Final Fantasy 16 Echoes of the Fallen
Added 2025-07-23 17:00:13 +0000 UTCPart 15 of our Playthrough for Final Fantasy 16. Playing Echoes of the Fallen DLC
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That's for this knowledge drop on Omega!
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:58:53 +0000 UTChaha! I mean to be able to pull off combining all those elements and intertwining the genres is impressive if done successfully
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:56:46 +0000 UTCI think we have before, but not a lot?
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:55:30 +0000 UTC(which it didn't seem to) - 😂 We always welcome the extra help and explanations so thank you for sharing this!
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:54:55 +0000 UTCCan't wait! 😃
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:53:27 +0000 UTCThank you! 🙏
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:53:00 +0000 UTCHe was tough!
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:52:02 +0000 UTCOh thanks for this, we'll check it out!
Bethany and Ken
2025-07-25 18:51:46 +0000 UTCTo think i had the Gotterdammerung Sword and still found it tough. Oh well. I think u guys are gonna love the next dlc!
Mosh Mia
2025-07-24 23:34:56 +0000 UTCGot him the second time once i figured out his moveset and timings
Mosh Mia
2025-07-24 23:20:58 +0000 UTCAaargh this sigma boss actually killed me once. I can't believe it lol. I found him really tough for some reason.
Mosh Mia
2025-07-24 23:19:41 +0000 UTCOh yeah one last thing if for whatever reason ya wanted to see what happens if you fail the DPS check and let Omega delete the world here ya go: https://youtu.be/2gLO2JGTZRg?si=Etg-lsYzCQP63u0-
JT
2025-07-23 23:23:15 +0000 UTCIn my preparation for the ending of FF16, I've been looking over the last moments of the story. Wanted to get a reminder of just how much of the lore regarding Ultima's origin and motivations was actually portrayed through the dialogue, and it seems that what's said only in-game does not quite paint the full picture. Thus, I wanted to give you more details as provided by a translation of the timeline included in FF16: Ultimania, an official lore guide never localized outside of Japan. This right here is a link to the whole translation of the timeline, but as far as Ultima's backstory goes the first section (titled "Age of Ultima") pretty much covers it all. Would've just put the info here but tbh I think the format of this translation is a lot easier to read than a Patreon comment. https://foundintranslation.kr/ffxvi-world-chronology/
JT
2025-07-23 22:52:50 +0000 UTCWell, I guess that's that. Wish you two luck for what's coming up in The Rising Tide (if you haven't played it already by the time you see this). If what lies there is anything like how it is on normal difficulty you're sure as hell gonna need it. Suppose it's time to start getting my last batch of FF16 notes ready. There's a lot, and I mean a LOT that I gotta say across the last moments of this journey (how unusual I know). Hope ya'll are ready.
JT
2025-07-23 19:25:18 +0000 UTC2:09:10 I guess I'll try and step in here as someone who suggested that reading the lore might help (which it didn't seem to). As someone who had always wondered "why?" as well about that cutscene, I'll just share the words of another user who put it about as well as I ever could: "The lore archives said that his mother was killed in a tribal conflict with a rival religious faction. If the god you worshiped came down and convinced you to do all this horrendous shit and claim you as his chosen few... you'd probably have something of a detached god complex. Where the only meaningful sense of fellowship would probably be with your own family as per the whole "bloodline dictates the eikon." It makes sense why he's fucked up in the head and a complete emotional wreck concerning his own mother. She was the closest thing to any sense of humane interaction." I'd like to add that I do believe the reaction you two and I had to that scene was almost definitely the intended effect. It was meant to be an unsettling that emphasizes Barnabas' obsessive personality and virtues, as well as the manipulative nature of Ultima.
JT
2025-07-23 19:20:14 +0000 UTC2:02:45 Oh nah, wait a damn minute. Ya'll really have never talked to Harpocrates until now despite all these different times we've told ya about him? C'mon now. 😅 Eh, it's all good though. Better late than never and all that.
JT
2025-07-23 19:00:15 +0000 UTC37:42 "When did this become a sci-fi?" Hahaha, a lot of JRPG series like to combine fantasy and sci-fi elements into their worlds. Final Fantasy is no exception. At the beginning of this journey I had told ya that FF16 was the most "high fantasy" that a FF game has been in quite some time. If you two ever end up taking up the community and I's suggestion to start looking into more JRPGs like Xenoblade, Dragon Quest, and Chrono Trigger then this blend of elements ain't gonna be as unfamiliar. Ya can probably tell by the content I've suggested, but I love games that do this. It's literally every possible cool thing that I could ask a piece of media to include in one. Shit's peak entertainment and I will not hear otherwise lol.
JT
2025-07-23 17:42:37 +0000 UTCLike with Titan, Omega Aionios’ theme “Eikonoklasm” is also based off Soken’s work on Final Fantasy 14. Eikonoklasm uses a leitmotif and samples lyrics from Omega’s FF14 theme “eScape”, and I just love how chaotic it is. Really puts the icing on the cake for the battle against Omega Aionios, especially during that final DPS check. You can buy the track for the Hideaway’s orchestrion after completing Echoes of the Fallen, so I just have that shit blasting nonstop and annoying all the residents lol. I'm putting in the energy playlist so ya'll get to join them lmao.
JT
2025-07-23 17:03:57 +0000 UTCI had previously said that Clive vs Barnabas was just my second favorite main boss of FF16. The battle against Omega is easily the one that takes the number one spot for me. Everything that I’ve previously praised about Dominant/human bosses over Eikon battles in the past is on full display here. There is little bullshit when fighting Omega. No QTEs. No lengthy scripted segments like in Ifrit vs Titan Lost. It’s just you, a full set of abilities at your disposal, and a challenging enemy that keeps you on your toes. How I wish I had the time to try it on Final Fantasy mode. I managed to die to him once during my recent second run and not at all during my first, which is weird because I was rusty the first time (for it had been a few months between the base game and the DLC’s release).
JT
2025-07-23 17:03:40 +0000 UTCOmega is a long recurring superboss in Final Fantasy. It’s often designed as a quadrupedal robot like it is here in FF16, but the synthetic flesh and the extra arms it obtains when it transforms into Omega Aionios are exclusive to this iteration. Being a superboss, it’s often an enemy that is significantly more challenging than the final boss (FF16’s Omega being no exception to this imo). It’s often portrayed throughout the lore of Final Fantasy as a supreme war machine capable of traveling between dimensions. One that only appears to bring about the end of all things. A purpose only emphasized by its name being the last letter of the Greek alphabet, which Omega Aionios takes even further by being ancient Greek for “eternal end”. Since FF16's battle against Omega gives you checkpoints for segments where its health is partially depleted, I'd argue this fight is def on the easier side of all his incarnations. That probably sounds ridiculous given what ya just experienced, but I'm serious lol.
JT
2025-07-23 17:03:24 +0000 UTC
