Kind of an underrated scene. People always complain how Aeris' death didn't phase them, but really her death was much more of a plot device than an emotional moment. I think this scene is far more emotional.
Especially considering that her Level 4 Limit Break was so god tier, if she lived past Disc One, she would have broken the game. There would have been virtually no reason not to keep her in every party. While her death did have an emotional depth that has rarely been equaled in the 20 years since the release of this game, she had the potential to be way too overpowered in the late game. Sephiroth knew that she, and she alone, was the greatest threat to his plans. That's why she had to die. For those who are unaware, her Level 4 limit break, Great Gospel, cleansed all negative status effects, fully restored HP and MP, AND made the party invulnerable for a few rounds. All you'd need to do would be to load her up with caster materia, throw a Hyper on her, and she would be unstoppable. Add a Phoenix-Final Attack materia combo, and you have just redefined the word 'OP'.
4:07, man doesn't this part kick my ass every time :'( Edit: What makes this video clip better, is that starting 3:18 the timing of the score perfectly matches the dialogue, the falling tears, howling, the camera panning upward. Maximum emotional impact.
I feel sorry for the older generations who will never experience things like this simply because they come from a time when gaming means funny noises and side scrolling. Games like this can do things films can never get close to because they aren't constrained by time. You cant compare an experience of character development in a 2 hour movie to a game spanning 100 hours.
damn ... i feel exactly the same thing . this video game is complete ! collected so many thing ... never a video game new generation or a movie can't be did the same thing .
Hurricane Floyd no kidding, same here actually. I feel more sorry for the *younger* generation born after this game came out that, beyond a few exceptions, never even played this game probably.
Hurricane Floyd Offended? The fact is it's true. Many gamers both younger and older would never play a game like this. I'm sure i will miss out on games now I'm older myself and my tastes have changed. Also you're hardly older generation. This came out when i was in school so you must have been around mid twenties when you played it, that's hardly older generation.
1:07, the feels are so real. God This game brings back so many memories. Literally almost brought a tear to my eye when I was a kid. He wasn't a damn coward, he went out like a savage.
Holy fuck how can they even try to recreate this in the remake? They'll fuck it up! The music is SO STRONG HERE! You need to emphasize the music please and not the voice acting. Voice acting is fine but put the focus on the music. And have good VOs. Pleeeease it could be good but how can it be better than this masterpiece?
I actually find it easier to be moved by scenes like this in older games where the graphics weren't perfect. Newer games just have that whole "uncanny valley" thing happening where the characters look too realistic without quite looking human. When it's something older, my brain fills in the blanks graphics-wise. Beautiful scene, anyway. It never fails to move me to tears.
I still get the chills :(, everytime i watch this, the story is so beautiful and the song fits perfectly to the moment. I'm so damn happy that my father bought me this game back when i was 7 years old and i still play it today as 21 year old
Amazing scene, amazing game, legendary story. Like many others, this was my first introduction to the final fantasy series growing up. When I finished it, I felt like all of the characters were a part of me...and I still do... This will always be my favorite game of all time.
They need to make a video game hall of fame, but specifically for video game scenes. Or better yet make a museum dedicated to the best video game scenes of all time. I'll bet my life you will see this masterpiece of a scene there in a gold case behind a 3 feet thick sheet of pexi glass displayed on the most advance HD piece of viewable equipment we humans can create to give justice to this scene. *MUAH!!* take note Square-Enix!!
by far my favourite moment in any game accompanied by one of the best tracks in the game! :'( Seeing Seto even after being turned to stone shedding tears at seeing his son! AND I JUST GENERALLY LOVE NANAKI, AOSIDNOFAI!!
i still get goosebumps when i here that music! so mnay years ago it was that i played that game! 1997! the years pass so quickly. those moments in the game were inspiring. ffvii shall always have a place in my memory.
This was the first time a fictional character made me cry. Yesterday I finally got the XIII tattoo on my chest over my heart... for how much I love fantasy.
Cheers, friend. I just rewatched this at age 37 and I had decided to get the XIII as well. Then I found this comment. Hope you're living a good life and finding the things that are important to you. Stay great and good luck in life!
if it is one but from one piece I will never forget it's that a man doesn't die until he is no longer needed those tears of pride down his face was a sign that he can pass the torch and finally find peace
I've seen a lot of sad stuff so far in my life (currently 21 and still have much more to go), and even though I still find the story behind Artorias and Sif really sad, but this scene.. I'll be dreading this scene when we get Final Fantasy VII Remake. Q ~ Q
after almost 10 years this is the best final game ever made.. i love this scene. thanks for uploading it. it reminds me on those days when i was younger.. :(
I bawled when I first saw this and now I'm in tears again after all these years. Makes you very sad but, at the same time, very proud for Nanaki. He'll always be one of my favorites. One of the best FFVII moments, hands down.
Ive played ff7 the first time when i was about 9 years old, now i am 23, and i am still cry when i see this sceene. Seto will ever bee one of my heros when i get old. A hero who has never been mentioned, a hero who has ever been standing strong. One who has ever been there. The one who protected me always, never mentioned of his affords. One who has been nerver able to be noble, but the one who has performed his duty until his end, untlil the poisoned arrows of the GI turned his body into stone
after all these years, when i see or hear something about this videogame, i know i've been in contact with pure poetry for all the hours i've been playing it; it's like one of those moments of your youth that you will never have again, remembered with nostalgia, so innocent, so far away
This is the best moment in any Final Fantasy ever. Final Fantasy VII was really something special, it's a game of epic proportions. Square at it's finest.
One of my favorite all-time scenes/pieces in any video game or book. Top Emotional & Inspiring Moments: 1 - Tidus & Yuna Lake Scene (FFX) 2 - Squall & Rinoa Space Scene (FF8) 3 - Red XIII & Seto Scene (FF7) 4 - Rena & Claude Argument - Warrior Championship Scene (Star Ocean: TSS) 5 - Aeris & Cloud (FF7)
One of the best things about this scene was the fact that you couldn't really see it coming. When you go through the cave you're not expecting something this touching to happen. This was definitely Red XIII's finest moment. One of the most memorable and touching scenes from any game, or movie, to me.
I can always feel the tears starting to brew when the drums kick in ( 1:05 ) This scene and Bugenhagens death are the 2 saddest scenes in any video game ever.
I remember playing this game when it first came out, years ago, think I played it three times. And yet Red XIII was my favourite character. The part where he howls at the statue is soo bloody sad even after all this time! :'{ ...And it has made me want to play this all over again..
I just got a lump in my throat... and eyes welled up a bit... And DAMN PROUD TOO!!! Saddest thing I've ever seen... but kinda happy too, cos now Nanaki knows the truth about his father, and Seto knows he's proud... just epic.
You sound exactly like me. Thats the age I played it at, and am now 23. I've never really forgotten this game, not like all the others, this one just seems to stick with me. Especially this scene, and aerith dying. I remember the emotion, going through the adventure with the characters and feeling how they felt. I distinctly remember crying my heart out when Red XIII started howling sorrowfully. D': A tiny bit stronger now, but still brings a tear.
this part of the game is so goddamn epic. you can read a book, you can go watch a movie, but nothing sticks with you like a quality game like this. watching this scene again by chance now just proves how much this game affected me. FFVII fo lyfe!
This scene made me cry T_T -cries like a baby- still makes me cry even now.. (haven't played this game for years) Great music that went with the scene.. they got good tastes. I find it awsome that somehow, the statue had tears that fell after Nanaki's little speech. Nanaki's awsome x3 he's soo adorable.. even though the graphic design isn't quite the greatest that point..
FINAL FANTASY MOTHERFUCKING VII!!!!!! Most don't understand how epic this game is, and like to call it overrated. But in the late 90's there was absolutely nothing like this, it blew our minds and I couldn't stop playing it. 1997, a memorable year.
Nanaki was a great character and I always had him in my party. But man, everytime I see this scene i start to get water in my eyes. my favorite scene ever in this game and probably the saddest too.
Love this scene..so sad, and also the fact that Seto must still be conscious even though hes petrified when he starts to cry makes it even sadder !! This version of the song is WAY better than the normal cosmo canyon version !!
What I loved so much about ff7 was the depth of each individuals story. Its what got me into playing the final fantasy series and to this day probably remains my favourite game of all time. (Oh- and Nobuo Uematsu the composer seriously owns)
When I first played it, I didn't understand it really (ok, I was 9 years old...:D ) but then I got to know this beautiful scene...i shivered and i cried too....it is a very enchanting moment...
I'm sorry, When I played this game I cried like a little baby on this part....and other parts as well. This was one of the most touching scenes from the game. I love FFVII!
yeh, Nanaki is one of my favorite characters...kinda sucked that he had such a small role in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. I love this scene. thnx for posting this.
Agreed. The medium really shouldn't matter. When you watch a black and white movie, you should get immersed in the story and forget it has no color. When you watch a cartoon, if the story is interesting enough, you forget you're only watching drawings. Graphics are just the icing on the cake; they shouldn't make or break a game experience.
Now I...want to see this all redone on the Crystal engine. What I liked about it was; that we had very cinematic camera angles on characters. Imagine this scene and Cid's past all run on Crystal!
sob sob waaaaaaahhhhh waaaaaaahhh such a sad scene it always makes me cry when setos tears drop and red howls there's no words for how beutiful this scene is 999999999999999999999999999999Stars this deserves a bafta award
Thumbs up if you cried at this part the first time you played
The Hungry Troll Conceal don't feel.
"the first time" I get choked up just THINKING about that scene sometime
And every subsequent time too...
Kind of an underrated scene. People always complain how Aeris' death didn't phase them, but really her death was much more of a plot device than an emotional moment. I think this scene is far more emotional.
Especially considering that her Level 4 Limit Break was so god tier, if she lived past Disc One, she would have broken the game. There would have been virtually no reason not to keep her in every party. While her death did have an emotional depth that has rarely been equaled in the 20 years since the release of this game, she had the potential to be way too overpowered in the late game. Sephiroth knew that she, and she alone, was the greatest threat to his plans. That's why she had to die. For those who are unaware, her Level 4 limit break, Great Gospel, cleansed all negative status effects, fully restored HP and MP, AND made the party invulnerable for a few rounds. All you'd need to do would be to load her up with caster materia, throw a Hyper on her, and she would be unstoppable. Add a Phoenix-Final Attack materia combo, and you have just redefined the word
'OP'.
Aerith's death is expected if you played FF6
4:07, man doesn't this part kick my ass every time :'(
Edit: What makes this video clip better, is that starting 3:18 the timing of the score perfectly matches the dialogue, the falling tears, howling, the camera panning upward. Maximum emotional impact.
I feel sorry for the older generations who will never experience things like this simply because they come from a time when gaming means funny noises and side scrolling. Games like this can do things films can never get close to because they aren't constrained by time.
You cant compare an experience of character development in a 2 hour movie to a game spanning 100 hours.
As a 40 year old gamer who really enjoyed FF7 back when it was first released and still own my original black label copy I am offended.
damn ...
i feel exactly the same thing . this video game is complete ! collected so many thing ...
never a video game new generation or a movie can't be did the same thing .
VideogameGuitarist
They will experience this.
It's on Steam, and was announced for PS4 with unnecessary pomp and herald.
Hurricane Floyd no kidding, same here actually.
I feel more sorry for the *younger* generation born after this game came out that, beyond a few exceptions, never even played this game probably.
Hurricane Floyd
Offended? The fact is it's true. Many gamers both younger and older would never play a game like this. I'm sure i will miss out on games now I'm older myself and my tastes have changed. Also you're hardly older generation. This came out when i was in school so you must have been around mid twenties when you played it, that's hardly older generation.
God this scene really came out of nowhere. It gutted me the first time I played this game, completely gutted me!
probably the best scene in FFVII.
1:07, the feels are so real. God This game brings back so many memories. Literally almost brought a tear to my eye when I was a kid.
He wasn't a damn coward, he went out like a savage.
I still get goosebumps every time I play this part , so emotionally powerful
When Nanaki howls...
Can't stop my tears...
Just made it to this point, this game keeps getting better and better the more i play.
Holy fuck how can they even try to recreate this in the remake? They'll fuck it up! The music is SO STRONG HERE! You need to emphasize the music please and not the voice acting. Voice acting is fine but put the focus on the music. And have good VOs. Pleeeease it could be good but how can it be better than this masterpiece?
manly fucking tears.
This game is so beautiful, to play it is almost life changing!
Fucking ninjas cutting onions ... God dammit.
I actually find it easier to be moved by scenes like this in older games where the graphics weren't perfect. Newer games just have that whole "uncanny valley" thing happening where the characters look too realistic without quite looking human. When it's something older, my brain fills in the blanks graphics-wise.
Beautiful scene, anyway. It never fails to move me to tears.
Hey friend. I'm here from the future to say I completely agree with you and say thanks for sharing. Hope you'll live a good life. Cheers
I still get the chills :(, everytime i watch this, the story is so beautiful and the song fits perfectly to the moment. I'm so damn happy that my father bought me this game back when i was 7 years old and i still play it today as 21 year old
Amazing scene, amazing game, legendary story. Like many others, this was my first introduction to the final fantasy series growing up. When I finished it, I felt like all of the characters were a part of me...and I still do... This will always be my favorite game of all time.
This was the best part of the whole game..no lie. I love Nanaki. He is my favorite.
I want this played at my funeral
They need to make a video game hall of fame, but specifically for video game scenes. Or better yet make a museum dedicated to the best video game scenes of all time. I'll bet my life you will see this masterpiece of a scene there in a gold case behind a 3 feet thick sheet of pexi glass displayed on the most advance HD piece of viewable equipment we humans can create to give justice to this scene. *MUAH!!* take note Square-Enix!!
by far my favourite moment in any game accompanied by one of the best tracks in the game! :'( Seeing Seto even after being turned to stone shedding tears at seeing his son! AND I JUST GENERALLY LOVE NANAKI, AOSIDNOFAI!!
*tears flood the room*
That's such a great scene. Red 13 is my favorite RPG character too.
so glad my first ever ff game i played was this one. absolutely stunning scene
This scene always gets me misty
i still get goosebumps when i here that music! so mnay years ago it was that i played that game! 1997! the years pass so quickly. those moments in the game were inspiring. ffvii shall always have a place in my memory.
This was the first time a fictional character made me cry. Yesterday I finally got the XIII tattoo on my chest over my heart... for how much I love fantasy.
Cheers, friend. I just rewatched this at age 37 and I had decided to get the XIII as well. Then I found this comment. Hope you're living a good life and finding the things that are important to you. Stay great and good luck in life!
if it is one but from one piece I will never forget it's that a man doesn't die until he is no longer needed
those tears of pride down his face was a sign that he can pass the torch and finally find peace
Thanks for posting this. I've played this game several times, and this is always the most wrenching part -- it still brings tears to my eyes.
I've seen a lot of sad stuff so far in my life (currently 21 and still have much more to go), and even though I still find the story behind Artorias and Sif really sad, but this scene.. I'll be dreading this scene when we get Final Fantasy VII Remake. Q ~ Q
Fuck, I cried.
This scene... For me this was the definitive scene that made me fall in love with this game.
after almost 10 years this is the best final game ever made.. i love this scene. thanks for uploading it. it reminds me on those days when i was younger..
:(
It's sad to think that they'll never be a game that even compares to FF7. Truly a beautiful game.
AAAARRRGHHHH I NEED THE REMAKE OF THIS SCENE!
Every time I replay the game this is the only scene that still makes me tear up
I didn't cry as a 16 year old kid when this came out, but I did as a 29 year old man revisiting this almost forgotten memory.
THIS IS MY FATHER'S DAY SONG, I LOVE DAD, WHERE YOU ARE!!!
I bawled when I first saw this and now I'm in tears again after all these years. Makes you very sad but, at the same time, very proud for Nanaki.
He'll always be one of my favorites. One of the best FFVII moments, hands down.
Beautiful moment in all the FF . GREAT VIDIO MAN!
Precioso momento de todos los FF. UN VIDIO GENIAL TIO!
Screw the rules...
Wait, this is a different Seto.
Ive played ff7 the first time when i was about 9 years old, now i am 23, and i am still cry when i see this sceene. Seto will ever bee one of my heros when i get old. A hero who has never been mentioned, a hero who has ever been standing strong. One who has ever been there. The one who protected me always, never mentioned of his affords. One who has been nerver able to be noble, but the one who has performed his duty until his end, untlil the poisoned arrows of the GI turned his body into stone
It's good to see these old things again. I played them so long ago.
11 years later and i still get goosebumps
Same here Ree. The music/story mix is just too beautiful to not weep
after all these years, when i see or hear something about this videogame, i know i've been in contact with pure poetry for all the hours i've been playing it; it's like one of those moments of your youth that you will never have again, remembered with nostalgia, so innocent, so far away
Is it weird that I get all teary-eyed when I watch this scene and not with the other sad scenes?
Saddest scene in the game. My favourite :'-)
I think this is the most beautiful scene I've ever seen in a game, and one of the most beautiful song.
This is the best moment in any Final Fantasy ever.
Final Fantasy VII was really something special, it's a game of epic proportions. Square at it's finest.
One of my favorite all-time scenes/pieces in any video game or book.
Top Emotional & Inspiring Moments:
1 - Tidus & Yuna Lake Scene (FFX)
2 - Squall & Rinoa Space Scene (FF8)
3 - Red XIII & Seto Scene (FF7)
4 - Rena & Claude Argument - Warrior Championship Scene (Star Ocean: TSS)
5 - Aeris & Cloud (FF7)
One of the best things about this scene was the fact that you couldn't really see it coming. When you go through the cave you're not expecting something this touching to happen. This was definitely Red XIII's finest moment. One of the most memorable and touching scenes from any game, or movie, to me.
Nothing can´t surpasses the older games, I´m not saying this because I´m with 22 but I´m stiil emotioned watching this after so many years
The remake needs to strive very hard to capture the emotion in this scene. No pressure, but i know squaresoft can pull it off, so can square enix.
i hope it does this was just 1 of the many epic scenes in the game i also pray they keep the same soundtrack
I can always feel the tears starting to brew when the drums kick in ( 1:05 )
This scene and Bugenhagens death are the 2 saddest scenes in any video game ever.
I remember playing this game when it first came out, years ago, think I played it three times. And yet Red XIII was my favourite character. The part where he howls at the statue is soo bloody sad even after all this time! :'{ ...And it has made me want to play this all over again..
I just got a lump in my throat... and eyes welled up a bit...
And DAMN PROUD TOO!!!
Saddest thing I've ever seen... but kinda happy too, cos now Nanaki knows the truth about his father, and Seto knows he's proud... just epic.
You sound exactly like me. Thats the age I played it at, and am now 23. I've never really forgotten this game, not like all the others, this one just seems to stick with me. Especially this scene, and aerith dying. I remember the emotion, going through the adventure with the characters and feeling how they felt. I distinctly remember crying my heart out when Red XIII started howling sorrowfully. D': A tiny bit stronger now, but still brings a tear.
This is the best scene in any game or movie ever, the best music in the world, the best game ever...
Can’t wait for the remake to tear my heart out with this scene.
This part makes me think about my grandmother....R.I.P.
Man, games that can emotionally affect you like this don't exist anymore =(
Especially the part with the tears and the howling.
Red XIII howling is one of the most powerful moments i've experienced in a game.
Nostalgic....Another best scene of FF7. It did make me cry.....
this part of the game is so goddamn epic. you can read a book, you can go watch a movie, but nothing sticks with you like a quality game like this. watching this scene again by chance now just proves how much this game affected me. FFVII fo lyfe!
This scene made me cry T_T -cries like a baby- still makes me cry even now.. (haven't played this game for years)
Great music that went with the scene.. they got good tastes.
I find it awsome that somehow, the statue had tears that fell after Nanaki's little speech.
Nanaki's awsome x3 he's soo adorable.. even though the graphic design isn't quite the greatest that point..
i get goose bumbs over my entire body when i watch this scene
The statue says it all, really. You'd have to have a heart of stone to not be moved by this.
The BEST Final Fantasy!!!
And THIS Fantasy, was really the FINAL!
No. 7 = Perfection!
ThumbsUp for FF7!!!
FINAL FANTASY MOTHERFUCKING VII!!!!!!
Most don't understand how epic this game is, and like to call it overrated. But in the late 90's there was absolutely nothing like this, it blew our minds and I couldn't stop playing it. 1997, a memorable year.
I'll be honest, when I got older and came by to watch this scene again I got a bit teary.
It reminds me of my father and his accomplishments (He passed away almost 3 years ago.)
when my father dies, i gonna dedicate this to him, a real STREETNINJA~
Nanaki was a great character and I always had him in my party. But man, everytime I see this scene i start to get water in my eyes. my favorite scene ever in this game and probably the saddest too.
Seriously, words cant describe how beautiful this fucking scene is.
favorite final fantasy character. period.
Love this scene..so sad, and also the fact that Seto must still be conscious even though hes petrified when he starts to cry makes it even sadder !! This version of the song is WAY better than the normal cosmo canyon version !!
What I loved so much about ff7 was the depth of each individuals story. Its what got me into playing the final fantasy series and to this day probably remains my favourite game of all time. (Oh- and Nobuo Uematsu the composer seriously owns)
its like i found redxii from that laboratory just yesterday. This game is a piece of art...
the feels man...
When I first played it, I didn't understand it really (ok, I was 9 years old...:D )
but then I got to know this beautiful scene...i shivered and i cried too....it is a very enchanting moment...
He... was a true patriot.
arguably the most tear-jerking moment in FF7.
I'm sorry, When I played this game I cried like a little baby on this part....and other parts as well. This was one of the most touching scenes from the game. I love FFVII!
Im not crying, I just have tears in my eyes.
The howls make me shivers...
yeh, Nanaki is one of my favorite characters...kinda sucked that he had such a small role in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. I love this scene. thnx for posting this.
i love this game and i am probibly not as old as most of the people that played it it rocks
Still makes me get teary.
Agreed. The medium really shouldn't matter. When you watch a black and white movie, you should get immersed in the story and forget it has no color. When you watch a cartoon, if the story is interesting enough, you forget you're only watching drawings. Graphics are just the icing on the cake; they shouldn't make or break a game experience.
i love this scene, it maked my cry the first time i see it
Seto cries while thinking: "Can someone PLEASE bring me a soft or a remedy?"
Now I...want to see this all redone on the Crystal engine. What I liked about it was; that we had very cinematic camera angles on characters. Imagine this scene and Cid's past all run on Crystal!
I too shed tears at this scene, my fav. Moment in ff7
The greatest game ever made an its time storyline grafics gameplay ... Unbelievable
sob sob waaaaaaahhhhh waaaaaaahhh such a sad scene it always makes me cry when setos tears drop and red howls there's no words for how beutiful this scene is 999999999999999999999999999999Stars this deserves a bafta award
I admit, I had a bit of a lump in my throat when played through this part.
I can't believe this game came out 11 years ago. I feel oooooooooolllllllllllld. O_o
When I seen this scene, at the end I said “wait am I crying? 8o”
Man this this game brings me feels
oh man every time I watch this it just break my heart