Final Fantasy VII - An In-Depth Retrospective

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  @thedadliestman · 2 years ago · pinned

  I was made aware that there is a piece of wrong information in the video regarding how Final Fantasy got its name, my apologies for this part. For the correct information, I&apos;d like to refer you to the following article from Eurogamer where Sakaguchi explains the true story;<br><br><a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-creator-debunks-myth-of-series-name">https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-creator-debunks-myth-of-series-name</a>

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  @gogauze · 2 years ago

  Fun fact about the pronunciation of our beloved flower girl&apos;s name:<br><br>It was initially transliterated faithfully from the original Japanese as Aerith. However, sometime during the the localization process—which was handled by a single person and, to put it mildly, was an absolute mess—they made the executive decision to change it to Aeris so it would sound more feminine to a western audience.<br><br>The reason we know any of this is because, in roughly equal parts, the original credits, developer interviews from the last 25ish years, and—the real smoking gun—if you perform any unintended skips or glitches that bypass the naming dialogue, the name defaults to Aerith every time.<br><br>I just thought that would be a fun story to share.

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  @commandershepard3967 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite FFVII review on the Citadel.

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  @MrRafique-y8g · 2 years ago

  I feel sorry for you kids who didnt experience this masterpiece when it arrived in 1990&apos;s, great memories

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  @7DragonEyes7 · 2 years ago

  There is many part in the game where you have specific lines depending on who is in your party. If you visit Zack parents with Aerith, she will be sad and not say she is the girlfriend. The game is filled with alternative lines and that makes the game really enjoyable to replay.

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  @superramio · 2 years ago

  SO MANY people get the Zack’s memories thing wrong and you explained it perfectly! This has been a great video to watch while doing daily activities, ty for your work and your great narration 😊

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  @stevenbemrose5104 · 2 years ago

  The effort put into this video is &nbsp;truly impressive. If you keep this kind of effort up you&apos;ll have a silver plaque in no time.

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  @theadma184 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI427cl6vOA&amp;t=6919">1:55:19</a> You&apos;re 100% right. The screen cutting to black after the aeris scenes and You&apos;re just left seeing a faint reflection of yourself before you realize what the text even says, trying to process what just happened. As you grow and experience loss irl you realize how well square nailed that process, You&apos;re not gonna be finished with the grieving process before you realize that you can&apos;t wait for that feeling to end before you have to keep going. Life doesn&apos;t wait. To this day ff7 is the only game to have made me shed real tears. The end of disk 1 is beautiful sadness in game form.

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  @MugsyBrews · 2 years ago

  Being only 11 at the time I was shocked by Aeris’ death. At this point I had been watching my brother play the lead save file, while I was still learning how to play an rpg. We both had to take a break and go outside after realizing she wasn’t coming back. My brother being older accepted her fate and moved on while I kept looking thru the strategy guide and on the then limited internet seeing if there was a way to bring her back. It was really heart wrenching and I learned how my brother and I process grief differently. This is my fav game of all time bc it showed the depths of storytelling video games could achieve.

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  @Lunabet · 6 months ago

  I loved this retrospective so much. It helped me process the lot of stuff went on throughout the game after my playthrough. Thank you.

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  @dylan5388 · 2 years ago

  hell yes I needed a new long video essay to help me sleep<br>subbed and going to go through your other videos, thanks for your work

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  @1takeJones · 2 months ago

  You are such a godsend i wish there was a word to differentiate these kind of videos that show a brief overview of the entire game in order.<br><br>Not a video essay or developmwnt synopsis or story discussion, those all suck.<br><br>Thank you so much