You know originally as I read Oyasumi, I thought Sachi and Aiko were both victims of Punpun, as because I IMMENSELY relate to him, I falsely assumed that he was the reason why things went wrong: his inability to “Open Up,” and be vulnerable. But this… oh man… I never thought of them as perpetrators to his agony, WOW… I understood that the ending was a device meant to “punish” Punpun, tying right back in to the end of volume one beautifully, but I never thought that he was becoming even more depressed than before by having a “happy life.” Often, I’ve had the same end goal of Oyasumi. Thankfully I overcame my depression, partially thanks to Oyasumi Punpun! It hurts so good, Asano is genuinely such a genius as are you for this vid! I hope to one day publish comics and manga of my own, I’ll be sure to tear the hearts out of my audience, except I’ll be sure to build them back up. Punpun deserved so much better ❤

As someone who played the original in 2016 when I was 18 because of the remakes announcements and my love of Kingdom Hearts introducing me to these characters, I loved it. I played it twice back to back. The gang of ffvii are some of the most memorable and likable bunch of characters in any game I've ever played. Aeirth Gainsborough is in at least my top 5 fictional characters of all time. What I'm trying to say is I absolutely adored the ff7 remake. The game gave new life to one of my favorite characters of all time, and I enjoyed pretty much every moment of the game in my first playthrough. I didn't immediately revisit the game because I didn't feel like playing all the sidequests again. I finally started rebirth 2 weeks ago, but the discourse has sucked all the passion and excitement I had, and it really sucks. Look, ffvii means different things to different people. The characters mean different things to different people. I came into the remake fully hoping we would finally be able to save Aerith. If they dont go that route, it's fine. I won't be able to stomach the heartbreak another time. Every time i watch someone play the original game or hear her theme song play, I almost instinctively begin tearing up. That's how much Aeriths character means to me. I understand her role in the original story yet I've always wanted Cloud to be able to save her so he could be happy, so she could be happy, so she could finally be allowed to live her life. I don't need people coming in here with hyperbolic criticisms that try to ruin other people's enjoyment. If you don't like it thats fine, but trying to tear it down and tell other people they shouldn't play it or enjoy is just straight up immature and childish behavior. Don't give others crap for enjoying something that speaks to them that 100s if not 1000s of people worked incredibly hard on, and hopefully they won't give you crap either. The insane notion that the people who made this game are lazy, or don't care is astounding. People enjoy different things. I like final fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 7 remake, even some parts of advent children, not much of crisis core, but thats the thing, everyone is different and likes and dislikes certain things. I don't think that should be held against them for not aligning with your viewpoints. I don't know what is so difficult for people on both sides to understand. Art is subjective and speaks to and touches people in different ways. Stop trying to tell people what to think or belittling them for not thinking the way you do just because a game or movie didn't live up to your personal expectations. This type of hostile discourse not only discourages proper discussion but also sucks the fun and enjoyment out of the hobby. No hate directed towards the creator of this video or anyone else. It's just something I had to get off my chest for a while now. Gaming discourse, in general, has sucked a lot of joy out of the hobby for me. I get the corporate nonsense of clearly unfinished games and bad microtransaction practices, but it's getting out of hand when we do receive quality products, and they get slandered and raked over the coals.

I'm a big fan a wikipedia but the wiki on 'Not Pixis' is very poorly researched and inaccurate. The japanese general did not have a large impact on education, but was the subject of a very popular propaganda piece that came out in 2009 that painted him as righteous.

I want to add to this talk about Eren that Isayama said he split himself through Eren and Reiner. He said once he got married, he matured and wrote Renier from his more "mature" views and feelings. Hes believed that you need to face your wrongdoings head on and do what you can to change it. So Eren is an edgelord and even Isayama saw it and didn't want people to sympathize with it. Its wrong. Eren was never "free" because remember even before he got Titan powers his future self was sending him visions of carnage and death from the future. Thats why in the 1st episode he daydreamed and woke up with tears in his eyes and he couldn't explain why to Mikasa. Seeing that subconsciously as a child would make it pretty easy to murder 2 grown men because they kidnapped someone you cared for. Same way forcing a titan to eat your mother could push you over the edge to kill all titans... I can agree that Eren's views on genocide was the only way to protect his people was wrong, I still think the anime ending shows that what Eren did was wrong. Armin's conversation with Eren to me shows how even though people have done horrible things to them, they must still believe that one day they will find away to understand one another. And Eren ruined that little hope with The Rumbling. The only lesson he showed is "Kill or be killed." No peace comes from what he did, it only bought his friends enough time to live a peaceful live until the rest of the world gained enough power generations later to destroy his country. Armin even takes accountability for helping Eren's views form showing him the book of an unoccupied world that is theirs for the taking outside the walls. But at the ocean leaving the basement and getting the truth, he knew he was going to have to find a way to live peacefully with his oppressors. Even after destroying the port at Marley he felt guilty for what he did because the weight really hit him and he knew this wasn't the way. He told Eren "We have to pay for every life we've taken. So we'll be in hell together." Yes, Paradis has become a country still controlled by the military but it was due to both the residual damage on an internal civil war, who once given the truth of whats going on some people rallied behind what Eren did as justified. Which is wrong and I think its why his friends fought against him because you dont bring peace that way. Seems anti fascist to me. And for protection to defend their land from the rest of the world who hates them even more due to The Rumbling. The military state is clearly being shown as a depiction of Eren's failed attempt to bring peace his way. He even said he felt bad for putting Floch up to do what he did during his conversation with Armin... The man called himself an "Idiot with too much power." Am i the only one seeing this!?! Yes it is a bit of doomerism inside the story but I think it's just showing a bleak, reality to the real world. The large powers that be in today's age are too tied to the past and due to that true peace can't be obtained. I see AOT as a cautionary tale of how bad the cycle of hatred can eventually become if you don't truly learn to let go of the past transgressions on both sides which is very hard to do. But like Armin said in the anime even though you have been through hell, you have to believe that in a distant day we can all understand one another. Unless you get an outcome like them. I respect One Piece for giving people hope that through working together with all races, creeds, and people true liberation can be obtained. No one is free until we are all free. But I can respect AOT for showing the true depths of how doing the actual work to stop the cycle of hatred is not as easy as it looks. There are people who do horrible things for what they feel is just and they have to be challenged. But it doesn't always mean a happy ending will come from it. Sometimes it is too late. Sometimes you dont always get through to people like how it was too late for Eren to realise what he did was wrong. Sometimes you meet a person like Floch who was so far gone in his ideals due to what happened to him surviving such a tramatic experience his mind snapped and he can only see Eren's plan as just. Just imagine the amout of work that has to be put in to change a mind like that. Not saying dont do it, but you have to be willing to put forth an insurmountable amout of time and dedication to get a group to see otherwise. You see that struggle in Connie talking to his friend before he ended up killing him. And how even with the power of a God, you cant do it alone. Thats one of Eren's major flaws. You see it through following Reiner's character development, same with Gabby, and Armin's development. They all had to come to a realization there they're previous way of thinking how to obtain peace or their view on how they saw the world was wrong. They only way to truly stop the cycle of hatred is to work together. And it is in by no means a easy process at all. It is not a easy talk to have. Hell, sometimes you cant even talk it out to come to a resolution to bring real change. Talk justu dont always work in the real world. The night the team had at the campsite before going to fight Eren was an example of that. Gabby being forgiven by Sasha's family and realizing she was the "monster" is an example of that. This story shows time and time again through different characters that you can't stop this cycle of hatred alone and taking a life, regardless of the circumstances is just wrong. So I still stand on it being anti fascist. At least that's what I get from it. But great art is supposed to spark conversations like this to me. I may not agree with the actions Eren took to bring peace his way but I can look at respect Isayama for showing us both sides of the coin through other characters and showing how a society can create a person like Eren.

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"Hell is other people" is one of my favorite quotes. And this is one of my favorite show. Perfectly done.

I have very fond memories of Advent Children. Was it perfect? No, but it was a wonderful love letter to fans of the original game. I especially loved the glimpses of Aerith it provided. A touching movie.

I didn't know it was possible to have every single bad take in a row.

You really wanted Tifa to instantly interject and reveal something traumatic to a CLEARLY mentally unstable person who is already struggling to find out who he is as a person? If you told somebody that everything they remember about their past is WRONG and you're serious about it, the person wouldn't just sit there and accept that as the truth, there would be CONFLICT that arises from that, and Tifa is characterized as an empathetic and hesitant person. But no, this is just head canon right? I like most of the video but you writing off things that aren't explicitly stated as "head canon" and "bad writing" just bothers me and I don't agree in the slightest.

I like your perspective on Tifa, I think that they wanted to be more subtle with her awkward enabling habits, because that's a common practice in Japan, which is to know when to help, but try to hold your tongue if you don't know how to help someone on the count of making it worse possibly. I also like the fact that in the Rebirth, she even admits to succumbing to social norms, always wanting to make everyone liker her. I seriously thought she mentioned to him before that he was starting to scare her, but that was closer to when he starts figuring out his past I think. If nothing else, she reminds me of how a friend can help or hurt a situation with good intentions. And knowing this, only tortures her more. Or bare miniumum, that's what I get off the remake, and that's brilliant. Also, I thought I'd be confused and upset at the remake, but it won me over. And I was a fan of it since I popped in the PSM's occasional free demo disc back in '97 coming right off the block of stuff like Spyro and Driver2. FF7 to me at the time was definitely something new, but it also was the first thing as far as my memory went when it came to opening my mind up to new things, so that's why I never had a problem with the way they went about the game. I'm also curious how they end this thing.

Metacritic’s score confirms the game is overrated. Blinded by nostalgia, fans wanted a remake & now suckered to pay $70 for 3 games.

Quando eu finalmente achei um video gringo sobre esse manga, era de um brasileiro tambem kkkkk

Ngl the fanbase is the pro fascist

If they had added the extra stuff in as a new game plus it woulda been genius. If they had shrunk the scope and kept it one disc it woulda been great. What we got is OK, but certainly not what anyone was asking for

I remember the part where Erin and Armin were talking and then Erin looks directly at the camera and says "Blood alone moves the wheels of history, war stamps nobility upon the people," and then turns back and continues talking about Annie's midriff.

“THIS is the bad place.”

This video sucks, only you and a little group like your subs agree lol

Great analysis.

I agree with your message. Sometimes tragedies are good to view because they happen. It's real. It's good for the outside perspective to look at the darkest parts of the human experience without a filter. Just the raw disgusting truth without even a happy ending or optimistic message to insert itself. This way if we don't have experience "the darkness" ourselves we can empathize with those that have and say "I get it" without lying. In jist, we should know the sad ending of a tragedy so that we know fully what we're fighting against.

It did exist. I just finished it again on duckstation. It's definitely not the fan fiction garbage Nomura and Square enix shitted out.

Attack on Titan is probably the most antifascist story in modern times. People need to have severe Twitter or Reddit brainrot to think it's painting fascism as if its something happy, wonderful and deserving of celebration lol. Fascism also isn't as black and white as a lot of people make it out to be either. It can be caused by the result of many complex factors. Even good people with good intentions can become fascists under the circumstances.

All the sequels just diluted the OGs story. You dont need to expand everything. You dont need to explain everything. No need to show everything. Let the consumer use its own fantasy to expand and explain it. But kids now days maybelacking in that regard...

fuck nomura and whatever he did with FF7, he shouldve been fired after The Bouncer

NOMURA FUCKED UP EVERYTHING RELATED TO HOPE OF FF7

Og FF7 does exist. We didn’t make up the wonderful pacing and great story telling we had in the original. You are making excuses for a remake series that’s all spectacle but no substance, it’s more concern with waifu worship and bloating the game enough to justify the price tag.

Ugh, every time I see that Phil Fish panel I cringe. I (and other I’m sure) do not miss that guy. It’s crazy how wrong he ended up being.

This video is really well put together, and it's clear a lot went into it- I mostly enjoyed it. That being said, there's some things I respectfully disagree with. I wasn't born when the original game came out, and only got into FF7 a few years ago as a young adult. Without any nostalgia for it, I personally agree whole-heartedly with it being considered a masterpiece and it is one of those pieces of media I consider almost perfect. So, the concept of 'your FF7 does not exist because it's being viewed through rose-tinted glasses' didn't speak to me, since I hadn't been wearing such glasses when I played it the first time. I think it genuinely was (and in many ways, still is) ahead of its time, seeing that I got such enjoyment from it despite not being part of the generation that played it when it first came out. I need to also note that the compilation was almost certainly done as a money-making endeavour more than it was out of real passion, since FF games never got any sequels until right after Sakaguchi left the company- beforehand, he'd explicitly forbidden sequels to the FF games. Many aspects of the compilation actively go against some of the themes and messages present in the original, and the very existence of sequels contradicts the poignant ambiguity of the OG's ending. I think a lot of the devs who worked on the OG don't fully understand their own masterpiece, considering how weak the compilation turned out (and even the remake project- it's an unpopular opinion, I know, but I have a lot of issues with it). I would've preferred it if they'd left the original game alone, or got a whole new team to lead the remake while ignoring the compilation completely.

I understand the why but I think Uncle Yuchi’s backstory is very important to Punpun because it ends up mirroring Punpun in the same sorta way when it comes to a never ending cycle of abuse and guilt.

Is suberverting expectations for the sake of subverting expectations a good plot? Only some fans of the original will enjoy it. I think the original story is much better, and far better told. Anyone can enjoy it.

It would be interesting to see this done with Gundam, which also examines fascism with sympathetic Space Nazis.

16:22 It;s a TV show, my man. Dont take it as absolute, historical fact

Estava vendo o vídeo suave tentando ver outras perspectivas dessa obra na gringa, e o cara é brasileiro tbm, incrível conteúdo cara, ganhou mais um inscrito.

Square Enix: What do we do?! So much pressure... might as well rewrite the story... Resident Evil 2 & 4 Remake: Why???

The begining of your analysis is intersteting but while you track Sachi and Punpun relationship really well you complitly skip Sachi arc of finding out more about Punpun and becoming a more compassionate person. I mean she is not perfect but calling Sachi a monster feels exaggerated and disingenuous. Finally I see a lot of people talking the interview with Asano way to seriously when its clear that is also trolling a bit. Living is the hardest ending from Punpun point of view and so its probably the worst but it is only in is very limited perspective.

So this is just a recap?

I think it is not so dramatic or dark. Im not sure but I think I even find twittering birds never fly sader.

Fantastic video! 💯 I absolutely love the FF7 Remake Saga. I love the original game too but I feel like people put the original on far too much of a pedestal because of nostalgia and they don't give the Remakes credit where it is due. The Remakes are absolutely phenomenal in my opinion and they greatly expand the original, adding far more depth to the story, characters, lore, gameplay, soundtrack, and world building.

20:24 the girl had to nurse a catatonic mako junkie before the start of the game and might not have wanted to see him relapse.

Amazing analysis! You made me realised several things I didn't really pay too much attention when reading the books. Thanks for taking the time to prepare this video!

This was nothing short of brilliant

the no exit comparison really hits the mark when Marcia says to shiv that logan built a playground for them and the kids view it as the whole world

I appreciate your perspective for this video but its premise that FF7 is perceived by OG fans as a perfect masterpiece and a flawless entry is just wrong. I think there are many people who can appreciate the OG and still recognize it's shortcomings and even then still have it be their favorite game. I recognize the story plot holes, and some of the mechanics in OG are breakable but they pale in comparison to the ReTrilogy issues, particularly from the story/narrative perspective. The pacing absolutely suffers due to the repetitive overdrawn nature of these rinse and repeat side quests but also the repeated encounters of bosses. Why are we fighting Rufus again, why are we fighting Sephiroth again (or at all at this point), why even is a small time baddie like Don Corneo back? It's a drag on the story and pacing even if you forego the side quests. The OG's story was laser focused compared to The Compilation's vague and often convoluted meta commentary and clumsy nonsensical melodramatic plots, which again I recognize every FF had a bit of that whimsy but come on, we know a more faithful remake could have been done here.

It’s not xenophobic to say the way Japanese games were made decades ago doesn’t hold up. They don’t. I have untold amounts of admiration and nostalgia for those games, but the gameplay simply wasn’t fun. It was incredibly grindy, boringly simple, and didn’t pose a challenge, even to a teenager in the ‘90s. The story is really what people remember about games like FFVII, and unfortunately that’s just not good enough to be considered an incredible game. You gotta have the gameplay aspect down, too. By the way, this is why so many modern developers completely ignore gameplay and spend all their funding on writing, graphics, and storytelling. They want a legendary title that people will remember for decades, all the while forgetting that all the best games of all time are simple and fun (Mario, Tetris, Zelda, even Minecraft if you’re from that generation).

Hey, check out Sleepezi, his videos explain how the remake is actually just expanding on what was already there. You also need to check out the ultimanium,s tons of info in them

It took me way too long to realize that this video essay was applying Barthes' "The Death of the Author" at length. I think a lot of the reason that people disliked _Advent Children_ was the change to Cloud. I want to say that the director actually confirmed that Cloud had been deliberately changed to more closely align with certain fan depictions of him, but I could be misremembering that. In any case, Cloud did change in such a way, and there were certainly many other fans who not only thought that this was a deviation from his character but also did not like the "dark and angsty" archetype stereotypically favored by adolescents and wanted a character who was true to the original rather than pandering to a certain segment of the fan base. (This does tie into what you talk about later regarding differing memories and perspectives and how you have to choose between segments of the fanbase to pander to; simply apply that to AC and you'll understand why it's unpopular in certain circles.) That being said, you have given a perfectly good explanation as to why Cloud would have changed in AC. I think it makes the movie make a bit more sense to me. But choosing to go that route with his character would still rub people the wrong way-even though you could come up with a justification for it-because of its broader cultural context.

Yeah the remake sure invented new storytelling on video game " The flyng trash bag plot ghost narative"

I still don’t understand the materia, I’m in my first playthrough and I have elemental materia, some alls, a few summons, but like.. wut? Also I’ve been using the 3x feature, with no random encounters and the full hp, limit and mp sometimes… and I can’t actually feel like I’m playing it wrong (like I usually would)… I’d love to play the remake but I can’t justify not being able to play the 2nd disc -_- I kinda also want to replay after I beat it without using the “enhancers”, but idk

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Hot take but Angeal shouldn't have existed and sephiroth and Genesis should have both been rivals and genesis should have been Zacks mentor at first then Sephiroth after Genesis defected

Rufus survived, because his father installed a "Loser" escape hatch to mock him. Well, who's laughing now. But, you made a really great video! And I think your main thesis is absolutely correct.