Final Fantasy VII - All The Facts! (Secrets, Trivia and Easter Eggs you didn't know about FF7!)

One of the best things FFVII Rebirth has done is make Cait Sith actually endearing.

Jenova is based off of John Carpenters: The Thing. A shape shifting alien that disguises itself as a local and sows doubt to turn them against each other

Couple of things I'd add: -the lyrics for One Winged Angel come from Carmina Burana, an old collection of poetry. This one is pretty well known but I didn't hear it mentioned in the video (or maybe I got distracted when you did). -FF14 has a raid called Singularity Reactor where you basically fight the Knights of the Round. I'm reasonably certain that each of the knights is equipped in the same manor as the ones in the FF7 summon but I could be wrong on that. I haven't played FF14 in years but back in the day I used to do that one just for funsies, and I still occasionally pull up a vid of it, because it's so damn cool.

The e in Locke is silent.

I'm not ashamed to say that the death of Aerith literally made me cry

Learning that the Japanese was "Aerith" made me so happy when I was a kid because of the connection to Kabbalah. Sephiroth's name means numbers (maybe a reference to the reunion and the clones) and Tifa and Aerith are references to the 6th sephiroth in the kabbalistic tree of life "Tifareth" meaning "Beauty". And supports the love triangle in the game of Cloud, Tifa and Aerith.

23:40 - While this figure Steven holds up initially looks like Cloud, I'm pretty sure it's actually a character named Hero from an old famous webcomic called RPG WORLD, drawn by Ian Jones-Quartey who was a storyboard artist who worked on Steven Universe. Hero's design was literally a Cloud knockoff design which looks almost exactly like that action figure. So Ian was referencing his own webcomic character, which itself was referencing Cloud.

It must be so hard to make videos on final fantasy with the fan base we’re all really intense. You did such a good job though well done xx

When somebody states they're going to tell me a few things about FF7 that I don't know, I see that as a CHALLENGE. I've played that game for probably 1000 hours being conservative about it, probably longer than that in all reality, and have an almost encyclopedic understanding of the game. But, well done, you managed to tell me a few things I didn't know, if not about aspects of the game itself, at the least about numerous random facts aligned to it. Transcendental to it. So I must doff my proverbial cap as one obvious geek might do to another.

Metal band Periphery makes nods to Final Fantasy as well, they have three tracks in their discography, "Muramasa", "Ragnarok" and "Masamune"

So fun, thanks for putting all this together.

Greatly made an entertaining video man 👍🏽

Killing off nearly the entire party except for 2 or 3 people? Yeah later that was done in the Final Fantasy The Spirits Within Movie.

Irony, I have a fabric wallscroll of Advent Children Barret on my wall, which is the same image you use in your video.

So that chocoball commercial was something I vaugely remembered from over 10 years ago and could not find or even begin to know what to search for. And here it is. In plain sight as I played through my favorite FF games.

This Video could've kept going and i would've still been glued. 🔥

Okay so awesome video; had plenty of things new to me as someone obsessed with FF7 since ‘97, but question…were the clips shown here from some kind of modded version?? My only issue with the Remasters has been how the new character models ‘stick out’ from the backgrounds, which were left lower-res. It doesn’t appear to look like that here, and I’m ALWAYS looking for a way to improve that! Don’t care about new difficulty levels or enemies etc, just want the damn backgrounds and characters to match, lol

4:02 also the texture of the ground changes. It's one time a checker pattern and the other time just white( I think )

pretty sure there's a reference to Greek letters somewhere too. Think it's displayed in game at a station of sorts ... ahh need to look into this and find it. I had a screenshot of it ages ago but now long gone.

Awesome vid! Would love to see these for some of the other FFs!