The writing in this game is incredible. I've never seen the level of skill and resources put into presenting a love story in the world of video games. This remake (all the episodes), with the development of this romance, has brought something never before seen in a video game! I'm also a fan of films and books, and the portrayal of the love between Cloud and Aerith as experienced through a video game brings a real sense of freshness. Thanks to all the team who worked on this game, which will leave a mark on the cultural history of mankind. I hope we'll see them start a family at the end of the game, and that we'll get to see their children.
oh my god he is so humble and down to earth for a game director!! he talks about games from other companies with delight, recommends them and cherish videogame as a whole. Happy to see Hanamaguchi spotlight!!
Arigato Hamaguchi-san!!! I’m 100 hours in and just finished chapter 12. The cutscenes and stories you brought to life are a work of art and the gameplay is so well thought out and designed with so much content! You and your team created a master piece! I have a short list of 10/10 games and this one just got bumped to the top of that list.
Just finished it today. What a journey, had me reliving my childhood sat in front of my box TV and PS1, with the good times and sad times. It will be a long wait to see how this familiar yet unique storyline concludes with Part 3.
@@gotinogaden Rebirth ends where Disk 1 ended in the original game. I assume the game to come next will encompass disks two and three and should be the end of the Remake storyline.
Did u do all the side quests and mini games? I'm in junon, although I'm a bit burnt out trying to complete everything. I kinda want to just finish the story for now and return later but I get fomo lol
@@biohazard737 i did all grasslands and half of junon before i solely focused on the main story only. Im now casually playing hard mode and clearing all the side content I skipped.
@@WyrmLimion nice, I kinda want to do the story in case someone spoils the ending. Trying hard to avoid videos lol... the sidequests just take forever, although I do enjoy it
The game is a blast, so much content to do, stopped at chapter 4 for now, absolutely love it! Hope that you guys do a justice to the Final Fantasy IX Remake! You'll 100% need to appoint the devs who's worked on the original, ESPECIALLY -- Hiroyuki Ito-san! He's need to be director again, look at his amazing work with FF XII The Zodiac Age! And after that it'll be amazing if you make him to develop a new mainline FF game. I hope we'll get back to the roots with the new strong foundation, you don't need to take RPG out of the series.
It makes me really happy tat someone like Hamaguchi-san who has a genuine love for video games and has been heavily influenced by FF VII is now in charge of the Remake project! After experiencing the first two games, I feel confident that the series is in great hands! I wouldn't mind if he was given full reins for more remake projects in the future, starting with VIII, with Kitase, Nojima and Nomura in more supervising roles. That would be amazing!
Thank you to everyone in Square-Enix for this incredible game. I finished it after 2 weeks and 70 hours. It was fun, it was hard, it was emotional, it was long, it was exhausting, but it was all worth it. Wish you and the team the best. Hope to see the next one soon.
Ignore what the haters say, or the purists or whomever. Finish what you've started. The new storyline is insanely cool, complex, confusing, perplexing, yet it's fantastic! Hopefully-.... we have something of a clear solution to ask- how can the world be saved, both with the savior still being alive?
Greetings from Latin America! This game is so great. It improves on every aspect of "FFVII Remake". The story remains very faithful while still having some interesting changes that aren't incoherent. The music is beautiful and the combat system is so much better and fun. I really like the world map and all the minigames. Thank you very much for this game and all the team's hard work.
I'd say I love this game. I finished it last night, but the game being fleshed out that much made the game even better. I felt my teenage years coming back to me, and how much i loved the original release in 1997. I am looking forward to Part 3.
Thank you so much for this beautiful game and the passion you and your colleagues have poured into this title and trilogy is obvious. I can't wait for what you have in store next. Also fatal frame ruuuuules!
Thank you, im not sure i understood everything in the end but the feelings i got from it are the same after OG Disc 1 more than 20 years ago, even better!!! Thank you again!
I finished it after 69 (Höhö) Hours. Man I love this Game. I played pretty much everything about Final Fantasy VII, even read the Books. And still I love it. Amazing Job Guys.
Absolute Legend!!! Thank you for creating this master piece of a game. I look forward to the third part. Will always be playing this game on a regular for sure daily even like i have several others. Arigato gozaimas 🔥💯
Hamaguchi really GOATED himself with this one. Masterpiece. THANK YOU SQUARE AND PLAYSTATION FOR REMAKING THIS SPECIAL GAME! My father gave FFVII on PS1 on my 12th birthday. It changed my life. I have 3 children now my oldest daughter is 12 and although my father passed in 2019 - it’s magical reliving the story with my children. 🙏🏽
@SalGoodguy Rebirth beat it only in terms of graphics and soundtrack. The Remake/Rebirth story is full of multiverse gimmick trying to make Zack, Aerith and Sephiroth front and center of everything. Also a whole load of flying sperm intervening at every "alternate timeline" plothole.
Hamaguchi-san with CBU1 showing the whole company the way forward, setting the bar so high in so many aspects that it's still hard to believe the game even exists. I really hope top management draws all the right lessons from its success and that the game has put many more talented people into the limelight within the company
This man... (1) Is a director of FFVII Rebirth (2) Referenced one of my all time favourite jRPGs (FFVI) (3) Also referenced one of my all time favourite horror games (Zero Project/Fatal Frame) Yep, definitely would buy him a few beers.
In the Super Smash bros ultimate Fighter pass wave 2 dlc sephiroth trailer at the game awards it’s almost as if the Smash devs were playing with final fantasy developers childhood’s when Sephiroth threatens Mario and other smash bros characters lives except Cloud is there to save the day ❤😊
fatal frame/project zero - watching the first 4 games be played through here on youtube back in, like, 2008 - it maybe counts as my first horror game series lol
I prefer Cloud with Aerith or at least make Aerith to live.Everyone has a story line they love which is not about selfish or keeping the original story intact, it is about we all expecting things good in these days. Now is no longer 1997 the value, the mindset and global environment totally different. people need more positive and faith for good. Multi ending in part 3 would be more appreciated than just let the player day dreaming in the DLC.
this part of the rebirth dont make sense. when cloud is telling the pass. cloud should of had zack voice since you know its not really cloud. you mess up
Really need this and Spider-Man 2 but waiting so I have enough to get both Does Final Fantasy 16 still overheat ps5s or damage them in any way , I wanna get it but scared to , I got my ps5 for Christmas Overall FF7 Rebirth looks incredible and can’t wait to get it probably after I finish school
FFXVI never “overheated” PS5s. Blatant false information and faked lies. It does nothing of the sort. People over-exaggerating and brute-forcing nonsense online, as per usual.
@@MattAndre24 the Lifestream was never about multiverse before Rebirth. Just like the “FF7 compilation” those who hate the new stuff will turn a blind eye to the new Kingdom Hearts stuff. It’s not hard to understand, however it’s clear that as of today most people who finished the game were to sleep deprived to listen to Sephiroth giving a complete lecture on the multiverse when Cloud was falling after Aerith pushed her at the church. And Rebirth also killed the conspiracy theories. There is no “Advent Children Sephiroth”, what there is a MULTIVERSE OF SEPHIROTH THAT KNOW THE FF7 SCRIPT! Not 2 Sephiroths but rather a multiversal threat. So yeah. If you engage with a lot of gaming media, FF7 Resequel isn’t complicated… DOESNT CHANGE THE FACT ITS DUMB! Le multiversus, so pretentious! So yeah, lifestream now has the data of the entire multiverse within it… I’ll keep that concept far away from the original FF7.
The team gave their everything and delivered in graphics, battle system and they managed to draw three-dimensional figures true to character. BUT nobody cares about your Multiverse! You want to fail like Marvel or DC? Go on! Try Multiverse! Are we really going to destroy a classic story for the sake of subverting expectations again? Do you even know your target group? Do you really think Kingdom Hearts-like Stories is the way to continue? Do you think staying 80 percent true to the classic story is enough and nobody cares if the Aerith scene feels like an evil betrayal to what was promised? I'm so sorry for the team. Who ever called this is leading in the wrong direction! You blew an easy home run! Good luck with your convoluted cripple of a story!
Every FF is. Always has been. Each new number is a new universe. IV has a sequel. VII has a prequel game, a sequel movie, a spin-off game, and a remake trilogy. X has a sequel. XII has a sequel. XIII has a prequel novella, a sequel game and a spin-off game. XV has a prequel movie, a prequel anime, a “sequel” novel…
To be fair, dirge actually came before crisis core (i looked it up. Crisis core JP: September 13, 2007 NA: March 25, 2008 Dirge of cerberus JP: January 26, 2006 NA: August 15, 2006)
i dont like this "balanced" approach they did this with ff16 trying to balance out rpg and spectacle fighter elements and it was just mediocre at best. I wish they would commit to one vision instead of trying to please everyone. I beat ff7 rebirth and i will say there were LOTS of up and down moments
Kitase, Hamaguchi and Nojima completely destroyed the original story in FF7 Rebirth (it looks even worse than FF7 Remake). You have completely ruined FF7! This is not the type of remake that fans have been asking you to do.
Why does Square Enix push Final Fantasy so hard here but barely even talk about Dragon Quest? The far superior series gets no attention from the studio that publishes the game.
The writing in this game is incredible.
I've never seen the level of skill and resources put into presenting a love story in the world of video games.
This remake (all the episodes), with the development of this romance, has brought something never before seen in a video game!
I'm also a fan of films and books, and the portrayal of the love between Cloud and Aerith as experienced through a video game brings a real sense of freshness.
Thanks to all the team who worked on this game, which will leave a mark on the cultural history of mankind.
I hope we'll see them start a family at the end of the game, and that we'll get to see their children.
oh my god he is so humble and down to earth for a game director!! he talks about games from other companies with delight, recommends them and cherish videogame as a whole. Happy to see Hanamaguchi spotlight!!
THANK YOU HAMAGUCHI AND THE REST OF THE TEAM. GAME IS AMAZING. FIX THE LIGHTING THO!
You can tell his heart beats for this! Thank you Hamaguchi San and the whole team behind the FF7 Remake series
The game is a masterpiece! They are making the fandom great justice! And so nice seeing these interviews too!
riiiight lol.
the ending is top tier marvel slop
Arigato Hamaguchi-san!!! I’m 100 hours in and just finished chapter 12. The cutscenes and stories you brought to life are a work of art and the gameplay is so well thought out and designed with so much content! You and your team created a master piece! I have a short list of 10/10 games and this one just got bumped to the top of that list.
Just finished it today.
What a journey, had me reliving my childhood sat in front of my box TV and PS1, with the good times and sad times.
It will be a long wait to see how this familiar yet unique storyline concludes with Part 3.
Where does "Rebirth" end btw? Compared to OG FF7, that is?
@@gotinogaden Rebirth ends where Disk 1 ended in the original game.
I assume the game to come next will encompass disks two and three and should be the end of the Remake storyline.
Did u do all the side quests and mini games? I'm in junon, although I'm a bit burnt out trying to complete everything. I kinda want to just finish the story for now and return later but I get fomo lol
@@biohazard737 i did all grasslands and half of junon before i solely focused on the main story only. Im now casually playing hard mode and clearing all the side content I skipped.
@@WyrmLimion nice, I kinda want to do the story in case someone spoils the ending. Trying hard to avoid videos lol... the sidequests just take forever, although I do enjoy it
Just finished the game and I can easily say that this is one of the best games I've ever played.
Thank you Square for reimagining my childhood in such a beautiful way. Truly thank you from the bottom of my heart heart. For those who fight on!!!
You made a real Masterpiece with this game!! 250 hours into it and I'm not tired of it yet! I don't want to leave this world!
Rebirth is the perfect translation of the 32bit era FF games to modern gaming. Thank you to whole team. Truly.
This Game had me crying so hard 😢
dude mentioned Fatal Frame hell yea man the only game series that made me actually scared. Also Rebirth is amazing, just got to Barrets Arc.
saame, i love that series
The game is a blast, so much content to do, stopped at chapter 4 for now, absolutely love it! Hope that you guys do a justice to the Final Fantasy IX Remake! You'll 100% need to appoint the devs who's worked on the original, ESPECIALLY -- Hiroyuki Ito-san! He's need to be director again, look at his amazing work with FF XII The Zodiac Age! And after that it'll be amazing if you make him to develop a new mainline FF game. I hope we'll get back to the roots with the new strong foundation, you don't need to take RPG out of the series.
It makes me really happy tat someone like Hamaguchi-san who has a genuine love for video games and has been heavily influenced by FF VII is now in charge of the Remake project! After experiencing the first two games, I feel confident that the series is in great hands! I wouldn't mind if he was given full reins for more remake projects in the future, starting with VIII, with Kitase, Nojima and Nomura in more supervising roles. That would be amazing!
Thank you to everyone in Square-Enix for this incredible game. I finished it after 2 weeks and 70 hours. It was fun, it was hard, it was emotional, it was long, it was exhausting, but it was all worth it. Wish you and the team the best. Hope to see the next one soon.
Ignore what the haters say, or the purists or whomever. Finish what you've started. The new storyline is insanely cool, complex, confusing, perplexing, yet it's fantastic! Hopefully-.... we have something of a clear solution to ask- how can the world be saved, both with the savior still being alive?
Stop drinking the koolaid🤮
Thank you for this awesome game. Final fantasy 6 is my favorite as well. I would really love to see this team remake ff6.
Greetings from Latin America! This game is so great. It improves on every aspect of "FFVII Remake". The story remains very faithful while still having some interesting changes that aren't incoherent. The music is beautiful and the combat system is so much better and fun. I really like the world map and all the minigames. Thank you very much for this game and all the team's hard work.
You made an excellent work!We thank you!
Why did I have tears pouring down my face through half this video?
Hamaguchi and his team should be very proud. This is game is a masterpiece.
Can’t imagine what they have planned for part 3.
I'd say I love this game. I finished it last night, but the game being fleshed out that much made the game even better.
I felt my teenage years coming back to me, and how much i loved the original release in 1997. I am looking forward to Part 3.
Thank you so much for this beautiful game and the passion you and your colleagues have poured into this title and trilogy is obvious. I can't wait for what you have in store next. Also fatal frame ruuuuules!
Square Enix. A big thanks from my heart for this game!!!
Thank you, im not sure i understood everything in the end but the feelings i got from it are the same after OG Disc 1 more than 20 years ago, even better!!! Thank you again!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD YOU CREATED 😢😢😢💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Congratulations on a fantastic game. Thank you for doing this and making it so great.
Best game of the year ❤❤❤❤ thank you Hamaguchi-san
本当にありがとうございます。浜口さん❤❤❤
Thank you so much SE for making me rekindle my love for video games! Rebirth has been such a joy to experience and I'm loving every second of it.
Thank you for Rebirth, its such an incredible game!!!!
Awesome The Games That Made Us: Naoki Hamaguchi Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Video.
I finished it after 69 (Höhö) Hours. Man I love this Game. I played pretty much everything about Final Fantasy VII, even read the Books.
And still I love it.
Amazing Job Guys.
Absolute Legend!!! Thank you for creating this master piece of a game. I look forward to the third part. Will always be playing this game on a regular for sure daily even like i have several others. Arigato gozaimas 🔥💯
Hamaguchi really GOATED himself with this one. Masterpiece. THANK YOU SQUARE AND PLAYSTATION FOR REMAKING THIS SPECIAL GAME! My father gave FFVII on PS1 on my 12th birthday. It changed my life. I have 3 children now my oldest daughter is 12 and although my father passed in 2019 - it’s magical reliving the story with my children. 🙏🏽
1997 unbeaten masterpiece
I disagree. Rebirth beat it. In every way.
@@ShikiRyougi05 by the way agreed to disagree
@SalGoodguy Rebirth beat it only in terms of graphics and soundtrack. The Remake/Rebirth story is full of multiverse gimmick trying to make Zack, Aerith and Sephiroth front and center of everything. Also a whole load of flying sperm intervening at every "alternate timeline" plothole.
Hamaguchi-san with CBU1 showing the whole company the way forward, setting the bar so high in so many aspects that it's still hard to believe the game even exists. I really hope top management draws all the right lessons from its success and that the game has put many more talented people into the limelight within the company
FINAL FANTASY VI IS SO GOATED
also, i hope you guys at square could someday bring back kelger from FFV in some fashion
I have been playing games (mostly made in Japan) since 1987. FF7 Rebirth is one of the best. Thank you for this masterpiece!!!
I love this game so much!, thanks Square Enix 👍
Thank you Hamaguchi san for making this game a reality ❤
This man...
(1) Is a director of FFVII Rebirth
(2) Referenced one of my all time favourite jRPGs (FFVI)
(3) Also referenced one of my all time favourite horror games (Zero Project/Fatal Frame)
Yep, definitely would buy him a few beers.
Beautiful game, thank you all!! 💙
Please don't take too long to release the PC version :)
Loving this game so much!
Masterpiece
The Witcher 3 is also one of my favourite games & I immediately noticed it's influences in Rebirth. I love it! It's such a masterpiece 🙏☄
Thank you Naoki-san
ウィッチャーに視点を置くのは素晴らしい👍
Please release QB for Mobile or card game I need it
Great game thank you very much
As a Polen, for liking a Witcher series, I can already tell that you’re a man of culture as well
Excellent work!!🎉🎉
Xenogears is such a way of living that well, I’m living it.
BEST GAME EVER MADE PERIOD.
Rebirth, best Game ever 👍
Calling it now: Part 3, alternate timeline Zack and Aerith helping Cloud defeat Sephiroth before returning to their own universe.
In the Super Smash bros ultimate Fighter pass wave 2 dlc sephiroth trailer at the game awards it’s almost as if the Smash devs were playing with final fantasy developers childhood’s when Sephiroth threatens Mario and other smash bros characters lives except Cloud is there to save the day ❤😊
3:35
"It's a bit...cold."
"Maybe it's because there's GHOSTS! Maybe it's because GHOSTS EVERYWHERE! HAH!"
I like this video it's a nice documentary video.
Thank you for this game, I just finished remake and will platinum the game next then will be moving on to rebirth😂
I hope Hamaguchi-san gets to remake FFVI. Although the story needs to be completely revamped, since it’s proto FFVII.
I’m just hoping you guys are actually going to fix performance mode and make it look better like you said in latest interview.
PS5 isn’t powerful enough, unfortunately. The pro fixes everything you wanted. So, you could sell your ps5 and upgrade, or wait for the pc version.
We need Parasite eve remake🙏
I just left costa i forget what chapter im on now 6 or 7 i think
fatal frame/project zero - watching the first 4 games be played through here on youtube back in, like, 2008 - it maybe counts as my first horror game series lol
Wheres hironobu sakaguchi
Queens blood needs to be online
Nah. Queen Blood needs to be a mobile game.
With all that glamorous gameplay, this game only has one drawback, and that is the ending😅imean, ff7 remake + rebirth = disc 1 in og😂😂😂
Pleaaase upgrade the graphics immediately, i really love the game. But some area texture feels like came from FF Remake PS4. Im begging yoou
😮😊
The game that made rpgs popular in the west.
HERE SINCE SQUARESOFT👇👇👇
With Rebirth e made a better version of his favorite game Witcher 3. That's cool.
Fix the light/shadow please
Ff7 then Witcher? Best of both worlds!
GOTY 2024🎉🎉❤❤
I prefer Cloud with Aerith or at least make Aerith to live.Everyone has a story line they love which is not about selfish or keeping the original story intact, it is about we all expecting things good in these days. Now is no longer 1997 the value, the mindset and global environment totally different. people need more positive and faith for good. Multi ending in part 3 would be more appreciated than just let the player day dreaming in the DLC.
神ゲー🎉
最成功的游戏
I don't understand how so many gaming veterans that were involved with this game were okay with completely ruining the remake.
Oh well.
Yo boys not to brag or anything but I have a picture with this dude/legend
I'm sorry.
this part of the rebirth dont make sense. when cloud is telling the pass. cloud should of had zack voice since you know its not really cloud. you mess up
❤❤🇮🇹🇮🇹
Really need this and Spider-Man 2 but waiting so I have enough to get both
Does Final Fantasy 16 still overheat ps5s or damage them in any way , I wanna get it but scared to , I got my ps5 for Christmas
Overall FF7 Rebirth looks incredible and can’t wait to get it probably after I finish school
FFXVI never “overheated” PS5s. Blatant false information and faked lies. It does nothing of the sort. People over-exaggerating and brute-forcing nonsense online, as per usual.
The game that made us… NOT CRY AT AERITH BECAUSE SEPHIROTH BECAME DOCTOR STRANGE/SHANG TSUNG
Just say you don’t understand how the original FFVII’s Lifestream has always functioned. 🥲
@@MattAndre24 the Lifestream was never about multiverse before Rebirth.
Just like the “FF7 compilation” those who hate the new stuff will turn a blind eye to the new Kingdom Hearts stuff.
It’s not hard to understand, however it’s clear that as of today most people who finished the game were to sleep deprived to listen to Sephiroth giving a complete lecture on the multiverse when Cloud was falling after Aerith pushed her at the church.
And Rebirth also killed the conspiracy theories. There is no “Advent Children Sephiroth”, what there is a MULTIVERSE OF SEPHIROTH THAT KNOW THE FF7 SCRIPT! Not 2 Sephiroths but rather a multiversal threat.
So yeah. If you engage with a lot of gaming media, FF7 Resequel isn’t complicated… DOESNT CHANGE THE FACT ITS DUMB! Le multiversus, so pretentious!
So yeah, lifestream now has the data of the entire multiverse within it… I’ll keep that concept far away from the original FF7.
@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 Except it isn’t multiverses. 🥲
@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 You’ve clearly not read the Ultimania dev books. You’re oblivious.
@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 Maybe watch Maximilian Dood’s recent spoiler videos on Rebirth. It’s not multiverses.
The team gave their everything and delivered in graphics, battle system and they managed to draw three-dimensional figures true to character.
BUT nobody cares about your Multiverse! You want to fail like Marvel or DC? Go on! Try Multiverse! Are we really going to destroy a classic story for the sake of subverting expectations again? Do you even know your target group? Do you really think Kingdom Hearts-like Stories is the way to continue? Do you think staying 80 percent true to the classic story is enough and nobody cares if the Aerith scene feels like an evil betrayal to what was promised?
I'm so sorry for the team. Who ever called this is leading in the wrong direction! You blew an easy home run! Good luck with your convoluted cripple of a story!
Ff7 really is it's own franchise at this point or at least when crisis core came out 🤣
Every FF is. Always has been. Each new number is a new universe.
IV has a sequel. VII has a prequel game, a sequel movie, a spin-off game, and a remake trilogy. X has a sequel. XII has a sequel. XIII has a prequel novella, a sequel game and a spin-off game. XV has a prequel movie, a prequel anime, a “sequel” novel…
(Tactics and XII also co-exist within the same exact world.)
To be fair, dirge actually came before crisis core (i looked it up.
Crisis core
JP: September 13, 2007
NA: March 25, 2008
Dirge of cerberus
JP: January 26, 2006
NA: August 15, 2006)
@@ms.pirate Kitase is also a big fan of Dirge because he loves shooters.
i dont like this "balanced" approach they did this with ff16 trying to balance out rpg and spectacle fighter elements and it was just mediocre at best. I wish they would commit to one vision instead of trying to please everyone. I beat ff7 rebirth and i will say there were LOTS of up and down moments
Yes, you are so ashamed of the OG that you have to correct and censor it, isn't it?
Kitase, Hamaguchi and Nojima completely destroyed the original story in FF7 Rebirth (it looks even worse than FF7 Remake).
You have completely ruined FF7!
This is not the type of remake that fans have been asking you to do.
minigames=babygames square enix sells and builds baby games.
Why does Square Enix push Final Fantasy so hard here but barely even talk about Dragon Quest? The far superior series gets no attention from the studio that publishes the game.