This is super relevant to me-because, ya know, disability sucks-and, I appreciate you guys doing events dedicated to supporting folks in rough situations. I know ya'll have done charity streams for disability and mental heath causes before, but it never fails to give me the warm and fuzzies. I'll definitely be there for, at least, part of the stream 💜

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Ba dum tsss

I see what you did there. Also, I actually laughed out loud.

It gave me a tickle in *my* nether regions

You... Clever... Commenter...

It's also a callback to his FF7 Renake EP1 video

It's not just her face, but the fact it's her smug, self-satisficed face that nails it.

It's a joke that's gone full circle because I think people made the same comparison to Tidus from FF10 back in the day. Oh, wait. I think that was Meg Ryan. But still!

​@@EmperorSethYeah, Tidus was always Meg Ryan IIRC, which is also fitting since Meg Ryan is far less malicious than Gwyneth Paltrow.

@@EmperorSeth Oh snap he totally does, never saw that joke.

Ya know, since the game is going the multiverse route, seeing a Gwyneth Paltrow universe Sephiroth really doesn't sound too bad an idea.

"WRONG LEVERRRrrrrrrrr..."

@@RatchetSly oh they knew what lever it was 😂

​@@RatchetSlyWhy do we even HAVE that lever!?

@@wesleythomas7125 Amazon: For people sent here by Yahtzee, obviously.

They sent me back in time and forced me to retreat through the Burmese swamp with the ijn in 1945. So pretty much the same experience

if not, we riot

Second Wind, more like Second Scoop

Yahtzee's Ice Cream: accountant says still no.

It will be disguised as "research materials"

Plot Twist: You're an IRS agent and you just want an excuse to audit his ass.

Oh, is that what they're calling it now?

It's a masamune, not a katana.

Aerith Has Left Chat.

Can you imagine if they actually change that part of the story? I’m not sure if fans will love it because they love the character or if they’ll despise it for altering the plot too heavily.

@@Andrew_TS weebs

Only if I get to expense my Mtn Dew!

@@SecondWindGroup obviously you should-editors can’t caffeinate themselves! It’s a necessity for getting stuff done.

@@SecondWindGroupWell, that only seems fair.

@@tedweird Noooo, my mother can't see where my salary is going!

@@SecondWindGroup There's actually been people who have managed to write off caffeine on their taxes. As someone who did myself, turns out third-shift really does get a lot better with energy drinks. :P

Goo Goo Gjoob!

fibsh

Thanks for reminding me of that F@(&ing moment! Fine, I'll buy it again on Switch. I never get tired of replaying old FF games anyway... 2:17

The mood whiplash is honestly still there, just shifted. So I think its still "preserving 97 weirdness", in vibe form rather than the exact same weirdness. 😂 Like the battle rap?

@@FFKonoko the WAT

@@FFKonoko they put it in the wrong order though so it comes off even worse done

It's anime silliness and jrpgs are basically interactive anime

And if you like Pina Coladas and songs caught in your head.

@@ObadiahtheSlim And the urge to sing Disney songs is always a whim away, a whim away, a whim away...

@@woot2111 That's not a Disney song. It's a song from the 60's. Now I feel old.

I just hear Mike Matai winnowing off about brown bricks in moinecrap

Honestly, it's pretty effusive praise for a JRPG by Yahtzee's standards.

I actually loved it, and from yahtzee for a final fantasy game (not even a jrpg, I have a feeling he secretly likes any jrpg that does slice of life) this was as good a reception as could have been hoped for :)

@@Sadarak1980 yeahhh but as a fan of the original it’s pretty awful. They took the one thing part 1 had going for it (smaller more intimate character moments) and killed it because we have to have 70 hours of unskippable content. Not to mention the fact that compilation series already ruined cloud, this version of cloud somehow turns out worse than that one by the end. In the original you get the sense that he was being controlled up to the point where his brain completely broke due to his girlfriend dying and him thinking who he thought he was may have never even existed. In this he’s comically delusional, fully equipped with evil laughing and everyone in the party watching him Benny hill chase Aerith almost to her death just to say “derrr that was a close one cloud, you good to go?”

@maninblack3410 I respect your opinion but couldn't disagree more. I think the characterisation in rebirth is well done, and I like the whimsy that all the diversions and minigames add as it brings back the spirit of the origonals. Cloud is meant to be pretty damn nuts by this point so his behaviour is fine, as is the party's because they all already knew he had a screw loose. My least favorite part of the new games is the focus on zack, I played crisis core back in the day and I still don't care about him much and don't care much about his segments. That said I think they nailed it with this outing, just a shame the sales likely mean cut budget for the last game is all.

@@Sadarak1980 cloud was never actually crazy, that’s the problem. He was being controlled during the ancient temple incident and then in the northern crater he had a huge identity crisis and was still probably being controlled. The event in the lifestream with tifa was her helping him sort through the fact that he did exist and was actually cloud and not just a copy of sephiroth. Either way, it *is* a great game barring some aspects, but I find it odd that people are surprised at how it’s presumably selling. We’ve known since the dawn of gaming that direct sequels most of the time sell worse than the first in the series. I could talk about this all day (and have in the years leading up to rebirth lol) but in order for a direct sequel to do as well as or better than previous entries (generally) a player needs to be able to start from that entry, it needs to be absolutely insanely marketed, it needs to be a highly anticipated title on a fresh new console, or a combination of these. Rebirth breaks all of these except maybe marketing? Idk, but it breaks the first one so hard there’s probably no marketing that could save it. You can’t just start with rebirth.

And he praised the Dyne sequence!

It's literally in the game, of course.

You haven’t seen Cloud Jr I take it.

I enjoyed when Yahtz cast himself as Cockatiel Cloud's new boyfriend

Now picture Cockatiel Cloud riding a Chocobo.

And then you have Sephiroth as the red birb going "YeuYeuYeuYeuYeuYeu *STARE SOUND*"

Baldur’s Gate 3

And inch THIN, actually!

Result of game by corporate committee. There’s no vision, no auteur’s voice, just throwing as many mechanics and gameplay styles in as possible to cover as many bases as possible, and do it in an already established franchise to minimize risk.

Funny enough, out of all the variety of mechanics in this game the card game is something I would point out as an exception, but it was the one he didn't want to touch the most xD

@@LeeorVardi BG3 isn't AAA: a game needs a major publisher to be AAA, because it's mostly a gauge of easy access to credit and marketing.

You got that right.

It's so good. Yahtzee's sense of humor never disappoints.

I'm just imagining a little cocktail with a buster sword. lol.

Wasn’t there a a mini section of the game where there’s a bird that exactly looks like cloud and they’re poking fun of him because it looks like him?

It's a sequel, not a remake

​@@michaeljohnson6905 Don't know that yet. At least i'm not convinced yet.

@@goldchampion200 All the timeline/multiverse stuff means it's not a remake; at best, it can be called a reimagining.

@@matthewmuir8884 i mean i disagree but i bet my definition of "Remake" is different from yours. A "Remake" uses its source as a base but its free to add/deviate from it as long as the skeleton/major beats are still there. To Use Rebirth as our current example Midgar -> Chocobo Farm -> Mythril Caves -> Junon etc We're still hitting the same beats even if the exact way it plays out is different A "Reimagining" to me is like how you go from Mario being a 2d Platformer to an RPG for example (Paper Mario, Mario and Luigi Games). You keep the broad strokes and constants like Mario, Peach, Bowser, Mushroom Kingdom etc but everything else changes

@@goldchampion200 Here's the definition of remake that I found after a quick search: "A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium-e.g., a "new version of an existing film". *A remake tells the same story as the original* but may uses a different set of casts, and use actors from the original, or change the flow and setting of the story, in addition since a remake is released some time after the original work it may incorporate new technologies, enhancements, and techniques that had not existed or was commonly used when the original work was created. *A similar but not synonymous term is reimagining, which indicates a greater discrepancy* between, for example, a movie and the movie it is based on." Based on this definition, FF7R would be a reimagining, but not a remake. Your idea of a reimagining is actually called a spinoff.

I KNEW I recognised it. Thank you.

If my math is right, these "fans" are going to pay over 200 dollars for a remake of a game I've owned for 25 years. Gaming is being ruined by adult children that spend money in such asinine ways. One game. 70 bucks, made with love. Why is that so hard.

Final Fantasy? I thought this was the prelude to Kingdom Hearts 4

​@@rogue_of_the_winds1286 ...You good?

​@rogue_of_the_winds1286 have you not played any of them? Cos...thinking of it as a remake is literally wrong. 😅 That was the whole point of the ending of remake, where after a game where they added a ton of content, fleshed out the bare bones original, they outright showed the intent of fate being destroyed, things being able to go different ways. And rebirth continued that. I finished ff7 agaib before playing remake, and 100%ing that game took less time than 100%ing remake. And rebirth, I hit over 100 hours of enjoyment on the first run, with more content to come on hard mode. Calling each game a third of a single game simply isnt accurate. Hell, I had fun noting how basically every other game was getting gently repped in some way. I love ff7, and it is a classic and always will be. But you seem like a real "fan". Did you react like this for dirge of cerebus? 😂

If Part 3 is able to be developed in a similar amount of time as Rebirth (about 3 years), then it should be out in 2027. We’ll see though

Wouldn't the prequel to the remake of the seventh Final Fantasy game technically be the remaster of crisis core?

Why was it this confusing for you? This is the second part in a trilogy, not exactly tough to keep up with

​@@cashnelson2306He's mocking Square Enix for milking the FF7 sub series too much

final fantasy 7: still birth Final fantasy 7: abortion Final fantays 7: the cringy emo punk teen phase

Final Fantasy 7 Repentance when

Or Birth By Sleep... oh wait

FFVII: Regurgitation

He's just forgetting that giant worm that screws you over, and it would perfectly sum up my middle game experience.

Yep the remake of the middle portion did not fix the pacing issues it always had but highlight it in 4K HD

@@NotFunctional-ever You mean you weren't meant to grind until you could kill the meat gate only to be told, "Yo, the plot is that way"? =)

I fully expect Yahtzee to give this the dead to rights treatment with the misuse of RE-lated titles.

Somehow I think relief won't be the word when all the fanboys come off the nostalgia high they're own and realize how much they've spent for the complete story. Listen I'm a ff fanboy and I was hyped for the remake until I found it was going episodic and each episode would be full price. Screw that, I'm happy with the original that I can get for pennies now and play on everything including the toaster (I think).

That RE part of the fight made me think. Even Barrett didn't know how Dyne was doing that. I'm not expecting it, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sephiroth had something to do with it. Had the Ever Crisis guys (who are apparently running Avalanche), into "helping" another Shinra hater that had ties to the FF7 party.

Bro and the fact that they didn’t add the train quote in the first one. I swear square believes they can make the story better by writing something different but the only reason this game is so good is because ff7 is good. They *don’t* write well anymore, maybe it’s corporate meddling maybe it’s them huffing their own farts, but they just can’t do it.

They should've let her remain as optional instead of the garbage "homage" that is just annoying

Agreed, although in classic Square Enix fashion they did an absolutely shitup job of explaining it and I had no idea how to use Synergies properly for about half the game, playing on Dynamic, until the difficulty caught up with me and I looked it up online. Their UX team really needs to do serious work (both menus and tutorials).

@@silvercakes Yeah kinda agree on this one. Some of the wording on what the utilities of each ability are can be really confusing. Kinda had to just figure those out through trial and error. Super rewarding once I'd got my head around them though. I've only now just found out after completing the game that the descriptions under each ATB command sometimes have a little bar next them signifying how many synergy pips it gives to a character when you use them...

seems to me he enjoyed it despite some flaws

That triggered a memory for me.

Not yet, he's still using "manic pixie dream girl" instead of "waifu".

People seem to foam at the mouth now if you have an actual loading screen in a game because it ruins "immersion" or something. I'd rather have a 30 second loading screen than have to push forward while the character very slowly edges forward through a tight crevice.

what if you pressed the button to climb the wall and the game just faded out and faded up to the party being on top of the wall

The old resident evil opening door loading screen was brilliant.

Don't forget how slow the Chocobo stop repair process is.

Death to loading screens! Squeezing through crevices forever!

Inside You There Are Two Wolves:

and max was predictable "Love it 10 out 10" While at least yatzee...hmm you know I still don't like it. Can't take Max opinion about FF 7 seriously.

@@raulrojas9253 Can't trust Doods opinion on ANYTHING Final Fantasy. I don't know if the guy is just easily pleased, a shill, or both but if it has that Final Fantasy name on it he jizzes all over himself.

@@palladiamorsdeus brother you do realize he was critical of FF16?

@@palladiamorsdeus he's said that ff7 is his favorite game of all time and makes no attempt to hide it. he's not a shill, he's just a fan that's heavily biased in favor of ff7

She's a crossfit coach, which is basically the same thing.

Talking dog best friend

@@brianmckee2267 OH MY GOD WERE BEST FRIENDS?!?

I'll just play a modded version of the original, atleast there they did'nt ruined the Aeris death

I don't think even the most die-hard fan could stomach 250+ hours of this uninterrupted.

you underestimate FF fans. They're only slightly better than nintendo fans. Which is not saying much.

​@@rd-um4spNah, just the core ones. And most of those guys only jumped on ship in XIII. Most of the old crew has left and VII remakes sales numbers reflect that. Some of us have Remake a try and were disgusted so we didn't come back for Rebirth. You are spot on with the remaining fan base though and honestly I think they give the Nintendo crowd a run for their money.

@@palladiamorsdeus really bizarre to me how people get so upset at the fact that someone else likes something different. Why the animosity? I absolutely love the Remake project and both games are among my favorites of all time and I enjoy them far more than the original, and I played it when I was like 10 years old about 20 years ago. Where does this "us vs them" mindset come from? Can you not just be happy for people that are enjoying what they consider to be a brilliant recapitulation and expansion of one of their favorite childhood experiences? You don't have to enjoy it yourself, but why the dehumanizing language? Is that really necessary?

Maybe it's just me, but I got the vibe that manic pixie dream girl A and manic pixie dream girl B were way more into each other than either of them was into the male lead. Also the one dressed like a crossfit dominatrix is constantly acting all gentle and wholesome and nurturing and stuff, while the one in the pretty floral gown who sells flowers is kinda fucked up actually.

One of the things that FFVII seems to be fondly remembered for, and that people were pleasantly surprised S-E actually remembered, is that a lot of the characters have hidden depths that are the opposite of the stereotype they appear to be, like the boxing tomboy being sweet at heart while the pretty elegant priestess is actually hard as nails at her core.

@@sindrisuncatcher653 …Well now you’ve convinced me to check it out. They should put you on the marketing team.

@@KingOfElectricNinjas come on though. You’re not about to tell me they didn’t reduce Aerith to a soft spoken messianic character, are you? The original had Aeris as a tough as nails character who was fiery and competent in the seedy underbelly of midgar, but this game? Nah, not at all. And tifa was mopey the entire game. They were essentially turned into the same character just with slightly different emotions: sad because cloud is weird and sad because I’m gonna die. Game is good, and it’s doing something right that jrpg’s lost 20 years ago, but that’s in spite of its poor writers not because of them. Everything this game does well was taken from the playbook of the original, everything it does poorly is newly created or modern.

@@maninblack3410 That's not really accurate. The original was rife with terrible pacing and issues in the story telling. Don't let the nostalgia goggles blind you to think is was a great game. People wouldn't have been clamoring for a remaster/remake so much if it was actually really good. They would have been satisfied with it. Instead, they got obsessed with how almost good it was, andreally wanted Square to redo it and hopefully fix those issues.

Ff used to be all about silly mini games in ps1 ps2 era

​@@billmore6486sure it had them but they were usually a small part of a much larger adventure and could easily be ignored. Here, much like Yakuza, the game gives you decent tangible rewards for doing all this side stuff. It's EVERYWHERE and it's practically begging you to just ignore the forward progress of the plot. The plot feels positively secondary through large chunks of the game.

Yeah, the editing was particularly on point

Honestly, as far as games he didn't like go, this is about as glowing as it gets for him. He admits he enjoyed things and even said parts of the story were well told.

I'm honestly surprised he didn't go further in on it. Not only are there a million mini games, jimmity cock whatever open world, and other gameplay elements, but they're all so half baked that its clear they were made by hungover developers siloed in different teams who never played a single game that did every one of those mechanics better at some point. Even walking around the world is janky af. He touched on some of this, but I guess the game has its charm that can make you more readily overlook some of it.

Yeah, this is a reasonable review, and very understandable. Likewise though, having a blast, currently working through hard mode and getting all the extra monsters and such cleared.

Bro, my favorite game of all time is The Witcher 3. A game Yatzhee probably thought was bland (in terms of game design, I would hardly call the game an achievement). Sometimes, you just gotta hold your stance and accept you ain't gonna convince everyone to like what you do, for valid or invalid reasons. The real strength is when you take the criticism and still love the game for what it means to you.

I mean... he doesn't really LIKE many games now, does he? That's kind of his thing

It was done to make up for the lack of them in FF16. That game was a desert compared to Rebirth.

yeah, but way less than in the ps1 ff7, so it is lacking

Is Thronebreaker not just an all-Gwent game?

Is that a joke? There were like 3 Gwent games.

You can play Gwent as a mobile game.

Padded. Not huge, padded. It barely has story content in it at all and what there is constantly contradicts itself or inserts pole holes they don't care to correct or address because "look at the pretty graphics".

Back when most games were good out of necessity because they couldn't just be patched later. And the ones that were bad sank their company for the next 30 years.

.hack did this on PS2 first, so this is actually a remake of a demake

"I enjoyed this game more than the predecessor and the original" is pretty above standard to me lol

just one, made of paper, with a download code on it.

@@steppenhenge And about three PS5s worth of SSDs to install it.

Don't forget Retirement and Return. Possibly followed by Reimagined, Restored, and Rewound.

Revive, Restart, Renew, Read-this-please-this-is-a-cry-for-help. Maybe they're taking a page from Atlus and only releasing FF XVII when they remake VII, XVI times.

There's even more! FF 7 Resuscitated, Reestablished, Reloaded, Regurgitated, Resold and finally, Rest in Piece

All these, and noone said the actual final part, reunion. 😅

Reunion is after Rest-In-Piece though, so that checks out.

I have to agree. By the time the strongman showed up, the ridiculous mech boss fight with a stun mechanic involving a fat corporate executive waving his butt at you had already well and truly undermined the emotional weight of that Barrett scene. Shame given how well done said Barrett scene was and how frustrating the mech fight was.

I'm always confused by this take because it's meant to have tonal whiplash with palmer. The whole point Dyne death makes is that Shinra will keep coming and their plight against Shinra is insignificant and will be forgotten by an ice cream cone by those at the top of Shinra.

@@awtodor I got that and assumed it was at least somewhat intentional, I'm just mad about it. Would've helped if the party acknowledge it in some way to guide the tone. As is, it felt spliced, like some content got copy-pasted into the wrong part of the game.

Yakuza is a significantly better game in every area compared to FF7: Rebirth

@@weclockboth are great

@@weclock how so?

Yeah, people praise Nicolas just a bit too much.

As someone that played the hell out of triple triad, I was all about that stuff the moment I saw it. The survival modes were a bit tough, since they need a different strategy but overall was great, including the boss fight. Wish there were more of the puzzles though.

@@FFKonoko Triple Triad was pretty dope.

Well you were always chasing “the man in black” in the original and the chase just took you through parts of the world that were important and relevant to your characters. It’s not the tightest motivation, but their goal was to defeat sephiroth so that’s who they were hunting. Somehow they changed that to “follow some disabled people” with no real reason given as to why. We can assume they want to follow them because they’re connected with sephiroth, but they never say it. As a side note they went really really hard on the advent children style of turning anyone who’s a sephiroth clone into sephiroth, when that wasn’t the case in the original. There are two theories, and while the first one is stronger I’ve always liked the second better: either the sephy you chase was jenova wholesale trying to get you to follow her, or he was the one successful sephiroth clone. Cloud was a failure, hojo explicitly says that, all the numbered cloaks were failures, but there was one that may have turned out to be an actual clone.