Sephiroth's control over Cloud is a lot scarier in this game than in OG. Like, we really get to see more examples of Sephiroth using Cloud as a puppet to just break him and try to destroy his friendships.
It is huge parts thanks to what I can only call great work with the cutscenes.. it’s like top cinematography sometimes… the music, the choreography.. the camera work.. (lighting could use some work but that might take you out of it being a game). The scene at 1:00 is as grandiose as the Darth Vader Hallway scene.
So, Cloud literally says to Tifa "you must be Jenova's imposter made to trick me into seeing someone i love" this guy... Sephiroth is truly his darkness and Tifa is his light
Holy shit he fights like Sephiroth, the way he held that sword was so identical its scary it wouldnt shock me if he pulled an Octoslash out of nowhere. Well Hojo succeeded, his goal was to recreate another Sephiroth and it looks very successful, probably injected him with a large dose of Jenova cells more than he would give to an average soldier.😳
@@iam4026 That's also good, I said the Octoslash because Cloud was temporarily controlled by Sephiroth for a moment where anything is possible that superior Omnislash probably won't exist till the last installment of the game
My roommate and I have a theory that Cloud is more than just a Seph clone that Hojo tried to create. Cloud has some of the G project in him too. The experiment done by Hollander from Crisis Core. Angeal could transfer his cells to others and he may have done so to Zack when Zack had to kill him. Which would explain when Zack's hair style changed and looked more like Angeal's style (just with spikes) and then when Zack died, he embraced Cloud, who ended up with some on Zack's blood on him which might have passed on Project G further. So Cloud might be a mix of both projects which is why he could be superior to Sephiroth, and why Jenova tried so hard to block out Zack from his mind until now. It's just a theory and there are holes in it, but it could still be a possibility.
Honestly in the next game, I feel like cloud is gonna pull a sephiroth & murder an entire town of innocents . Then he’s also gonna copy that iconic scene that sephiroth does when he walks through fire 😮
How much does Cloud have to go through, he fails to save tifa from the bridge, he gets rejected from being a SOLDIER, meets his hero only for him to go crazy and destroyed his village along with his mom, failed to save Tifa from danger AGAIN, gets stabbed but still pulls through and defeats Sephiroth, gets put in a sedative tank for 5 years, and on the same day he gets out his best friend literally dies, the trauma is so much he literally thinks everything his best friend did as a SOLDIER was HIM, at this point cloud has been fatally wounded once failed to save someone 3 times, and now Sephiroth has to cuck is relationship with Tifa? Not to mention Aerith DIES. Let my boy win 😭😭😭
Not to mention, how did Sephiroth got so strong to the point he can take on Weapons by himself while Cloud struggles with so much as a Midgar Zolom? I get that Sephiroth’s been Jenova-Mako enhanced since infancy, but Cloud has had the same buffs and yet the differences between them are still night and day
I think it's clear that Sephiroth is not only torturing Cloud, he is also hurting Tifa as well. Why? She is Cloud's strength, his light , and the love of his life and Sephiroth knows that. So, he is aiming to take her out to further drive Cloud over the edge.
Based on he attacks Tifa in the Lifestream, Sephiroth seems to recognise that he must take out Tifa if he wants to ensure that he permanently breaks Cloud since Tifa is the only person that can restore the true Cloud.
@@truefenriz But notice how the white whispers protect Tifa as she's going to the surface and then heal her? The white whispers, which are later revealed to be under Aerith's control. Thank you Aerith.
@@crimsoncrusader4829he was okay with aerith because he knows aerith’s death was purposeful and knows that aerith reversed cloud’s save and aerith is still with cloud
I like to call that the Catwoman swing but then again Ada Wong is pretty much just Resident Evil's Catwoman so might as well call it the Ada Wong swing.
Seeing Cloud becoming Sephiroth is so terrifing. The way he dodged bullets Noctis style and killing that guard was not only scary, but so epic at the same time. I imagine the Smash Bros gang saw this and they be shocked at how much Cloud had suffered by Sephiroth and Jenova's hands.
Yep, Sephiroth is right. Cloud is his puppet. He's been messing with Cloud's mind since Remake, and he will keep on doing that for Part 3. Cloud will have his complete mental breakdown, just like what happened in the og FF7.
I'm questioning if he's killed Sephiroth, his willpower should be much stronger now to break the influence, thus what happens in the epilogue. Does no one ever point this out? So many contradictions...
This is not Sepiroth, not the real one, it is Jenova. Cloud killed the real Sepiroth when he saved Zack, Tifa and everyone else's life by doing so. This is the manipulation of Jenova...
The way cloud held his sword like sephiroth and the look he had on his face while killing all those people gave me chills when I first saw it. Sephiroths influence here is scary man
I like how cloud can be taken control of, and tries to kill Tifa.. Then everyone is like "Yeah cloud can you look after Tifa?" As if it wont happen again
Also why isn't Tifa (and everyone) not more cautious around him? Like for all they know, any moment he could lose it and try to kill them. Shouldn't they all avoid being alone with him, or at least take his sword away when they're not actively in a fight?
I'm not convinced they saw that he did it. But if they did know then maybe they, like Tifa, know "he" would never have done that and it must have been an episode. I agree that it would have made sense to have Barrett in there at first and he leaves when Tifa nods or something, though.
I don’t think they know the entire process of being a SOLDIER. At the very least, they only know that SOLDIER are bathed in mako, but being injected with Jenova cells is kept secret, with cellular degradation being its only hint. In the OG, Ckoud only reveals this to them at the end of Disc 2, so it’s safe to say no one knows about Jenova’s involvement
I think Barret noticed when cloud tried walking off a bridge lol And my theory is that Tifa knows that cloud is in trouble after her visit to the life stream
27 years ago, Sephiroth's biggest problem was Aerith. She was the only one who could compete with Sephiroth's power. Even now, that fact remains the same. However, Sephiroth is now beginning to see Tifa as a threat to his plans just as much as Aeris. In the past, Tifa was nothing more than a thorn in Sephiroth's eyes. However, since Cloud, who is supposed to be his puppet, is with Tifa, he is the key to getting out of his control and threatening himself, so if Aeris is just interfering, Tifa tries to kill him right now, which shows that Tifa is that important to Cloud.
It's so interesting to see. It's clear Sephiroth wants Tifa dead so she can't help cloud recover. The weapon swallowed her so she wouldn't get caught by Sephiroth in the mako.
Plus Tifa should have understood that Cloud was experimented on by Hojo. That is why he had those never ending breakdowns all thanks to Hojo but she just keeps thinking Cloud is alright but he is not all right.
@@SoraWorkerDrone Tifa doesn't know what exactly happened to Cloud. Yes, SOLDIERs are experimented on but Cloud went much further than this. Tifa doesn't know what happened after Nibelheim (remember that for her, Cloud was never there) and in the same way, she didn't know about how Jenova cells can influence their hosts nor how Sephiroth can use them. Nobobody aside from Sephiroth himself (and Hojo) knew about it for that matter.
the whites are Aerith's but for the blacks I'm a bit confused...Like I know they are Sephiroth's but at the same time I thought that they were the arbitrers of Fate.
@@mori_san8206 I could be wrong about basically all of this, but: As far as I understand it, the Whispers from Remake are indeed gone for good. The black ones with the purple orbs inside belong to Sephiroth. The game describes the white Whispers as ones that show when someone is trying to "prevent the inevitable", so I'm not entirely sure if they actually belong to Aerith or if they're just a different kind of Whispers that we saw in Remake.
@@lavishlyvice Think Cloud says that Sephiroth’s Whispers don’t belong to Fate or the Planet. Given that Fate’s Whispers are the grey ones and Sephiroth’s are the black ones, think it’s safe to assume that the white ones belong to the planet tho that’s only a assumption from Cloud.
I don't think so. He didn't sound unhinged here. He's being manipulated, yeah, but there's a moment that's worse. And it just sounds.... so wrong hearing Cloud sound that way. And oddly enough, a phrase Barret used back in the start of remake played in my head. "Stamp scared to bite the hand that fed 'im? Or is he a loyal liddle doggie?"
Awesome scene but man that weapon creature thing scares the shit outta me lol esp when it popped out of the water and just hovered above them like that 😬 looking like that majoras mask water temple boss lol
I suspect this scene is foreshadowing for Part 3 - instead of falling directly into the Lifestream, Cloud and Tifa will get swallowed by one of these WEAPONs and that's how the memory thing plays out
@@danomitedanyeah but Bugenhagen denied weapons even exist And we know they do, heck we fight 4 of the damn things in the original Also, he later then admits at the end that he has been too stuck in his own bubble, refusing to take on anybody else’s ideas or opinions and that he needs to broaden his horizons as well as Nanaki
You know, for all the folk claiming this game makes them hate Cloud-- it's making me actually like Cloud. I never was a fan of him as a protagonist of the original, and the reason was entirely due to the scene where he gives Sephiroth the Black Materia while Tifa is begging him not to. To me, it came out of left field and felt like "oh sad boy realized his past is a lie so he deliberately gives the antagonist a means to destroy the whole world." And I remember thinking, really? What about Tifa, what about his friends, what about Aerith's memory-- really you're just gonna say fuck all of it and everyone? Even if your memories are all fake, you're just gonna be cool with all of them being killed? With the whole world going down? I couldn't relate to it and it never felt justified even after he pieced his mind back together. But this-- this re-contextualizes all of it in a way that makes that make sense. Cloud's not just a sad boy who is fugueing a lie about his past. He's completely detached from all reality full-stop because of Jenova and has been since the moment he walked into Midgar. He's almost schizophrenic. It's like he's not even sure the world under his feet is not an illusion. He gets tricked into attacking Barret. The same happens with Aerith. Even his own childhood friend whom he's always harbored feelings for-- even she he thinks is an illusion to the point he hurts her and almost kills her. There are all these moments where visions of 'Sephiroth' are fucking with him. He starts saying things that sound overly cold and don't make sense, like a total other person is in control. All of the party give him these meaningful looks constantly where it's clear they think he's losing his mind. And when Aerith dies, he loses it even more to the point he thinks she's alive. It's trippy to see how cooked his brain is right now and with that in mind, it doesn't seem so farfetched anymore why he'd give Sephiroth the black materia. It's not just boo hoo my past is wrong fuck everybody. It's utter and complete madness, the final destination in his progressive retreat into solipsism. In turn, that makes Sephiroth's fall that much more understandable too. He too seemed normal, even likable in the beginning. But that trip to Nibelheim, to where Jenova was, broke him. It wasn't just he learned what he thought the truth of his past was and fell from that. The alien thing is directly influencing him by osmosis, distorting his reality, and despite being the strongest SOLDIER to have ever lived, he fails and becomes her puppet because of it. While the 'puppet' that is Cloud, a failure who never made SOLDIER, will ultimately reclaim his life and sanity. That just makes the central conflict that much better and more poetic in a way the original never really did for me. I might have my criticisms of SE and this whole sequel trilogy, but at least in this aspect, they've managed to do things very well.
I noticed how in FF7 there are actually plenty of ironies with both the characters and the story. But one irony in particular is how despite Sephiroth appears to be the one who controls Jenova to carry out his actions in both OG and Remake, it is actually him who is under Jenova’s control, because he himself is also brainwashed to carry out her goal of world domination once he found out his relation to her. Even more ironically, he keeps harassing Cloud because it is he who lives inside of Sephiroth’s head - the one person who defeated him where others like Zack, Angeal, Genesis all couldn’t
I'm really glad ti find a person so able to really think,reflect and change his iniziale ideas...Indeed,One of the thing that the devs are doing,in this remake,Is showing US what really means to fallo under Total control of Someone or Something whitout any possibility to defend himself...Cloud Is showing US what happened to Sephiroth,what Jenova did to him and how cruel It can be,Because It makes the other see you Just likes a Monster,makes the other hate you,NEVER trust you,Wish Just to kill you,and give the fault fir everything Is happening....This has been the situation for Sephiroth since After the incidente of Nibelheim...
@@sanzianagoglinache8696 probably you'd Better hate Shinra,Hojo and Jenova,since Sephiroth Is in no way differenti from Cloud....Cloud Is a puppet of the being we call Sephiroth,but Sephiroth actually Is Just a Vessel of Jenova's Will,a puppet himself....
Cloud was always a character full of layers and full of tragedy but man this is soooo much worse than the OG, he really feels like Sephiroth's puppet, like can't my boy be happy for 1 second?
it's bad enough cloud is suffering from Mako and all the hell he's going through since the start of the game, but with Sephiroth doing all this just to hurt him is a dick move to a third degree.
Sephrioth was targeting Tifa too he was trying to killed her while she’s in the huge fish belly….omg…Tifa thank goodness she dodge that long sword 🗡️ inches so close to her chest. I’ve bet all the Clerith fans out there are so excited to see Tifa almost get killed by Sepiroth but got upset when Tifa survived. Clerith fans: yes!…begone so my girl Areith will have Cloud all to herself! Cloti fans: nope it ain’t happened Tifa she’s the protagonist girl she’ll survive no matter what.
XD...if really Sephiroth was targetting Tifa,you REALLY believe that She could escape,with such small possibilities to move inside the ball??Think about It......
i cant make sense of what is going on in this scene sephiroth manipulates cloud into attacking tifa tifa seems to dodge clouds sword and falls in to the mako then gets eaten by a whale (i dont think there the weapons ) then sephiroth shows up and seems to save her even the whole animation when hes in the water felt off like hes not behaving like a villain cause it felt like he attacked the whale to get it to come up out of the water and release tifa (maybe im over Analyzin it but it almost feels as if theres a second sephiroth ) @@federicamacchia1656
We haven't reached the point where Tifa helps piece Cloud back together yet in the remake. Rebirth ends after the Forgotten Capital/Aerith's death, Cloud and Tifa falling into the lifestream doesn't occur until a while after that.
The other Sephiroth is going to help Cloud become the true hero he is supposed to be in the third game. Zack will be the main character of the third game as well. Cloud is too far gone at this point.
You're not so fare from the Truth....in this sequence there are TWO Sephiroth...the One Who push Cloud against Tifa,and the other One,the One inside the pool of Mako.This One Is DIFFERENT...he's not trying to kill Tifa(he could do It very easily,if he really wold want,Tifa Is trapped inside the Weapon,cannot defend herself) but,instead,help the weapon to free itself from the black whispers that are attacking,and Pierce the ball to force the weapon to emerge ti release Tifa.The White whispers dont't recognize him as enemy,and don't Attack him.We'll see this Sephiroth in the third part of the game,and we'll know much more about him and his role in the story
This is perhaps one of the biggest bits of tomfoolery Sephiroth partakes in The biggest is probably when he gaslights Cloud into thinking he is the fake. Though let’s save that bit of trolling for part 3
I don't think it's the mako memories Tifa and Cloud get in the OG after falling into the lifestream, just another to show Tifa that Cloud was always here for her so that their relationship would grow stronger. It's a sequel to the OG but as if the characters had to restart it all as a parallel world of the OG, and everything changes since Sephiroth and Aerith seem to have knowledge of their OG timeline. With that we see Sephiroth doing things he never did before like retarding Cloud's meeting with Aerith or trying to kill Tifa to break Cloud's mind more to a point of non-return, still I wonder why is he suddently so interested in Cloud and obsessed to have him by his side in his plan rather than killing him since he knows the ending of the OG...Does he know something we don't about Cloud ?
Today I saw the ending of this game. It became clear that the woman Sephiroth would be most interested in was Tifa. She is the main factor that makes Cloud strong and independent. In other words, this is a very uncomfortable situation for fans who loved Tifa and people like me who liked seeing the relationship between Cloud and Tifa. If she were the target of that day 27 years ago, Cloud would see despair from which he could never escape, and that would not be a pleasant experience for people like me. I sincerely hope they overcome this crisis.
I know this whole scenario was meant to be dramatic and all, but when Barret bitch slaps Cloud in the face, that just breaks immersion for me and I laugh my ass off.
Those we love those we love so tifa definitely are the one he love 😊 but i am so heart pain alittle when he stab tifa even though he is being manipulate by sephiroth 😂oh my ..
@@crissy5019 he didn't... He tried to kill her twice.. once through Cloud and the second by killing her through suffocating in the lifestream. The Weapon monster and the white whispers were trying to keep her alive.
@@OldManSakaki I think he was going straight for her while in the weapon’s belly, but barely missed her by a few inches. Drowning however, would finish the job since the hole he created would flood the belly with the mako
In Japanese, Sephiroth says, "Those you fear, those you love." Later, when Cloud repeats those words, he switches them around to "Those you LOVE, those you fear" when looking at Tifa. It's nuances like these that get lost in localisation.
Haha, I don't know. I saw some flirting between Sephiroth and Tifa in the crisis core. Maybe he's jealous of Cloud? It's a funny take and I know it's not a thing. It's an interesting thought though.
I think the same as you But when I posted this idea to the FF7R community, I was banned. CloTi is now mainstream Telling the truth is the future of domestic violence We are still in the war drum period. When will we be able to speak philosophy in a civilized manner?
@@Just_A_Random_Desk you make me feel so comforted Really, really, really, really thank you Cloud looks so much like Darth Vader from Star Wars. He was a domestic abuser before he completely broke away from Jenova and understood his own darkness. While everyone agrees with the apparent harmony and thinks that Tifa must be with him, in reality they may have chosen the wrong partner to start a new family.
I was very disappointed with the lifestream sequence, i was hoping the memory sequence would be about finding out more about her mother or happy moments with both her parents or Jessie, or training she did with Zangan that shaped her entire life but nooooooooo it's just straight up cloud smh.
I think the main reason why Sephiroth kills Aerith at the end instead of Tifa, because Tifa has insanely strong physical strength and quick dexterity. He can't kill her, he's infact not that strong phsycally since he's a "ghost", even when Tifa is weak in Weapon she literally dodged his masamune. If only he tries to stab Tifa as he does to Aerith, she'll no doubt dodge it. Therefore he tried to get rid of her through Cloud, multiple times, failed, once he tried himself, failed, well, "The last light is the hardest to get rid off" - Sephiroth to Cloud in Kingdom Hearts
It’s really interesting how Tifa wasn’t able to get Cloud to regain control and snaps out of puppet mode and he hurt her But when Sephiroth used Aerith he couldn’t hurt her one bit and fought Sephiroth’s contol over him This man is really in love with Aerith ♥️
Typical, they had an opportunity to showcase memories during the lifestream of Tifa's parents, Zangan teachings etc but no it had to be cloud smh cmon.
I dunno, but I think if the story in rebirth goes like this, Tifa should have died in the weapon's belly. It's just too impossible for her to be spared. The weapons are real killers,
Sephiroth knows Tifa is the love of Cloud’s life and the only one who can repair his memory and bring the real Cloud completely out of that false persona he created. So he tries to influence Cloud to kill her. And when that fails he tries to do it himself.
Sephiroth's control over Cloud is a lot scarier in this game than in OG. Like, we really get to see more examples of Sephiroth using Cloud as a puppet to just break him and try to destroy his friendships.
Sounds a lot like narcissistic relationships ngl, where the narcissist will often try to separate their SO from their family and friends
Yeah definitely. He learned from his mistakes in the first game of letting Tifa’s hold on Cloud’s psyche in the original
@@squirtbrainz1219 yeah, not only does he try to manipulate Cloud against Tifa, but Sephiroth himself eventually goes straight for Tifa in this clip
@@holographicwingExactly
It is huge parts thanks to what I can only call great work with the cutscenes.. it’s like top cinematography sometimes… the music, the choreography.. the camera work.. (lighting could use some work but that might take you out of it being a game). The scene at 1:00 is as grandiose as the Darth Vader Hallway scene.
So, Cloud literally says to Tifa "you must be Jenova's imposter made to trick me into seeing someone i love" this guy... Sephiroth is truly his darkness and Tifa is his light
Thank you
Wow that was beautiful I love that
I hate that
@@sanzianagoglinache8696 why?
He almost kill tifa
I know he's being manipulated here and all but damn, @1:08, the way he dodges those bullets with a simple head tilts is just plain badass
Does anyone know the name of the theme when clouds killing the troops? 😭
Holy shit he fights like Sephiroth, the way he held that sword was so identical its scary it wouldnt shock me if he pulled an Octoslash out of nowhere. Well Hojo succeeded, his goal was to recreate another Sephiroth and it looks very successful, probably injected him with a large dose of Jenova cells more than he would give to an average soldier.😳
The way he dodges the bullets going for his head too🔥
Although why use Octaslash when you have the superior Omnislash.
@@iam4026 That's also good, I said the Octoslash because Cloud was temporarily controlled by Sephiroth for a moment where anything is possible that superior Omnislash probably won't exist till the last installment of the game
When he impaled that trooper in midair, it was with his left hand, not his right
@@Laterose15 Yep ultimate proof Sephiroth was in control, that execution move especially.
My roommate and I have a theory that Cloud is more than just a Seph clone that Hojo tried to create. Cloud has some of the G project in him too. The experiment done by Hollander from Crisis Core. Angeal could transfer his cells to others and he may have done so to Zack when Zack had to kill him. Which would explain when Zack's hair style changed and looked more like Angeal's style (just with spikes) and then when Zack died, he embraced Cloud, who ended up with some on Zack's blood on him which might have passed on Project G further. So Cloud might be a mix of both projects which is why he could be superior to Sephiroth, and why Jenova tried so hard to block out Zack from his mind until now.
It's just a theory and there are holes in it, but it could still be a possibility.
3:36 *You Are My Special~*
Tifa : what the hell ????
I can't escape from Lobotmy Kaisen XD
lobotomy kaisen follows us everywhere on any video
its impossible to escape lobotomy kaisen
I love how Barret slapped him LOL
Can you balme him
@@sanzianagoglinache8696
I feel like Barret slapped him then got concerned he went too harsh for a minute
Yeah
*punched*
That was funny .
4:57 That scream 😔
And this moment . he know he fucked up.🙁
You Fucked up Moment from FF7 Machineabrided.
It is true
Cloud has his 'I killed them, i killed them all' moment.
the women and children too?
@@JackSparrow-ct4mh And he slaughtered them like animals
@@TheGameCube64GuyThen Tifa tells him "To be angry is to be human" 😅
"I do have a scar!"
"LIAR! You're with him. You brought him to kill me."
Honestly in the next game, I feel like cloud is gonna pull a sephiroth & murder an entire town of innocents . Then he’s also gonna copy that iconic scene that sephiroth does when he walks through fire 😮
How much does Cloud have to go through, he fails to save tifa from the bridge, he gets rejected from being a SOLDIER, meets his hero only for him to go crazy and destroyed his village along with his mom, failed to save Tifa from danger AGAIN, gets stabbed but still pulls through and defeats Sephiroth, gets put in a sedative tank for 5 years, and on the same day he gets out his best friend literally dies, the trauma is so much he literally thinks everything his best friend did as a SOLDIER was HIM, at this point cloud has been fatally wounded once failed to save someone 3 times, and now Sephiroth has to cuck is relationship with Tifa? Not to mention Aerith DIES. Let my boy win 😭😭😭
I never play , what happen to cloud exactly ?
@@xRenRipper everything i just said
Not to mention, how did Sephiroth got so strong to the point he can take on Weapons by himself while Cloud struggles with so much as a Midgar Zolom?
I get that Sephiroth’s been Jenova-Mako enhanced since infancy, but Cloud has had the same buffs and yet the differences between them are still night and day
@@iam4026 is just plot
@@iam4026 in AC , cloud really strong to the point he can solo sephiroth if he doesnt have guilt trip
I think it's clear that Sephiroth is not only torturing Cloud, he is also hurting Tifa as well. Why? She is Cloud's strength, his light , and the love of his life and Sephiroth knows that. So, he is aiming to take her out to further drive Cloud over the edge.
Based on he attacks Tifa in the Lifestream, Sephiroth seems to recognise that he must take out Tifa if he wants to ensure that he permanently breaks Cloud since Tifa is the only person that can restore the true Cloud.
In the original, Cloud was still okay after Aeris died, but Tifa dying would completely break him.
@@truefenriz But notice how the white whispers protect Tifa as she's going to the surface and then heal her? The white whispers, which are later revealed to be under Aerith's control. Thank you Aerith.
@@crimsoncrusader4829but that never happens
@@crimsoncrusader4829he was okay with aerith because he knows aerith’s death was purposeful and knows that aerith reversed cloud’s save and aerith is still with cloud
0:14 Tifa was Ada Wong for a sec
I like to call that the Catwoman swing but then again Ada Wong is pretty much just Resident Evil's Catwoman so might as well call it the Ada Wong swing.
True
Tifa is the best
3:32 Never realized this, but this is a direct parallel back at the beginning of the game where Tifa got sliced by Sephiroth.
Seeing Cloud becoming Sephiroth is so terrifing. The way he dodged bullets Noctis style and killing that guard was not only scary, but so epic at the same time. I imagine the Smash Bros gang saw this and they be shocked at how much Cloud had suffered by Sephiroth and Jenova's hands.
Sephiroth: "Puppet, the time has come. Execute Order 66."
Cloud: "Yes my Master."
3:36
Yep, Sephiroth is right. Cloud is his puppet. He's been messing with Cloud's mind since Remake, and he will keep on doing that for Part 3. Cloud will have his complete mental breakdown, just like what happened in the og FF7.
Thank you
Just hope Tifa and Cloud still piece his life together though during Mideel in life stream.
Me too
I'm questioning if he's killed Sephiroth, his willpower should be much stronger now to break the influence, thus what happens in the epilogue. Does no one ever point this out? So many contradictions...
This is not Sepiroth, not the real one, it is Jenova. Cloud killed the real Sepiroth when he saved Zack, Tifa and everyone else's life by doing so. This is the manipulation of Jenova...
The way cloud held his sword like sephiroth and the look he had on his face while killing all those people gave me chills when I first saw it. Sephiroths influence here is scary man
I like how cloud can be taken control of, and tries to kill Tifa.. Then everyone is like "Yeah cloud can you look after Tifa?" As if it wont happen again
Thank you
Also why isn't Tifa (and everyone) not more cautious around him? Like for all they know, any moment he could lose it and try to kill them. Shouldn't they all avoid being alone with him, or at least take his sword away when they're not actively in a fight?
That is a good idea.
I'm not convinced they saw that he did it. But if they did know then maybe they, like Tifa, know "he" would never have done that and it must have been an episode.
I agree that it would have made sense to have Barrett in there at first and he leaves when Tifa nods or something, though.
Yeah
Jesus Christ, keep this man away from any nearby younglings for the love of God.
Yo the music even gets close to Vader's theme as he's about to stab that grunt crawling away. 😂
😂 I didn’t even think of that comparison. Even worse, don’t breed with him either!!!
@@dreamgamershd345 You're gonna have to tell that to Tifa lol
Cloud: How can I not be SOLDIER? It's outrageous. It's unfair.
Kid rebels: Cloud. There’s too many of them. What do we do.
Cloud: *draws Buster sword
Our boy Cloud is losing it 💀
You think 😢
Bro is even delulu at the end of the game brooo pt 3 is gonna hit hard 😭😭😭
And Sephiroth made sure of it. Pure evil and manipulator.
How much of it is Jenova?
A lot of jenova?
Does no one try to guess that Cloud has been infused with Jenova cells, that's why he falls under "Sephiroth's" control?
It's a jrpg, just run with it lol
Right!! But it'd not like anyone is telling him off either, theyre just like, this guys weird. Lets try to keep our distance when he's like that loll!
I don’t think they know the entire process of being a SOLDIER. At the very least, they only know that SOLDIER are bathed in mako, but being injected with Jenova cells is kept secret, with cellular degradation being its only hint.
In the OG, Ckoud only reveals this to them at the end of Disc 2, so it’s safe to say no one knows about Jenova’s involvement
I think Barret noticed when cloud tried walking off a bridge lol
And my theory is that Tifa knows that cloud is in trouble after her visit to the life stream
Tifa's known Cloud's been having problems since Midgar, she just didn't know how severe it was until Kalm.
*Sees blood*
me: YES!! FINALLY!!!
Was in INTERmission as well
0:41 *Your Blade yearns to Bathe in the Blood of your Enemies* Sam - MGRR
1:00 as epic as the Darth Vader Hallway scene. Possessed by Sephiroth going dark side fully unlocking his potential.
that music when viewing the bridge memory and transitioning to the epic battle... holy crap
27 years ago, Sephiroth's biggest problem was Aerith. She was the only one who could compete with Sephiroth's power. Even now, that fact remains the same.
However, Sephiroth is now beginning to see Tifa as a threat to his plans just as much as Aeris. In the past, Tifa was nothing more than a thorn in Sephiroth's eyes.
However, since Cloud, who is supposed to be his puppet, is with Tifa, he is the key to getting out of his control and threatening himself, so if Aeris is just interfering, Tifa tries to kill him right now, which shows that Tifa is that important to Cloud.
This is true
EXACTLY 💯
It's so interesting to see. It's clear Sephiroth wants Tifa dead so she can't help cloud recover. The weapon swallowed her so she wouldn't get caught by Sephiroth in the mako.
This is so messed up man... Tifa doesn't deserve this... Cloud doesn't deserve this. They're all victims of circumstance
Thank you
I don't really call being mind and body controlled by a genocidal maniac with godhood delusions circumstances though
Plus Tifa should have understood that Cloud was experimented on by Hojo. That is why he had those never ending breakdowns all thanks to Hojo but she just keeps thinking Cloud is alright but he is not all right.
@@SoraWorkerDrone Tifa doesn't know what exactly happened to Cloud. Yes, SOLDIERs are experimented on but Cloud went much further than this. Tifa doesn't know what happened after Nibelheim (remember that for her, Cloud was never there) and in the same way, she didn't know about how Jenova cells can influence their hosts nor how Sephiroth can use them. Nobobody aside from Sephiroth himself (and Hojo) knew about it for that matter.
I feel bad for cloud
sephiroth: want tifa to show his boobies? use this trick:
LOL
the music starts to play in the life stream is amazing.
Mommy? Daddy? Please don't fight!! 😢
That whispers even have white and black two editions 😵
the whites are Aerith's but for the blacks I'm a bit confused...Like I know they are Sephiroth's but at the same time I thought that they were the arbitrers of Fate.
@@mori_san8206 I could be wrong about basically all of this, but: As far as I understand it, the Whispers from Remake are indeed gone for good. The black ones with the purple orbs inside belong to Sephiroth. The game describes the white Whispers as ones that show when someone is trying to "prevent the inevitable", so I'm not entirely sure if they actually belong to Aerith or if they're just a different kind of Whispers that we saw in Remake.
@@lavishlyvice Think Cloud says that Sephiroth’s Whispers don’t belong to Fate or the Planet. Given that Fate’s Whispers are the grey ones and Sephiroth’s are the black ones, think it’s safe to assume that the white ones belong to the planet tho that’s only a assumption from Cloud.
This game is very Tifa based... And i loved it.
I wonder if this was the unhinged scene Cody (Cloud's VA) was talking about.
Theres one scene thats even worse...
I don't think so. He didn't sound unhinged here. He's being manipulated, yeah, but there's a moment that's worse. And it just sounds.... so wrong hearing Cloud sound that way. And oddly enough, a phrase Barret used back in the start of remake played in my head. "Stamp scared to bite the hand that fed 'im? Or is he a loyal liddle doggie?"
@@thecreed1212which is it? If you don’t mind spoiling me?
I suddenly though of that one scene where Cloud was chasing Aerith for the Black Materia, he sounds unhinged? Or maybe kinda loose there.
@@Ozzy_08x the one where he chases aerith a
Awesome scene but man that weapon creature thing scares the shit outta me lol esp when it popped out of the water and just hovered above them like that 😬 looking like that majoras mask water temple boss lol
I suspect this scene is foreshadowing for Part 3 - instead of falling directly into the Lifestream, Cloud and Tifa will get swallowed by one of these WEAPONs and that's how the memory thing plays out
According to Bugenhagan they aren’t weapons but we will see
@@danomitedanyeah but Bugenhagen denied weapons even exist
And we know they do, heck we fight 4 of the damn things in the original
Also, he later then admits at the end that he has been too stuck in his own bubble, refusing to take on anybody else’s ideas or opinions and that he needs to broaden his horizons as well as Nanaki
You know, for all the folk claiming this game makes them hate Cloud-- it's making me actually like Cloud. I never was a fan of him as a protagonist of the original, and the reason was entirely due to the scene where he gives Sephiroth the Black Materia while Tifa is begging him not to. To me, it came out of left field and felt like "oh sad boy realized his past is a lie so he deliberately gives the antagonist a means to destroy the whole world." And I remember thinking, really? What about Tifa, what about his friends, what about Aerith's memory-- really you're just gonna say fuck all of it and everyone? Even if your memories are all fake, you're just gonna be cool with all of them being killed? With the whole world going down?
I couldn't relate to it and it never felt justified even after he pieced his mind back together. But this-- this re-contextualizes all of it in a way that makes that make sense. Cloud's not just a sad boy who is fugueing a lie about his past. He's completely detached from all reality full-stop because of Jenova and has been since the moment he walked into Midgar. He's almost schizophrenic. It's like he's not even sure the world under his feet is not an illusion. He gets tricked into attacking Barret. The same happens with Aerith. Even his own childhood friend whom he's always harbored feelings for-- even she he thinks is an illusion to the point he hurts her and almost kills her.
There are all these moments where visions of 'Sephiroth' are fucking with him. He starts saying things that sound overly cold and don't make sense, like a total other person is in control. All of the party give him these meaningful looks constantly where it's clear they think he's losing his mind. And when Aerith dies, he loses it even more to the point he thinks she's alive. It's trippy to see how cooked his brain is right now and with that in mind, it doesn't seem so farfetched anymore why he'd give Sephiroth the black materia. It's not just boo hoo my past is wrong fuck everybody. It's utter and complete madness, the final destination in his progressive retreat into solipsism.
In turn, that makes Sephiroth's fall that much more understandable too. He too seemed normal, even likable in the beginning. But that trip to Nibelheim, to where Jenova was, broke him. It wasn't just he learned what he thought the truth of his past was and fell from that. The alien thing is directly influencing him by osmosis, distorting his reality, and despite being the strongest SOLDIER to have ever lived, he fails and becomes her puppet because of it. While the 'puppet' that is Cloud, a failure who never made SOLDIER, will ultimately reclaim his life and sanity. That just makes the central conflict that much better and more poetic in a way the original never really did for me.
I might have my criticisms of SE and this whole sequel trilogy, but at least in this aspect, they've managed to do things very well.
I noticed how in FF7 there are actually plenty of ironies with both the characters and the story. But one irony in particular is how despite Sephiroth appears to be the one who controls Jenova to carry out his actions in both OG and Remake, it is actually him who is under Jenova’s control, because he himself is also brainwashed to carry out her goal of world domination once he found out his relation to her.
Even more ironically, he keeps harassing Cloud because it is he who lives inside of Sephiroth’s head - the one person who defeated him where others like Zack, Angeal, Genesis all couldn’t
I'm really glad ti find a person so able to really think,reflect and change his iniziale ideas...Indeed,One of the thing that the devs are doing,in this remake,Is showing US what really means to fallo under Total control of Someone or Something whitout any possibility to defend himself...Cloud Is showing US what happened to Sephiroth,what Jenova did to him and how cruel It can be,Because It makes the other see you Just likes a Monster,makes the other hate you,NEVER trust you,Wish Just to kill you,and give the fault fir everything Is happening....This has been the situation for Sephiroth since After the incidente of Nibelheim...
I don't hate cloud after this . I hate sephiroth .
@@sanzianagoglinache8696 probably you'd Better hate Shinra,Hojo and Jenova,since Sephiroth Is in no way differenti from Cloud....Cloud Is a puppet of the being we call Sephiroth,but Sephiroth actually Is Just a Vessel of Jenova's Will,a puppet himself....
O trust me .I hate hojo .I really do.
Sephiroth is just fucking with Cloud at this point. Just toying with him until he breaks, and then no one will be able to stop him from using Meteor.
Cloud was always a character full of layers and full of tragedy but man this is soooo much worse than the OG, he really feels like Sephiroth's puppet, like can't my boy be happy for 1 second?
Cloti angst! CLOTI ANGST!!!
Dude he even holds the sword like Sepiroth. The bullet dodge...so sick
I liked how Sephiroth tried to kill her. That proves she is very important. The white wisper saved her life because she had to live.
it's bad enough cloud is suffering from Mako and all the hell he's going through since the start of the game, but with Sephiroth doing all this just to hurt him is a dick move to a third degree.
Sephiroth is evil .What did you expect .
Tifa: Look!
Cloud: I'm Looking! 😏
ITS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME! Not him!
@@itwarren2012 Lol!
🤢
@@umhi9778just stop being gay for once
Square: "Let's scare the fuck out of these Tifa simps"
lmao u made me dropped my tifa cup.
Damn it sephiroth 😤 not tifa too.
Why 😡
Sephiroth: Hey, kids, every heard of gaslighting?
Sephrioth was targeting Tifa too he was trying to killed her while she’s in the huge fish belly….omg…Tifa thank goodness she dodge that long sword 🗡️ inches so close to her chest. I’ve bet all the Clerith fans out there are so excited to see Tifa almost get killed by Sepiroth but got upset when Tifa survived.
Clerith fans: yes!…begone so my girl Areith will have Cloud all to herself!
Cloti fans: nope it ain’t happened Tifa she’s the protagonist girl she’ll survive no matter what.
Are you psycho?
Well, guess who died in this game lmao 😂
@@makoro9161 yep….Poor flower girl has to go….Zack’s been waiting for her…
XD...if really Sephiroth was targetting Tifa,you REALLY believe that She could escape,with such small possibilities to move inside the ball??Think about It......
i cant make sense of what is going on in this scene sephiroth manipulates cloud into attacking tifa tifa seems to dodge clouds sword and falls in to the mako then gets eaten by a whale (i dont think there the weapons ) then sephiroth shows up and seems to save her even the whole animation when hes in the water felt off like hes not behaving like a villain cause it felt like he attacked the whale to get it to come up out of the water and release tifa (maybe im over Analyzin it but it almost feels as if theres a second sephiroth ) @@federicamacchia1656
You can't see Tifa's scar in Costa Del Sol, even if you chose the smallest swimsuit for her. Maybe Sephirtoth has a point lol
Sephrioth: Strike her down my apprentice. Do it
The dementors are back
What song is playing while tifa is looking at memories
3:55
CLOUD: TIFAAAAAAAA
🎵YOU ARE MY SPECIAL🎵
Just noticed the way he walks when Barret tells him to come over and help….
Why the fuck ISN'T Cloud in a Soul Calibur game?
So, in the Original, Tifa was able to piece Cloud back together.
But in here, Cloud is too far gone.
Thus, "Your words can't reach him now."
No Tifa pieces Cloud together when they both fall in later
We haven't reached the point where Tifa helps piece Cloud back together yet in the remake. Rebirth ends after the Forgotten Capital/Aerith's death, Cloud and Tifa falling into the lifestream doesn't occur until a while after that.
The other Sephiroth is going to help Cloud become the true hero he is supposed to be in the third game. Zack will be the main character of the third game as well. Cloud is too far gone at this point.
Who else felt that slap 😂
Sephiroth: Kill Kill Kill
Sephiroth: Rip her apart
0:40 "Cook up, Cloud."
the entire gongaga reactor story was amazing
Dude Cloud is dodging fucking bullets wth
I would've liked them to showcase tifa being very reluctant or hesitant to go near cloud that would have been a realistic reaction.
Tifa: okay look!!!
Cloud : its huge!!!!
Tifa: i know right ? Almost covering my whole body
Cloud: I wasn't talking about your scar 😂🤣😭
16:25 i didnt notice before he grabs her arm there.nice detail
my dumbass thought sephiroth was helping cloud here until the tifa part 💀💀
You're not so fare from the Truth....in this sequence there are TWO Sephiroth...the One Who push Cloud against Tifa,and the other One,the One inside the pool of Mako.This One Is DIFFERENT...he's not trying to kill Tifa(he could do It very easily,if he really wold want,Tifa Is trapped inside the Weapon,cannot defend herself) but,instead,help the weapon to free itself from the black whispers that are attacking,and Pierce the ball to force the weapon to emerge ti release Tifa.The White whispers dont't recognize him as enemy,and don't Attack him.We'll see this Sephiroth in the third part of the game,and we'll know much more about him and his role in the story
The other Sephiroth will be our ally in the third game. The true hero Sephiroth.@@federicamacchia1656
This is perhaps one of the biggest bits of tomfoolery Sephiroth partakes in
The biggest is probably when he gaslights Cloud into thinking he is the fake. Though let’s save that bit of trolling for part 3
sério… essa parte dele lutar como o sephiroth me arrepiou, foi muito foda!
kind of confuse that they did the whole mako memories earlier, then i remember this is not a remake, but a sequel, or a Requel of some sort.
I don't think it's the mako memories Tifa and Cloud get in the OG after falling into the lifestream, just another to show Tifa that Cloud was always here for her so that their relationship would grow stronger. It's a sequel to the OG but as if the characters had to restart it all as a parallel world of the OG, and everything changes since Sephiroth and Aerith seem to have knowledge of their OG timeline. With that we see Sephiroth doing things he never did before like retarding Cloud's meeting with Aerith or trying to kill Tifa to break Cloud's mind more to a point of non-return, still I wonder why is he suddently so interested in Cloud and obsessed to have him by his side in his plan rather than killing him since he knows the ending of the OG...Does he know something we don't about Cloud ?
The scenes of young Cloud and Tifa are so cute but so sad. I feel for them :(
Today I saw the ending of this game.
It became clear that the woman Sephiroth would be most interested in was Tifa.
She is the main factor that makes Cloud strong and independent.
In other words, this is a very uncomfortable situation for fans who loved Tifa and people like me who liked seeing the relationship between Cloud and Tifa.
If she were the target of that day 27 years ago, Cloud would see despair from which he could never escape, and that would not be a pleasant experience for people like me.
I sincerely hope they overcome this crisis.
I know this whole scenario was meant to be dramatic and all, but when Barret bitch slaps Cloud in the face, that just breaks immersion for me and I laugh my ass off.
Those we love those we love so tifa definitely are the one he love 😊 but i am so heart pain alittle when he stab tifa even though he is being manipulate by sephiroth 😂oh my ..
Love is so strong .😂😂😂😂
Anyone know the song that’s playing at the 1 minute mark???
can someone explain to me why he saved tifa? im just curious
Who?
@@OldManSakaki sephiroth lol
@@crissy5019 he didn't... He tried to kill her twice.. once through Cloud and the second by killing her through suffocating in the lifestream. The Weapon monster and the white whispers were trying to keep her alive.
That’s how I perceived it too lol that he tried saving her 😂
@@OldManSakaki I think he was going straight for her while in the weapon’s belly, but barely missed her by a few inches. Drowning however, would finish the job since the hole he created would flood the belly with the mako
In Japanese, Sephiroth says, "Those you fear, those you love." Later, when Cloud repeats those words, he switches them around to "Those you LOVE, those you fear" when looking at Tifa. It's nuances like these that get lost in localisation.
Why do the Whispers disappear once Cloud falls for Sephiroth’s manipulation? Was it supposed to be this way in the OG?
That Mako pool cant be good for the skin.
Yep, Cloud ended up as a vegetable for 5+ years in his mako jacuzzi thanks to that bastard Hojo.
I was shocked at this. I fee like a weep I just use the buster sword and get the ability off the other weapons.
Sephiroth is not a shipper, I see
Haha, I don't know. I saw some flirting between Sephiroth and Tifa in the crisis core. Maybe he's jealous of Cloud? It's a funny take and I know it's not a thing. It's an interesting thought though.
If I did that to my wife, she would divorce me.
I think the same as you
But when I posted this idea to the FF7R community, I was banned.
CloTi is now mainstream
Telling the truth is the future of domestic violence
We are still in the war drum period. When will we be able to speak philosophy in a civilized manner?
@@tine174 you should get a gold medal for those mental gymnastics bro
@@Just_A_Random_Desk
you make me feel so comforted
Really, really, really, really thank you
Cloud looks so much like Darth Vader from Star Wars. He was a domestic abuser before he completely broke away from Jenova and understood his own darkness. While everyone agrees with the apparent harmony and thinks that Tifa must be with him, in reality they may have chosen the wrong partner to start a new family.
Didn’t this happen in the original ff7 game? (1997) It feels as tho the events of the original ff7 game are leading up to rebirth
2:48 bro turned into anakin
poor tifa couldn't wake up cloud from sephiroth control, she is not her.
Not yet anyway, she needs help to do that.
@@00vondough00 I agree, she is the one who has to accompany Cloud while he puts his own memories back together.
It's all thanks to Hojo with his reunion theory
Dark Cloud is hot, the dark side suits him.
I really do not like the whisper plot change. But Ultra instinct cloud was cool!!
Dont feel sorry for them at all.... they shot zack and biggs 😕
Tifa the type of female we all want. Easily forgives Cloud after he nearly lost it all
That is true 😊
I wanted to see it too.
0:57-2:00 😶
I need to find the theme omg it’s sooo good. Reminds me of Luke and vaders fight theme
I was very disappointed with the lifestream sequence, i was hoping the memory sequence would be about finding out more about her mother or happy moments with both her parents or Jessie, or training she did with Zangan that shaped her entire life but nooooooooo it's just straight up cloud smh.
Didn't pay the original. Is this the part where tifa slapped scarlett?
Go play the original and find out
I think the main reason why Sephiroth kills Aerith at the end instead of Tifa,
because Tifa has insanely strong physical strength and quick dexterity.
He can't kill her,
he's infact not that strong phsycally since he's a "ghost", even when Tifa is weak in Weapon she literally dodged his masamune. If only he tries to stab Tifa as he does to Aerith, she'll no doubt dodge it.
Therefore he tried to get rid of her through Cloud, multiple times, failed, once he tried himself, failed, well,
"The last light is the hardest to get rid off"
- Sephiroth to Cloud in Kingdom Hearts
Ele só queria dar mais uma olhadinha nas tetonas da Tifa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s really interesting how Tifa wasn’t able to get Cloud to regain control and snaps out of puppet mode and he hurt her
But when Sephiroth used Aerith he couldn’t hurt her one bit and fought Sephiroth’s contol over him
This man is really in love with Aerith ♥️
Typical, they had an opportunity to showcase memories during the lifestream of Tifa's parents, Zangan teachings etc but no it had to be cloud smh cmon.
I dunno, but I think if the story in rebirth goes like this, Tifa should have died in the weapon's belly. It's just too impossible for her to be spared. The weapons are real killers,
Cloud should have finished off Tifa.
Them's fighting words.
WHY? WHY DO YOU HATE TIFA SO MUCH?!
@@Ssethtzeentach_enjoyer Do you hate Tifa? 😡
@@EvelynL.1112 No.
@@Ssethtzeentach_enjoyer Oh. Sorry, I asked you that.
This is so stupid lmao
Thank you
tf?
What
@@sanzianagoglinache8696 why do u say thank you? to that comment
This video is so stupid
Sephiroth knows Tifa is the love of Cloud’s life and the only one who can repair his memory and bring the real Cloud completely out of that false persona he created. So he tries to influence Cloud to kill her. And when that fails he tries to do it himself.