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I always found Cloud's conflict with identity to be the most fascinating part of the story.

I love those long in-depth analysis man, it's a blast to listen to while working haha. Good job. Subscribed.

In all honesty I don’t think your views or followers do your channel justice, and maybe it’s down to how you haven’t optimised your videos or something? Because your insights are brilliant, keep it up.

What does one have to study to be able to produce this kind of deep analysis of games and their meaning? It sounds like you have a background in philosophy, psychology, literature, and more.

They even found Final Fantasy 7 on Bin Laden's computer. Talk about fan-base lol

@ 16:30 I think the point is far greater than that. It's not about renewable energy per se. It is an advert to centralisation of power in general. It is about people giving up their freedoms to participate in a promised utopia that is granted by others It is about not understanding how dangerous a direction can be if we have no regard for life, individuality, the unknown and just think we can force others to comply in our own ideas of how the future should be formed

Great job man, I really enjoyed this. Thank you for your time in making this!

You're doing Jenova's work

Wow how did I miss this. Love it when you do longer videos

Playing it in 2023 for the first time and im loving it

Hey Redcoat. Currently laid up with a work related injury, and with current spare time on my hands I've been able to delve back into the world of Final Fantasy and able to revisit your work. I too am always uneasy about fawning over titles with such reverence as this, but much like yourself I can't argue with much of the praise this game receives. You made a great case for your personal favourite, FF8, being the best in the series, but I still hold FF7 closest to my heart and it's for many of the reasons you stated in this review. I think FF7 is the most human of all FF titles I have played and draws the most parallels with our own world, especially in the face of climate change. I also hold Midgar to be the most memorable location in any Final Fantasy title bar none. Hope life is treating you well and look forward to seeing what you choose to cover in the future.

I've always interpreted the warning voices in Clouds head as repressed Zack. But it makes much more sense that it's Cloud.

Final Fantasy VII was my first JRPG and first FF game. It's a landmark title in game history for a great many reasons. Square choosing the Playstation platform was also a major turning point. I would argue that Playstation games created a new feel of games moving forward because it was the first time games felt actually cinematic or film-like. While Nintendo64 was more powerful with faster/higher bandwidth via cartridges, PS1 made Square develop "2.5D" due to the restrictions of discs load times. You had more total storage, but longer times to load this data to memory. So they pre-rendered the scenery as somewhat realistic images, and used full 3D character models. They did it beautifully, though. It's hard for me to say for sure whether VII or VIII are better.. Sephiroth is a much more compelling antagonist though.

I used to think this game was overrated until I actually played it last month and loved it

Really appreciate this analysis! Nuanced, well-thought-out, and humane. Well done!

I to have always thought that the voice was the real cloud as the voice in his head. You even control an "Inner child" if you will, when cloud hands over the black materia to Sephiroth and also as the only sane voice when Tifa is inside his mind. People seem to love the idea that it is Sephiroth in spite of this

Great video love your presentation and style keep up the great wark

Thank you for saying Cait Sith correctly!

Really detailed character analysis. Thank you! My favourite party nowadays (after many playthroughs!) tends to be Cloud-Aeris-RedXIII in the first half of Disc 1, then Cloud-Aeris-Vincent, then from Disc 2 onwards I quite like using Tifa-Cid-Yuffie (with Cloud replacing Tifa when he returns).

I just played the game for the very first time in the last week and I definitely wouldn’t say I was disappointed. It was EXTREMELY enjoyable for me to play and I got a lot of the important items and the 2 non required characters and spent about 40 hours in it

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just perfect, exactly what I was looking for

This fucking channel and video needs a shit ton more reviews. I'd tell you to make more, but so many people don't appreciate philosophical analysis and lack depth.

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I'm playing through FF7 right now, having gone through the game maybe three times throughout my teens. I'm finding that it definitely doesn't hold up now, which in part is getting me excited for the prospect of a remake, in hopes that it can address some of the issues I have with FF7 contemporarily. Stuff like D-pad movement in 3D and cursor selection in battles is janky, and a clear byproduct of this game being so early in the Playstation's lifespan. The story, which is interesting when broken down to its most basic beat-by-beat elements, suffers greatly from a poor translation and baffling tonal shifts. One minute you and the party is mourning the loss of an ally, exploring her childhood home and learning the tragic backstory of her mother and father's death while getting another glimpse into Hojo's depravity, only to follow it up minutes later with snowboarding, just to fling head first into more moody melodrama as soon as it's done. The game also becomes incredibly aimless for some time after dumping the player into the overworld. The tight and focused nature of the game's opening hours doesn't sustain itself past Midgar, resulting in a game that at times feels wholly unfocused and a bit confused about what it wants to be. Not saying FF7 isn't an important game, of course, and I greatly enjoyed playing it when I was younger. Age has taken its toll, but I'm still finding enough to like in FF7 to continue pressing on. Currently I'm preparing to take on the side content, beating the weapons and collecting remaining Materia and Limit Breaks, so there's obviously enough there to make me want to engage with it.

I've always looked at the events at Nibelheim and their seemingly changing events as each characters perspective. Everyone saw what they perceived to be the truth, and we got to see them all as if they were fact. Idk

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The origin of Jenova sort of reminds me of John Carpenter's "The Thing".

I beat FF7 last week for the first time. Am 19 at the moment, and yeah, it was a good time(tho the requried grinding is kinda inexcusable)I was enjoying myself from the start, which i wasn't expecting. Most J rpg's are slow and repetitive ,i feel they only get fun when the story takes over, or you get something over powered, but With FF7, It got the balance right. Between the silly humar, the dark setting,lovable characters with some dimensions to them you can't really explain away in a couple of words - Cloud and Barret. All the battle animations were super flashy and impressive with amount of personlity and force they showed with the little pixles count they had. Especially the limit breaks or summoning Bahamut, lifting the enemy into the heavens and destroying them miles up in the skys. The story tho, is the highlight. In FF7 you are an eco terrorist. It wastes no time dropping u into the action. Love how fast paced the game is and while yeah your the good guys saving the world. Humanity was the ones that put the earth in danger. So if holy removes us, or maybe forgives us is unclear. Its ambiguity is great - Shame advent children, and square enix as a whole are dead set on ruinning it

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Oh, I'd say FF 13 received a lot more criticism. But anyway, I recently beat FF7 and had a good time.

Did you forget the East India company or banana republics? Corporations with armies is something that has already happened in our history and will surely happen again.

Interesting that you made tie to Star wars. You can see the influence in FF...not just Biggs and wedge but notice how FF always starts out with an exciting or thrilling segment that seems to jump right into the action like old serials...the theme of legacy similar to Anakin and Luke...cloud is Zack's legacy. The idea of an ethereal force that drives all living things.

Immaculate review

you have a pretty unique take on this.

i never like how people said this game is about maco is oil and in turn it's about saving the world from using it because maco was the new alternative for coal and it was supposed to be clean energy vs coal. then in the compilation after maco they sttarted using oil. both are part of baret's story coal when he was younger, oil in advent children. and all 3 are /was dead lifeforms and all are bad for the environment. coal oil because of greenhouse gasses maco is the blood of the planet

Fantastic video! Loved it.

Tetsuya Nomura was the people who made her death seaen. 45:45

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cool

30:48 are you forgetting game like shin megami tensei and dragon quests?

Thanks for this excellent and honest review. Thanks for being impartial.

13 Sentinels Aegis Rim seems pretty impervious to time.

In my humble opinion, one of the few things the devs did wrong with this game was killing off the best character (who was also the main love interest), hopefully they fix that in the remake or Cloud will never find peace or defeat his inner demons "I have traveled so far to find so little meaning in tragedy" -Meaning In Tragedy, As I Lay Dying- Kinda fitting, don't you think?

Honestly when talking about VII it's best to forget about the sequels wave prequels. You say Tifa doesn't get the romance she deserved and use AC as evidence, but that film is just poorly made fan fiction. I believe Tifa and Cloud do end together based on events in the game.

When you think about it, mako is a renewable energy

To many commercials

Are you forgetting all the other female characters in ff games before tifa 40:34

I'd Love to watch this whole video, but without much variation in the video portion my ADHD brain can't stand to sit here & pay attention the whole time sadly. If you was to release this narrative, with some gameplay of the Game - I would be here watching the whole video.

The Turks will never be forgiven for what they did to sector 7

Are you British? I find it funny that you find that a corporation could not control a nation to the point that it has its own military like shinra does in midgar. This is a very western view as we are very individualistic and would balk at the concept that a corporation should have that much power. Do some research into South Korean society and economy. Samsung and Hyundai have huge control in South Korea and the people have no issue with it even going to the point of going with the fascade that the president of Samsung is still alive even though he most likely passed away in Samsung hospital in 2014 because his passing would result in vast restructuring of Samsung due to South Korean law.