FINAL FANTASY VII | The Famous Opening | HD 

This opening gives me chills everytime. Even to this day.

The transition straight from cutscene to gameplay is pretty impressive, too. I mean, I know the backgrounds are just 2D images so they just rendered the 3D models in front of the last frame of the cutscene, but still, it works so well.

The story beginning to end is some art for the ages.

Damn, it must mean something that in the original opening Aeris looks forward and proceeds with calm, and in the remake she looks BACK and moves forward with caution...

Most beautiful game scene ever. Actually there are so many in ff7...

One of the best opening of videogames

Oh my God, the Final Fantasy VII opening from the Remake looks gorgeous but the original is epic too. It gave you the feeling that you're ready for an incredible adventure. Oh man, I love this game.

What an opening. Not a big gamer, but remember getting this when I was 10 in 1997 and being mesmerized

This is that i call magic moments, moments that you'll never forget.

This abstract begining is beautifull. Ffvii struck a veil in being a golden line between the obscure and the mainstream.

Who came here after They saw the remake Intro

I wish I can experience this opening for the first time again

Happy 25th anniversary to Cloud and the crew! Still lovin' FFVII on 01.31.22!

See, had anyone actually PLAYED Final Fantasy VII, they would have known the Smash Bros. reveal was for Cloud IMMEDIATELY when the starry background showed up.

It's amazing. My memory of the classic.

the game is on playstation store on ps3 i plan to buy it

This does in 2 minutes and a half what your average modern game takes 10 hours of on-rails 'gameplay' to do. XIII lifts this off almost frame by frame and then scrambles its bits around but achieves none of its effect.

Foreshadowing at its finest.

My brother and I had to take timed turns of an hour playing this game when we first got it, best overall video game experience of my life.

This opening proved a lot to gamers back in the day. It showed what can really be done with video games.

Amazing that they more than doubled the length of this original scene for the remake. And every bit is completely worth it and so much better.

I still think this opening is better than the remake. The timing is more on point and it has more of a special feeling.

1:21 I find it weird but also cool that there's an ad for the album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine in the background

The intro to this game truly presented an ambience that we were stepping into another world. A world where you control the characters and determine their actions. Even their names.

one of the greatest games ever

i had a copy of Tobal #1 in 1995 and the ff7 demo was with it... this scene changed my life :P

who is here after the remake demo leak?

Anyone ever notice how the first shot of the game is also directly mirrored by the final shot [post-credits Red13 scene not included]? I never hear anyone talk about that

Who's here after the official reveal of the Opening ?💙

I don't have a PS4/5 or Gaming PC. So the only way i had to discover FFVII is to play the original on my Old PSP, which can run PS1 games... This game is amazing I started gaming on Xbox one

Anyone here after seeing the opening for the remake?

The very first scene of showing the universe, the stars, even for as long as one minute, is in my opinion what already separates FF VII from all other Final Fantasy series. It's seriously perhaps the only Final Fantasy game that gave me such an existential dread, asking deeper questions like meaning of life, etc etc. Final Fantasy VII is actually a very existential game. It's a lot much deeper than most people even think. Such a very rare masterpiece!

The best RPG ever made!!!!

Final Fantasy 7 is just a great game

Those music notes at 1:35 always do it for me, nearly 30 years later.

who's here after watching FF7 Remake Opening ?

In the beginning there was Aerith. In the end was the beginning...confusius.;) Best RPG of all time!No one has figured it out but a select few...

Yay it's back!!!

Over 25 years old!! 😭 Absolutely groundbreaking for that time 😢

While the graphics may have aged poorly, to this day it is still a fantastic title to play through.

720p in 2008!? Holy!

“Never thought I’d see the day.”

So I’ve just finished FF7 for the first time, and something about the game really struck me. The last shot of the game, as well as the first shot, are both Aeris surrounded by the lifestream. Is there a possibility that Aeris foresaw most/all of the events of FF7 from the very beginning of the game?

Every time I hear this song, I want to play it

Thank god one of them is still up

Although the remake is graphically more impressive and more complete. It lacks the WOW factor of the original. For those of us who grew up on Final Fantasy back then and first saw this jump from 16 bit Final Fantasy into CD Final Fantasy there's no contest. Booting up that disk demo from a magazine and seeing this was something else.

this is the moment that gaming changed

Calling it “the famous opening” instead of “opening” really goes to show how impactful this was.

수십년이 지났어도 이 웅장함은 잊혀지질 않는구나..

Who's here after seeing the new FF7R Trailer?

It's just incredible, Final Fantasy VII Remake (ep1) is everything a remake should be...

Iconic

Happy 26th Anniversary Final Fantasy VII

When you realized that Aerith is the "promised land" Shinra's been looking for the whole time after finishing the game. It's heavily implied that it's the lifestream and the planet whole along, and Aerith, as a cetra, is now one with the planet. That's why the OG FF7 first and last thing we see is Aerith, the true hero.

I keep watching this and asking myself if it really is better than the remake original or if it's just nostalgias goggles. It's really better. The alley is pitch black and the city looks dark and ominous. This opening has a sense of dread and anticipation that the new one does not. And the way the hopeful music rises and contrasts with the dark city and then some how coalesces with it--perfection. The new looks visually better, obviously, but it lacks all the darker/creepier tones.

I really, really hope they remake Final Fantasy VII! I can guarantee that if they remake the entire video game exclusively for PS3, it would probably bring them more money than they'd ever dream of getting from any one game. The old FF VII is hard to come by these days, it'd be amazing if they'd remake it for the new generation, and the old.

This looked sooooo good in the 90s!

Simplemente E P I C O

One of the best openings in gaming history.

Some beginnings never needed a end

I heard in an interview that the Shinra execs think that a remake would be too costly, so they'd rather throw out less thoughtful nonsensical sequels than an amazing remake that would be a surefire hit.

Exactly!!

they should make a 3DS remake of this game!

I think the remake actually sequel from the original because they failed in this remake is for the second chance to do it again....

I was just watching Blade Runner and there's the scene where Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is flying towards the Tyrell corporation building, I thought to myself I know that music. After thinking for a few minutes I realised it was the same music as this opening scene from Final Fantasy 7.

here after sephiroth got into smash 👊👊

Why oh why is this particular bit of music for this opening scene not brought back.

Rewatching this cause why not

@JASONMOORE87 Very true! I'm really looking forward to Versus XIII. I heard that it's supposed to have the Kingdom Hearts battle system, which I'm extremely happy about. Though I love the Final Fantasy games, I'm not much of a fan of the battle system. I'm playing XIII now, and it's taking me a while to finish, I'm a very slow gamer, lol. I'm enjoying it so far, but it's got its ups and downs :)

Still better than the remake

Side by side comparison with the remake, and both are stunning.

my bloody valentine

Final Fantasy VII opening: Shows us the epic city of Midgar, with each second showing more and more of the city. Aerith, Cars, People, City. And then going straight to action on the Train. Final Fantasy XV opening: Four JoJosexuals trying to move the car. That's all. Which opening is the best out of them? Final Fantasy VI, obviously. JK, it's Final Fantasy 1. And so, their journey begins...

Im fucking crying

so damn epic

Yes

@JASONMOORE87 Haha! I guess I'll just have to anticipate Versus XIII now.

This is universal timles shit!

@JesusLovesMe0261 Hard to come by? Well in a cd, yeah. But as i see, you have a computer, so that means you can play emulators. There hundreds of rips of the original game, and if you owned the game at any point in time, you can download an iso and play on an emulator. And its not illegal if you have owned the game.

And now Cloud is in Super Smash Bros...Wait he's confirmed OMG!

just synced the ff7 logo up with the new year :)

Whos here on dec 31 2019 comparing the original to the remake opening?!

Hmm, never play FF7, so I can't say much on this remake. Anywho, if it does happen, I wish SE the best of luck with it. I just like the fact the FF13's main character is a badass woman, I like badass women as main characters. Actually I like all RPGs with women as main characters, though there are quite a few.

Oops i meant to say Square not Shinra.

i like this opening more than the remake's opening

much better than remake

I wish more RPGs did this: have enough trust to give the player control of a character and enter combat within 2 minutes, instead of like an hour of exposition and talking heads.

If you don’t want me at my worst then you don’t deserve me at my best

I don't hate the Remake or anything, but I personally prefer the slower pace of the "camera's" movement in this original opening, especially when the FF7 logo appears and after it. I find the slower pace, combined with the logo appearing and then the cuts to the locomotive, more dramatic than the Remake version.

7's opening is kind of scary in the beginning

Had to link this in a Smash group to get across just how butthurt I was and why when discussing the lack of reactors guessing. it was Cloud from the background and the music. They either forgot the opening, or never played the game. Either way, SMDH. =(

Now the remake is free on the PS4

@AstuteClass lol or on the 3DS

Final Fantasy Appeared Crossovers: Kingdom Hearts Series Cameos Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate Dlc Super Smash Bros Wii U Dlc Super Smash Bros Ultimate Multiple Dimension Worlds Mixed Worlds Corrupted

I still haven't played this game. Or the remake. But I know of the game through cultural osmosis. Think I should play it?

The remake kinda hesitates between the opening and the train sequence but its aight

What this whole time they've been in a time loop that's reset by Aerith destroying meteor.. Holy shit. No pun intended

The flower girl...

I was just watching the FF7 Remake opening cinematic, and was cringing so hard at the grunts the characters made, Cloud's awkward sword swinging, and Aerith getting bumped into and hugging a trodden-down flower. I couldn't remember if these things had also happened in the original's cinematic, but I didn't recall any characters acting awkwardly in that, so I went to check... and I was right. Literally all of the changes in the remake seem to be for the worse. I have no words.