The Complete Story Of Final Fantasy 7 Remake: The Structure Of 5 PART 1 

The idea of this batshit story being somewhat consistent throughout 2 decades is my favorite part of 2020. Wonderful video

The fifth and final act of loveless is missing. Aerith says "the future is always a blank page".

So, I just wanted to mark a couple of occasions here. this video just hit 10k, and blew past 500 subs after part 2 released. I never expected the video/channel to get anywhere close to what it did in such a short period of time. and I just started making these less than a month ago, and since then its been a blur! I can't really describe how it feels to not only see how many of you actually watched this, (at all) but seeing how overwhelmingly supportive of these theory videos you guys have been since the beginning. Your engagement in the comments, your supportive attitudes, your well wishes And your love for the game has been so awesome to see. I am very glad to be apart of that in anyway. I just thought that all of that support just deserved recognition, because I am just very grateful to you guys. I hope to make the rest of this series just as engaging in the future, as well as future content. Thank you to those who have stuck around, thank you very much for watching! and thank you for making any of this even possible.

Something else to point out: sephiroth tells cloud to "hold on to that hatred." And barret says to Tifa after the plate fall, "hold on to that anger." I wonder if the Japanese version is the exact same word? Also, when barret says that, the camera focuses on Cloud, as if he thinks of sephiroth in that moment... not sure what else to draw from that concerning sephiroth's ability to be anchored to cloud but it was a nice detail.

You need to chat with Maximillian Dood and post the whole conversation on youtube!!! This is amazing!!

You gotta be kidding me. This is unironically incredible. I sure hope your theory is true because it's fantastic.

22:30 Vincent Valentine: "Heaven's dark harbinger. The Calamity. Jenova." - Advent Children

I personally believe that Biggs wasn't revived, but that he was alive the whole time (and possibly Jessie too). We never get to see Aerith making that deal with Tseng, so it's possible that, as part of the deal, she asked him to fly and get Biggs and Jessie from the pillar, before the plate fell. It would explain why Biggs is in a bed inside the Leaf House, a place in Sector 5, just like Marlene was also brought to Sector 5. Jessie's glove and headband might mean that either they're left there as mementos to remember his friend who passed away, or that she was saved as well and those items being left there symbolize that she's quitting Avalanche to pursue her career in theater, meaning that we might see her again when we get to the Golden Saucer.

This explains why Cloud is in Kingdom Hearts

Damn that's some really good stuff, especially the part of Gaia serving as a prison for Sephiroth so he doesn't infect the larger cosmic lifestream.

Came here and subbed from Final Fantasy Peasant. Great channel dude. I genuinely thought I knew everything about FF7. . I've read the entire script in English and Japanese. . I watched countless Garland the Great videos where he bugs the game out as much as possible. . I've watched and completed level 1 challenges. . I've played and completed Speedruns, discovered glitches. . I've read through countless documents of undiscovered/unfinished assets, dialogue, items etc within the game. . Done 100% completion, every character to 99, every limit break, every item, every materia mastered, every enemy skill. . I've read every single pre-alpha to BETA idea's that werent in the original game. . I've read streams and streams of interviews with the Games original cast, their opinions idea's and directions for the game. . But this has just blown my mind completely out of the water, this is by far one of my favourite RU-vid videos and I can't believe your theory series is over 4 hours long on 3 parts! You've got a sub for me dude, this granular details and theorycrafting is what I live for and I can't thank you enough for....re-invigorating my love for FF7. FF7 and compilation for me now has an entire new meaning and I can't wait to play through them again with your new ideas in mind! P.S. The Water theme throughout is mad. When you use her FInal Limit Break in the original FF7 - Great Gospel...it rains as she looks up...

Oh my god, what you're explaining and theorizing in this video, it makes so much sense. That the planet was trying to trap Sephiroth and Jenova so they wouldn't become a threat to the whole Cosmos, how could I miss it ? What the specters and Harbinger are, the purple color, what Sephiroth was trying to do in the Remake ... your theory could be canon for all we know, because like I said, it makes so much sense O-O I love how you included all the games of the FF7 compilation and talked about the Lifestream, Minerva and loveless FF7 Remake is a sequel, and oh my god we freed a godlike Sephiroth ? And Cloud is like an horcrux of Sephiroth now ? Oh Gaïa the continuation of the remake will br epic

It's true how much weight Crisis Core really carries. I have always maintained the notion that Loveless is the narrative for FF7 after playing Crisis Core.

Holy shit, this video came out of NOWHERE. Already subscribed. Awesome job, man. Already anxious to watch part 2

Thank you for making this! I caught on to the purple thing by the end of the game, and luckily had been recording, streaming, and taking screenshots. I also found it funny that people saw the harbinger at the end, and shouted "Kingdom Hearts" despite the darkside being tiny in comparison, and the harbinger appearing to essentially be a whisper-form WEAPON. Of course, people like to be willfully obtuse about things and swear up and down. A lot of folks still think the ending fight with Sephiroth was Nomura's doing, when in fact it was Naoki Hamaguchi who wanted to have the party face Sephiroth in Midgar.

Wow this is stunning. I'm awestruck at how well done this is and all of the connections made. I was loving Remake before but now my mind is totally blown to see the thread you've built across the evidence in the entire compilation. This is just masterful stuff. Thanks for sharing this, I'm off to watch the next one.

Dude, thanks so much for taking the time to dive deep into the lore of the various media and pull it all together. I had a pretty solid grasp of how Remake connects to OG, but you blew my mind several times here. Your presentation was clear, easy to follow and, most importantly, very entertaining. Please keep making more videos on FF7R and all FFs!

Me yesterday "Never played the game because i didnt had a PS1 when younger, but never really cared about it". Me today "I need to play this shit, where is my wallet?"

I'd imagine a lot of us came across this video because Final Fantasy Peasant highly recommended it. I'm really glad he did. This is definitely one, if not the best FF7R explanation video series out there. Keep it up, Sleepezi!

Holy crap this is AMAZING. You do a fantastic job of taking a complicated mess and communicating it in an understandable fashion. Kudos to the connection and delivery! Looking forward to the other videos

I also think you should definitely have a discussion with max dood about where the Remake is taking us. Especially with all the story elements being scattered around 5 games right now. Keep up with the great work so far 💪 👍

Dirge of Cerberus was anime, but it was very relevant to the compilation. I mean I get why people don't like it, but I guess it's a guilty pleasure for me.

This video is unbelievably good!! I loved Remake and am so excited to see where it goes and your video just amplified those feelings further! Thank you so much for your time and effort!

I'm looking forward to part 2, my friend! Your theories and conclusions are strongly supported, congratulations!

This is so impressive. I watched it yesterday but giving it another watch rn. Excited for part 2 of your series!

Wow, your attention to detail is phenomenal. I never noticed any of this stuff, and I've played all the games in the compilation many times. This is fantastic.

Wow, thoroughly impressed with the time and effort you put into this. I never played any of the FF7 compilation (only 7 and the remake), so having everything explained so well and how the entire story just blends together was super cool. Keep it up! Can’t wait for the next parts!

You just blew my mind for like 50 minutes straight. I’m on board with all of this.

I didnt really know what to think of the ending when I first finished the game but 3 runs later and days worth of theory crafting videos I am hooked! Would have loved to stumble over your videos earlier but there are still Remake games left so I am excited to join you now on our journey!:D

I didn't realize this was your first video until I checked your channel just now! I think it went over my head last time I was here. What an awesome first video to have! It's very detailed, well edited, and enjoyable! That is why I assumed you had more videos lol. I'm excited for your channel! Good work!

Holy hell, this is most detailed, expansive analysis I’ve seen as of yet. I think you might be incorrect on some minor points, but the major ones you make, do make the most sense out of everything I’ve seen. Subbed & looking forward to part 2.

Amazingly well put together video! Great eye for detail. I really hope this story is truly as well thought out and connected as you present it to be

*claps hand on shoulder* Kingdom Hearts was training us for this day all along...

"The planet Gaia (In the grand scheme of things) now serves as a prison for Sephiroth and Jenova" 🤯

If Sephiroth is able to come back from Cloud remembering him, then maybe in FF7R Cloud will be the one making the ultimate sacrifice 🤯

What started as a "Nomura moment" tweet (you know, when someone points out everything is connected) recommending this vid finished with me opening my third eye on FF COMPILATION. I knew I had to finish the original VII before REMAKE and boy was I right. At first I was only a fan of Advent children but now I'm more hooked than ever and I'm so pumped for REMAKE PT II, I wish your Minerva and Genesis theories become true as I believe there is a lot of lore to grab and present. Awesome!!!

Absolutely magnificent video. You have expanded the horizon for what we can expect from the future parts of the remake series. One thing to note; From my memory, the only reason Sephiroth got dispersed in the original game when Cloud beat him, was that he had put a certain amount of his memories and will on reinforcing meteor. This means that now, having reabsorbed his memories and will from the original game, this is the ultimate version of Sephiroth we are facing. Also; We know from AC that Sephiroth was augmented by the negative lifestream he had created through infected Geostigma spirits. Perhaps this negative lifestream will have a role to play again moving forward. Perhaps this even connects with Aerith's comment in the Remake, during the scene in her personal cell with her childhood drawing, where she mentions being lost in a maze. Perhaps the negative lifestream takes parts of her away or contains her? I guess this could also be referencing how, in the original game, Cloud mentions that Sephiroth was blocking Holy and containing Aerith (possibly in the white Holy Sphere before the final battle). Cloud's line was something like "Her smile is frozen", and he further says, in the correct translation, "We must set her free". I believe all the dialogue we've been given is intentional in the remake. Also interesting is Sephiroth's remark to Aerith before entering Destiny's Crossroads: "Those who look with Clouded eyes see nothing but shadows" (or in Japanese, "Perception Clouded by Sentimentality"). Clearly he's telling Aerith that her feelings are obscuring her ability to see clear, most likely directly referring to CLOUD and her connection to him. Anyway, these are just some of my thoughts. I am looking forward to Part 2. Your videos will be mandatory watching for everyone moving forward.

What I understood of Loveless: one gets captured (by Jenova), one flies away (dies), the one that's left becomes a hero (a weapon).

33:36 Everyone: Y-you're joking right..... Me: I knew Genesis's babblings had hidden meaning!

26:01 - 26:51 is a very probable theory that I definitely think should be the case. It would explain the "4 Sephiroths" as confirmed by the Ultimania without getting really wacky with it and literally having us fight 2 Sephiroths. Also as a side note, I decided to revisit this series in preparation for Intergrade and it still blows my mind. Can't wait for the next video.

Calamity’s Dark Harbinger Sephiroth! Vincent called it back in AC

Absolutely loved this video and your thoughts. You've got serious skill in making videos. Looking forward to more! Subbed.

Despite the dislike ppl have for DoC I still enjoyed it for what it was and the potential it had to add to the story.

Wow I'm completely blown away. I haven't played Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core, but I definitely will. Also, I didn't know there was a short story as well - which I'm also going to look into. But this is very interesting with everything you mentioned which link to FF7 Original and Remake. I'm definitely carrying on with the rest of the parts to find out more of what you have to explain, thanks for this btw! It makes me want to play and read the other parts I haven't witnessed myself yet.

i dont know what you are smoking or anything but....gimme that stuff. u pretty wise man to see all this.

As a FF content creator I found this video very informative. I have subscribed and shared this on my twitter, you did a great job.

Remake's story is the prog rock of JRPG stories and I love it

You got the beat theory out there! Nomura san is a fucking genius he literally brought all of ff7 media into this remake. People are not seeing the bigger picture with this game and its story. My brother was like why isnt anybody talking about loveless and holy shit i found this video lol.

you got a new sub this is amazing. cant wait for part 2!

Just some random fact, minerva's winged wheels are very similar to the real ancient portrayals of angelic beings

Love your insight about all of this man!

So I don't know if it was missed, but one of the reasons Cloud is tied to Sephiroth is the experiments done on him during his time in the Shinra Mansion. It's referenced in Crisis Core that Cloud took the S-cells from Sephiroth and is the first true perfect specimen of Hojo. I can't remember if it was a conversation or a note that revealed this, but I distinctly remember it being there.

Bruh.. im so stoked about this theory. Cant wait to watch the other videos! 💪🏻 your stuff is awesome 🤙🏻Jeep going!

This was well done. You had great evidence to validate your analysis too. Subscribed sir.👍

Subbed! Finally an explanation from the perspective of the entire FF7 anthology. Looking forward to the next video.

I've been rewatching your theory videos after watching your latest about Integrade and honestly I love the detail you go into and the perspective you bring to the fan discussion. Keep at it! I just had a little thought about your conversation on both Sephiroth's plan to use the lifestream to ride the cosmos and rejoin the larger lifestream to infect and control it, and your comment about the platform they are standing on is meteor floating in space before it is summoned by the black materia. I did wonder whether this alpha-lifestream is located at the Edge of Creation and the large colourful nebula is actually where he wants to get to - or am I clutching at straws?

In Ultimania, Whisper Harbinger was actually confirmed to be the Whisper representation of Jenova, just like 3 Whispers are Loz, Yazoo and Kadaj. Kinda crazy! This was an amazing video!

Came here from your podcast with seal and bltzz. Great job. Really enjoying your content.

Thank you for making those 3 videos, it was so interesting to listen

Eagerly awaiting part 3! Fantastic videos

Excellent analysis - subbed!

Listen. I'm only 13 minutes in and you've already blown my mind 10 times over. How are there 5 videos total? Fuck, man. And I thought I knew my FF7.

Those videos are so good! Thanks for sharing with us.

I just came here to see how... People are much more... Focused and smarter... Than me.... You intend to play, focus, and make theories but me... I just played and cried, damn. You're not human dude, this is amazing.

Love this!!! Keep up the great work👍

Me every few minutes of the video: "Oh FUCK."

As insignificant as loveless seems to the story. it is in the opening scenes of the game and is everywhere. Even when i rewatched Advent Children the other day i noticed a billboard for loveless in Edge. I thought wow they must just really love that play. Your videos are amazing can't wait for part 5.

Small detail that could be useful in the future, the Cetra were a migratory species (interplanetary) in search of the promised land, some Cetra chose to abandon the idea of travelling the cosmos, the consequence was that it gave birth to the first humans. Sephiroth's motive in AC was to use the "planet" as his vessel to travel through space and find a new one to rule over much like what the Cetra did. I firmly believe that the planet or rather the lifestream wants to keep the cycle of inhabiting other planets.

I'm betting when they are standing at the "Edge of Creation" the red mass behind Cloud represents Chaos, destruction of the planet, and the white mass in front of him represents Omega, the journey of the lifestream to it's next destination (of course these are Dirge of Cereberus references). These represent both aspects of Sephiroth's ultimate goal essentially. His desire to destroy the planet to absorb the lifestream in Chaos, his journey to the next system via the lifestream in Omega. My guess anyway.

That was a great video man! Super big brain forsure. Thanks!!

Great job putting all this together. With how much work you're putting into this I can't wait for you to finish connecting the past together so we can start on what you think points forward. I had always thought of loveless as the boiling down of the core themes of the series I just never realised how literal that could be. An missing 5th chapter huh? Almost like it got lost in time or something. 😏

32:00 I'm glad you pointed out the importance of the exchange between Barret and the spectre. This shows the spectres have individual agency and or comprehension. They aren't just natural phenomenon, or at least, they are as much a natural phenomenon as a sentient human being is. If it is particularly Biggs, remains to be know. Barret does have a deceased wife after all. I also love that you've noticed who sees the sparkles and who doesn't. It is my working hypothesis that the sparkles aren't necessarily the defeat of fate but they are the "Unknown Journey" similar to that of Jacob in Jacob's Ladder. I won't spoil that movie here but if you're interested, do please give it a watch or at least read a detailed synopsis of how the events in that film are portrayed.

Glad to see someone go into the connection between Sephiroth and the colour purple, and him absorbing the meteor. I had the same thought about him being unlocked from the Harbinger. But why did Aerith want any of this to happen?

AMAZING CAN'T WAIT FOR PART 2

Sharing this with my friends that have beaten this game. This needs to be apart of the conversation for sure! I agree Maximilian_Dood needs to see this and chat with you. So much depth!

Wow. Really! That was amazing! I dont even watch theories, just read about them, but I'm so glad i watched this. I started yesterday, because i couldn sleep.. Then finished it in one go, all three video's. So i went to sleep at 5 oclock or something haha. But it was worth it. Very, Very cool and impressive. Watch it, youll be glued to your screen.

This one was good for sure. I especially like how for some things you had an inkling about but couldn't confirm, you presented them as such

Damn.... Your analysis is freaking good! I think SE should be scared that you may have foiled thier plans x'DD Good job!!! Cant wait to watch the other parts

How in the flying shit is this series of videos only entering my sphere now? Bless you, Sleepezi. You are doing Jenova's work.

Now, I'm on board with almost all of this, but just one thing: Harbinger Sephiroth not coming back. Let me spin a proposition: I think that, maybe through cloud's memories, he's going to keep trying to avert some events or change them to give present Sephiroth a better chance. With even before the portal, as the party sees H-Sephiroth as a whole by the time Cloud tries to dunk on him on the walkway from Genova's holding container. As long as Cloud keeps what has transpired in mind, I think it may turn out to be H-Sephiroth might linger enough to not only fuck with the plot, but may just end up giving Present Sephiroth the power to try and defy a possibly more prepared cloud and co. Through what means? Iunno. But, these are just theories after all. I could be missing something though. Amazing video though. Onto part 2.

Brilliant!!! Mind blown that was a great analysis. There were so many things you touched on that would just be over looked it was incredible. Loveless fckn loveless that's one creepy connection I never saw coming. I had a feeling the play was significant with how much its mentioned but I never knew that much about it. Wow thanks for that it helps shine light on a nagging feeling I can now Express in words. Also just want to point out the light when you defeat sephiroth isn't super nova its holy. Holys animation is the Same in every rendition of any ff. The light that takes us to the end of creation is holy...I think its significant in a metaphoric way. However the soul absorption, sephiroth being imprisoned and we freed him ....omg I didn't see it till it was spelled out....time to replay with that notion. That's incredible insightful and puts a who new spin on that ending.....omfg

Found you because of PEZ, and I hope you get a ton more followers dude!

What an incredible video. You earned my sub.

Subscribed and waiting for part two!

Just came to re-watch while I wait "patiently" for more videos 😆

Wow....I was mindblown so many times. Who would have thought Seph was planning all this post-Dirge? I thought Genesis was going to do something in Dirge 2; maybe confront and possibly save an old friend.

amazing video's dude, very cool analysis

These videos are absolute masterpieces

Just finished watching part 3, amazing work as always. You’ve done a phenomenal job. Among the many questions I have after watching your videos, there is one that’s been bugging me quite a while and it actually applies to this part. It may seem elementary at first but bear with me. In the official Ultimania, there is a table of the various Sephiroths that appear throughout the game - illusion, recollection, black cloak and finally one simply denoted as “?” of which his first appearance is at the end of the highway “to lure the party beyond the barrier of destiny” and is the same one that continues until the end. So now, if highway / portal-opening Sephiroth and Harbinger Sephiroth are one and the same...do you see where I’m going with this? The only way that Sephiroth, in his true form, could appear to the party before they have even defeated the Harbinger Weapon and released him, is to appear at that moment in time once he has become the Harbinger himself. As the Harbinger is a singularity, then this is within his means to do so. However - Sephiroth needs the party to free him before he is even able to open the portal and lure them into freeing him...thus, we have a paradox. On the other hand, if they are not the same then just who is the Sephiroth on the highway, and how is he visible to everyone? Since he is explicitly not a clone. Perhaps I’m just having trouble wrapping my head around it but either way, would love to get your thoughts / clarification on this!

Well done dude great work.

Holy shit and i thought i had a correct theory on stuff, you completely blew my mind. I was pretty sure that the ghosts were just the will/cries of the planet that bugenhagen tells us about in the OG, but now they are more of a threat rather than just a concept. Great video and great theory, it got me pumped up.

This is some next level shit. Thank you for blowing my mind. On to part 2.

And I thought I was overthinking FFVII Remake theory concepts, wow dude you went above and beyond! I'm loving it. Looking forward to your Part 2 video content. Just subbed. I am not as elaborate as you are with all these connections to the FFVII story compilation to try and explain the story elements in Remake this precisely, but I have a feeling that we could be in for a wild mind f*ck with this story. For instance, I wouldn't put it past SE to kill off Cloud and assign us a new main character (Aerith?) going forward into Part 3 of the Remake.. Another interesting side note I came across from reading a book I found that sums up all FFVII compilation story into a conveniently arranged chronologically concatenated summary from Before Crisis through Dirge: did you know that in the original development of FFVII OG it was initially planned in the story to reveal that Aerith and Sephiroth were brother and sister.. in fact during the beginning development stages their character designs had similar hairstyles. Wouldn't that be a crazy plot twist if something like this were to show up in the Remake. What are your thoughts on this. Is this even possible given the overall compilation and current timeline as it stands right now (Aerith and Sephiroth being related)? Thank you for your insight on this.

If only Aerith could’ve met Genesis maybe in remake but these videos are crazy man keep up the awesome work I really hope all of this is 100% true it makes sense in the craziest way it’s like your reading Nomura’s mind

Dude, i'm loving this. The explanation of what Sephiroth does by absorbing the meteor makes perfect sense, i thought to an explanation for weeks. I wonder how they will explain all this stuff in the future games, considering that probably they even have to explain to the player what happened in the original game, which is a lot of stuff.

Many bricks are being shat while watching this video. Thank you for all the time you are putting into this. The flash-forwards/destiny theme made no sense to me untill I watched your video. Watching this, made all those scenes go from "huh weird/why did they put this in?" to "omg this is a completly new game, but it still allows us to go through basically the same story as the original". Bravo SE, bravo. This is gold. It opens up so much possibilities, yet I had not the slightest clue playing through this game.

Subbed, cant wait for part 2

I love this video and I think I can help with certain ideas. 1) the connection Sephiroth has isn’t necessary spiritual, in case of lifestream, Aerith points out that Sephiroth hasn’t linked himself to Cloud he has “made HIS memories of cloud his core of his being” he needs Cloud though to give physical form in AC. This is easier to explain rather a hollocrux style link, it does however make him harder to beat because he isn’t literally connected to Cloud. 2) for Biggs returning, think during Jessie’s mission, Wedge states a theory that her dad is trapped between his body and the lifestream. This could be what happened to Biggs, his body isn’t dead but his soul is in a limbo state.

Wow, excellent video man! I've been a huge fan of FF7 since the original release and absolutely love the remake (including the ending). Since finishing the remake I've watched countless theory videos, including Maximilian Doods excellent spoiler video with Easy Allies, and this video is definitely one of the best I've seen... I love just how deep this all potentially goes. One question I have is regarding Aerith. I'm not sure if this is something you address in Part 2 but with the whole 'changing fate' theme of the remakes ending, a lot of people seem the be questioning if Aerith's fate in the original could now be altered? Do you see that possibility or do you think her fate in the original is too important to the overall end goal? Either way, keep up the excellent work 👍🏻

Wow... Just wow. I need part 2 ASAP