“Cause he’s Hojo dude, he’s crazy” I feel like that explains just about half of the story honestly

@chaosstorm8307

2 жыл бұрын

We can't fire him he has tenure

@Nod_Lucario

2 жыл бұрын

"Ohhhh, you wanna know whyyy? Because this! Is! My! Fffffffffetish! *maniacal laughter*"

@MG64OdysseyProductions

2 жыл бұрын

true dat

@taramaforhaikido7272

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nod_Lucario People have waged wars for less. Pretty realistic in that light. Says something of humanity doesn't it?

@duongbaoanhkhoa3147

2 жыл бұрын

Is it wrong to laugh when hearing that line 🐧

The clashing themes of "protect the earth, don't pollute" and "if you dig a deep enough hole you can get superpowers" sits heavily on my mind.

@JahLordNolan

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it goes a layer deeper. Digging a hole deep enough to get super powers isn’t worth destroying the world over. Just be content with who you are and take care of your environment

@frostatine

2 жыл бұрын

@@JahLordNolan No, that's what you tell people to convince them not to compete with you for superpowers.

@cringekid07

2 жыл бұрын

@@frostatine hey you want to split the superpowers?

@frostatine

2 жыл бұрын

@@cringekid07 Only one of us gets out of the hole alive, let's not pretend here.

@kyzersoze8408

2 жыл бұрын

Hey share with me some of that powers. Cause someone needs to make sure you guys are dealt with if (when) you guys loose your sanity.

I appreciate how you explained Cloud's first story as a combination of trauma and brain damage from unethical experiments rather than him deliberately lying. I don't know why so many people feel like it was all a conscious lie and Cloud actively knew the truth the whole time; if he had, he would have realized Tifa would have remembered things completely differently and wouldn't have tried to lie.

@thejonbrownshow8470

11 ай бұрын

I mean like at first, anyone would consider him a unreliable narrator, but by the time he's in the wheelchair, I feel like no one should think he was just pretending to be a gigachad

@JoeKing-lv5rf

7 ай бұрын

Play crisis core... He was literally put in a vial of mako energy by Hojo... Zack carries him around constantly talking to him while he's poisoned leading to him to pick up Zacks traits... Mako's weird like that..... Lol.

@zach1972

5 ай бұрын

​@@JoeKing-lv5rfHow many years was he in that as well, 4 right? 4 years while his mind is still in a developmental stage

@mac2637

5 ай бұрын

Never heard of anyone saying cloud knowingly lied but go off sis

@JoeKing-lv5rf

5 ай бұрын

@@zach1972 for years yea lol he weren't just dipped in 😂 crisis core goes deeper into how maco works too tho.

11:21 "but Tifa points out all the plot holes so it's deemed non-canon" That's legit the funniest way to explain that part possible

@doctorfate585

7 ай бұрын

I don’t understand, what’s the meaning of that ??? Can u explain to me please

@MrPonikata

7 ай бұрын

​@@doctorfate585she doesn't remember Cloud being in Sephiroth's party back at Nibelheim

@drownthepoor

3 ай бұрын

@@MrPonikata She never explains that until far later in the game though. She plays along for his explanation at Kalm, and the only thing she disputes is "Did you go into my room?" and then he finds something called "Orthopedic Underwear" in her room and she says "that never happened" to which he replies "I swear it's true!" or "Okay I'm just playing".

@tmvfan12

3 ай бұрын

Thats what i was saying. Because if Tifa did mention those broken plot points, Cloud wouldve had a mental breakdown in Kalm

@roninjoey

Ай бұрын

@@doctorfate585she’s the one who knows what’s actually going on but she never says anything until the end

"Unfortunately nothing good ever lasts for our boy Zack." Right in the feels man....

@manganna3904

2 жыл бұрын

That hurt me too

@MarshallXeno

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah...

@kimdracula1995

2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P

@adamslaport7901

2 жыл бұрын

The life and times of a secondary NPC.

@chriwehl7173

2 жыл бұрын

The lifestream just kept swinging. And the only one of his friends to get a good outcome is genesis... probably.

I like the headcanon that sepiroths comically long sword is called "natural causes."

@doomsoul9096

2 жыл бұрын

Hey if the government has to looks a the causes of death for large groups of deaths, it’s just, ya know, “natural causes” not anything strange, like I don’t know, a sword.

@stealthlock6634

2 жыл бұрын

That’s too epic to be a headcanon. You gotta make an original character with a weapon outright named Natural Causes, for both the epic factor and the joke factor

@thatonegaminglatias4345

2 жыл бұрын

Shame it's actually called Masamune. Much cooler but way less funny. Therefore, my head canon is that Sephiroth nicknames his sword Natural Causes.

@bigbubba7899

2 жыл бұрын

Technically being killed by sephiroth’s sword is natural, steel comes from the earth (plus a lot of purification and stuff) and technically bleeding is also natural, therefore, it is natural causes

@thatonegaminglatias4345

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigbubba7899 Unless the sword was formed from the ground without artificial intervention, it was man-made.

A few things to mention: Jenova is heavily inspired by John carpenters movie The Thing, which features a shape-shifting alien. Sephiroth and jenovas powers are not necessarily magic, but are a part of jenovas actual organic material. Jenova is a parasite that live by feeding off of the lifestreams of different planets. Sephiroths character and reasons are a little more complex than just "hey bro", but i get that it fit the video. Sephiroth sees jenova for what she is, and, lacking ultimate purpose and motivation for existence, sees his mother as a role model. It is not a good purpose, but sephiroth wants any purpose, and sees replacing his mother as a planet eating demon as better than nothing. He also envies cloud for having an origin and purpose, and toys with him as a sadistic outlet. Lastly, sephiroth stylized himself as an angel, because of his mother's physiology of one wing and his metaphoric ascent into godhood/divinity. He also doesn't realize that life is what you choose for yourself, and doesn't require you to follow a "destiny" or purpose, so he doesn't see any other choice.

@tyb.531

10 ай бұрын

There’s some headcanon mixed in though

@evanmurphy118

10 ай бұрын

You can still see some of that in the game, it's just more implicit. It provides logical reasoning for some of sephiroths actions. Sephiroth seems sullen and lonely in his actions before the nibelheim reactor. It makes sense Why he'd be upset after the discovery of the experiment pods, but why would he immediately go and start researching Jenova, and why would he immediately start thinking of her as his mother and start imitating her? You can say insanity, but he'd still need some driving reason, however irrational, to drive him to do what he does. Without this, sephiroth is just a 2d villain, which wouldn't make sense considering the cleverness of the rest of the story.

@byletheisner8269

7 ай бұрын

​@@evanmurphy118 when sephiroth began studying jenova for days on end in isolation after discovering the one thing he yearned for and thought about his whole life, his mother, was a monster, nobody did anything. zach saw the whole thing, yet nobody cared to actually wonder about his wellbeing or offer him any sort of support. /anything/. they knew what he was doing and where he was, but nobody cared. even beforehand, sephiroth was always alone. i think a lifetime of loneliness, no family, being an outcast and seeing horrible things, and then discovering something terrifying about yourself, and then STILL nobody caring, made him snap.

@KasumiRINA

5 ай бұрын

Seraphim have six wings usually, not one, though. Cherubim are the ones with four faces and four wings.

@evanmurphy118

5 ай бұрын

​@@KasumiRINA fair enough. I'll change that.

Clouds hair poking out of...everything is just *chefs kiss*

this whole game could've been avoided if vincent had just shot hojo back

@MelaniAlarcon

2 жыл бұрын

totally true! XD

@noahspencer5886

2 жыл бұрын

but... then we wouldn't be able to play the game.

@houseofmatrix6174

2 жыл бұрын

Factz

@morablaze486

2 жыл бұрын

Vincent’s appearance comes off as intimidating but irl he’s just a depressed Emo reminiscing on how his only true love dumped him for a mentally ill scientist

@kimdracula1995

2 жыл бұрын

So true

"However Hojo is still off his medication..." An excellent description and explanation for quite a few important events.

@waterchild_2310

Жыл бұрын

👍🤣

@ProjectRedfoot

11 ай бұрын

Classic Hojo! 😅😅😅

I love how you do the origin of why the lore exists first, and then you start with the game story. Seriously, that helps organize and follow these over cooked plots!I absolutely love you, simple explanations and jokes of these CRAZY convoluted stories. I have legit watched your videos on repeat. I'm hoping you tackle the Metal Gear Solid series! Please post more videos. I hope all is well in your life!

@KasumiRINA

5 ай бұрын

The lore is part of the game story it just starts in medias res (in the middle of the action, like Star Wars) and the story gets delivered in flashbacks, documents, witness testimony, and because the game is so big and so much stuff is optional (i.e. Sephiroth's real origins are explained by Vincent), it just gets drowned.

@darriusking2438

5 ай бұрын

@KasumiR IT really does get drowned. Personally, I never cared to learn more into loves, through documents in games or letters. When done right, it can be dam good storytelling while adding layers of background. But a lot of games and other types of media kinda use it as a cop out to throw things together and explain via text.

I didn't realize until you pointed it out, that Sephiroth could and was controlling Jenova. All of that text in the game over countless hours of grinding levels made it easy to forget a sentence or two! It all makes sense now how it just got out of the Shin'Ra HQ, murdering and leaving trails of blood along the way.

@HabitualThinker

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure that was a pretty big detail, sephiroth controlling jenova

@KirisutonoNeko

10 ай бұрын

@@HabitualThinker Was it always clear that Sephiroth was controlling Jenova instead of Jenova controlling Sephiroth?

@stephengould7726

10 ай бұрын

@@KirisutonoNeko I still think that it's ambiguous who is in control, and I think it's sort of intentionally left that way. The only thing I'll mention is that I don't personally think the human in Sephiroth was the kind of person to do what he did in Nibelheim. It was seen as a massive break of character by everyone that knew him. So I sort of think that at that time, Jenova somehow flipped a switch in Sephiroth and either essentially began controlling his actions, or at least in some way upped the influence of his Jenova part. But that's just my opinion

@haysnairte4

9 ай бұрын

​@@stephengould7726your answer fitted with the Naked lady alien pov, where Jenova was a controlled cetra infected by the alien, so does cloud, sadly. The reason why Jenova could transform into sephiroth only after 7 years past Nibelheim incident was because Jenova require another sentient subject awaken (cloud was the reason Jenova awoke, because he makes contact by peeking Jenova's chamber). Given that cloud was a puppet made by Hojo by injecting Cloud Jenova's cell, effectively made him the last Jenova Subject alive (Soldier).

@haysnairte4

9 ай бұрын

This would sum up why Cloud gives the Black Materia, raise his sword to aerith, flew to Sephiroth's real body at Northern crater and so on. And Jenova cells was the geostigma all this time

Aight, a few things that weren't already mentioned in comments: -The planet has a name and is called Gaia -Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells while still in the womb -Jenova was in Nibelheim so they could create soldiers/monsters in the reactor -Barret adopts Marlene because he thought Dyne was dead, not because he became unstable -You need a Keystone to get into the Temple of the Ancients, not another materia -The Black Materia isn't in the Temple, it IS the Temple. It shrinks because whoever is inside needs to solve a series of puzzles, which upon completing each one shrinks the Temple further, therefore killing whoever is inside. The Temple becomes small enough to be usable as a materia, but like...you're dead now -The snowboarding mini game is not fun that's just a fact -Specifically, Red is the one who gives Cloud the black materia in the crater because nobody else wanted to even touch it

@SuperKirumaru

2 жыл бұрын

I see you're a man of culture.

@stinalee3416

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperKirumaru This game has consumed so much of my brain real estate I'm wondering if it's a curse

@chaosstorm8307

2 жыл бұрын

You can also choose Barret to hold the black materia, him and Red 13 are the only ones that Cloud is allowed to give it to.

@ben1805

2 жыл бұрын

On that last part, at some point you start not trusting yourself so you’re given the option to give the Materia to another party member. For you that must have been Red because that’s who you chose to carry it

@astrius4125

2 жыл бұрын

The Gaia name is never used in-game. It's always called 'the planet' by every character.

I love how sepiroth is flustered at inviting cloud to his party.

@MrKodachii

2 жыл бұрын

Its not like I want you to be there or anything...baka

@dirkgoesfishing

2 жыл бұрын

i-idiot.. *awkwardly floats off screen*

@Redwizard26

2 жыл бұрын

@@dirkgoesfishing What I love is how accurate this.

@venti9925

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrKodachii don't think you're using baka right. But then again I'm actually Japanese and unaware of most of the dumb jokes that go on.

@MrKodachii

2 жыл бұрын

@@venti9925 That style of joke is used commonly, it is possible that the grammar placing is not correct. But people generally get the context because there is so little to actually translate.

For someone who didn't know much about the lore, just the overall picture, this was fantastic. I appreciate this and how funny it was and the lore is totally not confusing at times lol. Thank you

@ChaseKip

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

The animation of the Meteor meteria rolling off of Barret's arm made me laugh really hard. Great vid!

Something tells me that sephiroth wants cloud to come to his reunion

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

2 жыл бұрын

There will be potato salad.

@ArchieSB758

2 жыл бұрын

Same but idk, just a hunch

@ryanm.8720

2 жыл бұрын

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley And dis pear.

@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanm.8720 Absolutely, a reunion is never complete without dis pear.

@danielarputharaj9918

2 жыл бұрын

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley don't forget Sephiroth's favourite sweet, grape skittles

Clouds hair stabbing through his hat and helms is something I didn’t know I needed

I really enjoyed this. I’ve played through FFVII, Crisis Core, and even Dirge of Cerberus, and watched Advent Children a million times and still never know what’s happening. Breaking it down like this was very helpful. I wish we could get more videos like this.

This has got to be my favorite FFVII plot explanation video. I love watching it whenever I need a memory refresher (and I'm always quoting the stuff about Hojo for some reason). Good news, the next part of the remake is coming this winter and I can't wait to see what you'll do!

Red XIII was captured by Shinra because of his very long lifespan. Hojo was planning to breed him with Aerith to create an ancient with a long lifespan. It's not said clearly, but it is strongly implied, although you would probably miss this if you were a kid when playing the game.

@RIELTURO

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they didn't had the balls to put that in the remake. They said with soldiers candidates instead

@spongekupo

2 жыл бұрын

From what i remember... He only mentioned that each were the last of their species and needed to be preserved. I never got the "breeding" vibe until TFS made a joke about it on FF7 abridged haha

@ThunderGenesis

2 жыл бұрын

Also, Red is a CANINE, not a FELINE.

@spongekupo

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThunderGenesis He seems to have a cat body and dog head but he barks and howls so i guess dog it is.

@BlackfangDragon

2 жыл бұрын

@@RIELTURO No matter what its Hojo being creepy

An important point is that when Sephiroth is explaining to Cloud what "really" happened in Nibelheim, *Sephiroth doesn't actually know* what really happened. He's just extrapolating based off of the consequences he saw at the reactor. This is important because he assumes that Cloud was a puppet who was just following him around, and that idea led him to overconfidence in his control of Cloud that is eventually exploited. It's a key plot point that explains why Sephiroth's entire plan unravels because of toying with Cloud.

This is so good. The detailed explanation while also being a little tongue in cheek about how goofy some aspects of the story are. Chefs kiss 💋

@ChaseKip

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

@emmadilemma5274

Ай бұрын

Now every time hojo comes on screen in my game I say "because he's hojo, he's crazy" in your voice to myself/no one lol

ayy bro, dude you MADE my morning with this. I believe I was blessed by some Higher Power to have experienced this as ONE of the FIRST games I ever played, back on my older brothers PlayStation with the disc cleaner and the cords and gray controllers....ahhh man, now I am 31, but I am so grateful homies like you create content like this. Incredibly entertaining for any audience, but those few little inside "you-were-there-so-you-know" jokes throughout the video, I felt like I was back with my old friends, feeling superior to all in our nerdy inside knowledge of the game hahaha Thank you homie, you got me to subscribe!

The Sephiroth "akwardly flying offscreen" is actually somewhat accurate lmao

You forgot about the part where Sephiroth T-poses on aerith after he kills her. Because he's crazy.

@pantherman8719

2 жыл бұрын

Lmfaoo

@ProjectTony

2 жыл бұрын

He does more of a capital Y pose than a T pose.

@ryanm.8720

2 жыл бұрын

"OH MY GOD! Who the hell is Aerith?" - Cloud, Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening

@dryhusk2044

2 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or does sephiroth and cloud looks like giorno

@lolthispoops9147

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectTony praise the sun

I can’t be the only one getting unreasonably irritated about “centra”, right?

@UnsentBigby

Ай бұрын

Make-o.

Also there’s a theory that aerith wasn’t all the way dead when they buried her, since dead bodies tend to float, and the location of the stab wound didn’t kill her, but the deceptively deep pool did 😅

@viella90

Жыл бұрын

Cloud accidentally drowning Aerith is hilarious

@verdessence

Жыл бұрын

aerith pranking their friends into thinking shes dead cloud drowns her without knowing it was a joke

@JoeKing-lv5rf

7 ай бұрын

Bruh... The sword went straight though her poking out the other end, and why are so many murdered bodies thrown in the sea?

@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii4222

3 ай бұрын

Dead bodies may float eventually but it's not like: you dead, float mode activated. 🥴

@eldritchcupcakes3195

3 ай бұрын

@@JoeKing-lv5rfbecause the sea is big, and as for the sword this comment is a joke

When Cloud drops the black materia onto Barret's gun arm and it just rolls off...I'm dying, dude. Well done.

Oh my gosh he’s back. These makes my day every 4 months.

@ChaseKip

2 жыл бұрын

Ayyy thanks! i appreciate it and am glad you enjoy the videos!

@yessersonyessuroni9496

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaseKip Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: Explained

@obesemomkod7018

2 жыл бұрын

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@michialphelps2339

2 жыл бұрын

Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.

This was a very good explanation. There were always some things about final fantasy vii that I couldn't piece together. Now things kinda make sense

This is my new favorite youtube channel. Thank you for your hard work.

Red wasn’t supposed to become a sephiroth clone - his species has incredible longevity (he’s like 50 in the game, which is the human equivalent of 12) and so Hojo wanted to breed him with Aerith to try to create a Cetra who could essentially live “forever”…long enough to withstand their testing

@ayayron8221

Жыл бұрын

For a supposed genius scientist Hojo sure is one stupid mf if he thinks that’s how crossbreeding works lol

@SanyaBane

Жыл бұрын

Oh, so rule34 with Red and Aerith is nearly a canon?

@justafan9206

Жыл бұрын

@@SanyaBane ¿Que?

@Randompersonthatcommentss

Жыл бұрын

Oh nah 😂😂😂😂😂🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

@Noplayster13

11 ай бұрын

@@SanyaBane If cloud & co had arrived and hour late, Aerith would have had dog-girl puppies. Oof…

It’s a damn shame Sephiroth never came across Vincent’s coffin in the shinra mansion and got all the answers of his origin.

@ceauxkane6266

10 ай бұрын

He has bigger fish to fry at that point 😂

@presidentjenkins6480

10 ай бұрын

Lol even if he did come across him it wouldn’t change nothin ion think

@DmitrySholokhov

8 ай бұрын

that's what not doing sidequests do to ya

@eldritchcupcakes3195

3 ай бұрын

@@DmitrySholokhovskipped the “look into locked room” side quest and now he’s locked into the bad ending

@NECROMAGICIAN666

2 ай бұрын

@@presidentjenkins6480it would have changed everything

Dude, this really made my day.

This is incredibly well done. A difficult story to tell without being the one who played it, but you made it very lucid! Subbed.

Just some clarifications: 1 - Jenova takes the form of the host they are infecting, she didn't arrive as a naked lady, at the time of its imprisonment Jenova had the form of a naked cetra lady. 2 - Sephiroth went mad a Nibelheim because he thought Jenova was an Ancient and therefore he too was an Ancient.

@sefirotsgame

2 жыл бұрын

He also went mad because he was too close to Jenova, so she started to control him to release her and help her; the same happened to Cloud every time he faced Jenova, because of her cells.

@nicholasgeere5125

2 жыл бұрын

also i dont think barret founded avalanche, pretty sure he just joined

@ikeillue8385

2 жыл бұрын

There are a whole lot more than 2 clarifications. IE, for a huge part of the game its not Sephiroth you see, its Jenova. You don't actually see Sephiroth in the current timeline until Northern Crater. Also, clarification specifically on 'number 2' Sephiroth went mad, because he had everything he ever believed shattered, but it wasn't specifically that which made him go mad. That caused cracks in his psyche, which Jenova was then able to force its way into to manipulate Sephiroth. Jenova had been in a dormant state, and Sephiroth was the first time enough of Jenova had been active in something to, for lack of a better term, wake Jenova up, but Sephiroth's will was too strong for Jenova to control, up until that point.

@krauserduke1234

2 жыл бұрын

Further clarification: the plot actually has nothing to do with 'Sephiroth clones', they're numbered Hojo experiments infused with Jenova cells. That was just poor translation/plot changes made to the westernized OG FF7.

@piyo744

2 жыл бұрын

@@ikeillue8385 Further clarification: Sephiroth actually controls Jenova, not the other way around.

I have played ff7 several times since my childhood, but never clearly understand the whole story. Thank you for the simple and fun video

@mrlefern4167

Жыл бұрын

XD so now with the New ff7 remake its much more complicated

@dinoflagella4185

Жыл бұрын

It made more sense if you also played dirge of cerebus and ff7 crisis core.

@MasterYoda389

Жыл бұрын

@@dinoflagella4185 it makes even more sense if you watch all the harry potter films

@darkoale3299

Жыл бұрын

@@MasterYoda389 This is the way

@juanca2567

Жыл бұрын

I still don’t understand one thing, why does everyone hate Cait Sith? Is it bad stats, terrible writing, or tacky design?

I love your humor and story telling. It is detailed.

Decent summary. Minor correction: *Cetra*, not "Centra". Would've been cool to see Vincent burst out into his Dirge-of-Ceberus Gargoyle-form when the narrator says "experimented on", and/or mention that he eventually is found by Cloud in a locked-up coffin in the basement of a Nibelheim estate (since AC/DoC/and everything else since the original makes finding, and keeping, Vincent and Yuffie as canon), and also that Lucrecia is talked to, whilst living as a female hermit (hermitess? spinster?) behind a waterfall in the middle of nowhere. Red XIII was the (almost; per Advent Children) "last" remaining descendant of another ancient race of powerful talking animals that had an affinity for guarding the planet and was kept for study out of similar curiosity for the past. Possibly -- knowing Doctor Fraudc-, er, MojoHojo feeling spurned by the attention Professor X gave the Powerpuff Girls -- for artificial repopulation of his species....not quite as real a repopulation as it would be naturally, in the wild. OH, and it would've also have been cool to expound a bit more on Crisis Core, in saying that the Buster Sword that Zack Faire gives Cloud Strife originally belonged to Angeal Hewley, something a pre-Cloud mentor to a younger Zack and even mentor and rival to a pre-crazed Sephiroth, when the local crazy-of-the-month/year was a wannabe poet-samurai named Genesis Rhapsody, partly responsible for Lucrecia blaming herself for said death of the father of a younger Vincent when he was part of the Turks, long before objecting to MojoHojo's machinations and idiosyncrasies. Producer's call on whether or not Before Crisis story/Turk backstory content is worth fleshing out. Original was only ever on select Sprint flip-phones that very few played, regardless of mobile gaming not ever taking off in the States as compared to across the Pacific in the "East". Same with whether or not the "vegetative state" clones in the original/Remake(s) are a combination of the three wannabe-Sephiroths in Advent Children or not (clarification on that?), or if those just came out of nowhere at that point in time for that particular "Reunion" (of those containing similar cells). Also would've liked the Don Corneo storyline included....with sexy Aeris/Aerith and Tifa illustrations! =) 11:55 in with the blushing cheeks on Sephiroth and party hats on the clones was lit AF! Reeve IS a total Chad, btw! Polycentric Law and private security firm "World Regensis Organization" to the rescue with Shinra's new management! 16:09 in, Aw, come on! Aerith' death was/is one of "the" seminal video game "moments" in history! (Loved how the materia falls off Barrett's gatling-arm, btw; but the "optimal" character set-up for the final boss battle is Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cloud, not only because they are the most powerful characters in-game, but also because two of the three were/are Turks, responsible for SOLDIERS, and one cosplayed as one for most of the game and showing up a real SOLDIER that hurt him and his friends is kind of the whole "Gohan-beats-Cell"/Ash-beats-Gary main character focus. Tifa's a cowgirl-bartender, Barrett's crippled, Red XIII is a dog/wolf or cat/tiger/lion, Yuffie is a little girl who thinks she's a ninja, and Cid is a chainsmoking mechanic. They can stay behind and fight the sub-final-boss in the "get everyone on the card" match, this player will take the Chad-magic-wielding robot with a Scottish accent, the real life Bat-man, and spiky-haired Tsundere who can lift swords bigger than his torso and has the most backstory and trauma any day! 17:42 in, respectifully disagree! The planet-summoned "WEAPONS" are a pivotal part of the broader FF7 storyline and are the Jurassic Park 1 Jeff Goldblum character moment, whereby "Life (Nature)....finds a way", and Nature overpowering Nurture. Humans concerned more with genetic- and social-engineering try to rebuke these Godzillas with technology, but are barely half-successful before needing to rely on the Nature-loving main cast to settle down the overreaction by the body, er, planet, as to not exhaust itself to death with these white blood cells, er, "WEAPONS". "Hojo turns green"....like he said "yuh wouldn't like him when he's angry!" LOVE how the spiky hairstyle exudes past headgear in the animation! =) But where's the Knights of the Round materia and chocobo breeding and racing??? *Old Egoraptor summary ending voice from Newgrounds* "...And that's why it's the best game ever!"

I love how clouds hair pierces every hat he wears

The worst case scenario happens "Another Cait Sith appears"

@Banana-vu3rf

2 жыл бұрын

It is the worse case scenario

@joaocouto6237

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually horrible

@taramaforhaikido7272

2 жыл бұрын

NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028

2 жыл бұрын

If only aerith could use that plot convience power

@thomaz6996

2 жыл бұрын

still don't understand how did it happened

Such a great explanation. Played OG 20 years ago, I totally forgot the story and I missed many parts because I didn't ingest what was happening well. This video clearly explains the whole saga, and it shows how brilliant the story is.

I am so glad I discovered your channel! This is amazing content 😂❤

The "because he's Hojo and he's crazyyy" has me dead every time 😂😂 That man is both smart and fucked in the head lol

@JJSSBU

2 жыл бұрын

That exact phrase kinda reminds me of Crazy Dave from PvZ: "Because I'm CRAZY" - Crazy Dave -

@tehSunBro

2 жыл бұрын

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. " Oscar Levant

@taramaforhaikido7272

2 жыл бұрын

If you're not fucked in the head then you're not smart. Trust me on this one. In order to understand the worst you have to know it. Even take pleasure in it. The alternative is worse. If you don't enjoy what you do then you really will go insane. Hojo's enjoying himself. Knowing full well what he does. That makes him quite logical and rational. Don't think he even cares about paradise. Probably just wants to see what what he does to learn from it. If it costs you then so be it. He's not obligated to care. Nor is anyone giving him a reason too. At least not that we see in game. So when an evil cooperation offers to hire you then what else is he going to do? People that judge him, look down on him. They may as well have offered him to that cooperation.

THE LORD OF HILARIOUSLY WELL-EXPLAINED AND OK-LY DRAWN GAMES IS BACK

@ultleo839

2 жыл бұрын

its good-ly drawn games

@michaelsterling8422

2 жыл бұрын

His drawings are immaculate

@obesemomkod7018

2 жыл бұрын

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@xeroslade4691

2 жыл бұрын

I am glad he is back

@TheBanishedWind

2 жыл бұрын

The drawings are cool, but well-explained? ... Uhh...

I like the fact you put in the detail of zack using the dull side of the buster sword.

Wow that was very well explained! Thanks for the video!

Lot of important details that need to be mentioned: * Jenova isn't actually the woman with the heart/umbilical cord growing out of her. That is actually a cetra that Jenova infected and uses as a host. The actual Jenova is the microorganisms in the host, which are more like the "The Thing" from John Carpenter's interpretation of the classic horror story "Who Goes There?", a collection of alien microorganisms capable of a form of parasitism and mimicry, imitating other life forms by consuming them, copying their genetic material, and integrating it into its own, and then morphing into the form of the creature they consumed in order to better hunt and consume prey. * It is suspected that Hojo first began experimenting with Jenova cells on himself, infecting himself with the alien parasite, which resulted in him becoming mad, because Jenova has a form of telepathy that affects anyone infected with her cells and allows her to influence them. In effect, Jenova has a form of mind control/persuasion similar to the Reaper Indoctrination of the Mass Effect games. * This form of Telepathic Influence/Partial Mind Control also explains why Sephiroth went mad, because he has a high content of Jenova cells within him and getting exposed to Jenova directly affected them and through them, him.

@elspethwilliams9663

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks

@princesstheadorablecat

2 жыл бұрын

This ∆

@InnerFire6213

2 жыл бұрын

something like 'that isn't Jenova, that's Jenova's monster'

@jonathanferguson7791

2 жыл бұрын

where's the sauce for "that is an infected cetra woman"

@jonathanferguson7791

2 жыл бұрын

In all the published media that I can find, while it is stated Jenova infiltrated the cetra, taking on their form... it does not state explicity that it took a male or female form. While it could be extrapolated or suggested that, that IS the reason it has that female figure it may not be definitive proof or the actual reason.

You forgot the best part of the game where palmer is hit by a truck

@badmeetsevil6163

2 жыл бұрын

One of the reasons why I can't take FF7 seriously...

@dayven4424

2 жыл бұрын

Palmer is fine, just got isekai'ed

@obesemomkod7018

2 жыл бұрын

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@xeroslade4691

2 жыл бұрын

True

@OriginalRonald

2 жыл бұрын

THEY BETTER ADD THAT IN THE REMAKE LMAO

Amazing video mate. Great work.

The planet is called Gaia

Man, Hojo must be fun at parties.

I like how about 5% of this story got through to me while playing the game, but the overall themes and mystery of everything made the story very compelling.

@drownthepoor

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I started this game when I was like 10, and I think I beat it at around 13. I was pretty confused, but I told myself I understood because I had beaten the game.

I watched a lot of summaries, and I liked this one too. I liked your cognate style

This was amazing! So easy to digest. Thank you!

However, Tifa does not actually point out anything. She doesn't confront Cloud. She keeps to herself, and his story is taken for granted by the group, and by the player. Tifa's psychology is a key component of the story, as she alone holds the truth at that point and chooses to hide it from everybody .

@iangoforth6505

Жыл бұрын

Yea, that's where I stopped the video. After a bunch of small issues that one stuck out to me.

@djedirashakim6883

Жыл бұрын

She's a woman, that's what they do and their reactions or lack thereof is the typical reality.

@zarasyed2045

Жыл бұрын

@@djedirashakim6883 Bro what? 😭✋️

@WannaComment2

Жыл бұрын

Tifa doesn't actually know what is going on either. When Could came back to Nibelheim as a military scrub he was wearing his faceless henchmen outfit the entire time and never revealed himself to anybody in his hometown out of embarrassment. So all Tifa sees is that Cloud has some weirdly specific memories of events that he wasn't actually present for, all from the perspective of Zack, whom is somebody she actually met. She never brings it up with the party because she didn't want to make her childhood friend look like a lunatic. And she doesn't figure out that Cloud was one of the faceless henchmen until they drop into the live stream and explore his jumbled memories together.

@nofoxtugiv

Жыл бұрын

@@djedirashakim6883 incel much?

Honestly I feel like the music in FF7 is at least 50% of why the game is so captivating - the music makes me cry to this day, even something like the standard battle theme has such a powerful story to it

@jonrixbus

Жыл бұрын

Yes Nobuo Uematsu is a musical genius. I also can't get enough of the music in ff7, it's truly emotional and magical for me

@Sing4DLaughter

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree pal! I have a music channel with lofi covers from a lot of ff7 ost, i think you would appreciate. I invite you to check it… 👊🏻

@Danielle_1234

Жыл бұрын

Yep. In Japan an orchestra performed a concert playing the FF7 songs. I ended up with a recording of the CD and I've got to say it's easily the best mastering of the FF7 music. It's hard to explain how well done it is. It's not over the top or massively changed, it's just good, really emotionally good. If you like how symphonic / orchestral music enhances a story, checkout the anime Made In Abyss. It's got some of the best music in any media I've seen in a while. It's spectacular.

@MasterYoda389

Жыл бұрын

@@Danielle_1234 Ahh made in abyss...... Watch your elbows !

@Tjsmpsn

Жыл бұрын

The fucking boss music is the best

You are so good at doing this, man. Keep it up. Do the advent children as well.

out of all the timeline or recap videos that i hav watch about FF7, this is the best 1 yet!

Ff7’s story sounds so weird on paper, but really amazing in game

@al-hilalgames5708

2 жыл бұрын

The music brainwashes you. Just replace the BGM with something more generic and boring and see if the story holds up.

@wi11ow8

2 жыл бұрын

@@al-hilalgames5708 i mean the music is there to not look better, but help the already imerised player more

@ilikestuff9250

2 жыл бұрын

You just described everything ever History sounds insane on paper, books, comics, games, manga, anime, VN's all sound insane in theory but it's rhe writing that makes em worthwhile. That and music, visuals etc

@liammcnicholas918

2 жыл бұрын

Then there's Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus, and FF7 Remake just throws all that out the window

@wi11ow8

2 жыл бұрын

@@liammcnicholas918 thats true lmao

The materia rolling off Barret's "arm" made me choke on my dinner.

This is awesome. Haven't played and watched this fully since like 1998. Every attempt aftewards I ignored the story. Great to wrap this all up right to the point.

Any chance u can make a video for the rest of yhe fantasy series? Love ur work btw

I thought they were called the Cetra, and Centra was from FFVIII.

@zetomax5249

2 жыл бұрын

They are. Idk why he thought that

@LtCdrXander

2 жыл бұрын

Either he did it on purpose to be funny or he just got the two names mixed up, idk

@n0ctiz456

2 жыл бұрын

It is cetra

@ultragoat95

2 жыл бұрын

also said mako wrong

@LtCdrXander

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultragoat95 I think "Mah-ko" and "May-ko" are both acceptable pronunciations.

“But Tifa points out all the plot holes in his fan fiction so he’s deemed non-canon”. Can’t stop laughing!!!!! Great video mate!!!

I remember first seeing my college buddy playing it back in like 98' or so. He was actually fighting Hojo at the Sister Ray and trying his best to explain the story while trying to beat him

actually ''the naked alien lady '' was not jenova .... jenova was an alien organism,which infected a female ancient and used her corpse as host. the host body is how the player sees Jenova , as ''naked alien -lady '' hope this explanation helps :P

@Sing4DLaughter

Жыл бұрын

Great explanation… 👊🏻

@nickwhite2160

Жыл бұрын

And she has to be naked. Um sir...why naked? You're fired 🤣.

@Kspice9000

Жыл бұрын

That I actually did not know. I for some reason remember a cutscene of roboalien lady falling from sky.

@CaptainFalcoyd

Жыл бұрын

No, that's also wrong. Jenova is a shape-shifting organism that instinctively mimics the lifeforms it encounters. The ancients describe it as looking like their lost loved ones. The female form taken by the main body is one of those mimicries. That's also how Cloud ends up thinking he's Zack, because the Jenova cells inside him attempt to copy Zack.

@Sing4DLaughter

Жыл бұрын

@@CaptainFalcoyd interesting

btw, Safer Sephiroth is a mistranslation. His ACTUAL name is "Seraph Sephiroth" as in Seraphim.

@onceuponarevenant9409

2 жыл бұрын

Make sense,

@sptrasmasa

2 жыл бұрын

But in German version it is Retter-Sephiroth which mean Savior Sephiroth (which sounds actually make sense than seraph)

@pantherman8719

2 жыл бұрын

Any of them are better than Safer-Sephiroth. I felt like it was a play on words because he's floating and unless you got that reach materia basic melee attacks didn't work.

@nix.i

2 жыл бұрын

wasn't it supposed to be sepher sephiroth? which means 'book of numerations'

@jamesbarthelemy5926

2 жыл бұрын

This makes sense. But the name Sephiroth is already So close to .... Wait ... Was his name meant to be derivative of seraphim? You know, because he's evil and his mother was from the heavens? God damn it japanese people.

5:34 This is incorrect. Sephiroth's research leads him to believe Jenova is an Ancient and that humans were enemies of the Ancients. He goes to free his "mother". Later, when he's in the lifestream, he fuses with Jenova and realizes what Jenova truly is (and by extension, what he is). So he begins to try and finish what Jenova started. (Jenova is an alien that goes around consuming planets, fusing their existence with its own)

This has to be the single best explanation of Final Fantasy 7 I've seen. Kudos on the great work you put into this!

@Xalocin

2 ай бұрын

Not really, loads of crucial mistakes in here

15:30 You forgot the part where Cloud beats the crap out of Aerith.

@ShiroTheTraveler

2 жыл бұрын

Wait...WHAT?

@taramaforhaikido7272

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds more like Tifa. Beating the shit out of Cloud.

@liammcnicholas918

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShiroTheTraveler Yeah, Sephiroth decided to possess him into giving him the black Materia for....reasons. And Cloud subsequently did that

@caelestisnox7045

2 жыл бұрын

@@liammcnicholas918 *bruh* moment.

@kennethlewis8582

2 жыл бұрын

P0

23 minutes well spent - epic work!

@israeloliveirapr

2 жыл бұрын

Hello everyone!

@alu4858

Жыл бұрын

Ayo Agad love your work man

@shivamchouhan5077

Жыл бұрын

Oh hey it's agadmator

@aeion29

Жыл бұрын

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@JAU_JuanOfficial

9 ай бұрын

Oh hey it's agadmator

Watching this on 2024 a couple weeks before Rebirth comes out is odd.

The jenova research always took place in nibelheim. Vincent’s flashbacks all took place in the Shinra manor. Ironically, it turns out nibelheim is Sephiroth’s hometown, too. Jenova wasn’t moved to Midgar till after the nibelheim incident

So, in short: everything goes to shit because one guy can't stop experimenting on people.

@saltyk9869

2 жыл бұрын

I've said it before. Hojo was the real villain of FF7.

@manganna3904

2 жыл бұрын

@@saltyk9869 Exactly

@RomeDawg24699

2 жыл бұрын

Because he’s Hojo dude he’s Kraaaazy

@michialphelps2339

2 жыл бұрын

Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.

@michialphelps2339

2 жыл бұрын

Everything went to shit because of jenova, end of story.

"...Lucrecia blamed herself for the death of Vincent's father, soooo she started a relationship with butt-ugly Hojo." I literally had tears from laughing at this so hard and rewinding it 10 times.🤣🤣🤣

@venti9925

2 жыл бұрын

For real. Erased about 70 percent of my childhood by making me laugh that hard. LOL

Awesome explanation! As someone who’s never followed Final Fantasy games, I’m glad I know what started it all 🎉

I just finish rebirth and tbh I had no idea of all this lore although I finished the original 7 like 3 times at the time, THAAANKS so much for this great animation and explanation.

I love that Cloud's hair cannot be contained by anything!

ok but can we talk about that adorable drawing of sephiroth

@RealiTeaV

2 жыл бұрын

I swear it made me “AWWWWW!”

@katiemckinney9456

2 жыл бұрын

Baby Sephy is honestly adorable.

I hope that now that the king has returned, we get more Final Fantasy.

i like how clouds nemesis is just like hey bro there's a reunion you should come *then causally floats away*

LORD CHASE KIP UPLOADED

@moseskleinjan3078

2 жыл бұрын

WHAAAAAAAAT

@justlequit6087

2 жыл бұрын

REAAAALLLLLYYYYYY!???!?!?

@jvniper.v

2 жыл бұрын

YES

@Human_traain

2 жыл бұрын

BOW DOWN FAST

@guppythebest

2 жыл бұрын

Thank the lord

very intersting. i really liked it. a couple of simple errors, like calling them "centra" instead of "cetra", among others, but overall, it was a great video. definitely worth the watch

@BagMonster

2 жыл бұрын

Last place I'd expect you to pop up. Big fan of your stuff.

@TonyAube

2 жыл бұрын

They blew up two reactors instead of just one too.

@cantgetgirl

2 жыл бұрын

My boy!!

@lariozavc7828

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@brofenix

2 жыл бұрын

And the planet I think is called "Gaia" not just "The Planet."

This was so good, thank u for this

I have no idea what FF is about so finally decided to watch a video on it. I still have no idea wtf isngoing on, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. Subscribed!

okay. im gonna need that image of Cloud in a wheelchair on a t-shirt.

Actually Hojo wanted to reproduce Aerith with Red XIII because his species live for 500 years, so he wanted a test subject that would live enough for an extensive research

@MerkhVision

Жыл бұрын

That’s… even worse lol

Cloud's hair poking through all his hats is great.

2:12 *Cetra 6:05 Sephiroth is powerful, but he did just fight with Zack and after fighting with Zach was so consumed and distracted by the majesty of Jenova, Cloud was able to shove the buster sword through Sephiroth. Don't you remember Sephiroth limping and acting weak? I dunno about you, but having a buster sword in your torso is probably fatal. In Sephiroth's wounded and bewildered state, Cloud was able to overcome him.

@ermamaso4385

2 жыл бұрын

Plus, Buster Sword had a materia equipped which could increase surprise attacks

@SnekVonSlonk

Жыл бұрын

*Zack

@PatrickGann

Жыл бұрын

Ferreal. I hear "Centra" one more time and my brain will melt.

@The_Gallowglass

Жыл бұрын

@@SnekVonSlonk Zux

@corvus1253

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't that in Crisis Core?

I finally understand the plot of a childhood favorite game of mine. The explanation in the video single handedly made me say to myself " I get it now!"

20:00, I was dissapointed for not having the third "He is hojo dude, he is crazy"

There's a lot wrong with this video and i'm only halfway through lol

@endergirl3435

4 күн бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@ElaineSaid

Күн бұрын

Its bc hes Talking about the og. Remake and Rebirth got added lot more like storys, extra scenes and stuff. The Producers even Said that they have changed more

“Arrives just in time to be turned into a shish kabob” The most tragic event I ever witnessed in a video game

@corvus1253

Жыл бұрын

I still 😢...

@AnImperialGod

Жыл бұрын

Minute?

@trevorh5207

Жыл бұрын

Broke my heart as an 8th grader

@adamg4912

Жыл бұрын

Then don't ever play TellTale Walking Dead games...

@Nonamearisto

Жыл бұрын

@@trevorh5207 Don't play Halo: Reach, then.

Next video request: The Entire Metroid Series Explained

@thegrunch6448

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that'd be great with the new stuff coming up

@obesemomkod7018

2 жыл бұрын

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@thegrunch6448

2 жыл бұрын

@@obesemomkod7018 reported

@cammoore___

2 жыл бұрын

@@obesemomkod7018 why? There was no point to plug totally not you

@melodi_bunniez

Ай бұрын

He did it!

at 5:20 you have a wrong info its not only because plot but because under nibelheim ist the strongest flow of life to extract more to make more mako energy. and they used it to make better experiements

Really loved the way you put some unexplained moments or situations, because his crazy Hojo ,dude. heheheheh

When you realize that ff7 literally the whole story could’ve been avoided with just hojo not existing or dying

Ok, but where's the part where the superhuman named Sephiriath causes tension with Aeriath Gainsborough?

@liammcnicholas918

2 жыл бұрын

But where's the part where Rosalinda from Mealy comes in?