@stevendouglas3781 If you think about it, Sephiroth did the whole world a favor by killing President Shinra, with how much of a prick the old bastard was.
@@bakacdaz To be fair Rufus wasn't as much of a dick compare to his father (and Rebirth really shows that), the only real assholes were Hojo and Scarlet. Heidegger was a dick as well but at least he is loyal and actually doing his job; Palmer does nothing but drinks tea and visiting Gold Saucer with business expenses, and the Turks are just following orders.
Cloud's dream was to join SOLDIER! However, he failed the entrance exam but was too embarrassed to return home in failure, so he became an infantryman instead. He never wanted to be a random trooper! Much less a leader of them!
You have to work your way up the ranks. It's very clear Cloud derived some kind of wish fulfillment and enjoyment from this entire sequence. It's like he got to forget about everything for a moment and just do what he knows@@daanduijkers4845
Ask Squall and company how that turned out for them. (although you might have difficulties since it was the defining moment of the Squall Is Dead theory)
@@shadow98004Junon is one of Midgar's strongholds. I'm sure after the whole debacle that happened in 7 Remake at Midgar, the Shinra chain of command most likely told their units to retreat and regroup in Junon.
@@markhunter3533 That was BEFORE he learned just how awful Shinra really was. That's another thing that pierces through his shattered mind: he KNOWS the company's true nature.
I kinda wished the results showed a shadowed image of the summons, as a reminder of the formation that was done, and that if done well enough, the crowd believes it was a near summon in the best way. As they say: make it part of the show!
I loved this section so much. Loved how epic they made, and how they gave personality to the soldiers. I was terrified I'd have to kill the soldiers by the end!
They really took this section to a whole new level, this whole game so far has been nothing short of perfect, love how they added the victory fanfare with Clouds sword spin.
@@Usernamehear with all due respect literally half the videos on great story telling has this plot twist in it there’s probably no one who doesn’t know
i really loved how cloud got carried away by the role during the speech to seventh infantry, and tifa and aerith had to bring him down to reality of theyr real infiltrating mission!!!
Pro tip, you can pause it before each button press to memorize/remember the what each color means. I didn't get a perfect score BUT the idea is to get over 100k points. This will get you first place.
@IamtheMan1111 Yeah, you can basically retry all you want, I had a few misses but still got the first place. Edit: I also picked the most difficult formation for all 3 section, I guess that's why I can still win against bike squad with some misses.
weird, i got over 100K and didn't get outstanding performance. must be literally nailing every bit. did get the presidential commendation still though...
@@DecemberProjects Commendation is baked into the script no matter what you do, even if you press nothing. If you got over 100k and still lost then you’re likely only a miss or two away from winning against the bike squad.
I love how Tifa and Aerith were perfectly coordinated and even knew the dance moves at the gold saucer. I don't require an explanation of how they knew and I'm so here for that energy
Nice, I got that trophy but had to retry a few times. Of course I skipped the scenes. Not knowing that the threshold was 100k I missed the outstanding performance part and it went straight to Yuffy. Now I had the chance to finally watch it. So happy for the commander ^^
I saw you can retry if your still in the middle of formation, but once that 3rd formation is over there is no retry. Note when I hit retry it takes me back to before talking to lady followed by speech of cloud, tifa, and Aerith. @robertwoodley7623
It was funny seeing Cloud get really into being the Captain drill sergeant, talking to his squadron and bonding with them too, and Tifa had to drag him away. Poor cloud :(
Cloud: Tifa...give me some more time... the mission can wait! Let mr bond with them. Tifa: But Sephiroth is gonna destroyed world. Cloud: That white hair emo boy can wait! I WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH MY Soliders!
The rendering is truly excellent, especially in the cutscenes, but the facial animation (specifically the mouth’s movement) still needs improvement. Hopefully they will improve this in the third game, because realistic facial and mouth movement have been made possible in some other games, such as Mortal Kombat 11, Injustice, Insomniac’s Spider-Man, Detroit Becomes Human, etc.
@@halfbee7886 they didn't do it for sidequests and I don't blame em, every model has different face parts and to make them all move thats like atleast 25 characters mouths to make perfect. They already perfected it since latest game, it's not as distracting as then
@@AnotherGeek.... The game still looks gorgeous, don’t get me wrong. Facial expressions and mouth movement are always the hardest part in animation, let alone in real-time rendering such as in video games, so tbh it doesn’t bother me that much when the face looks a bit off at times. I just hope that in the future, we could truly see more video games with highly realistic facial animations, and I know that future is near. I especially want to see it in Final Fantasy games, since they always have good looking characters. Imagine good looking characters having realistic facial expressions, it would be the best of both worlds, and I can’t wait to see that (just hoping I’m still alive when that becomes the industry standard).
If i remember right, in the Classic FFVII the squad you do with the parade show up again as the crew of the submarine you steal as part of the Huge materia quest, i am both hoping the 7th do get to show up again but they also stand down like they get a chance to do in Classic FFVII
Square is really REALLY good at making an Opponent's side loveable. Kingdom like Garlemald, they dont just make it the Antagonist's home, but also giving it life and somehow a reason to side with them just ny seeing how alive the world is
Running around junon made me realize the vast differences between the playstation and the PS5, and the dedication of the devs. Nobody in the crowed is wearing the same outfit, and there are sooo many people. The original ff7 just had a few troopers and the crowd was tiny in comparison.
Not necessarily perfectly, just well. I was really channeling my inner (or outer, I was ironically at color-guard camp at the time) color guard to do that, and I still messed up at the end. Like I tend to do... even in real life. But I still got the sword.
Imagine an alternate timeline where Cloud becomes a proud officer in the troopers, meets and marries his childhood sweetheart, and lives happily ever after? Of course Jenovah, Sephiroth and the seedier parts of Shinra had other plans, alas.
I just had to watch this parade again after successfully winning the Outstanding Performance Award, but i didn't do it just for the trophy (it took me three retries to win) i did for The Seventh Infantry Unit; those solders captured my heart and i wanted them to win that award and gain some glory for their day in the spotlight.
What do you call fantasies that look like they take place in our world? They have cities and news stations and smartphones and tv. So many people look like normal civilians. I love this type of fantasy the absolute most
I absolutely love this scene here I love how the 7 soldiers stayed with Cloud when they were fighting against the shinra the entire time what are the side of things is one of the soldiers in that you come across actually has a collection of cats like wedge and a more likely scenario is when you escaped you end up killing this poor man come up with someone who owns a cat I kind of felt bad for this character
@@elitefdc2171 walking around explorer and looking for the soldiers come across a one soldier who has lots of cats kind of reminds me of wedge and his cat in the section 7 slums.
Was anyone else expecting a “relationship with Barrett has changed…” message if you got a Mac score along with complete loss of all relationship points with him?
0:33 "You're a man of many talents but, talking isn't one of them" -Aerith Gainsborough Chapter 9 FF7 Remake 0:50 I swear i thought she said it's a big "ass" 🤣🤣
This might be the most challenging part for me 😰, ever since playing Hatsune Miku games I always get the urge to play it to perfection even though I suck at it 😅😅😅
These QT sequences just like with that freakin' Honey Bee dance in Remake are so tough for me, too much animation noise going on in the scene that distracts and makes it hard to follow the path leading to those prompts. If only the devs had added more accessibility options eg. slow down the game speed for certain mini-games.
The number of times I had to redo this... I think I lost count after the 5th attempt and it took me, like an hour or two, I think to get it. It wasn't 100% perfect, more like 98%. Most were Greats, a few Goods, but no Bads.
If there had been such a mechanic in the original then the parade instead of the most hated one would have been my favorite part of the game. Rebirth has turned Final Fantasy VII into an even better game.
“The captain and his team have trained long and hard”
No, the captain showed up 5 minutes ago.
😂
Yesn’t.
Whermst.
That's why he is prompted 😂
😅😂
I love how the trio took their role wayyy too serious, they actually made more people like Shinra.
Mission failing successfully
It kind of shows how things would be if Shinra wasn’t evil. Or at least wasn’t hellbent on fcking with the lives of our main characters.
@stevendouglas3781 If you think about it, Sephiroth did the whole world a favor by killing President Shinra, with how much of a prick the old bastard was.
@@stevendouglas3781Shinra if more people like Reeve and Zack working for them instead of people like Hojo.
@@bakacdaz To be fair Rufus wasn't as much of a dick compare to his father (and Rebirth really shows that), the only real assholes were Hojo and Scarlet. Heidegger was a dick as well but at least he is loyal and actually doing his job; Palmer does nothing but drinks tea and visiting Gold Saucer with business expenses, and the Turks are just following orders.
Glad to see Captain Thunderhead make Midgar proud.
I had flashbacks of machinabridged commentator saying how that soldier failed at that one job he had.
Turned nothing like that, but wtill pleasant.
😂😂😂 love your comment. FF7Abridged was hilarious.
I See you are a man of culture as Well. ;-) THUNDERHEEEAAAD?!?!
(Ostrich laugh) ah haha!! 😂
He blew all expectations.
Look at Cloud, living his old dream, just for a moment, of being a leader of men in the army of Midgar.
Cloud's dream was to join SOLDIER!
However, he failed the entrance exam but was too embarrassed to return home in failure, so he became an infantryman instead.
He never wanted to be a random trooper! Much less a leader of them!
You have to work your way up the ranks. It's very clear Cloud derived some kind of wish fulfillment and enjoyment from this entire sequence. It's like he got to forget about everything for a moment and just do what he knows@@daanduijkers4845
We must stop Sephiroth, but first we must give a great performance to earn the glory for our unit. For Shinra! For Midgar 7!
2:59, the president is driving around in a open top convertible, I am getting ideals.
Sadly there's no grassy knoll close enough to Junon...
Ask Squall and company how that turned out for them.
(although you might have difficulties since it was the defining moment of the Squall Is Dead theory)
Ultimecia Kennedy moment.
@@Eidakothis is after Squall already failed to assassinate the Galbadian President because his body double was somehow a monster.
@@shadow98004Junon is one of Midgar's strongholds. I'm sure after the whole debacle that happened in 7 Remake at Midgar, the Shinra chain of command most likely told their units to retreat and regroup in Junon.
Cloud’s inner trooper showing through that whole mess of a mind. I’m proud of him!
Yeah, I can imagine him actually being happy as a trooper despite not achieving his dream of being soldier.
@@markhunter3533 That was BEFORE he learned just how awful Shinra really was.
That's another thing that pierces through his shattered mind: he KNOWS the company's true nature.
This and the following events really soldifiy that Cloud can be a very good leader and earns the respect of hes squad.
I just wanna know how the hell Tifa and Aerith did this so perfectly with no practice or rehearsal whatsoever 😂
it's called game logic
They equipped the Bollywood materia.
nanomachines?
There's way too many questions with this game 😂
Synergy Materia
I kinda wished the results showed a shadowed image of the summons, as a reminder of the formation that was done, and that if done well enough, the crowd believes it was a near summon in the best way.
As they say: make it part of the show!
I loved this section so much. Loved how epic they made, and how they gave personality to the soldiers. I was terrified I'd have to kill the soldiers by the end!
You start to feel sorry after one of them says "We don't leave a man behind. We trust you."
i made damn sure i kept em all alive afterwords, and i am almost 100% sure they KNEW cloud was the intruder and yet let him go@@RobbyRob
It speaks volumes that they managed to make literal unnamed NPCs into such lovable characters
agreed@@DarkusFireBlaze3582
When they asked, "Will we see you again?" and Cloud's reply with a smile was "You can count on it". A bit of a lump in my throat, not gonna lie
Cloud getting too attached to his former position (not captain).
nah
he is a captain.
no way normal infantry allowed to join Soldier mission
@@elitefdc2171 I don’t know. Maybe this mission, if things didn’t go sideways, had him in consideration for a promotion to Captain?
Cloud is officer material
@@articusramos808 I won’t deny that.
@@RedDragonForce2if anything, the nibhelheim mission probably going to make a consideration for him being SOLDIER.
They really took this section to a whole new level, this whole game so far has been nothing short of perfect, love how they added the victory fanfare with Clouds sword spin.
I love the fact that shows even after he failed to join he didn’t slack as a grunt
What… “Failed to join”?
Cloud was a grunt! He failed to make Soldier.
@@roylong1237 that’s what i said
@@roylong1237spoiler alert!!!!!! 😂
Guess he was too allergic to mako
@@Usernamehear with all due respect literally half the videos on great story telling has this plot twist in it there’s probably no one who doesn’t know
i really loved how cloud got carried away by the role during the speech to seventh infantry, and tifa and aerith had to bring him down to reality of theyr real infiltrating mission!!!
7:11 HI MOM! I'M ON TV!
Private Thunderhead is pretty good.
" *oooh* you're gonna go far!"
Thats captain Thunderhead to you
Making me wanna rewatch the abridged series 😂
He's pretty good at blowing expectations.
#YouHadOneJob
Pro tip, you can pause it before each button press to memorize/remember the what each color means. I didn't get a perfect score BUT the idea is to get over 100k points. This will get you first place.
@IamtheMan1111 Yeah, you can basically retry all you want, I had a few misses but still got the first place.
Edit: I also picked the most difficult formation for all 3 section, I guess that's why I can still win against bike squad with some misses.
weird, i got over 100K and didn't get outstanding performance. must be literally nailing every bit.
did get the presidential commendation still though...
@@DecemberProjects Did happen to me too. You have to set up your Formation, so you can get the "Formation Bonus". Then 100K should be enough
@@marcel30686you guys can’t skip the point cutscenes.
@@DecemberProjects Commendation is baked into the script no matter what you do, even if you press nothing. If you got over 100k and still lost then you’re likely only a miss or two away from winning against the bike squad.
Yoooo! That victory fanfare with Clouds pose is SICK!!!
I was SO mad to see there wasn't a way back into upper Junon.
That said I think we just met our submarine crew for Part 3.
5342 downvotes are from Wutai and Avalanche
You forgot Tsunami
Whoever goes "nooo say it ain't so" cracks me up every time
It’s Roche
@@konjiki8203Yeah, Roche wins if you don't, so he's just narrowly missing it in a close contest here.
I love how Tifa and Aerith were perfectly coordinated and even knew the dance moves at the gold saucer. I don't require an explanation of how they knew and I'm so here for that energy
Nice, I got that trophy but had to retry a few times. Of course I skipped the scenes. Not knowing that the threshold was 100k I missed the outstanding performance part and it went straight to Yuffy. Now I had the chance to finally watch it. So happy for the commander ^^
Really hope they patch in a "retry minigame" option, I kept missing a few on the ramuh one til I settled for 'good' instead
I saw you can retry if your still in the middle of formation, but once that 3rd formation is over there is no retry. Note when I hit retry it takes me back to before talking to lady followed by speech of cloud, tifa, and Aerith. @robertwoodley7623
Got to say this sequence really honored the original FFVII.
Cloud rocks that saber.
It was funny seeing Cloud get really into being the Captain drill sergeant, talking to his squadron and bonding with them too, and Tifa had to drag him away. Poor cloud :(
Cloud: Tifa...give me some more time... the mission can wait! Let mr bond with them.
Tifa: But Sephiroth is gonna destroyed world.
Cloud: That white hair emo boy can wait! I WANT TO SPEND TIME WITH MY Soliders!
lol god damnn
Private Thunderhead got it right this time
That captain thunderhead to you!
Makes you feel bad for all those troopers who fell fighting AVALANCHE thinking they were just fighting to protect their homes and city and country.
NGL the uniform looks very nice
Agree
Now I really want the Midgar 7th to show up in the final game.
They will definitely be the highwind crew
@@MuseHijinksthat would be GREAT
1:38 Lol he’s in the moment xD
he even tifa to remind him since he was so deep in character LOL
this was so funny😂😂
@@annakatharinasponagel4630 Personally, I found it kinda cringe towards the end but kinda funny all the same
That hug between Tifa and Aerith was so cute.
That commander went from WH40K Commissar Mitsuru Kirijo to the happiest woman in Junon
O
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XD
Shinra may a nice corporate but remember. PSP Crisis core betrayed Zack and Cloud and the company made a monster which is Sephy.
The animation in this game is amazing you’d think it is a real anime movie
The rendering is truly excellent, especially in the cutscenes, but the facial animation (specifically the mouth’s movement) still needs improvement. Hopefully they will improve this in the third game, because realistic facial and mouth movement have been made possible in some other games, such as Mortal Kombat 11, Injustice, Insomniac’s Spider-Man, Detroit Becomes Human, etc.
@@halfbee7886 they didn't do it for sidequests and I don't blame em, every model has different face parts and to make them all move thats like atleast 25 characters mouths to make perfect.
They already perfected it since latest game, it's not as distracting as then
It unironically looks better than FF7AC.
@@AnotherGeek.... The game still looks gorgeous, don’t get me wrong. Facial expressions and mouth movement are always the hardest part in animation, let alone in real-time rendering such as in video games, so tbh it doesn’t bother me that much when the face looks a bit off at times. I just hope that in the future, we could truly see more video games with highly realistic facial animations, and I know that future is near. I especially want to see it in Final Fantasy games, since they always have good looking characters. Imagine good looking characters having realistic facial expressions, it would be the best of both worlds, and I can’t wait to see that (just hoping I’m still alive when that becomes the industry standard).
Rufus’s lip movements look a little odd to me though.
If i remember right, in the Classic FFVII the squad you do with the parade show up again as the crew of the submarine you steal as part of the Huge materia quest, i am both hoping the 7th do get to show up again but they also stand down like they get a chance to do in Classic FFVII
How funny would it be if that parade sword is the most powerful sword in the game.
I would love that!
Square is really REALLY good at making an Opponent's side loveable. Kingdom like Garlemald, they dont just make it the Antagonist's home, but also giving it life and somehow a reason to side with them just ny seeing how alive the world is
It’s about creating ambiguity & illustrating that there’s good & evil ok both sides.
Running around junon made me realize the vast differences between the playstation and the PS5, and the dedication of the devs. Nobody in the crowed is wearing the same outfit, and there are sooo many people. The original ff7 just had a few troopers and the crowd was tiny in comparison.
14:06 - This made me laugh so hard 😂 Unexpected, but perfect timing! 👏👏👏 It's not every day they get a crowd roaring applause for a mission complete
That Shiva one was way too difficult for me. I had to turn my brightness down to see the triangle ones.
Remember when this was just a silly little mini game?
Now it's got to be a huge fkn production.
Like most if the remake!
XD
*HolUp!*
The RTS Mini game!!
Don't worry, these recruits are gonna be the future Seventh Midgard Infantry for the WRO.
In the original game if you do the drill perfectly on the dock, you get "Force Stealer" early.
Not necessarily perfectly, just well. I was really channeling my inner (or outer, I was ironically at color-guard camp at the time) color guard to do that, and I still messed up at the end. Like I tend to do... even in real life. But I still got the sword.
*Cloud getting yanked*: "but Tifaaaaaaaa? I had that dawg in meeeee!"
Cloud looks so happy
Imagine an alternate timeline where Cloud becomes a proud officer in the troopers, meets and marries his childhood sweetheart, and lives happily ever after?
Of course Jenovah, Sephiroth and the seedier parts of Shinra had other plans, alas.
@@entropybear5847 This makes my heart heavy. I just want to see Cloud smile.
Aerith is so cute! 😂
I got hype as fuck when Cloud showed up with an Officer sword.
Good to see cloud in uniform again. Where he belongs 🤭🤭
7th Infantry is my most favourite part.
it's possible they either make return when Cloud cs stole submarine or Midgard raid
Thank you for showing me what happens when you get a perfect. 👍
Same
XD
I repeated it *so.many. times in PS1...*
I just had to watch this parade again after successfully winning the Outstanding Performance Award, but i didn't do it just for the trophy (it took me three retries to win) i did for The Seventh Infantry Unit; those solders captured my heart and i wanted them to win that award and gain some glory for their day in the spotlight.
The reporter commentary makes it sounds like she doesn't want to be there. xD Very impressive though!
VERY realistic
XD
2:52 if your microphone works, we should!
XD
It took me so many tries to win the 1st award. Great job to the players who got every single one right
What do you call fantasies that look like they take place in our world? They have cities and news stations and smartphones and tv. So many people look like normal civilians. I love this type of fantasy the absolute most
Urban fantasy?
@@erbenwerben93Possibly
You seem to be referring to Verisimilitude... And I agree!
Bro does the victory pose when the music played
Oh sweet, I can finally just watch the formations without worrying about the buttons. Damn some of those are cool
I absolutely love this scene here I love how the 7 soldiers stayed with Cloud when they were fighting against the shinra the entire time what are the side of things is one of the soldiers in that you come across actually has a collection of cats like wedge and a more likely scenario is when you escaped you end up killing this poor man come up with someone who owns a cat I kind of felt bad for this character
not really shinra, just different soldier faction (idk what they called).
@@elitefdc2171 walking around explorer and looking for the soldiers come across a one soldier who has lots of cats kind of reminds me of wedge and his cat in the section 7 slums.
I think these soldiers are ones who got into the service for the right reasons.
The Shinra March is amazing in all editions but especially now.
I haven't felt such a mighty need to do well in a rhythm game since Elite Beat Agents. If you know, you know. Midgar represent!
They outdone themselves with just this one scene. These JRPGs never cease to amaze me...
This NPC at 7:12 stood out to me that whenever I see him elsewhere I assume it's the same person, especially in Gold Saucer.
Let's go 7th Infantry!!!
Was anyone else expecting a “relationship with Barrett has changed…” message if you got a Mac score along with complete loss of all relationship points with him?
I just got this trophy and I’m literally only here to watch the actual performance 😂
Favorite trophy ever
The victory pose with the fanfare, goose bumps
0:33 "You're a man of many talents but, talking isn't one of them" -Aerith Gainsborough Chapter 9 FF7 Remake
0:50 I swear i thought she said it's a big "ass" 🤣🤣
This might be the most challenging part for me 😰, ever since playing Hatsune Miku games I always get the urge to play it to perfection even though I suck at it 😅😅😅
Captain thunderhead is totally going viral on the shintranet this time! The donkiest of me mes!
This was so much better than that jank clusterfuck of a minigame this part was in the original.
This part of the game is absolutely amazing.
Don’t care what anyone says best moment is the bald bar
With the seventh infantry captain and her team have unique face, they no longer need Cloud victory fanfare for identity themself.
Finally, I can watch this without worrying about clicking the right buttons on this mini game lol
I did it for Midgar 7th Infantry's Commander! I was smitten! ❤
Way easier than the parade in the PS1 version that’s for damn sure 😂
I didn't get all greats, but I ended up getting a "perfect score" on my first try anyway. It was REALLY fun.
I wonder what kind of effect Diamond weapon blast did to rufus, that managed to reform him from evil to good.
These QT sequences just like with that freakin' Honey Bee dance in Remake are so tough for me, too much animation noise going on in the scene that distracts and makes it hard to follow the path leading to those prompts. If only the devs had added more accessibility options eg. slow down the game speed for certain mini-games.
I replay this many times so that I can impress the commander and I know it won't change anything
The fact that cloud being carried away as a captain really catches me here.
Others: oh great!
Me: youuu fuc**d up...aaaaand sent
Only one I cant get is the really short mash during Bahamut. Perfected the rest of it
Aerith and Tifa were the greatest! They just learned it for a few minutes without prior experience!
It’s hella funny to see all them break military bearing at what should be a serious event.
The number of times I had to redo this... I think I lost count after the 5th attempt and it took me, like an hour or two, I think to get it. It wasn't 100% perfect, more like 98%. Most were Greats, a few Goods, but no Bads.
Super super SUPER accurate depiction of officers 😂😭🤣
Me after playing Hatsune Miku Colorful Stage: pffft EZ!
Still a lot of fun though!
Commander is added to Cloud's PRIVATE PARTY :^)
she is so cute @11:21
They all hate shinra but because of their performance shinra is probably going to recruit a lot more people lol
Feels like someone is missing from those rotating crosses at the beginning of the Bahamut formation.
Although Rufus is clearly an antagonist, I admire his speech on the stage
Commander Cloud would be sick.
it's hilarious how this just turns into straight-up Shinra propaganda at the end lmao
Does somebody know the choral lyrics sung when Rufus speaks his commendation? It sounds so glorious.
Holy crap, once was hard enough, we have to do it 3 times?!
If there had been such a mechanic in the original then the parade instead of the most hated one would have been my favorite part of the game. Rebirth has turned Final Fantasy VII into an even better game.
Not gonna lie, by the end of this whole sequence I felt like I it was my duty to the 7th Infantry to win those awards. 😁
First play through. Got it. Took a minute but got it.