone and finish the msq before the morning needless to say i could NOT, in fact, power through the last zone and had to stop and take a break

Me and 2 other friends of mine were peogging the story together, and when we got to this point, we were ALL crying... I was reminiscing of my dearly departed friend who passed away in his sleep, and my friends were reminiscing about their grandparents that had long since passed to.. I've long since come to acceot their passing, but stuff like this just keeps reopening that wound, and it hurts... it just hurts... One of my friends then said that Ultima Thule and Living Memory are parallels to each other, where one is filled with denizens in constant despair, the latter is filled with people who were at their happiest in their lives... He then proceeded to say: "Love hurts more than Despair"

It will be a summer vacation he said, It will be a wholesome expansion he said!

@Konpekikaminari

7 күн бұрын

Well, looks like our summer vacation is... over

Having lost loved ones before, I’m constantly plagued by dreams where they remain, constant and endless much like this. Knowing they’re gone but they still haunt and remain. As much as I wish these dreams would stop haunting me, to have it shown so clearly like this was even more painful to bear. To shut it down for everyone, ready or no. And I can’t say even I am ready. But even in dreams, they’re just our memories, and not themselves.

@Konpekikaminari

7 күн бұрын

I feel this I still see my grandparents in my dreams sometimes

Doing that play for the kids and seeing Wuk Lamat improvising as Otis broke down was an emotional punch for me

@invaderzam

14 күн бұрын

When I saw there were 4 zones, I knew there was going to be a zone dedicated to Wuk Lamat, Krille and Erenville. But who would the last zone be for? G'raha Tia? He doesn't know anyone who would be here. When I realized who that knight was, it hit me. This zone is for us. It gave us the chance to say goodbye to a new old friend.

"fuck im almost crying already and ive barely started this zone is gonna destroy me isnt it" - discord friend

Coming here after beating dawntrail broke my heart, the song still plays but now it sounds like you’re in an empty mall.

@Harufloof

21 күн бұрын

I need the full version of this one..

@AnotherOpinion695

20 күн бұрын

I wish we didn't do what we did it was such a glorious sight to see and i was hoping it would become this huge amusement park esc type of hub that was a "secret reward" some how for getting to the end of the expansion but nope 🥲

@Abyss0fDelta

20 күн бұрын

It was an amusement park for the dead that was fueled by the souls of the living. We had to shut it down ​@AnotherOpinion695

@AnotherOpinion695

20 күн бұрын

@@Abyss0fDelta I know it was just so pretty but I understand that it was time for the place to be at rest

@Abyss0fDelta

20 күн бұрын

@@AnotherOpinion695 letting go definitely hurt

Glad to know I’m not alone in having cried throughout this entire part of the game.

this place gives the same energy as both a nursing home and the last sparks of neuron activity in a brain shutting down and it’s incredibly eerie. this place is essentially palliative care symbolized, and putting it to rest is both cathartic and heartbreaking. good lord i was in tears

@Soooooooooooonicable

21 күн бұрын

I actually refused to shut down the first terminal for a while. It was SO sad.

@blossomlotus2019

20 күн бұрын

@@Soooooooooooonicable I had such an incredibly big problem with terminal 4, I just couldn't let her go I didn't want to let her go.

@hellgorama

20 күн бұрын

@@blossomlotus2019 Of course you couldn;t let her go. She reminded your character of Venat too much.

@BunnychanFarabee

19 күн бұрын

This song in particular reminds me of the first part of "Everywhere At The End Of Time", a long-form track/audio project about dementia. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qX6LzdWJh6exf8Y.html

@sarasnake9954

18 күн бұрын

⁠@@BunnychanFarabeeI had the exact same thing come to mind! It’s especially haunting to come back later and hear the post-MSQ version of the area theme. The way it distorts, echos, randomly silences, and loops back over on itself… the effect is quite similar to EATEOT imo. Chilling.

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.” - Jan Glidewell I really love that the zone looks the most beautiful at first. It really teaches you something: to take your time and cherish the now. Deep down, we all know that nothing lasts forever. In the end, you can't go back to what once was. You're only left with the memory of how great it was.

This is like the pure, distilled audio manifestation of melancholy.

@Harufloof

19 күн бұрын

And I love it

i honestly really like that you can't bring back this version of the zone after finishing the msq. it's just a hollow shell of what it used to be, all the buildings still there but drained of color, only populated by robots, monsters and the like 5 or so quest givers. the music is still there but hollow and eerie, the golden glow is replaced by cold daylight. i want to go back to what it used to be but i know i can't, everyone is already gone. but that's how it's meant to be, it's a monument to all these people who used to live. absolutely phenomenal expansion, the second half might honestly put this above shadowbringers in my mind.

@laerwen

20 күн бұрын

All of what you said, yes, exactly. The impermanence of it all is what makes it even more beautiful, because that's how life works. We love life and then we let go. I felt like I experienced a piece of art by the time I was finished.

@MaxLebled

19 күн бұрын

You can bring it back in the most ironic manner of all: by using the feature that lets you relive the past, New Game +

@omensoffate

19 күн бұрын

Sorry but Otis was in the game for 2 hours calm down w

@aspookyscaryskeleton1474

18 күн бұрын

I don't like it at all because instead of redesigning the zone to still look interesting and appealing despite the shut down occurring they instead just slapped the exact some 2 fucking textures over the ground and on to every single object making it look horrendously shit and not somewhere I am going to want to spend time fate grinding, hunts or doing treasure chests. The idea was good but in reality the execution was awful and it seems more like they didn't want to make the area look good twice.

@midgetsnowman

18 күн бұрын

@@aspookyscaryskeleton1474 thats the point though. It was all an illusion. All a fleeting dream of better times. A haven for an Alexandria that died a long time ago propped up on the work of the Alexandrians of the now. It was never intended to be seen, so why bother decorating it.

I was sobbing the entire zone. Brought up a lot. I hope I’m not the only one who was affected so.

@redcloud16

17 күн бұрын

every section broke me. there was a point where I wasn't sure I could even continue. I had to stop and wander around a bit more before hitting that button.

@castoputa

17 күн бұрын

The conversation you have with G’raha in the gondola…..

@Aradhel84

15 күн бұрын

I've felt the same, some bits have been too much and I literally had to take short breaks from the game because I had to process what I've seen, heard and felt... in particular for the last two meetings. I thought that there could have been nothing sadder than Ultima Thule in this game and well, I was wrong.

@Tygaera

13 күн бұрын

I, too, sobbed in this area quite a lot, there are dear family members I lost when I was a child and this zone brought it all back.

@sonnyson01

7 күн бұрын

Reminded me when i had to say goodbye to my father when he passed from cancer... Saying goodbye is painful, but the memories you make with others are what make you live on forever

a video game has never made me feel so miserable before

@Ruzgfpegk

17 күн бұрын

Fate/Grand Order has some moments like that too, but its "smartphone visual novel" nature makes it less immersive.

This oboe solo is used to absolutely devastating effect. I love that instrument because of its pureness of tone and the clarity of its pitch. It adds to the feeling of wistfulness; the Endless remembering their former lives with sadness but acceptance, preparing themselves for their true end. So they live life to the fullest, self-aware that their way of existence isn't sustainable. And then you come to set them free. It's so hard to do the right thing, sometimes, but we're meant to let go. Life is about letting go of every minute every day.

Never in my life thought a game could make me nostalgic for something being gone that was brand new :') thank you for posting this!

@MarzBaer

15 күн бұрын

I think another reason it hits hard is it sounds a lot like the Twilight Town theme from Kingdom Hearts 2, and anyone who has played that game is already going to associate memories of that soundtrack with melancholy and loss. It attacks you from the past and present 😭

@saskak6069

5 күн бұрын

Very much this, the Twilight Town feelings came flooding in hard, such bittersweet feeling mixed with nostalgia​ @@MarzBaer

I had to give the order to to pull the plug, once, several years ago. After two weeks of holding out for a miracle and then finally having the lead doctor tell me it just wasn't going to happen. It's something I've had plenty of time to make peace with.... but being taken back to that mindset, even if only in a shadowy way, didn't fill me with joy. That being said... I didn't hesitate to make the call in-game. If you wait until you feel ready, you'll be waiting forever.

From the team describing this expansion as a "Summer Vacation" and for this to be the end zone feeling like Twilight Town.... man. This hit in the feels, we are 3 for 3 on final zones making me cry, I really shouldn't have expected less.

@TheMaxCloud

6 күн бұрын

It was the end of the summer vacation Goddsmnit I never got that wtf

This zone is such a brilliant subversion of expectations, considering tural is based on the americas you'd probably be inclined to believe the golden city would be based on el dorado, and i really am glad that square went with this approach

@Leafsw0rd

20 күн бұрын

And at the same time, it makes perfect sense. Because of course the America continent would have its own Disneyland.

私はこの世界を壊したくなかった

@VioletNightmare

17 күн бұрын

Neither did I my friend. Neither did I....

This area ripped my heart in half, it hit me especially hard considering today, July 5th, is personally a hard day for me, it would have been the 27th birthday of a cousin who was a brother to me

Honestly this zone made me cry so much that it took me 4 hours to finish. A lot of it has to deal with how relatable it was to me. Wuk Lammat getting a second chance to say what was left unsaid to her adoptive mother. Especially with Erenville having to kill his mother essentially and spend a final day with her. Then it kind of hit me why it hurt so much, it was like taking your loved ones off life support in a sense, not wanting to let them go despite them being gone. I think thats maybe what the devs were going for, especially when you consider they give you a choice of shutting the terminals down. Once the machine goes out, the lights go out and the flatline, just leaving silence.

This is the area that broke me. Everything about living memory is so devastatingly sad, and this song captures this feeling so perfectly well that I can't help but tear up every time I hear it. I can't think of any piece of media or fiction that captures the emotion of grief so strongly as this. As someone who has lost people dear to me, without ever having the chance to say goodbye, this area resonated so much with me, that I couldn't stop crying for the entirety of my time in it. The beauty and melancholy of this dying paradise, getting there and meeting these Endless living in innocent bliss in a such a beautiful environment, in full knowledge that their fate is sealed. To see Namikka, Cahciua and Krile's parents in full knowledge that they'll be gone is soul crushing. It's the pain of saying goodbye to a loved one on their deathbed, even if the circumstances around them are peaceful and you know they have accepted their end, it still hurts so much. And then you shut it down, and the empty shell of the what used to be is even worse. The silence, the emptiness and dullness that comes afterwards makes the feeling of loss really sink in.

@castoputa

19 күн бұрын

Beautifully articulated ❤

Never have I cried over a video game. This area finally got me. It made me feel nostalgic over nothing, made me file through all of the regrets I have in life, and forced me to end a happy, innocent people caught in the mad designs of Preservation. Fuck you, Square Enix. Take my money.

@coffeelink943

9 күн бұрын

Square Enix: Thanks! Now we will sell you our overpriced Mogstation that’s ended up being a ripped off

@wol_-

8 күн бұрын

@@coffeelink943 I cannot express how much I didn’t ask.

@PetarBladeStrok

21 сағат бұрын

I applaud you for managing to get through ShB and EW without crying. But yeah, this zone is pure pain. As were the last zones for ShB and EW.

@wol_-

21 сағат бұрын

@@PetarBladeStrok I’m not a particularly emotional person (most of my emotions are expressed through apathy, toxic masculinity type beat), just the themes of Living Memory resonated with me in particular because I’ve a lot to regret and a few people I miss who are no longer with me.

i love the little nod to 'melodies of life' from ff9 at 2:46

@LysFlowerful

21 күн бұрын

I don’t really hear melody of life in this … what part of it ?

@Soooooooooooonicable

21 күн бұрын

@@LysFlowerful the part of the song they're pointing out sounds a lot like - "and so it goes, on and on" from Melodies of LIfe. Still though, I really wish Melodies of Life was more prominent, or perhaps just played once at the very end :c

@PatrioticAnarchist

3 күн бұрын

Theres an npc that mentions a few things from ff9. Quite a frw things in this zone that touch on that.

The opening of New Vegas' Old World Blues expansion really paints a picture about this place and Sphene's worldview. Doctor Mobius: "There is an expression in the Wasteland: "Old World Blues."" Doctor Klein: "It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future, for what it is." Doctor Dala: "They stare into the what-was, eyes like pilot lights, guttering and spent, as the realities of their world continue on around them." Doctor O: "Science is a long, steady progression into the future. What may seem a sudden event often isn't felt for years, even centuries, to come."

When the Soundtrack started I instantly got a flashback of Twilight Town from Kingdom Hearts.

I can think of they wrote this part of story mourning for the many players that passed away since the game started operating, like the "Dad of light"(Maidy and his father Indy) Edit: Holy, I just knew there's really a npc looked alike Maidy's around Solution 9

"Are you certain you wish to shut down the terminal?" (Yes) | (No)

@manesium

16 күн бұрын

"i'm not crying, you are!"

@Smallville619

2 күн бұрын

Literally have not been able to for four days... lost my uncle recently i saw him literally hours before he died this area rips your heart out

What I would do to spend one more day with the one I lost and is 24 hours enough time? This zone messed me up but I love it for that, awesome expansion

@Aethereality

19 күн бұрын

I feel this soooooooooooo much. The events at the first terminal definitely messed me up. How I wish I could have had one last chat with some dearly departed loved ones.

@misanthropiclusion

14 күн бұрын

@@Aethereality it being g'raha the one that makes that talk means a lot too

Lost my old man back in october of last year very suddenly/unexpectedly, christ he was 4 hours away and alone and none of us even got to say goodbye. And god... coming out here i was already at least lightly spoiled on what had to be done to progress the zone/who i'd run into and it still just... devastation. I would have still loved this zone/the last leg of the plot if he were here but god it certainly made the impact of this zone/the villain that much harder. I'm sure he's happy where he is though, went to the place he was happiest and got called home, i like to think a place like this exists without the nightmare that was upkeeping it.

I played DT with my fiancee and this place totally broke our hearts to pieces. My fiancee, who usually not that much bothered with sad scenes, had to stop from playing several times because how hard the feels hit him. Good job, SE (also we are getting married soon and I'm considering to put this music on our wedding playlist lol its just so beautiful)

@w061a09

17 күн бұрын

🥳

@acadianalien

14 күн бұрын

The gondola where the couple are holding each other broke me, it was early in that zone too

As I was playing through this area, I got reminded of my grandma, who passed not too long after I moved to where I am now. I had to take a moment to sit by a body of water to process my feelings - I think it might have been the ocean towards the edge of town, and water typically is a source of comfort to me. Unprompted, someone who had just finished the same cutscene sat down next to me and kept me company while I cried my eyes out. We'd never met before, but they took the time to sit with me while I processed things. We didn't say a word. Looking back, we probably didn't need to, but I wish I'd taken the time to properly thank them. This zone is a *lot*. It really makes you wrestle with death, and loss, and letting go. And it tears your heart into pieces while you do it.

@acadianalien

14 күн бұрын

Yeah man same, my grandma was 2 weeks before Dawntrail so the Namika quest was pretty emotional.

@AzahVT

14 күн бұрын

Heartbroken to agree. I also lost my grandmother and the Namikka stuff absolutely destroyed my heart. What I would give to speak to her at least one more time.

Losing this beautiful zone and the happy people in it... Well... I understand what message the devs were trying to portray. Enjoy the moment as long as it lasts. Live in it because time is fleeting and short. The people we hold dear and the things we love will eventually fade. We must come to terms with death and loss. Our beloved memories of happiness can live on within ourselves. That's honestly enough 😢

@Soooooooooooonicable

21 күн бұрын

beautifully said ;-;

@brandohernandez9991

4 күн бұрын

Oh no, I have a feeling but I don’t wanna share it, cuz it’s affect a lot of people. Pls no SE and YoshiP.

This zone is absolutely insane, profound and beautiful in what it seems like the devs were trying to portray with it.

2:32 is so beautifully sad

This song has been on repeat all day as I level up my gatherers/crafters. Love this theme.

It looks like... my summer vacation is... over...

@AGuyNamedDan79

18 күн бұрын

1000% felt the same vibes here, the idea of letting resonate so well with the beginning of KH2. I hope we get a confirmation of it.

I am reluctant to run the shared fates here after having finished. To have it so empty…it’s even worse than dead ends emotion wise

@Wishmaster787

Күн бұрын

When you first enter the zone it feels safe and comforting but after shutting down all the terminals the place becomes nightmare fuel.

This zone reminded me a lot of Disney world and of Twilight Town from KH. my sister, who passed about 4 years ago, and I used to go to Disney a lot and were huge fans of KH growing up so when I first loaded into the zone it made me feel a little bittersweet, but overall happy. But man oh fucking man when I saw the first message that it would go away forever after progressing. This zone destroyed me. I walk around for about an hour before progressing just bawling my eyes out

@TheMaxCloud

6 күн бұрын

same after that message of it going away forever I started walking around almost crying and tsking photos of places before advancing, and then... It all went away, with no more music at all

The gameplay and narrative work together so well in this zone. Just as the characters have to let go of their loved ones and shut down the memory cores to get to Sphene, we the player have to let go of one of the most beautifully designed zones in the game to continue the story...

Looks like my summer vacation is… over

if this is Soken, then its the most Uematsu soken has composed in a good long while

Good job XIV. You again successfully made me feel like I lost something

The vibe reminds me of Twilight Town from KH2. Cozy yet melancholy. I’m not done with Dawntrail yet, but something tells me I’m going to get gut punch hard very soon.

While doing the MSQ, the fact that the music actually stops playing in parts where you've turned the terminals off is a very good touch the zone... They do bring in a new zone music after finishing the MSQ, but just going through the grey lifeless areas in complete silence was definitely something else.

the Japanese name for Dawntrail expansion name is 黄金のレガシー (ougon no legacy/the golden legacy) This place is summed that name pretty well. The legacies we bear from all those people we met in this place.......

They got the exact same clarinet the guy who did the Twilight Town theme used.

@RhodeSchaeffer

21 күн бұрын

sounds a lot more like a double reeded instrument, like an oboe

@rh666

20 күн бұрын

@@RhodeSchaeffer I think it's an oboe

@kaonsume

18 күн бұрын

omg thats why it reminded me so much of twilight town holy shit

@CoBud91

8 күн бұрын

CANNOT UNHEAR WTFFFFFF

@infinityrocks247

Күн бұрын

​@@RhodeSchaeffer Oboe player here, that's indeed an Oboe :D

Yoshi P's ultimate "fuck you" to the gposing community.

@elbant64

12 күн бұрын

Activate any New Game + from previous xpacs and it goes back to the way it was Happy gposing!

@danielkallman8614

11 күн бұрын

@@elbant64wait really!?!?

@captaine-niscookie3406

11 күн бұрын

@@danielkallman8614 just be sure to unlock flight beforehand lol

@danielkallman8614

11 күн бұрын

@@captaine-niscookie3406 omg it actually works!!!

@captaine-niscookie3406

11 күн бұрын

@@danielkallman8614 3 of the travel NPCs don't work in NG+ though, just a heads-up

i loved this area so much, the MSQ really hit me hard on a personal level, didn’t expect to cry over entirely new characters even worse, it’s sad to see that most people consider dawntrail to be the worst expansion yet. i think otis and sphene may be some of my favourite characters, and poor little gulool ja too

@AaronWOfficial

21 күн бұрын

I didn't care for the early portion, but the latter portion more than made up for it imo. Idk why people are saying its the worst expansion, imo stormblood was far more meh than this msq. Only reason people rave about stormblood is it had good endgame.

@CptVanguard

21 күн бұрын

Havent heard many people say Dawntrail is bad, if anything ive heard the opposite, and on a personal level after finishing this zone I would even go as far as to say it managed to combined many previous expansions narratives and pacings together to make it one of the if not the best expansion to date, it sets up so many future stories while also offering us a painful farewell to the past. And it hurt, it hurt, oh god, it hurt. It actually feels hard to go through Living Memory after this, riding through it with the muted soundtrack and eeire music just makes it sad. I do however think, they are going to give us content patchwise that helps revive it again, I cant see this being the end, its too bleak.

@Soooooooooooonicable

21 күн бұрын

The flying sequence with Erenville and his mom got me teary eyed because you can just tell that he was watching her from behind and knowing that these were going to be his last moments with her.

@Veishan

21 күн бұрын

I lost my mom to cancer 14 years ago. When she died, I would've harvested entire worlds of aether/life force if it meant I could have one more 5 minute conversation with her. Erenville and Cahciua's final moments together had me sobbing hard.

@alternative_five

21 күн бұрын

MSQ obiously wasnt going to be as good as Shadowbringers or Endwalker BUT it wasnt bad Either and it ended up really good. i still consider it better than ARR and Stormblood at least haha. HOWEVER fight design has been just super super good dungeon and trials have been so fun and they really tried some new mechanics with some of the fights so thats looking good for the rest of the expansion.

The fact that they tell you after shutting things down it can’t be reversed hits different. Now it’s just a cold city looks so odd without the gold hue reminds me of that space world from end walker where everything is dark and distant and the music is eerie. However this was great

I feel the most memorable part of Dawntrail for me was the final section before heading into the final dungeon with this track playing. Manly salty tears.

Listening to this choke me up. It hurts that I can't revisit the place and see it as it once was; vibrant and full of "life". And knowing that I'm responsible for it being so gray and lonely feels a little like I'm being kicked while I'm down.

@Xarale

11 күн бұрын

If you go into New Game+ and pick any previous expansion (ie. Stormblood) and then come back to this area, it'll be completely reverted back to its old, vibrant state. It's obviously only a temporary solution, but it will at least let you revisit the place the way it once was!

It sounds so melancholic…

Words cannot describe how emotional I was going through this zone full of bittersweet farewells. The music reminds me a lot of Twilight Town from Kingdom Hearts. The city itself is a mixture of Twilight Town & Zanarkand for me, but I am aware that it's mostly FF9 related.

I see why gold was chosen...those golden days, those happy days. Gold never tarnishes just like thise memories we keep. This zone has been the most final fantasy thing in awhile. The 4 elements each with its own community, and theme. Each sparking something from our lives. Water with its endless flow, though obstacles may block us at times our feelings, and wants will find a way through. To answer that question what I wouldn't give to have one more day, and Raha was right if i could choose let it be a happy one. Fire is always seen as the courageous and bold, the fire within them only as brilliant as the sun. Earth...can be seen as many things but i guess it makes sense that it is one of remembrance. Even if years should go by the earth we walk was paved by the ones before and only fitting we adhere to the mistakes of the past to build a better future. Wind, going wherever the wind takes you the most adventurous element. From a raging tempest, to the calm evening breeze no matter what it goes on. Theres so much to say maybe im getting old, maybe i remember those days I was truly happy. For we are the living memory.

HAYNER!! PENCE!! OLETTE!!!!

To let go is the hardest part. Turns out Sphene, out of all characters, is the one who needed the most help to let go. What a story, what a game.

This song turns me into an absolute emotional mess in a way that only Frederick Chopin's Tristesse is able to. I almost want to think this is Masayoshi Soken trying to communicate lingering feelings he might have had while and after he was hospitalized.

@jeniffer7799

18 күн бұрын

exactly that. Soken's music is like a language to me. He's trying to express his feelings.

This zone was such an amazing experience. It was heartbreaking having to go through stage by stage and then being met by silence after. I said to my friends who I was with it’s a reverse Ultima Thule and this hit so much harder.

Walking next to every NPC to see their dialogue made this song SO much heavier on my heart. What a masterpiece of emotions that were put into this song. 😢

Did not come into this zone expecting to be repeatedly punched in the emotional gut but here we are. Themes of memory, euthanasia, and (once again) the nature of existence all came right for me. And we had to switch off the lights ourselves. I'm simply not here for the few disproportionately loud voices that say this expansion was a letdown. It's a new beginning and it begins by saying something meaningful about endings. I love it with my whole heart.

@BladRavenYey

18 күн бұрын

i didnt realize this sooner but you're right! an expansion whos theme is about passing on and moving forward fits so nice after endwalker!

@redcloud16

17 күн бұрын

yea, very frustrated by the loud number of people who disliked the expansion, wuk lamat, think this zone was a rehash of Ultima Thule; etc. Im like....well you skipped half the cutscenes, no wonder you missed the entire point. Every section of this area broke me, to the point I wasn't sure I could even continue. But i had to. T-T Ughhhhhh i was not hyped for Dawntrail, but I ended up really loving it.

Made me cry more than endwalker and shadowbringers. What I wouldn't do to see my loved ones again...

even the name has meaning. bygone serenity, to say goodbye to the peace and past we once held

The second half of Dawntrail up to this point was what really kept my interest. For me, I lost interest in Lamatyi. But the key takeaway from this whole experience is remembrance. Everything and everyone you've met along the journey to this point is about honoring their legacies but never truly to the point that it becomes your focus to keep those people alive in a metaphysical manner. I think it really hits home that when you're helping all the Endless lingering behind to help them realize their true purposes in life and that by helping them you've helped them be at ease knowing that their legacies are preserved. Though the Alxeandrians are a reflection of Allag, these people truly had a good heart in mind and a ruler who wanted nothing more than to keep her people alive and happy no matter how justified. Thanks, Square, for an emotional journey and rest in peace, Otis and Cahciua ❤

Heavy Twilight Town vibes, I love it.

What a profoundly melancholic and beautiful song and zone.

Honestly, this area had so much feel in it. It was beautiful but super sad at the same time.

For some reason this song reminds me of traverse town from Kingdom Hearts

@LysFlowerful

21 күн бұрын

For me it was twilight town, first part of the song is quite similar ! + the golden colour of Living Memory fits quite well

@aerialdive

21 күн бұрын

it reminds me of twilight town

@vipillai775

19 күн бұрын

Yeah reminds me too much of

@teyrns

19 күн бұрын

​@@LysFlowerful Also filled with data-based copies of the original people!

Feel like shit just want my old Living Memory back 😢

Messed me up really good like Amarout did.

So gorgeous. I'd first picked out this melody from the launch trailer and had been waiting the whole msq to hear it. I broke down when I got to Living Memory, and there it was.

This really sounds like a classic Uematsu theme

I know some people will hate this area for being like an ultima thule rehash but it elicited a very different feeling from me. Deactivating the sections was really quite depressing. It reminded me of leaving a foreign theme park at the end of a long day of fun, knowing i may not ever return, and having all these memories to cherish. Which is a really unusual feeling to get from a video game, but for that i will remember it differently from previous expansion final zones. A real bittersweet moment

@redcloud16

17 күн бұрын

When you get the first message to shut down the water tower and it says you cant go back; i almost couldnt continue. I left and wandered around a bit more; and then when i did it, it broke me. and then it broke me each time after. and im about to break again typing this out. this fuckin area wrecked me.

@Dras7

17 күн бұрын

I think this was more interesting than ultima Thule, it's up there with the tempest as best last zone imo.

@ThingsStuffington

7 күн бұрын

It's kinda the thematic opposite of Ultima Thule.

This one hurts so much...

Definitely nailed the nostalgia feel. Reminded me of the first time I played kingdom hearts on my DS

This zone destroyed me, it was so beautiful in every way

this part broke me. made me think of people ive lost in my life, including a friend very recently. made me feel sad about those ive lost, but happy that i ever had them in my life & have such fond memories of them that i keep close.

The soft piano solo reminds me of the Treno theme from ff9. Im floored by how nostalgic thus zone made me feel, even from the first second of zoning into it.

Was this theme composed by Yoko Shimomura??

There had to be another way. Dynamis. Something. The people there didn't get to choose to go. I understand it is wrong to trap them in purgatory away from the aetherial sea as saved digital copies and assimilating worlds for more storage. I just feel like we could have done more, so much more.

@Sonnabend00

11 күн бұрын

We cannot live on in memory..pale ghosts of who we were. Those that pass do live on, in our hearts and in our souls., But what we saw was a travesty..and in the end its preservation would come at a cost of thousands of other deaths. The living must not be sacrificed to give eternal existence to those who belong in the aetherial sea. We had no choice.

@NotTheWheel

11 күн бұрын

@@Sonnabend00 Very true these remnants need to be returned to the Aetherial sea. And Living Memory is a purgatory of sorts. Even still there could have been different ways to approach it.

Otis was my favorite character in this expansion. Seeing him here/saying goodbye got my good, ugly cry for this expansion.

I never thought we would get more depressing zone than Tempest and Ultima Thule. It's like fuck man, every time feels hits you when you have to let one piece of the map go, WHY YOU DO THIS MAN, ISHIKAWAAAAA, SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!

I swear I hear pieces of Celes' Theme/The Opera from FFVI in here.

@TheChandraraj12

14 күн бұрын

Probably on purpose. Dawn trail apparently has a lot of connections with ff6

@acadianalien

14 күн бұрын

@@TheChandraraj12 FF9 as well

this entire area made me tear up

It really was a world forth to fight for. You fought well Sphene.

This is literally dead money done on a monumental scale. Nicely done yoshida

End of holiday, remember go to work tomorrow

This reminded me of both Traverse Town from Kingdom Hearts, and any givin moment in Spiritfarer "Looks like my summer vacation is over"

@TheJadedFeather

19 күн бұрын

What you're thinking of is the Twilight Town theme, "Lazy Afternoons" (by Yoko Shimomura! :D), but yes! Huge KH vibes here

@Rennat9002

19 күн бұрын

@@TheJadedFeather Yea, the one from kingdom hearts 2, you're right.

Just reminds me so much of Twilight Towns theme, so calm and...summer vacation like

For those who already finished it. If you want Living Memory back to it first state. Start any New Game+ scenario

The dungeon version of this melody is also very cry-able knowing how much Sphene had done for her people and how much pain it causes for others and for herself

I lost my dad when I was 16, and my mom just last year. They died 20 years apart from eachother. The feelings this place gave me had me a mess for days afterward. I miss them so much. I'm closing in on my 40s quickly. I'd hoped they'd stick around a lot longer but, they had me late in their lives. Cherish your parents while you have them. Losing them is an inevitibility, you will always have their memories but you will still miss their physical presence no matter how old you get. If you have a good relationship with them, cherish it, if you don't? Your feelings will be complicated but it's still okay to miss them. Also, don't feel guilty if you can't spend their last moments with them, death is often unexpected, both my parents died unexpectedly. But I can only hope a part of them exists somewhere together. You gotta be okay with letting go at some point in your life. Let it go...there's nothing of your loved ones here anymore except memories; cherish those and walk, and make new memories.

This area was a fleeting memory, kinda like Zanarkand. Especially as a futuristic city from the past.

BIG twilight town energy here really sad you couldn't put it back the way it was after the trial, its genuinely beautiful and I can't imagine putting all that work in for it to only be there for a few hours or a day at most before being left as cold and grey metal forever after