What I Learned Photographing NPCs in Final Fantasy VII Remake

My deep dive into the character design, clothing, worldbuilding, and ambient dialogue of NPCs from Final Fantasy VII Remake, after I spent a year photographing NPCs.
Through subtitled dialogue, the best feature of 7R's NPCs is that they draw your attention to a ton of world details and story vignettes, often in visually interesting ways. Also featured: the NPCs of Final Fantasy XV, who seemed to have laid some of this groundwork -- and starkly reminded me how important food is to the world & culture of FFXV.
This video is excerpted from a longer deep dive into several games I photographed NPCs in. See below.
NPCs of Gaming Year in Review 2021 (Full Video): • What I Learned Photogr...

[@mattwo7]

7:50 These are ones I noticed myself and I have to say that I wouldn't say the new recruit really changed much, it's the senior officer who's forced to accept the reality of their situation. It's interesting though how the new recruit was idealistic, being the younger and newer one of the two, while the senior officer was set in his ways, firmly believing he was on the right side of history until the plate came crashing down.

[@khaledgabaicozylotus1134]

Love these vids, you deserve more popularity!

[@McBanditHope]

5:24 He's right you know

[@AbsoluteCero]

Holy shit. That was real cool. Thanks for making this.

[@mattwo7]

11:12 She also isn't wearing overalls in the Train Graveyard, this is a different outfit entirely.

[@lukegriffinsword5490]

6:09 This needs more views

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

I hope you get more popular.

[@starseeker3002]

What if you girl from the start has geostigma?

[@mattwo7]

Geostigma came from the lifestream becoming infected with Jenova's memetic legacy as a result of Sephiroth being killed and returning to it, while having Jenova's genetic information inside of him (plus this enabled him to stay cognizant like Areith with her Cetra DNA, allowing Sephiroth to deliberately infect the lifestream, just as Areith had the lifestream collectively cast Holy to stop Meteor before). Between all the hallucinations and illusions, the real Sephiroth hasn't even shown up yet in the remake (except maybe at the edge of creation, which is the only point in the entire game he could have been the real deal).

[@starseeker3002]

@@mattwo7 honestly with all the tike travel/alternate universe shenanigans, I still think it's possible for her to have it

[@mattwo7]

@@starseeker3002 ...That's not how that works. That only happened at the end of the game.

[@micaelrodriguez6489]

another gane witt npcs like FInal fantasy 15 and 7 try Lighting returns