One of the problems that the FF7 "Remake" had was that they wanted to do the same things Hideo Kojima did with Metal Gear Solid 2. So instead of a "Remake" we got a "Sequel". Not only that the people are using the excuse that the original game had 3 discs, the reason for that was each "Disc" was 700 MB so limited space. Now with the Final Fantasy 7 "Remake" taking place over 3 games, that's essentially Xenosaga all over again.

Ty for this never get tired of hearing these complaints as they echo my concerns 100%

Episode one was truly poor. Not surprised. No talent left for writng anymore it seems. Why on earth did they not stay faithful to the original. it was perfect

Sephiroth has become Pyramid Head. Always ending up in places he doesn't belong. I waited since 06 for this remake and the flying scrotum goblins always made me question wtf was going on in the trailers and while playing. It wasn't until I made it to the final stage that I realized this isn't a remake, a reboot or even a remaining. It's a sequel that they expect every new player to be on board with and not confused whatsoever that only a Kingdom Hearts veteran could be prepared for. Cyberpunk wasn't the game that made me question Sony's refund policy, this game was. Unfortunately you'd only find out the b.s 39 hours in so only a GOG policy could have saved my money. Then they turn around and make the game that most fans wanted into a mobile gacha game. I can't see it as anything but spiteful after seeing the meta reason of the Whispers existence. They sure did push the big red button for this game but ofc it was pressed with a monkey's paw because why not. All those FF7 Remake fan projects getting cease and desists for this smh. If they were upfront about these changes in a way that didn't spoil things, I 100% would have been on board. I suffered through every part of the FF7 Compilation after all so I think I could put up with almost everything. "Changes for a modern audience" doesn't cut it.

A perfect remake of a game would be the Resident Evil Remake. If FF7 Remake just did something like that then it would have been 11/10.

I still prefer the original Final Fantasy VII

8 was a solid game. They tried something new with gameplay, and I can appreciate it. I actually like the junction system.

You should have known better the second you saw the square-enix logo. Squaresoft is the one who made the excellent games; square-Enix is the one who made the ok or worse games.

Thank you, Neo Kaiser. This "Remake" pissed me off because it's not a damn REMAKE. It's fan service for the folks who are new (i'm talking 2005+) to FFVII. It takes care of a few things that we remember from FFVII but so much has changed that I can't play it and enjoy a REMAKE.

Final fantasy 9 convoluted? I like your video but 9 is definitely not convoluted lmao. Sounds like something an ff7 fanboy would say. Anyway, yes, the FF7 remake is garbage imo. Still can’t believe there are apologists for the episodic, anti-consumer shit.

I just don't know why they couldn't also do a real full on remake too.

my favorite part of this game was when cloud and barrett had trouble opening a metal door in the Shinra Tower, and literally 20 minutes later Cloud is slicing through ENTIRE BUILDINGS with his sword. this game is a mess.

7:28 "Originally you didn't get a real hint at Sephiroth until the Shin-Ra building, never seeing him in person until the ship, before then it was just a flashback and his sword. Sephiroth is really possible now, so they would show him before his debut." There's an interview with Tetsuya Nomura where he talks about the decision to put Sephiroth in so early. He describes that his decision to do so was done very whimsically, and I get the impression that Tetsuya would rather not be working on this remake at all.

Now. Rebirth is out. What a fucking waste of an Intellectual Property.

Cloud in the cutscenes literally moves like a Kingdom Hearts character, in gameplay he feels like a grandma who can be knocked down with the slightest breeze. The cutscenes do not match the gameplay in the slightest yet in reality Kingdom Hearts styled insane combat would have been AMAZING for this game.

All we wanted was a Resident Evil 1 style remake. Give us redrawn, high-res, gorgeously animated pre-rendered backgrounds with high quality character models and then go all out on the graphics in the turn-based combat. It was so simple but they still found a way to 'SquareEnix' all over it. Also, I love that KZfaq puts a panel to buy or rent Advent Children along side this. I actually liked AC. The complete version is way better.

i had to pause the video when you said they brought back biggs i forgot that happened i had to pause... *deep breath* NOMURA, LET ONE PERSON DIE IN YOUR SCRIPT! STOP BRINGING BACK EVERYONE WHO HAD THEIR PART OF THE STORY, THEIR LIMELIGHT, AND A NECESSARY PART FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO MOVE FORWARD, AND MAKING ALL THAT FEEL WORTHLESS. i don't like chain of memories, but there is a line i really like, the first we hear in that game "????????: Along the road ahead lies something you need. However---in order to claim it you must lose something that is dear to you." "Donald: Huh?" sometimes we have to lose in order to gain, this is important in BASIC WRITING. it doesn't always have to result in a character dying. but in order to feel happy, we must first understand sadness. To lose, in order to gain.

........ ........... .......... Final Fantasy 7 was my Favoret game growing up, and just seeing all of this breaks my heart so much. I haven't played the remake because I didn't have the money to buy the game. After seeing this, and listening. I feel the same Emotions I had when I watched Aerith get stabbed by Sephiroth. I cried at that scene growing up yes. The only good thing I can see is I did not buy the remake even when I did ask for it. All I wanted was everything the same, but a HD version, and not box hands. Wow. Just Wow. This breaks me so much in side. I am so glad I still have the old game. This is why Cherishing the past is more important then ever.

If they were honest about what it was from the start, I don’t think anyone would mind.

Damn, what a gem of a channel. New subscriber.

I think the whole remake in the title is actually a red herring or a misdirection by Square and Nomura. The smoking gun is they revealed part II is "Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth" and not Remake part II. Final Fantasy 7: Remake is not actually a Remake but instead a compilation of FFVII sequel that just contains the word Remake in its title.

Man I felt you on the sephiroth appearing early. Just made the rest of the game feel less motivating to get through.

The second half of this video gave me chills. Great work bro

All I wanted was a 1:1 Remake. I guess it was too much to ask for ... Thanks Nomura.

This 'game' is fooked. It would take a lot of money to fix it. Corporations gonna corporations. Maybe the PC modding community will fix it 30+ years.

20:44 To answer your question, Aerith has always been her name in Japanese. The only reason why her name was Aeris, is because of translation errors.

Thank you for bringing up the sunlight issue in the slums under midgar. There is no reason why Dhinra would ever add lights to recreate sunlight for the slums. Not to mention you can obviously tell that the light rays are coming from the sides, not the top. It's just such a dumb thing to do.

Something that bothers me about Remake is Jessie. She went from having a small crush on Cloud that was barely noticeable to practically dry humping him and more or less *implying sexual favors in front of her co-workers.* Cloud displays zero interest in her regardless of your choices, calls her desperate, and tells her to get off of him. Even if you choose to accept her advances, his response is "No promises." And this is supposed to be cute instead of off-putting because... it's a woman coming onto the player self-insert. A male NPC pulling that on a female PC would have the game developers, writers, and company flayed alive on social media for being problematic.

This game is full of annoying f*%#king hallways.

Cloud breaks out an epic dance.... The loner introvert who doesn't show any signs of social skills..... Checks out!

Would they've just sticked to the OG as close as possible without all the changes in story and atmosphere, without that filler content, new extras and sidequests, it would have been a masterpiece and probably would have been released in one piece already. Would have been a great game for completely new players and old fans alike. How could they screw this up? The task of making a one-to-one port of the original game with current-gen technical possibilities seems to be much easier than what they've actually done to this game now.

Tiffa? TEA FAH

Funny how the abridged is much more faithful then the "remake" 🤣

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I just watched this recently and I wanted to send it to everybody but the audio mixing on the OG was just grating enough for me not to.

37:33 These choices change the hidden affection score between Cloud and the other characters. They influence which optional scene you get later in the game.

I love how this video was a better remake of the original than FF7R was.

It’s time to start making new video for Rebirth.

I agree with you 100%. I wish it stays more the same myself.

Thanks for fixing the audio

Most of this would not be an issue if they labeled it reimagined. It was a very solid game, and would have been great in many more peoples' minds if it didn't deviate from the original

I hated what they did to Jesse.... a pointless romance. And its kind of gross to have all 3 of the main female protagonist to be in love with Cloud. Couldnt she just have been another competent member of the team?

If they would have done like what they did with resident evil it would have been fine or at least if they would have been honest and been like hey this isn't a remake this is like a new game

Lol you lost me when you said 10 was mid and 9 was convoluted

Time jannies and a yaoi relationship with Sephiroth. I read fan fiction in '99 that was better than the shit that Squeenix did. You put your Kingdom Hearts in my FF7!

Not buying the next parts myself. They've butchered this opportunity alongside my expectations. It really saddens me since the original was one of the first PS games i played. The experience was amazing and i consider it to be one of the best games. Maybe that's subjective, but I feel this does not stray to far from the target audience of this game. It's time to let this remake go and let it sink...

I wonder if they could I mean now that they've made the assets for these characters I wonder if they could sell us another game that's the new assets but the old story?

This whole thing has "cynical cash grab" written all over it. "if you make the story bad enough, you can sell a book that explains it!" "if the new story is just a bowl of narrative spaghetti, each noodle can be developed into a $70 game, just like kingdom hearts!" It's sad.

This was all done to try and rope in and appease 20 year old kids, that are into hack and slash rubbish whenever they aren't playing Call of Duty cause ''Turn based is old fashioned M8'' despite 80% of the purist fan base actually disagreeing is it FECK old fashioned. The state of FF16 as well.

I was getting pissed off when these ghosts kept showing up.. so then I had to do some research.. found out the kingdom hearts clown was in charge.. oh..... well rip this remake.. Still havent beaten it. I'm not saying they had to follow the script page by page. But some of the bullshit they threw in is ridiculous. And it's only going to get worse.

"These characters don't know who Sephiroth is!" Well, Tifa _does_ know who Sephiroth is, but she does think he's long gone (admittedly, she likely doesn't know what happened to him, because she was stabbed by Sephiroth and had no idea how she recovered from it, and doesn't remember Cloud carrying her out of the reactor). Barret, Red XIII, and probably Aerith aren't supposed to know who he is yet, though. Aerith might have heard of him (she did mention she heard the name earlier in the game, and that's basically the most that Aerith or Barret would know about Sephiroth, obviously without Aerith having memories of the future or whatever). Tifa obviously met Sephiroth directly and is directly responsible for everything that went wrong with her life and why she joined Avalanche, so she naturally wouldn't have forgotten about him. Tifa didn't talk about Zack or indicate she knew much about him, but I think the implication is she still did at least vaguely remember him, but her focus would have been more on Sephiroth than Zack after the events of Nibelheim. To her, Zack is just a random SOLDIER who showed up with Sephiroth. Sephiroth, on the other hand, is the one who destroyed her home, murdered her father, and completely wiped out her entire way of life. That has a much bigger impact on her than Zack, but even then she still implies she remembers who Zack is during the lifestream scene. Back to the others... Admittedly, they did see Sephiroth kill President Shinra right in front of them and then fly off, and Aerith herself said there's a bigger enemy than Shinra. So the indication can kinda line up there. Also, all the scenes they got of the future, they had no idea what was happening exactly. They assumed that by "defeating destiny" they would help stop a bad future (Barret implied as such when he brought it up earlier). I got the implication they realized that was wrong when it clearly played right into Sephiroth's hands, and now they have to try and stop him again without the help of "destiny" to steer the correct course. Not that I'm defending any of it, mind you. I don't mind changes that make sense without some hamfisted timey-wimey shenanigans. I don't even mind Sephiroth being the final boss or showing up more often, but they definitely played him off WAY too much. I delayed playing FFVII Remake for years because I knew about the story. I finally played it earlier this year and it wound up being overall better than I expected, but I still hated the Whispers (despite knowing coming into this that they existed) and hating the fact that they turned a turn-based RPG into an action-based RPG, and even that I enjoyed more than I expected. I also hated some similar things that you brought up; such as AVALANCHE not actually blowing up the entire reactor and Shinra doing it themselves. I even read that supposedly Jesse was said (in an Ultimania of course) to have been kept out of an afterlife because of all the lives she took in the name of "saving the planet". So even the _planet_ didn't like what she was doing in their name. Which drives me nuts that they erased this darker aspect of AVALANCHE because it was supposed to be shown they were going to extreme methods to get results. Yes it was in character for Shinra to destroy the reactor to blame someone else, but like you said, that's something which happened much later in the story and the story was intended to build up to it. And just blowing up the pump won't do anything, it will only deactivate it for a few days at most. Blowing up the ENTIRE reactor like in the original makes way more sense. Overall I enjoyed it more than I expected, but its also because I got my disappointment with it not being a true remake right after it came out and it took me years to finally come around to playing it.

avalanche being a huge organization and infiltrating shinra takes so much away from Barret's character. There are so many more ways they could have skinned the cat on how they were able to infiltrate shinra.

Sorry this is so long, but I have a lot of thoughts on Final Fantasy VII. I also wanted to say that this is by far the best critique I’ve seen on this game. Anyway, I really tried to like this game. Like really tried. I love Final Fantasy. I’ve been a super-fan of Final Fantasy since VII first released and have played every mainline entry in the series as well as most of the spin-offs. I even enjoyed the XIII trilogy despite it’s many problems. Final Fantasy X is probably my favorite in the series immediately behind FFIX, and X-2 is still one of my favorites because of it’s battle mechanics so I’m definitely not averse to a sequel going in a different direction from the original. When this game was first announced I was totally fine with them potentially changing some of the things I probably loved about the original FFVII. I had decided to go into it with as open of a mind as possible. I thought XV had a lot of promise, it was just severely mismanaged. I assumed FFVII would be kind of like XV, except way too big of a cash cow for them to afford to screw it up. Plus the hard part had been finished 20 years prior. It had a solid base in the original game, all they needed to do was update it to modern standards. It seemed so hard to mess up, especially considering how willing most people would be to look past minor stuff due to the pure excitement of playing a remade Final Fantasy VII. I was fully willing to cut this game some slack since it was technically from 1997 despite the pretty new visuals. Then it came out. I played it at launch and didn’t even come close to halfway finishing it. I’d say I lasted about 5-8 hours before I dropped it. This had been my most anticipated game from the moment the trailer released at E3 2015 up until its launch so it really hurt that the game wasn’t clicking with me. I thought I was in the wrong for not liking it since every video title I saw was saying it was a masterpiece. I was ashamed of myself for not liking it since it seemed to be fine in everyone else’s eyes from the little I had seen of it. I don’t even remember where I quit or why specifically I quit, I just knew I didn’t like it. I finally decided to give it another try a couple weeks ago thinking I might enjoy it more because I’m in a better mindset than I was when it launched. The same thing happened with Sekiro. It didn’t click with me at first. I quit after an hour because it “wasn’t Dark Souls” and I dismissed it. I judged it way too harshly for what it wasn’t doing rather than appreciating what it actually did. Then I came back a year later and put over 100 hours into it and now consider it one of my favorite games of all-time. I was similarly optimistic about replaying the FFVII Remake right up until I actually began playing it. The first thing I noticed were the many forced walking sections/invisible walls and that instantly rubbed me the wrong way but I continued playing anyway. I made it past Aerith’s house, but I found myself quitting after every major story beat to play something else because I was so exhausted from how bloated every aspect of the game felt. I dreaded getting to Wall Market because that’s when the original game’s Midgar section always starts to drag for me, but it really wasn’t all that bad. I appreciated getting to do the Coliseum stuff to break up the pointless tedium even if it was way too easy. The moment I realized I was beginning to hate the game was in the sewers. There’s a point right before the water pumping mini-game where there are 3 consecutive cutscenes that serve literally zero purpose. The dialogue, animation, and even the battles there all felt so unnecessarily drawn out. Cloud gets put to sleep immediately in every battle that takes place during the latter half of the sewers. The cutscene where they raise the water level in the sewers and all three party members cross the newly-made path extremely slowly is excruciating to sit through. And then the water pump section is just as unnecessarily slow as the previous cutscene was. I feel like the instructions are purposely unclear to further draw the section out. It was unbearable. I quit out afterwards. It’s been about three days and I haven’t returned to the game to finish out the level yet and I’m okay with that. I may never come back honestly. The game is overall pretty good when it’s focusing on the combat, I like that all the weapons feel viable instead of becoming useless the instant you get a new one, and I really like that there are Materia focused on the real-time combat instead of just copying everything verbatim from the original. There are definitely positives to the game, most if not all of them involving combat. They’re just far outweighed by the negatives. I couldn’t tolerate the amount of bloat present in every aspect of the game outside of combat. I felt the same way I imagine high school teachers feel when an underperforming student hands in a paper that’s desperately stretched out to meet the 2-Page minimum. It was at that moment in the sewers that I began over-analyzing the previous 15 hours of the game I had experienced. I had ignored a lot of the game’s shortcomings so far in an attempt to enjoy the game, and I did genuinely enjoy it at times, but it was becoming clearer and clearer that they were stretching 4-5 hours of content into a game intended to be 10 times that length without adding much of anything to actually justify that length. Just pointless filler. There were so many cutscenes, mini-games, those blue arrows that allow you to very slowly traverse something, etc. that gave me that feeling early on in the game, but I ignored them the best I could and just kept playing. Eventually it became too much. Midgar was always my least favorite part of the original FFVII, so I thought that was the issue I was having and those negative feelings were something only I had experienced. That’s when I began to seek out other opinions on the game and it turns out I wasn’t alone. I am willing to give the sequel a try to see if the game clicks with me once the party leaves Midgar, but I’m not feeling very optimistic about it. As long as Square-Enix continues to stretch the original content so thin to milk it for all it’s worth I feel like I’m going to have the same problems with the game. If FFXVI is as good as it looks so far, I’m hoping it will have at least some influence on the development of the rest of the VII sequels and improves them in some way. I don’t know why we couldn’t have just had a 1:1 remake. I have some minor gripes with Demon’s Souls but overall it’s incredible. So was Shadow of the Colossus and the Spyro trilogy. This remake could have become the definitive way to experience the game in the same way the aforementioned remakes are, but instead it’s a bloated, boring, disappointing caricature of itself that should offend every fan of the original. Final Fantasy VII was so important to me growing up and it pains me to think that this is how an entire new generation of gamers are experiencing it. Square sure knows how to tarnish a game’s legacy. Fans deserve better. Final Fantasy VII deserves better. I would love to see FFVII-2 redeem this disastrous game but I’m not holding my breath.

I'm pretty sure Roberto Ferrari did the Rufus redesign bruh.

So easy not to fuck up a remake, unbelievable

I bought a ps4 just to play this game cause I loved the original... It was such a disappointment for me. Just played it once, never gonna play it again nor I'm interested in playing or buying the upcoming parts.

Final Fantasy is dead. Now it’s a Devil May Cry / God of War hybrid with chocobos. Square should change their name to Shinra Corp.

I really don't get why SE decided to go with the stupid "killing destiny" stuff. No matter what they do from here on out, it will just drag the story down. They either: a. Get cold feet and let the story play out as in the original, making the whole thing with the time jannies and time traveling Sephy a complete waste of time. b. Change the story so everyone gets a happy ending, which would destroy the original intention with the story. c. Kill off different characters for cheap shock value. d. Go off in such a different direction that they couldn't even pretend it's a remake anymore. Out of all of these, I think option d. is the one that has the potential to be interesting. But what do you do with all the millions of players who believed all the marketing and the goddamn TITLE of the game and thought FF7 Remake would be the best way to experience FF7? The reason a lot of people wanted a remake in the first place was because the original PS1 game is kind of hard to get into for younger gamers. The overworld models look terrible, it has awkward controls, it's filled with bugs and has a subpar translation. While it holds up in some places, it has aged terribly in others. Well, TOO BAD! If you want to get what's going on in the story, you better buy the original and play through that. Oh and don't forget to watch Advent Children and play through Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus too. EDIT: Got further in the video and realized that Neo Kaiser has the exact same argument. I didn't expect that. Not after being told how wrong I am whenever I talk about the game anywhere.

1:16:05 idk if anyone told you but the 7 seconds thing is how long it takes sepiroth to drop from the sky and kill aerith. So I assume he was taunting cloud about of he quick enough to save aerith from her death.

This game is such a mess. And yet I'll still play Part 2 the minute it's out. Man though, I'm worried about how it's going to go.

This video needs to be a drinking game. How many times was Aeirth called Aries? 😂

It's kinda simple in my view. We liked FF7 because of the story as a whole. Changing it will effect the story, plot, characters etc. In other words not the same world anymore.

Yo, you should fix your micrphone pops if that's not already done because everytime you say the letter P it destroys my monitors

The fight at "The Edge of Time" or whatever has the exact cinematography as the final 1v1 at the end of the original

Intergrade lol.. Our only hope now is that part 3 starts by telling us that parts 1 and Intergrade were dream sequences and Cloud wakes up back at the start. Between these and XV. I'm done.

Nomura is such a hack

0:42 "The okay Final Fantasy X" Nope. Out.

2:29:30 wow, you said exactly everything that I'm feeling. I'm not alone. I guess there must be a lot of people feeling this way.

The "fate" ghosts have to be some of the most profoundly stupid and inconsistent ideas I have ever seen, adding them to FF7 was one of the worst writing decisions in gaming history, they make the ME3 ending feel like Shakespeare. That's beside the meta angle suggesting they represent the fans and the game paints them as the villains, like WTF!? Even worse is the fact Squareenix mirroring Shinra lied and decieved the fans by cutting the game into three games and then falsely labeling the first game "remake" then spitting in the face of the fans who bought it...fuck that, not buying any more so-called "remakes" from Square again.

I finished my playthrough after my bro bought the game for himself and led me the game for a week to beat it. After I gave it back to him I told him they completely changed the story and rug pulled us. Right after he heard that he gave up even playing the game and wanted to return the game to the store for a refund under false advertising. I didnt buy FF7R cus I was burned by SE over FF15 being released unfinished and the last act being rushed to all hell. Same trickery here with FF7R, all the BS is at the end.

So, Corneos 3 generals are NPC's that we become friendly with throughout the rest of Remake as well as Rebirth. Corneos 3 generals. 3 people who work for Corneo...we become friends with while also trying to kill Corneo and Corneo tries to kill us. Does anyone else see the problem there? You don't become a general without showing loyalty. Why was Chocobo Sam, the Geisha lady, and the depressed emo guy ever welcoming to Cloud? Makes no sense.

Dude you are the only person I've seen saying this. Brilliant job 🎉🏆🏆🏆

46:43 Cloud's direct translation of him saying yarero would mean 'Let's do it' and not 'Press it'. I think it's more likely Cloud was trying to get taunt Reno into fighting him, or he was talking to his party saying 'Let's do it' as in 'Let's take him[Reno] down.' English localization really sucks, I honestly wish there was not English voices, just Japanese voices with translator teams working with the Japanese writer to develop better translations to this kind of stuff. Luckily you can fix the translations, but only by modding it first. There's a mod called 'FAITHFUL SUBS Intergrade - Near-Literal Japanese Translation' that can be found on Nexusmods if you ever want to replay it with actual direct translations while playing it in the original language.

I have played FFVII at least once a year since its release and it impresses me every time. Its not my favourite story in games (its close) but overall I think it provides the best overall package. The remakes story however is remarkable in how much effort they put into making it terrible when all they had to do was just use the original script. No stakes, no self discovery, nothing to overcome and meaningless convolution. It takes some serious chops to write a good story when you mess with such powerful things as time, dreams and fate or its going to come off as nonsensical contrived garbage aka what we have here. Someone needs to give Nomura and whoever else was behind the writing a serious reality check and tell them no we are not doing that because its a shit idea but they wont cos hes in charge and hey its FF it will sell regardless although its prominence has been eroded considerably over the years and with good reason.

Cloud : "Sephiroth, what do you want?" Sephiroth: "...those remnants will join the lifestream and girdle the planet; choking it; corroding it. What I want, Cloud, is to sail the cosmos with this planet as my vessel." Advent Children

Bro actually started tweaking at the end💀

Wow great timing, was watching your older review last night but the OST was way to fucking loud

I’m just sad dude. It’s sad what they did.

1:00:28 from what I remember. G isn't Genesis. G is Gillian. Aka Angeal's Mother.

2:33 how does metroid fusion have anything to do with development?

This new Cloud - Sepharoth relationship reminds me more of Squall and Siffer, which was, honestly, just pathetic. They really were just schoolyard rivals with a secret man crush on each other.

Im just starting the video and maybe I will need to edit this comment multiple times as I go along. I also hated the changes remake project is introducing, it basically is turning the OG story into part of the compilation and sadly most of the compilation sucks balls, so I hate they are doing that and could not just let OG have its own remake to shine. 1- You mention how it seems weird that Shinra would blow up their own reactor, I kind of liked this part of the game, in the original we are shown that Jessie had little idea of what she was doing, she was very surprised that the explotion was so strong and even says she followed some instructions to make it. So for me the change in remake works, in OG it could also have been shinras doing, only we never find out. The core of the idea here is that aside from Barret, Avalanche are a lot of kids playing the terrorists and going in over their heads and paying with their lives at the end. 2- Yeah the plate drop scene seems at first great but then it is cheapen by everyone surviving and rebuilding? Can you really rebuild after a whole city fell from the sky on you? That is just stupid. Also hated the unispired lazy sidequests and the pacing was all off on those padding sections like sewers and train graveyard, I agree with you on most stuff. 3- “If I was a shitty developer I would have made the final boss fight be Sephiroth” lol I couldn’t agree more, you have a monster like Jenova in lore and they still felt the need to include some Kingdom Heart Heartless monster, it boggles the mind. 4- Damn they couldn’t kill secondary characters or even have blood in the game, do you really think they have the balls to kill Aerith? Even if they do they will find a way to let her live in another timeline or something. 5- Square Enix hates OG FF7, I couldn’t agree more if I tried, since Crisis Core back in the day, everything they do with the IP retcons and changes stuff from OG. CC has discount characters from FF7 all over, Genesis is discount Sephiroth, Holander is discount Hojo, there even is a discount Jenova project and cells. It seems to me Sakaguchi took the helm in OG and grounded all their crazy ideas and he is the reason OG happened like it did, and I think they resented their ideas being scrapped and toned down, to rub salt in the wound it was their best game of all time. As soon as Sakaguchi was out, they made it their goal to change FF7 and have OG be the outlier, that is why they didn’t want a remake they could not change and why they will never update the OG, they just hate it. 6- I agree with you, Sephiroth might become an ally but you are forgetting the real villain of this franchise according to these hacks, Genesis is the main bad guy and there will be some Cloud, Zack, Seph, Genesis action in there for all fan fiction enthusiasts to enjoy.

Well there’s always a question If aerith actually fell In love w cloud Or she sees Zack in cloud

with Rebirth coming out, all I can think is Nomura's about to turn the entire ff7 timelime to be chronogically dipshit confusing like Kingdom Hearts what's next, The World Ends With You?

Brutal and accurate

I've heard "six ways from sunday" in the southern USA; I don't think that was a translation issue.

I never played the original, the last 3-4h of this game had me completely lost. It went from interesting to incomprehensible garbage.

This video is spot on. I’m glad that there are people who share my exact sentiment

Lol I commented on the first version wondering why you didn't have more subs, then I got to the parts with the crazy audio xD Great video, I'll give this one a view too bro!

It ain’t even a remake , it’s been vagazzled .

I'm fairly certain her name is "Aerith" Instead of "Aeris" because her name is supposed to be a near closest anagram of the word "earth"

OMG yes on the subject of Jenova being the final boss at the end of the highway. That would have been infinitely the better decision.

Be careful what you wish for, because Square might fuck it up, And they did

2:26:00 I was telling my girlfriend this exact same thing (in regards to a different subject but still relating to how people geek over anything Japanese even if that particular thing is garbage).

0:44 Why are you listing Final Fantasy Games made by a company Post Hironobu Sakaguchi? That man was the artist who's art is now being imitated by his successors, but his successors are simply not him.

I really don’t know what to expect from the later parts…I just only hope that they at least find a way to make this whole “defying fate” plot on the original story make more sense and explain how it works? I don’t know. I’m confused. I also hope they don’t do anything that only just raises more questions and becomes stupid/nonsensical in retrospect. I stay out of those theories and speculations, it’s exhausting. Like, I’m really just an outsider to this entire thing, an observer if you will. I don’t have anything to add. I’m only following behind almost anyone who’s a trustworthy source in order to get an understanding on what’s going on. (Following behind another because I’m too scared to be alone so I need a “Big Brother” figure to guide me. Yeah, I’m pretty much like a scared lost child in the woods).

We wanted a remake. Not a sequel. Also, I agree FF8 sucks.

Ooh I hope you didn't play Kingdom hearts 3. I played it for free on Xbox game pass but I refuse to buy the game and it wasn't so bad at first and then I got to the halfway mark and I'm like no this can't be the end half of the game is fighting the same f****** dude over and over and over again just slightly different variations I'm like you get like a handful of worlds and that's it like you know I expected there to be more being that this is going to be the third game in the long waited like there should have been like double the f****** world the amount of time they took making this s*** but I guess that's what these are when we say they were making these s**** they were making literal hot steaming piles of dog s***

Jessi got smashed by N64 graphic steel beams thanks to numerous texture streaming issues the game has....... there was no emotional impact other than laughter....

The fact that you also pronounce it "Ares" warms my heart.

Mann ! This video is a masterpiece ! Exactly my thoughts and more ! Thx a lot for this!