I'm not ashamed to say that the death of Aerith literally made me cry
@Mallavaughn6 ай бұрын
I feel ya. I had it accidentally spoiled for me, and I still cried when it happened
@AeSyrNation5 ай бұрын
I'm not ashamed to say that Aeris' death literally made me not care. Even as an 8 y.o.
@hxgrl5 ай бұрын
@@AeSyrNationcool bro
@DipreG6 ай бұрын
One of the best things FFVII Rebirth has done is make Cait Sith actually endearing.
@paulj68056 ай бұрын
I reckon if they do make another FF7 compilation title in the future it will be called Final Crisis and it will wrap up all the loose ends from every title like the fate of humanity at the end of FF7 and the Gensis cutscene at the end of Dirge of Cerberus.
@Darknyte827 ай бұрын
So fun, thanks for putting all this together.
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@bluestrife282 ай бұрын
“Aeris, you’re a very special boy!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@PAINNN6667 ай бұрын
It's shame 5 Wutai bosses speech differences was lost due to translations. Also Chekhov was a doctor too. Maxim Gorky is XX century author. Stanislavsky more like director but probably when he plays he do it by own system which was popular to this day and actor like Daniel D Lewis, Di Caprio etc practice that.
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Hopefully will be added to the remakes
@fixiehartmann96586 ай бұрын
Another real world reference was the fighter jet on that island which looks like a F14 Tomcat or maybe MiG 29 due to its red star. I've always been puzzled because of that
@DlCKWALLACE7 ай бұрын
Two minutes in and I hear you pronounce Locke as Lockie.....I can't. It's LAWK, as in lock, since he's a treasure hunter.
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Locke. Lock and key! Haha
@DlCKWALLACE7 ай бұрын
@@HellFireRPGslmao
@nitrostealth67 ай бұрын
uk band Architects used to use the shinra theme as the intro to the gigs
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Awesome! Didn't know that one.
@Duality3337 ай бұрын
I love architects, how did I not know this
@maximos9056 ай бұрын
Your sextoy mention had me cracking up
@callmeshaggy51666 ай бұрын
33:40 ever wondered why you're asked to select your party before jumping into Midgar, just for a PHS save point to be at the bottom when you land? This was why. The rest of your party were originally not going to survive the Midgar raid. This is also _probably_ why you can't do the Wutai sidequest on disc 3, since Yuffie either would've been dead, or in your party and they couldn't do it with just 2 people. This idea went pretty far into development.
@---nd2yx7 ай бұрын
Thumbs up instantly upon hearing the Key to the Ancients referred to as… what you referred to it as.
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Can't deny the resemblance!
@domokun61575 ай бұрын
Missing Midgar 7th infantry
@TheErtybgh7 ай бұрын
12 hours till rebirth!
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Its here!!!!
@orangejjay7 ай бұрын
Let's gooooooooo!!! ❤
@madatarchives87257 ай бұрын
Bro said Fellas that's not how you treat a woman 😂😂😂😂
@xIcyStarzz-yz7myАй бұрын
Honestly, this game the base game is just such a slog to go through. You're hanging onto a thread, that thread being the One or two actually hard battles but you have to go through essentially hours of "mini games" to progress the fucking story. From timed button presses, to .. other timed button presses, like why couldn't FF7 devs add timed hits to the game. You have all this stuff that requires engagement from the player but then combat boils down to ... press X. Legend of dragoon has an amazing combat system, why the fuck was that not considered for ff7 ??? Have it to where the player can choose, if you want to play the boring base game the way it is then sure but the game just has aged like fine milk dude. Half of the games secrets just boil down to rythem games, like when you're doing the march. I bet not many people knew what you get for, 85% vs 15% or 100, because most of us are playing through once and you can't really reliably save before any of the minigames or you have to go back multiple hours .. so is a no brainer, most of us got like 13% approval, its not like you get anything useful from it just another "grab all x of this item for 100% completion" the devs made this game extremely easy to miss things so players have to do multiple runs, jelps pad total played time.
@01devilsmilitia6 ай бұрын
i dont see the resemblence between OWA and Purple haze AT ALL
@orangejjay7 ай бұрын
Fabulous Carrots will be an awesome game provided it's not the gacha crap that EC is. 😂
@grantpjscott90427 ай бұрын
Why does this sound like it was recorded in a toilet?
@Key-Knight877 ай бұрын
Like you? 😆
@Whodat7 ай бұрын
Jenova is based off of John Carpenters: The Thing. A shape shifting alien that disguises itself as a local and sows doubt to turn them against each other
@mywhychromosome6 ай бұрын
I remember pointing this out on either something like a Reddit, or if it was even longer ago, then like a message board lol, and the response was essentially…crickets, or outright denials/“I highly doubt that” type comments. I completely agree though; I didn’t get around to seeing “The Thing” until later on (like ‘05 or so) but once I did, Jenova was what I immediately thought of. Everything you pointed out, even the way it’s described as essentially crashing to earth and then being buried in a ‘geological stratum’ in the process, then uncovered by researchers who don’t realize the danger of what they’ve dug up and in fact mistaken it for something else, something benign, until it’s too late…it was actually a really cool nod, imo. On a side note, it’s kind of interesting how Sephiroth gets all the attention when Jenova is really the thing at the center of it all.
@RoxanneLloyd-x1u6 ай бұрын
I have jenova tattooed on me x
@mywhychromosome6 ай бұрын
@@RoxanneLloyd-x1u That’s pretty sweet, the ‘original’ form that you see held in the chamber at Nibelheim??
@MisogynyMan7 ай бұрын
What if Midgal's isn't a translation error, but just a funny pun. They're mid-gals... hehehehe!
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Gals definitely ain't mid, haha.
@josephgregorowicz51357 ай бұрын
The e in Locke is silent.
@MrBrink1826 ай бұрын
The second e in “bee” is silent too. Most people don’t know this.
@maximos9056 ай бұрын
Lmao idk why thsts so funny, imma get my kids with that one@MrBrink182
@RamenKingRoshi6 ай бұрын
He pronounced Cait Sith wrong despite giving the origins of the name too
@mywhychromosome6 ай бұрын
@@RamenKingRoshiI always wondered about this, I’ve heard people say “Kai shee”, but that sounds more Japanese than Celtic…
@RamenKingRoshi6 ай бұрын
@@mywhychromosome It's pronounced close to Ket Shee but sometimes the t is swallowed so Keh/Kai Shee.
@gaspump7 ай бұрын
Couple of things I'd add: -the lyrics for One Winged Angel come from Carmina Burana, an old collection of poetry. This one is pretty well known but I didn't hear it mentioned in the video (or maybe I got distracted when you did). -FF14 has a raid called Singularity Reactor where you basically fight the Knights of the Round. I'm reasonably certain that each of the knights is equipped in the same manor as the ones in the FF7 summon but I could be wrong on that. I haven't played FF14 in years but back in the day I used to do that one just for funsies, and I still occasionally pull up a vid of it, because it's so damn cool.
@arcanoch7 ай бұрын
Do you know anything about the lyrics for the versions in Kingdom Hearts?
@GimmeTOKYO6 ай бұрын
@gaspump You’re right about the fight in XIV. Each night is basically a one for one of the summon
@Darth0015 ай бұрын
Great video I've subbed ff8 facts next please as my favourite of the series
@HellFireRPGs5 ай бұрын
Thanks! Already released 5 videos, but they're very old. Like this one, I do plan to remake them all. Check the know the facts play list if you're interested.
@01devilsmilitia6 ай бұрын
its not pronounced kite sith, its CAIT as in "KATE" sith ya bint
@redstratus977 ай бұрын
Killing off nearly the entire party except for 2 or 3 people? Yeah later that was done in the Final Fantasy The Spirits Within Movie.
@m1sterpunch6 ай бұрын
Learning that the Japanese was "Aerith" made me so happy when I was a kid because of the connection to Kabbalah. Sephiroth's name means numbers (maybe a reference to the reunion and the clones) and Tifa and Aerith are references to the 6th sephiroth in the kabbalistic tree of life "Tifareth" meaning "Beauty". And supports the love triangle in the game of Cloud, Tifa and Aerith.
@geoffnolan10537 ай бұрын
Metal band Periphery makes nods to Final Fantasy as well, they have three tracks in their discography, "Muramasa", "Ragnarok" and "Masamune"
@arcanoch7 ай бұрын
Another score for Periphery
@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers6 ай бұрын
Those are all terms that existed a very long time before this game.
@Saba_22226 ай бұрын
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCoversnew album has a track title “thanks Nobuo”
@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers6 ай бұрын
@@Saba_2222 Good example. And it's 11 minutes long! Going to give it a listen.
@samblissett99835 ай бұрын
@@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers They are but the main songwriter of the band is a huge FFVII fan, and all three songs are connected so it's definitely a reference. He did a great cover of Bombing Mission under the artist name Bulb as well!
@eji6 ай бұрын
23:40 - While this figure Steven holds up initially looks like Cloud, I'm pretty sure it's actually a character named Hero from an old famous webcomic called RPG WORLD, drawn by Ian Jones-Quartey who was a storyboard artist who worked on Steven Universe. Hero's design was literally a Cloud knockoff design which looks almost exactly like that action figure. So Ian was referencing his own webcomic character, which itself was referencing Cloud.
@ArcaneEther6 ай бұрын
Who the flip is "Locky?" 🧐
@RoxanneLloyd-x1u6 ай бұрын
It must be so hard to make videos on final fantasy with the fan base we’re all really intense. You did such a good job though well done xx
@dmann19827 ай бұрын
Irony, I have a fabric wallscroll of Advent Children Barret on my wall, which is the same image you use in your video.
@Requiemslove7 ай бұрын
When somebody states they're going to tell me a few things about FF7 that I don't know, I see that as a CHALLENGE. I've played that game for probably 1000 hours being conservative about it, probably longer than that in all reality, and have an almost encyclopedic understanding of the game. But, well done, you managed to tell me a few things I didn't know, if not about aspects of the game itself, at the least about numerous random facts aligned to it. Transcendental to it. So I must doff my proverbial cap as one obvious geek might do to another.
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Haha! I'm glad! Never too old to learn something new!
@Bozebo6 ай бұрын
Same this vid taught me a few things, I was going to make a similar comment. And I've been through every single byte, literally, of the English PAL and NTSC PS1 releases.
@RoxanneLloyd-x1u6 ай бұрын
I love this comment I too have been a hard core FFVII fan all my life completed it endless times. How good is rebirth though? I’m loving it
@DragoonMS6 ай бұрын
1. I wonder if some of those unofficial Famicom bootlegs are like certain ROM hacks and use memory mappers that aren't compatible with most emulators and/or real hardware?? With the English & graphics patch or without, that FF7 Famicom joint won't work on the Virtual Console emulator of my 3DS or N2DSXL. 2. Why the bloody hell did they keep changing the lyrics for One-Winged Angel!? The original "was PERFECT...PERFECT. Everything, down to the last...minute detail!" Also, I forgot who it was, but there's a KZbin video where someone did the instrumental of the song using the Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum sound font, set to a picture of Sinnoh Champion Cynthia...who ironically & hilariously has a very Sephiroth-like single black feathered wing on the left side of her body.
@synyster_17219 күн бұрын
Jenova killed aerith, not sephiroth. She was copying his image, so could've made a flaw and corrected it with the gloves missing then putting them on
@med46992 ай бұрын
Red XII, Cobalt XIII and Indigo XV seem like or could have been likeness or nods to Super Android 13, 14 and 15 to DBZ Movie Super Android 13
@justinburchette6 ай бұрын
_“Great special thanx to you, ARIKO. From your husband, HIDEJI”_ has just got to be one of *the best* instances of something so extraordinarily Japanese-sounding that I have ever heard in my life. It's also very sweet and cute 😌 haha *_“Great special thanx”_* ...oh god, yes 💀
@empty_melodies6 ай бұрын
Leaving comment for KZbin algorithm.
@shemsureshot6 ай бұрын
The infiltrating Shinra music sounds similar to the main theme of Running Man.
@KairoMontano5 ай бұрын
Rufus, Reno and Rude are Geese, Ripper and Hopper from SNK universe. 👌🏼
@deejay-14866 ай бұрын
Greatly made an entertaining video man 👍🏽
@lordravenblade7 ай бұрын
Interestingly, I always thought "Aeris" was intentional since it's pronounced like Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and *Strife*. "Aerith" just sounds like you've got a lisp when you say it out loud.
@Requiemslove7 ай бұрын
Nope, the true name's always been Aerith. As in Aerith Gainsborough. When you think about it, rolls off the tongue better than Aeris would, when you say the full name.
@RANDOMBFFSHOW6 ай бұрын
You like Cid more than Cait Sith....? Damn. At least Cait cares about the people of Midgar. Cid is just an unlikable asshole.
@GCeara-mh5it6 ай бұрын
Cid is my favourite FF7 character.
@AmericansikkuntАй бұрын
6:45 “kat shee” is the proper way to pronounce Cait Sith
@tokyobandz33077 ай бұрын
The "e" in Locke is silent; you know like lock and key, because he's a thei... aw nevermind great video lol
@Yurikon36 ай бұрын
For some reason I always connect Locke to John Locke while their philosophies are... Pretty wide apart.
@randyburger24246 ай бұрын
He’s not a theif! HES A TREASURE HUNTER!😂
@robintst6 ай бұрын
17:27 The Secret Cow Level reference is much more likely to be to the first Diablo where it was a false rumor that was popular with that game's fans. Diablo II didn't come out until 2000, three years after Final Fantasy VII.
@GetHumanized4 ай бұрын
So that chocoball commercial was something I vaugely remembered from over 10 years ago and could not find or even begin to know what to search for. And here it is. In plain sight as I played through my favorite FF games.
@alterego55506 ай бұрын
This Video could've kept going and i would've still been glued. 🔥
@koreanelvis3 ай бұрын
Agreed!! Even if this video was another half hour long, I’d stay tuned; just to learn more about my all time favorite game!!
@fifofuko1864Ай бұрын
Why are you speaking this way
@skolnutz6 ай бұрын
Um, it’s “lock” not Lock-ee😕
@Quetzen6 ай бұрын
Loki is not in FF6 o.o Also the french translation of FF7 is borderline unreadable and has odd mistranslations up the wazoo. In the main menu the Items command is referred to as 'Elements'. I'd love to make a list of mistranslations but it would be further more confusing considering the amount of already erroneous stuff in the english version. They did translate Cloud's sword properly as Bastard Sword though. Point 0.0001 for the french translation I guess.
@dena3107Ай бұрын
quality video thank you
@atmajaybro6 ай бұрын
This is complete speculation, but Bizzaro Sephiroth may have been a case of the translators misreading "rebirth" as "reverse", as both are pronounced the same in Japanese. Bizzaro may just mean reverse like how the superman villain Bizzaro is like a reverse superman.
@mywhychromosome6 ай бұрын
Okay so awesome video; had plenty of things new to me as someone obsessed with FF7 since ‘97, but question…were the clips shown here from some kind of modded version?? My only issue with the Remasters has been how the new character models ‘stick out’ from the backgrounds, which were left lower-res. It doesn’t appear to look like that here, and I’m ALWAYS looking for a way to improve that! Don’t care about new difficulty levels or enemies etc, just want the damn backgrounds and characters to match, lol
@shinra3587 ай бұрын
jimmy hendricks song also sounds like the majority of crisis core
@HolidayAtHome6 ай бұрын
4:02 also the texture of the ground changes. It's one time a checker pattern and the other time just white( I think )
@KennyWolf6 ай бұрын
Another fact about One Winged Angel. It was also influenced by Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The way the song is structured like many different songs in one.
@TheCldmstrsn6 ай бұрын
the fuck is a locky?
@chrischarlescook7 ай бұрын
I dont think you understand what an anagram is. Also Aerith was Aeris in Europe too. Good video though.
@hojo-was-right81757 ай бұрын
pretty sure there's a reference to Greek letters somewhere too. Think it's displayed in game at a station of sorts ... ahh need to look into this and find it. I had a screenshot of it ages ago but now long gone.
@kalandarkclaw88926 ай бұрын
The "ghost of Aerith in the church is nit a ghost but a loading glitch. The ghost thing wqs debunked a long time ago
@doctorjustice5 ай бұрын
FC First Crisis?
@robertxhacker7 ай бұрын
26:00 Sounds like they recycled that storyline for FFX with Khimari and the Ronso tribe.
@King_Puffleump4 ай бұрын
Lock’ee’??
@shivur50737 ай бұрын
No nod to adventure time when jake visits jermaine and uses the buster sword to fight off the demons?
@Therealhumanresources6 ай бұрын
That makes so much sense now that tifa wears cowgirl outfit sense she has a big Texas sign above her bar
@maximos9056 ай бұрын
The tires are a mix of goodyear and firestone, not birdgestone
@toadarga6 ай бұрын
We already have FC, yknow First Coldier 😂
@2000mightymegatron6 ай бұрын
Final Fantasy, don’t level Aerith edition.
@BeansEnjoyer9116 ай бұрын
Great idea remastering this series with the hype on FF7!
@pereinar15685 ай бұрын
Sephiroth: "7 seconds til the end"
@BostonWells6 ай бұрын
Bullets design in advant is the best
@Xbob427 ай бұрын
"Death comes suddenly and there is no notion of good or bad" "We didn't kill off all these other characters because it would dilute the meaning of Aerith's death" While not directly contradictory, I feel like these ideas do conflict with each other. Ascribing an intended "meaning" to death is also something that only happens in media, not in real life. People search for that meaning in real life, but as far as we can tell, there is none. Death is indiscriminate and without mercy. By the very nature of intending Aerith's death to *have* a meaning, I feel they diluted their own stated goals somewhat.
@Davedabrave-6 ай бұрын
The tissue was for happy tears 😂
@kalandarkclaw88926 ай бұрын
The Advent Children barret design was so weird looking
@tish7337 ай бұрын
FC - Its got to be "First Class"
@phil85167 ай бұрын
10:26 now my ears are bleeding
@VictoryNotVengeance6 ай бұрын
A couple things that can only be obtained through insane amounts of grinding: Vincent’s overflow glitch. 65,535 kills- allows you to one-shot *almost* every enemy in the game with his Death Penalty weapon, including Emerald Weapon. Mastering Underwater materia. 16,777,215 AP- the equivalent of mastering 33.5 KOTR materia, and you have to hit the AP number EXACTLY, or it rolls over and resets to zero. Old man in the cave. Go to him to find out how many battles you’ve fought. Everyone knows that. But what most people DIDN’T know is that his battle ‘counter’ resets after you pass 65,535 battles. And yes, I’ve accomplished all of these feats. The old man’s battle counter has, so far, reset 22 times😉
@shintenkai16485 ай бұрын
It's about time you went outside
@VictoryNotVengeance5 ай бұрын
@@shintenkai1648 🤣🤣🤣 but it’s rainy and cold out there🤨
@gameskyjumper17215 ай бұрын
Nanaki's name. Nana means 7 in Japanese.
@arcanoch7 ай бұрын
Not the giant fork omggggg
@ARDIZsq6 ай бұрын
Ah yes, "Kite Sith"
@joshramirez13357 ай бұрын
Awesome vid! Would love to see these for some of the other FFs!
@HellFireRPGs7 ай бұрын
Thanks! I do have them for every FF. Videos are just very old. Still great facts though Check out the know the facts play list
@AspieGamer19864 ай бұрын
If you thought the Final Fantasy VII mini games were great. You should try Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
@Tr3v0rUnKn0wN6 ай бұрын
Aries and Aerith are BOTH wrong. It should be pronounced Aerith but spelled Areth (anagram for earth) but people pronounced it Areeth which is even worse 😅so they added an I
@Drinthony6 ай бұрын
Why do you talk like that
@HellFireRPGs6 ай бұрын
Because I'm from a different country than the USA. People tend to talk differently depending on where they're from in the world.
@Jburneyjr7 ай бұрын
How did you forget to mention wheb Cloud levels up for the first time he goes to level 7
@greggjohnson76 ай бұрын
He does mention it @22:55
@stenpod93686 ай бұрын
22:35 never would have noticed books saying 'VII'
@kelly41875 ай бұрын
"Cait Sith" is also pronounced "Cat Shee" because gaelic never sounds as it is written.
@paluxyl.86826 ай бұрын
Not many talk about it, but back in the days was FF7 and FF8 really hated by many gamers, parents and stores that sell videogames. Gamers hated it because they wanted action, kids and many adults was confused or bored by all the menus. Parents hated the game because their kids stopped to play the games after less that few hours (in some cases even some minutes) and their kids wanted a new game. Stores hated the games because many people who bought the games wanted their money back or an other game as exchange. I have talked back in the days to over 100 people who played both games, I have only met just 1 other person who had completed FF7 and that was a person who worked in a video game store and only 2 persons who had beaten FF8 ... the same worker from the video game store and the other was a person who worked in a comic shop. I was back in the days a big fan of both games and it was always a mystery to my why the Final Fantasy games was so hated.
@RoxanneLloyd-x1u6 ай бұрын
You’ve been swinging in the wrong circles man I’ve completed 8 like ten times and 7 countless as the story’s so good. I remember when 8 was released by Xmas it’s all I asked for and I got a full game pack, memory card tshirt squalls necklace and the game. It is a life choice liking this game series but it’s not hard to find people who have completed it! How are you liking rebirth? I’m fucking obsessed 87 hours gameplay since release me 🎉x
@paluxyl.86826 ай бұрын
@@RoxanneLloyd-x1u I still haven't played Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth, because I got not a PS5 ... also I play at the moment too many other games. One other thing with the new FF7 game is that it comes in parts and it could take over 20 years till the whole story is finished. I think the new FF7 parts are on a much higher level than the originals ...... I can imagine me spending over 200 hours in each part. ^^
@sbencic41476 ай бұрын
Not true , it was instantly loved
@paluxyl.86826 ай бұрын
@@sbencic4147 It depend to the people you talk to ..... and about: "it was instantly loved" - sure but only loved by people who was jrpg fans and by game magazines. Roleplaying games with turnbased combat was and are still niche games that don't apeal to the majority of players.
@mattbarker14115 ай бұрын
@@paluxyl.8682ff7 was one of the best selling ps1 games of all time..... You're tripping.
@sintanan4696 ай бұрын
Time to pour petrol on things... It's Aerith. People that desperately cling to Aeris are narcissists that cannot be wrong. It's Aerith as a play on the word "earth", since Aerith is a Cetra with ties to the planet.
@strra6 ай бұрын
It's Bowser/King Koopa and Peach/Princess Toadstool all over again. Both can be okay, though. It can be canonically one thing but it's okay to have head canon too.
@kinghell90617 ай бұрын
It's a shame they didn't stay true(r) to the original game design in the remake. The extreme padding and OTT action just watered down a classic.
@dgates80977 ай бұрын
There was absolutely zero reason for them to do that. They would have displeased fans of the OG due to how sacred it is for many, and the older mechanics simply wouldn’t have captivated a newer generation (as much as I enjoy it personally), nor generated nearly as much hype and sales. In its current form - a sequel - the FF7 OG is more essential to the overall story than ever before. AND it’s still allowed to stand alone, not being viewed as the “old/outdated version” from newcomers and more casual fans. There was no need to remake perfection. The majority of us purposely didn’t/don’t play with the PC mods because we believe the original graphics were essential to the original’s atmosphere.
@jthen84547 ай бұрын
@@dgates8097then maybe they should clarify that they are not actually remaking ff7....
@dgates80977 ай бұрын
@@jthen8454 Nah. It was fun to discover that for oneself while playing Remake. The game did just fine, as is Rebirth doing just fine, without catering to that request.
@dgates80977 ай бұрын
And if that wasn’t 110% clear while playing Remake, then the person playing didn’t know much about the OG FF7 to begin with.
@colonelradec59567 ай бұрын
@@dgates8097ff7 og mods are insane. I disagree xD. Og was great. 10 outa 10 easily. That becomes a 12 outa 10 with voice mods and better graphics. I do agree with you about remake though. No need to remane perfection. So istead try tk bring something new with the old story and i think theyve done that beautifully in rebirth.