The Complete Story of Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
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Welcome to the complete story of Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, a tale of identity, purpose, loss, and atonement, not to mention quite a bit of over the top plot points that might even make the more modest parts of Kingdom Hearts blush.
Originally released for the PlayStation 2, Dirge of Cerberus is a third person shooter extravaganza featuring Final Fantasy VII fan favourite Vincent Valentine, but unlike Crisis Core which has been remastered for modern hardware, Dirge of Cerberus sadly still remains unavailable, unless you happen to have a PlayStation 2 lying around.
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I barely kept track of the story while playing this game. I just wanted gameplay, but when the story beats hit...big feels were felt. One of the best under rated classics in my game library.
Using gun doesn't work? Vincent: Use more gun.
Gun must be answer.
TF2’s Engineer would agree.
I am SO very grateful for this video. I have watched Let's Plays of DoC 3x and still always felt mystified by the story in this game. Independent of not liking it, I just found it hard to keep straight the mythology/motives. This is the clearest statement of what happened, balancing thoroughness without superfluousness, I have seen. I will re-watch this again and am SO grateful for this, since the die-hard FF7 fan in me knows I need to understand this better for Remake.
Your voice is perfect for narration. All I could picture was Ansem the Wise telling this story lol
You yourself are very wise to say so!
I like Dirge of Cerberus because it places after Advent Children, music, story, and Vincent Valentine is my favorite!
Still technically the most up to date storyline of ff7
I don’t care what anyone says: While it’s no FFVII or Advent Children, this story is a masterpiece, and the game is an absolute blast, for what it is. CANON.
I had this, but I'm a fighting game player. I suck at 1st person shooters. Still,as far as I could get I had a ball
@@dannytarver4533 I’ll say, as both a game designer/systems developer in the industry, and a lifelong “gamer,” your attitude and approach to fun is just…well…you are doing it right. 🙂 (even if it’s a third-person shooter and not an FPS 😉) I’m all serious, I love honest critique, but it genuinely made me happy reading your comment. Someone willing to go outside of their comfort zone, and even with an imperfect but very enjoyable game, find the fun in it. You are one side of the coin that we love when doing UX texts/QA (the other being hyper-critical folks (NOT WHINEY ASSHOLES…there is a difference lol.) Anyways TL;DR, agreed. It’s not the best game in the world, but it’s a pretty damned fun time with an actual decent wrap up to FFVII (besides the cliffhanger ending) Glad you had a pretty good time with it. Find the fun where you can in life. That’s what games are for 🙂
I thought the story for Dirge was phenomenal. I haven't played the game but I found the story to be one of the best stories and engaging storylines in all of ff. I didn't like AC at all, there were some moments that were good but as a whole it was just too over the top and goofy for me. Dirge was much better at storytelling than AC imo. I've only just watched it for the first time a few days ago and I've already watched it again like 3 times❤
😂your idea of a “masterpiece” is vastly difference than pretty much everyone else alive.
@@DOC_951 I genuinely want to know what else they consider a masterpiece if Dierge is their standard
People are entitled to like/love it, but to call something like this a masterpiece like the game is full of well thought-out ideas is wild lol. Dierge is the epitome of campy 2000s silliness
I believe at some point, Sephiroth and Weiss will have to face off. Sephiroth wants the tainted lifestream, while Weiss wants pure, untainted lifestream, putting them at odds.
Oh, wow. This video is a real surprise. After all those years a DOC story vid. Thanks!
Vincent Valentine, the missing DMC protagonist
ty I’ve been waiting for a detailed breakdown of this masterpiece 🙏
Advent Children Vincent: Where can I get a phone?
Dirge of Cerberus Vincent: Already have one.
It's because he was embarrassed to disappoint Marlene earlier in the movie, clearly
People don't know how awesome it was to finally see the group back fighting together after the events of 7
I love you straightforward and serious your explanation of events, and then you say things like, “this is the first time she’s felt the rain on her skin, which is understandable considering she hadn’t even seen the sky a few days ago.” 😂 I never know when to expect to laugh, and it’s fantastic.
I have played crisis core but I have never played this game , and i just heard about it recently , and now I understand a lot more about y I saw certain characters in certain parts of remake and rebirth, and the yuffie dlc !
It goes to show they obviously wanted to reference this game and some characters in it !
So in my opinion I truly hope they will make number 3 or part 3 , then make an advant children dlc then make dirge or Cerberus video game or dlc after that .
Honestly I would like to see a Vince and cid dlc come out before ff7 remake part 3 to bridge the gap between rebirth and part 3 kingdom of like the yuffie dlc was a bridge for remake into rebirth.
It doesn't have to be crazy just should be a few parts that let us use them as playable characters and get used to their moves and how their fighting style is and things like that along with special moves and limit breaks also !
Plus the more content they come out with the more money they will make in the long run !
If I was the person in charge of what order things are done and what gets green lit and what doesn't!
I would want things in that order!
Then after it's all said and done !
Id like to see crisis core get a complete remake not just a remaster.
I definitely think we were tricked with rebirth into thinking we would have gotten more Zack action then we actually got .
So I feel it would do the franchise some justice if they did something!
Give us more of not just the original characters but make it to where since things are supposed to have the possibility to be different with all the new ff7 content that may come out !
I think it would be in their best interest to be to continue with Zack since he was brought back to life he should get a full dlc just so we could play as him for a good lil bit.
Idk what would be the best ideas I just know that it would be cool if something along those lines was what is to come !
I still have this game.
Nice!
This game is so slept on. Crazy. Wish square did more stuff like this, even tho they did pick things up with the FF7 remake
Watch this game be and intermission episode dlc for the last part of the remake
@@corbincompton2966 Intermission already planted the seeds for this story. Along with encountering deepground, I'm sure the materia Yuffie was sent to claim is the protomateria. I'm sure we'll get some version of Dirge of Cerberus as part of the Remake continuity.
@@darrenmacqueen9884 Hopefully, but probably not. You meant to say Reunion.
@tuff_lover When did I mean to say reunion? What do you mean?
And I'm honestly expecting Rebirth to get dlc that continues the Deepground story starring Vincent and Yuffie. And then maybe dlc that sees the conclusion to the story after the third game. I don't expect it to be told exactly the same as Dirge of Cerberus, but I think it'd be the same basic idea.
Also, I haven't gotten far into Rebirth yet. Haven't had time. So I don't know if Deepground is brought up in the main game. But I don't expect it to be. But with the way the dlc left off in Intermission, we know Deepground will be back. And we never did see the ultimate materia they were talking about, which I'm sure is the protomateria.
@@darrenmacqueen9884 I'd love some Dirge, too, but it's been confirmed by devs they're not making anything Dirge related any time soon.
I like that they gave Vincent more attention in this game, and I know he's most skilled with firearms, but I sucked at this game. I could never get very far, preferring to use his claw attacks instead of his gun, because it was never easy for me to aim properly in the fast pace amount of time before enemies would take me out.
I also had issues with the way the other characters were handled. We never got to see what the rest of the team was doing, only told. Sadly, whenever other names were mentioned it only felt like a tease. A good example is when Edge was getting attacked. My excitement grew knowing that's where Tifa and Cloud were, and they were mentioned, but only as an intel report that they were fleeing the city trying to rescue a bunch of kids. Don't get me wrong, that's a very valid reason to run and not stay and fight, but the way the info was given felt more like a "Okay, here's where FF7's main character is and he won't be playable, you're stuck solo with Vincent. deal with it." I love Vincent, but it felt more like they were forcing us to follow only his POV of the story and we knew next to nothing about what everyone else was doing except through exposition.
The story was also waaaaay more confusing than it needed to be. And... hacking the planet..... wha? I get that Hojo wanted to force the Omega event to take everything to a new world and have him as Weiss be a Sephiroth 2.0 and carry the life energy to a new world so he could play God and create new lifeforms as he saw fit, but to do it that way is um.... wow.
The story needed to be polished and other members of the original team needed better inclusion. Even Kingdom Hearts with its complex story plots knew to change POV from time to time by showing what Riku was up to, Kairi and Axel too.
The style and feel of the game also gives me the inkling that it was made as a way to compete with Devil May Cry which was also insanely popular at the time.
Now onto the parts I DID like.
I loved some of the cut scenes and how awesome Vincent is shown in this game. I love that we got more backstory into his past. Though what was shown has convinced my head canon that Sephiroth was really Vincent's kid. He just didn't know that. Hell maybe none of the three involved knew that, unless Hojo did a DNA test during his experiments with Baby Seph. Maybe that's why Lucrecia kept apologizing.
I also loved the cutscenes with the whole gang. That scene of Barret, Cid, Cloud, Tifa, and the rest charging into the fight right before an all out (heavily Star Wars inspired ) war erupted was a massive highlight moment in the entire FF7 compilation! Also I hope Rosso suffered an embarrassing loss to Cloud when she struck at him on Fenrir because I hope his bike wasn't damaged.
They also didn't explain how Rosso got to fight Vincent after going toe to toe with Cloud. How'd she get away? We know that boy doesn't leave loose ends, unless Rosso used the battle around them as a distraction to run with her tail between her legs or Cloud rushed to help Barret and Tifa as the three were fighting together when Vincent spoke to Cloud on his phone. Taking a moment here to be the Cloud Strife fangirl that I am, you can hear a laugh in Cloud's voice as they talk. That tiny notion shows that he's recovering into his own true self after the events of Advent Children. A true sign of recovery from his depression. and I am all for it!
That being said, I did like Rosso as a villain. Except how she went out. She really said she'd be defeated by no man? And then took herself out? How petty, and stupid. How does that relate to the fight she started with Cloud then? Did she flee from that battle and then turn to Vincent? Technically she'd be defeated by two men. Tossing in my personal take here, if you run from an enemy that's considered a loss in my book. I think she needed to go out a better way.
All in all, I don't think this game is horrible, it's just more difficult than it needed to be and we needed a little more view of what was going on through the original team's eyes and not so much hyper focused on Vincent, even though he was the star of the game. He's still part of a team.
I also was so curious as to what Genesis was up to at the very end. What plans did he have with Weiss? Was it to help the planet or to be a new threat for the Team to fight? I was so curious. but there's a chance we may never know.
Thank you for this! Please keep up the great work!
Thanks for the video bro, I was so invested in it since I heard that Weis the immaculate and Genesis appeared on this game, I was like "whaaaat?" I had no idea lol I remember back in the day when this game came out but back then I wasn't really into Final Fantasy games, however now, I can't get enough of the games and stories. My journey started with Crisis core on the PSP and then I bought Final Fantasy Advent Children on Blu ray, not having played the original FF7 game (Since I thought that the game was already too old and the graphics weren't that great) I had done research back then on the whole story of FF7 and thought I knew everything about it, then I find out about this game. I was surprised of not having played or read anything about it. So I'm happy to have found this video 👍
Never got to play this back in the day, but it seems like it was ahead of its time and sadly, social media was in its infancy when this came out which is unfortunate as it could've helped the reception of the game. I only wish there had been a connection with Aerith to the life stream / omega, etc.
I remember playing this game when i was in highschool. Even the action replay codes were pretty neat.
Treasured memories!
Fantastic! You guys are the best!
Thanks! We try! 🙏
I remember playing this game all the way with my brother and it was a blast.
You left out the secret ending!!! The best part!
Whoops! This is true! Thankfully it's very short so people who are interested can check it out. This can serve as their reminder. Thanks for watching!
Awesome Thanks for the Video. I never played the Game but I hope the Remake will include this. Midgar is Crazy I mean Underground/Deepground and Reactor 0 powering Shinra HQ all those years. There was once a City down there if we look at the Ruins, those things down there happend before Sephiroths Birth. Now I really really want to know the Full History of Shinra and Midgars Creation😮
Thank you for this! The hate for this game is over-done. Yes it's flawed. But there is still so much to be gleaned, and SE isn't shying away from it (thankfully).
The weapon mod are very addicting.
Was looking forward to this!! Thank you!
51:28 „…his redemption assured“ i see what you did there
What did he do?
@@gmayers the song redemption starts playing
you saved me the hassle of digging my ps2 out of the closet and finding a copy of this game thank you for your service
Loved this game on release, and I love it still as I replay it on my emulator. Never cared for the hate this game got, my only dislike for it was all the jangling keys at Vincent/Yuffie fans only to have it dashed aside and Shelke getting a part of the backstabbing you know what's memories and meet up with Vincent at the end.
Everything else, I loved. Especially the Vincent vs Weiss cutscene. Going so fast they "kill" the afterimages. Awesome.
43:44
Did Vincent save Yuffie from darkness with a Dominant T Pose? 😅😂
Really hope this one will get the same treatment as crisis core reunion got. Really enjoyed this game and story.
Same here! Would love to see a remaster!
Thank you so much for this... I didn't finished the game when I was a teen... My console broke down 😅
Hojo is the real villain in FF7 Saga, not Sephiroth. He like Kefka incarnation.
Thank you for making this, i still have to finish watching it but this game is the only FF game i bought and played on day 1 and quit playing on day 3 and never looked back. The gameplay was so out of date for its time that i couldn't get into it but i definitely missed out on a good story that im now wanting to learn about.
This game is underrated IMO. I know in the under the umbrella of FF games this one gets a bad reputation, but the game was fun as hell for me.
Dident you forget that Genesis was still alive at the end
Yes, forgot to include the secret ending but thankfully it's short so people can watch it easily.
Despite the game itself, not being great from what I understand, the story builds up so much more more into the FF7 world.
The concept of a universal live stream. For example, makes perfect sense based on what we know already from the OG game.
I’ve been wanting to replay this game since college I know it’s not quite up to snuff for new gen but I definitely loved it and you got to play as Vincent
They will probably give this one a remaster like they did for CC, probably a year/months after Rebirth
I'm surprised they didn't include a Dirge minigame in Rebirth. Perhaps we'll see one for Reunion or whatever the third title is? Or maybe wel get a decent Crisis Core Reunion-style remake of Dirge?
I've never played it but it sounds like something fun to fill in the four year gap between remake FF7 releases. ❤
I hope the remake this remaster this best ff7 game hands down shooting and melee come on man and transformation… now we did fight Weiss in remake which gives me hope
I think thats the master plan for square with ff7!
They did a remaster of crisis core, remake, then internmission (which they included nero and vviss, rebirth and then the final 3rd in the ff7 remake games, ths advent children takes place and last is this game. And with the secret end of GENISIS coming to get wiss.
So my hopeful prayers is that after the remake they will ve continuing and releasing the new ff7 squel game about gensis and wiss being the antagonists
You didn't mention Rufus in the intro, though, now that I think about it. He was the one being carried away.
Once you get the hang of it you’re practically unkillable in this game
Thank you I was just talking about this game to a friend
Excellent narration as always, Piotr. One questions: where was Red 13 in all this? All the characters were mentioned and had cutscenes except him. Was he out on vacation, lol?
Yeaaa, remember after advent children he went on to raise kids of his own lol
He was in one ending cutscene sitting outside of Seventh Heaven with Shelke.
I don't what he was doing exciting all these events but I do know that animators in an interview days that they does not like animating Red because of his fur, so his appearance in Advent Children and dirge of Cerberus is bit a cameo.
It was either this game or the ps1 final fantasy 7 game that got me into the series
Either way, I'm glad to have you with us.
I hope this gets a remaster at the very least. They brought back Nero in ff7 remake, and Genesis is still alive so I'd like to think they have bigger plans for them.
Would love a remaster, especially after seeing the great treatment Crisis Core got!
While technically canon, DoC always felt too Kingdom Hearts to me. Like, look at the Tsviets and DEEPGROUND as a whole, how they're designed - all exaggerated proportions, huge toecaps, and fiber optics. Even for being a secret, abandoned supersoldier program, they don't fit the grungey, mostly-realistic dystopia of Midgar. They don't fit the world; it's like dropping the Enclave from Fallout into Tamriel. They stick out like a christmas tree in a concrete factory.
Nevermind that the explanation of "Oh, Shinra tried doing SOLDIER before, but botched it and literally hid the results under the rug" feels like an ass-pull excuse to provide a new enemy faction for Vincent to gun down. (Besides, how would they have kept them *down* there all that time? As far as I can remember, they weren't in any kind of stasis, they were just idle and heavily armed. And idle, heavily armed, jilted übersoldaten tend to not like being or staying buried.)
I just can't reconcile any of it. :/
The whole compilation was messed up nonsense. And yeah the remakes are also totally messed up. It destroys the spirit of the og ff7. All that stuff they added. Not even even the villians can stay dead.
At least in my headcanon og ff7 stands for itself. Like it was in 1997. Everything else feels like bad fanfiction...
**chef's kiss** 🤌🤌
Thanks for letting us cook! 🧑🍳
I'm all for a remake of this game using the Remake character models, voice cast, improved combat mechanics, etc. That opening scene might end up being in Part 3 too.
Heck, even with that final battle against Omega, why not include Cloud, Tifa and the others in the fight too?!
Glad you guys posted this. Love the content
Can we look forward to a complete story of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Yes you can!
Can’t wait to play as Vincent in the FF7 Remake. Hopefully he’s playable in the 3rd one.
Now that you say that I do actually wonder how they're going to do his gameplay. It's interesting to me because I'm wondering with they'll make Vincent fight hand to hand combat similar to tifa and switch to his gun with triangle
Ugh, i remember this one, finished it, but it gave me very strong headaches because motion sickness.
Awesome!!! The game actually have a good story!!!
I own this game. 💪🏻😝🤪😁
Would vincent still be able to use his shapeshifting ability after he lose chaos?
As someone who only knew about FF7's story before today and just watched videos on Crisis Core and This it is rather overwelming how much more story their is (Wether you cosider is canon or spinoff or not)
There is a secret ending. All who curious, check it out. It's pretty cool
Perhaps you can clarify something that confuses me: is Weiss dead or not at the start of the game? "He" issues that excessively brutal video about purification...and then we find him "dead" in his chair when we meet him. Was Hojo acting through him in the beginning? If so, then why is Hojo having him play dead when Vincent arrives first? If Weiss was "dead," then who killed him? I thought the online content associated with DoC made it clear Weiss was alive and well? In short, what did it mean that Weiss was "dead" when vincent came into his room?
He's dead. When he killed the last of the Restrictors, Weiss basically signed his own death warrant. They injected him with a time release virus to ensure that he'd die within three days if they died.
If that's true, can you please explain any of the observations to the contrary I cited above? I have read what you claim, but the events if this game seem to contradict this?@@sparklinglys
With Nero being in the yuffy doc is dirge of Cerberus canon? With remake/reborth?
REMAAAAKKEE!!!!!!!!!!
I’d kill for a remaster, use to have it for ps2 an lost my copy sadly an idk if it’s on ps store
Vincent shoots a gun.
Im gonna be real fellas.......this.......was my very first Final Fantasy game and i HATE how i genuinely hated/liked this game.
I beat it twice and LOVED Vincent Valentine and i have it beat into my skull because his name is said IN FULL by several characters.
Followed by FFX2 and then FFX... I feel like young me was very confused when playing these games.
I never got around to use a mouse with PS2, would've made it more playable.
Would be interesting to see this remastered and playable on the PC.
Is this available for PS4 or 5?
Sadly no 🙃 just the PS2 I'm afraid
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Sucks how much shit this game gets cause imo its a really good game, especially the music near the end is just great
Would love for it to get the Crisis Core Reunion treatment!
Can't wait for square enix to remake this...
And i also hope you will do the original story of ff7 and the remake of ff7 of course ok birds of play ^^
You're in luck, they're already on the channel!
@@BirdsOfPlay yeah i just saw that and i also already saw that but i competly forgot that i already saw those but yeah i be waiting for ff10-2 and ff9 and the kingdom hearts games they are so good(except for chain of memories and recoded and union cross)
the game is too clunky but i can see it getting at remake in 2 years as a half way point waiting for part ff7 3
Isn’t Genesis still alive in the secret ending of this game?
Yeah, sadly we forgot to include it but thankfully those who are interested can easily watch the secret ending on TH-cam since it's short. Thanks for watching!
Birds of play are you guys also going to do crisis core ff7 and ff9 ff10 ff10-2 and ff15?
We've already done all of those except FF10-2, but we're working on it! Hope you like them!
@@BirdsOfPlay omg i forgot about that sorry i remember now i already seen them i totally forgotten about that my apologies
Wait what about that secret ending, or is that not cannon
Yeah, it's canon. I just forgot about it when I was writing the script. Big whoops. But thankfully, it's short so people can easily check it out.
@@BirdsOfPlay ah that's cool to know, cuz I wasn't actually sure my self if it was canon lol, honestly I kinda want to know wat happens after, maybe one day after they finish of the remake trilogy
This game had so much potential to be good but it fell flat due to the developers being so damn lazy. I love this game in fact it's one of my favorites but recently playing it I saw alot of issues with the game. One theres no combat system similar to Dmc, He can't do any combos but 3. If they put in a combo system it would have been entertaining to fight deepground but all you do is just shot for 5 hours straight. 2 vincent didnt get alot of dialogue in this game surprisingly enough, he was somewhat silent throughout the game. Another problem that i had with this game was the OG party from ff7 they literally did nothing in this game except stick around for the cgi cutscenes and you didnt get to play as any of them except cait. Cait alone his gameplay was just trash. The story was awful too ngl, It's just lucuria just crying for a couple cutscenes and some of the cutscenes were cringy and unmemorable. Now a lot of people are gonna assume that I hate this game but again I love this game and it hurts to see what this game could have been. This game was my introduction to final fantasy and I'm glad this game exists. I hope they remake this game and make the story and gameplay better. Btw I fucking love the music in this and I hope to hear them remastered in the future.
I imagine they were treading new ground with the 3PS mechanics. I wonder to what extent they got some fresh blood to help them with, like they did with Final Fantasy XVI.
Vincent really dolo the entire FF7 verse
Thank you for teaching me a new term. And yes, he does really dolo the FF7 verse in this game!
@@BirdsOfPlay 🤣🤣🤣
If you had a Scottish accent I think you sound like Sean Connery.
God this game was awful… but thank you for the story recap. Doing the lord’s work.
Thanks for watching!
Vincent is the only intriguing thing in final fantasy to me
Legendary character!
you don't need a PlayStation 2 you can just emulate it🙄and upgrade the graphics yourself
Vincent than goes.... sound to close to Vincent Van Goph
Such a layered character, and not just because he wears so many layers.
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I love you
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Le-cree-sha
noo~oope
@@BirdsOfPlay y-es, lucrecia (lou-cree-sha) the e is long because its followed by a consonent and a vowel. Like feces. However not like 'peace' because the english language is stupid, and they made up rule as they went. Also, judging from you accent, didnt yall invent this shit? Also, also, thats why people say tidus instead of teedus. 'I' only makes an 'e' sounds at the END of words, not the middle, like calamari.
If the name has never been spoken out loud in canon media we base the pronunciation on the Japanese katakana.
'Teedus' for example instead of Tih-tus.
As it happens this is a fully voiced game, where they say the name Lucrecia all the time and we didn't have to look it up :)
God, I really hate the compilation outside of OG and Remake
Crisis core was good
@@johnlawful2272zack died for our sins
For a shameless cash grab filled with anime waifus, its not God awful.... i avoided this game since it came out, i expected it to be so bad that i couldnt finish this video, but i did.. whatever that says