20 years ago my dad said he only had money for 1 video game and wanted it to last all summer. Video gamer that worked at walmart told him this one. Best decision he ever made.
The gameplay and the story? Absolutely. Graphically outside of cutscenes it looks like ass, lol. It gets a pass because the Playstation was new and developers hadn't figured out how to optimize it yet. FF8 and especially 9 have aged much better because they don't have the awkward polygon blockyness that FF7 did. Nintendo had it more figured out by the time the N64 hit and games like Mario and Zelda aged better than this too.
Who came here after checking the new remake intro? Dang, the old intro still aged well, and the new one add an extra topping to it with more aerith screentime
I am looking forward to The remake...But The intro i am not big fan of in The remake. Whole idea is solitude and isolation, just worked better AS a message.. while remake makes it seem like everyone is an asshole or something. I mean just The whole confused part of being in a alley. Like that just adds to The mystery. But design wise The remake looks OK But i honestly doubt its gonna live up to The ps1 since it was done so well. Unless they can interpret The game so well of what made it Great in 1997 when it came out
@@kejiri3593 I don't like Aerith's flower being stepped upon by a pedestrian in Remake. That is way too sentimental, which is why I find the original intro cooler.
One can never beat this game. You can finish the story, but never beat the game. There are plenty of things to do, breed chocobos, get top scores on the video games at gold saucer, race chocobos, beat the emerald weapon differently.
The moment it zooms out to logo i get severe chills almost teary eyed. I see myself playing this over and over as a child. It reminds me of simple times i could just play this and lose myself in the story. Now i stumble upon it looking for space ambient sounds for my work. It is weird how this feels so personal like a part of me, and to others its just a shitty video game. Thank you FFVII for all the adventures.
@@SunyataManji I will never be able to enjoy anything so intensely as i did as a child. But i did really enjoy walking through Midgar and seeing everyone again.. When you leave midgar is when i really start to enjoy FFVII so im excited for Rebirth. And i do really like the whole "sequel" thing.. We get to enjoy all the familiar places again in 4k and at the same time have a new story with all the new mysteries that contain in it. So yea i feel really good about the new games. what about you?
@@ElbertBerlijn unfortunately I didn't grow up playing RPGs and I was born in 2002 (I found out about ff7 through friends but never played it), that's why I was asking your opinion when I saw your comment, it was very touching!
This is one of the first games I remember buying and playing for the fist time. Even tough it took me about 4+ years to beat it, it is my favorite game of all time.
turboz2001 I sold my ps1 before I could beat the final sephiroth and my ps2 don't play ps1 games. So I could only beat it after I bought a pc good enough to play it on a emulator
I will never forget Final fantasy 7 Playstation , it's the only game that make me cry, I was hesitant to buy at first because I was more in stealth game like metal gear solid and Tenchu etc etc , but it was worth every penny I still remember its comes with 3 cd in the case, Btw I'm 44 now and still gaming
I remember discussing with my friend when this game just came out that one day the graphics will look like they do in the cut scenes and he told me it was impossible. Well, now graphics have gone far beyond what the cut scenes look like and soon the remake will blow our collective minds! In 10+ years...
John Doe haha i had that EXACT convo with 2 of my friends. Except the game that sparked the convo was Syphon Filter 1 for the original playstation. It was around the time the PS2 had just been announced and my friends younger brother said "they're saying that the new Playstation is gonna have graphics just like the FMV movies in this game" after one of the FMV scenes finished playing. I was like "nah I don't think they can pull that off"......lol
Best intro intro to any game I have ever played. Also my favourite game of all time. If you are a fan of amazing things, you owe it to yourself to play this game through to the end, at least once. If this game was a book, I'd read it, a movie, I'd watch it.
More RPGs need to begin like this. Awesome cut scene that sets tone and scope, zoom in, start killing things. It pisses me off that 99% of RPGs out there start with 30 minutes of boring dialogue, unnecessary tutorials and quests to go kill rats in a basement. FFS the first battle in this game is a guy with a big sword vs. two machine gun wielding soldiers! Yes there's tutorials later on, but only for materia and you can skip them. This game was trial by fire and it was awesome!
such a distinct and iconic opening, from the music to the atmosphere at play it’s a master class of first impressions, it was revolutionary for its time and still lives up to that standard even after receiving a solid remake as well.
18 year old here. I played this for the first time when I was around 8-9 on a PSP. Although, I don’t think there was an official port for it so the person who gifted me the PSP must’ve really known their shit. Regardless, I’ve finally found it :) this and Dissidia 012 mean so much to me. Thanks.
My language arts teacher told me that when he first played this game back in the day, he had never seen anything like it. It was quite revolutionary at the time.
I remember me and one of my best friends would play this like it was multiplayer and hand the controller back and forth on attack turns. More than a decade later I finally played through it. It really is one of the greatest of all time.
Yeah due to limitations, back then dev had the luxury of gamer imagination. Nowadays its hard to do because the graphics has advanced so much and gamers need to be shown the context.
I haven't seen the remake, however I am an adult and I have more scrutiny. Midgar for a fully functional city looks very tiny here. You're right Saigyouji
I remember being 7 years old with my brand new psx with this game included, I was afraid of playing it because I tought it was a zombies game. Then someday I decided to give it a chance and god...this game marked my childhood, I spent like 1000 hours leveling up. It was one of the best feelings to come back from school and turn my psx on to play it. Back in the day I wanted to be like Cloud, he is one of my favorite characters all time. And the storyline is one of the Best of videogame history.
I just realized that playing this game has been the highlight of my life. Nothing has been able to top it. I haven't played the game in over a decade, yet I can't think of anything that has brought more joy since that time. My life had an actual *purpose* at the time. Getting up in the morning, going to school, doing homework, all of that was just so I could play this game. But now? I finished college... I have a job... but for what purpose? I just do it because I'm supposed to do it.
To think of it... Before they released Final Fantasy I Square almost went out of business. Three days ago they almost broke the internet by announcing a remake of one of the most beloved games of all time. I think they can be proud of themselves :3
I did not like turn based rpgs before this masterpiece. I knew it was special and that I was ALL IN as soon as they panned out over the reactors. 25 years later I still have my working original copy. One of my most prized possessions.
I'm playing the Remake demo and as I'm watching this I'm doing a comparable. And man the Remake has captured everything from the original and made it look like what I've imagined Midgar would really look like when I was just in the 7th grade back in 1997 when this came out
Wait a minute - just noticed if you listen carefully - is that the Sephiroth endgame boss music right at the very start (very faint, under the noise before Aerith's face appears, there's some singing / chanting, but hard to make out)? Pretty much telling us he's in the lifestream - is that what Aerith is doing, listening to the lifestream and hearing Sephiroth contaminating it? Why have I only noticed this now?
0:55 The style of the melody here and the way it builds up reminds me quite of bit of the Star Trek intro. I wonder if they used it as inspiration; I mean FF6’s intro theme was based on 2001: A Space Odyssey, so who knows...
Probably. I had a realization that this game is just one big amalgamation of references from all types of media. There’s hardly a truly original design in this game but sum total is a wholly original thing on its own
Something alot of ppl didn't notice - The final scene in the ending (not including the after credit nanaki scene) is this same scene at 0:45, except Aerith is smiling in the ending.
Hey guys so I tried to make an interpretation of the introduction, mostly just the two first minutes, feel free to tell me what you guys think. Note: I'm gonna call Aeris/th, Aeris, please don't start a debate about this. I describe the first 45 seconds of the intro as the first part of this opening, I believe that it is supposed to represent the cry for help from the suffering planet, whose energy is being extracted from. I say this because this sequence has some kind of horror feel to it because of some the background noises that could be interpreted as screams or pain. To top it of, the screen is black (are the white spots stars or mako energy ?), this allows to set a tragic tone to the game. After this first sequence we move on to another one that starts with the player face to face with Aeris. The camera is slowly moving back, and progressively we start to see mako energy emerging from below her, also the music starts to build up. I interpret this as Aeris listening to that first 45 seconds of the intro, this sequence reveals this whole time we were listening to what Aeris was listening to. When the angle changes we notice that she's looking at what might be a broken piece of machinery leaking mako energy, we then see Aeris pray. This action shows that Aeris willing to help the suffering planet, she answers the cries. This is illustrated by the tone of the music which is synonymous to a ray of light (=hope) opening up in the sky. Aeris is portrayed as a caring person. We then see Aeris walking towards the camera, towards the unknown. Aeris is determined to help the planet and so she faces "the enemy/opponent" which is about to be revealed to us. And sure enough, the entire city of Midgard is revealed to us. As we start to see more and more of her surroundings, the music builds up more and more. The city reveals that there is a tower in the center that seems to be controlling the entire city, it is surrounded my lights and mako energy, this portrays the power, the superiority, and the dominance that this tower has over the city. This scene serves two purpose, reveal who the bad guy is and also show the grand and majestic city of Midgard. And then we get to the section of the intro where the music reaches its peak and "explodes" in a way, it reveals the title of the game and tells us "THIS, this is what our game is going to be about". After this "explosion", the music slowly starts to turn to a "something bad is happening" vibe and while that's happening, the camera zooms into the train arriving at the train station and the music goes full on "urgent, dangerous mission mode" and the game gets the player directly into the action of the game. And that's the end of the analysis. So basically, the planet is suffering and calling for help, Aeris answers the call and pray for the wellbeing of the planet, she then faces the enemy of the planet, responsible for the making the planet suffer, which is the "evil Shinra corporation" (aka. Big tower in center of city exploiting mako energy). Then the game gets us into the midst of action. Please feel free to tell me your interpretation of the intro, or why I'm wrong etc... No matter how old this comment is.
Very nice interpretation! I guess it is very very realistic! I really like the idea of her listening to the cry of the planet!!! Now I want to share with you my "thought/theory" which I know it cannot be true but it's intriguing to me... I always thought that what we see in the intro is actually EXTREMELY important! Everything starts with the STARS, then it turns GREEN and then you see Aerith's face. Then what is she doing right after it? To me she is literally in a PRAYING attitude with the closed eyes and hands closed together... And then what? Where does she go? Exactly in the SAME spot where she will encounter Cloud. Can ALL of this be meaningless? To me these could be clues that Aerith in some way knew from the beginning what was going to happen. And the initial scene could be actually her already praying the Holy material in order to save the planet. That's why the light is green, because it answered (turning green from white original color) and "promised" that at the right moment it would help the Planet to defeat the meteor (coming from the stars ... again the very FIRST thing we see in the opening). Sooooo, IF this was the original meaning, she must have known what was going to happen and realized that the only way to get it done was if 1) if she could meet with Cloud and 2) if Cloud could find himself again and 3) ultimately defeat Sepiroth. So, if everything is like that her death AND her "not so casual" encountering with Could had the meaning to lead him/us to the only way that the Planet had to be saved... Of course if you saw the "opening scene" that should be in the Remake this theory collapses because it seems it was some sort of "Lifestream leakage" or "Mako energy leakage" in the middle of the city... And in this sense YOUR theory is absolutely excellent even if I think that what you see in the beginning are the stars in the universe. But I always thought that this other way of seeing things would make Aerith's character even more powerful, admirable and mysterious.... What do you think? :)
Yes, the noise at the start is very similar to the cries of the planet we hear later in the game. I always thought it was a deliberate contrast to the end of the game were we hear children laughing - the sound of the lifestream changes because we've healed the planet (and Cid specifically describes the planet as a sick / injured child crying out in pain when he hears the noise / after going into space). Also just noticed if you listen very carefully to the very start you can very faintly hear what sounds like the singing from the Sephiroth end boss music - he's infected the lifestream messing it all up, in addition to the Mako reactors draining the lifestream away.
@@Nyla_emotes your idea that Aerith is trying to pray to the planet here is what I always thought - and Remake does still suggest this could be the case (when she's talking about the flowers in her garden and how they can't hear her yet - that something needs to happen first) - maybe here she's trying to pray directly to the Mako in its raw form as would be carried through those pipes, as praying to the flowers hasn't worked - she's trying to get closer to the lifestream so she can be heard by the planet and a pipe leaking Mako energy is as close as she can get without actually joining the lifestream herself (as she eventually realises)?
I remember this game I used to watch my Mum play it all the time and I loved it I was like 4 so I couldnt get further than the second boss but when I found out my Auntie still had one that works I got it and completed it and just loved it. Plus I improved loads since I was 14 (15 now)
I was born in 2000. In 2006, my dad bought the fat PS3 that played PS2 and PS1 games. In 2007, my uncle gave me a PSP and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, and I played through it the whole way and was hooked. My uncle told me one day, "Since you really loved that game, you should play the sequel." Me, being a naive seven/eight year old, was mind blown about the fact that the sequel was made in 1997. My uncle gave me his PS1 Greatest Hits copy of Final Fantasy VII and said, "I think you should do play it when your like 16, you will understand the story better, and it will change you view on life like it did mine." And so I did it, I saw at least gameplay of the game on TH-cam, but around 2016 or 2017 would be the year I play it for myself. It is now among my top three favorite games of all time. *(SPOILER ALERT)* Now here I am, waiting for the remake to finish downloading. I know the ending of the game is different, and to be honest, I hated it at first. But then I rewatched the announcement trailer and heard, "The reunion at hand may bring joy, it may bring fear, but let us embrace whatever it brings." Now here I am, going in with an open mind.
The optimist in me agrees, the realist...:( and that's not nostalgia - I played through 7 again a few months ago. If they were remaking it as is with much better graphics I'd have no doubt. They aren't though, they are remaking it with a "new vision" with the current people at Square Enix....not the same as Squaresoft. Still, I hope it will be amazing. Maybe they'll pull it off, I mean Capcom (another dev in a similiar situation) did with RE2.
Thee best RPG to ever run the number one selling Console for its time,Sony's Playstation ,Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII.Epic Intro will never be forgotten.
My mom got me this game for Christmas the year it came out. I didn't ask for it, but at the same time, I didn't ask NOT for it either. With a little help from a crash course in RPG 101, this became my favorite game of all time.
Watching this intro for the first time gave me chills. I knew I was in for something very special. And when the title pops up my eyes fucking watered aahhhh the nostalgia
I've been so lucky. This is the only Final Fantasy I've ever owned, let alone played, and it's actually one of the best of all the 12 games available today. Hope XIII will blow us away too!
Quand tu es adolescent dans les années 90 et que tu découvre ce jeu.. Un choc. Tout devient fade à part le 1er "resient evil" et "tomb raider"...Le premier jeu vidéo, pour ma part, qui fait basculé le jeu dans le cinéma. Outre la musique inoubliable, certains se rappeleront de la mort d'Aeris.
I love how at 1:54 the bombing mission theme starts while the intro is ending, then the whole song kicks in. This intro is so good, even by a 15 year old's perspective. This game NEEDS a remake/remaster, idk what happened to the remake, but the graphics didnt age too well
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20 years ago my dad said he only had money for 1 video game and wanted it to last all summer. Video gamer that worked at walmart told him this one. Best decision he ever made.
I ALSO GOT RECOMMENDEd by a video gamer at walmart
Give that man a medal
That video gamer at Walmart is a real video gamer.
and today i only had the money for the ps4 and the remake :D
Your dad is a legend
Still giving me the chills, even 23 years after.
27........
I love how the game just throws you into the action!
Right! You see some lady, who is that? Jump off a train and beat up some soldiers. You don't know who you are or what you're doing.
All final fantasies do that
@@alchemistofsteel8099FFVIII didn't.
Let’s be honest... this game was far ahead of its time and its aged fine like wine
Idk if it aged like fine wine, more like a very old good tasting wine but instead of a bottle it’s in a big triangle
Maybe not graphically lol but the story is timeless af ❤️
Nah It objectively aged like shit all heil FF7 Remake
The gameplay and the story? Absolutely.
Graphically outside of cutscenes it looks like ass, lol. It gets a pass because the Playstation was new and developers hadn't figured out how to optimize it yet.
FF8 and especially 9 have aged much better because they don't have the awkward polygon blockyness that FF7 did.
Nintendo had it more figured out by the time the N64 hit and games like Mario and Zelda aged better than this too.
@@1gta4gta fk no.
Yeah... Back in the day I never would have thought this was the beggining of something so grand.
Who came here after checking the new remake intro? Dang, the old intro still aged well, and the new one add an extra topping to it with more aerith screentime
I am looking forward to The remake...But The intro i am not big fan of in The remake. Whole idea is solitude and isolation, just worked better AS a message.. while remake makes it seem like everyone is an asshole or something. I mean just The whole confused part of being in a alley. Like that just adds to The mystery. But design wise The remake looks OK But i honestly doubt its gonna live up to The ps1 since it was done so well. Unless they can interpret The game so well of what made it Great in 1997 when it came out
I liked the new intro a lot. But somehow i still think that the old music is better :D. More epic feeling here.
@@kejiri3593 its a remake, doesnt have to be the same lol
@@kejiri3593 I don't like Aerith's flower being stepped upon by a pedestrian in Remake. That is way too sentimental, which is why I find the original intro cooler.
@Astrah Cat Well, you do get that with realism. For one I love the look of the remake
Just beaten this game today! And it was just awesome!
+Cloud Strife Beating your own game.
Tifa Lockheart my Waifu ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
One can never beat this game. You can finish the story, but never beat the game. There are plenty of things to do, breed chocobos, get top scores on the video games at gold saucer, race chocobos, beat the emerald weapon differently.
The moment it zooms out to logo i get severe chills almost teary eyed. I see myself playing this over and over as a child. It reminds me of simple times i could just play this and lose myself in the story.
Now i stumble upon it looking for space ambient sounds for my work. It is weird how this feels so personal like a part of me, and to others its just a shitty video game.
Thank you FFVII for all the adventures.
Swear on everything I almost shed tear
How do you feel about the remake?
@@SunyataManji I will never be able to enjoy anything so intensely as i did as a child.
But i did really enjoy walking through Midgar and seeing everyone again..
When you leave midgar is when i really start to enjoy FFVII so im excited for Rebirth.
And i do really like the whole "sequel" thing..
We get to enjoy all the familiar places again in 4k and at the same time have a new story with all the new mysteries that contain in it.
So yea i feel really good about the new games. what about you?
@@ElbertBerlijn unfortunately I didn't grow up playing RPGs and I was born in 2002 (I found out about ff7 through friends but never played it), that's why I was asking your opinion when I saw your comment, it was very touching!
Very well said
i'm about 23 hours into my first playthrough of this game, and i'm already nostalgic for the intro.
It's nostalgic for me but that's cuz I play the remake 😂
I started with the remake last year and I finished the original today
@@yannispirou101The original FF7 is still iconic even after all these years.
The greatest opening of any game ever.
That sustained high note and then the three distinct notes as Aris' face fades in. Always gives me goosebumps.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for 25 years
This will always be the greatest song and video intro, combined with an amazing play through, of any beginning, to any video game, ever made.
please, FF X music was 10x better than this.
FathersOfDeception ff x music is also awesome, but this song is from the ps1, the orchestral ones are masterpieces.
Dack Lazy wow you really got me where it hurt didnt you? must of thought long and hard about that one. dont hurt yourself.
Music? FFVI.
Intro? FFVIII
Hotel? Trivago.
This is one of the first games I remember buying and playing for the fist time. Even tough it took me about 4+ years to beat it, it is my favorite game of all time.
+mestrePaulo22 why did it take you over 4 years
turboz2001 I sold my ps1 before I could beat the final sephiroth and my ps2 don't play ps1 games. So I could only beat it after I bought a pc good enough to play it on a emulator
Aww that sucks man but good job beating it
turboz2001 I did beat it in 2012. Now I'm replaying. I just got betrayed by Caith Sith and now I'm going to the Temple of Ancients
oh that part is pretty hard but fun
I will never forget Final fantasy 7 Playstation , it's the only game that make me cry, I was hesitant to buy at first because I was more in stealth game like metal gear solid and Tenchu etc etc , but it was worth every penny I still remember its comes with 3 cd in the case, Btw I'm 44 now and still gaming
Omg! Whenever I listen to this song i have goosebumps! It's my favorite game of all time!
A classic! I’ll never forget this one. :)
I remember discussing with my friend when this game just came out that one day the graphics will look like they do in the cut scenes and he told me it was impossible. Well, now graphics have gone far beyond what the cut scenes look like and soon the remake will blow our collective minds! In 10+ years...
John Doe haha i had that EXACT convo with 2 of my friends. Except the game that sparked the convo was Syphon Filter 1 for the original playstation. It was around the time the PS2 had just been announced and my friends younger brother said "they're saying that the new Playstation is gonna have graphics just like the FMV movies in this game" after one of the FMV scenes finished playing. I was like "nah I don't think they can pull that off"......lol
So True. Most games don't even have cg cut-scenes anymore because textures in high resolution look so much better.
dude i forgot about freeking syphon filter lol!
The original Resident Evil 4 for Gamecube was the first game that ever looked like these cutscenes did. Mindblowing at the time.
Boy have I got news for you
The soundtrack on this game was and still is over the top!
Can you believe it’s 25 years already? Happy Anniversary to one of the greatest games of all time.
26 now!
Takes my breath away, still. I always thought FF7 would grow out of me over the years. It's been, what? 15 years? I still love this game.
And now it’s been 25 years!
Truly a multi million dollar production to make this absolute amazing incredible masterpiece
This is unforgettable. Without any doubt, that's the best intro in videogames history :)
This....is how one of thé best game ever begins ....
when I first played this I had chills during the Intro to the game, and I still have it now :)
Happy 20th Birthday, FFVII!
Best intro intro to any game I have ever played. Also my favourite game of all time. If you are a fan of amazing things, you owe it to yourself to play this game through to the end, at least once. If this game was a book, I'd read it, a movie, I'd watch it.
I had to come check this out again. Such a memorable intro and the remake really did it justice 👍
More RPGs need to begin like this. Awesome cut scene that sets tone and scope, zoom in, start killing things.
It pisses me off that 99% of RPGs out there start with 30 minutes of boring dialogue, unnecessary tutorials and quests to go kill rats in a basement. FFS the first battle in this game is a guy with a big sword vs. two machine gun wielding soldiers! Yes there's tutorials later on, but only for materia and you can skip them. This game was trial by fire and it was awesome!
I love the "killing rats" cliché :D This is the best intro ever tho
In FF7 remake, we begin with this intro...and then move on to killing rats.
That made me very sad when I got the rat quest in the Sector 7 slums... I forgot I posted this comment... r/agedlikemilk
No. Dont copy what already been done to perfection
@@Sarymbo damn lucky you found your old comment 8 years later. Especially since many TH-cam videos get deleted.
anyone here after seeing the intro of the remake
ME!!!
Damn right!!
Demo out soon too. Don’t know if I’m going to play it or just wait until March 3rd
@Jay Blacq Me too :D
Hands down that Intro from Remake was marvelous. And Aerith looked magical. This vibe that the intro delivered was just otherworldly.
When the intro played in the Cloud's traielr for Smahs Bros, I thought it was a port of VII for a Nintendo console. xD
+Twero Produções THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT, WAS LIKE UH NO FFVII FOR 3DS.
+Twero Produções I would love a port for the 3DS
Mrgaful
anything is possible.
+Twero Produções me 2 for some reason its not like they would show the nx this early
+Rush That would be neat.
such a distinct and iconic opening, from the music to the atmosphere at play it’s a master class of first impressions, it was revolutionary for its time and still lives up to that standard even after receiving a solid remake as well.
18 year old here. I played this for the first time when I was around 8-9 on a PSP. Although, I don’t think there was an official port for it so the person who gifted me the PSP must’ve really known their shit. Regardless, I’ve finally found it :) this and Dissidia 012 mean so much to me. Thanks.
Happy 25th Anniversary Final Fantasy VII !!!😍💗🌸
One of the most iconic pieces of media for me.
0:10 it looks like the beginning of
🌞❤️ Followed by the arrival of it in this vibration we are all in.
I usually watch this intro not just for the rockin' music, but mostly for Aerith's introduction.
I`ve played this game like 100 times....since PSX, then emulators and now Steam...still love it!!! feel like the first time I played it!!!
this is a work of art
the game that changed my life
What an amazing intro! This is my favorite game of all time.
My language arts teacher told me that when he first played this game back in the day, he had never seen anything like it. It was quite revolutionary at the time.
I remember me and one of my best friends would play this like it was multiplayer and hand the controller back and forth on attack turns. More than a decade later I finally played through it. It really is one of the greatest of all time.
Midgar looks a lot smaller here than the Remake intro. The Remake version of Midgar looks more to scale with a real city.
Yeah due to limitations, back then dev had the luxury of gamer imagination. Nowadays its hard to do because the graphics has advanced so much and gamers need to be shown the context.
Its a 1997 ps1 game...no shit...
I haven't seen the remake, however I am an adult and I have more scrutiny. Midgar for a fully functional city looks very tiny here. You're right Saigyouji
@@aprilmaryland7128 Dont be mean to someone, they were just commenting and honestly that's a question or an observation I think all of us made.
But the Original's much bigger in scale with the Overworld containing all the areas outside Midgar.
I used to watch my bro play this all the time. It is the highlight of my childhood and one of my first and favorite memories
Greatest intro ever. That music…
I remember being 7 years old with my brand new psx with this game included, I was afraid of playing it because I tought it was a zombies game.
Then someday I decided to give it a chance and god...this game marked my childhood, I spent like 1000 hours leveling up. It was one of the best feelings to come back from school and turn my psx on to play it. Back in the day I wanted to be like Cloud, he is one of my favorite characters all time. And the storyline is one of the Best of videogame history.
one of the first game i bought on my Playstation when it came out. Truly epic, took me ages to complete the game and fully satisfied.
I just realized that playing this game has been the highlight of my life. Nothing has been able to top it. I haven't played the game in over a decade, yet I can't think of anything that has brought more joy since that time. My life had an actual *purpose* at the time. Getting up in the morning, going to school, doing homework, all of that was just so I could play this game.
But now? I finished college... I have a job... but for what purpose? I just do it because I'm supposed to do it.
boom has come to appreciate this masterpiece
To think of it... Before they released Final Fantasy I Square almost went out of business. Three days ago they almost broke the internet by announcing a remake of one of the most beloved games of all time. I think they can be proud of themselves :3
Everyone lost their minds when this came out
That Shinra Tower shot is so, so iconic...
finaly a quality vid with music! best game ever thanks for uploading
those were the days ^_^ i missed my family computer, atari, super nes, PS1, PS3 .... now still playing the Remake!
*I played the game first time around 3 years ago, probably on my top 3 games I have ever played.*
Now play FF6 and it'll also be in your top 3!
I did not like turn based rpgs before this masterpiece. I knew it was special and that I was ALL IN as soon as they panned out over the reactors. 25 years later I still have my working original copy. One of my most prized possessions.
happy 25 th birthday to this timeless piece of art
I love this game it's one of the best games ever made! This is a masterpiece. FFVII FTW!!!
Remember first playing this game when I was young😂
Happy Silver Anniversary FF7
I'm playing the Remake demo and as I'm watching this I'm doing a comparable. And man the Remake has captured everything from the original and made it look like what I've imagined Midgar would really look like when I was just in the 7th grade back in 1997 when this came out
Up until 2 years ago I hadn't played this game, but I recently just completed it and thought it was great. The PS1 era was pure gold
never eared before the wispering of sephiroth's theme in the intro before!
Wait a minute - just noticed if you listen carefully - is that the Sephiroth endgame boss music right at the very start (very faint, under the noise before Aerith's face appears, there's some singing / chanting, but hard to make out)?
Pretty much telling us he's in the lifestream - is that what Aerith is doing, listening to the lifestream and hearing Sephiroth contaminating it?
Why have I only noticed this now?
will always be my favorite Final Fantasy game
Memories…..what a game.
when i first saw this i thought "wow one day games are gonna look *this* good! i cant wait!" and it blows my mind every time
0:55 The style of the melody here and the way it builds up reminds me quite of bit of the Star Trek intro.
I wonder if they used it as inspiration; I mean FF6’s intro theme was based on 2001: A Space Odyssey, so who knows...
Probably. I had a realization that this game is just one big amalgamation of references from all types of media. There’s hardly a truly original design in this game but sum total is a wholly original thing on its own
@@j.m.3600Every piece of media was inspired by something.
i remember when i played ff7 for first time, it wasnt like any other game i ever played before. sqaure took it to the next level
I will.m ALWAYS love this. As I have for The past 22 years of my life
Something alot of ppl didn't notice - The final scene in the ending (not including the after credit nanaki scene) is this same scene at 0:45, except Aerith is smiling in the ending.
That transition from video to pre-rendered background is sweet, apparently that was quite a difficult thing to do on the PS1.
Hey guys so I tried to make an interpretation of the introduction, mostly just the two first minutes, feel free to tell me what you guys think.
Note: I'm gonna call Aeris/th, Aeris, please don't start a debate about this.
I describe the first 45 seconds of the intro as the first part of this opening, I believe that it is supposed to represent the cry for help from the suffering planet, whose energy is being extracted from. I say this because this sequence has some kind of horror feel to it because of some the background noises that could be interpreted as screams or pain. To top it of, the screen is black (are the white spots stars or mako energy ?), this allows to set a tragic tone to the game.
After this first sequence we move on to another one that starts with the player face to face with Aeris. The camera is slowly moving back, and progressively we start to see mako energy emerging from below her, also the music starts to build up. I interpret this as Aeris listening to that first 45 seconds of the intro, this sequence reveals this whole time we were listening to what Aeris was listening to.
When the angle changes we notice that she's looking at what might be a broken piece of machinery leaking mako energy, we then see Aeris pray. This action shows that Aeris willing to help the suffering planet, she answers the cries. This is illustrated by the tone of the music which is synonymous to a ray of light (=hope) opening up in the sky. Aeris is portrayed as a caring person. We then see Aeris walking towards the camera, towards the unknown. Aeris is determined to help the planet and so she faces "the enemy/opponent" which is about to be revealed to us.
And sure enough, the entire city of Midgard is revealed to us. As we start to see more and more of her surroundings, the music builds up more and more. The city reveals that there is a tower in the center that seems to be controlling the entire city, it is surrounded my lights and mako energy, this portrays the power, the superiority, and the dominance that this tower has over the city. This scene serves two purpose, reveal who the bad guy is and also show the grand and majestic city of Midgard.
And then we get to the section of the intro where the music reaches its peak and "explodes" in a way, it reveals the title of the game and tells us "THIS, this is what our game is going to be about".
After this "explosion", the music slowly starts to turn to a "something bad is happening" vibe and while that's happening, the camera zooms into the train arriving at the train station and the music goes full on "urgent, dangerous mission mode" and the game gets the player directly into the action of the game. And that's the end of the analysis.
So basically, the planet is suffering and calling for help, Aeris answers the call and pray for the wellbeing of the planet, she then faces the enemy of the planet, responsible for the making the planet suffer, which is the "evil Shinra corporation" (aka. Big tower in center of city exploiting mako energy). Then the game gets us into the midst of action.
Please feel free to tell me your interpretation of the intro, or why I'm wrong etc... No matter how old this comment is.
Very nice interpretation! I guess it is very very realistic! I really like the idea of her listening to the cry of the planet!!! Now I want to share with you my "thought/theory" which I know it cannot be true but it's intriguing to me... I always thought that what we see in the intro is actually EXTREMELY important! Everything starts with the STARS, then it turns GREEN and then you see Aerith's face. Then what is she doing right after it? To me she is literally in a PRAYING attitude with the closed eyes and hands closed together... And then what? Where does she go? Exactly in the SAME spot where she will encounter Cloud. Can ALL of this be meaningless? To me these could be clues that Aerith in some way knew from the beginning what was going to happen. And the initial scene could be actually her already praying the Holy material in order to save the planet. That's why the light is green, because it answered (turning green from white original color) and "promised" that at the right moment it would help the Planet to defeat the meteor (coming from the stars ... again the very FIRST thing we see in the opening). Sooooo, IF this was the original meaning, she must have known what was going to happen and realized that the only way to get it done was if 1) if she could meet with Cloud and 2) if Cloud could find himself again and 3) ultimately defeat Sepiroth. So, if everything is like that her death AND her "not so casual" encountering with Could had the meaning to lead him/us to the only way that the Planet had to be saved... Of course if you saw the "opening scene" that should be in the Remake this theory collapses because it seems it was some sort of "Lifestream leakage" or "Mako energy leakage" in the middle of the city... And in this sense YOUR theory is absolutely excellent even if I think that what you see in the beginning are the stars in the universe. But I always thought that this other way of seeing things would make Aerith's character even more powerful, admirable and mysterious.... What do you think? :)
Yes, the noise at the start is very similar to the cries of the planet we hear later in the game.
I always thought it was a deliberate contrast to the end of the game were we hear children laughing - the sound of the lifestream changes because we've healed the planet (and Cid specifically describes the planet as a sick / injured child crying out in pain when he hears the noise / after going into space).
Also just noticed if you listen very carefully to the very start you can very faintly hear what sounds like the singing from the Sephiroth end boss music - he's infected the lifestream messing it all up, in addition to the Mako reactors draining the lifestream away.
@@Nyla_emotes your idea that Aerith is trying to pray to the planet here is what I always thought - and Remake does still suggest this could be the case (when she's talking about the flowers in her garden and how they can't hear her yet - that something needs to happen first) - maybe here she's trying to pray directly to the Mako in its raw form as would be carried through those pipes, as praying to the flowers hasn't worked - she's trying to get closer to the lifestream so she can be heard by the planet and a pipe leaking Mako energy is as close as she can get without actually joining the lifestream herself (as she eventually realises)?
I remember this game I used to watch my Mum play it all the time and I loved it I was like 4 so I couldnt get further than the second boss but when I found out my Auntie still had one that works I got it and completed it and just loved it. Plus I improved loads since I was 14 (15 now)
Nostalgia was why old school gaming was epic
I was born in 2000. In 2006, my dad bought the fat PS3 that played PS2 and PS1 games. In 2007, my uncle gave me a PSP and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, and I played through it the whole way and was hooked.
My uncle told me one day, "Since you really loved that game, you should play the sequel." Me, being a naive seven/eight year old, was mind blown about the fact that the sequel was made in 1997. My uncle gave me his PS1 Greatest Hits copy of Final Fantasy VII and said, "I think you should do play it when your like 16, you will understand the story better, and it will change you view on life like it did mine."
And so I did it, I saw at least gameplay of the game on TH-cam, but around 2016 or 2017 would be the year I play it for myself. It is now among my top three favorite games of all time.
*(SPOILER ALERT)*
Now here I am, waiting for the remake to finish downloading. I know the ending of the game is different, and to be honest, I hated it at first. But then I rewatched the announcement trailer and heard, "The reunion at hand may bring joy, it may bring fear, but let us embrace whatever it brings." Now here I am, going in with an open mind.
this intro sends a chill down my spine
i loved the battle theme ofc
absolute chills.. back then these graphics were spectacular !
The feels. Now just imagine the hd remake
The optimist in me agrees, the realist...:( and that's not nostalgia - I played through 7 again a few months ago. If they were remaking it as is with much better graphics I'd have no doubt. They aren't though, they are remaking it with a "new vision" with the current people at Square Enix....not the same as Squaresoft. Still, I hope it will be amazing. Maybe they'll pull it off, I mean Capcom (another dev in a similiar situation) did with RE2.
And the remake intro is beautiful. So beautiful
Thee best RPG to ever run the number one selling Console for its time,Sony's Playstation ,Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII.Epic Intro will never be forgotten.
My mom got me this game for Christmas the year it came out. I didn't ask for it, but at the same time, I didn't ask NOT for it either. With a little help from a crash course in RPG 101, this became my favorite game of all time.
Watching this intro for the first time gave me chills. I knew I was in for something very special. And when the title pops up my eyes fucking watered
aahhhh the nostalgia
1:25 The realization that this is a reference to the intro for the first Bubblegum Crisis OVA.
Such art in such a game. ❤❤❤❤❤
Chills every time I see this. History!
Back in 2002 I had to have it specially ordered by a Hastings since nobody around me had a copy. It took a MONTH to come in. Longest month ever.
this game wasnt made in 1997. it was made between 1994-96.
I've been so lucky. This is the only Final Fantasy I've ever owned, let alone played, and it's actually one of the best of all the 12 games available today. Hope XIII will blow us away too!
Awesome Final Fantasy VII Intro Video.
Who is here after the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake opening.
Man i think the old one is better then the new one to be fair
Quand tu es adolescent dans les années 90 et que tu découvre ce jeu.. Un choc. Tout devient fade à part le 1er "resient evil" et "tomb raider"...Le premier jeu vidéo, pour ma part, qui fait basculé le jeu dans le cinéma. Outre la musique inoubliable, certains se rappeleront de la mort d'Aeris.
This was the game of my childhood.
Man... just so much nostalgia.
Remake 2020 i don't think im too old 😭
I love how at 1:54 the bombing mission theme starts while the intro is ending, then the whole song kicks in. This intro is so good, even by a 15 year old's perspective. This game NEEDS a remake/remaster, idk what happened to the remake, but the graphics didnt age too well
this comment really aged badly
I always remember hoping you’d get to go back and visit Goblins Bar.
great gameplay