I played this after the remake and after finishing it i loved it. I'm still in my teens, played many modern games and have been accustumed to modern standars, yet still this is one of the best games i ever played. I wish more people weren't so closeminded and stubborn when it comes to older media especially games, a medium that ages quickly, FF7 is an incredible game. i think square knew remaking it with modern technology would still not be enough so they opted for a more unique approach. It's flawed, has sometimes bad translation, i could go on yet despite that it's a game that in my opinion stood the test of time, maybe not graphically, but everything else from the combat to the story and it's unique charme, Final Fantasy 7 is one of the best games of all time
Its great to hear that younger ppl still are able to get into it and enjoy it. I have watched a few ppl the last few Days (Weeks) play it after they played Remake and wanting to know what happened. I might be wrong here but… i think this was also SE Plan that ppl who liked the Remake will go back to it to understand what is actually happening. I cant just say how much they really planned this out to happen or if they just thought this would be a Bonus for them (sales wise). But i really think they knew what they are doing with the whole Projekt and i love it. At least so far.
Like 7 years ago or so, when I was a kid, I wanted a game on my iPad, so my dad bought ff7 and installed it. At first I didn’t really care for it, but when I had nothing else to do one day, it really made me interested. Back then I was bad at video games and had a lot of help from him. I specifically remember him getting the enemy skill from the Midgard Serpent thing early on by using the elemental materia. I also remember the soundtrack very well. I’m honestly thinking I should revisit this game.
I believe, if you press a button during battles [select? I think?] Then it has a text box showing what the item you hover over does, like echo screen [Cures Silence] Anyway I'm really happy with your review; ff7 has been my special interest for 25 years and I'm so glad to see more people enjoying it! It gives me LIFE especially when someone likes it and they don't even have the nostalgia for it that I do ☺️
Every time I see snugboy talk about a game I haven’t played it makes me wanna play it 😂 Glad to see u back Also can we talk about how he actually reads comments?
THE LEGEND IS BACK and absolutely killing it! Every one of your videos blows me away with how natural your jokes and edits are. It's so good to see you back in your incredibly humorous yet insightful style of video. I'm so glad you decided to cover this banger of a game, you put into the words the magic of this classic better than I ever could. Congrats on the amazing return, always looking forward to the next Snugboy masterpiece!!! ❤
I played this game in 1997 and pretty much replay it so many times it was burn into my mind for many years after. It was something else back then, so when I see a title like this on a video, when I'm looking for the Remake cutscenes... Final Fantasy 7 - 25 Years Later (also for the first time) I was curious to know, how a player from the HD era will see that old masterpiece that blew our minds back when we were kids. Well, I expected a lot of critics, been an old game and all, but I'm happy that the OG still have the same charm that trap us into this wonderful world, even after 25 years and your review was not only a pleasure to watch, it was hilarious. 😂👍
By all accounts I've heard, Aerith's apparent annoyingness/lack of depth is largely a product of the poor english translation. Aerith has a lot more personality in the original Japanese. I played FF7 using a redone translation patch and found her delightful. Perhaps next time you play, if you do, you might want to check that out?
ive actually been playing the original myself for the first time after playing the remake and so far im absolutely in love with it. im about 90% through the game and honestly cant wait to finish it
Forgot how much I love seeing your videos. Incredible as always. I went on a similar journey and played through this game a couple years ago and absolutely loved it all. I think the music is truly the best part of the game. I'm constantly listening to the soundtrack years later. Can’t wait to see more of your stuff as the channel grows. Great job Snug!
Wonderful review! Really awesome to hear your experience and perspective. You may not have known this but if you press select in battle, you get descriptions on what each item does and what each action means. Also, it’ll give the enemy’s name when you’re selecting who to attack. Also thankfully, the modern versions of this game can turn off random encounters for those long moments of just trying to explore.
Awesome video mate! Nothing make me happier than seeing Final Fantasy VII being appreciated by new, young audience. Although it is a bit crudely and hastily presented, the characters, themes and story is SO EXTREMELY well written, even to this day. It's a kind of writing ambition that has sadly often been lost in modern western AAA games... Sure, I got a FFVII moment when playing through Enslaved: Oddyssey to the West. The ending of that game was eye opening and bone chilling, it stirred up similar emotions like FFVII did. However, it was just one moment, they spent a whole game building up to it. But FFVII gave you these kind moments and surprises several times throughout the game. But you can tell that it is all about good writing, Ninja Theory, who worked on Enslaved hired Alex Garland to make the most out of their writing (same guy who wrote 28 Days Later, Never Let me Go, Ex Machina etc.), and you can really tell that a real talent was put on the team. Because It's hard to come by good efficient writing that focus on themes rather than sheer quantity (like in a lot of large open world AAA games). And I think it's one of the things that will make FFVII a timeless classic, the extremely well executed writing. I also love how younger people enjoy the game and can see past the crude presentation (which was state of the art, and highly impressive in 1997). Square worked with a lot of limitations back then, the reason why the characters were "gouraud shaded" and lacked textures was due to memory managment and loading, instead of houndreds of KBytes per character and enemy, these just became a couple of bytes small. And truthfully, having characters and enemies being designed with recognizable shapes and colours just adds such a lively variety to the game, and it also makes the design of these look timeless in my opinion. Textured characters back in 1997 often aged far worse than FFVII so I am kind of happy about how the technical limitations shaped the look of the game. The music had similar issues, by using midi instead of CD Audio, they could squeeze out several songs in just MB or two, meanwhile CD Audio track would require at least ~50MB of storage for just one track. Which would leave no room for FMVs, pre-rendered backgrounds etc. The CD format was new, and developers struggled with loading... A LOT, and although you could theoretically compress data back then, it wasn't feasible most of the time, since you always battled loading times, adding decompression was often not an option.
I actually played FF7 thus year for the first time too! I was hesitant for the same reasons and I didn't know what to expect when I booted up the game, but after playing, I was blown away and I was upset that I hadn't played this game before. I'm glad you made this video, it explains the way I feel about this game, petty much perfectly!
Awesome video, glad to see you back making videos. I've got so many memories of the Midgar section, such a landmark game. I am always shocked how it was made on the PS1. Almost shocks me as much as Metal Gear Solid 1, for how it achieved a deep, theme rich cinematic experience on the PS1
ahhhh i can’t wait to watch this video welcome back snugboy!! funnily enough i got FFVII so i could play it for the first time this summer so for the sake of not spoiling the story for myself i’ll come back and watch this once i finish the game! i already know it’s gonna get added to my favorites
I love FFVII, it was my first final fantasy and will forever hold a special place in my heart ❤️ BUT I agree SO much that random encounters can get frustrating when you don't know where to go 😂 i wish they added a no encounters feature like they did on FFIX on steam
I LOVED the spoiler warning, as if this game isn't.... Holy shit 25 years old?! I loved your Zelda content and then I immediately jumped when I saw this video. My two loves!!!!! Tbh I'm really nervous about the remake, it feels like Kingdom Hearts confusing storyline tendencies are bleeding over and just please no!
This game happens to be one of my favourites of all time and it shows. After that I enjoyed playing final fantasy IX, final fantasy VI, final fantasy X and unpopular opinion I really enjoyed final fantasy VIII as well. If you love final fantasy VII you should check out games like final fantasy VI and X. And if you liked active time battle systems you should definitely check out chrono trigger as well.
Your gripe about the No names of enemies or not being able to read description of what items do in battle is not a flaw in the game. You just didn't press the button that showed the tooltips. Cant remember of the top of My head, but a textbox appears right above the menuscreen/statusscreen that described what you Are targeting(foe, character, choosing item/spell). But otherwise i liked this review of the game. Always interesting to hear ppls thought. Also if they played Ff7 remake first, how it changes their viewing, since some events dont make sense unless you play the original 😅. And if you go back to remake after playing the original, you catch a lot of little detail, especially with Aerith and Sephiroth...
Great video, I haven't played FF7 through since 2007 having first played it when it came out. It's one of my favourite games, I highly recommend you play FF9 too. I can't decide which is better.
Just replayed this to 100% and man its so nice to see someone actually comment on how great the pre rendered backgrounds in this game are. Like yeah the game is old but very few games give me such deep atmosphere than ff7 personally. I mean I'm kinda biased cause this is probably my fav game of all time but still lmao. Great video and glad you ended up loving the game man
you did great justice to the goat! having asked it for christmas 1997, 10yo at the time i can tell you it had been kind of my bible since then. only after bein haunted by it for a long time did i realise it was a blessing to witness the appearance of such a piece of art, especially as a 10yo, being the only one able to grasp it... Your focus on music made me understand something about this 9th art essence. Where immersion, visual and sculptural, narrative, architectural.. all dimensions of art have to fit and procede in harmony, as if it was a musical composition. FF7 really is the most Epic opera of our time.
I really liked this game when I played it a couple years ago. Even though this was my first final fantasy game, I prefer 6 and 9 personally so I would recommend you check those out too
Yo, I just found your channel like 2 days ago and I thought you would never upload again. Glad I found it at the perfect time. Keep up the good work dude, you’re a natural
I played FF7 for the first time back about 2019-2020 (I was like 16 at the time) and I even had an small old tube tv that I would use to play some retro games on since I felt I was playing the game more accurately to the way it was intended and MAN, I had a blast. Of course I did follow a guide a little bit to get some of the harder stuff to find like the Knights Of The Round summon, the best weapons for the characters, you name it, but going through the story I felt how unique it was for the time since it took the series a little out of the fantasy genre and brought sci-fi elements into the mix and I loved how unique that was for the time. I'm going through remake currently and I've just been having a blast with it, it's the same game yet so, so different in a good way. Though, I actually didn't start out the series with this game nor is it my favorite, that honor goes to Final Fantasy IX, which I completely recommend anyone to play, the graphical style of the game completely blows FF7 out of the water along with the story, characters, world and locations. But FF7 currently does have a pretty good spot at being in second.
@@Snugboy yeah, I'm hoping that the leaks of it getting a remake are real since very leak that has had it and some other games that either seemed crazy or hadn't been announced have been real, my hype level would be uncontainable.
DUUUDE during the livestream for modded ff7 remake you answered "IDK I might" when I asked if this video would happen. I'm glad you answered that though, nice surprise, and this is a great video!
You should play FF Crisis Core. its the story of Zack, the "black haired dude". If you liked the FF7 remake, you could even play Crisis Core Reunion, that games remake.
Still my joint favourite game of all time along with suikoden 2....truly a masterpiece..it's cool for people to shit on it Abit nowadays.. people saying it's overated and 6/9/10/tactics are better etc. But it's far from overated...genuine masterpiece n blew my mind when I was a kid..I expected it to be 8 identical bombing missions and a last boss 😳😂
Okay. So, Final Fantasy. Specifically 7. Is awesome, I love it, love it, can’t get enough. That being said, I’m not much of a game guy, unless it’s Zelda or smash bros, I probably won’t finish the game, but I absolutely love the story and it’s characters and they’re absolutely worth having to endure the gameplay
FF7 is so fantastic. One of my top 10 favorite games of all time (Just like Zelda tp!) An absoloute masterpiece imo. I remember having to whip out a guide for ff7 as well, that was one of the few problems I had with the game.
YO! SNUG! Good to see you back here again! I never played FFVII but I'm planning to do, after hearing all the praise for it! Keep doing your best man! And stay snug! Cheers dude!
I know this doesn’t help now, but there’s an “info” window you can open in nettle that tells you things like enemy names and what items do. I think it’s “select” or a shoulder button.
As someone who played this game for the first time this year and hasn't played the remake, this game holds up easily 25 years later. Kingdom Hearts is the main driving force for why I wanted to finally try this game due to seeing these characters and I am mad at myself for not playing this game sooner. If you are holding back on playing the original, just don't. Try it out cause what do you have to lose?
I recently played FF7 for the first time and I found the key underwater on my own without much trouble. They told you it's in a place where sunlight won't reach (hmm, sounds like underwater), and considering you just recently got a submarine, I think it's a fair puzzle. Personally, the only time I found the game unclear on where to go was after rocket town when you get the airplane/boat and need to get to the Temple of the Ancients, but even that I found after about an hour or two.
Such a fantastic perspective, as a fan of the game since the day it came out it's really cool to see somebody come pick it up it all these years later with a fresh perspective and still come away with it loving it as much as I do. Great video!
He does it again! Reeling me in with the music reviews, honest not so good bits, and emotional heart of the game! I'm still never going to play this super old game but this almooooost makes me want to. 😁He's returned, glad to see it!!
IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK ❤ FFVII is one of my favourite games, even though I only played it for the first time last year. I was equally blown away by how well it holds up over 2 decades after its release. As always, your writing, narration, humour, and editing came together beautifully in this comeback video. I couldn’t believe how dense the story was when I first played the game; the narrative - woven together by the world, characters, and music - still shines today. I was pulled in right from the start, especially with the thematic backdrop in Midgar being planetary degradation, fuelled by a corporation getting so big that they also become the police, military, and government. It (unfortunately) still resonates today. One narrative decision that worked SO well was Sephiroth’s introduction being a long buildup. We don’t actually get to see him in the flesh for many hours - we only see his Masamune, a flashback showing us his insane stats, and the aftermath of him defeating a Zolom that would’ve obliterated our party. It sets up a feeling of dread right from the start. But the music is what breathes so much life into the game, takes it to a whole other level, and makes the experience SO much more memorable. I agree that the genius of the story is when you start realizing that Cloud is an unreliable narrator. It fuels your curiosity to keep playing and understand what in the WORLD is going on. But I also wasn’t a fan that the game punishes your curiosity with very frequent random encounters. And I feel like I just repeated a bunch of things you said in the video, but I just love this game to bits. I almost spat my coffee out laughing a few times. The amount of thought, time, and passion that you put into your work astounds me, and the end result is always spectacular. Incredible work on this. It was thoughtful and well-paced and funny as ever. This was the absolute best way to start my Sunday, and it’s so, so SO good to have you back and doing what you love. ❤ (Also the Dirge is the best character in the game that is all kbye)
Great review and I can confirm that I do not tire of this OST over 20 years later. It always makes me chuckle when people's first thought when it comes to FF7 is 'the game where Aeris dies' because as you allude to, as iconic as that is, the biggest and most interesting twist in this game is around Cloud's identity crisis and the events in Nibelheim and I imagine most who haven't played this game know nothing about it. Also just to address a couple of the criticisms; I imagine you are looking at reviewing the original game but these days you can turn random encounters off on most versions of the game. In addition, you actually CAN see what effects items have by opening the help window during battle. I'm pretty sure the description for echo screen in that window literally reads 'Cures silence'
Nice to have you back Snug! This is a fantastic video on Final Fantasy VII and I'm happy you played it!. Plus I'm really happy you enjoyed it, it's an incredible game especially with it being 25 years old. Oooh by the way, and this'll annoy you I'm sure XD You can see what things do in battles, you just have to press the select button and it brings up an extra box above the battle menu to say what things do. Don't worry I wouldn't have known if I didn't press the select button by accident 😂
@30:35 to see what items do, i believe its press select. normally the battle menus tell u, but i think FF7 opted to have the info off, unless u turn it on.
I played this after the remake and after finishing it i loved it.
I'm still in my teens, played many modern games and have been accustumed to modern standars, yet still this is one of the best games i ever played.
I wish more people weren't so closeminded and stubborn when it comes to older media especially games, a medium that ages quickly, FF7 is an incredible game. i think square knew remaking it with modern technology would still not be enough so they opted for a more unique approach.
It's flawed, has sometimes bad translation, i could go on yet despite that it's a game that in my opinion stood the test of time, maybe not graphically, but everything else from the combat to the story and it's unique charme, Final Fantasy 7 is one of the best games of all time
Its great to hear that younger ppl still are able to get into it and enjoy it. I have watched a few ppl the last few Days (Weeks) play it after they played Remake and wanting to know what happened. I might be wrong here but… i think this was also SE Plan that ppl who liked the Remake will go back to it to understand what is actually happening. I cant just say how much they really planned this out to happen or if they just thought this would be a Bonus for them (sales wise). But i really think they knew what they are doing with the whole Projekt and i love it.
At least so far.
Hey Snugbeans! SO GOOD to be back. Got a memory or thought on Final Fantasy VII? Let me known down below 👇👇👇
@Rahmone Gayle yeah get used to it
Like 7 years ago or so, when I was a kid, I wanted a game on my iPad, so my dad bought ff7 and installed it. At first I didn’t really care for it, but when I had nothing else to do one day, it really made me interested. Back then I was bad at video games and had a lot of help from him. I specifically remember him getting the enemy skill from the Midgard Serpent thing early on by using the elemental materia. I also remember the soundtrack very well. I’m honestly thinking I should revisit this game.
I believe, if you press a button during battles [select? I think?] Then it has a text box showing what the item you hover over does, like echo screen [Cures Silence]
Anyway I'm really happy with your review; ff7 has been my special interest for 25 years and I'm so glad to see more people enjoying it! It gives me LIFE especially when someone likes it and they don't even have the nostalgia for it that I do ☺️
Every time I see snugboy talk about a game I haven’t played it makes me wanna play it 😂
Glad to see u back
Also can we talk about how he actually reads comments?
I actually do not know how to read so I pay for a scribe to read them all as he feeds me grapes and berries
One of my favorite "small" creators! Great video snugboi!
THE LEGEND IS BACK and absolutely killing it! Every one of your videos blows me away with how natural your jokes and edits are. It's so good to see you back in your incredibly humorous yet insightful style of video. I'm so glad you decided to cover this banger of a game, you put into the words the magic of this classic better than I ever could. Congrats on the amazing return, always looking forward to the next Snugboy masterpiece!!! ❤
I played this game in 1997 and pretty much replay it so many times it was burn into my mind for many years after. It was something else back then, so when I see a title like this on a video, when I'm looking for the Remake cutscenes... Final Fantasy 7 - 25 Years Later (also for the first time) I was curious to know, how a player from the HD era will see that old masterpiece that blew our minds back when we were kids. Well, I expected a lot of critics, been an old game and all, but I'm happy that the OG still have the same charm that trap us into this wonderful world, even after 25 years and your review was not only a pleasure to watch, it was hilarious. 😂👍
By all accounts I've heard, Aerith's apparent annoyingness/lack of depth is largely a product of the poor english translation. Aerith has a lot more personality in the original Japanese. I played FF7 using a redone translation patch and found her delightful. Perhaps next time you play, if you do, you might want to check that out?
So exciting that you’re back! The dilly dally shilly shally reference SENT me
dilly dally shilly shally 💅
ive actually been playing the original myself for the first time after playing the remake and so far im absolutely in love with it. im about 90% through the game and honestly cant wait to finish it
Amazing video! Loved every second! Happy to see you back.
Snug, I fucking missed you. Welcome back!
Forgot how much I love seeing your videos. Incredible as always. I went on a similar journey and played through this game a couple years ago and absolutely loved it all. I think the music is truly the best part of the game. I'm constantly listening to the soundtrack years later. Can’t wait to see more of your stuff as the channel grows. Great job Snug!
This video has been blessed by a Micah comment. I can now rest easy. THANK YOU LEGEND
Hell yeah. So it's not just nostalgia. This further justifies my obsession.
Wonderful review! Really awesome to hear your experience and perspective.
You may not have known this but if you press select in battle, you get descriptions on what each item does and what each action means. Also, it’ll give the enemy’s name when you’re selecting who to attack.
Also thankfully, the modern versions of this game can turn off random encounters for those long moments of just trying to explore.
Best game ever made. Very good review too! ❤️
Awesome video mate! Nothing make me happier than seeing Final Fantasy VII being appreciated by new, young audience. Although it is a bit crudely and hastily presented, the characters, themes and story is SO EXTREMELY well written, even to this day. It's a kind of writing ambition that has sadly often been lost in modern western AAA games... Sure, I got a FFVII moment when playing through Enslaved: Oddyssey to the West. The ending of that game was eye opening and bone chilling, it stirred up similar emotions like FFVII did. However, it was just one moment, they spent a whole game building up to it. But FFVII gave you these kind moments and surprises several times throughout the game. But you can tell that it is all about good writing, Ninja Theory, who worked on Enslaved hired Alex Garland to make the most out of their writing (same guy who wrote 28 Days Later, Never Let me Go, Ex Machina etc.), and you can really tell that a real talent was put on the team. Because It's hard to come by good efficient writing that focus on themes rather than sheer quantity (like in a lot of large open world AAA games). And I think it's one of the things that will make FFVII a timeless classic, the extremely well executed writing.
I also love how younger people enjoy the game and can see past the crude presentation (which was state of the art, and highly impressive in 1997). Square worked with a lot of limitations back then, the reason why the characters were "gouraud shaded" and lacked textures was due to memory managment and loading, instead of houndreds of KBytes per character and enemy, these just became a couple of bytes small. And truthfully, having characters and enemies being designed with recognizable shapes and colours just adds such a lively variety to the game, and it also makes the design of these look timeless in my opinion. Textured characters back in 1997 often aged far worse than FFVII so I am kind of happy about how the technical limitations shaped the look of the game. The music had similar issues, by using midi instead of CD Audio, they could squeeze out several songs in just MB or two, meanwhile CD Audio track would require at least ~50MB of storage for just one track. Which would leave no room for FMVs, pre-rendered backgrounds etc. The CD format was new, and developers struggled with loading... A LOT, and although you could theoretically compress data back then, it wasn't feasible most of the time, since you always battled loading times, adding decompression was often not an option.
Great choice going from the intro music to On our way
When I found out that Zack named Seventh Heaven, I cried happy tears.
I actually played FF7 thus year for the first time too! I was hesitant for the same reasons and I didn't know what to expect when I booted up the game, but after playing, I was blown away and I was upset that I hadn't played this game before. I'm glad you made this video, it explains the way I feel about this game, petty much perfectly!
missed ya my guy, banger video though
Awesome video, glad to see you back making videos. I've got so many memories of the Midgar section, such a landmark game. I am always shocked how it was made on the PS1. Almost shocks me as much as Metal Gear Solid 1, for how it achieved a deep, theme rich cinematic experience on the PS1
I GOTTA PLAY MGS
@@Snugboy knowing you, you would love how deep it gets while simaltaneously being the most batshit crazy thing you've ever seen
@@FleetofFeet I've always wanted to but they are so hard to play on modern systems! RE RELEASE THEM!!!!!!!
ahhhh i can’t wait to watch this video welcome back snugboy!! funnily enough i got FFVII so i could play it for the first time this summer so for the sake of not spoiling the story for myself i’ll come back and watch this once i finish the game! i already know it’s gonna get added to my favorites
OMG classic marinova comment THANK YOU SO MUCH I CANT WAIT FOR YOU TO PLAY IT
I love FFVII, it was my first final fantasy and will forever hold a special place in my heart ❤️
BUT I agree SO much that random encounters can get frustrating when you don't know where to go 😂 i wish they added a no encounters feature like they did on FFIX on steam
Welcome back you absolute legend
Gen Z with their instant gratification, can't take the time to explore the world yourself... also looks like you never found the select button
I LOVED the spoiler warning, as if this game isn't.... Holy shit 25 years old?! I loved your Zelda content and then I immediately jumped when I saw this video. My two loves!!!!! Tbh I'm really nervous about the remake, it feels like Kingdom Hearts confusing storyline tendencies are bleeding over and just please no!
This game happens to be one of my favourites of all time and it shows. After that I enjoyed playing final fantasy IX, final fantasy VI, final fantasy X and unpopular opinion I really enjoyed final fantasy VIII as well. If you love final fantasy VII you should check out games like final fantasy VI and X. And if you liked active time battle systems you should definitely check out chrono trigger as well.
Your gripe about the No names of enemies or not being able to read description of what items do in battle is not a flaw in the game. You just didn't press the button that showed the tooltips. Cant remember of the top of My head, but a textbox appears right above the menuscreen/statusscreen that described what you Are targeting(foe, character, choosing item/spell).
But otherwise i liked this review of the game. Always interesting to hear ppls thought. Also if they played Ff7 remake first, how it changes their viewing, since some events dont make sense unless you play the original 😅. And if you go back to remake after playing the original, you catch a lot of little detail, especially with Aerith and Sephiroth...
Great video, I haven't played FF7 through since 2007 having first played it when it came out. It's one of my favourite games, I highly recommend you play FF9 too. I can't decide which is better.
Just replayed this to 100% and man its so nice to see someone actually comment on how great the pre rendered backgrounds in this game are. Like yeah the game is old but very few games give me such deep atmosphere than ff7 personally. I mean I'm kinda biased cause this is probably my fav game of all time but still lmao. Great video and glad you ended up loving the game man
you did great justice to the goat! having asked it for christmas 1997, 10yo at the time i can tell you it had been kind of my bible since then. only after bein haunted by it for a long time did i realise it was a blessing to witness the appearance of such a piece of art, especially as a 10yo, being the only one able to grasp it... Your focus on music made me understand something about this 9th art essence. Where immersion, visual and sculptural, narrative, architectural.. all dimensions of art have to fit and procede in harmony, as if it was a musical composition. FF7 really is the most Epic opera of our time.
Glad to hace You back snugboy 🔥💜
Nothing beats the atmosphere of the orignal vii. Easily my favourite game of all time
I really liked this game when I played it a couple years ago. Even though this was my first final fantasy game, I prefer 6 and 9 personally so I would recommend you check those out too
Snugboy's comeback would be best described with a certain LotR movie released in 2003
no u
HE'S BACK 👑❤
26:46 Lalafell supremacy 🔥🔥
Yo, I just found your channel like 2 days ago and I thought you would never upload again. Glad I found it at the perfect time. Keep up the good work dude, you’re a natural
lmao you have perfect timing
I played FF7 for the first time back about 2019-2020 (I was like 16 at the time) and I even had an small old tube tv that I would use to play some retro games on since I felt I was playing the game more accurately to the way it was intended and MAN, I had a blast. Of course I did follow a guide a little bit to get some of the harder stuff to find like the Knights Of The Round summon, the best weapons for the characters, you name it, but going through the story I felt how unique it was for the time since it took the series a little out of the fantasy genre and brought sci-fi elements into the mix and I loved how unique that was for the time. I'm going through remake currently and I've just been having a blast with it, it's the same game yet so, so different in a good way. Though, I actually didn't start out the series with this game nor is it my favorite, that honor goes to Final Fantasy IX, which I completely recommend anyone to play, the graphical style of the game completely blows FF7 out of the water along with the story, characters, world and locations. But FF7 currently does have a pretty good spot at being in second.
Yooo thanks for sharing your story! I’ll def have to give 9 a go cause everyone says that one is so so good.
@@Snugboy yeah, I'm hoping that the leaks of it getting a remake are real since very leak that has had it and some other games that either seemed crazy or hadn't been announced have been real, my hype level would be uncontainable.
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DUUUDE during the livestream for modded ff7 remake you answered "IDK I might" when I asked if this video would happen.
I'm glad you answered that though, nice surprise, and this is a great video!
HAHA I remember you asking!! Was sweating bullets when I saw it lol
@@Snugboy I'm glad you were vague. Made the surprise much better!
I'm also happy you're in good health again, man! :)
You should play FF Crisis Core. its the story of Zack, the "black haired dude". If you liked the FF7 remake, you could even play Crisis Core Reunion, that games remake.
Still my joint favourite game of all time along with suikoden 2....truly a masterpiece..it's cool for people to shit on it Abit nowadays.. people saying it's overated and 6/9/10/tactics are better etc.
But it's far from overated...genuine masterpiece n blew my mind when I was a kid..I expected it to be 8 identical bombing missions and a last boss 😳😂
Okay. So, Final Fantasy. Specifically 7. Is awesome, I love it, love it, can’t get enough. That being said, I’m not much of a game guy, unless it’s Zelda or smash bros, I probably won’t finish the game, but I absolutely love the story and it’s characters and they’re absolutely worth having to endure the gameplay
FF7 is so fantastic. One of my top 10 favorite games of all time (Just like Zelda tp!) An absoloute masterpiece imo.
I remember having to whip out a guide for ff7 as well, that was one of the few problems I had with the game.
YO! SNUG!
Good to see you back here again!
I never played FFVII but I'm planning to do, after hearing all the praise for it!
Keep doing your best man!
And stay snug!
Cheers dude!
I know this doesn’t help now, but there’s an “info” window you can open in nettle that tells you things like enemy names and what items do. I think it’s “select” or a shoulder button.
As someone who played this game for the first time this year and hasn't played the remake, this game holds up easily 25 years later. Kingdom Hearts is the main driving force for why I wanted to finally try this game due to seeing these characters and I am mad at myself for not playing this game sooner. If you are holding back on playing the original, just don't. Try it out cause what do you have to lose?
Welcome back, love. So proud of you, hun ❤️
ily so much
You had to buy ultimate strategy guides for these games or print out stuff online my first rpg I had 0 clue where to go or how it all worked
I recently played FF7 for the first time and I found the key underwater on my own without much trouble. They told you it's in a place where sunlight won't reach (hmm, sounds like underwater), and considering you just recently got a submarine, I think it's a fair puzzle. Personally, the only time I found the game unclear on where to go was after rocket town when you get the airplane/boat and need to get to the Temple of the Ancients, but even that I found after about an hour or two.
Me when I play Final Fantasy VII 🤬
shut up ffxiv player
The City of the ancients theme and cosmo canyon theme are my faves
Persona 3 is better music and gameplay wise
Such a fantastic perspective, as a fan of the game since the day it came out it's really cool to see somebody come pick it up it all these years later with a fresh perspective and still come away with it loving it as much as I do. Great video!
Aaah glad to hear I am now a part of the club. Thank you so much!
Welcome home brother
thank you my bro
He does it again! Reeling me in with the music reviews, honest not so good bits, and emotional heart of the game! I'm still never going to play this super old game but this almooooost makes me want to. 😁He's returned, glad to see it!!
IT'S SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK ❤
FFVII is one of my favourite games, even though I only played it for the first time last year. I was equally blown away by how well it holds up over 2 decades after its release. As always, your writing, narration, humour, and editing came together beautifully in this comeback video.
I couldn’t believe how dense the story was when I first played the game; the narrative - woven together by the world, characters, and music - still shines today. I was pulled in right from the start, especially with the thematic backdrop in Midgar being planetary degradation, fuelled by a corporation getting so big that they also become the police, military, and government. It (unfortunately) still resonates today.
One narrative decision that worked SO well was Sephiroth’s introduction being a long buildup. We don’t actually get to see him in the flesh for many hours - we only see his Masamune, a flashback showing us his insane stats, and the aftermath of him defeating a Zolom that would’ve obliterated our party. It sets up a feeling of dread right from the start.
But the music is what breathes so much life into the game, takes it to a whole other level, and makes the experience SO much more memorable.
I agree that the genius of the story is when you start realizing that Cloud is an unreliable narrator. It fuels your curiosity to keep playing and understand what in the WORLD is going on. But I also wasn’t a fan that the game punishes your curiosity with very frequent random encounters. And I feel like I just repeated a bunch of things you said in the video, but I just love this game to bits.
I almost spat my coffee out laughing a few times. The amount of thought, time, and passion that you put into your work astounds me, and the end result is always spectacular. Incredible work on this. It was thoughtful and well-paced and funny as ever. This was the absolute best way to start my Sunday, and it’s so, so SO good to have you back and doing what you love. ❤
(Also the Dirge is the best character in the game that is all kbye)
FF8 is your favourite tho 🤨
@@Snugboy Actually, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII is my favourite
great to have you back king 💜
Happy to have you back!
Great review and I can confirm that I do not tire of this OST over 20 years later.
It always makes me chuckle when people's first thought when it comes to FF7 is 'the game where Aeris dies' because as you allude to, as iconic as that is, the biggest and most interesting twist in this game is around Cloud's identity crisis and the events in Nibelheim and I imagine most who haven't played this game know nothing about it.
Also just to address a couple of the criticisms; I imagine you are looking at reviewing the original game but these days you can turn random encounters off on most versions of the game.
In addition, you actually CAN see what effects items have by opening the help window during battle. I'm pretty sure the description for echo screen in that window literally reads 'Cures silence'
Such a fantastic game
Nice to have you back Snug! This is a fantastic video on Final Fantasy VII and I'm happy you played it!. Plus I'm really happy you enjoyed it, it's an incredible game especially with it being 25 years old. Oooh by the way, and this'll annoy you I'm sure XD You can see what things do in battles, you just have to press the select button and it brings up an extra box above the battle menu to say what things do. Don't worry I wouldn't have known if I didn't press the select button by accident 😂
You can what 💀💀💀💀
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to see what items do, i believe its press select. normally the battle menus tell u, but i think FF7 opted to have the info off, unless u turn it on.