Simple explanation to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Ending

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2024
  • To reiterate before some people get mad, this is just one explanation that exists among the hundreds of theories floating around. It's all in good fun. Theorizing is all we got until the next 4-5 years lmao
    TLDR: Sephiroth plans to utilize the Reunion which is a merger of worlds. He is merging every timeline in existence to the remake timeline so that there will only be one single timeline in the ff7 universe. This is so that it doesn't matter if he lost in the OG or in other timelines, because this is the only one that will matter so winning in remake will mean an absolute victory. And a loss will be an absolute loss.
    To guaranteed his win, he needs to cast meteour and he needs cloud to deliver him the black materia to him at the northern crater which is why he is manipulating cloud so hard. He needs to get rid of holy and we see he has been doing that throughout the entire game, but got outplayed as aerith managed to sneak one into the remake's timeline. He acknowledges this when he sees cloud with the white materia in the remake timeline, "that doesn't belong here." Now that his plan to stop holy is ruined, he has to figure out how to deal with it.
    The rainbow light signifies some time shenanigans happening. Zack's purpose is to show this plot device. Cloud collided swords with sephiroth when he tries to kill Aerith and rainbow light came out. Tifa saw a version of aerith with blood and one without, so there most likely is an Aerith that 'lived' in some other timeline. Why is this important? Because when reunion happens, if all timeline is merging into one then that alive aerith will then make her way back into remake's timeline, just like Zack. How they going to explain multiple instances of characters post merge? Maybe they're all just dead in the other timelines is my guess since we see Zack fated to get gunned down by Shinra no matter which route he chooses except the one where sephiroth put him in the lifestream.
    Or maybe some crackpot insane styled plot twist is coming our way, who knows. This is just the way I interpreted the ending when I finished the game. Either way it goes, most of the game has been pretty damn similiar to the OG.
    #finalfantasy7rebirth #ff7rebirthending #finalfantasy7endingexplained
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  • @Msflammer
    @Msflammer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

    As much as I enjoy a 40-minute convoluted and far-fetched explanation of the ending, this is probably the best one-plain, simple, and grounded in what we actually see happening.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Everyone else is wrong this is the only logical explanation it’s obvious

  • @kingofgames1986
    @kingofgames1986 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I swear you simplified it so perfectly it makes sense. It's not so convoluted like everyone else is making it out to be

  • @metastase895
    @metastase895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    I have a simpler explanation. Elena's seat salt ice cream is a clear indication of Donald summon and he will use the Kingdom Key to unlock Zack inside Cloud's heart.

    • @misterfevillord1588
      @misterfevillord1588 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That sounds like nomura

    • @OgtonyB88
      @OgtonyB88 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I saw the ice cream and instantly thought of Sea salt ice cream 😂😂

    • @Coolfront
      @Coolfront 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This 😂

  • @RenKorrum
    @RenKorrum 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Ah yes, a fellow Occam's Razor enjoyer.

  • @mingQWERTY
    @mingQWERTY 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Great video. I completely agree with the idea that the multiverse thing doesn't matter since like you said, the Reunion will merge everything together and what happens at the end of part 3 will be it. Sephiroth won't be able to come back and FF7 can be put to rest

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This, and also I think the multiverse stuff is a way to flesh out what the lifestream is and is capable of. It expands on the power of memories and feelings, which is what the lifestream has always been since the original. A key figure goes one way, dies, returns to lifestream, the lifestream uses this new information to go a different path. I think you can see that with basically Zack's whole arc. They explained this in some more cryptic manner in the original with Sephiroth traveling through the lifestream, and the "multiverse" stuff is how they're showing that power in the Remake.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not really... FF7 has made them too much money.... one day another FF7 spinoff or something we'll see again. They even mentioned continuing it in an interview around 2019

    • @mingQWERTY
      @mingQWERTY 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@zacatkinson3926Maybe we get a Dirge of Cerberus remake or something. I don't think they'll touch the main storyline with Shinra & Sephiroth again. They could make an AC game or DLC but that's probably it. Of course they won't fully abandon the compilation, but I think the main storyline is going to be ended. Anything that isn't a DoC remake or AC game is not going to give SE much money

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mingQWERTY it might we’ll see

    • @xmrschonxlol5148
      @xmrschonxlol5148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zacatkinson3926they made it out of heart and love and u can see and feel it
      And the by continuation in the interview meant trilogy and spinoffs like crisis core remake or ever crisis

  • @awakenow7147
    @awakenow7147 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Subbed. This is the only thing that makes sense, and you're the only one to explain it as simply as possible.

  • @xKenB24x
    @xKenB24x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I like your explanation. Good stuff, smart summarized and really well put

  • @clebcalb6871
    @clebcalb6871 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Concise but well-reasoned and didn’t try to add complexity just to make the theorist seem smarter. I liked this a lot!

  • @toychristopher
    @toychristopher 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    There is really no reason to make it way more complex than it is.

    • @metastase895
      @metastase895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The devs weren't listening.

    • @EustaceCerviart
      @EustaceCerviart 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Sephiroth pretty much explains word for word his Plan like, hey mate, I'm merging dying timelines, their suffering gives me strength and when only one lasts I'll be eternal and spread

    • @Luftgitarrenprofi
      @Luftgitarrenprofi หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​​​@@EustaceCerviart And that sentence is begging the question on more fronts than it has words.
      Why are timelines dying? How are they dying? Where did Sephiroth gain the ability to travel through timelines? Where are all the other Sephiroths? How does suffering provide Sephiroth with more power? Why would only one remaining timeline give him the ultimate power? Why can Aerith travel timelines or at least, how is she aware? How do timelines work to begin with?
      And that's just a fraction of the swiss cheese that is FF7R's plot.
      We have to make so many assumptions with unexplained concepts and blurred transitions from material to metaphysical realms that the story ends up having as many interpretations as there are viewers.

    • @Nanobot1989
      @Nanobot1989 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@EustaceCerviartseriously. I realize there’s things we don’t know but there’s so much that’s literally directly told to us.

  • @Jd-88
    @Jd-88 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like this thought line. It is not overcomplicated, but many people will be discussing/speculating/theorising until part three.
    After the o.g. i never thought I would still be playing FF7 (rebirth) at the age of 57! The devs have done so well with Remake and Rebirth, and I can't wait for Reunion.

  • @andrewking1173
    @andrewking1173 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for explaining it so simply and clearly!! Makes alot of sense!

  • @7upac
    @7upac หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I like this. My brains been going in so many directions trying to pull on every minor thread of evidence and analyzing super minor details. It’s fun, and I think we want square to also have these crazy theories put on display because it shows they love it like we do, but it’s probably going to be like you said: the games going to be exactly what it’s told us, no big twists or shocking changes

  • @Elwood128
    @Elwood128 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for being the only TH-camr to see the obvious, it's really that simple but nerds want to convolute everything so they can make 20 more theories while we wait for part 3.

  • @Wedjwants
    @Wedjwants หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant summary, nice one 😊

  • @luitsatrap
    @luitsatrap หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow this makes A LOT of sense. Nice video!

  • @telltellyn
    @telltellyn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Simple theories are usually best theories. I was hoping for a video like this after 7R when everyone going on about there being multiple Sephiroths from OG and AC and Aerith time travelling from the future, etc. Much simpler answer was just that they both had visions of the future via the Lifestream, which we saw established in 7R. But that simple answer was missed in all the crazy theorizing.

  • @zacatkinson3926
    @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Aerith is working with the planet to outsmart sephiroth and win/ survive, she matermiding something and thats why she gave red and marlene the knowledge she knew Zack would likely meet up with Marlene and Marlene told Zack which is what Aerith was planning

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I mostly agree with you, but I'm not entirely sure how much is truly "mastermind" levels. I have seen theories where people elevate Aerith up to god levels, and I don't think she is that at all. She's doing her best, but it's more of a scrappy job than some masterful plan. I think a lot of her "big plays" are better credited to the lifestream than Aerith, though I think there are memories of other Aeriths feeding the lifestream information. So in a way there's some type of mastermind going on, but I don't think Aerith has all or even most of the information at any time, she's still responding to bits and pieces she gets here and there.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Kanriel I guess, but my point is if she can transfer knowledge to Marlene and Red and literally know which Aerith needs to show up to help Cloud and literally shows up through time and space with the sephy fight means she's more powerful than we think or at least helped.

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zacatkinson3926 She's certainly more powerful than the crew knows of, but I'm not sure how much information she's really getting access to, and if she knows as much as people seem to think. Or maybe, I think she only has access to quote so much information while she's dead and in the lifestream. She only gets/gives bits and pieces otherwise. And we don't know just how much control she has over things. It feels like she may have got Zack to the right timeline, but we don't know how much of that is Aerith and how much is lifestream itself. But other than that, we've seen Seph show more ability to manipulate worlds than Aerith. So I just disagree with the implication there's some "omniAerith" or "ultimate Aerith", we haven't seen her show that yet. And we also still know Seph is playing around, he hasn't shown just how much control he has in there yet, he's still toying with Cloud.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Kanriel i just think we’re underestimating aerith, she knows what happening before it dies and Zack thinks she may control the whispers, that was a small but important point

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@zacatkinson3926 Zack senses her presence, so the whispers may be listening to her in that scenario, and her influence is winning out. But we don't know if she has full control or just got a temporary pass for the whispers to follow her. Because those "same" whispers also seem to work against Cloud and company, and maybe that's because Aerith didn't want them to show up while she was praying...seems a bit odd for that to be the case.

  • @jasonavery
    @jasonavery หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think you’re 100% right. It makes the most sense out of all the videos I’ve seen. Plus, it was the original intention of the OG FFVII game to have Aerith come back to life at the end, but due to time constraints and money, they didn’t do that. So, having this timeline merge theory where she’s alive again to help in the final battle makes a lot of sense.

  • @UnexpectedAmy
    @UnexpectedAmy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice, appreciate a quick and logical outlook!

  • @CaptainFalchion
    @CaptainFalchion หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love your explanation. A very legit theory in my eyes

  • @SymptomSerpico
    @SymptomSerpico 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This worked well. Thank you!

  • @gothochblandat8031
    @gothochblandat8031 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Im all for the multiverse. I felt really compelled by the changes. And amazing visuals of rebirth ending made me cry for over 5hrs. What a ride. ❤️

  • @sebastianvargas8841
    @sebastianvargas8841 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Best vid on this ive seen so far

  • @eji
    @eji หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THANK YOU. Fuckin' Occam's Razor, seriously. People making Jenova Aerith theories and all that just make me scratch my head, people just really wanna complicate the hell out of it, lol

  • @ryannash3756
    @ryannash3756 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    There are just too many signs that Aerith will survive. Marlene telling Zack that only Cloud can save Aerith. Sephiroth saying 7 seconds etc, and Zack's last words to Cloud asking him to save her AFTER she had died.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They have no where to go within the story but save aerith and all of them really. Maybe even sonon will be saved

  • @richizzle39
    @richizzle39 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think the fact that Sephiroth and Lifestream Aeirth know the timeline means this game is at the very least a spiritual sequel to the OG. You can argue they are playing out at the same time but I would still consider it a sequel seeing as without the OG we don’t get the remakes new events.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s a sequel the original events already happened

  • @Drahko12
    @Drahko12 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the best theory and might hold water. Simple and to the point. If true it will be cool and can’t wait for what’s coming on part 3

  • @cloudtyr
    @cloudtyr 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Great video. I just played through rebirth and beat it a second time. Such an amazing game.

  • @woojin214
    @woojin214 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think Sepiroth found a way to weaponize emotion via lifestream's multiverse. The prime emotion he wants is loss or grief. That's why he's basically started the war between Shinra and Wutai. War happens, meteor happens, multiverse colliding. All that negative emotions will siphon to him achieving godhood. And since the timeline is merged, we got all our heroes to stop him. But I'm guessing they need to return to their respective timeline when it's all over and Aerith as we know will still be dead in the remake timeline.

  • @GodOfAI_
    @GodOfAI_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The trilogy is LITERALLY a sequel to advent children: from the first game you can clearly tell that Aerith and Sephiroth knew what was going to happen in the future and by challenging fate multiple timelines were created so there’s still a chance to see Aerith back in the third game in fact she’s alive in Zack’s timeline.

    • @darthangelus2606
      @darthangelus2606 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      THIS is exactly what I am thinking. The events are repeating themselves for some reason, thinking back of Sephiroth saying that he will never be a memory in AC, I suspect this has to do with him again. Aerith was probably aware of what was going on and also rolled back her journey, this time with all the informations she needed from the previous events. How she could do that? Well time and space don't matter in the lifestream.

    • @KuraodoSutoraifu
      @KuraodoSutoraifu 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Maybe the only way to defeat Sephiroth this time would be for Cloud to sacrifice himself so that Sephiroth dies permanently with him. Remember that Sephiroth values Cloud so much that he wants to join forces with him to defy destiny. He even says “But I will not END. NOR WILL I HAVE YOU END” unless maybe the Clear Materia can somehow erase Sephiroth completely from Cloud’s mind and he won’t have to die.

  • @rskirk22
    @rskirk22 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sometimes the most simple explanation solution is the best answer. I agree with this.

  • @TheRoseLiesDead
    @TheRoseLiesDead 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hahahaha dude this is awesome!! The way you explain it is just so funny and entertaining to me, it feels like trying to explain quantum physics to a five-year-old. I love it haha, thank you for making this!

  • @robertochavez8598
    @robertochavez8598 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just finished playing it and makes a lot of sense of what you just said 👍

  • @morganmandaro531
    @morganmandaro531 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is very well aligned with what I was thinking as well and grounded in what the game gives us. A lot of the other ending explained and theory videos just greatly miss the mark imo. You did it right in 4 minutes lol hell yeah

  • @Keithbryan252
    @Keithbryan252 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I’m curious on the name for Pt.3
    Reclaim?
    Restore?
    Revive?

  • @rsoxboy
    @rsoxboy หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your thoughts pretty much align with mine. Like you need to frame things in a way that fit the context of the story has been given to you so far. The theories floating around about Aerith at the end of Rebirth being a projection or hallucination from Cloud are grounded in our own real world reality, as opposed to fitting in within the world of FF7. But that's the fun of getting lost in these stories - they don't have to follow the rules of our real world every day life.

  • @12duduH
    @12duduH 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You sound exactly how i imagine cloud's voice actor sounds in real life. Thank you.

  • @nah1610
    @nah1610 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This might sound farfetched but hear me out. In FFXV, every alternate timeline exists inside the Lucian Crystal as a "dream" which is explained in the Dawn of the Future. Switch "Lucian Crystal" for "Lifestream" and it fits. There are other worlds in the lifestream and Sephiroth wants to take control of it to erase all of the ones where he loses.

  • @Manudyne
    @Manudyne หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My theory after finishing the game and watching this is that Sephiroth needs Cloud not only to get him the black materia but also to act differently in some crucial events. To me it looked like it was Cloud to kill Aerith and Sephiroth needed to have Cloud do it because when he did it himself in the other timelines it didn't work and he got defeated every time.
    He wants a new timeline where Cloud does everything he says and becomes an "evil Cloud" who can grant Sephy the victory in the end by slowly turning against the others. That's why Cloud seems off in the ending cutscene and he puts the black materia into his sword. Also Barrett seems very suspicious of Cloud and says a very little convincing "Ok we trust you" when Cloud says he knows where Sephy is.
    Aerith knows this and told the others that she was gonna die this way but it was necessary to create the new timeline in which Cloud acts like "a puppet" (Sephy says it before the fight in the temple) who does Sephy's bidding while Aerith and the lifestream are going to try to undermine this attempt from Sephy by tapping in the other timelines to influence other events and getting informations, working under Sephy's radar and basically making it look like he's winning again (which he is from the looks of it). And maybe in the final game the rest of the gang with the help of Aerith from the lifestream are going to fight Cloud to stop him and create their own new timeline in which this last Sephy attempt failed forever.
    It's difficult to explain and I did a bad job probably and I could be totally wrong but I like a theory of an "evil Cloud" who becomes a new villain but correct me if I'm missing something!

    • @juanfernandorojas3194
      @juanfernandorojas3194 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's a good one, I have a question, didn't we defeated fate/destiny/whispers in the final boss of remake? I thought because of that we wouldn't see those whispers again and we could save Aerith for real this time.. so what was the point?

    • @Manudyne
      @Manudyne หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@juanfernandorojas3194 I think the point was that both us and Sephiroth needed to overpower the arbiters to change both parties fates.
      We want them defeated so we can change the story and save Aerith meanwhile Sephy wants to use them as a tool to stop us and seal his new destiny, where he can finally win.
      Basically the arbiters are neutral, but now half of them are white (the ones that have been brought to our side) and half is black (the ones Sephy is controlling) and whoever has more willpower and strenght of spirit will win in the end (us of course and maybe Zack will also come back!)

  • @deathmastersful
    @deathmastersful 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I love this theory, because it kinda mean the one I have about the remake Sephiroth.
    The remake sephiroth is advent children who was able to more or less break away from the will of Jenova (that part is convoluted).
    It would explain why the whispers got involved, why Zack was pulled into an alt timeline and how sephiroth has been able to influence cloud so much (without Zack in the livestream guiding cloud sephiroth has a stronger influence on him).
    It would also explain why Aerith dies even after we save her. I think sephiroth wanted her alive. It would mean Aerith wouldn’t be in the livestream to amplify holy like she did before, Aerith herself kind of altered the timeline and made sure she would die. It would explain why the whispers were holding cloud back even when he was trying to save Aerith.

    • @OrangeJuicePapi
      @OrangeJuicePapi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @toulor895When you fight him you hear the exact same music played when he stabs you and lifts you as the movie. The same music plays when cloud gets stabbed at the end of advent children

    • @pandaeyez
      @pandaeyez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@OrangeJuicePapi the music could be just a reference, not necessarily an outright confirmation of it being the same Sephiroth.
      I for one think you are both wrong, this is neither. This Sephiroth is unrelated to other media. The game is remaking the original and adapting elements from the compilation but stops there. It is its own separate thing.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pandaeyezlol no

  • @jobian0710
    @jobian0710 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think your theory is very accurate.

  • @phrofile3613
    @phrofile3613 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Reunion. When worlds merge where at least in one of those world some characters live/survive. Example zack aerith jessie biggs wedge glenn and so on. When they merge they will all be alive in one singular timeline. Reunite again. Thus. Reunion. Goddammnnnnn 😱

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was obvious before rebirth was out

    • @KuraodoSutoraifu
      @KuraodoSutoraifu 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Final Fantasy VII Reunite/Reunited

  • @balmandblade
    @balmandblade 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think a lot of this makes sense. Curious what you think though, as I remember from the OG that it isn’t Holy which stops meteor ultimately - it tries but isn’t enough. Rather it is the lifestream - presumably guided by Aerith - which is able to overcome meteor.
    And it appears in the game as if it’s Sephiroth’s whisperers that help Cloud get to Aerith? Would that mean Sephiroth’s only path to victory is where Aerith lives and can’t become powerful in the lifestream? I know this is venturing into crackpot theory territory, but it’d be an interesting twist if Seph realized his biggest mistake was killing Aerith.

  • @boulevardtrashxx
    @boulevardtrashxx 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is exactly what I took from the ending and I hope it doesn't get too confusing or to cute
    I like a suprise but I want square to be careful

  • @Sibanicul
    @Sibanicul หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I hope it goes the way you say. It seems the most reasonable way to get out of all this multiverse craziness

  • @Qarach_Ice
    @Qarach_Ice หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Landi Lodge did an excellent breakdown… makes a gang of sense.

  • @darrentan3055
    @darrentan3055 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shortest and clearest explanation.

  • @cloudy_kyu
    @cloudy_kyu หลายเดือนก่อน

    this definitely seems like a sensible theory! tho what I'm wondering is, if a true Reunion would really mean people like Zack and Aerith surviving.
    Especially in Aerith's case, since at the end of orginal FF7 she's the one who manages to stop meteor because she is in the lifestream. Would her surviving mean Sephiroth wins because meteor can't be stopped?
    another interesting thing we can look forward to is how and when the reunion will happen. in the og the jenova reunion happens when Cloud reaches Sephiroth in the north crater. I wonder if, when and how the reunion of timelines will happen in part 3...

  • @priscilabee583
    @priscilabee583 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yes, Sephiroth lost on OG, so Sephiroth needs an alternative timeline to go on.

  • @olibob203
    @olibob203 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This hopefully this closes the Advent children problem

  • @mrskye08
    @mrskye08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's funny because sephiroth himself said the rules: 1) when fate is breached a new world is created and 2) no matter how persistent, that created world will get destroyed.
    It means that it's his fate to get defeated and defying it will just create another timeline which will eventually get destroyed. There's no telling that the merging of worlds in rebirth is final, because sephiroth himself was able to separate zack from the merging. It means timelines can still be created when fates are defied, so sephiroth trying to defy his defeat will just do the same.
    I would also like to emphasize one possible plot hole in what you said: if alive aerith and zack will fully merge with remake timeline and become permanently alive, it means it's not necessary to place the non-empty holy in the remake timeline because the non-empty holy will just blend with the remake timeline anyway.
    From my understanding, even if merged, the timeline where aerith lived will still vanish in due time. I'm guessing she persisted until the end of advent children.

  • @dreamphoenix
    @dreamphoenix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great analysis. Thank you.

  • @comedygold6249
    @comedygold6249 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aerith in remake lived and was saved, but the timeline reunion pulled the effect of aerith's death even without the cause, sorta like king crimson

  • @Bacbi
    @Bacbi หลายเดือนก่อน

    I still don't really get how any of this is supposed to work, I presume the Areith who gives Cloud the white materia is in the timeline where you play as Zack and the world is ending (I'm presuming it's the same one even though I know Zack's own timeline splits in 3 by the end). How did she know to give it to Cloud before Sepiroth showed up at the church and if that is the Cloud from the Zack timeline then how did Cloud "Prime" get it? Not complaining about the video, this was good, simple and clean.

  • @bjornironsides6474
    @bjornironsides6474 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Right, the only way to get rid of the possibilities of cloud and aerith stopping him, is to get rid of the timelines into one and win. Then he cannot be stopped. Because, apparently, cloud and aerith can exist in all possibilities, while cloud doesn't know this yet. Aerith seems to have figured it out. But why did square add this rather than just making it one timeline that you must beat Sephiroth? I don't know, so you can see zack and play as aerith after death is the only reason I can think of... and to keep us guessing for a new experience. I definitely agree that all timelines will merge and the whole crew will be able to oppose Sephiroth. The dude is already a god with all these abilities! What more does he want? lol

  • @distantmind8465
    @distantmind8465 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When Cloud deflected Sephiroth from Aerith, the full Holy materia fell. This was in original time line. Then it switched to a branch where she really DID die. Skip to the end. Cloud has and EMPTY Holy materia(like how zacks line is), and sees that the party he is with exists in another split(the sky at the end). Cloud is not sad because he KNOWS Aerith is not dead in the OG timeline. This is as much as i can really confirm to myself as anything else(Zack, reunion, importance of the current timeline etc.) is just confusing.

  • @rafael82x
    @rafael82x หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s a cool theory 😎👍

  • @salamanda550
    @salamanda550 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The way Sephiroth was talking at the end of the game, I was just begging for him to just shout "Time Will Compress!"

    • @sixpathsrequiem
      @sixpathsrequiem หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like Ultimecia?

    • @salamanda550
      @salamanda550 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sixpathsrequiem literally. Feels like they could have 100 percent referenced her with a line at the end and it's have made complete sense XD

  • @Coolfront
    @Coolfront 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bleh what is this bland lettuce you’ve offered me? I’ll be chewing on my sugar-loaded crackpot for the next 4-5 years thank you very much 😂😂

  • @olgakuranova7986
    @olgakuranova7986 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Actually even Sephiroth losing isn't that bad for him - he would 'never be a memory' in a hundred other ways. There's nothing stopping him from coming back as long as Cloud exists.

    • @Guy9998
      @Guy9998 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's why I wonder if Cloud's going to die.

  • @DragonQuarter
    @DragonQuarter หลายเดือนก่อน

    You mention that when all timelines merge, Zack and Aerith will remain alive. Why is that, if there are timelines where they don't survive? How does them survivng certain timelines override the others?

    • @NoirTenshin
      @NoirTenshin หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine having 3 boxes. 1 with the crew, 1 with Zack, 1 with Aerith. Now drop everything from those boxes into 1 box, leave the rest empty. Now destroy empty boxes.
      You are left with 1 box, whole crew + Sephiroth.
      If Sepiroth wins, game over. If crew wins, the world is "free" to go multiverse again.

  • @elfsong713
    @elfsong713 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I really want to believe that there is a timeline where Aerith lives, and there is a lot of evidence pointing to this being the case, but I also don't want to seem as delusional as Cloud is right now. 😆

  • @benjaminsisko4519
    @benjaminsisko4519 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is my thinking as well, we see Cloud stop Sephiroth and save Aerith in 1 of the time lines, We see Zack in the church at the end in another. Cloud (having traveled through the Multiverse can still see and interact with Aerith and Zack and fight Sephiroth. So when the world merge into one I see both Characters potentially being resurrected.
    They need to Save the planet and forge a better ending than the 1 we saw in the OG FF7 where mankind was wiped out.

  • @Lykon
    @Lykon หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sephiroth wants to terminate the timelines because every time it happens it creates suffering and that changes the lifestream

  • @leighg9o
    @leighg9o หลายเดือนก่อน

    Reunion of all jenovas too. Jenova reunion is likely the last boss lol

  • @aggiel8775
    @aggiel8775 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    best video yet, simple , thank you! I agree with you!

  • @CaladriusTV
    @CaladriusTV หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where does the secret ending of Dirge of Cerberus tie into all this

  • @vee5473
    @vee5473 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for breaking that down. So much confusion at the end!

  • @Metal464Head
    @Metal464Head หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder one thing. In the scene where Cloud do shopping with Aerith, why Aerith act so strange? She seems over excited and reminds me Yuffie. At the very begining of the scene, before Aerith invites Cloud to go outside, we clearly hear a voice saying "Shu shu shu!", which is what Yuffie always say.
    Someone remember this or am I going crazy?

    • @KuraodoSutoraifu
      @KuraodoSutoraifu 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Aerith is in a manic state because her world is doomed but chooses to spend her final moments with Cloud. Its got nothing to do with Yuffie she just wants to cherish every moment she has with Cloud which is why she is waking him up because her time is limited. Her goal is also to give him the White Materia for the other Aerith to receive so that she regains the memories that she lost.

  • @HolyJonte
    @HolyJonte 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. Best so far. This, is exactly what I thought and then add that Cloud is broken and only can see Aerith on top of that making the lifestream sequence in the next game being more important, when he will finally see that Aerith is dead and remember the burial in the water.

  • @chavelah
    @chavelah 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    taking what we get as truth is actually incredibly underrated and very smart. thanks

  • @peterhunter8274
    @peterhunter8274 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I pray you are correct…can’t handle Aeriths death for the second time

  • @davidtyler6708
    @davidtyler6708 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video. But I don't think that it will be 4-5 years. I'm thinking, 2-3 years, at least.

    • @espada7997
      @espada7997 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Possibly 2-3 since the devs said the game is about half done.

  • @mettatonneoex
    @mettatonneoex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think the only way Sephiroth wins is when he knows his true origin. Because he likes Cloud a bit much probably because he's the only one to actually challenge his power even as a mere man no wonder he needs him at his side

  • @liztaylor105
    @liztaylor105 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Tho still doesn’t really explain why cloud can still see aeirth? Even tho she died.. to be fair i personally like that his in denial cause thats his whole character. But i could be wrong and probably am:(

  • @luiousy7329
    @luiousy7329 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nomura is on drugs again

  • @Acheron420
    @Acheron420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Saw a theory somewhere that cloud will learn omnislash by each of his counterparts in different timelines coming together to hit Sephiroth

  • @zacatkinson3926
    @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Congrats I've been saying this for forever by now, also their consciousness will merge into one as they seem to have knowledge and " dreams" of their other selves, like what Zack said in the church

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, and I think you can basically explain some of the oddity by having some people be more sensitive to their dreams. Like Marlene has these extra connections because as a child she dreams harder and thinks they're real, and...they sorta are!

  • @Izzy-jj5ev
    @Izzy-jj5ev 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I see it as;
    - all the timelines will merge at some point in the final game
    - but characters that are destined to die will do so
    ---> i.e. biggs and wedge 'survived', but in those timelines they still died, just in another way
    ----------> using that theory, i think aerith will get a 'proper' death, and it will be unexpected in a similar way as bigg's sudden death was, so the audience still get some of the shock value that Aerith's OG death had :)

  • @marbarosi
    @marbarosi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well, the why is important here.
    Why is and does Sephiroth want to merge the timelines? To win in the one all merged. I would argue, this.
    The Ancients-
    Ancients could not beat Jenova. In their efforts they sealed Jenova in multiple hundreds of timelines and had the planets arbiters of fate watch over each, to make sure events of the scattered timelines all play out similarly or the same.
    Broken mirror theory. I would argue though just as Jenova is scattered across all timelines and reality, so is cloud. It think when they all merge, cloud is gonna realise that Jenova feared Cloud. That he was not a puppet but something much much more.
    Aerith pulled a Makaveli (aka 2pac) Sings about it in her music ( one song)
    but faked her death or took political asylum in another timeline. Psuedocide

  • @CharlyZiock
    @CharlyZiock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Poor Zack Efron lol

  • @Lenox188
    @Lenox188 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    All worlds already have been merged, Sephiroth said it, Zack is alive in another world ( prob ours) because Aerith pull him to another world after Seph send him to that one with the meteor, that happens after the stab occurs, the Aerith that is doing it is the same that appears to fight along Cloud and becomes lifestream afterwards. So Aerith is "dead" anyways, her spirit is in lifestream.

    • @Kitth3n
      @Kitth3n 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When does sephy say it?

    • @Lenox188
      @Lenox188 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Kitth3n end of cap 13 and said a lot of times in 14 after Aerith fate

  • @Alassandros
    @Alassandros 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    See, this is why I don't understand why they're using multiverse and time travel when things end up almost the same. Sephiroth cast Meteor in the original and Holy did not stop Meteor in the OG. Aerith in the lifestream stopped Meteor. All Sephiroth had to do was not kill Aerith and he would've won, but instead, what he does is try to kill her so Cloud could save her. Sure, he's harvesting emotions, but it seems pointless to do that when the story is effectively the same.

    • @metastase895
      @metastase895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Making more money isn't pointless. They know it doesn't make sense but they want your money regardless.

    • @Alassandros
      @Alassandros 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@metastase895 Your argument makes little sense. They could make more money by making a better story.

    • @patrykostasz8975
      @patrykostasz8975 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think maybe we are assuming things based on og and misunderstand. It was naver implied in the og compliation that Aerith is stronger within lifestream. It was implied that her ghost prayed to the planet for help and the planet itself used lifestream as a weapon to stop meteor (which is still bad considering lifestream shouldn't be used like that)
      In otwtas it was mentioned both by Aerith and Sephiroth that it will take time but their conciousness will still merge with lifestream which scares them a little.
      Even in the lifestream Aerith was torn between her duties as a Cetra and being able to go back to material world. She even considered a little to create similar remnants as sephiroth but know this is wrong

  • @HDGamerofficial
    @HDGamerofficial 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:51 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @syferz
    @syferz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    With your line of thinking, in the original at the end of the game when you finally beat sephiroth in clouds head, Aerith reaches out to him, then you see Tifa reaching out before she falls, cloud saves her and tells her that he is starting to understand. He says "I can meet her if I go to the promised land" reunion has been changed to mean a reunion of all the timelines, promised land could mean the timeline Zack and her are alive, because 2 years later in advent children, they are together, telling cloud he can't join them yet. 498 years after that, we see red in a world where humans don't exist? So what if they went to the prime timeline and Red stays behind for the Gi?

  • @araiiaraii9249
    @araiiaraii9249 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Its not timelines. Its lifestream using memories. Even simpler.

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      This. Which is a concept from the OG. Everyone is trying to make this like it's MCU but it's much simpler than that. It's not some infinite multiverse.

    • @KajuKajuKatli
      @KajuKajuKatli 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      but the concept of multiple worlds is still there, but like yall said it seems heavily dependent on memories being shared across time. maybe the "alternate timelines" aspect of it comes from the fact that memories can be misremembered/altered? And with sufficient meddling, they can be made true?

    • @Kanriel
      @Kanriel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@KajuKajuKatli There is still multiple worlds to some degree, to what extent we may need part 3 to figure out. But I think there's a limit to how many worlds the lifestream can hold together at once, as the lifestream pulls out of failed worlds (which is why they fail). We're told this when Zack goes to stop Biggs, the lifestream has already left that world, and it is doomed to fail shortly because there is no more lifestream. Without the lifestream, the world dies quick.
      They'll probably expand on this later, but I view the Arbiters of fate as representations of the lifestreams power, and Sephiroth is siphoning that power for his own gain. This may hinder the ability for extra worlds to even exist, which is obviously part of Seph's plan. So I feel we're going to see less ability to have multiple worlds as we go, as Seph is going to take over more and more of the lifestreams power as we go.

    • @pandaeyez
      @pandaeyez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I honestly wish you are right, but Sephiroth is outright spelling it out "when destiny is breached, new worlds are created"._
      And why would there be different stamps? Lifestream just trolling? Not likely.

    • @DigimonVids
      @DigimonVids 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Incorrect

  • @Near456
    @Near456 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do think Zack is still gonna die in the end. everything is gonna be “fixed” and would eventually lead up to advent children/dirge of cerberus.

    • @KuraodoSutoraifu
      @KuraodoSutoraifu 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Things might be different. In the rebirth ultimania there is a concept art of Cloud outside of Aerith’s house and Aerith cooking/doing the dishes. And they are both wearing their Advent Children outfits. Things will lead up to Advent Children maybe but it might be in a happier way than how it was in the original.

  • @danobra
    @danobra หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem here is that you’re ignoring many other things that the game states. Like how the NPC in Cosmo Canyon says that the different worlds happen inside the lifestream. And how Aerith knows she has to die since Remake and is not trying to fight it at all (quite the opposite, she wants Cloud to accept it).
    Also, Sephiroth’s goal is to live forever. It is stated both in Rebirth and Remake quite literally.
    But I think you’re on the right track. Nice video.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She won’t die in the third game

    • @danobra
      @danobra หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zacatkinson3926 you're right. She already did.

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@danobra She wont die at all I mean we already know we have alive versions of them out there

    • @danobra
      @danobra หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zacatkinson3926 if you think there's a multiverse, you should pay more attention to the game

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@danobra There is.. troll

  • @chrissquarefan86
    @chrissquarefan86 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the most sanest theory so far. Of course, there is a lot more to know about the Ancients, the Gi and the Promised Land but in the end the remake trilogy is supposed to end the compilation and give a happy ending (hopefully)

    • @metastase895
      @metastase895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People like you are the reason for sea salt ice cream and FF 7/2 days.

  • @chandler555
    @chandler555 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    yeah i like it. the only concrete thing we have really is the rainbow motif, that one seems undeniable. you take it from there and it feels like alt timeline is the simplest theory

  • @k2d271
    @k2d271 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is more plausible than the dood level 7 explanation, as fun as it is to hear his theorizing 👍

    • @zacatkinson3926
      @zacatkinson3926 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Max is wrong this time unfortunately

    • @metastase895
      @metastase895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fact of the matter is, if he was right I would buy part 3 but he isn't. Rebirth sales can already tell how much worse part 3 will be.

  • @JJ_ON_YOUTUBE
    @JJ_ON_YOUTUBE 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    best explanation ever

  • @Luciano35502
    @Luciano35502 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They just left the ending open ended because it’s not the the ending it’s the middle lol

  • @carlogiovanni
    @carlogiovanni 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You sound like Cody Christian 😝

  • @JM-zt8vq
    @JM-zt8vq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    >im taking everything the game shows us at face value
    that's where you fucked up

  • @CoconutDreamz1
    @CoconutDreamz1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ZACK EFRON LMAO

  • @alistairblaire6001
    @alistairblaire6001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everyone says the third game can’t be called Reunion but it makes the most sense. Not sure what else they would call it.

  • @Chino-Kafu
    @Chino-Kafu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I mean aerith was alive to travel to kingdom hearts. So she's still alive

    • @Sao0011
      @Sao0011 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Then she and Cloud have a baby and they named him *Sora*
      wait…

    • @HolaEZITO
      @HolaEZITO 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lmaoooo

  • @Codewa-xb9lt
    @Codewa-xb9lt 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The story is still the same. They just changed the way it is being told.

  • @nars1288
    @nars1288 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The only thing that confuses me about timelines merging is then wouldn’t that mean there would be two Clouds? I also think that unconscious Cloud would also be a perfect puppet for Sephiroth because that Cloud hasn’t met Tifa again.

    • @KuraodoSutoraifu
      @KuraodoSutoraifu 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not if our Cloud is able to somehow experience two worlds at the same time which is what happens during the end. I think Aerith has already woken up in Zack’s world. And she probably has to care for Cloud until Tifa in the main world helps Cloud to regain his true self. Remember that the Cloud in the main world is connected to the Cloud in Zack’s world. That wheelchair is definitely not there for nothing because Cloud ends up in a wheelchair in Mideel.