Shirakami Fubuki Clears Golbez Extreme in FINAL FANTASY XIV, Going in Blind After Midnight

HOLOLIVE — Shirakami Fubuki of Hololive’s 1st Generation cleared the extreme version of the Golbez fight in FINAL FANTASY XIV late Friday night, going in with no knowledge of the mechanics. The clear came at about the 1 hour 56 minute mark of a stream that ran just over two hours.

She had planned nothing of the kind. Earlier in the day she and her fellow talents had said there was nothing left to do but go home and sleep, she said, but she was in the mood for a late-night Golbez session anyway, and she invited players who were still awake to join her. She first ran the normal version of the fight to remember what Golbez does, then unlocked the extreme version, which she had not yet opened, and opened her party to volunteers.

“It’s a victory we won together.” — Shirakami Fubuki, after the clear

The first extreme attempts went badly. After a wipe she paused to read through the fight’s mechanics out loud, working out where to stand for the meteors, the lightning and the wind attacks, and said she wanted to learn the fight by repeating it. A later attempt ended with four minutes left on the instance timer, and she called the party out to reset. She said the hardest part was the sequence of paired stack attacks that follows the wind attacks, and that she kept ending up on the wrong side. “This isn’t a game of luck. It’s a memorization game,” she said, and chose to go again with the people who were there.

On the next run, the party got through. Fubuki reported that she had mixed up a tower position and a stack once more, but a teammate’s jump helped her notice the right spot, and the fight ended with her saying, “That took you long enough.” A reward dropped on the clear. She thanked the party and singled out the players who stayed patient and read the situation, and said she had wanted to finish with the people who were already there.

Before signing off she mentioned that she would be busy with live performances in January, February and March, which she said would keep her streaming less often for a while. She then took a few in-game screenshots with a giant Final Fantasy sticker and ended the stream at around half past two in the morning, saying she had wanted to get to Arcadia and another fight but would save them for another day.