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You should definitly put overwatch cinematics on ur list next!
world of warcraft use to be such a good game, it makes me sad that is declined severely
People didn't appreciate it at the time, but Pandaria was peak WoW for the hardcore casual player you see in FF14, the players playing every week despite ignoring the endgame Savage and etc.
But Lich King was definitely peak Cinematic. There's a reason why Game Of Thrones plagiarized it.
Nice channel!
u gota watch the animated shorts that came with some of these expacs 😀
edit: just realised "Old Soldier" wasnt in this. It was one of the BFA cinematics that takes place just before the official BFA cinematic >:(
Welcome to azeroth my friend! Can't wait to see your journey!
Yeah I can tell immediatedly from the video length from the video you're watching that this isn't every single one – not even if we don't include Dragonflight
Thanks for reacting to this, however i've never like this compilation of cinematics for the one simple fact that it lacks the ''Old Soldier'' cinematic. It is supposed to take place right before the ''Battle of Azeroth'' cinematic.
It's cool watching these again with those who are totally new to the IP.
Ok, so I will try to keep it brief but since you had questions.
Sylvanas was a High Elf who was killed by the Lich King (Arthas) and turned into a banshee (thus the Banshee Wail in the BfA cine). She goes super villain and does a bunch of terrible things leading to the war with the Alliance that you see in all the BfA stuff (and the Horde who break off from her to join Saurfang to stop her).
Spoiler alert inc: she is empowered by a super bad guy that's why she can kick everyone's butt in BfA and beyond. She partners up with this bad guy and that is the story of Shadowlands. Won't go into details b/c that is a can of worms (most ppl hated the story in SL).
Saurfang is Varok Saurfang (it can get confusing, I know). There is a cinematic that takes place chronologically right before the intro to BfA cine (the battle itself) called Old Soldier. It's amazing and you should watch it for some context. Idk why it's cut out of this compliation.
Anduin becomes king during Legion when Varian (the guy in the Legion cine who is narrating the letter to his son) dies saving all of his people. Varian goes out like the bad*ass he is and both Horde and Alliance players were devastated. Anduin is 17 at the time and has always been a pacifist, unlike his father. He is technically a priest (healing class). That's why you see him drop the sword to call on the Light to heal his troops. He's a pretty powerful priest at that. In the BfA cine he is 18. So, he's a kid who hates war and is not a great fighter, like his dad was. Big shoes to fill, etc.
In SL the leaders of various factions, inc Anduin, get kidnapped by Sylvanas and her baddie friends who are working with the new big bad (Jailer) who was literally just introduced for SL but turns out is responsible for every bad thing that ever happened to Azeroth (the world). Anduin is tortured for months, doesn't break, then they use what they call Domination Magic on him to essentially take control of him. He does all these bad things for the Jailer but he's aware of what he's being made to do. And after the xpac when he is freed from it all, he isn't sure if he kinda liked the power he possessed when he was "dominated". He doesn't go back to his kingdom, needs time to think about things, has lost faith in himself, is afraid to call the Light, etc. And that is what we find in the War Within cinematic.
The voice speaking to Anduin is thought to be Azeroth herself (the world soul, as per the subtitles). Lots of theories, no one knows what is going on yet.
Sorry for the wall of text. Great reaction. Keep em coming.
The sword happened in Legion. There are lots and lots of more cinematics LOL.
A lot of people have been asking me where Old Soldier cinematic is for this video, To make a long story short Blizzard (for some reason) have copyrighted that cinematic and I was unable to put that video in this reaction. I truly wish I could do that but for some reason they will not allow it. Sorry about that
god damn every new reactor to WoW cinematics choose this video and it sucks because it misses the Old Soldier
Hey! for context about the giant sword, watch the Argus cinematics from the Legion expansion. Especially the Antorus ending cinematic, which shows the sword being put there.
There's a lot of missing cinematics. These (asides from a few of the BFA ones) are just the announcement trailers and completely miss what happens during and at the end of an expansion. From Anduin being dominated and used as a weapon against the people he held most dear, to Sargeras being pulled away from the world by titans as he stabs his sword into the planet… so much context is unfortunately lost. Even the Warlords of Draenor cinematic misses the fact that Hellscream time traveled back to a key moment and changed history (which is the video you saw, originally the orcs drank the blood). It's a good taster but you need a properly curated list to really understand the main plots.
Sylvanas Windrunner is a former Highelf and Ranger General of them, killed by Arthas as she tried to defend their home, turned by him into an undead Banshee (that's why she can become 'smoke' and fly if she pleases), for a while bound to him, forced to slaughter her own people, then able to free herself and soon many other now undead people, creating the "Forsaken", a group of free undead that allied with the Horde, because the Alliance didn't want them.
When she was turned undead, she lost a lot of her empathy, still fighting for freedom (mainly of the Forsaken first), but by often brutal means.
When Arthas was defeated at the End of Wrath of the Lich King, she tried to end her life – only to realize that Life is only a "flicker", followed by the Afterlife in the Shadowlands, where you are condemned to be not much more than cattle for a life that was never yours to choose in the first place.
She met one of the Death Gods there (the overall background of WoW is that ther are six known cosmic forces, Death, Life, Light, Void, Chaos and Order, which MUST be in balance fo reality to work, but every cosmic force wants to be the dominating one and deeply distrusts especially its counter force, leading to an eternal war between them and mortals caught in it) who wanted to change the system long before, but was stopped by the other Death Gods and condemned to become the Jailer of the Maw, the place where the most evil and unredeemable souls were send, which are too dangerous to even keep as cattle.
Like herself, the Jailer was distorted by domination magic, but after a while he mastered his chains and forged them into weapons, constantly manipulating things in the world out of the Maw via his agents, waiting thousands of years for the right time to break free, get his full stolen power back and change the system.
Sylvanas is going along with this, not fighting for freedom of the Forsaken, since in comparison to the eternity of death, everything in life is pretty much "nothing" and just a game with mortals as "toy soldiers", but for the plan to work they need soul power – that's why she seems to go "crazy" wagering war, to create this soul power for them – with the final plan set in motion when she visits the Frozen Throne and shatters the Helmet of Domination to destroy the barrier between reality and the Afterlife.
In the end it doesn't go all as planned, since the Jailer left out a crucial part about how he wants to rewrite the system (not really caring much about mortals – what leads to Sylvanas instantly going against him, though).
While Sylvanas is a few thousand years old and very experienced warrior and her Banshee form empowering her further, the main power in the cinematics are just borrowed from that Death God, though and she would be much weaker without that.
@ The Voice:
It's know that Azeroth (the planet) has a 'world soul' a godlike and very likely extreme powerfoul soul and many of the cosmic forces (if not all), constantly fight over it, some say to defend 'her', others want to corrupt her – or even just kill her (that's one of the theories why Sargeras – a god of order who went insane over the knowledge that all life in the universe was more and moer corrupted by other forces and so he want on a "burning crusade" to just kill all life – so it can't be corrupted anymore – his army also called "Legion". Before he was stopped by the other order gods, he took his sword and crashed it into the planet and may hace done that to kill the world soul, but it's just a theory) so she can't be corrupted again.
That world soul never really spoke to anyone but one dwarf, but even there it is not very clear and even himself doesn't actually 'talk' to her, but it's more like "feeling" what she might want.
That voice COULD be coming from Azeroth – but the whole WoW lore is full of manipulations and there is a whole fraction of shape shifting demons for example who are known for using their power to trick people or the 'old gods' beings created by the cosmic force "void" to infiltrate reality (the gods of the void can't enter), some of them hiding deep inside Azeroth and are also known for manipulation and driving mortals insane.
By that, to just say that the voice is the world soul crying out for mortals is a very risky guess – and the NPC like Thrall know that.
Im absolutely sure the Title of this video was not copied from KingdomAce's Video… it pure coincidence that its exatly the same
Basically what happened to Anduin, he was possessed by the Warcraft version of the devil and made to kill Alliance, Horde and Shadowlands forces against his will.
Got yourself a sub here, there are a few ones you missed tbh, you should definitely react to the 2nd part of the Legion Cinematic, also you should watch all the Warbringers animated shorts, my personal favorites are the Illidan and Jaina ones.
What sword?
At the end of Legion, the leader of the Burning Legion, Sargeras, stabbed the planet with his sword and caused it to bleed daily quests.
If you are interested in the present story, I recommend you to see the in-game cinematic. They don't look as pretty as this ones, but they explain current events including the gigantic sword. My personal favorite being "the rejection of the gift" staring Illidan, the demonic guy you saw on the second trailer.
Also there are some set of cinematic that dive more into the lore. This are more artistic, more story-telling, less action but not less entertaining. This ones are:
-Burdens of Shaohao (Set of 6; Mist of Pandaren)
-Lords of war (Set of 5; Warlords of Draenor)
-Harbringers (Set of 3; Legion)
-Warbringers (Set of 3; Battle for Azeroth and personal favorite)
-Afterlives (Set of 4; Shadowlands)
-Legacies (Set of 3; Dragonflight)
I must admit "Burdens of Shaohao" may be a difficult watch for some, but it get better with the others.
So as you can see there is a lot of thing to watch. Take it at your time and enjoy!
Notice the jump in awesomeness is every department when Wrath of the Lich King comes on :]. He was a villain built up since Warcraft 3 (the RTS game) – the hype at the time was unreal. This expac was when WoW peaked at 12m~ active subs
Another reaction to ALL cinematics, but in fact not with all cinematics. At least there is no shadowlands trailer, but there is a shadowlands story trailer with Sylvanas.
Nothing against the author, he just needs to know that.
She's the definition of live long enough to become a villian