FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE - Opening Movie 

Been feeling this since the first announcement!

Old friend? I don't see Zack anywhere

This comment gives me all the feels :)

Perfect description!

And already, the opening seems better than pushing a broken down car

if you love this game so much, why the hell didn´t you play it again for 21 years ? I play it at least twice a year and have beaten it over 100 times.

Same here.

I'm 32 and super excited to finally be playing the remake!

Exactly the same

@@dengreene2473 yeah i loved it back then.. but im not obsessed with it. And i hardly dont play videogames anymore. Still im looking forward to enjoy the remake.

also that withering flower by the road side. like something isn't right in this city, where nature seems to be dying for some reason.... *COUGH :O

It looks like it was the 1st time the reactor started functioning.

Could you tell us more about it? Number 5 has something special with Chenibyl event?

FINALPRECURE the reactor says 05 on it.

FINALPRECURE Also, look up Chernobyl disaster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster It kind of evokes that imagery. Also look for the political ad “Daisy.” Surprisingly, it was Chernobyl’s reactor 4 that erupted, and 4 comes before 5, so…

You forgot: "@#$*&!"

Tfs Barret - Don't F**k up.....

Considering how he thinks he is Zack, this guys an idiot

@@mikezilla54d13 Im mean with the hair, just so much to grab

@@mikezilla54d13 because if you do fuck up you're gonna have to answer to me 😠

Xasdf10 no wonder the hype around the game is astonishing

The lyrics theyre chanting are actually the same lyrics as the final boss theme

You missed out. Hands down greatest game Ive ever played.

@@nikolasschaffner8093 yeah, one winged angel

Well, in the original, it was the moment a game developer proved what could really be done with video games.

Dude same!!!!

The yearning feeling for the good old days.

Same! Tears just welled up when I started watching. I was not expecting to react like that.

Fuck you

God I would kill to be young again.

I knew those lyrics were recognizable!

It's pretty fitting actually. We see people from Midgar living their lives thanks to Mako energy while hearing "estuans interius", and later when Aerith appears and her flower is crushed, also the 2nd line "Ira vehementi", which mean in Latin "burning from inside, with violent anger"

Rafal Gancarz just beautiful amazing addition to the track

holy shit that sent chills down my spine after I went back to listen again...

After beating the game and listening to theories on the Remake, Its CRAZY that this is an important part to notice. You wont look at it the same way!

Uh have u ever plaed the game.............

this must be the sweetest trolling ever

F

We all know what's going to happen again😭

"will the past change? Or Not?" -squarenix live action trailer

My sentiments exactly!

@@DigimonVids Well, we may be nostalgiatards, but at least we don't take pleasure out of trying to ruin other people's happiness.

The pan out from Aeris all the way to the title, then back in for the train. I 'member.

@@DigimonVids lmao your name is literally digimon vids , do you still live in the fucking 90's or what?

I don't get goosebumps... I get manly tears flowing out of my eye sockets!

Not only that. I went back to the PS3 tech demo. They literally expanded the city! Midgar is bigger and you can also see the slums on the outskirts of the city in this version!

they had to move development in-house around 2017 or so after being unsatisfied with what CyberConnect2 had made. Hopefully this means a faster turn-around time for the other episodes

Giordan Diodato I’d assume so. They already seem to be almost complete with early development of episode 2 judging by the leaked character models and etc.

@@Eddy6159 where did you see the leaked character models?

@@GiordanDiodato it would be out way quicker. Midgar was the main reason why this part took so long to make, now that the renders, character models etc etc are out of the way the next parts can be made a lot quicker

@@monojuice wouldn't it also be difficult to make the overworld? also, reportedly, the first episode itself is 100GB

aww bless you!

Enjoy it. Do it for him, dude.

Dude sorry for your lost! ❤

How did he get arthritis?

At least he could glimpse the announce of this game at E3 2015, right?

Do we tell him?

@@thekeyandthegate4093 Shh, no spoilers please.

@@thekeyandthegate4093 nah bro

Honestly, the worst part is that white mages are normally the most useful class.

@@thekeyandthegate4093 jajajajaj ohh my god!!

wow! same age as me! but my cat daughters arent able to play XD

@@zrein you should still tell them about it anyway. The remake will be that good even the cats will be glued to it as you're playing it

It comes crashing down on top of Midgar, which is subtle foreshadowing of the fact that a meteor comes crashing down on top of Midgar.

@@CaptainFalcoyd yes thank you, I've played the game. Though, you may want to remove this comment as it's a major plot point.

@@CaptainFalcoyd woooahh add a spoiler in there

@@CaptainFalcoyd lol

@@alphaomegagiant THE METEOR CRASHING ON TOP OF MIDGAR MIGHT BE A SIGN OF A METEOR CRASHING ON TOP OF MIDGAR

Well, everything Sephiroth involved was way too early, might as well be the music too.

Flowers for Valentine's!

Take my heart!

Square is making sure we know they love us.

I wish, then I could hear george newbern voicing sephiroth again.

It's so competely opposite from that movie! You're right that the city is pretty much alive beforehand

@@ThePhoneix999 Seems Superman will always play Sephiroth.

Your friend is a scrub.

It was never Sephiroth, only.... JENOVA

Yeah, but I can't help but feel they are overusing the "Estuans Interius" too much. But I love the raven and showing that Midgard is truly a wasteland around due to the mako extraction.

“FISH SAUCE IN THE LOOOO”

Koyaanisqatsi... Koyaanisqatsi...

@@DisemboweII I might be misremembering, but wasn't that a _double-fakeout_ because Sephiroth's real body was in the Northern Crater, and tapping into the Lifestream so he could influence Jenova and manifest his image through it? Something like that, anyway?

Same.

damn, same

Couldn't agree more! The attention to detail and love for the original content really shows.

I say better than original

@@wilbert2678 yep. Definitely.

And better than the PS3 tech demo.

@@darklighter66 good thing it's created for now not the start of the ps3 the wait is real but damn this is so good

@@TaydolfSwifter take me back to 15 year old me. Although my kids are harder to ignore than coursework was.

@@darklighter66 well in my case it's my father who first played it as I'm just a year older that Ff7 but i grew watching him theb at 9 i started my ff7

Damn we had good imaginations ( really )

What's creepier to me is how normal it is. This is, ultimately, just a normal and rundown city full of people just doing their thing. And yet there is something so incredibly wrong with it.

Makes you think about modern life and our over crowded cities. Instead of 'mako' we are talking all of the resources out of the earth and burning the forests and filling the skies and oceans with our waste.

Makes me happy I don't live there

@@ShinGarugamesh Well, the lyrics could serve a double purpose. There's the obvious allusion to Sephiroth, but there's also the meaning of the lyrics, "Burning inside with violent anger". SPOILER below the break: It could also refer to the Planet itself, burning with anger because of how humans are mistreating it, draining away the very cycle of souls so that humans can enjoy a little extra comfort. In the original game, where do we hear the theme of One-Winged Angel? In the place we fight Sephiroth, at the core of the Planet. And in the end, the Planet uses Holy to try to take its revenge, by helping Meteor wipe out humanity.

TillTheBreakOfDay except there’s no jenova, no meteor, so you’re good lol. Don’t be in any leadership for the sake of our planet

Noticed that by disc 3 on the raid on midgar

"I'm doing my best not to die before this comes out" I don't know why, but that made me laugh so hard.

Aerith’s

He could not see it because of the box he was carrying.

I do as well for both these comments. Honestly f*ck that guy!!!

@@ondrez5114 oh damn I didn't see that part... Now I feel bad considurring I was planing this guys murder in full detail in my head....

While we watch a two-winged eagle. Coincidence?

The foreshadowing

It looked good but was not good

@@goosegame3857 What are you talking about? This game was good. But it does suck that they cut the content of the original and are splitting the game up...

@@lefunny5286 I liked the combat but i feel they butchered the story of the original and stretched it out just so they could make a sequel and I also didn't like the boring tedious sections that were supposed to be platforming the only positives for me were the combat and boss fights

@@goosegame3857 I see. Yea, I agree.

The game is so graphic intensive that they had to split it up.

Didn't even realize the guy was carrying a box. The first guy was an ass though

Speaking of attention to detail, you can see the 2 materia slots on the buster sword. You even see the materia shine when he swings it. So cool.

I also like the visual storytelling. The flower foreshadows Aerith's fate

@@KHtrinity1 Well, the sound isn't bad either. Playing the lyrics of One-Winged Angel was a pretty dark touch.

@@davidkuchen7208 Twas the best touch. I've lost a lot of faith in Square Enix since the merger. If really, really feels like they want to get this right and I'm kind of hopeful.

ay glad to see you here as well

Me tooooooo I’m moving to Japan and hope I can get a copy on release!

I'm being forced to buy a PS4 just months before the PS5 is released! You win again capitalism!

Dont die yet

And already, the opening seems better than pushing a broken down car

2:08 you mean this

@@dimasbram7176 Man I almost cried there kkkkk

I got goosebumps at 4:08

i got them from 0:00 to 5:21 ^^

No! I cried actually! and I am a fully grown man in my late 30s and I am not ashamed at all!

Imagine if when we get the game it all looks like a slightly upped ff7 with original camaera angles and square says: but we decided at the last minute to keeeeeeep the original gamessss feeeelingsss. Why arent you happpppy??

@Lain No offence but the graphic of FF7 is one of the worst ever. If we talk about story and music then of course people would still love it. The only people who would like it are fueled by nostalgia.

@@raphaellelemay3474 In 1997 it was the best on market. I can said that because I was there.

@@CarloMusicLessons i was there too. It just that beside story and music, the graphic aged poorly.

@@raphaellelemay3474 not true, the modern versions are rendered badly, but the backgrounds are still exeptionnal, check this project : captrobau.blogspot.com/2019/05/remako-mod-version-10-released.html

same!!! Crisis Core fan here as well!!!!

Kirito Kurokami stop, what kinds of feels are you trying to bring in? 😭

Best ending ever made!

cant wait to see if they make more of a story with zack i presume they will, its possible to complete ff7 and never hear the name zack (apart from the flashback in the lifestream) it was my second playthrough with certain characters at certasin places that the story expanded, even after 5 times completion im still learning snippets. hope this game is like that

@@christopherirving7685 zack is best

Dont sweat it man valentine's day is a fake holiday!

@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure Sure but it reminds you certain things so that makes the pain real I guess! :P

@@blackskyirregular9876 That was a good one.

we are with you - remember this)

🤣🤣🤣

YES.

I never did understand what she was doing there

Looks like a leaky pipe from the mako reactor. Remember she's a ancient and can hear the cries of the planet, those reactors are literally burning the spirits/souls of the dead the life force of the planet...

Thry still do, had a frw hickups but I think ff14 is holding up well.

@@AnthonyGonzalez-gx6ht lol what about aaaaaaalll the other shit games?

I dont really know any poor games of recent that they screwed up other than Left Alive. The DQ games were great, haven't played KHIII since i only have a pc for gaming. Hitman 2 is killin it. Life is Strange 2 is still pretty good. Just Cause 4 is really fun to mess around in. Which games did you find lacking in quality?

@@NightShifterDad KHIII is all right, imo. Despite the vast improvement on graphics, I still find KHII to be a better game. It's either the removal of the FF characters or the decision to concentrate on Pixar worlds...or maybe the combat...I can't really figure out why it kinda bored me.

Yes comes out soon..wll be a masterpiece

I felt PS5 vibes! This seriously looks amazing!!!

Frank Crank imagine FF7-2 for the PS5🤩

@@karelanker0 i know man that would even be more surreal! PC style graphics.

this is not a CGI. it was rendered real time in game.

Rupix15 I’m pretty sure that it’s cgi up till like the cloud introduction, but hey I could be wrong

Oh yes! Pretty much analogous to how I typically describe my age to people when asked: »I was 7 when I played Final Fantasy 7 in 1997.«

Remember how good it looked when the original launched? Those cutscene were unbelievable at the time

She was super thinking about Zack at that moment, which makes the punch-in to Cloud so fitting since, y'know, Cloud and Zack. :)

@@Suledian why would she be thinking about zack here?

@@plutonium120 probably because she already felt his spirit return to the planet.

Lol I sorta wish today wasn't Valentine's day so I can rewatch this over and over and reaction videos rather than pay attention to my husband. I will force him to watch this and nerd out with me at least once as he is a FF7 fan but not as obsessed as I am.

You're not alone... you have this awesome community!

This is me to much.. back when you could rent a playstation from block buster and stay up all night with your best friend playing this game.. this trailer was so perfectly done.. i have no words

April 10th or October 4th? xD

@@andikaartha6988 4th???

Lol j like the inclusion of the word alone

You have roughly 2 months to find a partner. Ready... GO!

I had exactly the same impression, there is no better time than now. It's the perfect time, time when you can smell the disaster in the air

sorry about the death of your brother.

@@matypete1 his brother didn't die

The world map. The world map. After all they have put us through in just Midgar ... I genuinely FEAR the world map and what it will look like. Now with that said, since the bar is so low with the original and through all the iterations we have seen in FFVIII through FFXV I am really wanting to see just what the actually do with the world map. My only hope is that on the world map we have the entire group travel together and when we camp (we did have tents in FFVII) that it plays like FFXV camping where there is much interaction and incredible immersion into the characters, their back stories, their lives, etc. I also hope that they give us something we have never really had in any any Final Fantasy Title ever - deployment missions from campsites. Meaning some random NPC shows up needing help or something and mini missions for either selected or specific characters - even single character missions become playable. That would insanely epic and totally badass of them as well.

@@bberghahn Honestly, if they gave us something just like FF15, would anyone complain?

Carly Crays I would expect we all would be quite happy with the world map if it works just like FFXV. There is also a part of me which would really like to see SE really push it on the Open World Map and I don’t mean just with graphics. I would like to see them incorporate more of the story into the world map. In the original we would have random dungeon areas where we would see the Shinra Thugs having interactions between themselves but also random fights with them trying to steal Aerith from us, or random night fights with them trying to harass us and we get to beat them back, and some later on where they just show up to rest and enjoy a good meal of Ramen Noodles!! Also random mini boss fights right out the Midgar gate like the T-Rex on FFXII. I also hope they really open up the map with mini camps of random NPCs like several other FFU games, Chocobos map hunting, etc.

@@bberghahn But what FF15 really excelled at was just the way it allowed you to feel like a real part of the adventure. Just those moments fishing and relaxing were the best!

@@bberghahn You guys, this is episode 1 in a series, it's just going to be Midgar. Greatly expanded, but no Nibleheim, you know?

Then feel the same sadness we all felt when it happened

Hopefully the youngsters can learn to appreciate something other than FPS and Battle Royale.

zerocool so true, I still don’t understand why they like such thing

@@Yoko2462 because people like different things?

More like we can now enjoy the world in a better way.

You are absolutely right. The ending of the original FF7 is the beginning of the FF7R. Her consciousness has returned...

Bruh, I knew they were going to make some big change in the game story-wise, but I didn't think it would be that. Is what you said about Aeris actually confirmed to be true in this remake or are you just speculating?

Joseph Castle pure speculation. I have no idea what the hell is going on

ntwynn But honestly, that stuff just hurts my brain to think about. If that’s what where they are going, they’re going to be telling a WHOLE different story.

ntwynn ntwynn ntwynn ntwynn ntwynn The thing you said she was scared about though I think was supposed to be the whispers. They should up when events threaten to deviate from the original game. The completionist talks about it in his video regarding the remake at 18:33.

I used to think that was so badass back in the day. Ah to have that child like wonder back.

Sounds like they are playing the opening: Estuans interius Ira vehementi Estuans interius Ira vehementi burning inside Ardent wrath burning inside Ardent wrath

It's the prelude of his return.

One winged angel is >not< Sephiroth’s theme.

@@ozdeveraux2082 There is another theme dedicated to Seph but OWA is the games's final battle theme and he is the final boss. No wonder the song is usually associated with him.

@@ozdeveraux2082 no one cares, if you had half functioning brain you'd know what he meant

...whatever.

"No cloud or squall shall hinder us"

Cloud: wait till you see Lightning...

LOLOL Machinabridged 🤣🤣🤣👌

Oh my god, I got it!

Pussy!

I know man. I'm 36. There's a whole generation of gamers coming up who've got no idea what this thing means to us olds.

Same here dude, got really emotional watching it. I'm also excited for the new generation to get to know FF7.

Right!? I'm 36, and I'm catching the feels right now.

Same here ,im 31.FF 8 is my fave jRPG of all time,FF 7 and Star ocean 3 being close after.You could say im an stealth games(Tenchu,MGS,Splinter Cell)and jRPG veteran,played all FF's ,valkirie profiles et cetera.But sinxe 5 years i could think of two jrpgs that were "very good",but certainly not Fantastic.But this remake....oh man,i feel like im born again !

ascannersparkly a slum made shittier by corporate elites... what’s the difference

Wonder how the slums will look, that are beneath the plates, will look like...ooof

Think I read somewhere that in one of the early drafts for FFVII, they planned to set it in New York City.

”Slums are there same all over the world. They all stink” - Williams from Enter the Dragon

Dammn!! Best comment ever!

Damnit. Is it Aerith or Aeris. Because when I played this (N America) back in the day...it was definitely Aeris.

@@RealityIsTheNow It's Aerith. Aeris was a mistranslation. In every other piece of VII related material or anytime the characters show up in spinoffs it's always Aerith. It's meant to be a play on Earth. The reason it became Aeris is because in Japanese her name is "Earisu" which is itself a pun relating to the Earth or nature. It was even Aerith in early promotional material before the game came out. It wasn't until the game actually shipped that the error was noticed.

Phew, there's going to be some angry people if this mess this remake up. :) lol

Alex I know i'm off topic, but I love your music :D

@@desno. cheers! :)

Love your work!

I don't want to!

You mean the bombing run theme right? I didn't hear aeriths theme.

it's bombing mission's theme

Actually you are hearing one winged angel, aerith’s theme + one winged angel (obvious foreshadowing) ,and bombing mission theme in that order.

@@darklordshiro9856 you know your stuff!

@@darklordshiro9856 I did not hear Aerith's theme, It was it was One winged Angel, then a hint of bombing mission, then One Winged Angel, then Opening Theme and Bombing Mission.

I’ve never played ff7 and I had the same reaction, the combination of the view and the music is just so good

Gay fucking marketing meme corporate bootlicker

@@shittyravedjmixes6589 You? Yeah, you're a fucking dumbfuck piece of shit.

@@shittyravedjmixes6589 gr8 b8 m8

@@shittyravedjmixes6589 You still use "gay" as an insult? Dude, that's pretty gay.

20+ years ago we were shown a possibility of a world where we could live and experience a tale that was far more epic in our minds than what was truly before us. Now we are going back ... and going back with the veil of the past truly removed ... going back to the literal reality of the world and it’s people and it’s evils and it’s most epic events with eyes wide open .... eyes wide open because we who lived the first know the story but also accept that we now have travelers going with us who no nothing of the realities of this place ... We go knowing but also in wonder ... You say we are going home ... I disagree completely, for now we will finally see home exactly as it truly is and we will be seeing it completely fully and experiencing it as we can only experience it now ... not then. Not then. You say “Lads, We’re going home.” I say “Lads, Home now summons us back. Home didn’t tell us everything the first time. Home needs us to return. Home needs us to finally understand the truth and to finally understand what happened 20+ years ago. Truth was denied but will now be finally revealed to us. Reunion will be real but will we be ready? Home calls us back to test our skills, test our resolve, test our understanding, and I fear to also test our imaginations with literal truths we were denied all those years ago.” Thoughts of a 40 year old fellow traveler who has been patiently waiting for Home to decide for us to return or be left wanting. I am a fellow traveler who also has a new traveler who knows nothing of Home. I am most glad and appreciative that Home decided we needed to return instead of leaving us wanting.

Not if you went to the Gamescom and played it there like i did :D

MAY BE? Lmao

No because the gameplay in FF games is terrible, so easy, walk forward press one button.

Fox Blue River what? How long have you been playing FF? They started that with XII

this last decade id argue, the pressure they must be feeling must be insane

That ending had me crying. Whenever i go back to listen to Why by Ayaka i can still get a tad emotional. I wish Crisis Core got a console port at some point.

@@methos4866 I thought I was the only one who still listens to that song!😱😭 I wish Crisis Core could get a remake and port to console too. It was a great story! I miss Zack!😭

Catch Gravity they could have started with cloud dragging the buster sword away in the dessert there and then said “1 year later” that would’ve been cool

@@perrydunetz882 omg that would have been straight fire!!!!🙌🏼🔥🔥

And crying.

Dashing David AYYYY YOU HERE

Sasuke Uchiha OF COURSE!

Dashing David wdym of course?

Operation Reunion VII now you’re trying too hard

@@DashingDavid I thought you will do a reaction video?

You're damn right. This city was alive

Which career?