Final Fantasy VII Explained (in 23 minutes)
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- A cautionary tale about aliens, pollution, and really big swords.
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Music and backgrounds taken from the games: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Art, editing, and voiceover done by Chase Kip.
The clashing themes of "protect the earth, don't pollute" and "if you dig a deep enough hole you can get superpowers" sits heavily on my mind.
Maybe it goes a layer deeper. Digging a hole deep enough to get super powers isn’t worth destroying the world over. Just be content with who you are and take care of your environment
@@JahLordNolan No, that's what you tell people to convince them not to compete with you for superpowers.
@@frostatine hey you want to split the superpowers?
@@cringekid07 Only one of us gets out of the hole alive, let's not pretend here.
Hey share with me some of that powers. Cause someone needs to make sure you guys are dealt with if (when) you guys loose your sanity.
“Cause he’s Hojo dude, he’s crazy”
I feel like that explains just about half of the story honestly
We can't fire him he has tenure
"Ohhhh, you wanna know whyyy? Because this! Is! My! Fffffffffetish! *maniacal laughter*"
true dat
@@Nod_Lucario People have waged wars for less.
Pretty realistic in that light. Says something of humanity doesn't it?
Is it wrong to laugh when hearing that line 🐧
"Unfortunately nothing good ever lasts for our boy Zack."
Right in the feels man....
That hurt me too
Yeah...
R.I.P
The life and times of a secondary NPC.
The lifestream just kept swinging.
And the only one of his friends to get a good outcome is genesis... probably.
I appreciate how you explained Cloud's first story as a combination of trauma and brain damage from unethical experiments rather than him deliberately lying. I don't know why so many people feel like it was all a conscious lie and Cloud actively knew the truth the whole time; if he had, he would have realized Tifa would have remembered things completely differently and wouldn't have tried to lie.
I mean like at first, anyone would consider him a unreliable narrator, but by the time he's in the wheelchair, I feel like no one should think he was just pretending to be a gigachad
Play crisis core... He was literally put in a vial of mako energy by Hojo... Zack carries him around constantly talking to him while he's poisoned leading to him to pick up Zacks traits... Mako's weird like that..... Lol.
@@JoeKing-lv5rfHow many years was he in that as well, 4 right? 4 years while his mind is still in a developmental stage
Never heard of anyone saying cloud knowingly lied but go off sis
@@zach1972 for years yea lol he weren't just dipped in 😂 crisis core goes deeper into how maco works too tho.
"However Hojo is still off his medication..." An excellent description and explanation for quite a few important events.
👍🤣
Classic Hojo! 😅😅😅
I like the headcanon that sepiroths comically long sword is called "natural causes."
Hey if the government has to looks a the causes of death for large groups of deaths, it’s just, ya know, “natural causes” not anything strange, like I don’t know, a sword.
That’s too epic to be a headcanon. You gotta make an original character with a weapon outright named Natural Causes, for both the epic factor and the joke factor
Shame it's actually called Masamune. Much cooler but way less funny. Therefore, my head canon is that Sephiroth nicknames his sword Natural Causes.
Technically being killed by sephiroth’s sword is natural, steel comes from the earth (plus a lot of purification and stuff) and technically bleeding is also natural, therefore, it is natural causes
@@bigbubba7899 Unless the sword was formed from the ground without artificial intervention, it was man-made.
Aight, a few things that weren't already mentioned in comments:
-The planet has a name and is called Gaia
-Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells while still in the womb
-Jenova was in Nibelheim so they could create soldiers/monsters in the reactor
-Barret adopts Marlene because he thought Dyne was dead, not because he became unstable
-You need a Keystone to get into the Temple of the Ancients, not another materia
-The Black Materia isn't in the Temple, it IS the Temple. It shrinks because whoever is inside needs to solve a series of puzzles, which upon completing each one shrinks the Temple further, therefore killing whoever is inside. The Temple becomes small enough to be usable as a materia, but like...you're dead now
-The snowboarding mini game is not fun that's just a fact
-Specifically, Red is the one who gives Cloud the black materia in the crater because nobody else wanted to even touch it
I see you're a man of culture.
@@SuperKirumaru This game has consumed so much of my brain real estate I'm wondering if it's a curse
You can also choose Barret to hold the black materia, him and Red 13 are the only ones that Cloud is allowed to give it to.
On that last part, at some point you start not trusting yourself so you’re given the option to give the Materia to another party member. For you that must have been Red because that’s who you chose to carry it
The Gaia name is never used in-game. It's always called 'the planet' by every character.
Clouds hair poking out of...everything is just *chefs kiss*
lol
Clouds hair stabbing through his hat and helms is something I didn’t know I needed
I love how sepiroth is flustered at inviting cloud to his party.
Its not like I want you to be there or anything...baka
i-idiot..
*awkwardly floats off screen*
@@joshuarosfart What I love is how accurate this.
@@MrKodachii don't think you're using baka right. But then again I'm actually Japanese and unaware of most of the dumb jokes that go on.
@@venti9925 That style of joke is used commonly, it is possible that the grammar placing is not correct. But people generally get the context because there is so little to actually translate.
Something tells me that sephiroth wants cloud to come to his reunion
There will be potato salad.
Same but idk, just a hunch
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley And dis pear.
@@ryanm.8720 Absolutely, a reunion is never complete without dis pear.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley don't forget Sephiroth's favourite sweet, grape skittles
I love how you do the origin of why the lore exists first, and then you start with the game story. Seriously, that helps organize and follow these over cooked plots!I absolutely love you, simple explanations and jokes of these CRAZY convoluted stories. I have legit watched your videos on repeat. I'm hoping you tackle the Metal Gear Solid series! Please post more videos. I hope all is well in your life!
The lore is part of the game story it just starts in medias res (in the middle of the action, like Star Wars) and the story gets delivered in flashbacks, documents, witness testimony, and because the game is so big and so much stuff is optional (i.e. Sephiroth's real origins are explained by Vincent), it just gets drowned.
@KasumiR IT really does get drowned. Personally, I never cared to learn more into loves, through documents in games or letters. When done right, it can be dam good storytelling while adding layers of background. But a lot of games and other types of media kinda use it as a cop out to throw things together and explain via text.
Red XIII was captured by Shinra because of his very long lifespan. Hojo was planning to breed him with Aerith to create an ancient with a long lifespan. It's not said clearly, but it is strongly implied, although you would probably miss this if you were a kid when playing the game.
Yeah they didn't had the balls to put that in the remake. They said with soldiers candidates instead
From what i remember... He only mentioned that each were the last of their species and needed to be preserved. I never got the "breeding" vibe until TFS made a joke about it on FF7 abridged haha
Also, Red is a CANINE, not a FELINE.
@@ThunderGenesis He seems to have a cat body and dog head but he barks and howls so i guess dog it is.
@@RIELTURO No matter what its Hojo being creepy
When Cloud drops the black materia onto Barret's gun arm and it just rolls off...I'm dying, dude. Well done.
this whole game could've been avoided if vincent had just shot hojo back
totally true! XD
but... then we wouldn't be able to play the game.
Factz
Vincent’s appearance comes off as intimidating but irl he’s just a depressed Emo reminiscing on how his only true love dumped him for a mentally ill scientist
So true
For someone who didn't know much about the lore, just the overall picture, this was fantastic. I appreciate this and how funny it was and the lore is totally not confusing at times lol. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
The Sephiroth "akwardly flying offscreen" is actually somewhat accurate lmao
Oh my gosh he’s back. These makes my day every 4 months.
Ayyy thanks! i appreciate it and am glad you enjoy the videos!
@@ChaseKip Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: Explained
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Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.
11:21 "but Tifa points out all the plot holes so it's deemed non-canon"
That's legit the funniest way to explain that part possible
I don’t understand, what’s the meaning of that ??? Can u explain to me please
@@doctorfate585she doesn't remember Cloud being in Sephiroth's party back at Nibelheim
@@MrPonikata She never explains that until far later in the game though. She plays along for his explanation at Kalm, and the only thing she disputes is "Did you go into my room?" and then he finds something called "Orthopedic Underwear" in her room and she says "that never happened" to which he replies "I swear it's true!" or "Okay I'm just playing".
Thats what i was saying. Because if Tifa did mention those broken plot points, Cloud wouldve had a mental breakdown in Kalm
@@doctorfate585she’s the one who knows what’s actually going on but she never says anything until the end
The animation of the Meteor meteria rolling off of Barret's arm made me laugh really hard. Great vid!
An important point is that when Sephiroth is explaining to Cloud what "really" happened in Nibelheim, *Sephiroth doesn't actually know* what really happened. He's just extrapolating based off of the consequences he saw at the reactor. This is important because he assumes that Cloud was a puppet who was just following him around, and that idea led him to overconfidence in his control of Cloud that is eventually exploited. It's a key plot point that explains why Sephiroth's entire plan unravels because of toying with Cloud.
“But Tifa points out all the plot holes in his fan fiction so he’s deemed non-canon”. Can’t stop laughing!!!!! Great video mate!!!
You forgot about the part where Sephiroth T-poses on aerith after he kills her. Because he's crazy.
Lmfaoo
He does more of a capital Y pose than a T pose.
"OH MY GOD! Who the hell is Aerith?"
- Cloud, Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening
Is it just me or does sephiroth and cloud looks like giorno
@@ProjectTony praise the sun
Also there’s a theory that aerith wasn’t all the way dead when they buried her, since dead bodies tend to float, and the location of the stab wound didn’t kill her, but the deceptively deep pool did 😅
Cloud accidentally drowning Aerith is hilarious
aerith pranking their friends into thinking shes dead
cloud drowns her without knowing it was a joke
Bruh... The sword went straight though her poking out the other end, and why are so many murdered bodies thrown in the sea?
Dead bodies may float eventually but it's not like: you dead, float mode activated. 🥴
@@JoeKing-lv5rfbecause the sea is big, and as for the sword this comment is a joke
It’s a damn shame Sephiroth never came across Vincent’s coffin in the shinra mansion and got all the answers of his origin.
He has bigger fish to fry at that point 😂
Lol even if he did come across him it wouldn’t change nothin ion think
that's what not doing sidequests do to ya
@@DmitrySholokhovskipped the “look into locked room” side quest and now he’s locked into the bad ending
@@presidentjenkins6480it would have changed everything
I love how clouds hair pierces every hat he wears
I have played ff7 several times since my childhood, but never clearly understand the whole story. Thank you for the simple and fun video
XD so now with the New ff7 remake its much more complicated
It made more sense if you also played dirge of cerebus and ff7 crisis core.
@@dinoflagella4185 it makes even more sense if you watch all the harry potter films
@@MasterYoda389 This is the way
I still don’t understand one thing, why does everyone hate Cait Sith? Is it bad stats, terrible writing, or tacky design?
I really enjoyed this. I’ve played through FFVII, Crisis Core, and even Dirge of Cerberus, and watched Advent Children a million times and still never know what’s happening. Breaking it down like this was very helpful. I wish we could get more videos like this.
I thought they were called the Cetra, and Centra was from FFVIII.
They are. Idk why he thought that
Either he did it on purpose to be funny or he just got the two names mixed up, idk
It is cetra
also said mako wrong
@@ultragoat95 I think "Mah-ko" and "May-ko" are both acceptable pronunciations.
actually ''the naked alien lady '' was not jenova .... jenova was an alien organism,which infected a female ancient and used her corpse as host.
the host body is how the player sees Jenova , as ''naked alien -lady ''
hope this explanation helps :P
Great explanation… 👊🏻
And she has to be naked. Um sir...why naked? You're fired 🤣.
That I actually did not know. I for some reason remember a cutscene of roboalien lady falling from sky.
No, that's also wrong. Jenova is a shape-shifting organism that instinctively mimics the lifeforms it encounters. The ancients describe it as looking like their lost loved ones. The female form taken by the main body is one of those mimicries. That's also how Cloud ends up thinking he's Zack, because the Jenova cells inside him attempt to copy Zack.
@@CaptainFalcoyd interesting
The "because he's Hojo and he's crazyyy" has me dead every time 😂😂 That man is both smart and fucked in the head lol
That exact phrase kinda reminds me of Crazy Dave from PvZ:
"Because I'm CRAZY"
- Crazy Dave -
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. "
Oscar Levant
If you're not fucked in the head then you're not smart.
Trust me on this one. In order to understand the worst you have to know it. Even take pleasure in it. The alternative is worse. If you don't enjoy what you do then you really will go insane. Hojo's enjoying himself. Knowing full well what he does. That makes him quite logical and rational. Don't think he even cares about paradise. Probably just wants to see what what he does to learn from it. If it costs you then so be it. He's not obligated to care. Nor is anyone giving him a reason too. At least not that we see in game. So when an evil cooperation offers to hire you then what else is he going to do?
People that judge him, look down on him. They may as well have offered him to that cooperation.
A few things to mention:
Jenova is heavily inspired by John carpenters movie The Thing, which features a shape-shifting alien. Sephiroth and jenovas powers are not necessarily magic, but are a part of jenovas actual organic material. Jenova is a parasite that live by feeding off of the lifestreams of different planets.
Sephiroths character and reasons are a little more complex than just "hey bro", but i get that it fit the video. Sephiroth sees jenova for what she is, and, lacking ultimate purpose and motivation for existence, sees his mother as a role model. It is not a good purpose, but sephiroth wants any purpose, and sees replacing his mother as a planet eating demon as better than nothing. He also envies cloud for having an origin and purpose, and toys with him as a sadistic outlet. Lastly, sephiroth stylized himself as an angel, because of his mother's physiology of one wing and his metaphoric ascent into godhood/divinity. He also doesn't realize that life is what you choose for yourself, and doesn't require you to follow a "destiny" or purpose, so he doesn't see any other choice.
There’s some headcanon mixed in though
You can still see some of that in the game, it's just more implicit. It provides logical reasoning for some of sephiroths actions. Sephiroth seems sullen and lonely in his actions before the nibelheim reactor. It makes sense Why he'd be upset after the discovery of the experiment pods, but why would he immediately go and start researching Jenova, and why would he immediately start thinking of her as his mother and start imitating her? You can say insanity, but he'd still need some driving reason, however irrational, to drive him to do what he does. Without this, sephiroth is just a 2d villain, which wouldn't make sense considering the cleverness of the rest of the story.
@@evanmurphy118 when sephiroth began studying jenova for days on end in isolation after discovering the one thing he yearned for and thought about his whole life, his mother, was a monster, nobody did anything. zach saw the whole thing, yet nobody cared to actually wonder about his wellbeing or offer him any sort of support. /anything/. they knew what he was doing and where he was, but nobody cared. even beforehand, sephiroth was always alone. i think a lifetime of loneliness, no family, being an outcast and seeing horrible things, and then discovering something terrifying about yourself, and then STILL nobody caring, made him snap.
Seraphim have six wings usually, not one, though. Cherubim are the ones with four faces and four wings.
@@KasumiRINA fair enough. I'll change that.
You forgot the best part of the game where palmer is hit by a truck
One of the reasons why I can't take FF7 seriously...
Palmer is fine, just got isekai'ed
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True
THEY BETTER ADD THAT IN THE REMAKE LMAO
However, Tifa does not actually point out anything. She doesn't confront Cloud. She keeps to herself, and his story is taken for granted by the group, and by the player. Tifa's psychology is a key component of the story, as she alone holds the truth at that point and chooses to hide it from everybody .
Yea, that's where I stopped the video. After a bunch of small issues that one stuck out to me.
She's a woman, that's what they do and their reactions or lack thereof is the typical reality.
@@djedirashakim6883 Bro what? 😭✋️
Tifa doesn't actually know what is going on either. When Could came back to Nibelheim as a military scrub he was wearing his faceless henchmen outfit the entire time and never revealed himself to anybody in his hometown out of embarrassment. So all Tifa sees is that Cloud has some weirdly specific memories of events that he wasn't actually present for, all from the perspective of Zack, whom is somebody she actually met. She never brings it up with the party because she didn't want to make her childhood friend look like a lunatic. And she doesn't figure out that Cloud was one of the faceless henchmen until they drop into the live stream and explore his jumbled memories together.
@@djedirashakim6883 incel much?
THE LORD OF HILARIOUSLY WELL-EXPLAINED AND OK-LY DRAWN GAMES IS BACK
its good-ly drawn games
His drawings are immaculate
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I am glad he is back
The drawings are cool, but well-explained?
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Uhh...
I can’t be the only one getting unreasonably irritated about “centra”, right?
Make-o.
You're not
Nah lol most of his pronunciations are cringy as hell and it's more irrating because there's pronunciations in the game which judging by his overview he's played so that just makes it even more infuriating
@@UnsentBigby the way he said it, it was "mae kou" in my head xD
Lot of important details that need to be mentioned:
* Jenova isn't actually the woman with the heart/umbilical cord growing out of her. That is actually a cetra that Jenova infected and uses as a host.
The actual Jenova is the microorganisms in the host, which are more like the "The Thing" from John Carpenter's interpretation of the classic horror story "Who Goes There?", a collection of alien microorganisms capable of a form of parasitism and mimicry, imitating other life forms by consuming them, copying their genetic material, and integrating it into its own, and then morphing into the form of the creature they consumed in order to better hunt and consume prey.
* It is suspected that Hojo first began experimenting with Jenova cells on himself, infecting himself with the alien parasite, which resulted in him becoming mad, because Jenova has a form of telepathy that affects anyone infected with her cells and allows her to influence them. In effect, Jenova has a form of mind control/persuasion similar to the Reaper Indoctrination of the Mass Effect games.
* This form of Telepathic Influence/Partial Mind Control also explains why Sephiroth went mad, because he has a high content of Jenova cells within him and getting exposed to Jenova directly affected them and through them, him.
Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks
This ∆
something like 'that isn't Jenova, that's Jenova's monster'
where's the sauce for "that is an infected cetra woman"
In all the published media that I can find, while it is stated Jenova infiltrated the cetra, taking on their form... it does not state explicity that it took a male or female form. While it could be extrapolated or suggested that, that IS the reason it has that female figure it may not be definitive proof or the actual reason.
btw, Safer Sephiroth is a mistranslation. His ACTUAL name is "Seraph Sephiroth" as in Seraphim.
Make sense,
But in German version it is Retter-Sephiroth which mean Savior Sephiroth (which sounds actually make sense than seraph)
Any of them are better than Safer-Sephiroth. I felt like it was a play on words because he's floating and unless you got that reach materia basic melee attacks didn't work.
wasn't it supposed to be sepher sephiroth? which means 'book of numerations'
This makes sense. But the name Sephiroth is already So close to .... Wait ... Was his name meant to be derivative of seraphim? You know, because he's evil and his mother was from the heavens? God damn it japanese people.
The worst case scenario happens
"Another Cait Sith appears"
It is the worse case scenario
Its actually horrible
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
If only aerith could use that plot convience power
still don't understand how did it happened
Decent summary. Minor correction: *Cetra*, not "Centra".
Would've been cool to see Vincent burst out into his Dirge-of-Ceberus Gargoyle-form when the narrator says "experimented on", and/or mention that he eventually is found by Cloud in a locked-up coffin in the basement of a Nibelheim estate (since AC/DoC/and everything else since the original makes finding, and keeping, Vincent and Yuffie as canon), and also that Lucrecia is talked to, whilst living as a female hermit (hermitess? spinster?) behind a waterfall in the middle of nowhere. Red XIII was the (almost; per Advent Children) "last" remaining descendant of another ancient race of powerful talking animals that had an affinity for guarding the planet and was kept for study out of similar curiosity for the past. Possibly -- knowing Doctor Fraudc-, er, MojoHojo feeling spurned by the attention Professor X gave the Powerpuff Girls -- for artificial repopulation of his species....not quite as real a repopulation as it would be naturally, in the wild. OH, and it would've also have been cool to expound a bit more on Crisis Core, in saying that the Buster Sword that Zack Faire gives Cloud Strife originally belonged to Angeal Hewley, something a pre-Cloud mentor to a younger Zack and even mentor and rival to a pre-crazed Sephiroth, when the local crazy-of-the-month/year was a wannabe poet-samurai named Genesis Rhapsody, partly responsible for Lucrecia blaming herself for said death of the father of a younger Vincent when he was part of the Turks, long before objecting to MojoHojo's machinations and idiosyncrasies. Producer's call on whether or not Before Crisis story/Turk backstory content is worth fleshing out. Original was only ever on select Sprint flip-phones that very few played, regardless of mobile gaming not ever taking off in the States as compared to across the Pacific in the "East". Same with whether or not the "vegetative state" clones in the original/Remake(s) are a combination of the three wannabe-Sephiroths in Advent Children or not (clarification on that?), or if those just came out of nowhere at that point in time for that particular "Reunion" (of those containing similar cells). Also would've liked the Don Corneo storyline included....with sexy Aeris/Aerith and Tifa illustrations! =)
11:55 in with the blushing cheeks on Sephiroth and party hats on the clones was lit AF! Reeve IS a total Chad, btw! Polycentric Law and private security firm "World Regensis Organization" to the rescue with Shinra's new management!
16:09 in, Aw, come on! Aerith' death was/is one of "the" seminal video game "moments" in history! (Loved how the materia falls off Barrett's gatling-arm, btw; but the "optimal" character set-up for the final boss battle is Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cloud, not only because they are the most powerful characters in-game, but also because two of the three were/are Turks, responsible for SOLDIERS, and one cosplayed as one for most of the game and showing up a real SOLDIER that hurt him and his friends is kind of the whole "Gohan-beats-Cell"/Ash-beats-Gary main character focus. Tifa's a cowgirl-bartender, Barrett's crippled, Red XIII is a dog/wolf or cat/tiger/lion, Yuffie is a little girl who thinks she's a ninja, and Cid is a chainsmoking mechanic. They can stay behind and fight the sub-final-boss in the "get everyone on the card" match, this player will take the Chad-magic-wielding robot with a Scottish accent, the real life Bat-man, and spiky-haired Tsundere who can lift swords bigger than his torso and has the most backstory and trauma any day!
17:42 in, respectifully disagree! The planet-summoned "WEAPONS" are a pivotal part of the broader FF7 storyline and are the Jurassic Park 1 Jeff Goldblum character moment, whereby "Life (Nature)....finds a way", and Nature overpowering Nurture. Humans concerned more with genetic- and social-engineering try to rebuke these Godzillas with technology, but are barely half-successful before needing to rely on the Nature-loving main cast to settle down the overreaction by the body, er, planet, as to not exhaust itself to death with these white blood cells, er, "WEAPONS". "Hojo turns green"....like he said "yuh wouldn't like him when he's angry!"
LOVE how the spiky hairstyle exudes past headgear in the animation! =) But where's the Knights of the Round materia and chocobo breeding and racing???
*Old Egoraptor summary ending voice from Newgrounds* "...And that's why it's the best game ever!"
Honestly I feel like the music in FF7 is at least 50% of why the game is so captivating - the music makes me cry to this day, even something like the standard battle theme has such a powerful story to it
Yes Nobuo Uematsu is a musical genius. I also can't get enough of the music in ff7, it's truly emotional and magical for me
I totally agree pal! I have a music channel with lofi covers from a lot of ff7 ost, i think you would appreciate. I invite you to check it… 👊🏻
Yep. In Japan an orchestra performed a concert playing the FF7 songs. I ended up with a recording of the CD and I've got to say it's easily the best mastering of the FF7 music. It's hard to explain how well done it is. It's not over the top or massively changed, it's just good, really emotionally good.
If you like how symphonic / orchestral music enhances a story, checkout the anime Made In Abyss. It's got some of the best music in any media I've seen in a while. It's spectacular.
@@Danielle_1234 Ahh made in abyss......
Watch your elbows !
The fucking boss music is the best
The materia rolling off Barret's "arm" made me choke on my dinner.
"...Lucrecia blamed herself for the death of Vincent's father, soooo she started a relationship with butt-ugly Hojo." I literally had tears from laughing at this so hard and rewinding it 10 times.🤣🤣🤣
For real. Erased about 70 percent of my childhood by making me laugh that hard. LOL
ayy bro, dude you MADE my morning with this. I believe I was blessed by some Higher Power to have experienced this as ONE of the FIRST games I ever played, back on my older brothers PlayStation with the disc cleaner and the cords and gray controllers....ahhh man, now I am 31, but I am so grateful homies like you create content like this. Incredibly entertaining for any audience, but those few little inside "you-were-there-so-you-know" jokes throughout the video, I felt like I was back with my old friends, feeling superior to all in our nerdy inside knowledge of the game hahaha Thank you homie, you got me to subscribe!
So, in short: everything goes to shit because one guy can't stop experimenting on people.
I've said it before. Hojo was the real villain of FF7.
@@saltyk9869 Exactly
Because he’s Hojo dude he’s Kraaaazy
Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.
Everything went to shit because of jenova, end of story.
15:30 You forgot the part where Cloud beats the crap out of Aerith.
Wait...WHAT?
That sounds more like Tifa. Beating the shit out of Cloud.
@@ShiroTheTraveler Yeah, Sephiroth decided to possess him into giving him the black Materia for....reasons. And Cloud subsequently did that
@@liammcnicholas918 *bruh* moment.
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very intersting. i really liked it. a couple of simple errors, like calling them "centra" instead of "cetra", among others, but overall, it was a great video. definitely worth the watch
Last place I'd expect you to pop up. Big fan of your stuff.
They blew up two reactors instead of just one too.
My boy!!
Yup
And the planet I think is called "Gaia" not just "The Planet."
This has got to be my favorite FFVII plot explanation video. I love watching it whenever I need a memory refresher (and I'm always quoting the stuff about Hojo for some reason). Good news, the next part of the remake is coming this winter and I can't wait to see what you'll do!
I love that Cloud's hair cannot be contained by anything!
Sephtiroth: "Hey Jenova mind if I can kill people"
Jenova: "Only a Swords length"
Sephtiroth: *Unsheathes a Comically large sword*
Sephiroth practices social distancing.
lol true
It's an odachi.
Even sephiroth gets it smh
@@mariahstewartmariahstewart4801 -of course he gets ‘it’, have you -*-seen-*- him-
ok but can we talk about that adorable drawing of sephiroth
I swear it made me “AWWWWW!”
Baby Sephy is honestly adorable.
20:00, I was dissapointed for not having the third "He is hojo dude, he is crazy"
Actually Hojo wanted to reproduce Aerith with Red XIII because his species live for 500 years, so he wanted a test subject that would live enough for an extensive research
That’s… even worse lol
okay.
im gonna need that image of Cloud in a wheelchair on a t-shirt.
I finally understand the plot of a childhood favorite game of mine. The explanation in the video single handedly made me say to myself " I get it now!"
This is incredibly well done. A difficult story to tell without being the one who played it, but you made it very lucid! Subbed.
You forgot that everyone is watching while Cloud is clapping those Tifa cheeks .
I wish people would stop acting like this scene is canon when it's not. It's optional and while the original script had them sleeping together, it was toned down in the actual game to Tifa just falling asleep on Cloud's shoulder.
@@elisabeth4615 Yuffie and Vincent is optional and they are canon ...
@@Mc4est That's two different situations though. Either you get Yuffie and Vincent or you don't. If you choose not to make them part of your team than you won't get anything as a replacement. Whereas a Highwind scene (just like the Goldsaucer date) will always happen. However, those two scenes have different outcomes depending on the choices the player made, i.e. being kind of an ass towards Aerith to boost Tifa's affection.
If Tifa's affection is high enough the Highwind scene will have them talk about their feelings with Tifa falling asleep on Cloud's shoulder eventually. If her affection is low their conversation will be brief and end with Tifa being annoyed at Cloud. But as I said: They will always have a conversation, but it's up to the player which one.
You can also read up on it in the Ultimania page 232, where it is also said that all they do is talk, though their conversation is of romantic nature ("If the degree of affection is high, the contents of the two’s conversation will involve deep subject matter and strong feelings for each other."). So, feelings for each other yes, doing the dirty, no.
@@elisabeth4615 LoL wtf?? Yeah, I get it, Tifa is embarrassed cause everyone saw them talking... I too, get embarrassed when everybody saw me talking to someone. Thats a VERY embarrassing moment right there.. ohh, I always kneel down in embarrassment when that happened... Nobody should see me talking to someone . Hahaha
@@elisabeth4615 You don't get to decide what is cannon and what is not, r34 does.
When you realize that ff7 literally the whole story could’ve been avoided with just hojo not existing or dying
“Arrives just in time to be turned into a shish kabob”
The most tragic event I ever witnessed in a video game
I still 😢...
Minute?
Broke my heart as an 8th grader
Then don't ever play TellTale Walking Dead games...
@@trevorh5207 Don't play Halo: Reach, then.
This is so good. The detailed explanation while also being a little tongue in cheek about how goofy some aspects of the story are. Chefs kiss 💋
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Now every time hojo comes on screen in my game I say "because he's hojo, he's crazy" in your voice to myself/no one lol
2:12 *Cetra
6:05 Sephiroth is powerful, but he did just fight with Zack and after fighting with Zach was so consumed and distracted by the majesty of Jenova, Cloud was able to shove the buster sword through Sephiroth. Don't you remember Sephiroth limping and acting weak? I dunno about you, but having a buster sword in your torso is probably fatal. In Sephiroth's wounded and bewildered state, Cloud was able to overcome him.
Plus, Buster Sword had a materia equipped which could increase surprise attacks
*Zack
Ferreal. I hear "Centra" one more time and my brain will melt.
@@SnekVonSlonk Zux
Wasn't that in Crisis Core?
I didn't realize until you pointed it out, that Sephiroth could and was controlling Jenova. All of that text in the game over countless hours of grinding levels made it easy to forget a sentence or two!
It all makes sense now how it just got out of the Shin'Ra HQ, murdering and leaving trails of blood along the way.
I’m pretty sure that was a pretty big detail, sephiroth controlling jenova
@@HabitualThinker
Was it always clear that Sephiroth was controlling Jenova instead of Jenova controlling Sephiroth?
@@KirisutonoNeko I still think that it's ambiguous who is in control, and I think it's sort of intentionally left that way. The only thing I'll mention is that I don't personally think the human in Sephiroth was the kind of person to do what he did in Nibelheim. It was seen as a massive break of character by everyone that knew him. So I sort of think that at that time, Jenova somehow flipped a switch in Sephiroth and either essentially began controlling his actions, or at least in some way upped the influence of his Jenova part. But that's just my opinion
@@stephengould7726your answer fitted with the Naked lady alien pov, where Jenova was a controlled cetra infected by the alien, so does cloud, sadly. The reason why Jenova could transform into sephiroth only after 7 years past Nibelheim incident was because Jenova require another sentient subject awaken (cloud was the reason Jenova awoke, because he makes contact by peeking Jenova's chamber). Given that cloud was a puppet made by Hojo by injecting Cloud Jenova's cell, effectively made him the last Jenova Subject alive (Soldier).
This would sum up why Cloud gives the Black Materia, raise his sword to aerith, flew to Sephiroth's real body at Northern crater and so on. And Jenova cells was the geostigma all this time
Ok, but where's the part where the superhuman named Sephiriath causes tension with Aeriath Gainsborough?
But where's the part where Rosalinda from Mealy comes in?
5:34 This is incorrect. Sephiroth's research leads him to believe Jenova is an Ancient and that humans were enemies of the Ancients. He goes to free his "mother". Later, when he's in the lifestream, he fuses with Jenova and realizes what Jenova truly is (and by extension, what he is). So he begins to try and finish what Jenova started. (Jenova is an alien that goes around consuming planets, fusing their existence with its own)
I love how almost everyone become Sephiroth
Wait, it's All SEPHIROTH ❓
@@bimoprasetyo6862 always has been
@@solenopsis7366 💥🔫
Blame Hojo
@@elespada9058 Who else but Hojo 😏giggity
I kinda miss when this series could be called “poorly drawn...”
Nah
There was one video with that title
There was only one video with that title.
He feeds the algorithm with his titles and we feed on his content, I couldn't give a monkeys when the series is this good!
Keep up the great work
I know right? Smh, how could he get better at drawing... ;)
“Natural Causes” being the actual name of the insane katana is now my favorite head cannon
LORD CHASE KIP UPLOADED
WHAAAAAAAAT
REAAAALLLLLYYYYYY!???!?!?
YES
BOW DOWN FAST
Thank the lord
"Babe, wake up. Chase kip remembered the password of his youtube account"
I remember first seeing my college buddy playing it back in like 98' or so. He was actually fighting Hojo at the Sister Ray and trying his best to explain the story while trying to beat him
Next video request: The Entire Metroid Series Explained
Yes that'd be great with the new stuff coming up
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@@obesemomkod7018 reported
@@obesemomkod7018 why? There was no point to plug totally not you
He did it!
Safer-Sephiroth, yet he somehow had 3 children made from him.
Should’ve used protection.
Omfg 💀
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Yeah shoulda used his sword instead lol
I think it's supposed to be seraphim sephiroth.
it’s seraph. the creator of this video got it wrong
I thought the ancients were called Cetra
They were
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Oh good. I was hoping to not be the only one to want to comment on that.
They retroactively named it Gaia so that is what it is referred to now instead of just "the planet"
It was called Gaia in the game. Only mentioned a couple times I think when you're looking through Ghasts research.
16:38 the real sephiroth is the friends we made along the way
I am really glad to see at last someone explaining that NO, the one who stab...(natural cause) Shinra's president and so on wasn't Sephiroth himself (well at least not his physical body) and NO we're not chasing the real Sephiroth the entire game.
Got bored in my childhood discussing this game and hearing years after years "Jenova was a cetra, ..."
Great video, got a new subscriber!
Its been 24 years and Im still learning something new about FF7. Makes me wonder if I even played the video game lol.
I haven't watched enough Anime to understand all this.
FF and Kirby have wizards of old called “the Ancients” who sealed away an primordial cursed entity out of fear of death and destruction.
*Crossover inbound?!?*
Pretty much, ever seen those jokes about Kirby with sephirot's powers?
@@MyNameisRevenant KIRBYROTH
I’d play that
Why is Kirby with anime hair in final fantasy so funny. I have a feeling his ability would just that he pulls out a gun.
I can’t say I understand the game any more than I already did BUT your explanation was hella hilarious! I laughed out loud MANY times!
Natural Causes
I like sephiroth asking cloud for a date, blushes, and then floats away offscreen 😂
"They found a naked alien woman called Jenova"
Red XIII: Was it hot?
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Fun video and animations man, congrats!. I have to say, in game the ancients were called the CETRA (ceNtra is from FF8) and the planet is called Gaia but i think Gaia is only said once in the entire game. Also, Jenova wasn't just a virus, it is heavily implied that she shaped shifted to look like one of the Cetra (That's why Jenova disguises as Sephiroth). Jojo is a pice of human trash, yes, but Lucretcia knew what he was doing, she even got injected with Jenova cells while pregnant. Is important to denote that Zack and Cloud were left behind after the battle with Seph, because they were dead... well... Cloud was...
The planet is called Gaia
18:14 Evangelion moment
I too love Sephiroth's Natural Causes
Great summary! The one thing I'll add is that Red XIII was captured by Shinra so that they could utilize his long lifespan while experimenting with the Cetra. Not faulting you for that though, it's a very easy detail to miss.
why "Centra" ... it's Cetra, no? The only "Centra" was the weird clearing in FF8, but the ancient race in FF7 is called Cetra ... or Ancients (古代種)
3:54 "Cause he's Hojo dude" LMAOOO
After so many years, and hearing the plot told so quickly... I realized, whY I FREAKIN LOVE FF7!
Cait Sith being a bad character is something rebirth did a really good job of repairing
15:24 I replayed the game last year and what surprised me is that Cloud also starts hitting Aerith when controlled.
Great video, but some minor nitpicks:
It's pronounced "Mah-ko".
Centra are from FFVIII. In FFVII, the Ancients were known as Cetra.
The Jenova research wasn't moved from Midgar to Nibelheim, it just seems that for some reason (either security of remoteness or her being discovered nearby) that keeping Jenova there was the best option. Or perhaps the research headquarters was initially in Nibelheim.
Red XIII wasn't meant to be a Sephiroth clone, but a 'beast-type SOLDIER'. Variety is the spice of capitalist dictatorship militaries, I guess.
Cloud was never an angsty edgelord in FFVII. He was a wannabe cool guy/tough guy. Sucks that AC has pushed this image of Cloud into people's heads because he was not an angst machine. That was Vincent's territory.
They didn't build a mako cannon to destroy the weapon, the mako cannon was already in Junon.
Regarding Safer-Sephiroth, it's due to a mistranslation. "The actual intended name of "Safer-Sephiroth" is "Sepher Sephiroth". Sepher is Hebrew for "Book", and Sephiroth is Hebrew for "Numbers". So it translates to "Book of Numbers", on of the many Kabbalistic references in Final Fantasy VII."
I also wanna add that humans are an offshoot of the cetra that gave up their quest for the promised land. They are technically decended from cetra but it explains why sephiroth has a hatred for humanity
Also:
- The reason why Shinra destroyed Corel because they framed the town for trying to rebel against them.
- The Cetra created the Weapons as precaution against Jenova, hense why they were in the Northern Crater along with Sephiroth
- Tifa never tried to correct Cloud on his false memories until the life stream segment due to her being afraid of something bad happening.
- The duel against Sephiroth at the end was within Cloud’s subconscious and was meant to depict that Sephiroth’s hold on Cloud being destroyed.
- Sephiroth (And also parts of Jenova) still existed in the life stream post-FF7, hence AC’s geostigma and Sephiroth remnants.
- Cloud technically doesn’t have a canon love interest, but Tifa is the most closest, especially in AC. Cloud’s mom (Her actual name is Claudia) does say in a flashback something along the lines of “I wish you got an older girl, one who could get you out of trouble and tell you when you’re being a silly goose”, which kinda hints towards Aerith being a potentially canon love interest for Cloud.
- Zack actually gets Aerith to start selling flowers in the Midgar slums, since he thinks that it could make her a lot of money.
- There’s a segment where the gang goes to Gongaga and meets Zack’s parents, who talk about how Cloud seems similar to Zack. This is the earliest hint in the game that Cloud isn’t 100% who he says he is.
- Cloud technically passed the physical part of the SOLDIER program, but his mental state wasn’t stable enough for the job. This is why Cloud is able to be pretty good as a fighter but also why he got mako poisoning and Zack didn’t when they both escaped Nibelhiem and how he became so delusional when Tifa found him in Midgar.
- Both Tifa and Cloud have false memories of the Nibelhiem Incident. While Cloud’s is more severe, Tifa’s memory recalls that Cloud was never there. This is because Cloud basically hid under his helmet out of shame the entire time he was there, mostly because he was boasting about how he was going to be in SOLDIER, but he never got in.
- Sephiroth gets defeated mostly due to his god complex. Due to this, he ends up not using his full strength and only uses parts of it. This is mostly seen in AC and CC, but FF7 does have traces of it.
- Cloud fulfills a promise to Tifa when they were kids during the Nibelhiem Incident. She had asked him to try to help her if she was ever trapped or in trouble. During that event, Cloud saves Tifa by stabbing Sephiroth in the back with Zack’s Buster Sword and treating Tifa’s wounds.
Side note: As edgy as AC Cloud is, it kinda makes sense considering he basically found out that his two best friends died right in front of him and was unable to save them. To add insult to injury, he basically forgot about one of his friends even through he laid his own life for his. He has an immense case of survivor’s guilt basically.
Also (correct me if I'm wrong): SOLDIER's aren't injected with JENOVA cells, they are 'only' bathed in mako to further enhance their physical capabilities
@@rayrotho9922 you're correct, SOLDIERS only have mako. sephiroth was technically the only SOLDIER to have jenova cells
@@Rebel_Friend Well, I think between both of us we covered most if not all the inaccurate information here. Way to go! *hi-5*
6:20 ”THAT DUDE AIN’T GOT NO LEGS!”
The meteor still did damage. So, it didn't strike Gaia just got close enough to ruin Midgar and make the WRO(with Reeve) make Edge? Also when Rufus "died", Reeve became the CEO of Shinra if you think about it. Sorry, got mad respect for Reeve. In the first meeting, he wants to help people and President Shinra is like "Nah, we're not rebuilding. Gonna find the Promised Land of unicorns farting rainbows and cotton candy bushes". A robot cat is so effing sane in comparison.
In fact, Rufus did not die, but was seriously injured because his father had built an emergency escape tunnel called "Loser" for Rufus in the President's office.
Yay! Glad you’re back! A few points though:
- The were called Cetra! Not Centra :)
- The Cetra actually referred to Jenova as “The Calamity from the Skies”
- Aerith didn’t know of Holy’s powers back then but she did keep it in her hair cause no one would ever suspect one of the most powerful materia to be hidden there. And it was from her mother, she knew she had to take care of it.
- I believe Red XIII was taken by Hojo to interbreed with Aerith to preserve both their species, and since Red XIII has a long lifespan, having a Cetra with a long lifespan would be beneficial for Shinra in their goals for the future.
I may be wrong but these are what I remember! Great video though, may everyone see how good this game is! ☺️
PS: idc what anyone says, Aerith needs to die in the remake. It’s such an integral plot point.
They were called* lol
Thanks, that's how I remembered Red aswell.
At this point I expect them to kill Tifa instead of Aerith as another cheap twist. They've already fucked everything else up so why not
Also isn’t the planet called Gaia?
I really want to see “The Mario series explained!”
Do I have to include all the sports titles as well
@@ChaseKip no, just the mainline games :)
@@ChaseKip yes
Including the sequels
Even tho I'm pretty sure every mario kart game is kind of the same
We need all of the tennis lore
The infinity racket
And still, after decades, I'm heartbroken to see Seph die 😭 WRYYYYYYY didn't anyone tell him his real mommy is sleeping in a cave so he would be just "Oh." And stop all this nonsense, and lived with his mommy happily ever after 😭
00:55 Jenova took the form of a Cetra. She likely looked different back then than how she appears now, after 2000 years. Also, the Cetra didn't just die, they went mad and turned into monsters.
1:50 Materia also forms naturally. It's not only man-made.
3:05 The Turks aren't just "elite bodyguards". They are the special task force of Shinra.
3:20 Hojo injected the Jenova cells into Sephiroth while Lucrecia was still pregnant. So not just human experimentation on a baby, but an actual foetus.
5:38 Sephiroth didn't "realize his mom was actually a naked alien lady". He actually believed Jenova was a Cetra, and that he was one as well.
6:40 Hojo experimented on Zack, Cloud and others because he wanted to test his "Jenova Reunion Theory": that divided Jenova cells would seek to reunite.
7:30 Barret didn't leave Dyne behind on purpose. He believed he was dead. Barret didn't create AVALANCHE either. He was just the leader of a cell of AVALANCHE.
8:35 I don't think there's such a thing as "slightly comatose"? I think calling him catatonic would be more appropiate?
9:05 I get that this is meant to be humorous, but Cloud didn't just "create a fanfiction". Because of his mako poisoning, Jenova cells infusion, Zack's death and trauma, Cloud impressed Zack's memories and fighting abilities into his own.
It's an important distinction to make, because some people think that Cloud is lying on purpose, but he's not.
Shinra didn't burn down Corel because they wanted to cover it up, but because they thought that some people of Corel had destroyed the reactor on purpose because some folks in Corel were initialy against the reactor being built. So they blamed the people of Corel and burned the city down.