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Andrew Bluett
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The Final Fantasy VII Retrospective
As the video game industry moved into a new era, so, too, would Square and the Final Fantasy series. With the leap to Sony's new PlayStation console, Final Fantasy VII was set to take the world by storm.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:17 - Part I - The Third Dimension
8:56 - Part II - Sony PlayStation
19:10 - Part III - Life
33:20 - Patreon
33:35 - Part IV - Final Fantasy VII
43:09 - Presenting a Dystopia
1:03:36 - Cloud Strife
1:09:50 - Barret Wallace
1:18:22 - Tifa Lockhart
1:20:05 - Aerith Gainsborough
1:28:10 - Red XIII
1:34:01 - Cait Sith
1:39:33 - Cid Highwind
1:47:14 - Yuffie Kisaragi
1:57:22 - Vincent Valentine
2:06:23 - The Party As A Collective
2:12:02 - Those Who Fight
2:26:33 - Minigames & Superbosses
2:37:38 - Localization Woes
2:45:06 - Music
2:54:11 - *That* Scene
3:06:41 - Sephiroth & Jenova
3:17:38 - Cloud & Identity
3:41:06 - Stopping Meteor & The End of Shinra
3:48:13 - The Final Descent
4:08:46 - Personal Thoughts
4:11:36 - Part V - Porting Woes
4:22:41 - Part VI - The New Revolution
4:35:07 - The Gulf Between
4:42:27 - Epilogue & To Be Continued...
The bibliography for this video is available for free on my Patreon, no membership required: www.patreon.com/posts/105337803?pr=true
Bsky: bsky.app/profile/drubie.bsky.social
Twitter: LordDrubie
Patreon: www.patreon.com/AndrewBluett
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:17 - Part I - The Third Dimension
8:56 - Part II - Sony PlayStation
19:10 - Part III - Life
33:20 - Patreon
33:35 - Part IV - Final Fantasy VII
43:09 - Presenting a Dystopia
1:03:36 - Cloud Strife
1:09:50 - Barret Wallace
1:18:22 - Tifa Lockhart
1:20:05 - Aerith Gainsborough
1:28:10 - Red XIII
1:34:01 - Cait Sith
1:39:33 - Cid Highwind
1:47:14 - Yuffie Kisaragi
1:57:22 - Vincent Valentine
2:06:23 - The Party As A Collective
2:12:02 - Those Who Fight
2:26:33 - Minigames & Superbosses
2:37:38 - Localization Woes
2:45:06 - Music
2:54:11 - *That* Scene
3:06:41 - Sephiroth & Jenova
3:17:38 - Cloud & Identity
3:41:06 - Stopping Meteor & The End of Shinra
3:48:13 - The Final Descent
4:08:46 - Personal Thoughts
4:11:36 - Part V - Porting Woes
4:22:41 - Part VI - The New Revolution
4:35:07 - The Gulf Between
4:42:27 - Epilogue & To Be Continued...
The bibliography for this video is available for free on my Patreon, no membership required: www.patreon.com/posts/105337803?pr=true
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The Final Fantasy V Retrospective
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The Final Fantasy IV Retrospective
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Tony Hawk's Underground is Special
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The Final Fantasy III Retrospective
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With the Super Famicom looming ahead, Final Fantasy III would be the last game in the series to be developed for Nintendo's 8-bit Family Computer. And while it would take cues from both of its predecessors, it would also embody the grief and hope of series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi during a tumultuous time in his young life. In this part of the Final Fantasy Retrospective, we'll be examining t...
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The Final Fantasy II Retrospective
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After the surprise success of the first Final Fantasy in 1987, Hironobu Sakaguchi and his team immediately set out to work on a sequel which would be completely disconnected from the original. But what informed the creative direction of Final Fantasy II? What games were making waves in Japan in 1988? And how much of Final Fantasy II's overall design was influenced by Akitoshi Kawazu? In this in...
The Final Fantasy Retrospective
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Learning to Love Halo 4 - A Retrospective
The themes of identity of this game is what originally tied me to this franchise. I played FFVII for the first time when I was 19, on a period where I've never felt so lost. I dropped out of college and didn't know what I wanted to to with my life, who I wanted to be with or who I was. The only thing I knew about this game was the Aerith scene, and nothing else. Cloud's journey deeply affected me and it still does. This game is really important, everything it tries to do, and everything it stands for.
This is incredibly well done! I can see the pouring love in every sentence and scene, thanks for this! I love this game and this world so much
This video... are sick.
Any chance for a SoM Retrospective?
Welcome to the TRIPPLE-XXXL version of a game review, with all the juicy details and history! How to make FFVI harder: Make all characters unique with which skills and magic you develop with them through the game. Also, the way you pronounce Cyan's name, which is spelt in Japanese as Kaien and pronounced as Kye-anne. Who else, like me, pronounced his name as the color cyan?
You are a treasure man. I hope you keep making these
A good vid until the end. Mignogna has basically been cleared of wrongdoing if you've paid any attention to the case
what do you MEAN you haven't played Parasite Eve???
I think the rebirth really muddied "that scene" up so hard. "Depiciting death that carried actual weight" yet gave us long drawn out speeches, an extra fight with her then a "is she - isnt she?" Until the final CGI. We didnt get the sudden and the impact. We didnt get to send her off outside the temple - the party is just chilling in a flowery field xD Also, my condolences xxx
For a video with so much careful research, thought, and work put into it, these are rooky numbers! Let's pump those numbers up and give this the recognition it deserves! Also, I can't wait for your FFX retrospective, however far away that may be.
December 2025 is the plan for FFX.
I’m liking Detective Vincent storyline. That’s kinda cool
"It's louder than a Metallica concert in there!". What a beautifully disgusting time this game was released
He definitely cooked with a 5hr video of FF7
Who hates the movies dub music don't have a taste in music.
Bro, the way you spoke about death around the 3hr mark had me tearing up 😭 You've earned a sub!
At the time of its release I had never played a final fantasy game and was just old enough that when my mom showed me the game at the store I saw Donald and Goofy on the cover and immediately dismissed it as a kids game and didn't want to get it. Fortunately she went ahead and bought it for me anyways for my birthday or Christmas so I felt obligated to play it and instantly fell in love with it. It remains one of my favorite gaming series of all time and I periodically play the whole series all over again
Does this video have moments of increasing and decreasing volume?
This is a wonderful video!!! This really makes me want to play the pixel remaster now!!!
Wow. This video is beautiful
I was playing Persona 5 with this in the background and the ever so soft battle theme music in the background in hour 2 threw me off hard haha
I like this video.. one big love letter to Tony Hawk Skateboard games.
I've watched a few of your videos so far and I must say they are master works. Thank you for your genius.
I still can’t believe it’s been 22 years of loving a game and characters so much that it’s shaped my entire way of life. I really love how you made all the close ups of the old sketches in your detailed video. I truly wish Nomura went through with the animated series of Kingdom Hearts. I’m making small animations of Sora and it’s been a lot of fun just roughing out goofy looking animations of him. His hair is so much fun to animate. ❤
Thank you for making this!!!!
I learned sooooo much from this video. Thank you very much for making it!!!!
Bravo, bravo!!!
I think this might just be his weakest video that he ever put out compared to his other videos, maybe you should play this game a few times to appreciate this game Chrono trigger is goated and I prefer it over FFVI. Yeah I’m camp CT all the way.
Something I love about Sakaguchi's story is after all the fame he found with FF he left, made a few other great games, then "retired" to Hawaii where he could spend more time surfing than working.
I've one happy memory of my dad and dragon Warrior 1 Last Xmas we had . Never forget my brother saying no get the club and cloth first. Then we will get the sword .Whats this quest nonsense lol.
The best game ever made
So good!
Aerith’s death saddens me more and more as I grow older. It had already caught me off guard back when I was a 7 year old playing it right after it came out, but now I’m in my 30s and it nearly brought me to tears.
This is why I despise the remake, its so clear that modern Square wants Aerith to come back but that's the whole point of the story. She's dead, she's gone and nothing the player does can bring her back. Stop messing with perfection Square, this is the whole point of the story and why this story is a masterpiece. Similar to FF9 which came after, people WILL die but its how they lived that is more important. I cried when I learnt that Vivi died at the end of 9 as it didn't seem fair but as he says "My memories will be part of the sky...". Reviving Aerith completely GUTS the story. Why Square wants to RUIN this, I have no idea.
Man thank you so much for this video
28:00 in before the ball drops that we're in for some woke finger-wagging from a guy who clearly lives in a nice part of a nice city. *_YAWN_*
im excited to see how he does the rest of the final fantasy series my brothers favorite final fantasy game was ff8
I always have to be like level 70 to beat Zeromus, def one of the hardest final bosses in the series
I still have my ps2. A couple of years ago i found and bought THUG somewhere! And i still play it sometimes. It only keeps jamming in the Hawaï mission 😢
I understand the people who like "Simp Chief", but the Chief who was fundamentally a soldier caught up in the socio-politcal dynamics of a series of space wars was more compelling to me because we all get swept up (willing or not) in the times. The way that the Chief and Arbiter become allies for example speaks to how the times can make enemies or allies out of people who might have been otherwise if these bigger forces weren't at play: the tragedy of an individual caught up in the machinations of those in power.
I love Gilgamesh! And his theme, Battle on the Big Bridge, is one of my favorites out of the whole FF music library. I really enjoyed his scene in the latest FF7 rebirth game, his silliness came through perfectly!
I am playing through KH2 right now. Please do the KH2 Video. PLEASE.
Very nice video. Made me think a lot an want to say a lot, but I don't know how. Nice job.
That…was the greatest UA-cam video I think I have ever watched. A very well done for making that, happy to have found your videos. I see there are others that you have done that I will be watching too. Not much new information for myself, but seeing it all in one video that was cohesive, well structured and really well presented was a massive plus.
forerunners are humans
Do the sequel next! Great work 🎉🎉🎉
This guy nerds hard. Hard and good.
This was a great retrospective and I gained a lot of knowledge, not only on the history and themes of the game, but on the lore and characters as well. I really appreciate you sticking to the original game and the facts found within it.
Is there any way to get ahold of the original uncut script for the game's story?
After learning about FFV's endgame bosses at 1:32:14, as a FFXIV player I couldn't help but draw many comparisons to that game's Ultimate raids. Much like FFV's endgame bosses, Omega and Shinryu, FFXIV's Ultimate Raids require careful planning and strategy to overcome them. The level of your character is even capped at a certain threshold to avoid the possibility of overleveling the bosses. And, much like these bosses in FFV, the main draw to beat these Ultimates are for the satisfaction of beating them. They are completely optional. You do get a shiny weapon and a title to show off to other players, but ultimately it is simply a flex. To further drive home the similarities, the most recent Ultimate raid to be added to FFXIV was 'The Omega Protocol', a raid centered around Omega, the same boss from FFV.
The reason why the dream drop distance models were used was because the original KH raw files were lost to a fire. There is a legend that destati is a cursed song and that they were playing it on that day that the fire happened.