I'M DEVASTATED! NOT AERITH?! | First Time Playing Final Fantasy 7 (1997) | ENDING PART 1 | Ep. 20 

I saw that when I was editing and thought to myself "someone is going to catch that statement and comment about it." And here you are!! lol

Two ways to raise a fallen character in your party; Phoenix down and Final Attack-Revive/Final Attack- Phoenix(materia).

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Before I even read the comments, I uttered this same phrase watching the video

Wholesome. Exactly the word that came to mind when I saw this.

​@@SickSoundingStuffDitto, dude gives off genuine happy vibes. He's honestly enjoying this having fun.

That was painful... very painful... I think its even worse at. Rebirth since the Battle is way longer and you have to focus in it after being devastated by the loss.

@@KrogTharr bro I’m not at that point yet :(

I'm 64 and have played it over and over again it never gets old and the possible materia combinations are almost limitless. I've gotten every possible materia in the game mastered on a few saved games along with 99 of every.possible item. I love this game.

I’ve been replaying for months and of course thru game progression fell in love with her character and refuse to progress the game any further. It’s been months. Lol

I LOVE that her theme plays through the fight. Such a genius decision

Omg shivers just went down my spine lol

I did play Remake and INTERmission Intergrade with Yuffie, but had no knowledge of the original at the time.

Great advice!

See I'm in a weird spot with this one. I know I'm excited and enjoy all the things that show up in the remake series through the lense of someone who's knowledgable and played the original multiple times. But is it better to go into the remake series with completely fresh eyes? Or as a fan? 🤔 Like would I have enjoyed the ending of rebirth better if I experienced it with fresh eyes? for example.

I ask because cakerins is in this amazing place where he has the choice on the matter

@@dyangoh1646 While certain elements could be enjoyed more from playing without knowing anything, I feel the overall story is better understood after playing due to, well, spoilers that I can't really say.

I too would suggest playing Remake, before Rebirth. Chronological order and Remake did a wonderful job with reimagining many iconic scenes.

It's a good thing you are playing OG before the new trilogy finishes, because there's a lot of big things spoiled in the new series ahead of schedule. The new series may end up changing a lot of these big events though, have to wait until part 3 comes out before they decide for sure what changes and what stays

@@micman963 they have added elements, and deepened plots, but our characters main timeline is still 1:1 with original essentially outside the softening of a few scenes (president shinra and dyne) all the big “changes” are occuring in zach timelines. By the end of the 3rd game I think we will have main timeline as a 1:1 recreation of original, and the alternate timelines will contain all the “new” and changed plot points.

@@HomeDefender30 They softened/censored a lot more than just a 'few" scenes. The experience is very different in contrast to the OG now because of it. It's also a bit of a stretch to say it's 1:1 when we haven't even been to rocket town yet, when that's on the first disc before Aerith dies.

@@micman963 what else has been softened story wise? And I said “essentially 1:1” not “perfectly 1:1”…. All the major plot points from og have happened at this point and don’t worry, we will get to rocket town… Outside of Yuffies introduction being different, and them changing president shinras and dynes death, we have damn near exactly the same story in the main timeline…. I’m not speaking on the extracurriculars in zach and Biggs timelines.

@@HomeDefender30 ok so, just in the "main timeline" off the top of my head. at the beginning of part 1 where avalanche blows up reactors, they changed it so shinra is actually the one who blows them up, so that players don't have to feel like it's their fault for the destruction of those sectors and the suffering of the residents. They changed the plate falling scenes to where now the majority of people got out of alive when it fell, Corneo confirms this in the sewer when he said shinra's plan failed because it was suppose to be a huge tragedy. God forbid players feel sad about something again they changed wallmarket in a few ways, but notably the honeybee is no longer a seedy creepy brothel, instead it's a respectable dance establishment where even school teachers moonlight there as dancers. Shinra building's most memorable scene that was like a scifi-horror with bodies and blood trails all the way up to impaled president dead in his seat, now changed to purple goop with no bodies at all anywhere to be seen. The last battle on the highway itself is a huge change I'd argue but that takes way too long to talk about and then in rebirth Cid is a entirely different character, to the point where he's basically not even a character at all now. His character was betrayed to the full extent by enix and if you spend even 5 minutes watching the OG scenes where you meet him at rocket town it's undeniable. He will not be allowed to have those scenes in the new version of rocket town, because he's not acceptable for modern audiences I guess in temple of the ancients in the OG, cloud beats Aerith to a pulp while she's on the ground, and whoever you pick as your third party member has to come down and knock cloud's possessed body out. This a very dark scene where often times some players actually believed he was pounding on the ground, but the ones who realized what he was doing it's very shocking Aerith's death or "death" scene in rebirth is hugely changed, to the point where players are now more confused than feeling anything else The entire tone of the remake series is incredibly light hearted by comparison to the OG, because of censorship and music, and changing things so that they aren't hard for audiences to watch is still changing things in the story. There's tons of other stuff that's been changed for various reasons, but these changes are not small, and they have a huge impact the overall tone of the game. That's not even going into the fact that remake+rebirth have many scenes being spoiled way ahead of time, which also ruins the surprises for people who don't know the story. That's why I said it's ideal to play OG first, not that I don't think remake or rebirth are good, or even great games in their own ways.

Thanks!!!

I feel like such a monster. I cried during the opera scene in FF6. I cried when Rinoa hugged Squall in FF8. I cried when Yuna said "I love you" in FF10 I cried at the end of FF12 and I cried like 5 times during FF14. But the Aerith scene? It was sad.. but I didn't cry. Am I just broken? 😂

Good stories, good characters, that will do it to us!

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Yuffie's reaction is heartbreaking.

Great advice!

Good advice for Rebirth as well. There's some REALLY broken character builds that uses the Enemy Skill Materia as the core like Enemy Skill connected to the HP Absorb materia

@@JMsolidsnake yes sir. As someone with a platinum trophy enemy skill is one of the best materia in game... Fuck chadley.

Ah thanks! I use the Shure SM7B and it goes through the GoXLR with a 12 band EQ that’s tuned to my voice.

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Thanks for watching! I’ve played Remake and Intergrade, and have rebirth and crisis core on deck! Also have 9 and 12 ready too!

Thanks!!

Ooooooo

Thanks! I’m definitely continuing with the OG! Next episode will be live in about 12 hours. 😃

Immensely! And I’m on a journey to play as many FF games I can!

Thanks! 😊

Oh no can I go back?

@@cakerins Later yes.

I was suspicious and scared but had no idea.

How did you get them that high. I mean the HP and MP I don't remember the HP/MP plus Materia being there in Disc 1. I am sure most of us were around the 40's on the first time.

I actually already played that one. It was my first! I still have the CD set for it.

@@cakerins Ohh ! good taste then haha, if you want to play some other great games you can try the persona series (you can start with the 5 one it's easier)

I have Crisis Core on deck, and yes Advent Children was great!

Ooo no I didn’t get to see that!

Sorry to disappoint, but I had no idea!