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Final Fantasy VII - An In-Depth Retrospective
*Addition*
I was made aware that there is a piece of wrong information in the video regarding how Final Fantasy got its name, my apologies for this part. For the correct information, I'd like to refer you to the following article from Eurogamer where Sakaguchi explains the true story;
www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-creator-debunks-myth-of-series-name
*End addition*
Heya champs!
It's been a while but here is a video that I've been dying to make for a very very long time, Final Fantasy VII.
With Final Fantasy VII Remake out and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth around the corner, I felt this was a great time to take a look at this timeless classic.
Final Fantasy 7 always meant a lot to me ever since it came out and if you never played it before, I hope this gives you a good idea of how it was back in the day.
Have a good one and I hope to see you all on the next one, I promise this one won't take almost a year to come out.
Also, be aware that any feedback is good feedback so let me know what you think!
Special thanks to;
@TheLifestream For allowing me to use the footage for the FF VI Tech demo!
@YourFavoriteSon1 For always allowing me to ask you stuff. Appreciate it, bud!
@tangomushi For streaming whenever I needed a break from editing. Appreciate it!
David; For helping me out with brainstorming and ideas
Time codes for your viewing pleasure;
Intro 00:00
Development 1:59
Bombing Mission 18:01
Sector 7 24:07
Materia Explained 26:01
Sector 5 31:41
Aeris (Aerith) 34:46
Wall Market 39:12
Plate Fall 42:33
Assault on Shinra 47:51
Kalm 58:58
Junon 1:11:32
Corel & Gold Saucer 1:16:27
Gongaga 1:23:01
Cosmo Canyon 1:24:26
Nibelheim 1:27:44
Rocket Town 1:33:35
Wutai 1:36:44
Temple of the Ancients 1:42:33
The Scene 1:49:58
Disc 2 1:55:45
Icicle Inn 1:56:28
Gaea's Cliff 1:59:05
Northern Crater 2:00:40
Escape from Junon 2:12:12
Mideel 2:19:12
Huge Materia 2:20:36
Fort Condor 2:22:52
Return to Mideel 2:23:52
Inside Cloud's Mind 2:24:52
Getting Premium Heart 2:37:16
Diamond Weapon at Midgar 2:39:35
Hojo 2:45:55
Disc 3 2:48:41
Return to Nibelheim 2:49:52
Vincent & Lucrecia 2:53:04
WEAPONS 2:55:13
The Final Stretch 2:57:10
Ending 3:03:06
My Thoughts 3:06:08
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How I remember Fatal Frame || A Retrospective and Analysis
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How I remember Zelda: Ocarina of Time || A Retrospective, Critique and Analysis
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Alone in the Dark 3: The Ending of an Era || A Retrospective, Critique and Analysis
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Alone in the Dark 2 : Great Sequel or Missed Chance? || A Retrospective, Critique and Analysis
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Turok Dinosaur Hunter: Mecha Dinosaur Shootfest || A Retrospective, Critique and Analysis]
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Hey there, kids. This'll be my first retrospective and review that I'll upload on this channel. Today we'll be reviewing Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a 1997 classic game from the Nintendo 64 era that's very dear to my heart. We'll be taking a look at the Turok Remastered footage since it's the easiest gameplay to record at this time. Quite possibly, I might do Turok 2 Seeds of Evil after this but I'...

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  • @xenxander
    @xenxander 3 дні тому

    There's a hidden side quest that asks you to find all of the promo posters around the world for Wu Tai resort. I can't remember what the prize is, though, been too long. Well Elaine TRIES to punch you out but just doge it and she rolls down the hill rather comically. I consider this to be the cannon as the Turks are sorta comic relief from this point on, more or less. The game did this as a means to give the player something entertaining after the Aeris/Aerith scene. Once Hojo is defeated.. Reeve is still alive, safe, and still controlling Cait Sith so he's in charge now.. which I assume he dismantles Shinra after that. Also to mention Cait Sith you failed to mention his ultimate weapon, the megaphone you find in the locker in the Shinra tower that you can only pick up after returning and can't pick up during your first visit. The other mini quest is the sleeping guy in the cave. where he delivers you about three? items if you fight a certain number of battles, or flee a certain number of times. I suppose it's pointless to mention Aeris' ultimate limit or weapon as you 'can' get them disc one but.. what's the point of it? You get so little use and to grind Aeris up enough to even get to her last limit has about one use before you lose her. So I suppose it's fine to overlook those. The other 'side quest' is of course obtaining all the rest of the materia from the crater but leaving before you fight Sipheroth, mastering them all, and using the large materia to get the 'master' materia.. this over powers you of course, but how could I resist getting three of them? Kinda hard. Sure makes Sipheroth stronger but you're incredibly OP by that point and you can do it while still only being around the 70's in level so the only thing Sipheroth gets is double HP from knights of the round.

  • @jaredwalley5692
    @jaredwalley5692 4 дні тому

    0:07 I was 2. No way I was remembering that.

  • @The-Gildway1986
    @The-Gildway1986 4 дні тому

    Aerith’s death devastated me and when the screen went black and asked me to insert disc 2 I sat there and wept for a while and then felt this sense of rage and determination to avenge her death.

  • @Brittanyknuckles1427
    @Brittanyknuckles1427 4 дні тому

    Ffvii is my favorite game of all time. I’m elated my favorite game got remade/retold in a 3 part series and so far the first two games have blew my expectations. Can’t wait to see how they wrap it up. This video was great, you clearly put in so much work into this and it shows!!! 10/10 my dude

  • @Brittanyknuckles1427
    @Brittanyknuckles1427 4 дні тому

    Ffvii is my favorite game of all time. I’m elated my favorite game got remade/retold in a 3 part series and so far the first two games have blown my expectations. Can’t wait to see how they wrap it up. This video was great, you clearly put in so much work into this and it shows!!! 10/10 my dude

  • @ieyasu_koga
    @ieyasu_koga 5 днів тому

    Craziest thing about this game was that they were still making weapons for Aeris that you could buy

  • @KKolbet
    @KKolbet 6 днів тому

    I wonder how French people pronounce Blizzard, do they sound like a redneck, or just say the word normally?

  • @SpacelyMinecraft
    @SpacelyMinecraft 8 днів тому

    Alright alright lets hear you talk about majoras mask😏 (my all time favorite zelda)

  • @stanstanstan2597
    @stanstanstan2597 10 днів тому

    Games like this just don’t come around much anymore, not even in the Zelda series. They’re really indicative of a bottled moment in time, where all the stars aligned and the perfect team was brought together under the perfect circumstances to make something truly special. Kids these days can have their big open world adventures, but I know of a time where this was as big as it got and people were happy. I’m only 17, but I think sometimes I was born too late.

  • @sacredbanana
    @sacredbanana 11 днів тому

    My uncle Jeremy had died by his own hand!

  • @mrwang420
    @mrwang420 13 днів тому

    Yeah for some reason they made Romancing Saga as Final Fantasy legend 1 and 2 for game boy lol.

  • @Decxie
    @Decxie 14 днів тому

    christmas of 1997, back when my parents didnt even know about eachothers existence yet lmao. though, playing oot 3d in 2011 when i was 9 years old as the first game i got with my 3ds, its the game that made me fall in love with the games up until this day!

  • @les907
    @les907 15 днів тому

    Did it take anyone a little longer for Aerith's death to sink in? I had played all the final fantasy games prior to this one. So, my first reaction was how inconvenient this was and I'll just use a phoenix down and bring her back and the game goes on. And it really couldn't bring her back that I suddenly took her death way more seriously. Because, before that, there really wasn't any permanent death in these games that were as significant as her death

  • @Agrahim
    @Agrahim 16 днів тому

    A couple of years ago was playing through the trilogy on original hardware. Had a blast, beat 2 and 3 to 100% (played out of order, couldn't find the first locally), went to play the last level of Turok 1 and my memory card wiped :/ Great game, but I'm not gonna play it again until I buy the HD remaster. Great video! Really like your style and looking forward to more videos

  • @The_RadicalOne
    @The_RadicalOne 16 днів тому

    This was an amazing watch. I haven’t played through Final Fantasy VII in years and had forgot most of the stuff after the party gets ti the northern cave for the first time. It was great going down memory lane again.

  • @Debbie-qs2xo
    @Debbie-qs2xo 17 днів тому

    39:14 🤨 "..in a car going toward Walmart." ?? 😀

  • @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284
    @mr.dr.prof.patrick7284 18 днів тому

    do a majoras mask one next

  • @RealEvilLordExdeath
    @RealEvilLordExdeath 19 днів тому

    3 hours and 15 minutes well spent. Thank you

  • @Agrahim
    @Agrahim 20 днів тому

    Great video! Subscribed and playlist saved. I'll always love Ocarina, still remember my brother opening it Christmas morning that year and being excited. It was his game, so he got to play it first. He would tell me all about it, and I couldn't wait to play it myself. When I finally got my chance I couldn't believe how awesome the game was. The world felt huge (replaying it later I would realize how small it actually is), the night and day cycle and weather effects made it feel real. Maybe you had to be there, but to me this game will always be a masterpiece.

  • @afbee
    @afbee 21 день тому

    Nice review, though the music you are using feels off for this kind of vid.

  • @jorgealonso9792
    @jorgealonso9792 23 дні тому

    Your forgetting phantasy star and some others

  • @joeyangelbonilla2198
    @joeyangelbonilla2198 24 дні тому

    3:02:42 There is a way to lose during the final battle/ duel with Sephiroth.. If you stand there and do nothing Sephiroth will attack you and you can actually die and get a game over here. Sure, why would you let that happen lol… but just wanted to clarify that there is a way to lose since it was mentioned there is no way to lose.

  • @Layput
    @Layput 26 днів тому

    3 hours long and he decides to speak as slow as he could humanly possibly can

  • @tonychampagnejr2197
    @tonychampagnejr2197 27 днів тому

    This video was phenomenal! Pure nostalgia!!!

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman 27 днів тому

      It's got its flaws, some things I'll carry into improving the next one but thanks for letting me know that you enjoyed it. I appreciate it! 😁

  • @dannymiller4000
    @dannymiller4000 29 днів тому

    2:33:05 favorite part of the game

  • @ShiddyShad808
    @ShiddyShad808 29 днів тому

    So you’re telling me I unknowingly made the final boss way more difficult on myself as a kid by leveling my three mains to level 99 and obtaining knights of the round before even attempting to fight him?

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman 27 днів тому

      Well technically yes but let's be honest, kotr is so overpowered that it'll blow through that health difference in no time. From what i can tell his kit remains the same.

    • @redcomn
      @redcomn 16 днів тому

      Which game is this?

    • @EddiePReacts
      @EddiePReacts 16 днів тому

      ​@@redcomnfinal fantasy vii. You have to complete the chocobo breeding mini game, obtain a golden chocobo, and cross the water with it to this desert looking island that your ship or plane can't land on. I haven't done it in years so I don't remember if it's followed by a fight or just picking the materia up. I've beat this game like 6 times between being a teenager and young adult in my early 20s. It's been about 10 years since I last beat the game. This video got me ready to go back lol

  • @alexisguerrero7551
    @alexisguerrero7551 29 днів тому

    In all honesty nintendo should have gone with an octacore for switch just fir better porting for games

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman 27 днів тому

      Well, let's see what the switch 2 brings to the table.

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman 27 днів тому

      Let's see what the switch 2 brings to the table. The biggest issue I have with the console is the lag in the UI.

  • @SCK9-Feline
    @SCK9-Feline Місяць тому

    D&D vs FF? Nah wrong take dude

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman 27 днів тому

      I wouldn't say versus, my main take was that if according to the opinion of Japanese companies that Western players didn't enjoy deeper RPG systems, D&D would be a great counter argument since it was wildly popular in both the 80's and 90's, showing that Western players definitely had an interest in those mechanics.

  • @3ln2x
    @3ln2x Місяць тому

    19:49 I am thinking of Matt Patt now saying "Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusic Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan"

  • @Plexplay
    @Plexplay Місяць тому

    My favorite game of all time. It's simply the best work of art there is to me. Pretty sad to see where the series is going, but OoT will still hold up forever. Amazing video, thank you! :)

  • @IOSARBX
    @IOSARBX Місяць тому

    The Dadliest Man, You're fantastic! Let's be friends and have fun!

  • @beyondpain101
    @beyondpain101 Місяць тому

    My brothers were always ahead of me in the playthrough, being youngest and all means i get last turn. When they told me Aeris dies i 100% didnt beleive them, untill i saw it. Massive story moment, thank you for giving it a proper level of respect

  • @rebeccaimmel4160
    @rebeccaimmel4160 Місяць тому

    I was 17 when this OoT was released, but I didn’t own an N64 until I was 19. Back in 1999 we had dial-up internet. No youtube, very few and hard-to-find online walkthroughs. I had just moved out of my parents’ house and I had my very own apartment with no roommates. (I’m sure I’m not the only introvert among us…). I sat on my cheap futon and played this game on my clunky tube TV for hours and days and weeks. The characters were my friends and I have so many wonderful memories of unlocking these secrets all by myself. I played this game through at least 6 times over the course of my young adulthood. As much as I’d love to replay it today (still have the old N64), I can’t get past the polygons and technical limitations. Watching your video is a perfect substitution … thank you for posting. ❤

  • @billhanshaw8297
    @billhanshaw8297 Місяць тому

    Thanks for your engrossing annalis on this remarkable Epic Final Fantasy 7! But the Correct truth is that FF7 Is vastly far So much more than just a re telling of the story" it's A whole new completely beefed up brought up to date Absolute Re- Telling of the legendary Epic❤ Made for A New Generation!! Please send us more on anything that is Finnal Fantasy we all love it❤

  • @chadalpha7983
    @chadalpha7983 Місяць тому

    I played this game in 1997, without spoilers, I still tear up at hearing Aeris's theme, and I took a day and a half to process her death during my initial playthrough,

  • @CyberLocky
    @CyberLocky Місяць тому

    Amazing Video there is actually english release of Traces of Two pasts btw, Its really good

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      I'll check it out!

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      Thanks for the heads up, I managed to find a copy for my collection 😁

  • @readermike8355
    @readermike8355 Місяць тому

    Fun point, if you go into the honey bee inn and talk to the bees you can get your make up done

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      I learn new stuff about this game from you guys every day. 😂

  • @robbyg1232
    @robbyg1232 Місяць тому

    Dunes death is a lot better in the OG rebirth tried but comes across as a lot more goofy with the death by shinra grunt

  • @carltaylor2975
    @carltaylor2975 Місяць тому

    ​@thedadliestman Hey Dadliest great video my man. You seem to be open to criticism from your viewers so I have some of my own to add. You have nothing to apologize for, NOTHING. Do not pay attention to the dbags throwing a fit over a name bring mispronounced. I guess people really will find anything to complain about these days. People posting comments about how they can't believe that a person could continue to mispronounce a name are not the kind of people you should take criticism from. Those are the type of people you flat ignore. It's likely they are simply miserable with themselves, and miserable to be around. Anyway, keep up the awesome work!😂

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      Thanks! I'm definitely open for criticism, it's a learning process with every video but criticism can only lead to growth in my opinion. Be sure to call out any mistakes or things you think I can do better. There is no bad feedback. Thanks for watching and the support! 😁

  • @danamahr3773
    @danamahr3773 Місяць тому

    You need far more eyes on your work!

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      It'll come in time. Thanks for watching! 😁

  • @Eissey1879
    @Eissey1879 Місяць тому

    I played this game in '98 when i was like 13. It was the first RPG/JRPG I ever played and I remember the story sucked me in and I kept playing because I wanted to know what happened next. The sound track was also amazing. I remember I hooked up my TV to my Stereo and recorded my favorite songs on a cassette tape! Great video man, but I had to stop watching it, since watching this made me realize I don't remember much of the plot anymore, so I have a chance to replay it again and kinda be surprised. I'll come back and finish it then!

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      Good to hear about the memories. It's been a hot minute since I used a cassette deck 😂 Enjoy your playthrough!

  • @dougfoster445
    @dougfoster445 Місяць тому

    I played the game when it first came out on the ps1. Nothing prepared me for Aries dying. It rocked me to the core. It was the first time a video game made me feel that way. The game was a masterpiece.

  • @livetorek4723
    @livetorek4723 Місяць тому

    Gosh this video made me want to go play through ff7 again, the game is truly a masterpiece, while the remake is not

  • @PoppaC44
    @PoppaC44 Місяць тому

    Will we see one for a new nightmare?

    • @thedadliestman
      @thedadliestman Місяць тому

      I might actually look into doing this one. I'm still thinking of doing one about the new one as well.

  • @w.-_-.w
    @w.-_-.w Місяць тому

    3:01:25 cause homies can survive this supernova~

  • @ijustwanttolikecomments4677
    @ijustwanttolikecomments4677 Місяць тому

    love the video. would love to see a longform vid exploring all the side quests, and what their little stories are... I just love ff7 lol

  • @keness4768
    @keness4768 Місяць тому

    Neat trick about the teddy bear and the token. Ive beaten the game more times than i can count, but i never knew that one... As carnby, you can drop the grenade down the chute in the snake/pom pom room before climbing down. It takes out the guys below.

  • @Onering80
    @Onering80 Місяць тому

    The scene in Gongaga village is expanded a little more if you have Tifa AND Aeris in the party.