“No more 40 minute videos” *5 months later*

I clicked this thinking it would only be about 5 mins and a good break from my dissertation. I made a mistake.

You know this channel is getting serious when IH doesn't say "one take, I'm a busy man" and proceeds to make a 39min video

The game that spawned a million usernames.

I went into this knowing nothing and now I know even less, and the Final Fantasy 7 House makes even less sense.

This being unlisted is a crime against humanity

Good video! I love seeing the GTA San Andreas modding community still active!

"On his way out of Nibelheim, Sephiroth starts a fiery warpath, burning Cloud's hometown to the ground. Cloud's mother, Tifa's father were killed in the accident." An accident? Are you guys defense lawyers for Sephiroth?

"Remember how you was younger and I was also younger? Join Al Quaeda!" I fucking love this channel.

I have never played this game and after watching this video I don't think I could ever handle it. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Blessed are we to receive Storymode

The more you look into the og ff7 canon the more you ask 'why is literally every bad thing hojo's fault'

This feels like when I have a really weird dream and then try to explain it to someone. I like it.

I don't know why, but it broke me seeing Cloud in a wheelchair falling into a pit while he still has a blank face.

Cue the Frasier theme

i didn't know anything about final fantasy before watching this. now that I have watched this I know even less

"This doesn't make any bloody sense. 'We gotta take out four guys, BOMB LONDON.'" Not far off from what Innocent IV did.

The plot feels like an unfiltered stream of consciousness of the 10 years old child high on sugar.

“Final Fantasy VII: But You’re Always Too Late” I think that’s just Drakengard

This legitimately explained the plot better then the actual game.

This felt like giant acid trip with twists and turns. I hope my implanted memory is related to spiky hair.

Storymode: "I don't want to get cancelled" Also Storymode: *accurate Yuffie impersonation* My man

The barely contained laughter while describing extremely emotional scenes is just the cherry on top of this whole video.

Poor Vincent wasnt even acknowledged

I love that they never explain who Vincent is and that people who aren't familiar with the game probably didn't noticed that, after the part in the last abandoned lab, a random guy with a red cape started going along with Cloud and friends

Seriously are JRPG writers not allowed to ever delete anything? It's like the "Yes and ... and also... oh and" school of writing.

This is now Sephiroth's canonical accent.

"He snaps back to reality" "Woah there goes gravity" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Some things - Cloud isn't really a 'clone' of Sephiroth, it was just an attempt to put Jenova cells into another person like they did with Sephiroth when he was a foetus. -They were chasing a shape-shifting Jenova that looked like Sephiroth, but the mind in control of it really was Sephiroth so it's not that much of a difference. It's just that Sephiroth's real body was all cut in half and not up for walking about. Because Jenova is a hive mind, and he was a part of it, he was able to subjugate the actual Jenova. His and its goals are pretty much aligned though so I don't think it would've minded. -Cloud never joined SOLDIER. He tried, but failed, and ended up just a regular old grunt. He still killed Sephiroth basically so I dunno what their entrance exam was like. I guess Zack softened him up? -Because Cloud has been merged with the Jenova cells, the comment about Tifa and his child being a Jenova baby is probably accurate, but Tifa never gets pregnant. :( -If they hadn't killed Sephiroth, he probably would've just sucked up the Lifestream like Kirby when Meteor hit, so they did do something. It's just that Aerith didn't. She died for nothing.

Oh! I finally understand the final fantasy house story.

I watched all of this and the plot still confuses me.

"Sector 7 was an inside job, Mako can't melt Steal beams" made me spit my coffee out. God thats a good one

The ending of this episode was such glorious chaos

Unfortunately I never made it past the last Weapon cutscene. Disc 3 had a nasty scratch. So after 22 years, I finally know how that ridiculous game ended. Thanks IH!

Sephiroth replied, "there they are.....the deets!"

I swear, this game's plot is exactly the same as a child playing with their friend and trying to one-up them each time. "No that was just a clone I was controlling so I'm not dead!" It's that for 200 hours, what a fever dream.

This whole game is just one big Jenova gender reveal party innit

Now i see why they made that great anime based on this game: Final Metal Alchemist Brotherhood 7. The plots diverge a little, but creative license is always a given when animating such a detailed masterpiece.

"how could they fuck up the remakes story and make it so much more anime!?" The original game:

I liked it when you carefully and clearly pronounce the Cetra girl Aeris, Aries, Aerith. And did the same thing with Sephiroth, Hojo, and the town of Junon. And Sephiroth's accent wobbles between Sweden and Ireland.

This has made me realize that the remake is going to get pretty weird at the end.

Guard: "You're cute, whats your name blondie??" Cloud: "Umm.... Thunder.... Head?" Guard: "You are going to make so much fucking money" -TeamFourStar ff7

I can't wait to hear you explain FF8. No really, it's a challenge

wow a 40 minutes episode, good job small youtuber i'm sure you'll be famous in no time if you keep up the good work!

Instructions unclear; stuffed an entire Mako Shark into my gas tank.

Finally my favourite small channel covers my favourite obscure game.

Fun fact, the Mako energy isn't just green petrol. They don't burn it. They distill it, then condense it with Fractional Freezing and high pressure vessels. The entire process produces more energy than it takes somehow, and in the end the mako is condensed into Materia. This is why there is Materia literally everywhere. It's a byproduct of the energy production process. They're more or less freeze-drying it.

I understood more about FF7 in the first three minutes of this video than I did in the first three hours of actually playing it

Wow this game is so fun, it would be awesome to live in a house inspired by this game! A final fantasy house if you would.

A funny retelling without the "lel so randum" type of jokes found in other videos. Good times. Liked and subscribed.

I'm really enjoying supporting this small, independent KZfaqr. I can tell this channel is gonna be big one day!

After Silent Hill I really wished they would do FF too and here it is. Can't describe how happy I am

Avalanche is more than just Barrett's group. They're a general protest group with some more extreme branches such as Barrett's. Shinra's goal was to blame Avalanche/protestors as a whole for the plate falling, as if it was caused by the reactor bombings.

Small addendum, Aerith was actually uniting the life stream and her sacrifice on two fronts is the real reason that everything survived. Mind you that sacrifice would have been completely pointless if Sephiroth and Jenova weren't dealt with

From the FMVs I saw in my childhood, I had no clue FF7 looked like Roblox.

This is kinda what i mean when I say the plot of the game isnt complicated. But the presentation can be janky cause of 3 major reasons: 1) Dodgy translations 2) is fond of hiding infodumps in places you might not think of backtracking to or dont technically HAVE to go 3) Ironically, the "realism" of a lot of characters speaking authoritatively about a subject even when they might be ignorant or outright lying. Where as in old jrpgs you were inclined to somewhat believe everything in rumors and dialogue [not a blatant joke] was true. Because thats how you aimed the player at the next destination.

Quality content from a small channel. You love to see it Side note I love the long videos so thank you for that

You guys forgot to mention possibly the most integral part of the whole story. You know, the part where that fat f***** wedge does a face plant off of the sector 7 pillar.

Hearing an Australian faking an Australian accent is the best thing I've heard in a while

Now you guys need to remake the first 10 minutes of this video in 20 years but stretch it to an hour.

This narrative is a big old game of and then; So there is a destructive magic meteor, and then, the meteor injures the planet, and then, Setheroth flies away, and then, Coud is possessed, and then, he isn't possessed, and then, they find a puzzle, and then, they solve the puzzle, and then, the temple shrinks, and then and then and then.

This game is definitely a snowballing case of "and then this happened."

Never knew this channel was here before today, but now I'm addicted. I'll be mentioning you in therapy.

Would've called for help but got distracted by Mark staring into my soul.

I dont know what I was expecting from this game but it certainly wasn't every single thing I just heard is in this game

17:13 “Blind to race” to the point that he pretends to be unable to tell the difference between Barret and Dyne.

I can’t fathom how this channel doesn’t already have 100K subs!

These Lego games have gotten much better!

I'm old and I loved this when it came out! Beat it twice.

It was me DIO all along !

This channel is really therapeutic, you know? Having played but never finished these games .

Bro, this is my favorite game of all time, and thank you for this video.

I don't know if I actually understand FF7 any more now but it was certainly entertaining

holy shit this is amazing; also i think something is wrong with the audio, it's crackling. Only happened at the start, BRAVO BTW ohh damn IH using Aerith's real name lmao

This man gives off major Internet Historian vibes...

Hey! At least Tidus isn't giving the bad guys an upper hand every time it is convenient, nor is he manipulated into doing the bad guys bidding. Her even rescues his love interest and kills her evil fiancee. And that's halfway through the game.

You guys legit didn't even mention vincent hahaha

Wow, I honestly have a better understanding of the Ancients part of the story and how that ties everything else together due to the uh, visual aids, used in this video. Using Ceasar Augustus was particularly evocative for some reason. Seriously, good job guys. edit: You know, Squall is a huge chad compared to Cloud when you actually think about it lol.

I have fallen asleep 3 separate times while trying to make it through this video. I will keep trying until I can do it. Final Fantasy won’t beat me!

Holy shit, this is gold! Instant subscription!

11 minutes to get through Midgar. Respectable time. The remake could learn a thing or two from you.

God I love this channel

So I’m just learning this channel exists and just… I’m gonna cry I’m so happy LOL

I watch this about 6 times. Thank you

Promised land Open to interpretation. It's thought to be a physical place by the greedy, a place where there is infinite energy that they can harvest and profit from. There could be credence to what they say. For most of the ancients it was a place you went after you passed on, though this is only hinted at in-game. For Jenovah kind, it was made of unobtanium. Sephiroth realized Jenovah's ambition though, to try and reach it. As well as other Shinra scientists in Dirge of the Cerberus. Essentially it was thematic of "the way can only open if we sacrifice a planet's worth of life". The latter way of viewing it I believe is more grounded. I like to think of it as all of the above, and that Jenovah was just intelligent enough to know how to force the doors open wide enough to allow a living being through. However, she was never able to see this to fruition in her time. Sephiroth, Advent Children - "I will sail the cosmos with this planet as my vessel, just as my mother before me." It's important to note, sephiroth had no intention of reaching a promised land, he would rather be a god on earth. It truly remains to be fleshed out what Jenovah's true goals were when she landed on Gaia, but I would venture to guess they never really talked, and the connection to his mother was one born out of insanity. Finding out you have been an experiment your whole life, and seeing what you knew to be your mother (more or less) kept in confinement and perpetual experimentation would be a brutal shock to the system. It's important to note Sephiroth was a Soldier who fought in a war. PTSD is a given...the sequence in the reactor with cloud was just the trigger. (this manic and insane state also explains why cloud was able to get the drop on him, and injure him, as well as overpower him at least once.) When Sephiroth returns in Advent children, he's a spectre more or less. Same as every other time. It's as if his soul can't move on, and this is probably because he is not a part of the planet's life stream, so he has nowhere to return to ultimately compounding his insanity and infatuation with cloud, the guy who destroyed his mortal body. The guy who seems to be perfectly a part of the planet like anyone else despite now being a test subject himself. Sephiroth, Advent Children again - "I will...never be a memory" This is symbolic to me. It's the tone he carries when he said it. It's of triumph, but also hesitation and some remorse. He says it as if he wants to die. Every-time he comes back he fights cloud, and cloud "kills" him. My thoughts are that cloud is just putting him to sleep or scattering his conscious for a time, but he really can't die, and he feels that misfortune, and longs to destroy the planet or become a god to free him from the curse of un-life and the insanity that was his mortal life.

Jesus this is a long one, guess you do have all day

had no idea IH was on another channel talking about games. this turned out to be a good day.

Love the new channel icon

If you really like Zack, you’ll love Crisis Core: Final Fantasy FFVII. The whole game is about his story.

Ahahaha, this is really good. I can't stop laughing. Will you guys makes another video like this for other final fantasy series?

I'm so glad you guys covered Final Fantasy 7. Nice work boys. Hope you do 6, 8 and 9 as well. The rest you can give a miss to be honest. I'll forgive the other guy for his mispronunciation of 'Aerith'

8:12 the (admittedly stupid) reason is that Hojo thinks that Aerith will die of old age before they will finish running all the experiments he wants to run. Red XIII's species lives for a very long time. So if you combine the two, you get a Ancient who has the ability to live for over 1,000 years or so..................YEAH in the remake they retcon this that Hojo entertains the idea of impregnating her with Genesis or Sephiroth Samples.

Listen Historian unlisting this one is a hate crime, Sephiroth's "oooh me and me mam" should be the official dub

My dad works for avalanche, don't go to sector 7 tomorrow.

Oh thank you so much, I allways wanted to go trough FF7 but these games have rebuted me for years (I finished one and that was enough). Now we have a nice video with the full plot

I had this video on in the background while playing a game and about seven minutes in I was like "wait it's still going?" I really should start checking the lengths.

Hide a channel in an NFT token

Here hoping that he can make an expleened version of FF9 :)

Thanks! My mind is sufficently melted now.

I like how Vincent is in some shots but actually was never mentioned.