Looking at the new screen, I like to imagine that just like Noct reunites with Luna in the afterlife, Ardyn gets to see Aera once more after getting freed from his curse :')
i love the fact that this is the second main menu theme for his campaign. really hammers in the fact that he is a victim of bahamut. you go into this dlc knowing hes evil but you leave feeling sorry for him. it really sucks that the planned dlc isn't going to be released, i would have loved to have seen ardyn and noctis defy the fates they've been given just like how ff13 was about defying fates created by gods.
After that final scene with Bahamut, this picture hit my heart so bad that I didn't dare to press any button and just hear the music, seeing Ardyn and Aera, wishing that if there's some afterlife in Eos, they could meet again and have the peace he, most than anyone, deserved.
I can 100% say with all of my heart that I believe Ardyn wouldn’t have been the villain if the Astrals didn’t use him. The Astrals could grant the chosen king power, so why couldn’t they purge the starscourge themselves if they wanted it gone so much? Ardyn is a perfect example of an innocent person corrupted by higher beings. He just wanted to do good for the world, and the Astrals took advantage of that.
I felt the same way when you realize that the Astrals grant the power to the Oracles to remove the starscourge from people, like Lunafreya. Bahamut could have sent an Oracle to heal Ardyn if they wanted to, but choose to let him suffer.
Am I crying because this game could have been soo much better? Maybe. Am I crying because this was the fucking most tragic story I've ever played through? Maybe. Am I crying because Bahamut is a dick? Maybe. Am I crying because every. single. one. of these characters deserved better? Yeah probably. Am I crying because Ardyn deserves the world? YEAH THATS PROBABLY THE REASON YEAH.
Okay so I was in tears near the end of the episode, right? And then after the credits, returning to the title screen to be greeted with THIS... I fucking lost it. I bawled, cursing Square's name, for 10 straight minutes. And you can bet your ass I'm about to cry right fucking now. I haven't felt so attached to a character in YEARS.
Ardyn is the best of the game and I would say the DLC is made with so much love. You can say it just looking this second main screen: it wasn't necessary, no one ever imagined it, but at the moment it shows, it's just so meaningful...
This game did not come to life fully until I played his story. Who really chooses to be evil? Truly the higher beings must take pleasure in our suffering... To us it's torture, to them it's simply putting a vessel of Gold into a refinery to make it shine brighter... The hour of glory is in suffering
Años despues de jugar este juego, solo puedo decir que es una obra de arte. Cada vez que escucho su musica, siento que la escucho por primera vez, o tal vez sea que me transporta a esa primera vez... Perfeccion
am i the only one pissed off that the dlc gets the option to change the title screen background, but we still cant choose the Night background with the Somnus theme in the main title screen?
I really want to change it to Somnus again, simply because i always start crying when I hear noctis theme in combination with seeing the after game title screen lol
Naw... i like the way they did it. The Lucian line was cursed from the start!!! Now their line is over..and the curse broken...now there can be day light
Thesauro caeli Apostole pie obsecro Spargo mundum Cum misericordia tua Thesauro caeli Apostole pie obsecro Spargo mundum Cum misericordia tua Ego sum ille Qui enuntiat vocem sideris Incedam tecum et tecum Tecum confirmo Ego amo te Tu stella amata Dona eis pacem Cum voce tua Thesauro caeli Apostole pie obsecro Spargo mundum misericordia tua
Ah, such a wonderful theme. I suppose I didn't get to enjoy this considering the fun I had rampaging Insomnia. Oh the stories to be told by this image and the image a button away.
I am curious if there is any meaning behind the new main screen, such as is Ardyn dreaming, he reunited with Aera after his death or a gesture from the developers.
I think they just want us crying haha... As someone else says here, you open the dlc knowing Ardyn as this ambiguous character full of hate, sit in the throne of Lucis. And after the DLC you know the real Ardyn, you know his tragedy... and this main screen is the real Ardyn, not the one full of hate, not the maniatic one, but this one, full of love, compassion and just wanting peace. And after knowing that the very gods themselves denied him the opportunity of a life in peace, this picture is perfect, because it makes us desire this life for Ardyn, at least in the afterlife if that exists.
@@teizahui That is a good explanation, I too want Ardyn to be reunited with Aera and hoped that happened in the end. There is concern whether or not Ardyn is alive and was allowed to pass on in the main game's ending.
@@mskiara18 I think he did, that was redemption and the light of providence that Noctis bestowed upon him. Both of them got shattered in the same way in the Beyond (Noctis and Ardyn) and we got Noctis with Luna in the afterlife so Ardyn must be with Aera too now that all the demons were purged form him.
Looking at the new screen, I like to imagine that just like Noct reunites with Luna in the afterlife, Ardyn gets to see Aera once more after getting freed from his curse :')
Zura this was the past you see here... not heaven.
Could be
Boy...i think you foresaw the ending of the book
@@lucasmonteiro600 you mean the most cliched, predictable and unimaginative happy ending you could give to Ardyn?
@@misaeltoral508 damn chill
That new title screen just breaks my heart. He looks so happy...
Yeah... He can rest now.
Don’t worry he’s with Aera now....
I think Ardyn is the real protagonist of this game.
@@b3at2pretty much
Anti hero
This DLC was the only one that made me cry. Man I feel so bad for Ardyn.
How the hell did you not cry with Ignis dlc?
@@lucas.lagoriaa cuz I relate to Ardyn :'v that's why I didn't cry with Ignis
and the cut Ardyn redemption DLC that got turned into a book is a downright criminal.
i love the fact that this is the second main menu theme for his campaign. really hammers in the fact that he is a victim of bahamut. you go into this dlc knowing hes evil but you leave feeling sorry for him. it really sucks that the planned dlc isn't going to be released, i would have loved to have seen ardyn and noctis defy the fates they've been given just like how ff13 was about defying fates created by gods.
After that final scene with Bahamut, this picture hit my heart so bad that I didn't dare to press any button and just hear the music, seeing Ardyn and Aera, wishing that if there's some afterlife in Eos, they could meet again and have the peace he, most than anyone, deserved.
Yeah why he takes aera to stab him 100 times ? So that he breaks lol why?? Which god would do that
@@teizahui yeah...
i love this game. it had issues, but its one of my favorite games of all time.
Us
I can 100% say with all of my heart that I believe Ardyn wouldn’t have been the villain if the Astrals didn’t use him. The Astrals could grant the chosen king power, so why couldn’t they purge the starscourge themselves if they wanted it gone so much? Ardyn is a perfect example of an innocent person corrupted by higher beings. He just wanted to do good for the world, and the Astrals took advantage of that.
He's another victim, just like Sephiroth
@@loaeterna2384 exactly!!!!
I felt the same way when you realize that the Astrals grant the power to the Oracles to remove the starscourge from people, like Lunafreya. Bahamut could have sent an Oracle to heal Ardyn if they wanted to, but choose to let him suffer.
almost everyone in FFXV is a victim. It's played on a greek tragedy if I'm correct
This song needs to be included in future Distant Worlds concerts! It's so moving and tragically emotional!
this song makes me sad, because this is the last dlc for the unfinished ending to ffxv that we will never get
Yeah..bad ending
Damn I just realized that the new screen is the equivalent of the final logo but with Ardyn and Aera instead of Noctis and Luna
Am I crying because this game could have been soo much better? Maybe. Am I crying because this was the fucking most tragic story I've ever played through? Maybe. Am I crying because Bahamut is a dick? Maybe. Am I crying because every. single. one. of these characters deserved better? Yeah probably. Am I crying because Ardyn deserves the world? YEAH THATS PROBABLY THE REASON YEAH.
Ardyn is my favourite bad guy of all time, and I absolutely love his story and lore. This OST is beautiful. Love this song, it's incredible.
One of the many things FFXV did right, these episode main menus were TOP notch
This is just BEAUTIFUL!!
Such a beautiful song to end a long journey 😄
Okay so I was in tears near the end of the episode, right? And then after the credits, returning to the title screen to be greeted with THIS...
I fucking lost it. I bawled, cursing Square's name, for 10 straight minutes.
And you can bet your ass I'm about to cry right fucking now. I haven't felt so attached to a character in YEARS.
Ardyn is the best of the game and I would say the DLC is made with so much love. You can say it just looking this second main screen: it wasn't necessary, no one ever imagined it, but at the moment it shows, it's just so meaningful...
I'm going to cry.
melleram I sob every time. To this and to Noctis’s Theme. Goddammit FFXV
The power of the sorrow train, all shall feel sadness lol
I hope everything was bad dream
He deserves better fr 😢
This DLC was awesome and my only complaint is that it wasn't longer. I really do wish we got the other 3 DLC episodes, especially the one for Aranea.
One, if not the most tragic story in video game history.
This game did not come to life fully until I played his story.
Who really chooses to be evil?
Truly the higher beings must take pleasure in our suffering...
To us it's torture, to them it's simply putting a vessel of Gold into a refinery to make it shine brighter...
The hour of glory is in suffering
You probably right but it still hurts none the less.
I will never forgive Bahamut for wrecking everyone's lives.
He dies in the end, though the story continuation for that is unfortunately stuck in a book. Released as after story.
Años despues de jugar este juego, solo puedo decir que es una obra de arte. Cada vez que escucho su musica, siento que la escucho por primera vez, o tal vez sea que me transporta a esa primera vez... Perfeccion
Love can be so beautifull, and also be deadly
am i the only one pissed off that the dlc gets the option to change the title screen background, but we still cant choose the Night background with the Somnus theme in the main title screen?
That's actually a fair point.
I really want to change it to Somnus again, simply because i always start crying when I hear noctis theme in combination with seeing the after game title screen lol
Naw... i like the way they did it. The Lucian line was cursed from the start!!! Now their line is over..and the curse broken...now there can be day light
I'm not crying...I'm not crying. I'm not crying...! I'm not crying! IM NOT CRYING!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
So beautiful! 😢
Thesauro caeli
Apostole pie obsecro
Spargo mundum
Cum misericordia tua
Thesauro caeli
Apostole pie obsecro
Spargo mundum
Cum misericordia tua
Ego sum ille
Qui enuntiat vocem sideris
Incedam tecum et tecum
Tecum confirmo
Ego amo te
Tu stella amata
Dona eis pacem
Cum voce tua
Thesauro caeli
Apostole pie obsecro
Spargo mundum
misericordia tua
Ah, such a wonderful theme. I suppose I didn't get to enjoy this considering the fun I had rampaging Insomnia. Oh the stories to be told by this image and the image a button away.
This game could’ve been the best Final Fantasy ever, but they fucked it up big time
You should read the book its one of my favorite ending
Ma fukin tears
So in the end, no one gets to the throne, so what is the point of this struggle, generation by generation of Lucis?
Amusement, for the so called "Gods".
All the previous kings of lucis got the throne... the two that never got to enjoy it were Ardyn and Noctis
@@SAR-re1fx :(
can someone give me the link for main menu photo i wanna use as wallpaper
Did anyone notice that the melody of this song is strangely similar to the main theme of Final Fantasy 1, just a softer version?
ardyn and aera are the same like noctis and luna ;-;
Until somnus came to ruin it all😭
Their relationship were more beautiful than Luna and Noct. Luna and Noct were pen friends lol
I am curious if there is any meaning behind the new main screen, such as is Ardyn dreaming, he reunited with Aera after his death or a gesture from the developers.
I think they just want us crying haha... As someone else says here, you open the dlc knowing Ardyn as this ambiguous character full of hate, sit in the throne of Lucis. And after the DLC you know the real Ardyn, you know his tragedy... and this main screen is the real Ardyn, not the one full of hate, not the maniatic one, but this one, full of love, compassion and just wanting peace. And after knowing that the very gods themselves denied him the opportunity of a life in peace, this picture is perfect, because it makes us desire this life for Ardyn, at least in the afterlife if that exists.
@@teizahui That is a good explanation, I too want Ardyn to be reunited with Aera and hoped that happened in the end. There is concern whether or not Ardyn is alive and was allowed to pass on in the main game's ending.
@@mskiara18 I think he did, that was redemption and the light of providence that Noctis bestowed upon him. Both of them got shattered in the same way in the Beyond (Noctis and Ardyn) and we got Noctis with Luna in the afterlife so Ardyn must be with Aera too now that all the demons were purged form him.
I knew that Ardyn was a good guy, but betrayed and confused.... Read the book ;-)
Ma fukin tears