Final Fantasy VII Explained (in 23 minutes)
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2021
- A cautionary tale about aliens, pollution, and really big swords.
/ chasekip
Music and backgrounds taken from the games: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Art, editing, and voiceover done by Chase Kip. - Hry
“Cause he’s Hojo dude, he’s crazy”
I feel like that explains just about half of the story honestly
We can't fire him he has tenure
"Ohhhh, you wanna know whyyy? Because this! Is! My! Fffffffffetish! *maniacal laughter*"
true dat
@@Nod_Lucario People have waged wars for less.
Pretty realistic in that light. Says something of humanity doesn't it?
Is it wrong to laugh when hearing that line 🐧
The clashing themes of "protect the earth, don't pollute" and "if you dig a deep enough hole you can get superpowers" sits heavily on my mind.
Maybe it goes a layer deeper. Digging a hole deep enough to get super powers isn’t worth destroying the world over. Just be content with who you are and take care of your environment
@@JahLordNolan No, that's what you tell people to convince them not to compete with you for superpowers.
@@frostatine hey you want to split the superpowers?
@@cringekid07 Only one of us gets out of the hole alive, let's not pretend here.
Hey share with me some of that powers. Cause someone needs to make sure you guys are dealt with if (when) you guys loose your sanity.
I appreciate how you explained Cloud's first story as a combination of trauma and brain damage from unethical experiments rather than him deliberately lying. I don't know why so many people feel like it was all a conscious lie and Cloud actively knew the truth the whole time; if he had, he would have realized Tifa would have remembered things completely differently and wouldn't have tried to lie.
I mean like at first, anyone would consider him a unreliable narrator, but by the time he's in the wheelchair, I feel like no one should think he was just pretending to be a gigachad
Play crisis core... He was literally put in a vial of mako energy by Hojo... Zack carries him around constantly talking to him while he's poisoned leading to him to pick up Zacks traits... Mako's weird like that..... Lol.
@@JoeKing-lv5rfHow many years was he in that as well, 4 right? 4 years while his mind is still in a developmental stage
Never heard of anyone saying cloud knowingly lied but go off sis
@@zach1972 for years yea lol he weren't just dipped in 😂 crisis core goes deeper into how maco works too tho.
11:21 "but Tifa points out all the plot holes so it's deemed non-canon"
That's legit the funniest way to explain that part possible
I don’t understand, what’s the meaning of that ??? Can u explain to me please
@@doctorfate585she doesn't remember Cloud being in Sephiroth's party back at Nibelheim
@@MrPonikata She never explains that until far later in the game though. She plays along for his explanation at Kalm, and the only thing she disputes is "Did you go into my room?" and then he finds something called "Orthopedic Underwear" in her room and she says "that never happened" to which he replies "I swear it's true!" or "Okay I'm just playing".
Thats what i was saying. Because if Tifa did mention those broken plot points, Cloud wouldve had a mental breakdown in Kalm
@@doctorfate585she’s the one who knows what’s actually going on but she never says anything until the end
this whole game could've been avoided if vincent had just shot hojo back
totally true! XD
but... then we wouldn't be able to play the game.
Factz
Vincent’s appearance comes off as intimidating but irl he’s just a depressed Emo reminiscing on how his only true love dumped him for a mentally ill scientist
So true
I like the headcanon that sepiroths comically long sword is called "natural causes."
Hey if the government has to looks a the causes of death for large groups of deaths, it’s just, ya know, “natural causes” not anything strange, like I don’t know, a sword.
That’s too epic to be a headcanon. You gotta make an original character with a weapon outright named Natural Causes, for both the epic factor and the joke factor
Shame it's actually called Masamune. Much cooler but way less funny. Therefore, my head canon is that Sephiroth nicknames his sword Natural Causes.
Technically being killed by sephiroth’s sword is natural, steel comes from the earth (plus a lot of purification and stuff) and technically bleeding is also natural, therefore, it is natural causes
@@bigbubba7899 Unless the sword was formed from the ground without artificial intervention, it was man-made.
Clouds hair poking out of...everything is just *chefs kiss*
I love how you do the origin of why the lore exists first, and then you start with the game story. Seriously, that helps organize and follow these over cooked plots!I absolutely love you, simple explanations and jokes of these CRAZY convoluted stories. I have legit watched your videos on repeat. I'm hoping you tackle the Metal Gear Solid series! Please post more videos. I hope all is well in your life!
The lore is part of the game story it just starts in medias res (in the middle of the action, like Star Wars) and the story gets delivered in flashbacks, documents, witness testimony, and because the game is so big and so much stuff is optional (i.e. Sephiroth's real origins are explained by Vincent), it just gets drowned.
@KasumiR IT really does get drowned. Personally, I never cared to learn more into loves, through documents in games or letters. When done right, it can be dam good storytelling while adding layers of background. But a lot of games and other types of media kinda use it as a cop out to throw things together and explain via text.
"Unfortunately nothing good ever lasts for our boy Zack."
Right in the feels man....
That hurt me too
Yeah...
R.I.P
The life and times of a secondary NPC.
The lifestream just kept swinging.
And the only one of his friends to get a good outcome is genesis... probably.
"However Hojo is still off his medication..." An excellent description and explanation for quite a few important events.
👍🤣
Classic Hojo! 😅😅😅
A few things to mention:
Jenova is heavily inspired by John carpenters movie The Thing, which features a shape-shifting alien. Sephiroth and jenovas powers are not necessarily magic, but are a part of jenovas actual organic material. Jenova is a parasite that live by feeding off of the lifestreams of different planets.
Sephiroths character and reasons are a little more complex than just "hey bro", but i get that it fit the video. Sephiroth sees jenova for what she is, and, lacking ultimate purpose and motivation for existence, sees his mother as a role model. It is not a good purpose, but sephiroth wants any purpose, and sees replacing his mother as a planet eating demon as better than nothing. He also envies cloud for having an origin and purpose, and toys with him as a sadistic outlet. Lastly, sephiroth stylized himself as an angel, because of his mother's physiology of one wing and his metaphoric ascent into godhood/divinity. He also doesn't realize that life is what you choose for yourself, and doesn't require you to follow a "destiny" or purpose, so he doesn't see any other choice.
There’s some headcanon mixed in though
You can still see some of that in the game, it's just more implicit. It provides logical reasoning for some of sephiroths actions. Sephiroth seems sullen and lonely in his actions before the nibelheim reactor. It makes sense Why he'd be upset after the discovery of the experiment pods, but why would he immediately go and start researching Jenova, and why would he immediately start thinking of her as his mother and start imitating her? You can say insanity, but he'd still need some driving reason, however irrational, to drive him to do what he does. Without this, sephiroth is just a 2d villain, which wouldn't make sense considering the cleverness of the rest of the story.
@@evanmurphy118 when sephiroth began studying jenova for days on end in isolation after discovering the one thing he yearned for and thought about his whole life, his mother, was a monster, nobody did anything. zach saw the whole thing, yet nobody cared to actually wonder about his wellbeing or offer him any sort of support. /anything/. they knew what he was doing and where he was, but nobody cared. even beforehand, sephiroth was always alone. i think a lifetime of loneliness, no family, being an outcast and seeing horrible things, and then discovering something terrifying about yourself, and then STILL nobody caring, made him snap.
Seraphim have six wings usually, not one, though. Cherubim are the ones with four faces and four wings.
@@KasumiRINA fair enough. I'll change that.
For someone who didn't know much about the lore, just the overall picture, this was fantastic. I appreciate this and how funny it was and the lore is totally not confusing at times lol. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Something tells me that sephiroth wants cloud to come to his reunion
There will be potato salad.
Same but idk, just a hunch
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley And dis pear.
@@ryanm.8720 Absolutely, a reunion is never complete without dis pear.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley don't forget Sephiroth's favourite sweet, grape skittles
I love how sepiroth is flustered at inviting cloud to his party.
Its not like I want you to be there or anything...baka
i-idiot..
*awkwardly floats off screen*
@@dirkgoesfishing What I love is how accurate this.
@@MrKodachii don't think you're using baka right. But then again I'm actually Japanese and unaware of most of the dumb jokes that go on.
@@venti9925 That style of joke is used commonly, it is possible that the grammar placing is not correct. But people generally get the context because there is so little to actually translate.
I didn't realize until you pointed it out, that Sephiroth could and was controlling Jenova. All of that text in the game over countless hours of grinding levels made it easy to forget a sentence or two!
It all makes sense now how it just got out of the Shin'Ra HQ, murdering and leaving trails of blood along the way.
I’m pretty sure that was a pretty big detail, sephiroth controlling jenova
@@HabitualThinker
Was it always clear that Sephiroth was controlling Jenova instead of Jenova controlling Sephiroth?
@@KirisutonoNeko I still think that it's ambiguous who is in control, and I think it's sort of intentionally left that way. The only thing I'll mention is that I don't personally think the human in Sephiroth was the kind of person to do what he did in Nibelheim. It was seen as a massive break of character by everyone that knew him. So I sort of think that at that time, Jenova somehow flipped a switch in Sephiroth and either essentially began controlling his actions, or at least in some way upped the influence of his Jenova part. But that's just my opinion
@@stephengould7726your answer fitted with the Naked lady alien pov, where Jenova was a controlled cetra infected by the alien, so does cloud, sadly. The reason why Jenova could transform into sephiroth only after 7 years past Nibelheim incident was because Jenova require another sentient subject awaken (cloud was the reason Jenova awoke, because he makes contact by peeking Jenova's chamber). Given that cloud was a puppet made by Hojo by injecting Cloud Jenova's cell, effectively made him the last Jenova Subject alive (Soldier).
This would sum up why Cloud gives the Black Materia, raise his sword to aerith, flew to Sephiroth's real body at Northern crater and so on. And Jenova cells was the geostigma all this time
The animation of the Meteor meteria rolling off of Barret's arm made me laugh really hard. Great vid!
Clouds hair stabbing through his hat and helms is something I didn’t know I needed
Red XIII was captured by Shinra because of his very long lifespan. Hojo was planning to breed him with Aerith to create an ancient with a long lifespan. It's not said clearly, but it is strongly implied, although you would probably miss this if you were a kid when playing the game.
Yeah they didn't had the balls to put that in the remake. They said with soldiers candidates instead
From what i remember... He only mentioned that each were the last of their species and needed to be preserved. I never got the "breeding" vibe until TFS made a joke about it on FF7 abridged haha
Also, Red is a CANINE, not a FELINE.
@@ThunderGenesis He seems to have a cat body and dog head but he barks and howls so i guess dog it is.
@@RIELTURO No matter what its Hojo being creepy
This is so good. The detailed explanation while also being a little tongue in cheek about how goofy some aspects of the story are. Chefs kiss 💋
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Now every time hojo comes on screen in my game I say "because he's hojo, he's crazy" in your voice to myself/no one lol
I really enjoyed this. I’ve played through FFVII, Crisis Core, and even Dirge of Cerberus, and watched Advent Children a million times and still never know what’s happening. Breaking it down like this was very helpful. I wish we could get more videos like this.
Aight, a few things that weren't already mentioned in comments:
-The planet has a name and is called Gaia
-Sephiroth was injected with Jenova cells while still in the womb
-Jenova was in Nibelheim so they could create soldiers/monsters in the reactor
-Barret adopts Marlene because he thought Dyne was dead, not because he became unstable
-You need a Keystone to get into the Temple of the Ancients, not another materia
-The Black Materia isn't in the Temple, it IS the Temple. It shrinks because whoever is inside needs to solve a series of puzzles, which upon completing each one shrinks the Temple further, therefore killing whoever is inside. The Temple becomes small enough to be usable as a materia, but like...you're dead now
-The snowboarding mini game is not fun that's just a fact
-Specifically, Red is the one who gives Cloud the black materia in the crater because nobody else wanted to even touch it
I see you're a man of culture.
@@SuperKirumaru This game has consumed so much of my brain real estate I'm wondering if it's a curse
You can also choose Barret to hold the black materia, him and Red 13 are the only ones that Cloud is allowed to give it to.
On that last part, at some point you start not trusting yourself so you’re given the option to give the Materia to another party member. For you that must have been Red because that’s who you chose to carry it
The Gaia name is never used in-game. It's always called 'the planet' by every character.
You forgot about the part where Sephiroth T-poses on aerith after he kills her. Because he's crazy.
Lmfaoo
He does more of a capital Y pose than a T pose.
"OH MY GOD! Who the hell is Aerith?"
- Cloud, Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening
Is it just me or does sephiroth and cloud looks like giorno
@@ProjectTony praise the sun
This has got to be my favorite FFVII plot explanation video. I love watching it whenever I need a memory refresher (and I'm always quoting the stuff about Hojo for some reason). Good news, the next part of the remake is coming this winter and I can't wait to see what you'll do!
ayy bro, dude you MADE my morning with this. I believe I was blessed by some Higher Power to have experienced this as ONE of the FIRST games I ever played, back on my older brothers PlayStation with the disc cleaner and the cords and gray controllers....ahhh man, now I am 31, but I am so grateful homies like you create content like this. Incredibly entertaining for any audience, but those few little inside "you-were-there-so-you-know" jokes throughout the video, I felt like I was back with my old friends, feeling superior to all in our nerdy inside knowledge of the game hahaha Thank you homie, you got me to subscribe!
The Sephiroth "akwardly flying offscreen" is actually somewhat accurate lmao
When Cloud drops the black materia onto Barret's gun arm and it just rolls off...I'm dying, dude. Well done.
This was a very good explanation. There were always some things about final fantasy vii that I couldn't piece together. Now things kinda make sense
Also there’s a theory that aerith wasn’t all the way dead when they buried her, since dead bodies tend to float, and the location of the stab wound didn’t kill her, but the deceptively deep pool did 😅
Cloud accidentally drowning Aerith is hilarious
aerith pranking their friends into thinking shes dead
cloud drowns her without knowing it was a joke
Bruh... The sword went straight though her poking out the other end, and why are so many murdered bodies thrown in the sea?
Dead bodies may float eventually but it's not like: you dead, float mode activated. 🥴
@@JoeKing-lv5rfbecause the sea is big, and as for the sword this comment is a joke
An important point is that when Sephiroth is explaining to Cloud what "really" happened in Nibelheim, *Sephiroth doesn't actually know* what really happened. He's just extrapolating based off of the consequences he saw at the reactor. This is important because he assumes that Cloud was a puppet who was just following him around, and that idea led him to overconfidence in his control of Cloud that is eventually exploited. It's a key plot point that explains why Sephiroth's entire plan unravels because of toying with Cloud.
Oh my gosh he’s back. These makes my day every 4 months.
Ayyy thanks! i appreciate it and am glad you enjoy the videos!
@@ChaseKip Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep: Explained
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Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.
Decent summary. Minor correction: *Cetra*, not "Centra".
Would've been cool to see Vincent burst out into his Dirge-of-Ceberus Gargoyle-form when the narrator says "experimented on", and/or mention that he eventually is found by Cloud in a locked-up coffin in the basement of a Nibelheim estate (since AC/DoC/and everything else since the original makes finding, and keeping, Vincent and Yuffie as canon), and also that Lucrecia is talked to, whilst living as a female hermit (hermitess? spinster?) behind a waterfall in the middle of nowhere. Red XIII was the (almost; per Advent Children) "last" remaining descendant of another ancient race of powerful talking animals that had an affinity for guarding the planet and was kept for study out of similar curiosity for the past. Possibly -- knowing Doctor Fraudc-, er, MojoHojo feeling spurned by the attention Professor X gave the Powerpuff Girls -- for artificial repopulation of his species....not quite as real a repopulation as it would be naturally, in the wild. OH, and it would've also have been cool to expound a bit more on Crisis Core, in saying that the Buster Sword that Zack Faire gives Cloud Strife originally belonged to Angeal Hewley, something a pre-Cloud mentor to a younger Zack and even mentor and rival to a pre-crazed Sephiroth, when the local crazy-of-the-month/year was a wannabe poet-samurai named Genesis Rhapsody, partly responsible for Lucrecia blaming herself for said death of the father of a younger Vincent when he was part of the Turks, long before objecting to MojoHojo's machinations and idiosyncrasies. Producer's call on whether or not Before Crisis story/Turk backstory content is worth fleshing out. Original was only ever on select Sprint flip-phones that very few played, regardless of mobile gaming not ever taking off in the States as compared to across the Pacific in the "East". Same with whether or not the "vegetative state" clones in the original/Remake(s) are a combination of the three wannabe-Sephiroths in Advent Children or not (clarification on that?), or if those just came out of nowhere at that point in time for that particular "Reunion" (of those containing similar cells). Also would've liked the Don Corneo storyline included....with sexy Aeris/Aerith and Tifa illustrations! =)
11:55 in with the blushing cheeks on Sephiroth and party hats on the clones was lit AF! Reeve IS a total Chad, btw! Polycentric Law and private security firm "World Regensis Organization" to the rescue with Shinra's new management!
16:09 in, Aw, come on! Aerith' death was/is one of "the" seminal video game "moments" in history! (Loved how the materia falls off Barrett's gatling-arm, btw; but the "optimal" character set-up for the final boss battle is Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cloud, not only because they are the most powerful characters in-game, but also because two of the three were/are Turks, responsible for SOLDIERS, and one cosplayed as one for most of the game and showing up a real SOLDIER that hurt him and his friends is kind of the whole "Gohan-beats-Cell"/Ash-beats-Gary main character focus. Tifa's a cowgirl-bartender, Barrett's crippled, Red XIII is a dog/wolf or cat/tiger/lion, Yuffie is a little girl who thinks she's a ninja, and Cid is a chainsmoking mechanic. They can stay behind and fight the sub-final-boss in the "get everyone on the card" match, this player will take the Chad-magic-wielding robot with a Scottish accent, the real life Bat-man, and spiky-haired Tsundere who can lift swords bigger than his torso and has the most backstory and trauma any day!
17:42 in, respectifully disagree! The planet-summoned "WEAPONS" are a pivotal part of the broader FF7 storyline and are the Jurassic Park 1 Jeff Goldblum character moment, whereby "Life (Nature)....finds a way", and Nature overpowering Nurture. Humans concerned more with genetic- and social-engineering try to rebuke these Godzillas with technology, but are barely half-successful before needing to rely on the Nature-loving main cast to settle down the overreaction by the body, er, planet, as to not exhaust itself to death with these white blood cells, er, "WEAPONS". "Hojo turns green"....like he said "yuh wouldn't like him when he's angry!"
LOVE how the spiky hairstyle exudes past headgear in the animation! =) But where's the Knights of the Round materia and chocobo breeding and racing???
*Old Egoraptor summary ending voice from Newgrounds* "...And that's why it's the best game ever!"
This is incredibly well done. A difficult story to tell without being the one who played it, but you made it very lucid! Subbed.
You forgot the best part of the game where palmer is hit by a truck
One of the reasons why I can't take FF7 seriously...
Palmer is fine, just got isekai'ed
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True
THEY BETTER ADD THAT IN THE REMAKE LMAO
I have played ff7 several times since my childhood, but never clearly understand the whole story. Thank you for the simple and fun video
XD so now with the New ff7 remake its much more complicated
It made more sense if you also played dirge of cerebus and ff7 crisis core.
@@dinoflagella4185 it makes even more sense if you watch all the harry potter films
@@MasterYoda389 This is the way
I still don’t understand one thing, why does everyone hate Cait Sith? Is it bad stats, terrible writing, or tacky design?
I love your humor and story telling. It is detailed.
Dude, this really made my day.
Red wasn’t supposed to become a sephiroth clone - his species has incredible longevity (he’s like 50 in the game, which is the human equivalent of 12) and so Hojo wanted to breed him with Aerith to try to create a Cetra who could essentially live “forever”…long enough to withstand their testing
For a supposed genius scientist Hojo sure is one stupid mf if he thinks that’s how crossbreeding works lol
Oh, so rule34 with Red and Aerith is nearly a canon?
@@SanyaBane ¿Que?
Oh nah 😂😂😂😂😂🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
@@SanyaBane If cloud & co had arrived and hour late, Aerith would have had dog-girl puppies. Oof…
I love how clouds hair pierces every hat he wears
This is my new favorite youtube channel. Thank you for your hard work.
I like the fact you put in the detail of zack using the dull side of the buster sword.
“But Tifa points out all the plot holes in his fan fiction so he’s deemed non-canon”. Can’t stop laughing!!!!! Great video mate!!!
It’s a damn shame Sephiroth never came across Vincent’s coffin in the shinra mansion and got all the answers of his origin.
He has bigger fish to fry at that point 😂
Lol even if he did come across him it wouldn’t change nothin ion think
that's what not doing sidequests do to ya
@@DmitrySholokhovskipped the “look into locked room” side quest and now he’s locked into the bad ending
@@presidentjenkins6480it would have changed everything
Such a great explanation. Played OG 20 years ago, I totally forgot the story and I missed many parts because I didn't ingest what was happening well. This video clearly explains the whole saga, and it shows how brilliant the story is.
I am so glad I discovered your channel! This is amazing content 😂❤
The worst case scenario happens
"Another Cait Sith appears"
It is the worse case scenario
Its actually horrible
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
If only aerith could use that plot convience power
still don't understand how did it happened
The "because he's Hojo and he's crazyyy" has me dead every time 😂😂 That man is both smart and fucked in the head lol
That exact phrase kinda reminds me of Crazy Dave from PvZ:
"Because I'm CRAZY"
- Crazy Dave -
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. "
Oscar Levant
If you're not fucked in the head then you're not smart.
Trust me on this one. In order to understand the worst you have to know it. Even take pleasure in it. The alternative is worse. If you don't enjoy what you do then you really will go insane. Hojo's enjoying himself. Knowing full well what he does. That makes him quite logical and rational. Don't think he even cares about paradise. Probably just wants to see what what he does to learn from it. If it costs you then so be it. He's not obligated to care. Nor is anyone giving him a reason too. At least not that we see in game. So when an evil cooperation offers to hire you then what else is he going to do?
People that judge him, look down on him. They may as well have offered him to that cooperation.
Wow that was very well explained! Thanks for the video!
I can’t be the only one getting unreasonably irritated about “centra”, right?
Make-o.
I thought they were called the Cetra, and Centra was from FFVIII.
They are. Idk why he thought that
Either he did it on purpose to be funny or he just got the two names mixed up, idk
It is cetra
also said mako wrong
@@ultragoat95 I think "Mah-ko" and "May-ko" are both acceptable pronunciations.
The materia rolling off Barret's "arm" made me choke on my dinner.
Amazing video mate. Great work.
I remember first seeing my college buddy playing it back in like 98' or so. He was actually fighting Hojo at the Sister Ray and trying his best to explain the story while trying to beat him
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His drawings are immaculate
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I am glad he is back
The drawings are cool, but well-explained?
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Uhh...
Just some clarifications:
1 - Jenova takes the form of the host they are infecting, she didn't arrive as a naked lady, at the time of its imprisonment Jenova had the form of a naked cetra lady.
2 - Sephiroth went mad a Nibelheim because he thought Jenova was an Ancient and therefore he too was an Ancient.
He also went mad because he was too close to Jenova, so she started to control him to release her and help her; the same happened to Cloud every time he faced Jenova, because of her cells.
also i dont think barret founded avalanche, pretty sure he just joined
There are a whole lot more than 2 clarifications. IE, for a huge part of the game its not Sephiroth you see, its Jenova. You don't actually see Sephiroth in the current timeline until Northern Crater.
Also, clarification specifically on 'number 2' Sephiroth went mad, because he had everything he ever believed shattered, but it wasn't specifically that which made him go mad. That caused cracks in his psyche, which Jenova was then able to force its way into to manipulate Sephiroth. Jenova had been in a dormant state, and Sephiroth was the first time enough of Jenova had been active in something to, for lack of a better term, wake Jenova up, but Sephiroth's will was too strong for Jenova to control, up until that point.
Further clarification: the plot actually has nothing to do with 'Sephiroth clones', they're numbered Hojo experiments infused with Jenova cells. That was just poor translation/plot changes made to the westernized OG FF7.
@@ikeillue8385 Further clarification: Sephiroth actually controls Jenova, not the other way around.
I watched a lot of summaries, and I liked this one too. I liked your cognate style
This was amazing! So easy to digest. Thank you!
I like how about 5% of this story got through to me while playing the game, but the overall themes and mystery of everything made the story very compelling.
Yeah I started this game when I was like 10, and I think I beat it at around 13. I was pretty confused, but I told myself I understood because I had beaten the game.
btw, Safer Sephiroth is a mistranslation. His ACTUAL name is "Seraph Sephiroth" as in Seraphim.
Make sense,
But in German version it is Retter-Sephiroth which mean Savior Sephiroth (which sounds actually make sense than seraph)
Any of them are better than Safer-Sephiroth. I felt like it was a play on words because he's floating and unless you got that reach materia basic melee attacks didn't work.
wasn't it supposed to be sepher sephiroth? which means 'book of numerations'
This makes sense. But the name Sephiroth is already So close to .... Wait ... Was his name meant to be derivative of seraphim? You know, because he's evil and his mother was from the heavens? God damn it japanese people.
i like how clouds nemesis is just like hey bro there's a reunion you should come *then causally floats away*
This is awesome. Haven't played and watched this fully since like 1998. Every attempt aftewards I ignored the story. Great to wrap this all up right to the point.
Man, Hojo must be fun at parties.
Ff7’s story sounds so weird on paper, but really amazing in game
The music brainwashes you. Just replace the BGM with something more generic and boring and see if the story holds up.
@@al-hilalgames5708 i mean the music is there to not look better, but help the already imerised player more
You just described everything ever
History sounds insane on paper, books, comics, games, manga, anime, VN's all sound insane in theory but it's rhe writing that makes em worthwhile. That and music, visuals etc
Then there's Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus, and FF7 Remake just throws all that out the window
@@liammcnicholas918 thats true lmao
Any chance u can make a video for the rest of yhe fantasy series? Love ur work btw
However, Tifa does not actually point out anything. She doesn't confront Cloud. She keeps to herself, and his story is taken for granted by the group, and by the player. Tifa's psychology is a key component of the story, as she alone holds the truth at that point and chooses to hide it from everybody .
Yea, that's where I stopped the video. After a bunch of small issues that one stuck out to me.
She's a woman, that's what they do and their reactions or lack thereof is the typical reality.
@@djedirashakim6883 Bro what? 😭✋️
Tifa doesn't actually know what is going on either. When Could came back to Nibelheim as a military scrub he was wearing his faceless henchmen outfit the entire time and never revealed himself to anybody in his hometown out of embarrassment. So all Tifa sees is that Cloud has some weirdly specific memories of events that he wasn't actually present for, all from the perspective of Zack, whom is somebody she actually met. She never brings it up with the party because she didn't want to make her childhood friend look like a lunatic. And she doesn't figure out that Cloud was one of the faceless henchmen until they drop into the live stream and explore his jumbled memories together.
@@djedirashakim6883 incel much?
"...Lucrecia blamed herself for the death of Vincent's father, soooo she started a relationship with butt-ugly Hojo." I literally had tears from laughing at this so hard and rewinding it 10 times.🤣🤣🤣
For real. Erased about 70 percent of my childhood by making me laugh that hard. LOL
out of all the timeline or recap videos that i hav watch about FF7, this is the best 1 yet!
You are so good at doing this, man.
Keep it up.
Do the advent children as well.
Honestly I feel like the music in FF7 is at least 50% of why the game is so captivating - the music makes me cry to this day, even something like the standard battle theme has such a powerful story to it
Yes Nobuo Uematsu is a musical genius. I also can't get enough of the music in ff7, it's truly emotional and magical for me
I totally agree pal! I have a music channel with lofi covers from a lot of ff7 ost, i think you would appreciate. I invite you to check it… 👊🏻
Yep. In Japan an orchestra performed a concert playing the FF7 songs. I ended up with a recording of the CD and I've got to say it's easily the best mastering of the FF7 music. It's hard to explain how well done it is. It's not over the top or massively changed, it's just good, really emotionally good.
If you like how symphonic / orchestral music enhances a story, checkout the anime Made In Abyss. It's got some of the best music in any media I've seen in a while. It's spectacular.
@@Danielle_1234 Ahh made in abyss......
Watch your elbows !
The fucking boss music is the best
15:30 You forgot the part where Cloud beats the crap out of Aerith.
Wait...WHAT?
That sounds more like Tifa. Beating the shit out of Cloud.
@@ShiroTheTraveler Yeah, Sephiroth decided to possess him into giving him the black Materia for....reasons. And Cloud subsequently did that
@@liammcnicholas918 *bruh* moment.
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I just finish rebirth and tbh I had no idea of all this lore although I finished the original 7 like 3 times at the time, THAAANKS so much for this great animation and explanation.
The planet is called Gaia
I love that Cloud's hair cannot be contained by anything!
actually ''the naked alien lady '' was not jenova .... jenova was an alien organism,which infected a female ancient and used her corpse as host.
the host body is how the player sees Jenova , as ''naked alien -lady ''
hope this explanation helps :P
Great explanation… 👊🏻
And she has to be naked. Um sir...why naked? You're fired 🤣.
That I actually did not know. I for some reason remember a cutscene of roboalien lady falling from sky.
No, that's also wrong. Jenova is a shape-shifting organism that instinctively mimics the lifeforms it encounters. The ancients describe it as looking like their lost loved ones. The female form taken by the main body is one of those mimicries. That's also how Cloud ends up thinking he's Zack, because the Jenova cells inside him attempt to copy Zack.
@@CaptainFalcoyd interesting
There's a lot wrong with this video and i'm only halfway through lol
This has to be the single best explanation of Final Fantasy 7 I've seen. Kudos on the great work you put into this!
Not really, loads of crucial mistakes in here
ok but can we talk about that adorable drawing of sephiroth
I swear it made me “AWWWWW!”
Baby Sephy is honestly adorable.
Lot of important details that need to be mentioned:
* Jenova isn't actually the woman with the heart/umbilical cord growing out of her. That is actually a cetra that Jenova infected and uses as a host.
The actual Jenova is the microorganisms in the host, which are more like the "The Thing" from John Carpenter's interpretation of the classic horror story "Who Goes There?", a collection of alien microorganisms capable of a form of parasitism and mimicry, imitating other life forms by consuming them, copying their genetic material, and integrating it into its own, and then morphing into the form of the creature they consumed in order to better hunt and consume prey.
* It is suspected that Hojo first began experimenting with Jenova cells on himself, infecting himself with the alien parasite, which resulted in him becoming mad, because Jenova has a form of telepathy that affects anyone infected with her cells and allows her to influence them. In effect, Jenova has a form of mind control/persuasion similar to the Reaper Indoctrination of the Mass Effect games.
* This form of Telepathic Influence/Partial Mind Control also explains why Sephiroth went mad, because he has a high content of Jenova cells within him and getting exposed to Jenova directly affected them and through them, him.
Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks
This ∆
something like 'that isn't Jenova, that's Jenova's monster'
where's the sauce for "that is an infected cetra woman"
In all the published media that I can find, while it is stated Jenova infiltrated the cetra, taking on their form... it does not state explicity that it took a male or female form. While it could be extrapolated or suggested that, that IS the reason it has that female figure it may not be definitive proof or the actual reason.
I'm very late to this video but the shot of Barret just holding Marlene by the head started as a giggle and devolved into uproarious laughter.
LORD CHASE KIP UPLOADED
WHAAAAAAAAT
REAAAALLLLLYYYYYY!???!?!?
YES
BOW DOWN FAST
Thank the lord
okay.
im gonna need that image of Cloud in a wheelchair on a t-shirt.
Really loved the way you put some unexplained moments or situations, because his crazy Hojo ,dude. heheheheh
Awesome explanation! As someone who’s never followed Final Fantasy games, I’m glad I know what started it all 🎉
So, in short: everything goes to shit because one guy can't stop experimenting on people.
I've said it before. Hojo was the real villain of FF7.
@@saltyk9869 Exactly
Because he’s Hojo dude he’s Kraaaazy
Okay well the only difference is that cloud witnessed sephiroth killing his mom pretty much while half way unconscious and then he took Zacks buster sword and ran up to sephiroth while he was talking to his mother and stabbed him. While sephiroth was limping away with the head of Jenova cloud got into his way again and sephiroth stabbed him while above the mako of the reactor and cloud held his ground, picked sephiroth up with his own sword and threw him into the lifestream where sephiroth absorbed the knowledge of the ancients and the calamity of jenova and how jenova wanted to kill off all cetra by disease and rule the universe eventually by infecting it with jenova cells.
Everything went to shit because of jenova, end of story.
23 minutes well spent - epic work!
Hello everyone!
Ayo Agad love your work man
Oh hey it's agadmator
@@alu4858 55😢😢
Oh hey it's agadmator
This was so good, thank u for this
5:34 This is incorrect. Sephiroth's research leads him to believe Jenova is an Ancient and that humans were enemies of the Ancients. He goes to free his "mother". Later, when he's in the lifestream, he fuses with Jenova and realizes what Jenova truly is (and by extension, what he is). So he begins to try and finish what Jenova started. (Jenova is an alien that goes around consuming planets, fusing their existence with its own)
"Babe, wake up. Chase kip remembered the password of his youtube account"
You forgot that everyone is watching while Cloud is clapping those Tifa cheeks .
I wish people would stop acting like this scene is canon when it's not. It's optional and while the original script had them sleeping together, it was toned down in the actual game to Tifa just falling asleep on Cloud's shoulder.
@@elisabeth4615 Yuffie and Vincent is optional and they are canon ...
@@Mc4est That's two different situations though. Either you get Yuffie and Vincent or you don't. If you choose not to make them part of your team than you won't get anything as a replacement. Whereas a Highwind scene (just like the Goldsaucer date) will always happen. However, those two scenes have different outcomes depending on the choices the player made, i.e. being kind of an ass towards Aerith to boost Tifa's affection.
If Tifa's affection is high enough the Highwind scene will have them talk about their feelings with Tifa falling asleep on Cloud's shoulder eventually. If her affection is low their conversation will be brief and end with Tifa being annoyed at Cloud. But as I said: They will always have a conversation, but it's up to the player which one.
You can also read up on it in the Ultimania page 232, where it is also said that all they do is talk, though their conversation is of romantic nature ("If the degree of affection is high, the contents of the two’s conversation will involve deep subject matter and strong feelings for each other."). So, feelings for each other yes, doing the dirty, no.
@@elisabeth4615 LoL wtf?? Yeah, I get it, Tifa is embarrassed cause everyone saw them talking... I too, get embarrassed when everybody saw me talking to someone. Thats a VERY embarrassing moment right there.. ohh, I always kneel down in embarrassment when that happened... Nobody should see me talking to someone . Hahaha
@@elisabeth4615 You don't get to decide what is cannon and what is not, r34 does.
20:00, I was dissapointed for not having the third "He is hojo dude, he is crazy"
Cloud's hair poking through all his hats is great.
very intersting. i really liked it. a couple of simple errors, like calling them "centra" instead of "cetra", among others, but overall, it was a great video. definitely worth the watch
Last place I'd expect you to pop up. Big fan of your stuff.
They blew up two reactors instead of just one too.
My boy!!
Yup
And the planet I think is called "Gaia" not just "The Planet."
I finally understand the plot of a childhood favorite game of mine. The explanation in the video single handedly made me say to myself " I get it now!"
The sarcasm at 12:12 is funny after Rebirth because Cait Sith actually is the best character now
Actually Hojo wanted to reproduce Aerith with Red XIII because his species live for 500 years, so he wanted a test subject that would live enough for an extensive research
That’s… even worse lol
Sephtiroth: "Hey Jenova mind if I can kill people"
Jenova: "Only a Swords length"
Sephtiroth: *Unsheathes a Comically large sword*
Sephiroth practices social distancing.
lol true
It's an odachi.
Even sephiroth gets it smh
@@mariahstewartmariahstewart4801 -of course he gets ‘it’, have you -*-seen-*- him-
WOW very well done you kept my entire attention, wild
The jenova research always took place in nibelheim. Vincent’s flashbacks all took place in the Shinra manor.
Ironically, it turns out nibelheim is Sephiroth’s hometown, too. Jenova wasn’t moved to Midgar till after the nibelheim incident
Next video request: The Entire Metroid Series Explained
Yes that'd be great with the new stuff coming up
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@@obesemomkod7018 reported
@@obesemomkod7018 why? There was no point to plug totally not you
He did it!
I love how almost everyone become Sephiroth
Wait, it's All SEPHIROTH ❓
@@bimoprasetyo6862 always has been
@@solenopsis7366 💥🔫
Blame Hojo
@@elespada9058 Who else but Hojo 😏giggity
at 5:20 you have a wrong info its not only because plot but because under nibelheim ist the strongest flow of life to extract more to make more mako energy. and they used it to make better experiements