7 Final Fantasy VII Facts You Probably Didn't Know

[@Zulliantiger]

One thing that I didn’t know, is that Rude will never attack Tifa if there’s another target available in the party. And if there’s only Tifa, he will only say “................” . That happens because he really loves her.

[@gamergodofjustice]

Would never know cause I never use her, even during her lead charecter part I work fast to get rid of her.

[@Torvar]

One you didn't get: You can go talk to Reno before talking to Aeris in the church. He is behind the door.

[@BOABModels]

You can do this in Remake too - he is talking to the Shinra troops

[@JB-md7db]

I knew about lucky 7's but was never aware that enemies could get it as well.

[@thosediamonddreams]

In the current FF7 speedrun any% no slots category they manipulate the Materia Keeper boss in Nibelheim into gaining lucky 7s to kill it instantly from one tick of poison. I'ts pretty cool and worth checking out!

[@gargervon8697]

Exactly my thought. I didn't know enemies could get it, nor did I know Barret's score could be increased infinitely with that exploit. All the rest, though, I knew.

[@digidudeimpmon7394]

"Okay....I learned Pandora's Box on my 1st play through! I thought nothing of it. I was just like "Oh, another enemy skill." I had no idea it was a rare one chance skill !" O.o

[@yangosakurai7505]

Are you quoting your own statement?

[@hyruleguy9569]

This happened to me too

[@digidudeimpmon7394]

@@hyruleguy9569 Holy crap, it's been 6 years since I posted that? It doesn't feel that long at all.

[@TheWolfHound7777]

Honestly who doesn't know that Odin has two attacks?

[@tonyteh]

lol was thinking the same thing

[@LakrimaProject]

Yeah, this top 7 should be more like : 1. Game story is based on proto-Xenogears script made by T2 (that was used also in Chrono Trigger), Parasite Eve novel and Sakaguchi own script. 2. There is only ONE source of HOLY elemental dmg in the game that player can do - Alexander, you can use it with elemental materia to add that element to weapon. Other VERY rare element is WIND from choco/Mog. 3. All luckies 7's works on all dmg player do durring status. It meant if you use Revive +all or even W-item Phoenix down, revived party members will come back with 7777HP and the status, although that sepcial 64-hit x 7777 dmg attack can be proc only ONCE PER BATTLE. 4. Safer-Sephiroth was designed that way to be more a challange. Fun fact is that his ultimate spell - Super Nova can't kill team and is HP based, also in Japan original ver of FF7 animation was WAAAAAYYYY shorter. 5. One each floor of Witai Pagoda you can see a kanji fighting floor, that represent different virtues of a warror also despite all fight seems to be take place in same place, that kanji carries over from field to battle screen. That meens Square did 5 different battle screens just for that. 6. WAAAYYY less known fact is..... if you will get enough points for Tifa, the dialogue durring her and Cloud sceene at the end of disc 2 changes. While they are alone under Highwind, she will say smth way different to Cloud that imply ....they will have sex. No joke. Tifa

[@birchgarden2238]

The only new thing for me was the Sakaguchi portrait. If you want to discover really deep hidden stuff, check out some of GarlandTheGreat videos about FF VII. He does FF VII challenges and it's where all nitty-gritty mechanics of FF VII really comes out. On top of my head a few notable ones: the red submarine, materia keeper lucky 7 poison kill, carry armor LLNMNI challenge... He's basically got all the weird things about FF VII covered.

[@cloudkitt]

Yeah I would say Choco/Mog having a second attack is far more rare.

[@nicolasseminara9307]

Mitchell Peterson "imma cut a damn boss... What the fuck!?" >99% of ffvii players

[@uprisen6788]

The reason why poison deals 7777 during the 7777 mode is because poison is counted as self inflicted damage, so you are dealing the damage to yourself. Really no reason to this but its believed to be this way so that you cant build your limit break by getting poisoned.

[@spazerabanekozeroshki]

Damn so that leads to death

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Poison doesn't care who put it on you. In fact, getting Materia Keeper to 7777 while poisoned was a big part of certain speedruns for a while.

[@JetSpeed3r]

I would like to see Square Enix do a Prequel to Final Fantasy VII involving the Ancients and Jenova. Or do a novel on it. I would like to know more in depth what happened to Aerith's ancestors. That would be very cool!

[@ProxyDoug]

I don't think there is a lot to be told other than what is explored in Dirge of Cerberus. Unless you want some big stretch with never before mentioned characters like in Crisis Core. I would like to see how the Turks defeated Jenova 200 years before the story started though.

[@NateIsCorrupt]

Great idea!

[@MnE4life]

Jenova came summoned meteor and wiped most of them out. As it says in the game.

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Everyone who loves FF VII should look up Frank Verserosa's FF VII fan fiction series on line. As fan fics go, it's easily the best I've ever read, though not exactly professional quality work. But still, it is so good and interesting that I consider it to be the true sequels to the game. The ideas you're talking about don't come up until a few books in, but trust me it's worth it.

[@mastermold10]

that would be about as sad as playing crisis core was cause you'd already know starting out that any efforts against jenova were doomed at the start and that the world, as your charicters knew it, was gonna end...nah id be more intersted in a sequal in the 'revived' world mabe even with one of Naniki [red 13]'s cubs as the main charicter....a fur can dream.

[@jima611]

"points against" is a poor choice of words.

[@MAJICB0B]

Huh... there was actually a couple I wasn't aware of. Like the picture in Rocket Town, or that enemies can get "All Lucky 7's" too. That's crazy

[@jihoon4242]

I knew all of them except the picture, but I was aware of all the others MUCH earlier than when I became aware of Lucky 7s affecting enemies. I probably wouldn't've known about it, were it not for a challenge run strategy for Materia Keeper that abuses this fact (specifically in relation to Poison damage).

[@jorgemeza9625]

My first rpg as a teenager. Yes i had a good life

[@ShredHeadJHJ]

I played FF2 on SNES and got hooked on the series. Then played FF3 and was like "WOW!" Then came FF7 and I was like "WOWWOWWOWWOWWOW!!!!!" Truth is they are all still great games! I think starting in the series earlier gave me more appreciation for FF7.

[@StuUngar]

Shred Head Same here, except I played FF 1 and was like...meh.

[@ShredHeadJHJ]

I played FF1 first when I was very very very young. I got NES in 1st grade. I was born in '84, so I might have been like 6 when I played it. I did not understand how to play it, so I don't think I got anywhere in it. Later when I played FF2 on SNES I really got into the series. FF3 just floored me though.

[@StuUngar]

Shred Head I’m 83, so I’m just ahead of you. I think being so young might be one of the reasons I didnt enjoy it. But i played the remake on psp and didn’t see anything special either. Of course, it’s hard to play 1 after 4 and 7. I had the same problem with GTA 3. I didnt play it until after San Andreas and Vice City and I thought 3 was an overrated hunk of shit.

[@Ash-bd6jz]

Real properly gay.

[@SerathDarklands]

I knew all of these. They're not exactly obscure... Also, in regards to the dating mechanic, there's a way to infinitely boost Tifa's score. When you get caught by Rude in the elevator of the Shinra building and are put in the holding cells, before you talk to anyone, check the door. Tifa will ask you something about if you think you can escape. Tell her "leave it me" and she'll say "Oh Cloud, you're so brave!" and your score with her will go up, then the dialogue will end, and you can check the door again. Do this as many times as desired to infinitely boost Tifa's dating score, guaranteeing that you'll get her.

[@averageplayers5288]

You can also do the same thing with Barret in Cosmo Canyon

[@ruthy08]

@@averageplayers5288 yes... That was in the video... 🤔

[@averageplayers5288]

Sashi I made the comment before watching the video

[@intensellylit4100]

@Hydra ....

[@tillmansanders6056]

@Hydra Obviously it's Yuffie

[@Tetfima]

Man, I've gotten half way through the first disc like 8 times in the last 10 years due to various reasons (lost my psp, computer crashed, etc.) So 3 weeks ago I discover there's a switch port which is perfect, and I just beat the final boss 3 days ago. And I gotta say I totally get you guys and all the friends who obsess over it and it's legendary status. This game is a pure masterpiece and too fun and full of secrets and worthy of obsession 100% and I'm suuuch a fanboy now and it revived my love of RPGs

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

Wait till you discover the crazy materia combos

[@flightfeather8759]

Final Fantasy VII was not a part of my childhood, as I only played it recently. I still consider it a legendary game, even if I never managed to beat it yet...

[@djcontra4514]

learn enemy skills big guard and white wind and be level 65, should be easy after that, final attack combined with phoenix summon doesn't hurt, but its not needed to win

[@djcontra4514]

He said beat it, not side quests

[@mr.battle20]

DJ Contra has it right. Big Guard and White Wind on the E. Skill materia are your friends.

[@dwoodard5717]

First time I beat it I used w/item and megalixir combo to get 99 megalixirs.

[@doom5895]

Too bad its so easy I'm not a rpg guy and even I could beat with almost never dying

[@ikchess]

Anyone on their first playthrough finds out Odin has 2 attacks about 30 minutes after acquiring it when they try to one-shot Materia Keeper.

[@CloudcoleVII]

Points “against” meaning points FOR the date. Oh my head.

[@Maxim.Nazarenko]

Yeah, that's confusing.

[@Dad_Shoes]

I'm playing through this game for the first time as my first Final Fantasy game and I'm grinding away at the Northern Crater. A few hours ago, I accidentally leveled Tifa and got her Hit Points to 7777 and had no idea about this effect prior. She was using it on the potted enimies that ask for Elixers and are good for AP grinding. The game was stuck in the Lucky 7 mode while she did seemingly endless 0 damage to them as I didn't give the Elixers yet. I thought the game was experiencing a massive glitch and almost had to reset.

[@RobMost]

Wow, a list of FF7 where I didn't know all of them, good job!

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

I completed Ff7 twice when it came out and recently playing the remake got me nostalgic for the original so replaying the original and getting all things I missed as a kid

[@jondowe5252]

The stellar music written by one Noberrr Errrmatsu.

[@Ash-bd6jz]

Jon Dowe NPI thought he pronounced it nobrew unatsu

[@LikuteiAmarim]

That's racist. 🤣

[@rogernorris9543]

First game I played that actually invoked an emotional response. (I cried when Aeris died)

[@SickSoundingStuff]

Same.

[@iceman4208]

I think we all did when we first played ff7 actually i cried then threw my controller at my tv i was pissed when aeris died and i was sad too

[@colmkendrick7480]

I was so confused, I kept thinking it's a trick she can't really be dead. Truly an amazing moment in the game

[@ezarrgames3108]

My most emotional moments were Red's dad story and at the temple with the cat. I al ready knew Aeris dies so I was prepared.

[@iceman4208]

@@ezarrgames3108 aeris was more emotional no offense

[@SurvivalSpheres]

How do people know who the person on that tiny painting actually is? I don't recognize anybody. Or was it confirmed by the devs?

[@manfromnantucket9544]

It could be anyone really

[@dennisf1020]

The picture of the the guy I one of the houses in rocket town is the music writer for the game.

[@mr.battle20]

It was confirmed by the devs.

[@SurvivalSpheres]

@@mr.battle20 Sweet. Mr. Uematsu appears in the remake as well, handing us the 'good night' theme record.

[@benl4198]

Another fun one for Rocket Town is the poster for Bahamut Lagoon, not just our Lord and Sagakuchi's picture lol

[@EternalSilverDragon]

Thanks, I never knew that game so certainly never noticed the poster for it. It was Icicle Inn, by the way, unless there are two (I youtubed it).

[@Mr255simone]

It's Yuffie not Yaffy

[@Tyloric]

Simone Nuzzolese THANK YOU

[@FinalFantasyUnion]

Meh, I've always said it that way, and probably always will. Pre-voice acting characters spent far too long in the wild, so are always fair game for pronunciations :D. ~Darryl

[@randomuseroftheday362]

Its not YAFFY. He said it was YUHffie :DDD but idc

[@donpowers8331]

It’s weird how a lot of KZbinrs say it wrong. They pronounce it like it’s toughfie and replace the t with a y. And that dark kefka guy gets mad when people correct him and yells about how it’s not spelled Yooffie lol. I get how people can get attached to the way they say things though. For me it’s Tiedus and can’t be Teadus because of how sissyfied it sounds, but Teadus is the correct way to say Tidus.

[@Mr255simone]

It's cool

[@stevemanart]

The first one with Sakaguchi's portrait is the only one I didn't already know, so by default that one was the most interesting.

[@purplefreak3]

Odin having two attacks is not really a secret. Unless person juyst didn't pay attrention to the game.

[@saphcal]

yeah, i thought it was pretty obvious.

[@randomwannab]

Plus, I never really thought of "Zantetsuken" to be the name of the attack. I always assumed they were just naming the weapon he used. Like, when you lose Odin in FF8, he's replaced with Gilgamesh, who uses attacks called "Excalibur," "Excalipoor," "Masamune," and "Zantetsuken." Then in FF7 you have Gunge Lance,

[@rogueprince1341]

purplefreak3 I think the secret is why he has two attacks. I could be wrong though.

[@mattmorgan881]

Seriuosly. Summons cost so much MP I tended to only use them on boss enemies and other enemies that are immune to instant KO. I'm much more used to seeing the spear than the sword.

[@rogueprince1341]

Matt Morgan I'm the same way. Unless I've been hit with status effects and I have no choice.

[@retrohanska4441]

Fun fact: the word factoid doesn't actually mean "small fact" or trivia like it's used in this video several times. It actually means misconception that has been around so long that people often mistake it as a fact. Ironically, just like the false definition of the word itself.

[@seantae]

Today, I learned you can date Barret

[@spaceman_256]

rode the sephiroth in smash hype and finally played this for the first time over the past month, and i already knew pretty much all of this just from wiki diving to clear up the end game content....

[@prestonu-ie1823]

Oh god my head wanted to explode every time he said Yuffies name

[@xxCOMBATzz]

Been playing the game since it came out. Beat it (around) 18 times, and still, to this day have never seen "All Lucky 7's". Just hasn't ever came up. None about it forever too. Crazy.

[@TrueKingOmega]

I'm guessing no one tried, but you can manipulate (albeit with a VERY low probability) the dragon zombie, and get Pandora's Box that way. This was true on the original PS version, so I dunno what it is like on the subsequent ones.

[@ajackofalltrades1233]

yeah i thought it was normal when i got it first try...

[@prince_nocturne]

Watching this, that bit about the Pandora's Box ability... makes me think, just what are the hardest Blue Magics to learn in FF? Or just the hardest abilities to learn/master? There's a video idea for y'all...

[@RadishDoctor]

Wow, never realized how lucky it was to have gotten Pandora's Box enemy skill on my first playthrough. I always tried to get it on later attempts, but Dragon Zombie is also immune to Manipulation

[@eigokudemangaka]

I wonder if it's possible to throw a few mana potions at the zombie dragons. Would be a good way to guarantee a cast if you can

[@Kartissa]

I never really had a problem getting Pandora's Box. Usually, by the time I encounter the Dragon Zombie I've got all 4 Enemy Skill material on my current party, anyway. And I don't recall ever having a Dragon Zombie try to cast it without enough MP. It's usually the first thing the first one uses against me. my biggest problem is typically surviving to win the battle, but that's what Final Attack-Phoenix is for, right?

[@allydrawsthings]

or just equipping all your enemy skill ,materia on one party member, they dont have to survive XD

[@LordofSyn]

The Materia system is a gem of game mechanics. Enemy Skill was OP as hell Mastered out.

[@zero71234]

you don't need to manipulate it, you just kill it and it will use the attack. It's similar to what happens to the "Final Attack" materia. But, as the guy from the video said, the dragon has to have enough MP or it will not happen.

[@04groombra]

Yeah I knew all of these. But I was obessed with reading up developer stuff about the game when I was younger and just hidden stuff in general. One thing you may not know about is if you go into the really tall building in kalm. And walk into the window frame. You will actually pop your head out. And be treated to a view of Kalm town from a different angle.

[@jasonb551]

Had every enemy skill, killed all the weapons, had all the materia, even got Aries last limit break. Greatest game of all time! Would do it all over again if there was a remake!

[@chefdean7257]

You must be currently ecstatic !

[@Team_Killer_NZ]

@@chefdean7257 guess what

[@chefdean7257]

@@Team_Killer_NZ Quite impossible, proceed nonetheless. . .

[@Team_Killer_NZ]

@@chefdean7257 ur gay 😂

[@chefdean7257]

@@Team_Killer_NZ Uruguay ? Are you asking my Aspie arse to guess your national origin ?

[@Cman04092]

If part 3 of remake doesn't give us a pic of sagaguchi in a house in rocket town, i will be getting a refund.

[@DashingDavid]

There was definitely a few ones I didn't know

[@franimal86]

Another fun fact: You can avoid Yuffie stealing your materia by using the menu/walk/menu trick. Enter/exit the menu, walk half step, repeat. You can skip the cut-scene completely, and it will occur when you reach Wutai, instead. This allows you to keep all your materia and get it back all at once.

[@stephenfiler3204]

Can you still do the entire side quest?

[@EvtheNev]

This was pretty cool, although very drawn out. I never knew about the photo in Rocket Town.

[@patsg1146]

Wow, even though I knew a bit about most of them (except for that Sakaguchi pic) there was always something new for me! I didn't know monsters could have the 7777 status and the Pandora's box only once per save file is really an evil glitch! Great job on this one!

[@sadpanda57]

Yuhffie?! You sure know a lot, bro!!

[@EdgySwordfish]

Mispronunciations aside, you actually taught me 2 new things about this game, which is quite hard to do at this point.

[@SickMinder]

Had no idea about Sakaguchi's picture! The Back to the Future III-photo in Resident Evil 2 beats the oddity though.

[@Oblic008]

The only one I didn't know was the portrait. I didn't know the exact list for Yuffie stealing materia, but I knew the general gist. The rest of them I thought were fairly common knowledge at this point.

[@danielevans7439]

I wonder how many people know that Magic Defense was broken on equipment?

[@gargervon8697]

I knew.

[@benshihadeh8561]

The only one I didn’t know was the developer put a picture of himself in the game. The Odin one made me roll my eyes.

[@nick14braun14]

my dude told ff7 happy birthday like it was turning 4 years old

[@chrismcmann2825]

I didn't know about the "All Lucky 7's" effect. That's pretty neat

[@paddydahunter9252]

Also when facing the Gi Natak enemy in Cosmo canyon using any type of healing potion/magic will actually cause damage. The boss can be killed with one elixir or phoenix down.

[@JeremyMYG]

I knew these but one that could cause confusion is you saying “points against” a character for the date. Is that someone losing points or gaining them? Clearer distinction between “this increases favor for (name)” and “this decreases favor for (name)” would have been super awesome.

[@cartooncrazed13]

I actually happened across the "all lucky 7's" by chance while I was trying to get the omnislash

[@Cannon_The_Guy]

Hey me too

[@rogueoperative1547]

I'm on the Yuffie situation now, and can't defeat the boss on the mountain. (Pretty much stopped playing the game at this point). Any advice?

[@drac0nisw0lf]

You're talking about Rapps, right? I usually got a good team of physical attackers at the best euips up to that point. There're some good weapons without materia slots, so they work well too. If you can manage to get more materia than Yuffie can carry, then you'll get to keep some. I had thought that it was random which ones you keep, but based off of this video, I am having some ideas to test on the likelihood of which materias. But as always, don't give up, and good luck! "Be strong!" Edit: Also, if you're level is not high enough, it can be tough. Just go out of Wutai and level your characters some.

[@brianluquis7578]

I thought for sure the item duplication glitch would have made it on here.

[@ingonyama70]

Me too. That's the thing I'm going to miss most about the remake...T_T #RIPWItemGlitch

[@cmtimberwolf5980]

That was an awesome and surprisingly stable glitch.

[@Skaftholu]

Why? Everyone knows about that by now.

[@bt3iscrazy]

What version of FF7 is it at 10:06? Is that a genuine screenshot with the FF7:AC picture and more than 9999 health?

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Happy Birthday FF7! Great video btw!!

[@FernandoRafaelNogueiraReis]

Pandora's Box was a really good one. Thanks for the video!

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

Never realized enemies can get lucky 7s. Imagine Ruby or Emerald pulling that lol

[@BADDEC101]

Man!! This vid made me feel good... I remember getting Pandora's Box on my playthrough waaaaaay back in the day. I used that skill soooooo much!

[@Puck90a]

Note: the word "factoid" does not mean what many people think it means. The "oid" suffix means "resembling". For example, humanoid means "resembling human", but not actually human. So a factoid isn't actually a fact. It's a notion that resembles a fact. Factoid does not mean "miniature interesting fact", it means "not really a fact, but is often considered one". So if you call something a factoid, your are stating it isn't actually true, and that usually isn't the intention.

[@FinalFantasyUnion]

It depends on the context. For your reference though, since you brought it up, both the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries list the primarily definition of factoid as "A brief or trivial item of news or information." :) ~Darryl

[@crimsonwalrus697]

Oh.

[@Coreisus]

While we're on it, the phrase "all but" doesn't mean what most ppl use it as either. FFXV for example; Ignis constantly says "all but" and always in the wrong way. "That cave is all but full of enemies" means "that cave has no enemies but a lot of other stuff", it does not mean "yes i agree that cave must have lots of enemies". It means literally the opposite of how everybody uses it.

[@SiLoMixMaster]

Wish this youtube channel was around back in 1998, could have saved me at least 10 hours of game time 😅

[@n1fffan]

I didn't know about Sakaguchi's photo in the game I knew about the lucky 7s status, but I didn't know about enemies being able to get it, nor did I know about being poisoned while afflicted I did not know about Pandora's box only being casted once per game... That's handy to know I knew about the rating mechanic, though I didn't know about the infinite loop exploit with Garret's RVs. I did know though that there is one with Yuffie though (just go through the cutscene after the fight with her, and get all but the last option right, rinse and repeat until satisfied) Didn't know that Yuffie holds preference in which materia she steals, though it doesn't seem likely that that matters in a normal run. The thing with Odin's attacks, I knew (I remember experimenting during a boss battle with that) As for Safer Sephiroth, I did not know that summoning KotR during Jenova Synthesis and taking out Bizarro Sephiroth effected his HP.

[@n1fffan]

btw, I still hate Yuffie. Once I'm done farming ribbon for the group, I find no more use for her

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

n1fffan 😔

[@99Lezard99]

Knew/didnt knew exactly the same as you. 🤔

[@KalHadden]

Oh good i wasn't the only one who realised how much horror it would be if an enemy got lucky 7s on your party. Imagine that happening before youtube? No one would believe you.

[@jihoon4242]

Lucky 7's doesn't quite work the same way for enemies. They only get the "all attacks do 7777 damage" part; not the "unleash 64 attacks non-stop" part. Which, mind you, could still be pretty dangerous.

[@Genji_Glove]

My first experience with all lucky 7s was Yuffies final boss fight against her father in the pagoda. I reduced him to 7777 hp and watched in awe as he wrecked me. For years after, I thought that was just one of his normal attacks so i kind of regarded him as a super boss (since he was optional) and didn't get around to challenging him again for quite some time.

[@chrismin1349]

Michael Edwards that is hilarious. I just learned it’s possible for enemies and bosses to get lucky 7s

[@TyroneLamoureux1]

I had Tifas max hp as 7777...it was great

[@NkSs96]

You've used your luck for your entire life

[@toxicity791]

The portrait was a new one for me, cheeky of him. The Pandora’s box catch is also news too me - I never realized that it was a one shot chance. That’s haaaarsh man.

[@boogiestreet594]

I love how FF7 was so good, that most people thought that getting out of Midgar was the end of the game! that's how big it was lol I was like "the rest of the discs might be for some crazy story and cutscene movies? I just hate that Square just can't do what people want. I hate that they have to make a COMPLETELY different game every single time in the same series, they have to COMPLETELY revamp the entire magic system also etc. AND i KNEW that when they announced the remake, even before i saw the type of game it was gonna be that they couldn't just give us exactly what we wanted, they HAD to fuck it up by making it a god damn action RPG instead of keeping it turned based just by making the graphics incredible and elaborating on the already existing world that was there giving it a sense of awesome scale. Sure change the story around and add new bits of lore and elaborate on that also. But don't turn the best RPG of all time in alot of people's eyes into a fucking free running action game with RPG elements and call it a remake ffs... We already god this game in FF7 Crysis core etc... :( i hate that they can't do anything right

[@christinamussared2285]

I really do hope it happens. And although turn based battle systems would bring a more nostalgic feel to it. You also have to realize they want to bring in younger fans to the game. And we all know kids today probably wouldn't have the patience to set up their materia and wait their turn. At least I know my kids would give up after the first hour or two. I have the game on the ps3 and although my kids love the story. They watched Advent Children. And the Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core cut scene KZbin movies. They have watched me play the game and almost immediately scoffed at my suggestion to try it.

[@my-king]

Final Fantasy... Final

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

@ATXK Yep, the new Pokemon games, Persona and New Super Mario Bros series are not relevant in the modern age.

[@natemccollum3731]

Pokemon is still popular and its turn based! honestly i wish they'd make a hard version of pokemon. i don't understand why they think a turn based rpg wouldn't be popular. maybe the reason Final Fantasy hasn't had the as good sales numbers is because they AREN'T turn based. i haven't bought a final fantasy game after the 10 series because they aren't turn based. they're my favorite kind of game, 2nd is turn based strategy games. i'm still going to get the remake soley because it's my favorite game ever. but damn its disappointing that they won't make it turn based. millions of people buy 2d games on their phones, millions of people play pokemon. and who knows, making ff7 remake turn based might reignite the genre.

[@codychambers44]

Your a pussy.

[@Godeias]

Nice, first video I've seen where I didn't know 80% of the facts, good job. You just earned yourself a sub buddy

[@FinalFantasyUnion]

Thanks! Really glad you enjoyed it :) ~Darryl

[@krog875]

Typhoon summon also has 2 attacks.

[@enkidude]

Daniel Escobar what's the second attack and how do you proc it? I was looking for a comment like this, I remember reading about it and never getting it to occur way on back in the 90s

[@ShredHeadJHJ]

I have not seen or heard of this...

[@djcontra4514]

@@enkidude no one knows because that summon sucked, it was triggered by enemy status, it was elemental

[@Mystwarrior1]

Someone actually posted it's possible to do the date scene with all the characters including red 13 and Vincent.

[@ostangvulkahn1875]

What about Xenogears was supposed to be ff7.

[@ontos8534]

Ostang Vulkahn and it should’ve been

[@mr.battle20]

True, Takahashi submitted a script for what would become Xenogears as a possible FF7 project. It was rejected for being "too dark". Xenogears ended up being developed at the same time as Final Fantasy 8. The development of FF8 went over budget, and the Xenogears project was told to cut corners in order to compensate. This led to the severely "abridged" Disc 2 of Xenogears. Blame Squall and company for what happened to Xenogears, a game that could have been their greatest masterpiece of all time. EDIT: Interesting aside, Cloud DOES foreshadow Xenogears in FFVII. When he's incapacitated and wheelchair-bound in Mideel, Cloud will mumble seemingly random crap when you attempt to talk to him. He mentions something about "A billion mirror fragments.....small.....light.....taken.....angel's.....singing voices.....zeno.....gias....."

[@tomesofawesome8041]

Cait Sif, is ACTUALLY REESE, a member of Shinra's board of directors. He can be seen as early as the assault on Shinra HQ. (He is the one who tries to beg the president not to drop the plate on Sector 7). Therefore, he can also be seen in F.F. 7 remake.

[@TrillTierJakal]

1 and a half of these I didn't know.

[@BizarePlayer]

I've been wondering is Pandoras Box even worth getting? My memory serves me poorly and it's been a long time since the last time I played FF7 but you get it so late in the game and at that point you probably already have pretty good level Materia and Summons. I never had trouble getting it but I also never felt the need to use it. Could someone enlighten me does it have good use against last bosses or do you try to get it just so you can say you have it?

[@steveozone4910]

You doing 8 ff8 facts nexts? Not sure why but that's my fave game in the franchise.

[@donpowers8331]

Steve Ozone it’s one of my favorites as well. People don’t have the love for that game that it deserves.

[@thunderchild1083]

Don Powers agreed 8 & 10 were best in my opinion

[@giorgiofenu5563]

Butt stank you're 100% correct, the entire plot stops making any sense after the 2nd disc, but boy i still love that damn game

[@frozenaorta]

I'm not sure why either. Ha. To each their own. That game does have some excellent music and really fun limit break, though! So there's definitely that!

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

Ff8 was the most underrated and deepest story ever. Over most peoples heads even if you consider the last 3 disks were a death dream.

[@ReachSkyla]

I love how barret starts at 0 You have to EARN his love

[@rogueprince1341]

I wish they would hurry the hell up with the remake. I'm tired of waiting and hearing every year at E3 that it's just that much closer to happening.

[@lucebelmont]

Anthony Lankford Be careful what you wish for, rushing is the bane of games development. I'd rather them delay the release so they can iron out flaws, rather than having them rush and have the game possibly have a game-breaking flaw.

[@frogglen6350]

Martin Smith WRONG. The Last Guardian was never rushed. Still sucked balls

[@rogueprince1341]

Martin Smith I agree with you. Like I was a kid we had to wait five years for Mario bros 3 but that games is still one of the best games ever.

[@MrPandarilla]

Martin Smith my problem is that the announcement was originally for a "remaster" which shouldn't have taken as long as it did for square to change lanes and decide to remake the game from the ground up 3 years after announcing the remaster square announced it was a full remake and they had to restart the project.....this is duke nukem all over again.

[@wisniapl9230]

MrPandarilla no. They announced remake from the start. It was never ment to be remaster. Watch the anouncement if You don't remember it.

[@ff3player]

The Great Glacier in Area 6 there is a cave where you can get a Elixir but unlike the rest of game you can still move while "received elixir" is on the screen and as long as you don't take the "received elixir" text off the screen you can leave the cave and go back and there will be another elixir.

[@paramutpenparkgoon7238]

for your last one you can master more e-skill by use it on your self in battal

[@mr.battle20]

Not true.

[@Resimaster]

The Hideo Kojima picture was in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes which didn't come out around the same time and was in fact released in 2004, seven years after FFVII.

[@sunnyaujla8314]

No secrets here

[@miguelsantiago750]

None!

[@WeskersPlayhouse]

More info on Lucky 7s: You can manipulate your HP with materia to obtain it on your characters before a battle. Also, all numerical values, not just damage, become 7777 iirc, even Items and Magic.

[@adamlooze99]

Worth noting that you can manipulate further by using MP - HP materia to swap, if the last 2 digits on your MP is 77, then using potions to hit that 7777.

[@matttrent946]

just a critique here, so dont get offended. the entire video was really drawn out, but then again that might be your style. just noting that none of these were particularly earth shattering revelations for a game thats been out 20 years, so i just expected bullet points. nice vid though, informative. thank you.

[@FinalFantasyUnion]

Hey Matt. No offence taken! Often I find that people might be aware of things, but perhaps not the background behind them. So, the purpose of my videos is often to get quite granular, as opposed to being very top-level, to provide additional insights and information around familiar topics. Hope that makes sense! ~Darryl

[@jada90]

The channel gets more money for longer videos. 10 minutes seems to be a big benchmark - if you get people to spend 10 minutes watching your video youtube's algorithm helps out a lot. It's why there's a lot of watered down content out there these days.

[@Bjorick]

i knew about the 7777 status, never did it, but i didn't know that you could get it if you land on 7777 hp, thought you had to have a max hp of 7777, and full health. I also didn't know enemies could get it, nor did i know that it only attacks 64 times. I prefer that it's not drawn out for the sake of drawing it out, but actually going deeper into the information presented.

[@NateWolfKira]

Bjorick, for the lucky 7's, I read that people would use gameshark to manually set everyone's max HP to 7777 so whenever they entered into a fight at full health, they'll start at lucky 7 status.

[@dimitrisbam5640]

Matt Trent nice critic without offending

[@Throd01]

I was actually surprised to hear many facts I didn't know yet! Thanks!

[@donpowers8331]

I’d love it if you guys can do something about FFVIII next. Maybe Easter Eggs or deep dive into Squall or Seifer.

[@darkstar1987lx]

No one cares about FFVIII

[@nawgee]

Major shout out to all the fans that already knew this!

[@mastermold10]

there was a rumor once that you could go on a 'date' with naniki during the second gold saucer trip too, but any and all pics that show it are all photoshoped, just a hoax, sadly...its odd that yuffie is doable since shes an optional charicter...

[@chrisk1039]

She originally wasn't planned to be optional, and wutai was going to have a bit more impact on the story, but was scrapped (I believe due to time constraints) makes sense that they'd already have the assets for the scene in the game and simply not remove it

[@saphcal]

Yuffie is also underaged :^)

[@MikojinToyunda]

But SHE's the only one who really makes a move on Cloud ! ^^ (She does kiss him on the cheek !)

[@mastermold10]

@sapphire only in america, remember the age of concent in japan is 13

[@patjackrickson6733]

@@mastermold10 and they are terrorists on the run from the law ..

[@Nekucloud]

I didn't know about the dating paradigm or that Dragon Zombie will only use Pandora's box once. WOW, that's very interesting, thanks.🤔😊

[@TheTruthIsGonnaHurt]

Tifa's cup size ? Can I get fact check on this please.

[@Gunny85973]

Dunno, m8. But she sure helped fill a few, over the years.

[@chadanderson5736]

I can't wait for the remake to see how much different it is from the original.

[@urbanyjra]

In the gold saucer date actually you can take red xiii also! I did it once. Necer got barret actually

[@wells6901]

i remember i took red xiii once.. and also cid.

[@ElectricBarrier]

You guys are probably thinking of just riding the gondola like normal. You can take anyone on the gondola but during the special date with the fireworks and the play, those 4 are the only ones.

[@michaelscott9018]

It's fun to make up stories

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

Sleipnir is an 8 legged horse in norse mythology. Maybe they just forgot the 4th pair.

[@iceclkeyheart3060]

This just made me buy 7 on my PS4 xD

[@solojune4705]

Icecl Keyheart lol got it on my phone

[@rogueprince1341]

Icecl Keyheart play it in the 3x mode it helps a whole lot. I forgot how many dialog balloons there was in this game.

[@iceclkeyheart3060]

Anthony Lankford i beat a week after i bought it. I didnt use x3 to speed up dialog boxes though i dont mind them. I used it a bit to grind tho or to backtrack

[@dha12oks]

I got it on PC and phone, and now reading this comment I just made me wanna purchase it on PS4 xD

[@DragonofDarkness13]

uh .. I've had Dragon Zombies cast Pandora's Box more than just once... in fact it was really annoying because I wanted them to use Shadow Flare but wouldn't~ just Pandora's Box

[@franfalu]

Nothing new for a true fan

[@roguemf9187]

can't you save and load for pandora's box if it dont have mp for it?

[@bonelessthincrust]

"7 facts you didn't know!", "Ok, I'll check it out", "Odin has two attacks! All lucky 7s is a thing!", and that's as far as I made it. Disliked, reported, called the cops, etc.

[@JohnnyRaze99]

It was all garbage. Going as far as telling you that you can take Barret on the date. There's a bloody achievement for doing so. Smdh

[@mr.battle20]

For everyone ragging on him about Yuffie's pronunciation: I actually thought it was Yuh-fee when FF7 first came out. It wasn't until Kingdom Hearts was released that I discovered it was Yoo-fee. Then again, KH came out in 2002, so there's hardly any excuse nowadays.

[@thebigdawgj]

The Safer Sephiroth info is just...I don't know, pointless? Because one Knights of the Round will take each Sephiroth out anyway.

[@RadishDoctor]

If you get Safer Sephiroth over 130,000 HP then it is impossible for Knights of the Round to OHKO. This counts for as well Bizarro-Sephiroth (Max of 140,000). Still is an easy fight, but the little factor nuances can definitely be noticed based on a player's styles.

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Which is why I never get or at least use KOTR in the final boss battles. It takes away all the fun and the challenge of using the skills you've built up throughout the game to survive and take down such a strong opponent. Nerfing the final boss is not my idea of a good time.

[@welder4life690]

just getting knights of the round is an accomplishment on its own,to actually use it other than to see it once,is just useless and pointless,and pretty boring,mostly used by people who just dont care too much about thinking or having any challenge in the game

[@KnownAsKenji]

It's good for some of the post-end-game bosses. But yeah, not really supposed to need it for Sephiroth. FF and other RPGs tend to have end-game curves like this, such as in X where you can get the ultimate weapons which are hilariously overpowered and will kill anything except the toughest stuff by merely breathing on it. But they're fairly out of the way so you're unlikely to get them in the main story. And don't even get me started about Snapdragon on Tactics Ogre. Such a shame because it was a cool mechanic. But I digress.

[@saphcal]

The Lemming well according to this vid you should use it on Jenova Synthesis to make the battles afterward more challenging even if you wont use it on Sephy himself.

[@davidcole2913]

I knew all but 1 and a half of them. Had no idea that enemies could get all lucky 7’s. And I didn’t know about the picture in rocket town.

[@pichanliwag9132]

I stop watching when he said odin has TWO attacks. I think you're the only one who doesn't know that. hahahaha

[@peanutfish94]

I knew about -Lucky 7's -Yuffie's Materia Limit -Safer Sephy's Increased Stats -Dating Mechanic (though I heard a rumour you could get Cid) -Pandora's Box (though didn't know if he tried to use it with no MP that also counted to you not ever getting it) I kinda knew about Odin's attack, I just never pay attention/used him much, but I know that it's a thing in like FFIX Didn't know about the Sakaguchi portrait though.