GAME IS GETTING CRAZY - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Part 27 - 4K - Dynamic Difficulty)

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[@strelitziamystery21]

"Mental Health isn't real. I'm fine-" -Cloud moments before disaster

[@DaviHorner]

I was saying the same thing before going to therapy, but now this hit too close at home. XD

[@flameroad123]

Shunji: Been there, done that.

[@Katsi404]

Honey Bee, you've got a big squall comin'.

[@-._____-]

> Aerith: Gives epic speech > Cloud: "Are you finished?" Aerith's career destroyed

[@annakatharinasponagel4630]

Why was this so funny

[@Jenova867]

Poor Aerith

[@JJMomoida]

Cetra ecoterrorist rhetoric destroyed with FACTS AND LOGIC.

[@crodo123]

“You bitches done?”

[@sentientmustache8360]

@@JJMomoidaCloud Shapiro.

[@kinggoldark3853]

Cloud’s descent into madness is done so well in this game.

[@Brandonweifu]

I would dare say it's even worse in this game than the OG

[@dellapj]

They make him utterly detestable.

[@archaicbeliefs1114]

@@dellapj It is not cloud's fault. It's the jenova/sephiroth cells taking over. Not his fault.

[@Brandonweifu]

Hmmmmm For this scene,yea its sephiroth......but also cloud Spoilers Cloud has a horrid habit of repressing traumatic memories.zacks death,his moms death,and just recently,aeriths death.aeriths words while wise and kind...the real cloud pushes this away cause it would cause him to confront those traumas ​@archaicbeliefs1114

[@archaicbeliefs1114]

@@Brandonweifu I dunno man. After the nibel incident 5 years ago Cloud and Zack have been spending all this time being experimented on by Hojo. Once Zack manage to free them Cloud is inconscious until he snap out of it near midgar with Zack dieing to his side. In a sense all this trauma was caused by the experiments being done on him during 5 fucking years, anyone would go mentally crazy at that point.

[@SilentHunter7]

Get yourself a girl that looks at you the way Max looks at demonic monster walls.

[@zueszues9715]

❤❤ me waiting for one of these moment for entire life Arr Demonic wall....

[@mambe333]

First time we see Barrets wife in any FF7 related thing.

[@mursid-hq9ey]

Wasn't she in the og

[@Nate-jx8nt]

​@@mursid-hq9ey no,just name drop.

[@poppukonfilm]

Yes! I thought about this too

[@elijahdubois7902]

We got to give our flowers to Cody Christian. His performance as Cloud was insane! Cloud( While chasing Aerith): Aerith~ 😈

[@RangerMcFriendly]

No kidding. I didn’t want to control Cloud anymore! Like “Screw you Cloud, you ain’t giving him the Black Materia while I’m in control!”

[@sentientmustache8360]

@@RangerMcFriendly”Sephiroth doesn’t control you I DO!”

[@john_7000]

​@@RangerMcFriendlywell screw u too lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣 then don't play the game.

[@chasealan2166]

I can’t help but wonder sometimes how Sephiroth has ANY feathers left in his wing….man sheds feathers worse than my cat sheds fur

[@spoonimefan]

Maybe *that's* why he only ever has one wing? 🤔🤷

[@satsukisan8128]

Lol.

[@RasenRendanX]

Bro got that instant regeneration

[@SuzakuX]

According to the Remake Ultimania his wing is actually made out of Whispers.

[@spoonimefan]

@@SuzakuX : They must be some ... Careless Whispers. 😎 *Is promptly stabbed by Sephiroth*

[@thedarkknight2221]

2:57:06 Honestly Cait Sith’s explanation as to why he gave the keystone to Shinra is FAR better than him being a begrudgingly loyal employee. He thought that it’s better to lose Shinra lives than the lives of his friends.

[@captainpep3]

That right there made me like his character so much more than the original. In the original he was cat shit, but now he’s actually a pretty decent pal

[@SSlash]

@@captainpep3 before he was cat shit, now he's cait sith 💀

[@user-ki4no3ly5]

That was top tier retcon

[@TheRealAhoy]

He was so unapologetic in the og (Conversation on the Highwind) CS: "Hey guys, I've got some information" Barret: "What? That you a Shinra spy? CS: "Yes I've already told you that. But..." He was so sassily dismissive ha

[@erickreyes7902]

CAIT was being controlled too... cant blame him tho...

[@dav3yb]

59:45 ... Tifa's theme in minor so brilliantly haunting.

[@nukikadiman9847]

👍

[@ApsisApocynthion]

Good catch 😢

[@funesdeus1777]

Escalofríos

[@NiamhNelly]

HONESTLY!! It’s beautiful yet creeeepy?!

[@dvcphung]

Ugh unfortunately not included on the OST

[@thedarkknight2221]

53:40 The entire nightmare sequence was so heartbreaking to watch, but I completely broken by the scene with Aerith and her mother. As someone who had to take care of their single mother when she was fighting cancer when I was just 14 I can tell you I felt as helpless and alone as Aerith. I was lucky that we had help but I still felt like Aerith in that moment. It’s why I also loved her message of focusing on the future and not the past.

[@Homitu]

This temple of the ancients sequence is the best blending of storytelling, gameplay, and dungeon crawling every executed in a Final Fantasy game. So goddamn good. The music, the moods, the story sequences, the emotions, the action, the gameplay, the combat, the tension. It's out of this world.

[@mrmelonmanag8733]

Everything about the temple was awe-struck hypeness. The Cetra Lore, Having all the Turks fight (And Tseng who we FINALLY see him fight after 27 years), the fricken teasing of what’s gonna happen to aerith later, and so much more. AaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHH I’m losing way too much in my mind in this chapter

[@drgonzo123]

Love the game, don’t get me wrong, but I kind of liked in the original when they had to read the hyrogliphs on the wall and they had to interpret what they meant. It ended with a clear picture of meteor being summoned. They went all out in hype department, but I miss some of the low key moments, at least that’s how I saw it in my head as a kid. Idk if that makes any sense.

[@chrismcmeekin8470]

I gotta give Aerith props for not lying to Tseng about the temple being The Promised Land, that's a common trope that I'm glad they avoided.

[@mas8705]

You know things are soul crushing when you find yourself going back and forth between Barret and Aerith on whose vision thing was worse. I do feel bad for Aerith experiencing losing her mother again, but Barret had a triple combo of his hometown blowing up, losing his arm, and getting to feel the joy of seeing his wife again (and her dying in his arms all over again). Just consecutive stabs to the heart, that whole sequence was.

[@HomeDefender30]

Honestly I was holding it together until they made me walk through the street as child aerith asking strangers to help her dying mother….. just emotionally soul crushing.

[@megamandrn001]

Aerith trying to get someone's attention for her dying mom as a little girl was easily the most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen in a game. It legitimately hurt me

[@TheRealAhoy]

All of them were soul crushing lol. Aerith probably hit me most, but they were all devastating.

[@Wickhaam]

Aerith hits hard too because you know what they were escaping and couldn’t experience freedom together. It’s beyond tragic for a child to be locked up like that her whole life.

[@Jenova867]

Yeah Aerith as a child destroys me poor thing

[@beyblademario]

7:39 Red XIII's response to max is too perfect! :)

[@venomfuryx3250]

"SORRY"

[@Invalidationcoded]

Cloud chasing Aerith like "Aeriiiith~" gave HUGE Jack Torrance and Wendy vibes from The Shining!

[@MattSipka]

2:29:46 this old lady just casually gave Cloud and Aerith homemade edibles.

[@sean8102]

Wish the dispensaries here gave out free edibles.

[@TheKidThatWas]

​@@sean8102 im sure they would if the world was ending

[@maxspecs]

If only all the trippy multiworld stuff was just the edible hitting....

[@AzureKyle]

I love that Max is having the same reaction I did when we realized we're in the sleeping forest. How you know what's coming, but you're not sure if it's going to be the same or not, and you're not sure if you're ready for it yet.

[@simonr344]

I now understand why a lot of this game is joyful and happy. It's to balance out those trial scenes.

[@SSlash]

well, the ending in general and by extent... the next game, it definitely wont be the more lighthearted romp throughout the world like this is

[@thevulcan2949]

1:27:45 I still can't get over how they gave Cloud an eerily similar shot to Sephiroth's iconic scene. The game's just pure cinema

[@sanddry738]

This entire stream was such a huge story punch in the gut in the best way. First there’s all the trauma the team goes through. Each of them heartbreaking in their own way. Then you have Cloud… Holy shit this game is FUCKING UP Cloud’s mental state so much harder than the OG and it’s amazing. Not to mention the BIG Remake series stuff with the timelines and Sephiroth’s more dangerous scheme. Dude is even more terrifying and it’s great to see how right Max and everyone was with the theorizing.

[@ethermelt4780]

During the trials, if you pause the game, the pause menu shows the character model you're controlling (including one-armed Barrett and child Aerith). I think their standing animation reflects their mental state, because Yuffi looked around scared during hers. From this, I think that the pause menu is actually the 'inner psyche' of the characters at any given time, and has subtle lore connotations in it's own right.

[@andimari9194]

Amazing catch dude. Thats why I like sephiroths pause animation so much. Its like he’s bored during the nibelheim mission since nothing gives him a challenge

[@ToniaHan]

amazing, thanks

[@nachot6592]

The attention to detail is insane.

[@Tvdvidro]

Aw dang, I saw Aerith's but missed one armed Barret's

[@Evanz111]

That’s awesome! I only noticed it with Zack

[@SuperboyReborn]

I love that even in the character menu, it gets darker…completely opposite from the beginning when it was almost sunny

[@johnedwards3489]

Jenova/ sephiroth affecting cloud more and more as he got closer to the black materia was so well done

[@V4Now]

Everytime Hojo appears he never dies soon enough.

[@TheSSBBfan666]

doesnt he die in Dirge of Cerberus?

[@RasenRendanX]

​@@TheSSBBfan666shhhh

[@auron130]

​@@TheSSBBfan666Not Nearly painfully enough.

[@kaiko70]

The part where Sephiroth explains the nature of reality is absolutelly my favorite. He reached such a high level that he can mess with reality itself, beautiful. Thank you Max, if it wasn't for your videos back in the day, i probably wouldn't get into the Remake project. Rebirth is absolutelly one of the best games i've erver played

[@mattgee4867]

The music is spectacular in that sequence. I mean it is throughout the game, but holy shit. And I love the idea of Sephiroth basically intercepting Cloud on his way between worlds and it all happens in the brief moment when Cloud and Aerith are falling.

[@kaiko70]

@@mattgee4867 Agree, totally agree

[@BlakeElliott35]

Everyone nailed the voice acting during the trials’ cutscenes. But, omg Aerith’s… I’ve always wanted to see that backstory explored further, and they couldn’t have done too much better of a job. 💚

[@RasenRendanX]

Brianna is simply outstanding and you can watch her play the game. She streams on KZbin and twitch. The strange rebel. I found her cuz her reaction to seeing aerith the first time in remake went viral in 2020

[@__Babaaaa]

Seeing Barrett cry made me cry. Gees..

[@JorgePlays]

1:55:00 - 1:55:30 I didn't notice this during my first playthrough but the lifestream's essence enshrouds Aerith. Afterwards you'll hear of what I presume to be 2 voices of Aerith overlapping or possibly a lingering Cetra-spirit and then her voice goes back to normal. I know it's a very minor detail but then I wonder how many of these "details" have I miss throughout the game. Hidden hints everywhere...

[@y2dereko]

I’m just getting here and idk know if it’s two Aerith’s speaking or ALL Aerith’s speaking because we actually don’t know how many timelines are at play

[@hinkuli]

Wow. Great catch. Just noticed that as well. I do think it's intentionally multiple Aerith voices or an alter-dimension voice to bolster hers. Wild!

[@thesmugwhale9824]

I JUST realized the room with the trials IS the clock hands room in the original game! WOAH

[@AT-qu2bz]

That aerith hug and the 'thank you'.. that's exactly what happened in the final tidus/yuna scene in the japanese FFX version...

[@ducdashot1239]

clouds pupils suddenly dilating when he recognises aerith and snaps out of sephiroths control was an amazing detail, those animators left no detail behind

[@hpesojogladih9782]

Those Trial scenes were so sad. Aerith's in particular had me in tears. Aerith's speech was so good and of course Cloud being a dick about it had to follow it. Cody Christian was not kidding, Cloud was unhinged AF and it was genuinely terrifying. The bit where he's about to outright murder Elena had on edge the entire time. That final bit with Cloud chasing Aerith was crazy Also Anyone see the similarities between Aerith and her little dance and Yuna's sending from FFX 👍🏻.

[@sean8102]

For sure. I can't help but have a soft spot for animals so the one with Red really hit me as well. And realizing that's just the very first thing he did to Red. All I'll say is no matter how they kill Hojo off, his death will be to good for him

[@Brandonweifu]

Vincent:oh...i wholeheartedly agree 👿​@sean8102

[@Laterose15]

I'm curious where Cody said this about Cloud

[@SSlash]

@@Laterose15 there was like, 2 or 3 main interviews back in like, december or november, almost none of what he's gone on record to say was ever in recorded interviews, only written down, but it shouldnt be hard to find em, he hasnt done THAT many for rebirth, there was one panel he was at where he kinda started to describe how weird cloud gets some of these later scenes but knew he couldnt go in too much detail cus it wasnt even out yet lol

[@jamcalx]

So of the temple music sounded like the Trials of the Fayth for X as well.

[@youreprettygood2603]

Sephiroth shows Cloud the multiverse. Cloud : "Leave me out of this crap bro !"

[@Quyzbuk86]

Not technically a multiverse, this is following more along the lines of how Ecco the Dolphin played out (or at least was meant to since that story never finished)

[@seekeroftruth3695]

Why did I laugh so hard at this

[@RasenRendanX]

Bro said nah B

[@ignacio4159]

Cloud is the players telling square to leave the multiverse bullshit out of the story

[@GhostReboot-Games]

What’s interesting during this ark in the temple… you can easily tell when it’s Cloud talking and when it’s Sephiroth talking through Cloud. For example; when Cloud says to Aerith “Aerith I need you.” Which was in regards in needing her to activate each owns pathway to their own personal nightmare.

[@iphoneShothand]

I don’t know how anyone can continue to call Nanaki “Red” after seeing that cutscene 😢

[@Leoncroi]

I was so engrossed in the moment, I never noticed all the subtle changes to let you know what's really happening behind the scenes. Watching Max play it, and having already completed the story, I'm free to really take in the small details.

[@RedNinja115]

Aeriths trial will always make me cry like a baby, just the hopelessness of the walk back to your mom after everyone ignores your cries for help just is like a knife to heart every damn time 😢

[@Yoshikid4070]

This may have just been because I came into Remake not knowing a thing about the OG, but Yuffie's hurt the most by a landslide. Just hearing Sonon's voice made me want to turn my console off

[@Uri_Mercury]

I was so sad that max didn't tap L2 on more of the NPCs. It kinda took away from the impact of Aerith feeling like she truly tried to get help since he walked RIGHT past every intractable NPC who would give Aerith a response. Seeing how apathetic all those ppl were to a child needing help, or treating her like a simple beggar literally broke me b4 she even began her walk back to Ifalna. It reminded me of Aerith's monolog during the festival of lights in Cosmo Canyon, where she spoke about her childhood. Feelings of being watched, imprisoned, and even ignored. I really wish Max explored a little more in that moment. Especially for ppl who don't own the Game, and are playin vicariously thru him.

[@Iwillone]

Seeing little Aerith going around asking for help reminded me of the sad flashback in Hey Arnold with Helga as a kid 😢

[@kylejones1532]

The aerith mom scene man..... that shit killed me off the transition tho when aerith goes go on.. and the music kicks in.... so awesome

[@EulersIdentityCrisis]

Just noticed the place where everyone has a vision of their deepest sadness (except Cloud who hasn't had his yet) is called "The Hall of Resurrection." Resurrection has been one of my guesses for part 3's title.

[@chrisstevens4865]

Revive or Revival perhaps? 😊

[@RasenRendanX]

Good shout tbh

[@smilinjack87]

Because Cloud’s vision of sadness will be the entirety of Part III 😭

[@keithvaskelionis7861]

How Max held his shit together is unfathomable as a Dad with a daughter 🤯

[@holitinne]

1:51:09 I had the same reaction when I used Tifa’s 3rd limit break.

[@fy4b230]

It’s crazy how many streamers didn’t use the “ask for help” function in Aeriths trial. I don’t think I’ve seen a playthrough where they have. I was spamming that shit lol. Makes it even more heartbreaking imo.

[@tanders4444]

This bugged me too! It hits so much harder hearing her little voice and makes the “I really tried…” make more sense too.

[@DaemonicSavior]

It took me literal weeks to really process everything at the end of this game. Much longer than remake (and I thought that was a dumptruck of information to sort through at the time). Initially it was raw confusion then as I slowly started to put the puzzle together it made me have different feelings. I could not comprehend or truly feel what was happening during the whole dating sequence with Aerith at first because I was still trying to process a ton of other shit. But after a second run through I think the most heart wrenching scene in the entire game is right before Aerith pushes cloud into the flowers. Aerith just wanted to feel normal and enjoy time with the one she loves knowingly that fate will prevent her from ever being able to in the end and in this world it was no different. There are some out there that are upset that the events of aerith dying and eventual burial are all broken up or don't play out the same and thus they don't feel the same way they did all those years ago and I don't discount it either. This is much different and you have to do some hunting within the meta of the story to really understand how the theme of loss is portrayed and that isn't for everyone or wasn't the expectation. But, once things clicked for me, man this game was really something special.

[@awtodor]

Just the fact that many og lovers love this one shows what a massive achievement. For many og is a top 5 all time game, rebirth showed they can meet the expectations and even exceed it

[@jarosbodytko6462]

The trials definitely got me. Aerith’s and Barret’s trials broke me. It’s insane how good the storytelling is in this game.

[@shatterpointgaming215]

I'll tell you what blows my mind.... the Cabbage Peddler from Avatar is the same voice actor for Hojo.

[@NeroLucifarious]

MY CABBAGES GUY IS HOJO!?

[@shatterpointgaming215]

@@NeroLucifarious indeed. It blew my mind!

[@tanders4444]

MY SPECIMENS!

[@bradreed4414]

I’m sorry but WHAT?!?! (Not doubting you jsut shocked lol)

[@sentientmustache8360]

MY BLACK ROBES!!!

[@yoboililj1013]

I can't lie whenever Cloud was chasing Aerith down I fully embraced the dark side and was ready to get Sephiroth the black materia by any means. Start 0:00 Aerith Cutscene 0:11 Aerith Cutscene 2:10 Aerith Cutscene 21:42 Cutscene + Start of Tseng and Elena Fight 38:03 Tseng and Elena synergy attack 40:42 Cutscene + End of fight + Group reunites 44:00 Cutscene 50:55 Cutscene + Start of trails 53:39 The Trail of Red XIII 56:00 The Trail of Tifa 59:30 The Trail of Yuffie 1:03:13 The Trail of Barrett 1:06:44 The Trail of Aerith... 1:11:05 Cutscene 1:19:45 The Trail of Cloud 1:24:00 Combat 1:36:49 Cutscene 1:42:19 Conversation 1:44:41 Conversation 1:47:09 Conversation 1:53:20 Cutscene + Start of Boss Fight 1:54:15 Cutscene + End of Boss Fight 2:01:33 Cutscene 2:03:18 Cutscene 2:08:39 Cutscene 2:09:14 Cloud's section... 2:14:50 Cloud cutscene 2:15:35 Cloud Cutscene 2:17:50 Rufus Cutscene 2:20:02 Zack Cutscene 2:21:29 Start of Cloud and Aerith section (cutscene) 2:23:16 Cloud and Aerith Cutscene 2:25:08 Cloud and Aerith shopping section 2:25:58 Zack Cutscene 2:30:50 Cloud and Aerith Cutscene 2:31:20 Zack Cutscene 2:32:57 Cloud and Aerith Cutscene 2:36:31 Zack Cutscene 2:37:46 Cloud and Aerith Cutscene 2:39:33 Cloud and Sephiroth Cutscene 2:43:00 Cutscene 2:46:55 Cloud and Aerith Cutscene 2:48:40 Cutscene 2:51:27 Cutscene 2:53:05 Yuffie COnversation 2:54:50 Barrett Conversation 2:55:26 Red XIII Conversation 2:55:53 Tifa Converstation 2:56:29 Cait Sith Conversation 2:57:03 Cutscene 2:57:58

[@xMarrilliamsx]

The trials in the temple of the ancients was such a welcome addition and had me full of tears 😭

[@lambo2655]

Chapter 13 might be my favourite in the entire game it simply was incredible from start to finish. Extra praise should go out to the level designers 😊

[@SwagBroPlays]

"Yo we need a cool little boss theme for the Tseng/Elena fight" God like Jazz Big Bang: Say no more fam *Proceeds to cook harder than ever before*

[@GamingWorldTV.]

Max equiping back the buster sword is a canon event 😂😂

[@jackjuggernaut]

I’m almost looking forward to your second playthrough of this section more. I’m sorry chat had to be turned off in this section of the streams because some people don’t know how to act. Loved your reactions.

[@StiffAftermath]

Aerith's dream is so nice, and also very sad. All she wanted was to love...to be happy...to have her dream. But Shina...her mom's death ...Sephiroth. Just let her have her happy dream, Cloud. But her dream...is also dying..(the tear in the sky). Poor girl..

[@sephirothangel2202]

I swear each time you see Sephiroth something is always up and is about to happen badly for Cloud and the others and that is the reason why he is like my favorite character and villain to play as in games.

[@mohammadalhusaini810]

Best villain in video game history and its not even close

[@chrismcmeekin8470]

Dude that child Aerith scene kinda got me, I was not ready for that...

[@pami_ursa]

HIP HIP HOORAY!!! THERE'S A NEW PART OUT... TONIGHT! (sorry if that didn't rhyme, it's currently 10pm over here)

[@terrylee8111]

What gets me the most is when he looks back at everyone and tells them hes not like him he will never be like him after he kills the clone. Its like a piece of cloud inside is seeing this shit happen and he fighting to gain control again so bad. I feel so bad for him!

[@xDJxChowwy]

Trials and Elena and Tseng's battle theme was highlight of the game for me. WHAT A BANGER

[@thedarkknight2221]

I truly believe that Aerith is setting up as many plans as Sephiroth. She’s reminding me of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, he was setting up plans and backup plans that would activate much later in the future. I think that Aerith’s connection to the planet is somehow letting her collaborate with all of the other variants of herself. I mean everything that is being set up with the White Materia HAS to pay off in a major way.

[@Brandonweifu]

For real Spoilers We have I believe two white materia,AND she is definitely helping zack venture through all this world shenanigans

[@candyhandsjf7288]

I agree but I don't think she becomes this metaphorical all-knowing "Dumbledore" until after she joins the lifestream

[@DFTNSHEXGRM]

Yep.. my theory is Spoilers Cloud pours his memories of Sephiroth into the empty Materia. It’s how he rids himself of Sephiroth for good.

[@dominiksledziewski]

​@@DFTNSHEXGRMholy fuck, that's clever.

[@SSlash]

@@Brandonweifu spoilers two? in the main world? idk about that, cloud doesnt technically have one on him by the end as it was the clear one, and aerith's normal one ends up how it normally does, unless I'm just totally blanking on something rn, cloud has an empty white and the real black one presumably

[@royso5917]

Aerith definitely has post AC memories (even the one in Beagle timeline to some extent). That explains quite a few things: 1. Why she's acquainted with everyone even before she meets them (this happens more than a few times in Remake) 2. Why she -seemingly- definitely knows about her fate in the forgotten capital, and keeps preparing Cloud for that 3. Her communication with Marlene \ Nanaki in Remake (in Rebirth she's unable to do that, seemingly due to her Materia running out of power) 4. Her affection for Cloud. Chronologically, her affection for him, as well as calling their church "their spot", can only be explained if Aerith knows what Cloud goes through after she dies (and how he lives in the church in AC)

[@KinglyRed]

The date with Aerith had me confused, but when it sank in for me I got so sad...she knows what's coming, and just wants more time with Cloud

[@lckaboom6810]

Usually when there’s a part in a story where the characters have to go through personalized “trials”, it comes with some kind of character development. But in this case, the Cetra just went “fuck you all, go to the trauma dungeon. Because we’re assholes.”

[@TheSynyster94]

1:58:15 Cloud has no business looking that fabulous during combat

[@hwhatup4086]

"You just don't get it"... "There's not a thing I don't cherish!"

[@Ghost0fTheNavigator]

Dude, I am beside myself right now. I feel like I need to lie down and soak in everything that just happened because that was incredible! And they brought back Demon Gate - I didn't get my Tankceratops fight in Gongaga, but they gave us Demon Gate, and I am so goddamn happy. Thank you so much for this playthrough, Max.

[@ChampagneDewayne]

Did anyone else notice Aerith channeling another version of herself from the life stream as she was talking to Sephiroth before the Demon Wall? Her voice is literally double up to hee saying “No, You’re Wrong.”?

[@pensologohesito]

The fight theme with Elena and Tseng is probably one of the best of the game!

[@EvanTomiko]

2:14:52 "I'm waiting Cloud, there's no more side quests" 😂

[@JJMomoida]

"I can't believe how good Temple of the Ancients was." They really outdid themselves here. To be honest, the beginning section of it felt like it dragged a bit with the separated parties and everything, but the game really hooked me once we got to the deeper areas with the trials n whatnot. Everything looked and sounded so foreboding. They legit made it feel like a freakin Indiana Jones temple lol

[@RasenRendanX]

Utterly speechless. Cloud asking aerith are you done after that speech made me laugh so hard. That was ice cold. This game is phenomenal

[@David_Bang_]

"Clocks.. ticking". "Yeah.. I know"... That's dark asf....

[@emilyparisjohnson]

It makes sense you control Aerith during a good chunk of this chapter. After all, Sephiroth is controlling Cloud…(I do like the idea that Sephiroth is sitting there with a ps5 remote with 5 seconds to choose his dialogue option, lol)

[@dee_dee4640]

Remember guys: Nomura was holding back the multiverse shenanigans. Let that sink in

[@cic1470]

Yea it’s honestly a bit annoying seeing everyone unknowingly blame Nomura for the insane ending and alternate universe stuff

[@sanddry738]

@@cic1470I feel like the most critical people are the ones who finished the game first while those who are invested took more time. Hence the knee jerk reactions were more negative. I feel like it’s going to be like Remake where people mellow out more with time to process and wait for the 3rd game

[@ett375]

I always thought those worlds were just fuel and reason on how sephiroth will become safer sephiroth, since they're doomed to fade away and become one in the lifestream while also probably corrupting it with spite and sorrow.

[@cic1470]

@@sanddry738 Yea I’m sure people will warm up to the direction they’re taking the story, I just meant that it sucks that Nomura is always the one people point to when he’s not the one making these story decisions

[@Xeltos]

People are overthinking it completely. lol I also don't see how it's confusing as the sequence of events are pretty easy to follow given how the game gives you context throughout it's scenes.

[@ludovic2088]

The "choices" at the end, with Aerith, are just a figure of choices vs fate. Whatever you choose, you end up with something the "fate" (or the devs) want you to have. Perhaps a way of reassuring players that whatever story variations are imposed in Remake and Rebirth, they will end up with the Destiny story.

[@Bananas1000]

I'm so happy I wasn't the only one who got completely lost at 37:22, I felt so dumb at the time lol

[@Johnherold121]

That Tseng scene is so absurd. It feels like his death scene, but he just gets up and leaves.

[@Nik-wj6zv]

When I first played this part, I was confused by the fact that Zack went right, to Shinra, to try to save Cloud, but then we see him with Biggs. This time, I noticed that on the bag of potato chips Biggs was eating inside the reactor, Stamp was a bulldog. So they're showing us lots of different worlds; the one where Zack when right, and the one where he went left. It's implying that there's another world for every possibility. But at the same time, Aerith seems to traverse them, and it seems like there's just one Sephiroth. I don't really understand that part yet. Cloud and Aerith (the awake versions) are not in the world where Zack went right towards Shinra HQ - because in that world, Zack wears Aerith's ribbon on his hand, and the Aerith that woke up was also wearing the ribbon. In the world where Zack went left for Biggs, he didn't wear the ribbon. And yet later, we meet yet another Zack, also without a ribbon, sitting on the steps of the church, lamenting not knowing what to do about rescuing Biggs, or Cloud, or Aerith. That was confusing to me too, because I thought he had already made his choice... but, that's yet another world, and Johnny walks by with another dog, not wearing a helmet, but most likely representing yet another version of stamp. So this was a world where Zack hadn't made that move yet, about who to prioritize protecting. That's implied to be the world Cloud and Aerith woke up in, because Sephiroth passes him on the church steps as he approaches Cloud and Aerith, before she gives her materia that's still whole to Cloud to carry through the dimensions to the one we've been (primarily) playing in.

[@ideannassiri9672]

the music in the nightmare sequences was so insanely well done the composers and every single person working on this game put their hearts into this and it shows truly incredible

[@jackjuggernaut]

The trials were absolutely emotionally devastating. Had to stop a number of times. Couldn’t see.

[@M.J.J.-W]

I want Cloud to go so far off the edge. I want the party to have to fight him as a major boss in part three. I love how he’s losing it throughout this game and unless he’s turned against the whole party at some point then as I see it he still hasn’t hit rock bottom and I need rock bottom cloud. Then (og spoiler ish incoming vaguely) the moment that must happen with him and another certain character can be the highlight of the whole remake project

[@Brandonweifu]

I could see that Spoilers In the OG the group juat sits there warching him give seph the BM.this time the group with no other options fights him begging him to stop.even after defeat,seph gives him a quick power boost knocking them all aside and finally doing the task

[@TE72GOD]

I want him to get decked by Tifa to get him to snap out it so badly.

[@SSlash]

dunno if you've seen any of max's after game thoughts but he's much in the same boat as I think most of us are, they are TEARING cloud down and it should culminate in being even worse than the og, like cloud REALLY should have different gameplay for the early portions of part 3 it would go so hard, give him a buncha moves and dark-ify them and get them back later but using good counterpart versions of them, they could do it so well I hope they dont mess it up now

[@shincy6219]

that's awesome. I think all npcs can play a part too in his recovery, like Tifa looking for all npcs who helped by cloud over the world to pray for him to fill up his transparent materia, until it maxed and recovered his memory as a good guy cloud

[@tanders4444]

@@shincy6219I actually really like that theory. I’ve been bothered by what they intend to do with the empty materia. My initial theory was that it’d become another black materia, since they go into the whole Gi section about how they made the original.

[@M.J.J.-W]

I love the Zack marlins flashback moment how they made it just like the blurry crisis core flashback scenes. Genius

[@KingTimmahB]

1:47:37 I really needed Max's reaction to this

[@Clink2000]

This game is ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!! 🎉❤

[@joshuafarlow-wolgast8082]

I finished the game a week ago, and I still get teared up by the forest. Man, what a ride this game is. Before remake came out, I enjoyed FF7, but remake and Max's streams have awakened me to the awesomeness of the game, and Remake/Rebirth are definitely two of my favorite games of all time.

[@flameroad123]

This is going to be one hell of a marathon once the road to part 3 begins

[@nabieladrian]

2:30:38 I'm calling it now: Part 3 will be FFVII RESTART

[@TheGekko135]

The child Aerith flashback is so emotionally devastating that i might put in some PTOH at work Holy f*cking shit

[@ShahroozSmith]

Everyone: *Going through extremely tragic and traumatic visions* Cloud: UGH. CAN WE GO?! I have to constantly live and remember my trauma because Sephiroth won't leave me alone! Vincent: ...Cloud, read the room.. You don't know anything about a tragic backstory, not after what I went through. Cloud: Oh c'mon, it can't be that bad-- Vincent: *Holds up Dirge of Cerberus while glaring daggers at Cloud then flips him off* Cloud: .....Okay, that's fair.

[@mutalord]

If Cloud was a little more cinic, after hearing everyone traumas he would reply "Not so funny when your memory starts fucking with you now uh?"

[@JamesMyers11]

Thanks Max. I'm honestly a bit confused about the new timeline here. I really appreciate your input to somewhat give clarity to the story

[@Chris-yz7cs]

2:36:00 the price of freedom sure is steep 😢

[@oopopp]

No joke... the crazier this game gets the BETTER it gets. I now know how Neo felt in the Matrix when he ate the red pill 😂 This game gets wild and I'm here for it.

[@Zarkator]

THE FLASHBACKS WERE MAD GRAPHIC THIS GAME FINALLY TURNIN IT UP

[@BillyJohnBob]

This game just had me absolutely speachless! Love it so much!

[@Vernnell]

The trials are so well done, but Aerith trial is the one that hit the most, is so well done. And the date of Cloud, now that I looking it again, this whole date was not just to say what Aerith feels for Cloud, is to make understand the player that whatever they choose, no matter what they do, it will not matter the result will be the same, I really think is more cruel than anything because is preparing you for what comes next. And now checking all the scenes of Zack in all the other timelines, seems like the merging was happening in that exact moment, Sephirot enters the Church were Aerith is with Cloud, when they suppose to be in other timeline, and with that I will save the conclussion for the final episode Max upload.

[@MugiwarasNakama]

The plot twist of the game is simple and so many people missed it. Aerith never forgot her destiny. She remembered the whole time and was pretending to have forgotten. Because even though she wants to change the fate of the world she does not want to change her own fate.

[@Brandonweifu]

Lets ve real.people who hated the new direction of the story? Were never gonna give it a chance anyway

[@andimari9194]

Is that true? I thought the twist was that the whispers took memories, specifically taking the knowledge of how to get holy activated and that’s why it’s a “clear” color. And it’s why cloud has to deliver her another that was full (w the clear material obviously playing a bigger role in the third game

[@MariusBoss11458]

Nah. I don't think she knew the whole time. I think she did forget and the whispers took her memories away. But I think that at the end of the game, she fully remembers it all. Expecially when she's able to control the white whispers herself.

[@SSlash]

why would she have given marlene and red the memory and idea of her death and the possibility of saving her then? I think she actually WANTS to live with everyone, but whether it be that cloud never deflected the blade in the first place or not, sephiroth and his whispers and his insane powers over time and shit just gave cloud no chance to have ever done anything about it all, what she MAY not have known is that holy cant be used from outside the lifestream and thats something that she later finds out in death and why it'll still be used anyways

[@MugiwarasNakama]

Listen very carefully to Aerith choice of words during her speech in the Temple of the ancients. And also the words she speaks to cloud and only cloud throughout the entire game. The first time she let's it slipp that she never lost those memories is during her dating sequence in the gold saucer. She's been talking to cloud in subtext the entire game.

[@TheRagdollrejects]

As a father to a little girl. That aerith bit asking for help for her mother absolutely broke my heart.

[@coffeeandjelly4614]

They played Who Are You here. One of the most haunting songs in the game. A master’s touch !!!

[@Nikolai508]

"Sorry about that" - Aerith as she commits war crimes.