As someone that works as an interpreter, my heart goes out to the interpreters. Simultaneously interpretation is so taxing on the brain, that first interpreter was probably replaced because their brain hit the limit.

All the respect in the world to the translators, real-time translation is especially difficult. I feel bad for the first guy, sounded like he wasn't quite ready for it.

Man I don’t care if I’ve seen this already on Twitch, Final Fantasy time with Max is always good for the soul.

Find someone in life who looks at you like Max does at new FF7 footage.

I'll add my sympathies to the interpreters too. I was a live interpreter for Japanese for a while and its especially tough because the sentence structure in Japanese is "backwards" to English with the verbs coming very last. In other words, you have to wait to the end of the sentence to start saying the English a lot of the time. There is a lot of guess work and your brain has to be in two places at once. Its TOUGH.

Much respect to the translators! ❤ That would've been very hard for them

The image we've all imagined in our heads while we're running across the map of OG ff7, its finally real😢

This is looking like it's going to be the most content filled Square game in a very long time. Losing my mind over how much was shown off here, I love that there's this relationship system to learn more about your companions similar to most Western Rpg's and how your party members don't magically disappear during combat if not picked for battle and instead are on stand by outside of the combat zone to make sure you don't get jumped by some random beachplug. This looks like a game that deserves to sell well so they can go this hard on part 3 if not more. Quality and quantity

looks so good. I cant believe this. This is impossible to believe being a fan of the 1997 game for so many years

This was actually about 4 hours on stream this was an amazing early look at the open world. Making the sidequests focussed on our party members is a huge W it's far more enticing when you know you'll get more character building out of them. Red XIII getting salty over the superior sense of smell that chocobos have is the perfect goofy fun that compliments the more serious main narrative.

Red XIII riding a chocobo like a human is the most cursed thing I’ve seen in a while. 😂

Plays Final Fantasy VII first time in 1998, borrowed from best friends older brother, age 7. Spent 90 Hours in the game multiple times. Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Advent Children, exited to see more of the world I once knew. Joined the Marine Corps to follow in Cloud and Zacks footsteps. Got the Soldier experience in real life. Never expected my time in military and afterwards to mimic Cloud's.

This game looks insane. I don't know how this isn't going to be Game of the Year. This is everything I hoped for 20 years ago.

I legitimately don’t watch FF7 news until Max drops the reaction

I’m honestly happy there’s no DLC. That way they can just focus on Part 3. Also, they’ve already said multiple times that we won’t be doing things in the same order. So even if it does in fact end at the Forgotten Capital. That doesn’t mean things that happened in disc 2 and 3 of the original, wouldn’t happen in Rebirth.

Max excitement is just to contagious i legit cry with him is a good time to be alive this so unbelivable

I haven't seen Kalm in nearly 20 years, and it still brought tears to my eyes to see it in this presentation.

I'm genuinely blown the fuck back that the world space is seamless

This makes me REALLY appreciate that they tested the fundamentals with Remake, using Midgar as a logical introduction both for players AND the devs themselves. Now they're ironing out the wrinkles before moving onto this much larger scale. Not just in terms of world design, but the range of tones from silly to serious, combat with more characters, gameplay variety, and of course the visuals. This increases the likelihood of the sequels to fire on all cylinders with less flaws than the adventure would have otherwise.

hoo boy this is just about everything I've dreamed of for a modern Final Fantasy in terms of world design and whimsical shenanigans to waste time with, that coupled with a refined and expanded version of the combat system makes me really excited for this :)

Kitase just sitting there smiling looking like a proud dad is great.

Maxs genuine excitement and reaction to any FF7 news is so wholesome and pure. Cant wait for this game

The last week was amazing as a FF7 fan.

Holy Shit. As someone who self taught myself Aerith's Theme on Piano when I first played the game 25 years ago... the Piano Mini game... Wow, soo moving. Square knows what they are doing with this title.

This and P3 reload are my most anticipated games of not just next year, but the decade so far. Can’t wait.

Rebirth reminds me of how content rich jrpgs were in the PS2 days. All the side content and mini games are really nice to see. Rebirth will most likely end up my 2024 GOTY.

Max like a kid on Christmas day in any FF7 news and I am with you Max! 😄

The mini games are so where I’ll be at. Especially the card game and the piano sessions! Ooh what fun the TGS showed us. Thanks for sharing Max! This is shaping up to be a great game the closer we get to release day.

I love how Hamaguchi was straight up and succinct about all those aspects they showed us as well as saying hey we know this might have some flaws we are aware and we will polish it up! Im stoked and trust this man is gonna deliver us a gem of sequel!!!

35:34 The attention to detail on this whole thing is insane, but one call out is that they even got the chocobo neck movements down when it's eating. It's exactly as it was in the original. Can't wait!

It really looks as though they’ve outdone themselves with this game. This might be the most ambitious product they’ve ever created. When you factor in everything. This will definitely be a game to just relax and take your time with. There’s going to be an insane amount to enjoy in this.

I watch this intro all the time. Never have I screamed LET'S GO with it until now

Seamless was the best thing I ever could’ve heard for this game. No more of those stupid blue dotted lines, or being forced into a menu to jump from location to location.

This is so amazing! Never did I think they go into this much detail with the world map and what you can do.

I love it when Max said "Let's go!" and let's go'ed all over the place.

This is gonna be the greatest game of all time for me

happy birthday max, seeing your genuine reactions and passion for ff7 is so endearing

Much respect to the translators, they had the impossible task of live translating 4 panelists talking over each other❤😭

Thanks, Max! This is shaping up to be something very incredible and amazing.. it really looks like they populated and packed the world with tons of extra content and gave the geography a lot of features, so much so that I didn't recognize Kalm at first. I like the touch with the dancers around 48:30. That's a nice little throwback to the celebration/festival at the beginning of Dirge of Cerberus. And there are at least several little great personality bits here and there. I do remember there was similarity drawn in the OG between Cloud's hair and spiky yellow appearance of chocobos, too.

We went from knowing anything about rebirth for a whole year after the 25th anniversary trailer to now being overwhelmed with tons of information, the new trailer, the demo impressions from all FF7 KZfaqrs, developer interviews and now this TGS showcase!

The heart and passion that has gone into this game is unreal. I’m looking forward to playing this so much. For the first time in a long time I’m genuinely excited for another game.

@44:52 you can see Barret, despite not being an active party member, getting into position, and later throughout the fight see him engaging the enemy at range

❤ This is shaping up to be an actual Masterpiece. It has eclipsed the Remake in this footage alone. I was sceptical about the free roam aspects after part 1, but seeing this has shattered that. I literally can't wait to get this game! All hail SQUARE ENIX 🤩

Piano mini game put a huge smile on my face

"The world will be saved, but will you?" This is actually a quote from in Rebirth. It's being asked by Cloud to Aerith

OMG, Cloud is hiding in tall grass just like Aloy. But instead of fighting machines he's catching chocobos. Freaking hilarious

I'm so happy that Max is having an almost identical reaction to me in each new moment. To know that there is at least one person that is moved to tears seeing this game that was so amazing on the 90s being brought into a whole new light for a new generation is fantastic. I am so freaking stoked for this game bro.

33:28 remember when Max said the director was a big Horizon fan? This is totally Aloy skulking through tall grass to override a Charger and i love it 34:26 Max and chat know

I'm just a simple man, I see Max upload a FF7 video and I click on it immediately.

The amount of excitement Max has while watching this showcase is rubbing on me. Feb 2024 just couldn't come any closer. FF7 Rebirth is already a GOTY contender

hey max! would just like to say that your FF7 gameplays kept me company during the pandemic. i've never been a gamer but i've started to love this game because of how much you love it too. can't wait for its release!

The Goat s back with a 75 minute video. Happy Birthday Max 🥳🥳🥳

This is already my all time favorite game. The wait is so worth it.

*_7:27_* *_I just realized, after they put the covers up side by side, that there’s a cohesion between Remake and Rebirth. I’m willing to bet the cover of the third game will be dominated by the color blue and feature Zack._*

God what a time to be alive. I had so much staying up late AF (east coast) to watch max’s stream live for this presentation. Lots of happy tears that night lol can’t wait for the next piece of news for rebirth, we’ve been overly blessed lately with all this info I literally cannot handle it

I watched the live stream last night I rewatched the VOD of the TGS segment this morning And I'll watch the KZfaq version cuz that's how hype I am. Max's reaction is all of us. Rebirth is looking incredible

The piano blew my mind! ...Everything blew my mind over and over, but the Piano minigame being an ENTIRE PIANO rythm game with a free-play option? I plan on rushing out a FF7R2 rick roll piano video on day one, and I expect I'll be the 15th person to accomplish that, and that's how you know you've got an engaging game on your hands!

If you noticed, the second rebirth key art depicts Tifa and Aerith beside Sephiroth instead of Cloud and Zack.

Just here to say, thanks Max for keeping the first thumb print on the info that I find for the ff7 universe and elsewhere.💪🏻

This TGS has been very interesting and what they showed is just AMAZING!!! The Chocobo Farm Chocobo Billy Chadley's traveling look and Kalm and it's citizens. I am SO looking forward to exploring it all next year!

the horizon influence is rly noticeable in the world map screen, harvesting icons and UI, and the stealth of course. all good stuff horizon helped streamline a lot of elements of modern game design ❤

So during the Chadley mission battle against the purple elephants, Barret wasn't part of the party, but was shooting at the creature from the far perimeter. I didn't see any damage numbers, but saw the rounds coming in. 45:55

Seeing red xiii ride a chocobo made me much more happy 😂

The more videos I watch of this game the more excited I get! Any FF7 video with Max is just gold, he gets as excited as I do and I love it!!!!!!!

I appreciate the translators. Translation is so difficult even when it's not live. Thank you Max for reacting to this

Seeing Red XIII ride a chocobo has given me IMMENSE joy. Bless that dog and his chicken

I'm still in stitches over Red XIII riding a chocobo... he looks so derpy🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, I think we're gonna see him dress as a sailor too.

The piano part is amazing. Back in the days we can only do that in Tifa's room with limitations. While this one is amazing and it is something takes time to perfect. Can't wait for people posting videos playing the piano perfectly. This time FF7 did quite impressive. Can't wait to dive into the whole game and much more to indulge in.

This game is looking absolutely incredible. The level design, character models, environments, the main menu, and HUD all look much sharper. If the purists can look at the new trailer, the 2 demos, and this, and not be impressed. Then they were never really fans to begin with.

After watching countless videos and demo of the game I can say it has really blown away and exceeded my expectations of scale and detail. The music, story and gameplay are still top notch and what we all loved in the remake. The only improvement would be for the lighting which at certain scenes whitewashes the characters and can be distracting eg 41:21.Also the MAI assistant is great but an option to turn off the voice would be necessary as to allow the epic battle themes to play without her talking over it. Overall very excited to play this special game!

Final Fantasy 7 is the only series that has a movie, Chocobo racing spinoff game, sequel on PSP, remake on PS4 and another sequel. There is a reason why there is a huge following from the 90s.

i'm so hyped, can't stop going through these videos.

I really hope the next final fantasy games takes this world design because this is what it should be about! World Map with Open Exploration and Multiple Points of interests and interactivity. Also hope that we see more modern sci-fi settings as think we have enough high fantasy settings

All this open world stuff is fantastic, but as long as the characters ans their relationships are as well written and charming and endearing as remake then I’ll be happy.

This is making me emotional..it's amazing how far we have come.

I think the best part about the visuals of Rebirth is the fact that almost all the characters look nearly identical to their Remake versions. I really loved the character designs and I'm happy they stuck around for Rebirth.

Damn, I can’t wait to play FFVII: Rebirth

After what I've seen with this game....I trust the devs entirely on their decisions, including Vincent/Cid.

Im so hyped up. I'm honestly happy for a remake of the entire game in general, so if we don't get any extra content on Vincent or Cid. I'm still content as can be. If we get surprised for any extra content post rebirth or the third installment, then awesome!! So as every max video begins with... LETS GOOOOO!!! Also, i suspect Chadley is looking for someone, perhaps soneone who wears a red coat and loves Dumapples lol.

Simply CANT WAIT. Having a 2nd childhood, is something never thought in my mind happening as an adult never . Thx for the video max!

The idea of the decisions you make through dialogue and such, having an effect on who you end up with on a date. Alone that gives so much replay value. And so in touch with the original and even more so. With every new info that comes out about rebirth, more and more confident and happy I get. Nothing will replace FF7 og as my favorite, but this is shaping up to be a contender.

The go-to source any new Final Fantasy footage comes out. His excitement is absolutely contagious.

I didn't know I needed to play FF soundtrack on an in-game piano until I saw it. Everything LOOKS SO AMAZING!

I was not prepared for there to be so much here!

I'm convinced the only things Max loves more than FF7 are his wife and child.

I'm still in shock that Square Enix ever pushed the button at all. I was always hopeful and held out, but I'm still in disbelief that it came to be. Much excite.

I hope Max will do a video like a comprehensive summary of the TGS showcase. There was so much stuff.

One thing I caught during this was when he was swimming in the river and was explaining you can swim in the river and the ocean, he kinda reveals that there "will _maybe_ be a Submarine materia" at 29:10 Sounds like we're goin' underwater in this game already, and that it won't just be saved for part 3.

Anyone not in the loop about the Mog House and Max saying "its not a video game in a video game anymore!" and "HELP HIM GET LAID" is just too damn funny man 😂

This game looks incredible. I did notice that in the open areas to explore there didn't seem to be a lot of enemy encounters. I just hope that even though it's vastly more open, your character levels and scaling arent throttled by controlled, intentional battles. That would ruin the open exploration for me. We need to be able to fight when we want.

I was hoping to play ff7 music when they showed the piano! I was just as happy as you, Max! I'm so overjoyed!

This makes me so happy 😁. I literally canceled my Lords of the Fallen Collectors edition pre order just so I can pre order the Collectors Edition for Rebirth. As someone who unfortunately suffers from Emotional Detachment Distorder not many things can make me feel a emotion such as joy and happiness, but FF7 being my all time favorite game and Max's excitement... I can't express how much joy that gives me.

Just want to add it’s usually good practice to translate from a foreign language to your native language. I do translation in my day to day and seeing this guy translate for 4 people simultaneously talking into a foreign language near seamlessly is making my brain explode.

It is literally the Horizon formula of open world. Hamaguchi is doing exactly what we have been expecting of him. I just personally could not believe they could make a Horizon-style map, as densely populated as those are, and include so much of FF7 world at the same time. This map looks like it has it will have most of the continent from Junnon to the Golden Saucer and Cosmo Canyon. Just Wutai and the islands are being cut. That is just insane. If all of it is as polished and filled with secrets and interesting things to do, it will be crazy. I mean, it is the best possible direction to take this game. Horizon-style open world map filled with content, main story as faithful and engaging as FF7 Remake, and side-quests focusing on party members sort of like Mass Effect series. Best of all the best. Amazing.

The event dialogues would change depending on who you had in OG and i remeber reloading just to see everyones reaction to events. Glad to see they are bringing it into remake part 2.

Im so happy that every corner of the game they shown so far has so much of passion behind it

I cried when I saw Kalm… it was just. Breathtaking

Man the hype is justified for this game. I knew when i played ff7 years ago when it first came out that it was special. So glad they putting tons of effort into this game.

Oh it's possible and it's a few months away LETS GOOO! Replaying FF7Remake right now... my god! What an amazing and emotional game! Absolutely adore it and Rebirth is gonna even better! 😍😍😍😍

The piano shit, and the fact you can find sheet music as collectibles out in the world, is the part that finally broke me and brought a tear to my eye. What the fuck, man? How is this game real?