FF7's Weirdest Hidden Content

[@gnosis_gaming]

If you would like to know more about the history of FF7's unused text, please refer to the fantastic work done by thelifestream.net ! 👀🙏

[@SonicTheCutehog]

Sephiroth was supposed to show up earlier in the story, but after the developers watched Jaws (no I'm not kidding), they liked how you didn't get to see the shark until later on in the movie, adding to the suspense of even knowing what the shark looked like. So they changed some aspects of FFVII to have Sephiroth appear on screen later in the game, after President Shinra was murdered with Sephiroth's sword in his back.

[@Postumeartist]

My favourite ff7 remake jaws reference is the beginning of Jenova dreamweaver

[@n3onkn1ght]

3:20 Hold up. Are you saying that when the Remake whipped Sephiroth out and rubbed him in our faces as soon as humanly possible, screaming "LOOK, IT'S THAT FAMOUS THING YOU REMEMBER! THIS IS THE GAME WITH THAT THING!" that was actually cut content from the original?

[@cs8712]

Sephiroth: "It was the crowning moment of our time together. But that was then - and this is now. I have a favor to ask - How is materia made?" Cloud: "You mean you don't know?"

[@novelezra]

It's very clear that they felt the flashbacks that soon into the game would have distracted from you getting to know the characters and I'm glad they didn't do it. FF7 already has one of the most frontloaded RPG intros ever, the last thing it needed was even more haha.

[@diogenes3300]

Agreed. There is so much world building to get out of the way, that the game is better for not leaning too hard into the creepy foreshadowing at first.

[@novelezra]

@@diogenes3300 Totally. The game starts with a bang (literally) and doesn't end till you get out of the city.

[@36inc]

yeah its like doing it this way required its own game,

[@novelezra]

@@36inc lmfao

[@EmotionTheory]

I disagree with FF7 having “one of the most frontloaded RPG intros ever”. You are thrust straight into a high stakes mission from the get-go and the pacing of the entire Midgar session doesn’t let up. FF7 is often used as the counter example against games that frontload so much to show how it ought to be done.

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

2:10 "unsettling walk cycle" Shows hilariously borked walk cycle

[@BoxxyFan]

Classic zoomer clickbait nonsense

[@benfubbs2432]

ministry of silly walks

[@YulimitBreak]

It made me laugh out loud. Was so unexpected, considering tone of the video

[@jamesbilbo8162]

It’s interesting that they planned on having Sephiroth’s “spector” of sorts appear more often before scaling back-but in the new remake trilogy there are a lot more of these moments added back in.

[@BingBangPoe]

It's crazy to see people still finding stuff in the original FFVII almost 30 years later.

[@gnosis_gaming]

Please check out the fantastic work done by thelifestream.net to know more about the unused text! 🙂

[@MegaHarv]

Puts a new meaning on Palmer wanting Honey in his tea in addition to sugar and lard too...

[@jasmer6754]

The part where Cloud and Vincent are talking and an image of Sephiroth superimposes over the scene, gradually drawing closer to the camera while turning his head to glance at the player, that was a really cool effect. They definitely should have found a way to keep that.

[@RoadtoLunchbox]

Exactly! In the release version, the screen just darkens but gives no context on what Cloud & Vincent are discussing

[@minus3dbintheteens60]

I like the Honey TV channel thing, that's really cool and a great way to show off a variety of future places and events, but more likely, a little something for re-players to reminisce over a long story pretty early in the game. Good job with the vid my man 👍

[@planescaped]

The kind of meta spooky stuff with Sephiroth were neat and would have tied into the story well too.

[@tayfun4688]

this made me go down a crazy rabbit hole LMAO been watching the hidden content a lot now ff7 could defo have taken a darker route

[@sauriel596]

I was somehow expecting that giant floating sephiroth turning around and breaking the fourth wall lol

[@gnosis_gaming]

Then he stares straight into the player's eyes, says, 'You are stealing the planet from mother,' and climbs out of the TV.

[@yrysroda8592]

I think these additions would be too many premonitions early in the game, almost to the extent of spoilers. I'm glad they cut them. Still my favourite game. Great job with the video.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@yrysroda8592 I agree. Actually, I love that the writers showed a lot of restraint by not foreshadowing the twist too hard - just enough so that you don’t see it coming, and yet it makes perfect sense.

[@GerpidyGerpson]

You forgot to cover everything that was not put into the English version at the honeybee inn. Because there's a lot of weird shit in there

[@gnosis_gaming]

There’s so much unused text, it could be a whole video series

[@GerpidyGerpson]

@gnosis_gaming well there you go, You should cover the weirdest

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@GerpidyGerpson there is a lot of perverted stuff 😂

[@GerpidyGerpson]

@@gnosis_gaming with the exception of that or censor it

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@GerpidyGerpson future video idea!

[@Sperium3000]

A lot of the cut content reflects what ended up in the remake.

[@jonothanthrace1530]

A video doing a direct comparison between the deleted content and the added remake content would be interesting.

[@newironside]

And it was cut for good reason

[@robertharper3114]

That's why the remake project is terrible! Sakaguchi isn't there to reign them all in this time!

[@BoxxyFan]

lol no they dont

[@Ronin_2004]

@@robertharper3114 Sakaguchi had nothing to do with anything good about FFVII.

[@MilkshakeSkunkette]

love finding out stuff about a game i've played since i was 7 years old - some of these little cut snippits feel like they'd fit right into some kind of analog horror story :o

[@LisztBeFriends]

This is dope content, man. Subscribed!

[@brandscape356]

The Shinra Archaelogy Cut mod adds a lot of this stuff back in.

[@HeadsetHistorian]

This is my favourite new channel in the last like 3 or 4 years. Awesome stuff!!

[@gnosis_gaming]

That's great to hear!

[@Ragekolb]

Reviving Aerith is no longer an urban legend. They found a way.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@Ragekolb oh really 😱

[@daliasprints9798]

​@@gnosis_gamingOn PC. It depends on Yuffie warping. But there's also disc 1 skip that works on any version and bypasses her dying, but of course it forfeits a lot of stuff and messes up the progression of the game (and it's hard af being low level at start of disc 2).

[@the_blue_dragon_bd]

Ff7 is so buggy and weird, it's probably got some of the weirdest stuff going on

[@churrbumlion]

I remember I was so enthralled with the game I even dug into the debug and early theories. (They used clouds battle model and tifas model with Jessie’s hair for the closeup on the train)

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@churrbumlion oh interesting!

[@kyranina]

this got 11 THOUSAND views in 17 hrs. ffvii is iconic forever and this video is also really good thanks king!

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@kyranina thanks for watching and supporting the channel!

[@prosieniec]

My favoutite videos of Shademp are those which shows how many npc have "hidden" texts only becasue the game at the moment doesnt allow player to reach them. And which makes me really sad, I remember the times when youtube had this sticky notes system which Shademp used for explaining in his videos, which are now basically a lost media now. Also, the shared flag on Aerith Ghost and Nibelheim Innkeeper might suggest the Aerith church scene was more complex and then the number was reused for the innkeper lol. Also, I think it's the only part of the game when the initial and correct character positions are broken so the npcs loads in the middle of the room, expect reno, and then are shifted to their correct positions. It all suggests they were working on the scene but for some reason they scrapped it and did last minute clean up, but the ghost remained. Also, you can also revisit the Aerith final scene, with the blooming blossom playing and the altar cutscene map is traversable, but it seems they decided to use the fish at the last minute to block revisiting. I don't remember which flag it is, but the extra scene with Barret at Gongaga also is sharing a flag with other random scene and it's easy to miss. I always wondered if there are more cases like that.

[@mr.m1785]

Interesting. Seems they may have initially wanted FF7 to be a fair bit more disturbing, in a sort of psychological relation to Cloud.

[@churrbumlion]

Sephiroth and aeris were supposed to be siblings at one point then it became former lovers and cloud was supposed to be a detective because midgar originally was supposed to be New York and the story unraveling that way too

[@mr.m1785]

@churrbumlion Interesting. Yeah, including some of that stuff could be fun sometime. Unfortunate that current FF has moved on beyond that, cause lots of ideas that'd been scrapped woulda been fun to come back to.

[@twenty-fifth420]

Even though Last Elixir production made a whole video on just the early Sephiroth reveal, I find it nice you made a new video with new details. Even though what got me to click what that ‘cut’ sephiroth scene. I say ‘cut’ because in my head canon, considering it was last minute, it is probably possible it was cut to make room for more time for Cloud, Tifa and Barret to ‘breathe’. Both the early reveal and the Kalm reveal work for me. It was cut for making Sephiroth seem more terrifying and it fits…Even if it is not something I would have cut. Good job! I hope if you know that channel you two can collaborate. I wonder if the 7 source code hides more secrets like that Fusion Dance lmao 😂

[@Ronin_2004]

This whole video feels plagiarised based on what the guys at Shinra Archeology have uncovered.

[@gnosis_gaming]

​@@Ronin_2004My source is thelifestream.net, which is included in the description as a reference and mentioned at the end of the video.

[@TheDoomsdayzoner]

2:10 - that "walk cycle" needs Bruce Lee/Liu Kang comedic kick sounds.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@TheDoomsdayzoner I didn’t know Cloud was so flexible

[@TheDoomsdayzoner]

@gnosis_gaming same. Guess that S.O.L.D.I.E.R. training has worked out.

[@FearghalDuggan]

super interesting video, well put together with a load of cool stuff i never knew, however i did find the film grain effect kind of distracting

[@AlleywayJack]

2:11 - this is terrifying

[@JacaTrn1782]

Yoo thanks for vids. I was also wondering bout the hidden content in ff7 it helps a bit. You all got tifa

[@TheSimianDeity]

The Mystery Panties make sense. All the other cross-dressing key items have three tiers. But the underwear has only two options: "lingerie" and "bikini briefs". Had this content made it in, there would be three options, just like all the other cross-dressing key items.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@TheSimianDeity ohh, interesting!

[@Nipah.Auauau]

1:30 "But something was wrong, instead of a close up of the map it was a closeup of Cloud and Jessy, except their faces were hyper-realistic. I didn't think much of it but then I noticed Jessy was missing her torso and Cloud was doing the stanky leg."

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@Nipah.Auauau 😂

[@kuropixeljp]

Please keep making these kind of videos, I love it!

[@gnosis_gaming]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

3:20 i read somewhere they deleted this because they wanted to keep sephiroth mysterious until the flashback segment

[@GrimmShadowsII]

Its been a long time since I played but I think in the released version you exit the side of the train or fades out to cutscene so maybe the message you get was there for a plan for you to manually follow Jessie foward but you had to wait a certain amount of time but they didn't remove the message when the they reprogramed it to have the game take control.

[@VortexF]

He's back with more obscure FF7 things

[@gnosis_gaming]

I'm back, baby 💪

[@Aldderan]

Enjoy your videos, I think if you keep posting you'll gain popularity quickly.

[@prfctzero]

I think the more detailed models for over world close-ups would have been nice.

[@IidosGamingDen]

Those more detailed models look.. weird. The eyes feel too high detail for the rest of the model.. I oddly feel like the lower poly models we got ended up aging better than this would have, probably.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@IidosGamingDen I think so, too. Adding too much detail onto low poly models ends up looking like a mess.

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

Now that's odd, I've literally been in a FF7 phase recently and you post this, some perfect timing XD Jesus loves ya, man! Keep being awesome!

[@gnosis_gaming]

Oh, nice! Are you replaying it right now?

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

Been obsessing over the remake actually lol

[@gnosis_gaming]

​@@espelhodasconstelacoes I had a lot of fun with Remake after I stopped focusing on the differences! It has the best FF battle system in years.

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

It legit has so many cool little details, you can see how much care they put into that game. I personally don't have any doubts the third part is gonna be peak!

[@bruhvenant]

I've also been in the FF7 mood lately, as I wait for Rebirth's PC release. Replayed both Remake and the og in the past month, and found this channel which has been great for tiding me over in the meantime.

[@RoadtoLunchbox]

They should had kept all of this stuff. Wasn't no need to remove any of it in my opinion.

[@jolaneman]

Welcome back!

[@gnosis_gaming]

Thanks!

[@waltysalty4313]

HOW ARE WE STILL GETTING NEW STUFF OUT OF THIS CENTURY OLD GAME

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@waltysalty4313 a lot of great research on this topic of unused text has been done by thelifestream.net ! Please check out their page if you want to see more details

[@waltysalty4313]

@ thnx man, love the content btw

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@waltysalty4313 I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

[@ReDeadedin]

Please make more this content

[@gnosis_gaming]

I'm glad you liked it!

[@ReDeadedin]

@ loved it !

[@graduator14]

Awesome finds!

[@TerryTheAppleFox]

5:39 oh god Oh god Oh God OH GOD. D: those aren't Tifa's.

[@Ronin_2004]

This just feels like it was plagiarised from the Last Elixer Productions and what the guys at Shinra Archive are doing.

[@gnosis_gaming]

My source is thelifestream.net, which is included in the description as a reference and mentioned at the end of the video.

[@McShade0]

Great video love ff7 💛

[@gnosis_gaming]

@McShade0 thanks for watching!

[@lindamooney5002]

“SeXtor 5 church” 🤣

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@lindamooney5002 that would be hilarious if all of those places on the Honeybee Inn TV monitor were the locations of secret Honeybee brothels 😂

[@lindamooney5002]

@ 👏😂

[@RaineyDaysStudio]

Cool stuff.

[@gnosis_gaming]

@@RaineyDaysStudio thanks for watching!

[@the-NightStar]

Literally none of this comes off as "creepy" or "scary". Stop trying to force an obviously fake narrative, dude. Hate this forced creepypasta bullshit. They're just unused bits of extra content that's not any different than the USUAL tone of this game. A normal video just describing these events without all the cringy, manipulative filters and corny arg music would have entirely sufficed.

[@Ronin_2004]

I hate these videos always trying to make FFVII what it is not.

[@gnosis_gaming]

It’s just for fun 🎉

[@CoolStoryBro455]

Hold your horses. Dude is just trying to carve out some content, grinding like everybody else.

[@brandname6]

I think it was very well done. And fitting

[@churrbumlion]

I mean it’s scary and creepy in context FF7 was supposed to be darker than it was, hell FF6 and 4 and 5 are pretty dark. FF6 ends with the world destroyed but now they can try again, same with 7 too technically Sephiroth won but holy and the lifestream got rid of meteor. A lot of mature and dark things got removed. It’s also creepy the honey bee inn guy had Marlene’s bloomers can definitely see why that was cut.

[@Guyu]

Spooky!

[@DataBattlesZ2087]

Nothing here is scary. You just put creepy music on the background.

[@Ronin_2004]

Don’t you know scary music and speaking in a low tone means it's analog and elevated horror.

[@gnosis_gaming]

It’s just for fun 🎉

[@lindamooney5002]

“Im not afraid of anything” - Ah Comment

[@budget3121]

👍

[@Meapel123]

fake

[@FloweringKnight]

Holy crap, a 'fake' comment in 2025??? I feel old now.