Including "My Way" by Frank Sinatra as the end credits song was galaxy brained. The lyrics perfectly fit Jack's entire character arc. In the end, he did it his way.
Looks like Garland's time loop plan was even more successful than even he could have guessed. No matter if he dies in the original game or Dissidia, he will always return one way or another.
If that is canon, then garland is not only first but one of the successful villains along kefka, kuja and sephiroth even exdeath, i want to include golbez here since he already acquired all world crystal (including underworld crystal) which his was great plan at first
The fact we find out How Jack became Garland and basically what we knew of him as the seeker pf war and strife is just a pretense to make rhe WOLs stronger, man he took the mantle pf villain for others to raise up and be strong, fucking kino tbh
Jack is the savior of humanity. The Lufenians wanted to create the perfect utopia, but human emotion prevented that from being achieved. Their solution? Corrupt humanity with darkness and turn them into monsters, then mass genocide them. Jack ripped the Lufenian's control over the world by going back in time and seizing it before they could, thus preventing the obliteration of humanity at the hands of a race pretending to play God.
I think the thing I'm most confused about is that are people actually surprised that Jack becomes Garland/Chaos? I feel like that was obviously what was going to happen, even from the very first trailer. Heck, even the second trailer revealed his surname was Garland.
There was the believe Jack was both Garland and WoL but In the game is Jack from an alternate timeline and see him raise being the WOL *all thanks to the first demo* but that’s not the case anymore
thing is, this game makes him both canoncially the warrior of light AND the being who'd become chaos, and that this was all his plan though his superiors made him forget and more over that he's the one who'd make the actual warriors of light
@@Ike_of_pyke Let’s be Real, Jack made himself one of the most memorable Heroes and villains at the same time without trying. Mad Respect to Jack Garland
Man, the moment Sinatra kicks in while the Warriors of Light are passing through the hallway gets me every time. What a poignant end to a fantastic game that I didn't expect to be as amazing as it was! The game really recontexualizes FF1 and makes me appreciate it a lot more.
I felt the same. Based on the beginning, I wasn't expecting the story to turn out so damn good. I loved it at the end. And that song was perfect. Better than the end of bl3 with its ending song
Interesting. This means Tiamat in the original FF1 managed to succeed in some capacity in bringing the original Lufenians down. Their descendants mentioned they sent Five Warriors to look for the cause of that attack but never returned. (When you translate their language) Given a few millenia of storytelling changes, it might be possible to fit those five warriors as Jack and company. The Lufenians after losing their civilization.... just forgot about the real events.
There’s a flaw in your logic though. Those 5 warriors are confirmed to be that bats flying around the dark crystal. They even regain the ability to speak once you open the portal to travel back in time. Don’t take this story as canon. What it does do is take Final Fantasy story elements and makes a story that could be linked with contrivances. What I’m really interested in is who was the benefactor and he Lufenians referred to in their report? Was it Shinryu?
@@kidhavii As a being so invested in keeping the cycle going, that's not a bad theory. I wonder if Cid was the one that created Astos. He had to have known that a memory/record retainer with a will like that would eventually lead to Lufenia losing it's grip on the world of FF1. But there's plenty of dlc coming apparently so maybe more answers will come. Just to throw in here as well, Matoya and Bahamut are mysteriously uninvolved in this origin story so far...
@@UndyingWladeslaus We know that Bahamut will have his own DLC, Trials of the Dragon King. Matoya is a more interesting topic, since she is linked to Astos in the original game. Then again, she is also of little importance.
@@kidhavii True, Matoya was a very minor character. But so was Astos. And the way the adventure flows so well for the Warriors of Light in FF1, and following Jack's epiphany, it only makes sense she'd be a major piece of his scheme to free the world from the Lufaine. I hope she shows up in time. Astos may star his own DLC and she could be a major character for an arc of his in a DLC. There's still plenty of character and arc to explore with him.
A lot of great parts here. I really like how around 12:30 once he comes up with a plan he stops taunting his former bosses and just says “Not a chance”. Righteous fury mixed with a sense of pragmatism. I like it.
So, this is technically an origin story/prequel to FF1 where Garlan who went into timeloops wanting to fix the problem of corrupted people wanting to play gods by himself, but he is in a disadvantage in the current era even if he loops more times cuz the ones in power will just send more sacrifices for chaos to "eat", so this time, he along with his friends went thousands of years back in time when the ones in control don't even exists to mold the world into a proper solution with an actual hero of light who will end the loop once and for all...i hope there is a sequel/dlc and see how this goes and give it a proper ending.
Wouldn't it be confusing if that the warriors of light that beats Garland and Chaos from 2000 years later are Jack and co. Thus made it the successful time cycle
Literally one week before this game was announced I finished playing FF1 and thought to myself how great a remake would be. When the game was announced originally, I thought it was going to be a remake. But as soon as Jack garland was introduced I not only knew it was going to be a prequel, but Garland's team was going to be the fiends. Now I have to play the game to get the full understanding.
This may seem like a downer ending but if this does lead to the events of FF1 then that means when they defeat him in the future as Chaos then it changes the timeline so that Garland never becomes Chaos and never becomes evil.
I kinda wished that in one of the time loops Jack and co. Got to to become the warriors of light. It's kinda sad or tragic to see them become the necessary evil in order to break free from lufenians.
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Jack lived long enough to become the Chaos of his own story. And yet… I think everyone is contempt with the ending considering what it means (to some degree). Still, the idea of being the antagonist the whole time certainly is a nice twist of the story.
Protagonist is a main subject of the story progression while antagonist is the one that trying to stop protagonist. So he is the protagonist. The word you are looking for is villain. Villain and hero. He is villain protag
They said the third DLC will be an alternate ending. Perhaps it is an allusion to the fact that we will impersonate the Warriors of Light as soon as we arrive at the Chaos Shrine, referring to the events of the first Final Fantasy.
thing is, this invalidates FF1. Namely on ff1, the warriors never were from Cornelia, they found themselves randomly there, they weren't natives supposedly as no one recognizes them
It doesn't invalidated that much. By Dissidia, the stranger is only OG WOL. With both Neon and Sophia they were establishing the rest of party member are either capable civilians from razed villages or failed Lufenia agents (as Garland and Four Fiends being gatekeepers to Lufenia efforts, also WOL is advanced manikins from even more distant future). So yes, its possible to do FF I Remake with this with some tie-in to Dissidia.
@@mizuhashiriku5219 except this establishes here that all of the WoL including the one I'll call Warrior, due to his job, were raised by the fiends.... so that'd included warrior himself, so it'd not make sense to have some advanced piece of Lufenian tech be the leadership of it.
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" In the end, Jack Garland become the very thing he hates. Such a tragic villain.
@@Ike_of_pyke yes but the original saying is about someone that loses itself and becomes the thing it swore to destroy, Jakc didn't lost himself. An actual example of someone that was warped into a true villain is Oersted.
Well this explains the time loop that happens every time Garland dies, His friends were looking out for their friend, even in their Fiend forms. All this was to set the stage for the appearance of the True Warriors of Light who would vanquish the darkness from Cornelia once and for all. Sure as hell is a better story than "The King ordered us to find and protect the Four Crystals and defeat evil!" Hell even Final Fantasy III, well the remake that was actually released outside of Japan, had more meat and potatoes to it's story.
@@dytgyfgyffuh243 the changes : Jack and his team were already in a time loop before the warriors came along, Jack was already chaos aka the whole ploy of Garland as the knight was a trick from the beginning as it was always chaos in his power & role even before his defeat by the warriors. More over that THIS idea of Jack's team was Always the plan. On top of all that the warriors were not said to be native to Cornelia as no one seems to recognize them or know who they are in the beginning of the original game. More over if you go back to the ending of the original game it says that Garland after the defeat of Chaos was returned to being a Normal knight for the kingdom when the reset happens ... so this all balls into "this is notably different" or the dlc will have to answer
this would have been perfect if when the warriors of light come in, Jack stands up and says "I Garland will knock you all down!" in the most dramatic voice possible.
6:05 Jack is going full Anakin Skywalker now. He seeks to consume Darkness manifests and gain “Unlimited power!” He all in for the chao’s side now (Palpatine).
Technically, they gather all of the darkness in their own bodies so that when the time is right, the Warriors of Light that the Prophecy speaks of can rid it from the world once and for all.
@@internetexplorerchan2697 That was the main plan in order to finally destroy the time loop, and prevent all of that from happening in the first place.
I wish you could've played as the original Garland instead. Being 8 feet tall in cool armor, being able to cast a variety of magic, and one handing a colossal sword.
People were concerned this would decanonize FF1, that it would suck, that nothing good would come out of it... And it goes on to not only keep FF1's canon, but provide a hidden depth to it and make Garland a fucking badass
I like how gleefully Jack and the Princess talk about the future kidnapping then cuts to the nameless soldiers dying bloody pointless deaths. Jack I understand but the princess comes off a tad too happy about it.
I had also noticed something when Princess Sarah discussed Jack's "plans" before he traveled back to time, so she knows already that she would be kidnapped? But instead Jack kidnapped the princess after the reset and she isn't aware on that.
When the Warrior of Light we know appeared, it gave me chills (I was hoping for a proper silhouette for Thief, Black Mage and White Mage oh well) Edit: If you're wondering why Thief, Black Mage and White Mage. I'm following the novelization of the original FF, the same one that became the source of FFIII Remake, so why not here?
Well, pretty sure the girl at right side is praying like a nun, get ready for any Heal cast be White Mage. Next to her is a man with big fist and a familiar big pants, referring Monk. And next to OUR WARRIOR, cloak with short sword or maybe long sword? If he have a spare sword, might be thief, or red mage.
@@sarthakverma1030 actually he wrote the inital plot and concept, then the woman who writes the KH Novels rewrote it and then it was given to Nojima. Aside from art Nomura was a creative producer on the game.
I knew it would end with a no Jack, you are the Chaos and then Jack was Garland but what let me down was that we dont unlock an extra class for NG+ with Garland
Yknow I'm just surprised nobody saw Jack *Garland* being the villain I mean even in the DEMO Ash says he moves just like Jack but not quite like obviously we were playing a prequel but seeing the orignal Warriors of Light.... kinda gave me chills like holy shit
This remake is what it’s all about! 2-6 should funnily enough do this for the remake remake. We should even see how he does behind the scenes when he’s thrown into FF9 universe!
I'm a newb when it comes to FF lore. The first one I've played was X, then the ones after that. I played VIIR and was told they changed a lot of things in that. So all of this feels new to me. And damn was the story impressive
The original game is from the NES era it was very ambitious, story in short is very simple basically four warriors of Light are in a journey to defeat Garland his four fiends and chaos and it involves time traveling. This game is basically an alternate take on the Garland, because in the original he was just a knight who served Cornelia. This game is basically Nomura wet dream because unlike the original creator of Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi who like to make his story simple and a little deep, Nomura makes his story too complex which can be confusing, edgy and directionless just look how Kingdom Hearts has become it has so many retcons. Luckily this game was written by someone else and Nomura was the producer and concepts of this game story.
@@nanokiryt no, it's not even that because this changes several elements of what ff1 means entirely and is also incompatible with elements of ff1 like Astos, if he is what he was in this game, it's not make sense why he'd act like he did in FF1, on top of that Chaos doesn't explain this part where the Lufenians are the real enemy and he's set up the warriors on this journey to make them fight the Lufenians, who only appear in one town in FF1, this isn't compatible.
If they are still going by this continuity, i kinda expect the canon WoLs from 'successful time loop' were Jack and Co. I know it's a bit far fetched and srawing blanks but you get the idea.
@@Ike_of_pyke ah, what I mean by Canon WoL is Yoshitaka Amano's Biblically Accurate WoL AHAHA the white-haired blue armored horned helmet one like the silhouette at the end there.
Lufenians playing god by resetting the world because they are dissatisfied. Then we have Jack and co. Being the necessary evil in order to break free from lufenians perfectionist asses.
Stranger of Paradise is actually the "backstory" of how Garland becomes the knight lauded by Cornelia. But, as per the words of Tetsuya Nomura, it's not a "direct" sequel or prequel to FF1. Because it's is not the exact same world of FF1. In FF1, the Warriors of Light broke the time loop when they defeated Garland
I was waiting for the Tetsuya Nomura convoluted stuff to come into the game and then BOOM the last couple of hour everything gets all bent and twisted and “Nomura’d.”
Questions Why did the sixth dark crystal held by Sarah draw all the darkness towards her? Where do the Lufenians get the humans in every iteration? Why did the Lufenians not notice Jack giving one of his dark crystals away so that his memories could be restored later? How did Jack’s friends pull him 2000 years into the past when Jack already killed them?
Jack be like: Sorry future manikins, we had no choice. We can't capable to beat them alone. We manifest the darkness for the temporary good. We fell bad from all of the victims from our "misguided" threats. We are just playing our role to train them which it is hard for us to disobey morality. In the end, when Chaos end in demise, the world will reset without bothering its existence and we live in peaceful and prosperous world.
So is this hinting at the start of a compilation of FF1 games and stories in the future similar FF7 compilation, Ivalice Alliance, Fabulous Crysalis Nova, FF15 Universe? Gotta hand it to the dev team and Nomura this is pure genius in itself to create a game to reexplore FF1
So, Jack 10 years ago planned with Astos and his four friends to break free of their bosses, the Lufenians, who had been using Cornelia as a dumping ground for their darkness, which seems like a physically objective measurable thing that causes bad thigns to happen. This is however at the cost of everyone's lives in Cornelia and their world . Lufenians were doing this to become a prefect society in their world which is a seperate universe from the one that houses Cornelia. Jack and his team decided to do this by pushing Jack to become a conduit of darkness who'd absorb their power and become chaos itself, in order to destory them. Jack had his memories of what happened in the previous 10 years erased but after becoming chaos (by defeating the boss darkness manifest) is told "you will never beat us" by the Lufenians and one makes reference to the "Warriors of Light" who are actually fictional before this point. However Jack realizes at that moment, he now has the power to make them real and thus resets the universe whole cutting off the Lufenians from that world. Finally once he's reset the universe he discovers this was his plan from 10 years ago and that his allies were pushing him toward this the whole time because that was always the plan. we then discover he thought up this plan while talking to Sarah playfully about running away together, finally at 15:10 Jack puts forth that they use their power to make the Warriors of light a reality
@@mavvynne444 it's not tragic, the Lufenians made him think chaos was the issue, his old self who loved Sarah before all this planted the idea of getting him to become chaos, his superiors made him forget.
Some bad guys in fictional works might actually be the good guy in disguise I've noticed that in many TV Shows and comic books just like how Batman isn't a super hero he's a rich elite with a costume on and a lot of money.
It would have been better if the scene of Garland taking Princess Sarah was first, and the one where the Warriors of Light face Garland was shown after the credits.
yep though more tragic than even XV, because unlike XV where the hero dies saving everyone, this hero will die saving everyone but be considered the monster
it was never Canon : in the original game chaos explains at the very end he was empowered the moment he came back, in dissida garland ask chaos if he's the one who saved him by bringing him back 2000 years, meaning this garland not only remembered traveling back but was pulled back after realizing he's been sent back 2000 years but before he could become chaos. and mind you this is what pixel remaster says in FF1 so it's not like i am going off old outdated info
@@CallMeNoa.... in this Jack knows he's chaos this whole time when he fights the warriors at the end of the game as he claims it when he fights and kills Darkness Manifest in this video. in dissdia 1(the original on psp) in his conversation with chaos has him realize that Chaos is an alternate version of him who saved him.
I played other FF, I expected character dying, I prepared for it, but lord I never expect ALL DEAD, or is it? I didn't buy this one because I saw the ending... I played the demo and started to like the characters ....
It turns out the real Chaos was literally the friends we made along the way.
Actually true xD
*the fiends
thats what i was thiinking so glad somebody said it
Chaos is darkness manifest
“I must kill Chaos.”
“No Jack, you are Chaos.”
And then Jack was Garland.
"Chaos was in this world. Jack didn't see him, but had expected him now for years."
- Final Fantasy: Crystal Consequences
Including "My Way" by Frank Sinatra as the end credits song was galaxy brained. The lyrics perfectly fit Jack's entire character arc.
In the end, he did it his way.
Perfect Cell: CORRECT!
I cried when the song plays.
It kinda hits different
Looks like Garland's time loop plan was even more successful than even he could have guessed. No matter if he dies in the original game or Dissidia, he will always return one way or another.
Let's just say jack will always comeback
@@ameernurhaqeem9738 Yep
and breaking the time loop is what he wanted. This results him being normal (not corrupted) by the end of FF1.
If that is canon, then garland is not only first but one of the successful villains along kefka, kuja and sephiroth even exdeath, i want to include golbez here since he already acquired all world crystal (including underworld crystal) which his was great plan at first
Just like how Sephiroth managed to return
The fact we find out How Jack became Garland and basically what we knew of him as the seeker pf war and strife is just a pretense to make rhe WOLs stronger, man he took the mantle pf villain for others to raise up and be strong, fucking kino tbh
The ending was sad and tragic. Got me tear up a bit.
@@mavvynne444 don't be sad, remember, he'll never truly die
Man, him and the gang becoming the necessary evil to break free from lufenians.
Even as the villain, Jack goes out like the biggest hero.
Jacks the goat
Don't forget that Jack, at the end of FF1 becomes good again, thus him finally getting a happy ending.
Jack is the savior of humanity. The Lufenians wanted to create the perfect utopia, but human emotion prevented that from being achieved. Their solution? Corrupt humanity with darkness and turn them into monsters, then mass genocide them.
Jack ripped the Lufenian's control over the world by going back in time and seizing it before they could, thus preventing the obliteration of humanity at the hands of a race pretending to play God.
And so, Jack shows that even (future) villains can use the power of friendship
Most MC:*Chuckles* I'm in Danger
Future Villain AKA Sora
He kind of did in Dissidia
What’s kind of funny is that when you think about it, he is more anti-hero than villain
I think the thing I'm most confused about is that are people actually surprised that Jack becomes Garland/Chaos?
I feel like that was obviously what was going to happen, even from the very first trailer.
Heck, even the second trailer revealed his surname was Garland.
There was the believe Jack was both Garland and WoL but In the game is Jack from an alternate timeline and see him raise being the WOL *all thanks to the first demo* but that’s not the case anymore
thing is, this game makes him both canoncially the warrior of light AND the being who'd become chaos, and that this was all his plan though his superiors made him forget and more over that he's the one who'd make the actual warriors of light
@@75skyloftmexican it is the case tho, he's the one who planted the idea of both
@@Ike_of_pyke Let’s be Real, Jack made himself one of the most memorable Heroes and villains at the same time without trying. Mad Respect to Jack Garland
Nomura event told us lol
I had a feeling the other 4 were the Four Fiends. Made so much sense.
even as a villain he's still undoubtedly a hero...
It is no coincidence that his manikin in Dissidia is called False Stalwart.
kinda remind me of Big Boss
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain, even when you become the villain you’re still the hero.
an anti-hero
"Even when we're gone, who will humanity blame father?" Paladin Victora, Commander of the Armageddon Cavalry
Man, the moment Sinatra kicks in while the Warriors of Light are passing through the hallway gets me every time. What a poignant end to a fantastic game that I didn't expect to be as amazing as it was!
The game really recontexualizes FF1 and makes me appreciate it a lot more.
I felt the same. Based on the beginning, I wasn't expecting the story to turn out so damn good. I loved it at the end. And that song was perfect. Better than the end of bl3 with its ending song
what a fucking crossover holy shit the classic wol and frank bloody sinatra, amazing
Interesting.
This means Tiamat in the original FF1 managed to succeed in some capacity in bringing the original Lufenians down.
Their descendants mentioned they sent Five Warriors to look for the cause of that attack but never returned. (When you translate their language)
Given a few millenia of storytelling changes, it might be possible to fit those five warriors as Jack and company. The Lufenians after losing their civilization.... just forgot about the real events.
There’s a flaw in your logic though. Those 5 warriors are confirmed to be that bats flying around the dark crystal. They even regain the ability to speak once you open the portal to travel back in time. Don’t take this story as canon. What it does do is take Final Fantasy story elements and makes a story that could be linked with contrivances. What I’m really interested in is who was the benefactor and he Lufenians referred to in their report? Was it Shinryu?
@@kidhavii As a being so invested in keeping the cycle going, that's not a bad theory.
I wonder if Cid was the one that created Astos. He had to have known that a memory/record retainer with a will like that would eventually lead to Lufenia losing it's grip on the world of FF1.
But there's plenty of dlc coming apparently so maybe more answers will come.
Just to throw in here as well, Matoya and Bahamut are mysteriously uninvolved in this origin story so far...
@@UndyingWladeslaus We know that Bahamut will have his own DLC, Trials of the Dragon King. Matoya is a more interesting topic, since she is linked to Astos in the original game. Then again, she is also of little importance.
@@kidhavii True, Matoya was a very minor character. But so was Astos.
And the way the adventure flows so well for the Warriors of Light in FF1, and following Jack's epiphany, it only makes sense she'd be a major piece of his scheme to free the world from the Lufaine. I hope she shows up in time.
Astos may star his own DLC and she could be a major character for an arc of his in a DLC. There's still plenty of character and arc to explore with him.
@@kidhavii 'don't take this story as canon', it is canon tho, you can't just decide that lol.
A lot of great parts here. I really like how around 12:30 once he comes up with a plan he stops taunting his former bosses and just says “Not a chance”. Righteous fury mixed with a sense of pragmatism. I like it.
So, this is technically an origin story/prequel to FF1 where Garlan who went into timeloops wanting to fix the problem of corrupted people wanting to play gods by himself, but he is in a disadvantage in the current era even if he loops more times cuz the ones in power will just send more sacrifices for chaos to "eat", so this time, he along with his friends went thousands of years back in time when the ones in control don't even exists to mold the world into a proper solution with an actual hero of light who will end the loop once and for all...i hope there is a sequel/dlc and see how this goes and give it a proper ending.
Play ff1 it’s proper ending
The PSP version is the Best to go
Wouldn't it be confusing if that the warriors of light that beats Garland and Chaos from 2000 years later are Jack and co. Thus made it the successful time cycle
@@raiga5-6-42 but it is the warriors of light from original ff 1 so it’s not that confusing
@@lujack1801 FINAL FANTASY 1 REMAKE COMING SOON! I CAN FEEL IT!
Literally one week before this game was announced I finished playing FF1 and thought to myself how great a remake would be. When the game was announced originally, I thought it was going to be a remake. But as soon as Jack garland was introduced I not only knew it was going to be a prequel, but Garland's team was going to be the fiends. Now I have to play the game to get the full understanding.
It an alternate reality, basically roles were reverse instead focusing the warriors of Light is the origin of the fiends and Garaland
This may seem like a downer ending but if this does lead to the events of FF1 then that means when they defeat him in the future as Chaos then it changes the timeline so that Garland never becomes Chaos and never becomes evil.
I kinda wished that in one of the time loops Jack and co. Got to to become the warriors of light.
It's kinda sad or tragic to see them become the necessary evil in order to break free from lufenians.
@@raiga5-6-42 You either die a hero...or you live long enough to see yourselves become villains.
@@raiga5-6-42 technically it's possible, all 4 of the main characters have 4 letters maximum, which is the max letters allowed in FF1
Consider Dissidia is part of cannon im afraid he just gets kicked into Shinryu land where he gets farmed along with everyone else for their essence.
@@luiousy7329 Then that means they all band together to defeat Shinryu and gain their freedom leading back to the changed ending of FF1.
I really love how brilliant the mind of those people who created Final Fantasy. This Science Fantasy Anthology Media Franchise. The Creator himself Hironobu Sakaguchi and the Square Enix team. So glad that I'd live, witness and got the experience to this wonderful awesome game. It never ceases to amaze me... The story, characters, elements and iconic music theme. How it evolves. Now here we are, back from the start. It's really a Fantasy of a lifetime for me 😌🖤✨
Jack lived long enough to become the Chaos of his own story. And yet… I think everyone is contempt with the ending considering what it means (to some degree).
Still, the idea of being the antagonist the whole time certainly is a nice twist of the story.
That's not what an antagonist is.
Kinda reminds me of Thanos actually.
Protagonist is a main subject of the story progression while antagonist is the one that trying to stop protagonist. So he is the protagonist. The word you are looking for is villain. Villain and hero. He is villain protag
I really hope they remake Final Fantasy 1 and the continuation is after this game. The ending is epic
They said the third DLC will be an alternate ending. Perhaps it is an allusion to the fact that we will impersonate the Warriors of Light as soon as we arrive at the Chaos Shrine, referring to the events of the first Final Fantasy.
thing is, this invalidates FF1.
Namely on ff1, the warriors never were from Cornelia, they found themselves randomly there, they weren't natives supposedly as no one recognizes them
@@Ike_of_pyke Oh well, at least among the figures we recognize the clone of Cid of Lufenians (the Warrior of the Light of Dissidia).
It doesn't invalidated that much.
By Dissidia, the stranger is only OG WOL. With both Neon and Sophia they were establishing the rest of party member are either capable civilians from razed villages or failed Lufenia agents (as Garland and Four Fiends being gatekeepers to Lufenia efforts, also WOL is advanced manikins from even more distant future).
So yes, its possible to do FF I Remake with this with some tie-in to Dissidia.
@@mizuhashiriku5219 except this establishes here that all of the WoL including the one I'll call Warrior, due to his job, were raised by the fiends.... so that'd included warrior himself, so it'd not make sense to have some advanced piece of Lufenian tech be the leadership of it.
Kinda wish 8-bit theatre was still active. I'd love to see this incorporated into the comics lol
now that's a name I havn't heard in a very long time...
@@KatlikeRider But a name full of meanings and good memories (*gets flashbacks of Black Mage antics)
Indeed
I’m this close to making 16 bit theater.
Jack garland; started the game as a badass, ended the game as a badass. I am in love!
"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
In the end, Jack Garland become the very thing he hates. Such a tragic villain.
But he choose to become the villain as massive gambit to save Cornelia from the asshole Luferians, it's not the same.
@@Buitronthecrazy exactly, he's a hero to save the world by becoming the villian.
@@Ike_of_pyke yes but the original saying is about someone that loses itself and becomes the thing it swore to destroy, Jakc didn't lost himself. An actual example of someone that was warped into a true villain is Oersted.
@@Buitronthecrazy i know, I was agreeing with your view
@@Ike_of_pyke oh, sorry
In the second half of the fight you have constant chaosbringer. If you put 'overpower' on your move list you can spam it and the boss dies in seconds.
So Jack is like Arthas becoming Lich King, really cool, I like that.
He's also the same like Anakin Skywalker.
I think its time for a true remake of the first final fantasy
Well this explains the time loop that happens every time Garland dies, His friends were looking out for their friend, even in their Fiend forms. All this was to set the stage for the appearance of the True Warriors of Light who would vanquish the darkness from Cornelia once and for all. Sure as hell is a better story than "The King ordered us to find and protect the Four Crystals and defeat evil!" Hell even Final Fantasy III, well the remake that was actually released outside of Japan, had more meat and potatoes to it's story.
U do know FF1 was an NES RPG right? There wasn't much room for a massive story during that time.
@@christianlopez707 No shit Sherlock! That was my point!
@@deathbykonami5487 No need to be rude about it.
FF1 was a lot more complicated than that… this game actually makes amazing sense to the original lore.
@@ironrex6979 The original on the NES, not the remake on the PSP.
Ok THAT IS COOL. Even the idea that it's like a damn prequel to the FIRST final fantasy game!
Including the idea that Jack BECOMES Garland himself!
Is it prequel
@@dytgyfgyffuh243 not exactly, because they changed some things already with just the final 5 minutes
@@Ike_of_pyke what do you mean
@@dytgyfgyffuh243 the changes : Jack and his team were already in a time loop before the warriors came along, Jack was already chaos aka the whole ploy of Garland as the knight was a trick from the beginning as it was always chaos in his power & role even before his defeat by the warriors. More over that THIS idea of Jack's team was Always the plan. On top of all that the warriors were not said to be native to Cornelia as no one seems to recognize them or know who they are in the beginning of the original game. More over if you go back to the ending of the original game it says that Garland after the defeat of Chaos was returned to being a Normal knight for the kingdom when the reset happens ... so this all balls into "this is notably different" or the dlc will have to answer
this would have been perfect if when the warriors of light come in, Jack stands up and says "I Garland will knock you all down!" in the most dramatic voice possible.
I'm really amazed that this Jack was actually the character before becoming Garland and all the rest, He is the most evolved Final Fantasy character!
6:05 Jack is going full Anakin Skywalker now. He seeks to consume Darkness manifests and gain “Unlimited power!” He all in for the chao’s side now (Palpatine).
Technically, they gather all of the darkness in their own bodies so that when the time is right, the Warriors of Light that the Prophecy speaks of can rid it from the world once and for all.
he is chaos tho
@@deathbykonami5487 So Jack is more of "anti-hero" as he sacrificed himself by embracing the darkness to protect Cornelia?
@@internetexplorerchan2697 That was the main plan in order to finally destroy the time loop, and prevent all of that from happening in the first place.
The four fiends, more like "the four friends" 🥺
Garland can never die. Even 8 games later. Ff9 fans get it
I really liked this idea. I hope we get more spinoffs of Final Fantasy games. It would be cool for a game about Locke exploring a ruined world
I hope we get a 3D remake for all the other 2D Final Fantasies too
Stronger of Paradise isn't a Remake of anything. Kinda like a prequel of Final Fantasy but certainly not a Remake.
Considering they pulled this REALLY good. I have high hopes and excitement of what they are gonna do to FF7R's next installements.
I see "Someone had to become the babysitter". This was the only way for the world to be free from those who wish to control it behind the scenes.
"The messenger is standing at the gate.
Ready to let goo~~
Ready for the crushh~~"
I wish you could've played as the original Garland instead. Being 8 feet tall in cool armor, being able to cast a variety of magic, and one handing a colossal sword.
Maybe Dlc man if we get jack garland with the armour that will be sick
the post-game job does let you use Blaze, Tsunami, Earthquake, and Cyclone which is really cool
@@ToxicGlamour yeah, but I want to run around as Garland killing soldiers. I want to play as the main villain of FF1
@@ericholman1935 play as jack garland with his armor would be sick as.fck
People were concerned this would decanonize FF1, that it would suck, that nothing good would come out of it...
And it goes on to not only keep FF1's canon, but provide a hidden depth to it and make Garland a fucking badass
I like how gleefully Jack and the Princess talk about the future kidnapping then cuts to the nameless soldiers dying bloody pointless deaths. Jack I understand but the princess comes off a tad too happy about it.
Now I'm itching to see Final Fantasy 1 to be remade to fit more appropiately with this one. Come on Square Enix! DO EETT!
I would like to see an FFI remake using the Active Dimension Battle from FFXII.
I had also noticed something when Princess Sarah discussed Jack's "plans" before he traveled back to time, so she knows already that she would be kidnapped? But instead Jack kidnapped the princess after the reset and she isn't aware on that.
Ok, so Jack's part were actually the Four Elemental Fiends?
Yes his friends became the four fiends
It was you who sent me 2000 years into the past.
You.... are me. And I.....am you.
- Garland talking to Chaos in Dissidia
When the Warrior of Light we know appeared, it gave me chills
(I was hoping for a proper silhouette for Thief, Black Mage and White Mage oh well)
Edit: If you're wondering why Thief, Black Mage and White Mage. I'm following the novelization of the original FF, the same one that became the source of FFIII Remake, so why not here?
I thought one of them was a red mage silhouette...
I think White mage, monk, warrior and red mage
I'm following the novelization of the original FF, where the characters are Warrior, Thief, White Mage and Black Mage
Well, pretty sure the girl at right side is praying like a nun, get ready for any Heal cast be White Mage. Next to her is a man with big fist and a familiar big pants, referring Monk. And next to OUR WARRIOR, cloak with short sword or maybe long sword? If he have a spare sword, might be thief, or red mage.
I do believe is, from left to right: White Mage, Monk, Warrior and red mage. Curiously, that was my first party in FF1 for the PSP
What would make this more epic is if you have the Rebellion greatsword equipped (it's a pre-order item but OG fans know what I'm talking about).
this is actually so fucking cool. Wow... Nomura you genius.
He didn't write it. He only did art.
Oh no, Sora is gonna turn out to be MOM isn't he.
@@sarthakverma1030 actually he wrote the inital plot and concept, then the woman who writes the KH Novels rewrote it and then it was given to Nojima. Aside from art Nomura was a creative producer on the game.
You know, this makes me want a Chrono Trigger retelling from Lavos’ POV.
Now I miss FF Mobius more and more. Wouldn't be surprised if it's related.
Technically mobius was a soft prelude to FF1, wouldn't be surprised if they were going to linked at some point.
WoL: We're here to kill Chaos.
Jack: Oh, _giggles_ really?
WoL: yes, and I'm gonna save you too.
Jack Garland: *remembers 2000 years ago*
*cringe*
@@apollyonnoctis1291 *cringe so much*
*dies in 5 turns*
I knew it would end with a no Jack, you are the Chaos and then Jack was Garland but what let me down was that we dont unlock an extra class for NG+ with Garland
Yes you can its call "Cycliac Warrior" Job.
Yknow I'm just surprised nobody saw Jack *Garland* being the villain I mean even in the DEMO Ash says he moves just like Jack but not quite like obviously we were playing a prequel but seeing the orignal Warriors of Light.... kinda gave me chills like holy shit
Me and FF fans: "Bullsh*t"
But seriously though, we saw it coming. Plus it was already revealed in one of the trailers.
Ash is Lich
Jed is Kraken
Neon is Kali/Maliris
Sophia is Tiamat
So he became the villain to make the heroes rise up and destroy the real villains?
But the Lufenians weren't a thing in FF1. Is it setting up a sequel or DLC from the WoLs' perspective?
This game is dumb, the story is dumb, jack and his pals are dumb, the gameplay is dumb, i love it.
This remake is what it’s all about! 2-6 should funnily enough do this for the remake remake. We should even see how he does behind the scenes when he’s thrown into FF9 universe!
I'm a newb when it comes to FF lore. The first one I've played was X, then the ones after that. I played VIIR and was told they changed a lot of things in that.
So all of this feels new to me. And damn was the story impressive
The original game is from the NES era it was very ambitious, story in short is very simple basically four warriors of Light are in a journey to defeat Garland his four fiends and chaos and it involves time traveling.
This game is basically an alternate take on the Garland, because in the original he was just a knight who served Cornelia.
This game is basically Nomura wet dream because unlike the original creator of Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi who like to make his story simple and a little deep, Nomura makes his story too complex which can be confusing, edgy and directionless just look how Kingdom Hearts has become it has so many retcons. Luckily this game was written by someone else and Nomura was the producer and concepts of this game story.
Boss List:
01. Chaos Advent
02. Captain Bikke
03. Lady Maria
04. Black Knight
05. Elemental Core
06. Chimera
07. Darkness Manifest
7:44 are those the heads of Jack's friends?
So this is garland backstory?
Basically yes. The whole Stranger of Paradise is Final Fantasy I prequel.
@@rayjohnnercacao3703 not exactly
Ya it's a re-imagining of an original story for garland. Trying to explain how certain things took place
@@Ike_of_pyke Its a remake that also works like a precuel, its literaly the same with FF7 REMAKE, Square its on fire!!
@@nanokiryt no, it's not even that because this changes several elements of what ff1 means entirely and is also incompatible with elements of ff1 like Astos, if he is what he was in this game, it's not make sense why he'd act like he did in FF1, on top of that Chaos doesn't explain this part where the Lufenians are the real enemy and he's set up the warriors on this journey to make them fight the Lufenians, who only appear in one town in FF1, this isn't compatible.
This is actually so exciting??? I want to see how they take in putting in canon WoL into the story
Secret boss DLC?
If they are still going by this continuity, i kinda expect the canon WoLs from 'successful time loop' were Jack and Co.
I know it's a bit far fetched and srawing blanks but you get the idea.
there is no Canon WoL
@@Ike_of_pyke ah, what I mean by Canon WoL is Yoshitaka Amano's Biblically Accurate WoL AHAHA the white-haired blue armored horned helmet one like the silhouette at the end there.
@@raiga5-6-42 actually that makes some really good sense. Similar concept to Ashura's Four Fiends in FFL/SaGa being the previous set of heroes.
Basically they’ve all became the very thing they swore to destroy
For a good reason... the Lufenians were massively manipulating Cornelia and making problems in Cornelia.
except the plan was the whole time to get jack out of their control, he was forced to think chaos was the problem when it was Lufenians
Lufenians playing god by resetting the world because they are dissatisfied.
Then we have Jack and co. Being the necessary evil in order to break free from lufenians perfectionist asses.
Don't lecture me, Joel 031704. They see through the lies of the Lufenians!
This is the last battle of Final Fantasy Origin has begun.
It’s crazy to think the four silent protagonist warrior of lights in the original FFI have met Jack!
What do you mean? Eh... But if you count Dffoo, WoL did meet Jack now.
OK, we got a FF1 prequel. Now we need FF1 Remake
HA my theory came true! My theory was this entire game was an origin story for Garland!
Stranger of Paradise is actually the "backstory" of how Garland becomes the knight lauded by Cornelia. But, as per the words of Tetsuya Nomura, it's not a "direct" sequel or prequel to FF1. Because it's is not the exact same world of FF1. In FF1, the Warriors of Light broke the time loop when they defeated Garland
I was waiting for the Tetsuya Nomura convoluted stuff to come into the game and then BOOM the last couple of hour everything gets all bent and twisted and “Nomura’d.”
In the final scene, four rays of light shine down on Cornelia, signifying the birth of the warriors of light.
The Warriors of Light will come. And I, Agent Jack Garland, will knock them all down!
Jack: to defeat Chaos, I must become Chaos
*BIG BRAIN MOMENT*
Questions
Why did the sixth dark crystal held by Sarah draw all the darkness towards her?
Where do the Lufenians get the humans in every iteration?
Why did the Lufenians not notice Jack giving one of his dark crystals away so that his memories could be restored later?
How did Jack’s friends pull him 2000 years into the past when Jack already killed them?
...HE...they are there...to challenge Garland...the lord...of Chaos...the four Warriors of Light.
And thus begins... A Final Fantasy.
Jack be like: Sorry future manikins, we had no choice. We can't capable to beat them alone. We manifest the darkness for the temporary good. We fell bad from all of the victims from our "misguided" threats. We are just playing our role to train them which it is hard for us to disobey morality. In the end, when Chaos end in demise, the world will reset without bothering its existence and we live in peaceful and prosperous world.
A Manikin: Yeah that sound bad, Garland.
But I pity you.
I think everyone kind of guessed this kind of ending the first time the trailer come out
lol, it was so predictable, and it's right
thanks for sharing
I wish there's a remastered ver of ff1 instead ff7
Like 3d remastered
So is this hinting at the start of a compilation of FF1 games and stories in the future similar FF7 compilation, Ivalice Alliance, Fabulous Crysalis Nova, FF15 Universe? Gotta hand it to the dev team and Nomura this is pure genius in itself to create a game to reexplore FF1
All the game talking about destroying Chaos and when you finally fight him his name is "Darkness Manifest". Brilliant XD
How do you get regen and cure on the mage build?
I am stuck on this boss and don't have those.
Can someone give a basic summary on wtf is going on? All I know is that Jack wants to kill chaos, why does he wanna become chaos?
Ya the memes, and opening of this game. Don't urly give a good indication of how the story is going to play out
its a subversive story
So, Jack 10 years ago planned with Astos and his four friends to break free of their bosses, the Lufenians, who had been using Cornelia as a dumping ground for their darkness, which seems like a physically objective measurable thing that causes bad thigns to happen. This is however at the cost of everyone's lives in Cornelia and their world . Lufenians were doing this to become a prefect society in their world which is a seperate universe from the one that houses Cornelia. Jack and his team decided to do this by pushing Jack to become a conduit of darkness who'd absorb their power and become chaos itself, in order to destory them. Jack had his memories of what happened in the previous 10 years erased but after becoming chaos (by defeating the boss darkness manifest) is told "you will never beat us" by the Lufenians and one makes reference to the "Warriors of Light" who are actually fictional before this point. However Jack realizes at that moment, he now has the power to make them real and thus resets the universe whole cutting off the Lufenians from that world. Finally once he's reset the universe he discovers this was his plan from 10 years ago and that his allies were pushing him toward this the whole time because that was always the plan. we then discover he thought up this plan while talking to Sarah playfully about running away together, finally at 15:10 Jack puts forth that they use their power to make the Warriors of light a reality
@@Ike_of_pyke they shouldve named Jack "Chad" instead 🤣
18:13
This is how it happened... This is how Jack Garland becomes Chaos.
May I ask? Which should I choose, Performance or Resolution??
always performance and beat the game on hard
@@ElDrHouse2010 Why performance when the graphics seems... pixelated or blurred?
damn, he become the thing he hate, this make me sad
It's the same ending like how Talion became Nazgul in the end. Tragic af
@@mavvynne444 it's not tragic, the Lufenians made him think chaos was the issue, his old self who loved Sarah before all this planted the idea of getting him to become chaos, his superiors made him forget.
Just one thing though, how does Jack charge his phone battery
thundaga
OK Wait
I havent played this game because I thought it was gonna be stupid
But it turns out, it's fucking cool?? What!?
Some bad guys in fictional works might actually be the good guy in disguise I've noticed that in many TV Shows and comic books just like how Batman isn't a super hero he's a rich elite with a costume on and a lot of money.
It would have been better if the scene of Garland taking Princess Sarah was first, and the one where the Warriors of Light face Garland was shown after the credits.
Please tell me that you edited the music in when the Warriors of Light entered. XD
That is real 😅
that is Jack's theme song
Square just love playing the pro noun game and it's diabolical writing
I almost cried when I saw Zest
then can we get garland's armor set in the game?
This is so Final fantasy
yep though more tragic than even XV, because unlike XV where the hero dies saving everyone, this hero will die saving everyone but be considered the monster
@@Ike_of_pyke Actually if the Dawn of the Future novel is anything Noctis didn't save anyone, but damned them to Bahamut's judgement in that timeline.
Jack for the best antagonist in final fantasy 🙌 👌
This is some Lords of Shadow type shit
Oh no! He said fuck! Fuck was the final boss!!!
Is there more to the ending after WOL and crew enter? Seems abrupt
Yes, it's either called FF1 1987 and it's later port, or FF1 Remake in 5 years. Or hope they give us the DLC with base game size
Holy crap was this a sad ending all that and this is how it ends dang at least this leads to FF1 but wow I was not expecting things to end like this
Tbh I liked more the idea of Dissidia being canon to FF1
it was never Canon : in the original game chaos explains at the very end he was empowered the moment he came back, in dissida garland ask chaos if he's the one who saved him by bringing him back 2000 years, meaning this garland not only remembered traveling back but was pulled back after realizing he's been sent back 2000 years but before he could become chaos. and mind you this is what pixel remaster says in FF1 so it's not like i am going off old outdated info
Nothing in this contradicts Dissidia. They can both exist.
@@CallMeNoa.... in this Jack knows he's chaos this whole time when he fights the warriors at the end of the game as he claims it when he fights and kills Darkness Manifest in this video.
in dissdia 1(the original on psp) in his conversation with chaos has him realize that Chaos is an alternate version of him who saved him.
I played other FF, I expected character dying, I prepared for it, but lord I never expect ALL DEAD, or is it? I didn't buy this one because I saw the ending... I played the demo and started to like the characters ....