The Compilation of FF7 is an INSULT to Fans 

I’m open to criticism but you lost me at the beginning when you said you weren’t a big fan of the original game. How can you claim it’s all an insult to fans if your not even a fan? Lots of bad takes.

Ah! A fellow Nojima hater. Tonight i raise my glass in your honor

I don’t know all the in’s and out’s of the FF7 lore, but here’s what I do know (about storytelling in general): lore and an overarching plot work best when they just serve as ignorable background noise while the characters, their relationships, their emotions, and some sort of compelling real life allegory take center stage. To that end, Remake and Rebirth (until chapter 14) did a good job appealing to me as a person who is not knee-deep in Final Fantasy lore.

The most spoiled fanbase I've ever seen. Others can only dream of their favorite game getting a remake of this caliber, meanwhile...

I tried to replay remake when it came to pc and I couldn't even finish it, I got to the part in wall street where Madam M sends you to do a buncha tasks before you get the dress. Finished the tasks went back to tell her and she sends me to do something else, at that point I felt like this padding was wayy too much. Went back to the original cuz its been a long time to see if they wasted your time running back and forth like that and nope, pacing is quite good in the original throw in a couple of graphic mods and a mod that adds voice acting to all the dialogue and I'm having way more fun with the game. Crazy how random battles feel less like a time waster then the run around Remake puts you through.

This is my favorite hater video on anything FF7 adjacent. I appreciate that you don't put all the blame on Nomura

Since you hate Nojima so much to say he ruins everything he touches, I'm curious about your thoughts on the Glory of Heracles series.

FF 7 rebirth didn't sell well atall!!

Overall the ff7 remake and rebirth story are great but i totally agree with you in term of force walking and shitty mini games

For all the moaning and bitching FFVI fans do when they complain about Square ignoring the game they should be grateful. Their legacy isn’t ruined. They don’t have a compilation that betrays the themes of their games. Their main villain isn’t undermined. They have it lucky

Hi Rush! I want to say first and foremost that I really found your video to be quite entertaining. I am also of the opinion that the Compilation, in its entirety, is an insult, but more than anything, to FFVII itself. The comments seem to be filled with Compilation fans probably coming over to hate comment and downvote as a campaign from some obscure Discord server or FB group, but do not be intimidated by a fandom known for being vile and insecure. With that said, I want to invite you to a community oriented towards OG FFVII fans and content creators that are more aligned with the perspective of the Compilation being a blight on the IP. If you are interested, do let me know and I'll send the invite. To anyone who is a fan of Comp titles, you are also welcome to join! :D

Ff7 the definition Rule of Cool Big Sword Long Sword Long Hair Big Boobs Spiky Hair

Damn bro, you mad? 😂 I only hated the mini games being forced into every chapter. Loved playing through the rest. I have to agree with the walking segments tho. It slows down your momentum too much but overall it’s really fun

Sometimes you just gotta say enough is enough. Final Fantasy VII was a big deal for the time but my god it's been milked so goddamn much that its appeal has wavered. The remake is turning it into a parody of itself I swear to god. I actually beat Dirge Of Cerberus not long ago because I wanted to settle a vendetta with that game One thing you didn't mention about Dirge Of Cerberus is how broken the melee system is. If you shoot Azul the Cerulean with your gun he will barely even lose any health, you have to shoot the nearby barrels to hurt him... but if you walk up to him and melee him (which is annoying to do because of the lock on) you will kill him in literal seconds. What a stupid game. Genesis literally exists for Gackt to cosplay as Dante from Devil May Cry 2 I swear to god. I think the remake is the worst of the bunch simply because at least with Dirge Of Cerberus and Crisis Core, you could just simply forget they even existed. Also I'd argue that FF7 Remake has a worse combat system than both of them simply because the remake's combat system has so many freaking HP Sponge enemies where you deal crap all damage till you fill that stupid gauge they brought over from FF XIII and then you can suddenly dead decent enough damage. At least with crisis core, battles would end quickly and you could beat the game extremely fast, remake though... it's a colossal time waste. Not to mention Crisis Core and Dirge Of Cerberus are both sort of original stories that tie in with Final Fantasy VII somewhat, remake is just VII's story again but more bloated and a parody of itself where all the female characters are suddenly obsessively thirsty over Cloud for no freaking reason. I mean Tifa makes sense since she's a childhood friend and all that, aerith, I guess since it was similar in the original but freaking Jessie!? WTF? In the original Jessie was not like that at all, like why on earth is she so ridiculously obsessed with wanting to fuck Cloud? Why is that the only thing her entire character revolves around? It's so freaking lame.# But yeah none of these games need to exist, I just don't care about them whatsoever, it's hard to look back on FFVII and not see as a convoluted mess at this point.

Original FF7 is the gold standard for story. Anything made in relation becomes an insult it's an unreachable standard. What do you expect?

Hey look, someone who the Whispers were based on!

get a load of this guy lmao

So... let me see if i understand... at the beggining you said you are not a final fantasy 7 fan... and yet, you have played every game, watched the movie etc... just to hate on it??? Why??? If you seriously dont like it ( because is obvious that you dont...) why are you doing that to yourself??? I mean if you hate it so much and think is that bad and with every new entry is getting worse... then why continue on it???

When everything smells bad for you around you, at the end you end up realizing its you who smells bad.

i got ff 7 remake for ps4, if i wanted to play the new dlc content i would eather have to buy 500e ps5 or 2000 euro new pc, its pretty obvious why i wouldnt care about ff7 rebirth or why some other people wouldnt care about it lmao

Great video 😂

Yeah, the end of rebirth sucked

Honestly sounds like tour become jaded with cinematic games. Which is ashamed because if you think back to your very first time playing ff7 on the ps1 the game was so cinematic that the 15 hours of actual gameplay was bloated to 60. And while the side games like core weren't perfect they did serve a purpose. They we re meant to give backstop to characters but they were sir characters that at the time the fan were passionate to see more of and were asking to see. Was it all good? Hell no. But it did its job. Lastly the remakes while again not perfect, treaded so much familiar ground precisely because of what the next 2 gamss will be:different. They are tired of telling then same story from 30 years ago because fans cant let it go. Those "ghost" at the end were fates. Physical manifestations of destined history. By killing them they are telling you that these next game will be different. These games aren't meant for you. While some enjoy the original still other may enjoy this revised history even more so which is OK. The original was fire, this reboot for lack of a better term so far is good. The fact that both exist in such different ways allows everyone to enjoy 7 in was that only they can, and the fact that so many people say if should have been left alone, remade in the original format that it has already done so many times; is a bit gatekeeping.

Zack as a protagonist carries crisis core rebirth, regardless of its prequel status.. that being said it enriches the new sequels only. Aerith character is almot 100% define by not being breave enough to fully embrace Zack, and this in turns inspires cloud after she died. When the psp game came out it was kind of unecessary when its tag along to ps1 ffvii that cannot express this nuance.

Agree with all the criticism of the adjacent games. I played most of the stuff and i pretend it doesn't exist. But i love Remake. Agree with the walking tho. And also i loved Rebirth, especially the part where Genesis doesn't show up. I tought to myself they finally retconed that disgrace of a character. But then they decided to introduce a character named Glenn Lodbrock or something like that. I had no idea who that was, had to google the guy only to find out he is a character from the mobile gacha game. And he's really important to the story of Rebirth. He's about to start a war between Wutai and Shinra and i have no idea who he is because i don't play fucking money milking mobile games. So disappointing. Its not just Nojima or Nomuras fault, its a conscious decision by Square to entice people to spend more money in a moronic gacha game. And there my immersion was broken. Until that moment i tought, wow this really is a massive world that feels alive and i the devs really put so much love and care it to this game. And then Glen Lodbrock.

XD this is hilarious. Purists are the cancer of the fanbase. Well them and shippers. The compilation is incredible, and your takes are so bad I thought I shit my pants with how bad they stank.

Great video glad you made it cuz I'm a ff7 fan and I agree with u.

Thank you for saying what needed to be said. What they've done to FF7 is terrible and everyone is too blinded by nostalgia to even admit how bad it is.

Other FF games are lucky they don’t have sequels and prequels to destroy their stories

This is a clickbait video if I’ve ever seen one. The only insult here is this video.

you're a certified hater if i've ever seen one

Sorry, I have to disagree with most of what you say. The compilation is not an insult to fans, perhaps it's an insult to purists but definitely not the fans as a whole. Only the purists because they just want the OG and that's it and they make it to be. A 1 to 1 remake with very little addition. While your opinion is just as valid as mine, I just thought I needed to post the counter to it and I know I won't hit every point so I apologize in advance. Advent Children does have its issues but to those who have dived into the lore and listened to the online audio book of On the Way to a Smile and read the book The Kid's are Alright, it helps the movie make more sense. Yes, the turks were murderers and should have paid for killing thousands but.... this movie itself is about Redemption. It focuses on people who suffers from regret and grief, it's like the secondary story of a war veteran who must now integrate back into society and deal with the what has happened even if he was heroic. I found the story in that aspect very relatable. My complaint was more about lack of other characters not getting the spotlight they needed except during fight scenes, not using magic or other summons which they had and still yet after everything there were some things left ambiguous. For the time it was made, overall I think it was a great movie. First Soldier Mobile could have been really successful had they put it on PC and eventually console. Now that SE is going multi-platformer it could have been much more successful. I actually enjoyed it. I even wrote a fanfiction for the last three rando models in the First Soldier trailer which so far they have not used in the canon story. Dirge of Cerebus was more about showing an even darker side of Shinra just to hammer how evil they really were. Vincent Valentine's story itself was actually more fascinating than Cloud's in my opinion. His involvement stretches all the way from Before Crisis to the present part of the compilation. The multiplayer DoC added some more lore to it which kind of gave it some more cohesion; so with that said, I will concede and agree with you on the part that the coherence was all over the place with some media not being available at all but only in Japan like Before Crisis as well. I think Vincent with the new antagonists, it really gave a nice extension to the series, however it was short and did leave some things to be desired. Granted the story was a bit out there but with some editing they actually could make it much better and as far as game play, it was the PS2 era and let's just say the dialogue also wasn't the best. Sure it has it's flaws with the mysterious ending, but it added a lot of new lore to the world which I do appreciate. Crisis Core was Zack's story, to me I felt like the man who set Cloud forward on his destiny was worth getting a back story. Like DoC, it is plagued with annoying features, it's definitely not perfect as a game and the UMD it was on was expensive and there was about another 25% of the game that was actually cut out due to that expense. The story of Zack and Aerith was one I felt was worth telling, after all it was expanded lore from the OG. Aerith mentions Zack was her first love. It was amazing how popular Zack became after introducing his story and him as a character. To be honest, I actually like Zack a little more than Cloud. I liked Genesis too even if he had some cringe moments, his quirky/cringe Loveless obsession kind of gave him a lot of charm. I aslo liked how we saw Genesis evolve through the story as well and I really liked Angeal. We also got to see a different side of Sephiroth which kind of made him a much more complex character. Remake I will say that I was a bit upset at first when they decided to take it a different direction, but after playing through it another time, I actually came to appreciate it and have since embraced it as a sequel to the compilation. It's not perfect but I definitely see the improvement from the other games they have made. While I will say there are definitely flaws and things I will definitely agree with you with, the story aspect that I wanted out of it really made it more interesting to me. Perhaps I fall into the new group of people who appreciate it for what it is, but at the end of the day it is the DEVs story and they have the right to add or change whatever it is they like whether we agree with it or not and don't even get me started on the shipping wars which has poisoned the well even more. I'm scared to see what will happen to the community once they decide to canonize the shipments when it comes to the Zerith, Cloti, and Clerith Clans. While I do get some of the purist mentality, I've accepted that times change and they will never be able to recapture that moment 27 years ago (as of this posting) that we felt back then because we were all different people then. Some of us were just kids. I've enjoyed the story thus far and at this point just enjoying the ride.

Wow, it’s a rant video from 2008. The comprehension skills of a child.

You don't like FF7, of course you won't like Remake nor Rebirth. You think you can understand what is quality, but you're just a crybaby that couldn't even interpret the original FF7 in the right way

We did it, we found a wrong opinion.

Strangely enough, i still prefer games like crisis core or dirge of cerberus than the remake/rebirth games.

Not a ff7 fan, yet you claim you've played them all, and you hate the compilations.....? Lol. Cool story, bro. It's not the compilations that are an insult to fans. It's people like you.

You are very ill-informed ngl

at least rebirth is good

i actually liked crisis core dirge tho was trash

Remake was ass.