Red XIII: We're too late for Holy Barrett: Well maybe if SOMEONE didn't spend so much time interbreeding chocobos we could have made it on time Cloud: ....
I always like how in FF7 the beginning showed Aerith with her eyes already open, when she dies, her eyes closes, then at the end she opens her eyes. It's a nice symbolism of life and death.
plus the first image we see in ff7 is her and the last image is her only her eyes close and re open in the ending i know your comment is 4 yrs old but there's a theory about this aerith time traveling to her past self her eyes are closed in the re make opening then open up
nightlyangel I think it’s a way of representing that in a way she was in some way still alive, living through the lifestream - those you lose never really leave, they live on
@@Ncholasbloom The theory I have been seeing isn't so much that Aerith is time traveling, but more that the entire original FFVII story was a vision that Aerith had, and hasn't actually happened....yet. That scene of her at the small mako leak book-ends the entire game, and makes sense in the context of the Remake, seeing as she clearly knows things that she shouldn't know.
@@SMDeclercq1982 That's crazy!!! I literally haven't heard that until I read your comment, but it makes perfect sense!! Wow..... I just can't wait for the next chapter of the remake.
Nobuo Uematsu's career defining moment. A masterpiece. No other composer could have done what he did with that technology at that time in the industry. It still brings me to tears 25 years later.
Laughter of children. I think it's a hint that humanity survived, which was ambiguous at the time. Although some thought it was more of "echo of the past" sort of thing.
*If anybody has any issues understanding the ending here is a detailed and simple to understand explanation:* Cloud and co. go to the norther crater to defeaet Sephiroth, the last thing blocking Holy from being summoned. They fight Sephiroth's new body (created by him through Jenova cells) and defeat him. But Sephiroth's spirit is still alive within the lifestream and it grabs Cloud, supposedely bringing his spirit and mind to battle it out one last time in the lifestream. Cloud omnislashes Sephiroth and finally destroys his spirit forever. However a hand reaches from the lifestream until Cloud's spirit is reunited with his body. It's then that Cloud realizes that people don't disappear when they go to the lifestream and that Aerith is still in some way "alive" (her body is dead, but her spirit lives on in the lifestream). If you chose Aerith as your date you could see this as something romantic, if you choose Tifa, you can consider it more like friendship. Cloud finally understands what the promised land is, according to the Cetra. Here's the definition from the wiki: *"It appears the Cetra's Promised Land isn't a physical location, but what the Cetra called the act of returning to the Planet at the life's end. Joining the Lifestream and becoming one with the Planet was viewed as a state of supreme happiness."* Cloud understands that when he will die he will be able to join again with Aerith in the lifestream and Tifa agrees to meet her friend too. In this way, the fact that Aerith the ancient was supposed to guide somebody to the promised land to find eternal happiness, can be interpreted as Aerith and Cloud reuniting in the lifestream and for a lack of a better term "live happily ever after". However if they don't stop meteor the lifestream will disappear and with it Aerith and everybody else. They escape the crater and Holy is finally capable of stopping meteor. Unfortunately Holy isn't capable of stopping meteor, but Aerith guides the lifestream to aid Holy and stop Meteor, saving the planet. And as the game ends, it's final screenshot is the same we saw in the begginning. But here, it confirms that Aerith still lives on... But here's a problem: Holy would have wiped out all that was bad for the planet. However this means that it could have also wiped the human race. As we see Nanaki and his cubs stand atop a ruined Midgar, we think if the human race really is extinct, but then children laughing can be heard in the background, meaning that humans are still alive. Oh and considering that it takes place 500 years after the events of FF7, it means that Cloud has already reunited with Aerith by the end of the game Fun fact: the image at the end is not the very same from the begginning though. In this one she's smiling!
" If you chose Aerith as your date you could see this as something romantic, if you choose Tifa, you can consider it more like friendship. " and if you date barret ? :D
fatherofdante If you date Barret or Yuffie you could consider both as friendship. You want to see Aertih in the lifestream (as a friend) and you want to go there with Tifa (who you see as a friend)
I never noticed that! I always interpreted as showing that Aerith had a hand in saving the planet, but I always assumed they reused frames from when she's first introduced. I never noticed that it wasn't the same image.
8:36 The moment you realize Aerith had everything under control the whole time. That brought me shivers second time i did finish the game back in 1998.
I just beat the game and I was so surprised by how abrupt the ending was. But it really works. You don't see the heroes triumphant, Meteor being destroyed or the planet being saved... Just a quick flash of Aerith saying "I got this". Such a good moment. Hopefully they'll keep it as is in the remake.
I posted this comment on another vid but hey ho: Lots of people think the ending of FFVII indicates humanity was destroyed, citing the ruined city and the game's dark tone as evidence. Bollocks. The entire game and all the player's efforts would have been betrayed if that were true. What's the point of playing a game where everyone is doomed to die? It's not the Horus Heresy! Midgar was a major wound in the Planet, everything around it was black and dead. When Meteor was destroyed and Sephiroth and Jenova slain, humans turned their back on mako energy and abandoned the poisonous ruin of Midgar forever. Nature reclaimed it and balance is restored, and humans live in a manner that allows their species and the Planet to go on, far away from sprawling junkyard-cities and defunct mako reactors.
+Adam McLaughlin I'm not gonna lie. I played this game for the first time in July this year (found the PS1 disks as a convention). And throughout my whole play though, I felt like I was playing some "Captain Planet" game.
I'd rather believe in humanity getting a chance to survive after the party's efforts to save the planet. However, it's possible the writers were very cynical towards humanity when they wrote the game. On the other hand, the game shows us that death is just a part of life... and not the end of existence (people return to the lifestream when they die, which is the promised land, then get recycled/reborn into a tree or animal or another human... as long as the planet exists). It's a cyclical process we should learn to accept maybe.
Uh... Guys...Have you, by any chance, forgot about "Advent Children" and so on ?... How can people think humanity was destroyed at the end of FFVII after the movie "Advent Children" a sequel to the game, came in 2005 ?... Before 2005 and before that movie came out, I would have understand. But now there is no question about it. Humanity obviously survived ... duurrrr >
I played this game when i was 19. It was 15 years ago, but i clearly remember that fucking feeling of loosing something that will never goes back, when finally i saw this ending sequence. Time goes by and now i've no more time to play videogames and it's ok, i grow up, i'm a man. But something inside me was captured by this game. It was like someone took a picture of my youth, focused on the best emotions and best values that humans hold in the deep. The world is a wonderful combination of several factors that can be never cloned by humans, we only have the power to defend it, or destroy it. That's the choice we have to make. FF7 tell us what happens when we made the wrong choice, and even the Holy is a metaphor. I think it represents the last and desperade attempt by humans, but as you saw, it's too late. At the end, we are nothing more than animals, and the planet itself is the only one that has the power to decide. As it did long time ago, it decide to save humans. Now, it there someone that think it's not a message to give to next generations?
Dude, im 20, I grew up in games of the first Xbox and the 360 generation. Last year I finished this game and if I took the dated gameplay aside, it's one of the greatest games ever made. It also touched me (not in a perverted way but in a spiritual way) like it marked alot of people. Honestly, im for a action RPG remake on the PS4, for futures generations. And thanks for your analyst, it's reallly help me more to understand the ecological message of the game. Speaking of ecological, do you know this movie Princess Mononoke.
Princess Mononoke, in my opinion, is one of the Best movie ever made by Myiazaky (sorry tor grammar, i 've no time for googling now) . If you like it, i suggest TO take a look TO Nausicaa and the valley of the Wind, same author
I played this when I was 20. That was 18 years ago. I know exactly what you mean. It took me forever to beat. I remember my total hours on this game were unheard of at the time. I remember this ending and the first time I saw it. I got the chills. It was everything I wanted and waited for in the end. I touched me. It still does. It takes me back.
You not the only one to me when I see the Lifestream spout of the plant to help fuel holy it like Areith is say to Sepithroth METEOR YOU WANT TO DESTROY THIS PLANET I DON'T THINK SO FEEL THE WRAITH OF THE ANCIENTS FEEL THE POWER OF THE ULTIMATE WHITE MAGIC HOLY
I finished this long story,but i must say,the game was masterpiece. Thanks square,this game was much better than much games in now ;-) Story,gameplay,open world(in 1997 woooow). 10/10
I can't wait for the music in this scene. I have always adored the part when the Lifestream makes its appearance and was deeply disappointed when I heard the London Symphony Orcherster's interpretation of it, I so hope they don't butcher it in the remake.
This was also back in the day when they were really testing CG and was not quite familiar with it yet. That is why FF VIII and IX have much more advanced cinematics compared to FF VII.
It's amazing how after so many years of playing this I still get emotional when I see the lifestream coming out. This game will always remain as my favorite for how great the music just mixed with the scene. I hope the remake does this game justice but even if it doesn't I'll always have the original.
I hope they have the balls to do this ending in the remake. It was highly controversial at the time, but most people looking back appreciate the beauty and ambiguity of it, even if we know what happens after due to AC.
@Aaron Garcia I remember there being a lot of talk about the ending for a while after the game was released. It's left ambiguous as to the fate of humanity. The last we see of the heroes is the blinding flash as lifestream races toward Meteor. One interpretation of the ending is that humanity did not survive, the backdrop of the green ruins of Midgar shows that the Planet lives on with or without humanity, and the sound of children's laughter could represent that humanity is a memory of the Planet not to be forgotten. It's a great ending, and the ambiguity is part of what makes it great. It was made intentionally so so that you could come to your own conclusions.
@@Torriadore keep in mind though: with the sound quality the way it was at the time it was not clear that there even WAS children's laughter in the background, I only noticed it when i looked up the video several years later so it was a whole lot more ambiguous than it seems in hindsight
@@draco_zs8668 Gaia, and AC, IMO, had a terrible plot, nonsensical even. Just to get Sephiroth back, again. He's died, what, 3 different times now? Meanwhile, Aerith over here just like, "am I a joke to you?"
@Seth Killian THIS. Man, I'm glad other people can see AC for what it really is, cringey fan service with a terrible plot. But hey, it was pretty for it's time. I've read better post FFVII stories on fanfiction.net and Ao3.
I dread the day the Remake trilogy hits this point in the story (if this does end up happening). I will cry 100% and that being said I borderline never cry over entertainment.
One of the best endings to any game ever done. Everything is done so subtly instead of the typical "and they lived happily ever after" thing. Absolutely beautiful
Lol for all the people who said Crisi Core is better...this is FF7 far superior than its prequel and sequel its untouchable 4, 6, 7 and 9 will be the greatest FF games IMO....and for all you people who have just started playing FF games when FF12 came then go play these games and learn the importance of plot/story and character development and i agree that these titles w/c i mentioned lacks the department in terms of graphics and OST but i can enjoy a game w/o those.
Ppl are saying that her face at the end is the beginning of the remake or the other way around. Its wrong even the locations are different. Herr aeris is in the lifestream seeing her face at the end saving the planet. And in remake opening she just stares at the broken pipe where mako comes out with the same face. Its quiet sifferemt
6:32 When the lifestream started to come out I was in awe. The music was amazing as we zoom out and see the entire planet releasing it's energy to protect itself. It was beautiful but still tense at the same time since at the time we didn't see what happens fully.
@@KamusariHR Nah, Planet took matters into it's own hands when it realized Holy was failing. Which is why the original ending was so profound. If the planet itself was getting involved, what's going to happen to the humans?
I just remember hearing those kids laugh and thinking, "What do I do now?". Like even at 12 years old I knew the experience I just had was something truly amazing that I would never forget. 22 years later and I STILL get teary eyed watching this.
1. No. The laughing children at the very end are supposed to clue you in on that. After a thousand years of rape and abuse, the Planet gives humanity another chance. Also, there are spin-offs to the original FF7 that come after it in the timeline. 2. I don't think it's ever mentioned that Red XIII is the last of his kind, we just never see any others. Or maybe he had cubs with the power of science!
Aeris, the first character you see in the game and also the last... She is the true heroine. Cloud and Co. couldn't have done much with our her, apart watching Meteor who destroys the planet...
Do you really think after all her nervousness about everything and her general personality as a whole, that she really fucked him even though all you see is Tifa leaning on Cloud? There's a reason why I said his imagination was fascinating and that's because you're both using your imagination, not what was actually displayed. You can imagine it if you like, that's the fun of it, but it's never been confirmed. That's like assuming Cloud banged whoever he went on the date with because there was a black screen and a pause (and I mean, you can imagine that if you want, but again, that's imagination).
@@mbn89 that's an assumption, if you romanced Tifa, you can ASSUME they had sex in that scene. Personally, I think Cloud loves Aeris, and they will be together in their Promised Land, he practically says that during the ending. "I think I can meet her there."
Final Fantasy VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII. They are all good. (Well... XII and XIII in their own manner) But there's difference between FAVORITE and BEST. In philosophy best are III, VII and X. In Story - XII In feelings - VIII and XIII Each has his own favorite Final Fantasy. Mine is III and XIII. But i like XIII more.
I was 15. I remember experiencing this ending for the very first time. I was beyond blown away. The music gave me the chills and it gripped my soul. After the triumphant climax of music, I remember seeing Aeris and how everything came around full circle... I paused...and I said to myself, "there will never be anything like this..." And still to this day, nothing even close...
Excellent comment and I felt the same when I played this as 10 years old in 1998. Still the only game that always makes me feel so much. I love the music...
The expanded universe to the main game of Final Fantasy 7, mainly advent children and Dirge of Cerberus which were very mediocre titles obviously to cash in on the name of a much better game. Advent Children created the now accepted character of emo Cloud, even though in the original game he wasn't. Also the expanded stuff feels heartless, like noone really cared about the product unlike FF7 which was all heart and really a beautiful game.
I dislike the expanded universe because they're inferior products using the guise of a much better game. They don't stop me loving the original by any means. They were wasted potential. Sequels can be good, in some rare cases the sequels are greater than their original. I don't feel that's the case with any of the Final Fantasy 7 material.
Sorry everyone, but I loved FF7, I loved Advent Children Complete, I loved Crisis Core, I even liked Before Crisis. I really like "on the way to a smile" and "the maiden who travels the planet" I think it's better for none of the spin offs to be better than the actual game because those are just to prep for the main event. Like the appetizers for the main course, or course it won't be better. I still think Crisis core is the best game for PSP though.
I can play through this game and beat it over and over and over, and the magic is still there. Truly one of the best games i've ever played and one of the best of all time.
Thanks for this. I just beat this about 20 mins ago.. very buggy on the PC version and it froze when loading one of these videos. Good to see what the ending was. Kinda disappointing tho, I had passed up on quite a few things because I wasn't strong enough to do it.. so I missed out on a lot. Also I was still waiting to use Yuffie's and Red's final limit.. but I never got the chance. Game ended before I could. Overall, good game, but.. I feel like the last 25% of the game was cut short.
I think Dirge of Cerberus was good too. The concept of Omega weapon was cool. I think a FF7 remake is inevitable. Just a matter of when, and still we need to know what happened to Genesis.
What the fuck all those people crying for ff6 being the best one, you just make me laugh. They are 2 awesome games, but FF7 .. cmon how can you compare any other FF with this one?...
+༼ つ◕ω◕ ༽つ Wise Sage Doge Sure. Best positive reviews = FF7. Best reviews of players = FF7. Best sells= FF7. More number of players = FF7. Remake on the way = FF7. The numbers don´t lie. FF7 is the best FF, is a fact.
+SasukeHOA Best reviews of players = FF7. Best sells= FF7. More number of players = FF7. Remake on the way = FF7. All of those are influenced by nostalgia, FF VII was the first one launched in europe, it was a revolution in his time, thanks to that it is that famous. And no, i'm not saying that FF6 is better that 7, that's subjetive.
Cloud: "......I think I'm beginning to understand. Tifa: "What?" Cloud: "An answer from the Planet...The Promised Land.. I think I can meet her.. there." Tifa: "Yea, lets go meet her."
its like watching a movie from the 20s. the movements, the sound, the body language, the lack of speech, and the feeling that what is being broadcast is really trying its best in a primitive way. its funny how the birth of modern films and the birth of modern games emulated one another in this way. hell, that is also like the birth of mankind.
Yes probably, the ghostly laughter of the children seems to imply humans came to an end. Also cloud says he finally understands and can meet aerith in the lifestream, soo how other way to get there
I loved final fantasy 7. It's by far one of my favorites. But the ending is terrible; they could of done sooo much more with it! Bad ending to such an amazing gaming experience
No, I mean they could have done a much better cinematic. I could barely tell if the planet was saved, because everything was saturated with light beams and stuff. If it wasn't for the "300 years later" after the credits, I would have thought everyone died. At least they could have shown the planet after it was saved. And why the hell did the highwind just dive into the crater? How did they all get in before being crushed? How did the "emergency" switch save everyone?
i let someone else answer becuz i don't know all i know is during the game we heard of the lifestream and seeing the fate she as their was no doubt it was going to save the planet
'Holy', my friend, is one of the most crazy-pwnage spells you can cast in the game, I think only one character could learn it because it's so beast, but I might be wrong about that part... Suffice to say though, that it's a pretty powerful magic slap that'll send your foe flying for quite a while lol
FF 7 is one of those rare games you play that never leaves you and has you going back to play it over and over just to see the characters again. I'm not a big RPG type, hell I'm not even that big of a video game player anymore, but every once in a while I'll break this game out and play it through just for the sheer pleasure it gives me to do so. The best FF game ever made imo and one of the best video games of all time imo.
The music in this video is brilliant. The ending of the game is brilliant. The whole game is brilliant. In my opinion, this ending is the best ending any game have ever had. The whole game; perfect. Just perfect.
well, after watching this, looks like im going to be digging out the ol ps2 and dust off disc 1 and start the adventure all over..... might as well write off about 40 hours of my life to ff7
No, it will continue at the last save point you saved at, although i think if i remember there is one save point in the crater that i think is impossible to get out from...
The magic of the 90's video game era will forever be missed. I wouldn't change or want to remake one damn thing in this game, at the time we might have wished away it's imperfections, but now they are just as precious to me as the qualities of the game itself :)
Red XIII: We're too late for Holy
Barrett: Well maybe if SOMEONE didn't spend so much time interbreeding chocobos we could have made it on time
Cloud: ....
Barret...Barret....Knights of the Round,bro... XDXD
Dave Whitford lol
Cloud “........ I was TRYING to get knights of the round table berret so I won’t f**k up.”
I was making a Joke but ok
The same could be said of Luna.
Aeris saved the planet. I always loved to imagine her leading the souls of all those in the lifestream against meteor.
The Ancients.
Aerith*
@@c0mplex_Ale European version here
we'll probably see that more in remake part 3
I always like how in FF7 the beginning showed Aerith with her eyes already open, when she dies, her eyes closes, then at the end she opens her eyes. It's a nice symbolism of life and death.
plus the first image we see in ff7 is her and the last image is her only her eyes close and re open in the ending i know your comment is 4 yrs old but there's a theory about this aerith time traveling to her past self her eyes are closed in the re make opening then open up
nightlyangel I think it’s a way of representing that in a way she was in some way still alive, living through the lifestream - those you lose never really leave, they live on
@@Ncholasbloom The theory I have been seeing isn't so much that Aerith is time traveling, but more that the entire original FFVII story was a vision that Aerith had, and hasn't actually happened....yet. That scene of her at the small mako leak book-ends the entire game, and makes sense in the context of the Remake, seeing as she clearly knows things that she shouldn't know.
@@SMDeclercq1982 That's crazy!!! I literally haven't heard that until I read your comment, but it makes perfect sense!! Wow..... I just can't wait for the next chapter of the remake.
@@SMDeclercq1982 I think that’s pretty cook
Nobuo Uematsu's career defining moment. A masterpiece. No other composer could have done what he did with that technology at that time in the industry. It still brings me to tears 25 years later.
.... Yah man, so like.. what was available had been industry standard for quite some time. Hell, you can still use all the same equipment RIGHT NOW.
I feel like the ff6 end boss theme was more defining
No matter what happens, how bad things are, at the very end Aerith will save us all.
Tip your flower girl
Laughter of children. I think it's a hint that humanity survived, which was ambiguous at the time. Although some thought it was more of "echo of the past" sort of thing.
i am so glad i found this comment
Leave it to Aerith to save everyone's asses even after dying.
Thank you Aerith.
*If anybody has any issues understanding the ending here is a detailed and simple to understand explanation:*
Cloud and co. go to the norther crater to defeaet Sephiroth, the last
thing blocking Holy from being summoned. They fight Sephiroth's new body
(created by him through Jenova cells) and defeat him.
But Sephiroth's spirit is still alive within the lifestream and it grabs
Cloud, supposedely bringing his spirit and mind to battle it out one
last time in the lifestream. Cloud omnislashes Sephiroth and finally
destroys his spirit forever.
However a hand reaches from the lifestream until Cloud's spirit is
reunited with his body. It's then that Cloud realizes that people don't
disappear when they go to the lifestream and that Aerith is still in
some way "alive" (her body is dead, but her spirit lives on in the
lifestream). If you chose Aerith as your date you could see this as
something romantic, if you choose Tifa, you can consider it more like
friendship.
Cloud finally understands what the promised land is, according to the
Cetra. Here's the definition from the wiki: *"It appears the Cetra's
Promised Land isn't a physical location, but what the Cetra called the
act of returning to the Planet at the life's end. Joining the Lifestream
and becoming one with the Planet was viewed as a state of supreme
happiness."*
Cloud understands that when he will die he will be able to join again
with Aerith in the lifestream and Tifa agrees to meet her friend too. In
this way, the fact that Aerith the ancient was supposed to guide
somebody to the promised land to find eternal happiness, can be
interpreted as Aerith and Cloud reuniting in the lifestream and for a
lack of a better term "live happily ever after".
However if they don't stop meteor the lifestream will disappear and with
it Aerith and everybody else. They escape the crater and Holy is
finally capable of stopping meteor. Unfortunately Holy isn't capable of
stopping meteor, but Aerith guides the lifestream to aid Holy and stop
Meteor, saving the planet.
And as the game ends, it's final screenshot is the same we saw in the
begginning. But here, it confirms that Aerith still lives on...
But here's a problem: Holy would have wiped out all that was bad for the
planet. However this means that it could have also wiped the human
race. As we see Nanaki and his cubs stand atop a ruined Midgar, we think
if the human race really is extinct, but then children laughing can be
heard in the background, meaning that humans are still alive.
Oh and considering that it takes place 500 years after the events of
FF7, it means that Cloud has already reunited with Aerith by the end of
the game
Fun fact: the image at the end is not the very same from the begginning though. In this one she's smiling!
Im kinda late but...
Thank you!
" If you chose Aerith as your date you could see this as
something romantic, if you choose Tifa, you can consider it more like
friendship. " and if you date barret ? :D
fatherofdante
If you date Barret or Yuffie you could consider both as friendship. You want to see Aertih in the lifestream (as a friend) and you want to go there with Tifa (who you see as a friend)
I never noticed that! I always interpreted as showing that Aerith had a hand in saving the planet, but I always assumed they reused frames from when she's first introduced. I never noticed that it wasn't the same image.
this is beautifull to read.
when you see Aeris after the light from Holy and Meteor blinds all the characters, I can never help but cry. Such beautiful cinematography.
You are NOT alone. But let us not tell anyone... ok?
No game will ever be as emotionally stirring as 7.
It's such a masterpiece.
go home, you are full of Yeast
And you're full of shit ;)
Overrated
HellLord0931 lol such a typical response.
8:36 The moment you realize Aerith had everything under control the whole time. That brought me shivers second time i did finish the game back in 1998.
+Andres Zyca Yeah she summoned Holy and used the lifestream to save the world. The team just needed to beat Sephiroth so Holy could be released.
+Andres Zyca
It still brought me shivers when I played it 3 months ago
I just got shivers moments ago... btw that's called the autonomous sensory meridian response aka the ASMR
Mhm, Sephiroth was also holding back the lifestream, as his corruption would have stopped it from helping anyway
I just beat the game and I was so surprised by how abrupt the ending was. But it really works. You don't see the heroes triumphant, Meteor being destroyed or the planet being saved... Just a quick flash of Aerith saying "I got this". Such a good moment. Hopefully they'll keep it as is in the remake.
In the remake we might also get a Version of Advent children as game
@@pascalfernandes6957 that would be cool
Theres another part coming but it might be like alternate endings is my guess
Anyone get a little emotional when they showed Aeris at the very end?
2:30 to 2:33 = My reaction to the official Final Fantasy 7 remake announcement.
+blessedboydragon
Cid: SHIT! PULL THE LEVER OF THE HYPE TRAIN!
The remake is going to suck. No good Final Fantasy has come since 7
squick1842 except 8, 9, 10 and 15
IntroSpecktive 8 was...ok. 9 was fine. The rest were...meh, at best.
Time to relive it up, you guys.
I posted this comment on another vid but hey ho:
Lots of people think the ending of FFVII indicates humanity was destroyed, citing the ruined city and the game's dark tone as evidence. Bollocks. The entire game and all the player's efforts would have been betrayed if that were true. What's the point of playing a game where everyone is doomed to die? It's not the Horus Heresy! Midgar was a major wound in the Planet, everything around it was black and dead. When Meteor was destroyed and Sephiroth and Jenova slain, humans turned their back on mako energy and abandoned the poisonous ruin of Midgar forever. Nature reclaimed it and balance is restored, and humans live in a manner that allows their species and the Planet to go on, far away from sprawling junkyard-cities and defunct mako reactors.
+Adam McLaughlin I'm not gonna lie. I played this game for the first time in July this year (found the PS1 disks as a convention). And throughout my whole play though, I felt like I was playing some "Captain Planet" game.
I'd rather believe in humanity getting a chance to survive after the party's efforts to save the planet. However, it's possible the writers were very cynical towards humanity when they wrote the game. On the other hand, the game shows us that death is just a part of life... and not the end of existence (people return to the lifestream when they die, which is the promised land, then get recycled/reborn into a tree or animal or another human... as long as the planet exists). It's a cyclical process we should learn to accept maybe.
The humans survived. You hear the laughing of children at the end
Uh... Guys...Have you, by any chance, forgot about "Advent Children" and so on ?...
How can people think humanity was destroyed at the end of FFVII after the movie "Advent Children" a sequel to the game, came in 2005 ?... Before 2005 and before that movie came out, I would have understand. But now there is no question about it. Humanity obviously survived ... duurrrr >
@Seth Killian meh no
Best Final Fantasy game. Best ending in the series.
8:36 -- FFVII Remake Begins.
I played this game when i was 19. It was 15 years ago, but i clearly remember that fucking feeling of loosing something that will never goes back, when finally i saw this ending sequence. Time goes by and now i've no more time to play videogames and it's ok, i grow up, i'm a man. But something inside me was captured by this game. It was like someone took a picture of my youth, focused on the best emotions and best values that humans hold in the deep. The world is a wonderful combination of several factors that can be never cloned by humans, we only have the power to defend it, or destroy it. That's the choice we have to make. FF7 tell us what happens when we made the wrong choice, and even the Holy is a metaphor. I think it represents the last and desperade attempt by humans, but as you saw, it's too late. At the end, we are nothing more than animals, and the planet itself is the only one that has the power to decide. As it did long time ago, it decide to save humans.
Now, it there someone that think it's not a message to give to next generations?
Dude, im 20, I grew up in games of the first Xbox and the 360 generation. Last year I finished this game and if I took the dated gameplay aside, it's one of the greatest games ever made. It also touched me (not in a perverted way but in a spiritual way) like it marked alot of people.
Honestly, im for a action RPG remake on the PS4, for futures generations.
And thanks for your analyst, it's reallly help me more to understand the ecological message of the game.
Speaking of ecological, do you know this movie Princess Mononoke.
Princess Mononoke, in my opinion, is one of the Best movie ever made by Myiazaky (sorry tor grammar, i 've no time for googling now) . If you like it, i suggest TO take a look TO Nausicaa and the valley of the Wind, same author
I played this when I was 20. That was 18 years ago. I know exactly what you mean. It took me forever to beat.
I remember my total hours on this game were unheard of at the time. I remember this ending and the first time I saw it. I got the chills. It was everything I wanted and waited for in the end. I touched me. It still does. It takes me back.
LaPergue Zio be happy, they will make a remake
At least you could relive it again with the remake next year.
This ending makes me tear up.
You not the only one to me when I see the Lifestream spout of the plant to help fuel holy it like Areith is say to Sepithroth METEOR YOU WANT TO DESTROY THIS PLANET I DON'T THINK SO FEEL THE WRAITH OF THE ANCIENTS FEEL THE POWER OF THE ULTIMATE WHITE MAGIC HOLY
First game that got me emotional as fuck.
Isn't the place Nanaki stopped at the end the same place that Zack died?
Yes.
Close
I finished this long story,but i must say,the game was masterpiece. Thanks square,this game was much better than much games in now ;-) Story,gameplay,open world(in 1997 woooow).
10/10
1:18 Tifa's theme
1:54 Cloud's theme merging with Tifa's. Beautiful mashup...
Whats sad is that Aeris purposefully sacrificed herself to save everyone. Best story in a video game of all time.
I can't wait to see this ending again in the remake!
Edit: Well my comment aged like milk...
Shut the fuck up and take my damn money
Me too, I'm also curious about how they will do it differently. Back in 1997 we let a lot of shit slide due the the system limitations.
I can't wait for the music in this scene. I have always adored the part when the Lifestream makes its appearance and was deeply disappointed when I heard the London Symphony Orcherster's interpretation of it, I so hope they don't butcher it in the remake.
This was also back in the day when they were really testing CG and was not quite familiar with it yet. That is why FF VIII and IX have much more advanced cinematics compared to FF VII.
Lol.
Final Fantasy VII is the best game ever made! :')
by fAR
6:33 this scene, this scene right here emotionally kills me with the music. It's the most heroic and elegant music.
Me = ego
It's amazing how after so many years of playing this I still get emotional when I see the lifestream coming out. This game will always remain as my favorite for how great the music just mixed with the scene. I hope the remake does this game justice but even if it doesn't I'll always have the original.
Do you know the name of the life steam part at 6:35 it's one of the few songs that get me emotional
I hope they have the balls to do this ending in the remake. It was highly controversial at the time, but most people looking back appreciate the beauty and ambiguity of it, even if we know what happens after due to AC.
It's not controversial or ambiguous if you follow the story. It's a great resolution.
The humans survived. You here the laughter of children at the end
@Aaron Garcia I remember there being a lot of talk about the ending for a while after the game was released. It's left ambiguous as to the fate of humanity. The last we see of the heroes is the blinding flash as lifestream races toward Meteor.
One interpretation of the ending is that humanity did not survive, the backdrop of the green ruins of Midgar shows that the Planet lives on with or without humanity, and the sound of children's laughter could represent that humanity is a memory of the Planet not to be forgotten.
It's a great ending, and the ambiguity is part of what makes it great. It was made intentionally so so that you could come to your own conclusions.
@@Torriadore
keep in mind though: with the sound quality the way it was at the time it was not clear that there even WAS children's laughter in the background, I only noticed it when i looked up the video several years later so it was a whole lot more ambiguous than it seems in hindsight
@@Torriadorei thing it was a bad ending this ending was shown in the remaked and retconned this as non cannon
Flower girl saves the day..
FFXV will never come close to this..
Of course it can't! How can you compare an absolute masterpiece with an Early Access title that wasn't even complete until 3 years later WITH DLC?
If you mean by endings, I think it does come close in fairness.
@@NameNotNeeded Ah yes. A photo of cupnoodles to remember your dearly departed. such a heart-wrenching masterpiece.
Aerith really a pulled an "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" on Sephiroth/Jenova.
I cry ever time the life stream comes
almost as much as when Yuna whistles at the sea.
Michael Carter I quit playing ffx immediately after the scene where tidus was screaming with yuna.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha HA
It was a stupid fucking scene.
Me too.
8:35 SO sad yet happy... They REALLY need to add this song to the Distant Worlds orchestral performances. Its so beautiful.
I'm so glad that Advent Children happened. Imagine they never showed us what happened after the earth was saved.
Its Gia, not earth
@@draco_zs8668 Gaia, and AC, IMO, had a terrible plot, nonsensical even. Just to get Sephiroth back, again. He's died, what, 3 different times now? Meanwhile, Aerith over here just like, "am I a joke to you?"
@Seth Killian THIS. Man, I'm glad other people can see AC for what it really is, cringey fan service with a terrible plot. But hey, it was pretty for it's time. I've read better post FFVII stories on fanfiction.net and Ao3.
I dread the day the Remake trilogy hits this point in the story (if this does end up happening). I will cry 100% and that being said I borderline never cry over entertainment.
so. aerith can't avoid death .
she did it!! even in life stream. RIP
6:35 to 8:41 may be the best video game music ever...this and adelhyde castle from wild arms
One of the best endings to any game ever done. Everything is done so subtly instead of the typical "and they lived happily ever after" thing. Absolutely beautiful
Aeris 😭
ItsGraziaGor *Aerith
Lol for all the people who said Crisi Core is better...this is FF7 far superior than its prequel and sequel its untouchable 4, 6, 7 and 9 will be the greatest FF games IMO....and for all you people who have just started playing FF games when FF12 came then go play these games and learn the importance of plot/story and character development and i agree that these titles w/c i mentioned lacks the department in terms of graphics and OST but i can enjoy a game w/o those.
Dude... 9 sucked
lacked OST? .... oh my...I don't know what to say
perhaps not...what i said is their main theme like FFXIII (eyes on me) FFVII CC (Why) etc..
4,7,and 10 !
i dont get how can you missed out the 8th series, even till today, the 1998 game's cut scene's animation are still competent to some ps3/4 games.
Who's here after finishing FF7 Remake and noticed that the ending of the OG is the opening of the Remake?
I noticed that too
Best ending ever. So symbolic how Aeris's face is the first and last thing you see in game.
And she didn't need to pretend to be somebody else in order to achieve it or question herself or her role
Ppl are saying that her face at the end is the beginning of the remake or the other way around. Its wrong even the locations are different. Herr aeris is in the lifestream seeing her face at the end saving the planet. And in remake opening she just stares at the broken pipe where mako comes out with the same face. Its quiet sifferemt
6:32
When the lifestream started to come out I was in awe. The music was amazing as we zoom out and see the entire planet releasing it's energy to protect itself. It was beautiful but still tense at the same time since at the time we didn't see what happens fully.
It was aeris
@@KamusariHR Aerith's extent was praying to the planet to call holy. The movie states the planet itself had to step in and use the lifestream.
@@ForgottenMemoriesSou aeris definitely had influence the planet to coz that
@@KamusariHR Nah, Planet took matters into it's own hands when it realized Holy was failing. Which is why the original ending was so profound.
If the planet itself was getting involved, what's going to happen to the humans?
@@ForgottenMemoriesSou so why aeris then at the end where she opens her eyes after the meteor landet?
I just remember hearing those kids laugh and thinking, "What do I do now?". Like even at 12 years old I knew the experience I just had was something truly amazing that I would never forget. 22 years later and I STILL get teary eyed watching this.
1. No. The laughing children at the very end are supposed to clue you in on that. After a thousand years of rape and abuse, the Planet gives humanity another chance.
Also, there are spin-offs to the original FF7 that come after it in the timeline.
2. I don't think it's ever mentioned that Red XIII is the last of his kind, we just never see any others. Or maybe he had cubs with the power of science!
It's Arieth uses her final ultimate save the planet!
Aeris, the first character you see in the game and also the last...
She is the true heroine. Cloud and Co. couldn't have done much with our her, apart watching Meteor who destroys the planet...
i love book end endings btw have you checked out this crazy yet interesting theory on aerith the theory is she traveled to the past
Tifa says "yeah, let's go meet her"
Tifa thinks, "oh for goodness sake Cloud"
Not quite, Matthew Norris, but your imagination is fascinating lol
exalius it's implied so heavily they may as well have made it a cutscene
Do you really think after all her nervousness about everything and her general personality as a whole, that she really fucked him even though all you see is Tifa leaning on Cloud? There's a reason why I said his imagination was fascinating and that's because you're both using your imagination, not what was actually displayed. You can imagine it if you like, that's the fun of it, but it's never been confirmed. That's like assuming Cloud banged whoever he went on the date with because there was a black screen and a pause (and I mean, you can imagine that if you want, but again, that's imagination).
@@mbn89 that's an assumption, if you romanced Tifa, you can ASSUME they had sex in that scene. Personally, I think Cloud loves Aeris, and they will be together in their Promised Land, he practically says that during the ending. "I think I can meet her there."
final fantasy 7 is the best ^^v
finally finished this game after six months. God, longest game I've ever played.
Rose Pawn great game tho
I finished it in a week... I'm not bragging, now I really feel like I have no life
Lol me too. Best rpg ive played along with p5, chrono trigger, lunar 2 and earthbound
Took me 4 years
I did it in a week and a half just now
Final Fantasy VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII. They are all good. (Well... XII and XIII in their own manner)
But there's difference between FAVORITE and BEST.
In philosophy best are III, VII and X.
In Story - XII
In feelings - VIII and XIII
Each has his own favorite Final Fantasy. Mine is III and XIII. But i like XIII more.
Whoa! A last-minute saving by Aerith as lifestream... I expected it was going worst.
I was 15. I remember experiencing this ending for the very first time. I was beyond blown away. The music gave me the chills and it gripped my soul. After the triumphant climax of music, I remember seeing Aeris and how everything came around full circle... I paused...and I said to myself,
"there will never be anything like this..."
And still to this day, nothing even close...
Excellent comment and I felt the same when I played this as 10 years old in 1998. Still the only game that always makes me feel so much. I love the music...
I was 13 in 1998 and still haven't found a game so gripping and next gen for the time being. Was my first multi CD adventure.
The expanded universe to the main game of Final Fantasy 7, mainly advent children and Dirge of Cerberus which were very mediocre titles obviously to cash in on the name of a much better game. Advent Children created the now accepted character of emo Cloud, even though in the original game he wasn't. Also the expanded stuff feels heartless, like noone really cared about the product unlike FF7 which was all heart and really a beautiful game.
This still makes me cry T_T... with the gorgeous music it just gives the feels. Still the greatest game of all time!
Even more than 10 years later, I always cry when I see Aerith... Ahe lifestrem gives me goosepumps. Awesome ending!
When Part 3 of the remake recreates this epic part, it's gonna be lit.
I dislike the expanded universe because they're inferior products using the guise of a much better game. They don't stop me loving the original by any means. They were wasted potential. Sequels can be good, in some rare cases the sequels are greater than their original. I don't feel that's the case with any of the Final Fantasy 7 material.
Sorry everyone, but I loved FF7, I loved Advent Children Complete, I loved Crisis Core, I even liked Before Crisis. I really like "on the way to a smile" and "the maiden who travels the planet" I think it's better for none of the spin offs to be better than the actual game because those are just to prep for the main event. Like the appetizers for the main course, or course it won't be better. I still think Crisis core is the best game for PSP though.
I can play through this game and beat it over and over and over, and the magic is still there. Truly one of the best games i've ever played and one of the best of all time.
Thanks for this. I just beat this about 20 mins ago.. very buggy on the PC version and it froze when loading one of these videos.
Good to see what the ending was. Kinda disappointing tho, I had passed up on quite a few things because I wasn't strong enough to do it.. so I missed out on a lot. Also I was still waiting to use Yuffie's and Red's final limit.. but I never got the chance. Game ended before I could.
Overall, good game, but.. I feel like the last 25% of the game was cut short.
I think Dirge of Cerberus was good too. The concept of Omega weapon was cool. I think a FF7 remake is inevitable. Just a matter of when, and still we need to know what happened to Genesis.
They said they won't make a remake of Final Fantasy VII until they make a Final Fantasy game that reaches or exceeds the sales and quality of FFVII
I herd that, but it doesn't matter. There is too much money with a remake. I guarantee, they WILL remake it.
In the end it's all about the money.
Google it. Inside sources say they are remaking it. Most likely for PS4... that and FFXV will be the sole reasons I buy that system :)
Sweeeet
I always cry when seeing and hearing this. 😭
I loved the open-end interpretation you could give to this ending before all the spin-offs.
NGL i was shock when I learn it was actually Aerith that save the planet
Meteor: "Wait why do I hear boss music?
*Two Winged Devil starts*
Aeris uses Greatest Gospel
What the fuck all those people crying for ff6 being the best one, you just make me laugh. They are 2 awesome games, but FF7 .. cmon how can you compare any other FF with this one?...
+Gilles Pichetti Because FF 6 is better. It _is_ that simple. And I actually love FF 7 but I can't argue with quality.
lol.
+༼ つ◕ω◕ ༽つ Wise Sage Doge Sure. Best positive reviews = FF7. Best reviews of players = FF7. Best sells= FF7. More number of players = FF7. Remake on the way = FF7. The numbers don´t lie. FF7 is the best FF, is a fact.
SasukeHOA Cringe inducing fanboyism lmao
+SasukeHOA Best reviews of players = FF7. Best sells= FF7. More number of players = FF7. Remake on the way = FF7.
All of those are influenced by nostalgia, FF VII was the first one launched in europe, it was a revolution in his time, thanks to that it is that famous.
And no, i'm not saying that FF6 is better that 7, that's subjetive.
And that scene where aerith is opening her eyes is the start of FF7 remake.
Best final fantasy by far !!!!!
What the hell i hace todo do un the ending when there are just stars and nothing happens... I've been waiting like 10 minutes!
DoomKiller Ext There's nothing there.
el final mas hermozo de final fantasy😍🌷 al final aeries ayudo con la corriente vital...fue hermozo verla 🌹
Así es
Cloud: "......I think I'm beginning to understand.
Tifa: "What?"
Cloud: "An answer from the Planet...The Promised Land.. I think I can meet her.. there."
Tifa: "Yea, lets go meet her."
Square Enix... You have ONE job....
They better not F**k it up!
Here after beating the remake trying to figure out WTF is going on LOL
The remake only covers like the first 6 hours of a 40+ hour game story man....
its like watching a movie from the 20s. the movements, the sound, the body language, the lack of speech, and the feeling that what is being broadcast is really trying its best in a primitive way. its funny how the birth of modern films and the birth of modern games emulated one another in this way. hell, that is also like the birth of mankind.
Sephiroth: "Soon the girl will become part of the Planet's energy"... 8:36 Aerith in the lifestream
i hope the remake make 10 x times best >.
he loved you, cloud
unless your attraction was stronger, issues
Simply beautiful.
So everyone's dead by the end ?
Yes probably, the ghostly laughter of the children seems to imply humans came to an end. Also cloud says he finally understands and can meet aerith in the lifestream, soo how other way to get there
I loved final fantasy 7. It's by far one of my favorites. But the ending is terrible; they could of done sooo much more with it! Bad ending to such an amazing gaming experience
*could have
It is supposed to symbolize that life existed after the world was almost destroyed.
Am I the only one disappointed by this ending?
u wanted the planet to be destroyed ?
No, I mean they could have done a much better cinematic.
I could barely tell if the planet was saved, because everything was saturated with light beams and stuff. If it wasn't for the "300 years later" after the credits, I would have thought everyone died.
At least they could have shown the planet after it was saved.
And why the hell did the highwind just dive into the crater?
How did they all get in before being crushed?
How did the "emergency" switch save everyone?
i let someone else answer becuz i don't know all i know is during the game we heard of the lifestream and seeing the fate she as their was no doubt it was going to save the planet
Yeah, but they could have done MUCH better.
i agree
And then there was geostigma...lol
AERIS. I grew up with Aeris so that's what it is to me. :D
'Holy', my friend, is one of the most crazy-pwnage spells you can cast in the game, I think only one character could learn it because it's so beast, but I might be wrong about that part...
Suffice to say though, that it's a pretty powerful magic slap that'll send your foe flying for quite a while lol
ruined !!
shit i almost cried. i hope we also have a lifestream here on earth,
FF 7 is one of those rare games you play that never leaves you and has you going back to play it over and over just to see the characters again. I'm not a big RPG type, hell I'm not even that big of a video game player anymore, but every once in a while I'll break this game out and play it through just for the sheer pleasure it gives me to do so. The best FF game ever made imo and one of the best video games of all time imo.
Best game in franchise fuck it
The music in this video is brilliant. The ending of the game is brilliant. The whole game is brilliant. In my opinion, this ending is the best ending any game have ever had. The whole game; perfect. Just perfect.
and in the end . . . aerith saves the day
I came to see Aerith’s eyes. They say the new ff7R the beginning is the ending of the old ff7.
really good ending :)
my friend was over here about a week ago, and he showed the ending to me after he beat all sephiroth forms :P
well, after watching this, looks like im going to be digging out the ol ps2 and dust off disc 1 and start the adventure all over..... might as well write off about 40 hours of my life to ff7
No, it will continue at the last save point you saved at, although i think if i remember there is one save point in the crater that i think is impossible to get out from...
oh god, the entire planet is a hanzo main
thousands of them
The magic of the 90's video game era will forever be missed. I wouldn't change or want to remake one damn thing in this game, at the time we might have wished away it's imperfections, but now they are just as precious to me as the qualities of the game itself :)
I miss my childhood so much