Thank you so much for all the comments they have been brill. I feel I should just add, for the Squall comment. Real life me fully understands his trauma, I actually teach trauma based theory to others (I'm actually in training now) and are aware he is a complex character. But the online persona me is a character and just doesn't like Squall
I listen to this sort of video at work. I love listening to other people's viewpoints and opinions on games, and their own take on the story and gameplay. Love this video and I've subscribed, hope to listen to more from you soon!
6:48 chills every single time the drums kick in. this was the first game that i played that didn't have midi music. and when 7:07 hits... just full body chills this entire soundtrack was revolutionary
I mean… Squall. To be fair, he did develop abandonment issues at a very young age, and then lost the memories about why he developed abandonment issues as a child
The real me is deeply moved by his story and can understand his trauma. Humans need attachment as we are social animals The UA-cam persona I have developed...... Baby
Hey, thanks for this video. I loved your pacing, your more conversational writing, and your overall delivery. Really wish UA-cam promoted channels like yours, you deserve the exposure! I'll be watching your other videos, and looking forward to what else you have to say.
Thanks for the kind words. Mostly what I say is stupidity. There are other videos to watch on the channel and over 100 podcast episodes to keep you busy
For me when it comes to Final Fantasy VII, i have to say that what truly captured me was the enviroment setting, from a tyranical yet somewhat futuristic almost CyberPunk-ish and militaristic city like Midgar to the mountain quiet life such as Nibelheim and Cosmo Canyon, FFVII has a bit of everything in that regard. Also Vincent the most coolest character in the game, as for Team Four Star's parody of the game my favorites has to be President Shinra because that's pretty much how i envisioned him at least in matters of speaking and Vincent because of his hatred for "HOJO"
FFV rocks, it took me all these years to finally pick it up to play, and what a great game it is. Amazing video about my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy VII…
@@RetroWarsuk Me too, I’m 18 hours and the game is so fun, really underrated. I think it will make to my top 3, joining 7 and 6. Your video was so good, to think it is only your third video, congratulations you are good my friend!!! I subscribed before you blow up, now I’m an og on your channel! Keep the amazing work my friend, I’ll look foward your next video, and I will watch the pokemon soon!!
I didn't play FF7 until 2013, not believing the hype. But damn after beating it I was converted, it is truly a special game. Its not even my favorite Final Fantasy, that would be 10, 6 and 9 but its incredible. I don't like the term "holds up" because every game "hold's up" if you meet it where it is and not expect modernization. There's a reason FF7 is still praised. Which makes me so sad by how the remake has panned out. It didn't need a remake anyway but my god its like modern square has no idea what made the game special.
Awesome video dude. I hope that anyone who watches who hasn't checked out the TFS Machinabridged FFVII videos will do so after seeing your video. They are funny as hell and even manage to hit a few sad notes really well. Keep up the good work and hope to see more FFVII content from you! Cheers.
You have the same three main characters as me. Yuffie, Cid & Cloud. Best characters on the game, the rest get benched as soon as these three come online.
The materia system is the best progression system in any game. Its separate from the characters so you can work on them regardless of your pt setup. You get lightning in the begining. So you can set it to double growth slots to get bolt3 by the time you get back to midgar at the end of the game where everything is weak to lightning. Better yet, you can put 2 thunder materias on double growth so you can have 2 bolt3s which you can pair with all and mp absorb for a free screen nuke. Its really a chess game you can use to break the game if you know the right moves.
It was the best game I’ve ever played, it’s my favorite game, I’ve bought it countless times and could tell you how many times I beat it, I still have the save file on the original ps1 memory card i used when I beat the game. I’m lucky my dad keep his old consoles.
it's really sad what the remake did to the legacy of this masterpiece, and assuredly the sequel to Remake will continue to soil the memory of such an important piece of gaming history.
@@RetroWarsuk Oh, I think the remake is an affront to everything the original stood for. It simply misses the point of the game, and the greater story, entirely. Essentially every piece of "Compilation of FFVII" that was released after VII was a complete mess that only unnecessarily complicated the plot retroactively.
The way you presented this was absolutely hilarious haha! Also for the longest time I didn't like Aeris either. It's only now as I'm in my 30s that I have developed a newfound appreciation for Aerith
Noooo Aerith is great xD. The Remake has definitely made her so much more of a character though. Also goddammit she is gorgeous, a beauty on par with Tifa, and I'll die on that hill xD
That Breath of Fire western cover is a piece of art. Gronan the barbarian fighting demons with his furry friends is some saturday morning cartoon shit this world would need right now.
I don't think the use of pretendered backgrounds was to save space but to save processing power. Cause the system doesn't have to render them. Just load them. This can allow for higher detail in the backgrounds with no performance issues.
I adore 7 and its whole compilation and enjoyed seeing an in depth view of it's entirety. that said... you called me out. it is my 3rd behind 6 at 1st and 9 as 2nd.
7:35 Bruh, I’m playing this game for the first time in the last two weeks and I got stuck at the same place you did. Like the game can be super confusing to an adult like me still 🤣
So just to clear up the whole Aeris vs Aerith thing, the way it was explained to me is that Aeris is a mistranslation. Since the game was made in Japan, the japanese pronunciation of her name is "Aerisu" so in the original english release, they had the name as Aeris because Japanese doesnt have a "th" sound, so it caused the mistranslation. This is why in Remake and i believe in more modern releases of the original such as the mobile version, console, and steam, it has the name as Aerith, correcting that mistake in the original English version.
I CANNOT WAIT FOR REBIRTH...I just wish our save data carried over from Remake to Rebirth :( Kinda missed the mark on that one. Do yall think Arieth is still gunna die in Rebirth? Or do yall think we are changing the outcome of the future ?
yeah I love ff7 I'm not gonna play the next one with the way the world is today, if I want to play ff7 I will play the one made when people at the very least knew who they were.
Cloud and any other Soldier juiced by Jenova Cells can wield the Buster Sword or, like you can see Sephiroth with the Masamune. Their strength is enhanced.
Been watching loads of FFVII retrospectives these last few weeks, and this is certainly one of the best. Nit the longest or most un depth but perfect to listen to whilst cleaning the hampster out. Great vid mate. Side note: since you mentioned FFXVI I had to mention how aweful that game was. Boring, terrible combat that got boring after an hour, no customisation or magic system, boring characters, boring dialogue, boring sidequests....and what is the deal with that jump button.
I aim to bring enough to the table to put a smile on someone's face. If cleaning the hamster out again have a listen to the podcast. 8, 10 and 7 covered so far
Good video. Your experience with the game mirrors my own as we're around the same age, also having recently been introduced to anime before playing the game for the first time. Still get chills with that opener. FFVII has to be my most influential game. It sent me on a path of JRPGs in the late 90s, early 2000s; a dragon I'm still chasing. No game has ever quite captured the feeling I got going through the first reactor of FFVII for the first time. It was a different world, which, much like Sephiroth, I sat in my little bubble waiting to absorb to its fullest.
I like the dragon we are still chasing. All I can say is thank god for the podcast as I play gems I have never played before like the dragon quest series
good video. FF7 was formative for me as it was for millions of teens who experienced it when it dropped. it made me drop the n64 and move the PSX (and i'm very thankful for that alone, lol). My biggest note about the video though is that you should really show stuff on screen that corresponds to what you're talking about. i know, it takes time to edit, but you made a gushing 1hr video essay and it's so hard to follow visually because it is usually unrelated gameplay footage on screen. this is mostly an issue at the beginning as you do do this later one in the video..... when you're talking about the character design, show the sketches on screen! mentioned the Sony/Nintendo partnership? show the SNES PS addon, Nintendo/Phillips? Show the Zelda CDi games! Ruby/Emerald, etc etc. good luck and keep it up! i look forward to checking more of your stuff out. PS i hated FF7R, what a disaster.
You lose me about 10 minutes in when you describe Squall as 'just a dick' before immediately explain how Cloud grows as a character, learning to let others in and the value of friends when Squall goes on that exact same journey. He too learns those same lessons. It honestly comes across like you've either never played FF8 or that you weren't paying attention when you did, and is such a "hur hur i'm so edgy" take on the game, that i'm just not going to bother watching the rest of the video, or any other videos on your channel. There's plenty to complain about in FF8, but complaining that the main character is 'just a dick' while completely ignoring his entire character arc is just a big miss.
As I have said in the comments before, real me understands the impact of trauma and the lack of attachment without their birth family Online me.. he is a bitch
@@RetroWarsuk hey man, you do you. It just sucks that it feeds a common idea that Squall starts out as an aloof loner and ends that way when his entire arc, like Cloud's (and Lighting's perhaps unsurprisingly given her status as an expie) is to grow into a more fully rounded person as their respective games roll on.
For FCs sake is it so hard to find a video that is a retrospective strictly on just the game play and story?? I don’t need a full history of what was going on with PlayStation and Nintendo at the time 🤦♂️
@@RetroWarsuk I agree that the story is a mess lol That’s why I’ve been looking for a video that recaps it in simple terms. Even when I played the game back on the PS1, I recall feeling that the story was a mess. After seeing dozens of UA-cam videos attempt to recap the story, I’m just left with further proof of what a mess the story is 😂 However, the music is excellent, and the cutscenes were revolutionary for their time. Despite this, I still believe the game is often overrated due to nostalgic sentiments and its association with a simpler era for many fans. Objectively I don’t rank it as high on my top 5 FF games as your average FF Stan does. The remakes are a refreshing retelling of the story with modern graphics and gameplay mechanics but I can’t deny how much I hate that it’s being released in installments which force players to make three or four different purchases over the span of years when it’s all said and done. Makes it feel like players are now forced into a money trap just to play a remake of a game that originally gave you the entire story with just one purchase.
Getting your full game worth took me 2 years to get everything in the game and beat all the super bosses one of the best we will see rebirth soon for ps5
The buster sword was clouds as it was given to him. That's how that works. Can't really belong to Angeal or Zack since they're spoiler McSpoiler. Your house doesn't belong to the first person to ever live in it for example.
Jesus, you only have a few hundred subs and 3 videos. Your videos are extremely well done, i expected your channel to be a lot bigger from the quality of your video. Id say its only a myter of time. Is this your first channel ?
Great video but there is a point that you made that I would like to fact check you on. You said that Mario 64's 3D levels took up more space than a location in FF7. Mario 64 fit on an 8MB cartridge and its levels were primarily made up of extremely compressed textures placed on top of simple geometric shapes to make a level. These textures were mostly repeated and reused across various levels to keep level sizes down. FF7 similarly used simple geometric 3D shapes to build a basic boundary for a 'screen'. These shapes were then coloured green and were chroma keyed out. They were then replaced with a high quality (for the time) pre-rendered background which occasionally had various frames to create animation. There is arguably more texture work in one scene in FF7 than there is across the entirety of Mario 64.
Cloud is not an emo edgelord like a lot of people think he is. He's just got a dry sense of humor. There are plenty of times in the game where he jokes around or laughs. Even in the remake, he's just really dry and all business. You can get a sense he's just really confused. Personally, I feel as though he still feels inferior for never having gotten into SOLDIER, even though as "Zack-Cloud" he thinks he did. My guess it's a suppressed memory that is creeping forward. But yeah, this emo Cloud nonsense has to stop.
I like Cait Sith. His “sacrifice” at the temple of the ancients was stupid and anticlimactic buti enjoyed him the rest of the time. Younger me was really drawn to his double agent aspect.
@@RetroWarsuk everything traces back to her tho. She wiped out the cetra, caused the northern crater which the planet was still healing from millennias later, and her cells manipulated sephirof and even cloud.
Thank you so much for all the comments they have been brill. I feel I should just add, for the Squall comment. Real life me fully understands his trauma, I actually teach trauma based theory to others (I'm actually in training now) and are aware he is a complex character.
But the online persona me is a character and just doesn't like Squall
..... why is this in 480p
Why was ur footage of the summon you were trying to show everybody is so cool lower than 120p?
Is this a joke.
Never get tired of these retrospectives full of thought and love
Love yes, thought no... I'm an idiot
So happy for you beating the algorithm bro! Great video let’s go!
I wanna beat the algorithm with a stick
7:30 same bro, who could have known that was available to use as a ramp.
Welcome to the club my friend
I listen to this sort of video at work. I love listening to other people's viewpoints and opinions on games, and their own take on the story and gameplay. Love this video and I've subscribed, hope to listen to more from you soon!
Thanks mate. The show is also a podcast with over 100 episodes. Something to get your teeth into at work. Far more stupidity over there
@@RetroWarsuk you've just made my night!!! Awesome! What is the name of the podcast? Apologies if it's mentioned in the video
Retro wars :P
@@RetroWarsukmakes sense!! Thank you!!
6:48 chills every single time the drums kick in. this was the first game that i played that didn't have midi music.
and when 7:07 hits... just full body chills this entire soundtrack was revolutionary
It was a think of beauty
I mean… Squall. To be fair, he did develop abandonment issues at a very young age, and then lost the memories about why he developed abandonment issues as a child
The real me is deeply moved by his story and can understand his trauma. Humans need attachment as we are social animals
The UA-cam persona I have developed......
Baby
7:35 I just traveled back 22 years, youre not alone my man!
The amount of replies saying this make me think we need a group support session
Hey, thanks for this video. I loved your pacing, your more conversational writing, and your overall delivery. Really wish UA-cam promoted channels like yours, you deserve the exposure! I'll be watching your other videos, and looking forward to what else you have to say.
Thanks for the kind words. Mostly what I say is stupidity. There are other videos to watch on the channel and over 100 podcast episodes to keep you busy
Great retrospective. That was fun to watch.
Oh and also thanks for making me think about Aerith's floating corpse in the water.
She is still floating now...being poked with a stick
That construction plank in collapsed expressway was the bane of my existence first playthrough
See.....seee not the only one thank god
There's dozens of us!
Was fun to watch and we all have our own story with our experiences with this masterpiece. That music at the start just hits different.
Still hits me in the tummy even now
Great video and hilariously funny, Subscribed
Thank you I'm just an idiot behind a mic
I got stuck at that part for a while as a kid too.
I am convinced we need a fan club for this section
I love this video 😁, amazing work making it 🤩! FF7 is my favorite game of all time ❤.
thank you, FF8 one has just gone up
For me when it comes to Final Fantasy VII, i have to say that what truly captured me was the enviroment setting, from a tyranical yet somewhat futuristic almost CyberPunk-ish and militaristic city like Midgar to the mountain quiet life such as Nibelheim and Cosmo Canyon, FFVII has a bit of everything in that regard. Also Vincent the most coolest character in the game, as for Team Four Star's parody of the game my favorites has to be President Shinra because that's pretty much how i envisioned him at least in matters of speaking and Vincent because of his hatred for "HOJO"
Also he reminds me of the Beatles as well. What a guy
@@RetroWarsuk indeed
FFV rocks, it took me all these years to finally pick it up to play, and what a great game it is.
Amazing video about my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy VII…
Glad you enjoyed it. I'm ready to finish V soon. Provably gonna play 1/4/6 next
@@RetroWarsuk Me too, I’m 18 hours and the game is so fun, really underrated.
I think it will make to my top 3, joining 7 and 6.
Your video was so good, to think it is only your third video, congratulations you are good my friend!!!
I subscribed before you blow up, now I’m an og on your channel!
Keep the amazing work my friend, I’ll look foward your next video, and I will watch the pokemon soon!!
Thanks buddy I appreciate it. If you want more of me, there is the podcast with over 100 episodes
The algorithm brought me to you and I'm glad it did.
Welcome to my world of madness.
This was hilarious. Laughed out loud several times. Your delivery is so good.
Glad you enjoyed it, hours of practice from the podcast....well and hours of editing
When I booted up the Remake for the first time, I nearly teared up. When that FF VII logo (and the bass) dropped, I was like “I’m home.”
I know how you feel. I had to tell my mother in law to leave the house so she didnt disturb me
I went to see FFVii Advent children complete in theaters last night and i couldn't help, but to get emo lol FF is my childhood 😅
See I would be pure emo if it was ff8
This video is excellent, I enjoyed it so much! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Those commercials were mind blowing.
I never saw them as a kid, I wish I had I would have been set
Awesome vid. Had to sub
Thank you.ff8 video is being made now
amazing video from this size o' channel! i wish you many views for this masterpiece
Thanks alot I hope to grow little by little
I didn't play FF7 until 2013, not believing the hype. But damn after beating it I was converted, it is truly a special game. Its not even my favorite Final Fantasy, that would be 10, 6 and 9 but its incredible. I don't like the term "holds up" because every game "hold's up" if you meet it where it is and not expect modernization. There's a reason FF7 is still praised. Which makes me so sad by how the remake has panned out. It didn't need a remake anyway but my god its like modern square has no idea what made the game special.
oh no, it holds up....does not work all the time. Listen to this week's podcast on Breath of fire
Awesome video dude. I hope that anyone who watches who hasn't checked out the TFS Machinabridged FFVII videos will do so after seeing your video. They are funny as hell and even manage to hit a few sad notes really well. Keep up the good work and hope to see more FFVII content from you! Cheers.
I strongly agree I have watched it at least 5 times is so good
Thanks man, not sure when I'll do FF7 again. Sonic 1 is next. I have done a few FF episodes on the podcast and they are far more ranty
@@RetroWarsuk - Will have to check out the podcast then! Either way, looking forward to future content.
103 episodes and growing of stupidity
You have the same three main characters as me. Yuffie, Cid & Cloud. Best characters on the game, the rest get benched as soon as these three come online.
And bench they will stay ..or at the bottom of a lake
The materia system is the best progression system in any game. Its separate from the characters so you can work on them regardless of your pt setup. You get lightning in the begining. So you can set it to double growth slots to get bolt3 by the time you get back to midgar at the end of the game where everything is weak to lightning. Better yet, you can put 2 thunder materias on double growth so you can have 2 bolt3s which you can pair with all and mp absorb for a free screen nuke. Its really a chess game you can use to break the game if you know the right moves.
My trick was to have all my characters having the status fury to get the limit bar up quicker
It was the best game I’ve ever played, it’s my favorite game, I’ve bought it countless times and could tell you how many times I beat it, I still have the save file on the original ps1 memory card i used when I beat the game. I’m lucky my dad keep his old consoles.
I think i still have my old ps1 memory card too back in the uk
@@RetroWarsuk I’ve been trying forever to convert it to work on pc I just can’t figure out how
It better not be Tifa that dies! Great video btw, the original is my favorite as a child too
I would cry if it was tifa...like get me a psychologist cry
@RetroWarsuk forreal. Tifa been my favorite since I was 14, and I will be devastated
it's really sad what the remake did to the legacy of this masterpiece, and assuredly the sequel to Remake will continue to soil the memory of such an important piece of gaming history.
I think the legacy can still stand, it has just taken a back seat at the mo. Once the trilogy is done and settled, the PS1 will be talked about again
@@RetroWarsuk Oh, I think the remake is an affront to everything the original stood for. It simply misses the point of the game, and the greater story, entirely. Essentially every piece of "Compilation of FFVII" that was released after VII was a complete mess that only unnecessarily complicated the plot retroactively.
Great video! Someone took a pen to your first copy of the game!? What a monster!! 😯
Yeh they did, I still have it. I good try to laser it off. I reckon it was my brother who did it
The way you presented this was absolutely hilarious haha! Also for the longest time I didn't like Aeris either. It's only now as I'm in my 30s that I have developed a newfound appreciation for Aerith
Yeh now playing the remake, I am only starting to feel like that...otherwise.....do your job Sephiroth
Noooo Aerith is great xD. The Remake has definitely made her so much more of a character though. Also goddammit she is gorgeous, a beauty on par with Tifa, and I'll die on that hill xD
Great video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it buddy
Awesome video
Thanks a lot 😊
good content i love it
Thanks mate 🧉
No mention of fanfare for amazing music ?
I do use it for the patreon episodes for the podcast if that counts
Great Video. You sound like GmanLives.
I need to research this man
That Breath of Fire western cover is a piece of art. Gronan the barbarian fighting demons with his furry friends is some saturday morning cartoon shit this world would need right now.
See I agree...the problem is...the game sucks donkey balls
@@RetroWarsuk Either cover is bad but game good or cover is awesome but game bad. There must be a balance.
@@Yurikon3 have a listen to my podcast episode to get the uncensored opinion
is this game famous ?
what's good about the game ?
story ?
characters ?
game play ?
soundtrack ?
It is just a little famous
I don't think the use of pretendered backgrounds was to save space but to save processing power. Cause the system doesn't have to render them. Just load them. This can allow for higher detail in the backgrounds with no performance issues.
I stand corrected, I know sweet fa
nice video buddy,
Glad you enjoyed it :D
SE still don't know how to handle lighting in UE4 lol
to be fair, I can't change a lightbulb in my daughter's room
I adore 7 and its whole compilation and enjoyed seeing an in depth view of it's entirety. that said... you called me out. it is my 3rd behind 6 at 1st and 9 as 2nd.
I can't fault your order... (well real me can't). internet me, "your order is a disgrace"
@RetroWarsuk yes, how dare I have my own opinion on the internet haha
You are speaking crazy talk, you shall never ever be allowed your own opinion on the internet.
7:35 Bruh, I’m playing this game for the first time in the last two weeks and I got stuck at the same place you did. Like the game can be super confusing to an adult like me still 🤣
Welcome to the club my friend
So just to clear up the whole Aeris vs Aerith thing, the way it was explained to me is that Aeris is a mistranslation. Since the game was made in Japan, the japanese pronunciation of her name is "Aerisu" so in the original english release, they had the name as Aeris because Japanese doesnt have a "th" sound, so it caused the mistranslation. This is why in Remake and i believe in more modern releases of the original such as the mobile version, console, and steam, it has the name as Aerith, correcting that mistake in the original English version.
This explains a lot. History listen folks
Loved your humor in this video
My wife doesn't
Ah, a fellow Cloud/Cid/Yuffie mainer. There are dozens of us. _Dozens!_
I must find them all
I CANNOT WAIT FOR REBIRTH...I just wish our save data carried over from Remake to Rebirth :( Kinda missed the mark on that one. Do yall think Arieth is still gunna die in Rebirth? Or do yall think we are changing the outcome of the future ?
Hmmm I don't know, I just don't want to have it all spoilt for me
Saving this to watch this later!
Save everything I make to watch :P or listen to the podcast
Ff7,ff8, persona 5 and mass effect ost’s are some of the best (honorable mention for legend of dragoon)
Not played legend of dragoon yet but I know I'll have to cover it one day
Chrono trigger, ff6
i would sum up the plot like this:
Cloud is hunting for Sephiroth, but Sephiroth ultimately ends up hunting him.
With..... psychology
yeah I love ff7 I'm not gonna play the next one with the way the world is today, if I want to play ff7 I will play the one made when people at the very least knew who they were.
that's fair enough, I can't wait to show my daughter it
Great video.
Thank you :)
Cloud and any other Soldier juiced by Jenova Cells can wield the Buster Sword or, like you can see Sephiroth with the Masamune. Their strength is enhanced.
Oh yeh that makes soooo much sense
Ahh that machina is amazing, same with the dbz one. Glad you mentioned them
I live off dbza
Been watching loads of FFVII retrospectives these last few weeks, and this is certainly one of the best. Nit the longest or most un depth but perfect to listen to whilst cleaning the hampster out.
Great vid mate.
Side note: since you mentioned FFXVI I had to mention how aweful that game was. Boring, terrible combat that got boring after an hour, no customisation or magic system, boring characters, boring dialogue, boring sidequests....and what is the deal with that jump button.
I aim to bring enough to the table to put a smile on someone's face. If cleaning the hamster out again have a listen to the podcast. 8, 10 and 7 covered so far
Good video. Your experience with the game mirrors my own as we're around the same age, also having recently been introduced to anime before playing the game for the first time. Still get chills with that opener. FFVII has to be my most influential game. It sent me on a path of JRPGs in the late 90s, early 2000s; a dragon I'm still chasing. No game has ever quite captured the feeling I got going through the first reactor of FFVII for the first time. It was a different world, which, much like Sephiroth, I sat in my little bubble waiting to absorb to its fullest.
I like the dragon we are still chasing. All I can say is thank god for the podcast as I play gems I have never played before like the dragon quest series
I was also stuck at the slums.
Ha ha I'm so glad I have been proved I'm not the only one
I’d love to see your opinion on rebirth. I personally love it
I am currently on the boat. Liking it so far but I have just been distracted by podcast games
Square came out and confirmed its pronounced Kate Sith, and not ketchi.
Yeh I saw that. I think they are telling porkies
Hell yea dude! VIIIs still better though lol😂. Fun watch man.
You......you.....next you'll star ocean is a masterpiece
Ahhh the FF7 Retrospective. A rite of passage for all aspiring gaming vloggers.
Thought it would be a good time as the podcast covered it for episode 100
good video. FF7 was formative for me as it was for millions of teens who experienced it when it dropped. it made me drop the n64 and move the PSX (and i'm very thankful for that alone, lol). My biggest note about the video though is that you should really show stuff on screen that corresponds to what you're talking about. i know, it takes time to edit, but you made a gushing 1hr video essay and it's so hard to follow visually because it is usually unrelated gameplay footage on screen. this is mostly an issue at the beginning as you do do this later one in the video..... when you're talking about the character design, show the sketches on screen! mentioned the Sony/Nintendo partnership? show the SNES PS addon, Nintendo/Phillips? Show the Zelda CDi games! Ruby/Emerald, etc etc.
good luck and keep it up! i look forward to checking more of your stuff out.
PS i hated FF7R, what a disaster.
I only drink so much red bull to keep the creative juices following. You should hear the podcast, that is just jingles a plenty
Squall is a complex character as well.
Real life me - accepts the trauma he went through
Online persona - baby
You lose me about 10 minutes in when you describe Squall as 'just a dick' before immediately explain how Cloud grows as a character, learning to let others in and the value of friends when Squall goes on that exact same journey. He too learns those same lessons.
It honestly comes across like you've either never played FF8 or that you weren't paying attention when you did, and is such a "hur hur i'm so edgy" take on the game, that i'm just not going to bother watching the rest of the video, or any other videos on your channel. There's plenty to complain about in FF8, but complaining that the main character is 'just a dick' while completely ignoring his entire character arc is just a big miss.
As I have said in the comments before, real me understands the impact of trauma and the lack of attachment without their birth family
Online me.. he is a bitch
@@RetroWarsuk hey man, you do you. It just sucks that it feeds a common idea that Squall starts out as an aloof loner and ends that way when his entire arc, like Cloud's (and Lighting's perhaps unsurprisingly given her status as an expie) is to grow into a more fully rounded person as their respective games roll on.
"It introduced the west to jrpgs" 🤔
Well....me and my mates
For FCs sake is it so hard to find a video that is a retrospective strictly on just the game play and story?? I don’t need a full history of what was going on with PlayStation and Nintendo at the time 🤦♂️
Ha ha I did a bit because the story is just a mess. When I do ff8, I am going through the whole story
@@RetroWarsuk I agree that the story is a mess lol That’s why I’ve been looking for a video that recaps it in simple terms. Even when I played the game back on the PS1, I recall feeling that the story was a mess. After seeing dozens of UA-cam videos attempt to recap the story, I’m just left with further proof of what a mess the story is 😂
However, the music is excellent, and the cutscenes were revolutionary for their time. Despite this, I still believe the game is often overrated due to nostalgic sentiments and its association with a simpler era for many fans. Objectively I don’t rank it as high on my top 5 FF games as your average FF Stan does.
The remakes are a refreshing retelling of the story with modern graphics and gameplay mechanics but I can’t deny how much I hate that it’s being released in installments which force players to make three or four different purchases over the span of years when it’s all said and done. Makes it feel like players are now forced into a money trap just to play a remake of a game that originally gave you the entire story with just one purchase.
@@silverslider562 oh they trapped my balls a long time ago. Even my wife can't get them out
@@RetroWarsuk Same 😂 Square Enix has all our balls in a vice grip. Being a FF fan in the 2020’s is a mixture of pleasure and unfortunately also pain.
@@silverslider562I agree certainly much more pain
This is the best game out in my opinion …. The music alone is epic
The music is god like!!!!
The part about how old Cid is had me rolling 🤡🍿
It had me crying
Haha I got stuck on that same stupid bit in midgar with the metal hand and plank. When I left I'd killed so much stuff I had climhazard 😂
Omg welcome to the club. You sir have the worst story for sure.
Getting your full game worth took me 2 years to get everything in the game and beat all the super bosses one of the best we will see rebirth soon for ps5
This is why I don't buy good clothes....you get more use out of a game
The ad was epic.
To be fair I would have bought the game just from that
The buster sword was clouds as it was given to him. That's how that works. Can't really belong to Angeal or Zack since they're spoiler McSpoiler. Your house doesn't belong to the first person to ever live in it for example.
Yeh but can you pick up your house with muscles like a twig
I love that you mentioned ff7 machine abridged. In my opinion it is the #2 ff media of all time only behind the original ff7 game.
It is hilarious. Just got Barret and red alone
forget JRPGs, this game introduced me to RPGs as a genre. before it, i had no idea what an RPG was
To be fair yeh I should have said that you're right
Hilarious, I also missed that pipe in the slums back in like 1999, running around for hours losing my mind 😂😂😂
Ha ha join the club. Try the sonic video next. Ff8 coming very soon
Jesus, you only have a few hundred subs and 3 videos. Your videos are extremely well done, i expected your channel to be a lot bigger from the quality of your video. Id say its only a myter of time. Is this your first channel ?
I did have a channel back in the day but this is now gonna be hopefully my career one
Great video but there is a point that you made that I would like to fact check you on.
You said that Mario 64's 3D levels took up more space than a location in FF7. Mario 64 fit on an 8MB cartridge and its levels were primarily made up of extremely compressed textures placed on top of simple geometric shapes to make a level. These textures were mostly repeated and reused across various levels to keep level sizes down.
FF7 similarly used simple geometric 3D shapes to build a basic boundary for a 'screen'. These shapes were then coloured green and were chroma keyed out. They were then replaced with a high quality (for the time) pre-rendered background which occasionally had various frames to create animation. There is arguably more texture work in one scene in FF7 than there is across the entirety of Mario 64.
Well then sir, I stand corrected. I have limited knowledge on how technology actually works apart from Windows 95.
That same EXACT PLACE had me stumped for a long time..
PRAISE JESUS 🙏
You deserve more subs
Thanks buddy, maybe one day. As long as people like the content, I'm happy
Didn't need to shit on FF8... and then come up with complete GUFF about Zack and Cloud (from the OG).
Have a listen to the podcast episode of ff8. I'm nice about it...a bit
personally I wouldn't mind a "here all day" video.
hahahaha my wife would hate me if I did that. If you want more, listen to the podcast
Very well done & Chill video on the Best F**** Game ever🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks alot. I decided to branch out from the podcast
Cloud is not an emo edgelord like a lot of people think he is. He's just got a dry sense of humor. There are plenty of times in the game where he jokes around or laughs. Even in the remake, he's just really dry and all business. You can get a sense he's just really confused.
Personally, I feel as though he still feels inferior for never having gotten into SOLDIER, even though as "Zack-Cloud" he thinks he did. My guess it's a suppressed memory that is creeping forward.
But yeah, this emo Cloud nonsense has to stop.
The true emo edge lord is squall
I like Cait Sith. His “sacrifice” at the temple of the ancients was stupid and anticlimactic buti enjoyed him the rest of the time. Younger me was really drawn to his double agent aspect.
Yeh the sacrifice always made me laugh on playing it again
To be fair, Tifa drew most teenage boys in at that time 🤣
@@MikeKat11 no idea why
@@RetroWarsukit’s always been a mystery
Hell yeah
Brother
Imagine how many cartridges we would need to play FF7 on N64 lol
They are still manufacturing them as we speak
"FF7 cid is the best in the franchise"
Cries in ff16 Cid noises.
ff7 is the best :P shhhh
Honestly I don't consider sephirof the villain of the story. Jenova is the real villain of this game.
Nah I reckon its sephy, I think J could have been but Sephy took over it's will
@@RetroWarsuk everything traces back to her tho. She wiped out the cetra, caused the northern crater which the planet was still healing from millennias later, and her cells manipulated sephirof and even cloud.
Final fantasy 7 my favorite the original of course. As for Remake isn't bad but the story will change I just wonder how many parts.
Damn the black hoody people
they look soo different in the remake
Tifa's 'fists', I know, such a change
You forgot dolphin whistling
Oh there is so much I missed
You never played FF6, BoF2, Mana or Chrono Trigger? Feelsbadmen.
Mega Drive didn't have many good rpgs.
Listen to the podcast my friend. Your question is answered
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO ALSO CANT STAND AERITH!
Let her burn
it's aeris. fight me
I will fight!!! and I will win
The only game that can beat this or come close to it is final fantasy 6 or some of the stellar dragon quest games...
I have been going through for the dragon quest games for the podcast, I have so far done 1 - 4
@@RetroWarsuk 7-8-9-10 are my favorite even though I started with Dragon warrior the 80's and 90's were best IMO it gave imagination with pixels👍
Mattra magic rockz
Oh god yeh I forgot to go through enemy skills