Square Hired Me to Explain the Final Fantasy 7 Games

This is a retrospective on the FF7 saga, in preparation for FF7 Rebirth, we'll be recapping the events of the last 27 years while delving into the series history, themes and meanings.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Final Fantasy 7
05:19 FF7 (After the bit Remake Covers)
30:39 Before Crisis
31:32 Advent Children
33:37 Dirge of Cerberus
35:57 Crisis Core
40:24 Books
43:55 Remake
51:12 Rebirth

[Ronin]

This is the most diplomatic description of Dirge ever written. A truly herculean achievement.

[wood]

Considering how critical you were in your FFXVI video. I'm shocked Square is sponsoring you. I got to give them respect for that.

[Veronie]

Square is fucking genius for commissioning videos like this and i love that they're collaborating with all my favorite gaming content creators.

[DoritoGOD]

The stuff with Rufus's dad labeling the escape stuff with "L" for loser is hilarious.

[SpringdayAutumnmoon]

I didn't know Dirge of Cerberus existed until recently when looking for OG FF7 on howlongtobeat. I love that Final Fantasy got its own Shadow the Hedgehog.

[thenewtypetheory]

kudos, this was the most moving recap of FF7 I've ever seen.

[jamesgravil]

"Midgar sounds like an incredibly crap place to live"

It's not that bad. I grew up in Stoke-on-Trent!

[sparthyslaysstuff]

That main theme of the overworld roaring to life after escaping Midgar and realizing that hours of the game took place in *one city* is the kinda scope you didn't really see before 1997.

The music challenges to chase down Sephiroth and save the world.

[superbro]

This is probably the **first** time Brit has gotten sponsored
Proud of our boy, finally making it up in the world
You heartwarming to see those up and coming content creators grow up 😢

[Ghost_Of_SAS]

Paid promotion full disclosure doesn't get much more honest and transparent than this video's title lol

[Hamboane]

Holy crap I was literally looking up all the different FF7 games this morning to piece together a game plan. God bless you Mr. Brit

[BinaryDood]

I always thought Sephiroth to be the extreme of Nature whereas Shinra was the extreme of technology. As Sephiroth expanded the concept of Nature to the rest of the Universe once he realized what his mother was, and most of the Universe is the abcense of life. Even Cid's sidequest makes him look back from his shuttle at the Planet, loosing his interest in the romance of the cosmos. The Cetra is like a fine balance, that which says the human/player is like a cell in the larger organism of thw World, which holds life due to the rarest of chances (or miracle, as Aerith has a praying motif). Shinra would be a cancer then, and Sephiroth/jenova a parasite.

[dannyphoenix]

Congrats on the sponsorship Brit! If I hadn't preordered last night I would've used your link damn it haha. A really great break down of everything. Dreading the rest of this work week preventing me from really being able to sink my teeth in though. It's gonna be a tough one.

[jedistud]

I think that Sephiroth and Aerith travel back in time from the original game timeline to the Remake timeline via the Lifestream and they are working against each other throughout the remake.

[TheDeveritas]

Commenting before I watch the video. Your voice is so distinctly connected to resident evil to me it feels like two franchises of my ps1 childhood are mixing

[shadestrider]

First 30 minutes of this game made me want to go play Final Fantasy VII again. Only this time I have the steam version on my account and want to platinum it.

Pretty impressed that you understood the game's themes and identity so well. 10/10 video.

[danmorgan]

My fiance has been playing the FFVIIR series with me and doesn't know the original at all. She's asked me certain questions about the original's story where I just scratched my head and was like... uhm...
So yeah, great retelling and I didn't know a lot about the supplemental materials to begin with. Thumbs up here.

[christophercarrasco]

Haven't started the video, but I see Before Crisis in the time stamps. Thanks so much for acknowledging it lol. Someone did an English translation way back and I enjoyed watching all the cutscenes.

[cyber_baudelaire]

Kudos for the sponsorship ! Very nice vid, I'm in the middle of replaying ff7 and yet I couldn't help but watch it thoroughly... Hope this gets more views

[metalpizza]

Honestly, loving the way the video was structured. Make it easy to watch both as a long time fan and as someone who only started with remake. Very cool brit.