This was some of thee best video game directing. Those slow panel shots, the calm atmosphere of tranquility after the first shot. How can you not get goose bumps during this scene. It's humanity vs nature.
How many best you know, bitch. Also, its not humanity vs nature. Humanity is not SHINRA corp. Humanity is not defined by some corporation. Idiot jerkoff. Those monsters were a counter mechanism to destroy potential dangers . Game needs more context in there though.
When the alarms sounded and it started coming to the shore and they open fire with multiple guns, to where you see that steady stream of cannon fire coming at it. This scene blew me away back then, especially that lucky shot by Shinra, taking its head off. I soooo hope that this scene will be in the remake and even better than before!
If not for Weapon then the party would not have escaped the situation in this particular scene. Who was a bigger enemy to the party? Shinra or Weapon? And it wound up not mattering anyway. Or something I dunno not an expert. Love this game tho 🤙
I think my favourite thing about this scene is that Shinra actually managed to kill it themselves. Usually in media giant creatures like this end up not being affected by guns and missiles at all, but here Shinra blew its head off with the Junon cannon.
I hope Sapphire survives and we get to fight him in the remake. Also that mouth beam attack needs to cause a lot more damage than that tiny little gash.
@Lady Wanderer Well I mean Diamond fought alright and did major damage to the Shinra Building and Emerald and Ruby are, well, hard as sh*t without a way to cheese them
I can't wait for this to be remastered. It's a little different as an adult, but this was my favorite part of the game. I redid the mission countless times just to watch this scene again and again.
I hope in the remake we will be able to fight it. Maybe they could add more of them, too. Like, Omega Weapon. Of course, I would still want them to make the remake as close to the original version, but still... Sapphire was so cool. >.>
@@Lorfo11 yeah that’s right, similar to how they originally fought the Ultimate Weapon in Mideel and then it flew off, or even Diamond weapon they got to fight but didn’t technically finish too
@@Nomimonyo And in later spin-offs, Jade and Omega. Also, technically, Sapphire is only in these cut-scenes. It's not actually IN the game, as in one you can fight against.
I do look forward to seeing what they do with Sapphire and other WEAPONS in the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. I assume Junon will look more like a giant Port town and have Sapphire damaging more of the city/town itself? Maybe weaving through the streets or even tanking that first and second cannon shot and being driven off, so we can fight and finish it off later in the game? For Ruby weapon it will probably be changed to attacking the Golden Saucer this time? As it's near the location where it was located in the original game and Square does seem to enjoy these large-scale destruction scenes, especially in later games like in FFIX where the Party witnessed several cities and a planet being annihilated. So Ruby attacking the Golden Saucer feels right thematically. Ultima I think it could be reworked into an Aerial Battle, maybe even running interference for Diamond Weapon, keeping the Highwind and presumably the rest of Avalanche away? The fight against Ultima Weapon could be an aerial battle like the Celsius Battles from FFX? Maybe a mini-game with the Highwind deploying weapons to attack and wear down Ultima? I think Diamond's fight could remain mostly the same, with elements of Avalanche or Shinra's own military deployed against it, to try and slow its approach to Midgar down?
@@bobkile9734 nah the cannon isn't real there is just one guy inside the barrel using a death penalty with broken damage because they killed a hundred mooks with it.
Video game logic prevails over Hollywood... When giant monster appears, don't shoot it with your rifles, bring in the rocket launchers and heavy artillery.
When I was young I didn't know what the name of Sapphire Weapon was, so going by the names of the others I headcanon'd it as "Obsidian Weapon" because I thought it sounded cool as fuck.
It wasn't really that pathetic, it was just very stupid. A trait shared by most of the Weapons. In terms of patheticness, nothing beats Ultima Weapon's craven cowardice, it's primary skill being running away. While Diamond Weapon beats it in the stupidity department, somehow managing to expose itself even more to the same cannon that got Sapphire.
+cangri1788 you know dude! the reason for being split up its gonna 3 different games ff7 crisis core till you got out on open world map ff72 till aeries death ff3 end game!
Nightwing Son crisis core sucked. They should've kept it simple instead of throw Gact i mean Genesis down our throats... seriously that guy should've stayed dead and never come back after the time skip. The remakes probably gonna suck and retconned the fuck out of it
Well Ruby weapon is in ff14 with the rest presumably on the way. Although not entirely related, I think that omega weapon from ff8 will also show up, but that's just a theory.
No, because Sephiroth was in the Lifestream corrupting it - You could say that the Weapons were fulfilling Sephiroth's wishes rather than the worlds. You could also argue that they're going straight for what's draining the lifestream from the planet.
You know heres a thing. The weapons are the defenders of the planet the last choking gasp. They move to attack the biggest threat to the planet. This isn't sepiroth because the damage Shinra has caused over an extended period and continued to inflict is immense to the point of near impossibility. Conversely, they know holy will deal with sepiroth. There is a non zero chance thr planets defenders know the ones who seek to champion its great defense. Emerald and ruby are immense trials. They reward you with incredible power, either of which trivialize your final struggles. Ultimate gives you the ultimate weapon. And sapphires actions, and death, opened the path to sepiroths defeat. Fun thoughts!
Sister ray killed 2 WEAPONS and destroyed BARRIER at north. Think whatever, but Shinra was great in doing that. How game will proceed if Cloud could not destroy barrier ?
This was some of thee best video game directing. Those slow panel shots, the calm atmosphere of tranquility after the first shot. How can you not get goose bumps during this scene. It's humanity vs nature.
And this game came out 23 years ago. How amazing is that
Dude even the shinra soldiers flee before the sapphire weapon hits, thats atmosphere!
How many best you know, bitch. Also, its not humanity vs nature.
Humanity is not SHINRA corp. Humanity is not defined by some corporation. Idiot jerkoff.
Those monsters were a counter mechanism to destroy potential dangers . Game needs more context in there though.
the road to victory!
Agreed
The second that silence was broken and sapphire continues to draw closer must have been the most terrifying thing for the shinra soldiers.
I used to be excited to get to this part everytime as a kid, its just so awesome to me.
I still get excited for it now as a grown adult
I like how everyone is all chill when they thought they killed it, then they start to panic lol
This direction style truly feels like it's something from evangelion.
When the alarms sounded and it started coming to the shore and they open fire with multiple guns, to where you see that steady stream of cannon fire coming at it. This scene blew me away back then, especially that lucky shot by Shinra, taking its head off. I soooo hope that this scene will be in the remake and even better than before!
We're only a few weeks away now!!
One of the defining moments of FF7, their enemy is not only Shinra, not only Sephiroth, they’ve got bigger problems now
So true, blew the game wide open for me
Shinra self destructs itself metaphorically at this point.
If not for Weapon then the party would not have escaped the situation in this particular scene. Who was a bigger enemy to the party? Shinra or Weapon? And it wound up not mattering anyway. Or something I dunno not an expert. Love this game tho 🤙
Definitely one of the most epic FF cutscenes.
this was my favorite cut scene in the game
“Well, we tried everything, might as well-”
“Cannon loaded again!”
*”ALRIGHT FIRE!”*
*HEADSHOT*
I think my favourite thing about this scene is that Shinra actually managed to kill it themselves.
Usually in media giant creatures like this end up not being affected by guns and missiles at all, but here Shinra blew its head off with the Junon cannon.
I hope Sapphire survives and we get to fight him in the remake. Also that mouth beam attack needs to cause a lot more damage than that tiny little gash.
C N exactly! I was like, that’s all he can do? That can’t be right
That, or Ultima was stronger than Sapphire
@@shawnabraham7740 I guess it's called "Ultima" for a reason.
@Lady Wanderer Well I mean Diamond fought alright and did major damage to the Shinra Building and Emerald and Ruby are, well, hard as sh*t without a way to cheese them
@Lady Wanderer I've never played the compilation except for a few scenes with like Zack and Cloud, Advent Children, and Last Order
Those weapons looks like Made from Mysterious Machines and Materials build by ancient civilizations to protect the earth from any threats
Probably.
I can't wait for this to be remastered. It's a little different as an adult, but this was my favorite part of the game. I redid the mission countless times just to watch this scene again and again.
Sapphire Weapon sent chills when I saw this scene for the first time 👀
once you realise the weapons are the good guys, its sucks when you fight them
Don't lose your head over things, Sapphire.
3:27 Sapphire Weapon: I'm gonna rid the world of these contraptions.
Sister Ray Cannon: Oh, no, you don't.
Who’s waiting to see this scene in the remake?
Me I can’t wait
they are probably going to change it
The weapons are basically Kaiju. Mountain sized beasts sent to cleanse the earth. I love that! 🤩
Dude sapphire weapons face is fuckin nightmare fuel.
u right 😭😭
I hope in the remake we will be able to fight it. Maybe they could add more of them, too. Like, Omega Weapon. Of course, I would still want them to make the remake as close to the original version, but still... Sapphire was so cool. >.>
ησσηα diamond weapon too
Rhas would be nice to fight it but then this cut scene would not exist in the remake which would ruin it.
@@sphony Not necessarily. You could fight it but not defeat it, which would then lead to the "Mind Blowing" cutscene.
No omega thaaaaanks. I'll keep all my weapons to ffvii thanks.
@@Lorfo11 yeah that’s right, similar to how they originally fought the Ultimate Weapon in Mideel and then it flew off, or even Diamond weapon they got to fight but didn’t technically finish too
That gigantic wonder of nature of theirs ... now extinct. 😿
not very smart of it positioning its head in front of the canon.
It has no idea what a cannon is, it's a force of nature.
@@jaypee9575 holy earths weapon vs humanity
@@jaypee9575 How the hell it doesn't know what a Cannon is when it's name is literally weapon and just shot a beam out is mouth
and boom goes the dynamite
I think it was going for the cannon in the second attack
One of the greatest Imperial Guard moments in history, and it didn't even happen in Warhammer 40k.
that game was like a one in a lifetime kind of epic..
the kind that can't be remade... ever...
Brad Eddy jokes on you buddy 😂😂😂
No, he meant a remake of any kind would be inevitably worse. Looks to be so.
@@coolguy02536 ff7 coming back with a comet!
LMFAO BOI THIS DID NOT AGE WELL
Remake is great
Would be cool if we have an actual boss fight against Sapphire Weapon in the Remake.
I didnt even knew sapphire weapon was in the game...i brought dishonour to my family.
Ultima. Ruby. Emerald. Diamond. Sapphire.
Dishonor to yoh famiry
@@Nomimonyo And in later spin-offs, Jade and Omega.
Also, technically, Sapphire is only in these cut-scenes. It's not actually IN the game, as in one you can fight against.
Thank god for the junon cannon. One less weapon I had to fight in the game. I think I beat emerald once but could never do ruby.
I think you should give credit to Rufus Shinra
Curb your enthusiasm should have played at the end there.
Sapphire is the most awesome of the weapons!
You mean WAS
since it died
I'd say Diamond. But he ded too lol.
1:24 Jump scared me so hard first playthrough. The music is so badass had volume up high, never turned it down.
Even more nerve wracking that emerald is also beneath the surface 😂
I had to watch this cutscene like 5 times since I had not leveled Yuffie, Cait Sith, or Barret and I kept dying.
I do look forward to seeing what they do with Sapphire and other WEAPONS in the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. I assume Junon will look more like a giant Port town and have Sapphire damaging more of the city/town itself? Maybe weaving through the streets or even tanking that first and second cannon shot and being driven off, so we can fight and finish it off later in the game?
For Ruby weapon it will probably be changed to attacking the Golden Saucer this time? As it's near the location where it was located in the original game and Square does seem to enjoy these large-scale destruction scenes, especially in later games like in FFIX where the Party witnessed several cities and a planet being annihilated. So Ruby attacking the Golden Saucer feels right thematically.
Ultima I think it could be reworked into an Aerial Battle, maybe even running interference for Diamond Weapon, keeping the Highwind and presumably the rest of Avalanche away? The fight against Ultima Weapon could be an aerial battle like the Celsius Battles from FFX? Maybe a mini-game with the Highwind deploying weapons to attack and wear down Ultima?
I think Diamond's fight could remain mostly the same, with elements of Avalanche or Shinra's own military deployed against it, to try and slow its approach to Midgar down?
Maybe the BEST cinematic scene in a videogame ever doing?
Wonder how much damage that point blank face shot did, that thing probably rocked break damage limit before it was cool.
Managuabrother
9999 HP damage + 90% chance of inflicting DEATH ignoring immunities.
Sapphire WEAPON got lucky when it didn’t proc the first time.
@@bobkile9734 nah the cannon isn't real there is just one guy inside the barrel using a death penalty with broken damage because they killed a hundred mooks with it.
Oh, hello divine intervention kaiju. I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine. It's name is "gun".
Mako Cannon more specific.
@@okamijubei Not at this point. They added the Mako part later. This was pure ballistic energy.
Video game logic prevails over Hollywood...
When giant monster appears, don't shoot it with your rifles, bring in the rocket launchers and heavy artillery.
When I was young I didn't know what the name of Sapphire Weapon was, so going by the names of the others I headcanon'd it as "Obsidian Weapon" because I thought it sounded cool as fuck.
after 25 years i now know his name......
This thing had the coolest design, yet it was the most pathetic of all the Weapons. Hope the remake does it justice.
It wasn't really that pathetic, it was just very stupid. A trait shared by most of the Weapons.
In terms of patheticness, nothing beats Ultima Weapon's craven cowardice, it's primary skill being running away. While Diamond Weapon beats it in the stupidity department, somehow managing to expose itself even more to the same cannon that got Sapphire.
Shinra kills 2 weapons. 2 balls
After seeing Ruby Weapon in FFXIV, can't wait to see how they handle Sapphire considering it just gets nuked here.
Poor sapphire, he never bothered nobody
That cannon is fucking beast.
Imagine having to fight that. Scary
I always think that was emerald, but he has head :D at this point.
Am I the only one that thinks this weapon is sick!?
IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZ-Boom!
I always thought that this weapon was actually emerald, who somehow is kinda "headless"...
right below it was the far stronger emerald weapon and it didnt help its mate
remember watching this as a young lad thinkn the graphics was GG
monsters designed by Tetsuya Nomura is fuckin cool!!!!
Well I haven't seen that in a long ass time.
This is coming out in HD!!!!
+cangri1788 you know dude! the reason for being split up its gonna 3 different games
ff7 crisis core till you got out on open world map
ff72 till aeries death
ff3 end game!
+Jrpg Slayer I know its gonna be episodic and that sucks but where die you get that info?
+cangri1788 been playing on ps4 and crisis corr and before crisis dude
Nightwing Son crisis core sucked. They should've kept it simple instead of throw Gact i mean Genesis down our throats... seriously that guy should've stayed dead and never come back after the time skip. The remakes probably gonna suck and retconned the fuck out of it
Guna have to play this again some day for old times sake.. if I can get hold of a copy.
It's not difficult to find you know
It's on Steam
I hope the remake up to this point would let US shoot the cannon.
Oh hi Heidegger the guy who I can never remember the name of so I just call the green fat Shrina guy
No, no, no... It's "Gyahaha", and his lady friend "Kyahaha". ;)
What would be cool is if all the ff7 weapons as summons or limit nreaks in future final fantasy games. Or maybe make guest appearances in other games
Well Ruby weapon is in ff14 with the rest presumably on the way.
Although not entirely related, I think that omega weapon from ff8 will also show up, but that's just a theory.
i would love to know what it would had been like to fight sapp weapon in the game.
Sapphire weapon was doin the gecko wink
Crt monitors
Was there a sapphire weapon at all, ever?...
Did about as much damage as Tifa slap fight
Gojira!!!!!
Feels a little like evangalion
Thanks for the watermark.
FF7 is the best videogame,
but I still think how dumb the weapon was standing in front of the canon.
3:29
OPEN WIDE BITCH!
Best weapon coming through.
Why where two weapons targeting this canon/ these reactors? Wasn't Sephiroth a *much* bigger treat to the world?
No, because Sephiroth was in the Lifestream corrupting it - You could say that the Weapons were fulfilling Sephiroth's wishes rather than the worlds.
You could also argue that they're going straight for what's draining the lifestream from the planet.
He also had the barrier covering the crater, which prevented the Weapons from detecting him.
1:50 Attack of the weapon !!!
Godzilla, eat your heart out XD
Lol is this suppose to be godzilla?
You do know its not sapphire weapon, its just weapon. and its that way for some weird reason.
it's referred to as sapphire weapon in official materials.
What is the name of the song when the video began?
Frontier Foundation hurry faster I think
Poor Ricon
What song is this when the cannon is getting ready to fire?
Frontier Foundation bro you ever find it?
I did.
Frontier Foundation what is it????
Joel Terry Hurry!
Boom headshot
Yeah.
Activate! Dont bring into this reality.
stupid question. its dead now right?
1234567890nam yes
And extinct too....
2020
Hola. ::::All are created by God. His one son died and revived afterwards to rid us of any wrong doing. His name is Jesus)::::: Breathe air
I always like to jokingly think Sapphire Weapon actually went there to free Tifa and ended up sacrificing himself for her well being.
Nice thought. :)
You know heres a thing.
The weapons are the defenders of the planet the last choking gasp.
They move to attack the biggest threat to the planet. This isn't sepiroth because the damage Shinra has caused over an extended period and continued to inflict is immense to the point of near impossibility.
Conversely, they know holy will deal with sepiroth.
There is a non zero chance thr planets defenders know the ones who seek to champion its great defense.
Emerald and ruby are immense trials. They reward you with incredible power, either of which trivialize your final struggles.
Ultimate gives you the ultimate weapon.
And sapphires actions, and death, opened the path to sepiroths defeat.
Fun thoughts!
Well, I guess even ppl named asslicker can have noble thoughts and motives
Sister ray killed 2 WEAPONS and destroyed BARRIER at north.
Think whatever, but Shinra was great in doing that. How game will proceed if Cloud could not destroy barrier ?
well when the cannon was in junon theres a name "sister ray" in it but scarlet put this name on the cannon after he transfered to shinra
Sister Ray apparently does millions of hp damage
If Barret's arm cannon can do 9,999 damage, then it better be able to do millions.
Why does I get a little uncomfortable when I see Sapphire Weapon's face?
+Theshadow34 Cause he's fuckin' creepy lookin'.
I love Rufus how strategic he is