The sequel to this video, The Story of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth | A Narrative Analysis and Retrospective: https://youtu.be/YKq_cVnDwXA
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Table of Contents:
0:00 – Introduction, Disclaimers, and My Personal Experience with FF7
8:52 – The Music of FF7
11:44 – The Bombing Mission, Cloud Strife, Barret Wallace and the Mako Conflict
26:38 – Sephiroth Discussion and Theories + The Approach of the Remake + The Whispers
44:48 – The End of the Mission + Tifa Lockhart
53:26 – Midgar
56:54 – Jessie, Biggs, Wedge and Chapter 4
1:08:51 – Shinra and the Second Mission
1:12:33 – Aerith Gainsborough Discussion and Theories
1:28:36 – The Sector 5 Slums and Wall Market
1:42:22 – The Sewers and the Train Graveyard
1:52:23 – The Plate Drop and the Turks
2:05:47 – The Aftermath
2:12:10 – The Remake's Character Resolution Scenes
2:19:13 – Chapter 14 and Shinra Headquarters
2:31:27 – The Interlude and the Trail of Blood
2:42:02 – Rufus Shinra and the End of the Original's Midgar Arc
2:45:53 – The Remake's Ending - Discussion, Theories and Interpretations
3:03:15 – The Remake's Final Scenes + Concluding Thoughts, Interpretations and Speculation About Future Parts
3:17:36 – Personal Conclusion
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Sources:
⁃ A link to Lorerunner’s FFVII playthrough, which helped form some of my thoughts on the original game and also doubled as a source for the footage for the original Final Fantasy VII playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BxojKqZ-5Q&t=10179s&ab_channel=LorerunnerStreamArchives
⁃ Source 1 for the footage for the FFVIIR playthrough, as well as the source for some Crisis Core footage: https://www.youtube.com/user/gLPLayground
⁃ Source 2 for the footage for the FFVIIR playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCuOXpxJjGo&list=PL9wpzJw8GKy5NkqIPTrpBdKIq7TlEgdVB&ab_channel=dansg08
⁃ Source 3 for the footage for the FFVIIR playthrough (Mentioned in the video as Gameplay Garage but have since changed their channel name to "Cipher"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJwIkLgCBE&ab_channel=Cipher
⁃ A link to a podcast entitled "Dropped Frames" that helped me gather my thoughts on the ending of the Remake (the discussion I mentioned about the Lifestream chapters starts at about 22 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Ex8ILaJAA&t=2143s&ab_channel=itmeJP
⁃ Lifestream Black and LifeStream White excerpts, translated: https://thelifestream.net/novels-novellas/on-the-way-to-a-smile-lifestream-black-and-lifestream-white/
⁃ Two Twitter threads translating important bits of the FFVII Remake Ultimania: https://mobile.twitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1255553713260789760 https://twitter.com/istanleyff7/status/1256005845222961153
⁃ A link to the Final Fantasy wiki, which was used for some fact-checking: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki
⁃ Additional lore tidbits provided from reading a physical copy of the original Final Fantasy VII Ultimania
⁃ An interview with Sakaguchi about the theme of FFVII: http://www.ff7citadel.com/press/int_sakaguchi.shtml
- Let's Mosey: A Slow Translation Of Final Fantasy VII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeN2KjRHZk&list=PLsiJPoHlPqEEA07AKMQ2Hm2oRLiGkR_uJ&ab_channel=Kotaku
⁃ My video on Barret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs6kkpAla8k&ab_channel=Aleczandxr