The spiders above the bed actually fall down if u sit on the bed

I personally like the NPC that says to buy from her quickly because she's going to turn into a zombie. When you go back later in the game...

Not going to lie, the player experience in the golden saucer is some of the most impressive attention to detail and immersive RPG storytelling I’ve played in a long time

reopen the chest enough times for 1 Gold Saucer Point.

I definitely didn't expect as much Vincent content as we got. I loved that they tied him into Queen's Blood, and goddamn that ending with Regina was so over the top ridiculous and absurd it has me wanting to replay the whole game fresh to be able to experience that cutscene again. I was dying laughing. Then getting to head Vincent's theme in the Mansion was 🤌.

I also thought Cid would get toned down considering how problematic he was in OG, and when we meet him I was kinda bummed that I was right. But then I started to see the little glimpses of real Cid, and got excited. Him getting frustrated with everyone when the plane is crashing "Shaddup and sit down like I told you!" Him and Barrett bickering at the start of Ch 12 "An' I don't take kindly to that tone of yers!" If you drive the Bronco to Junon and try to dock next to the big Shinra ship he gets super pissed and says "I ain't dockin' at no Shinra port!!" Our temper tantrum man-baby is there - he's just been hiding under a used-car salesman-esque facade. The man date was hilarious.

Zack - I don't think anyone was expecting him. As someone who didn't play CC, I really had no feelings about him. But I'm really glad they added him in, it's a great storytelling device and really >!highlights the parts of Cloud that...aren't.!< I liked the interludes and think they're a great storytelling mechanic for the bigger picture, while providing new mystery to a very well-known and beloved story using existing canon mechanics (Lifestream).

Chocobo Sage - was very surprised to see him in Nibelheim, and the fact they made him a stoner was hilarious. Yuffie called his BS before we even started the quest haha, and the whole time I was like am I just getting drugs for this guy? Wtf is chocograss. Girl has a good BS detector.

How risque Tifa's outfit was for Wall Market, and then the swimsuits for everyone were a great surprise in Rebirth. I didn't expect them to deliver so. much. fan service with them.

Ghost train section - this was such a short blip in OG that I figured they'd skip it for brevity, or keep it short. I wasn't expecting a huge dungeon area with two bosses, and Eligor fucked me up a few times. I had AC vibes big time here - and while the chapter felt long and wasn't my favorite, now that I've placed Rebirth and see they're adding in a lot of AC nods everywhere I see why they did it.

Corneo being as gross as they made him - I also thought they'd tone Corneo down, especially the whole "ripping off his dick" thing implied from OG. Nope, just changed it to balls lmao. I loved that they spread Corneo's influence beyond Wall Market with his cache's everywhere, and enjoyed seeing him in Rebirth trying to claim a new domain. It makes sense now why he's going to Wutai a lot more than in OG. Also the Corneo cactuars and Tonberry were a riot.

The hangman from Haunted Hotel - I definitely thought they'd leave that out - but they just reversed it to be less problematic. The haunted hotel was AMAZING. My jaw dropped the first time I went.

Scarlet shooting off Barrett's arm - holy shit this scene was far more horrific than I was ever expecting. I did not think they'd recreate that specific part with such detail. And for Dyne, I was expecting a change to his scene since his OG death would have been difficult to portray, but they really did a great job with highlighting his madness.

Gus being such a shitbag. Mr. Coates really doesn't do much in OG, nor is he all that bad. I was not expecting a gaudy ass mofo like Gus.

Midgarsormr battle - I loved that we had to fight it no matter what instead of being able to skip it in OG. What a great boss fight, and I liked that we get to see how it gets on the tree. And how it doesn't respawn like in OG.

Nope. Though at least in Rebirth, there's some indicator that you should go there, as you'd need to in order to gather all of the soldiers. In the original, there's no reason to go there unless you're just exploring every room in Junon.

First thing that comes to mind is Red XIII disguise during the ship section.

The chapter was nearing its conclusion and my expectations were mostly gone when he entered the scene moonwalking. I laughed so hard that I've almost fell off my chair.

Definitely not obscure, but when Remake was announced, even before news broke out about the multi-part strategy, people were wondering if they would've made the cross-dressing Cloud scene, how it could translate to a modern, high fidelity setting, while also trying to cater to a more modern, more LGBT-aware audience

I remember the discourse being that the scene would probably be scrapped, nobody could envision a good way to make it.

But no, they went and did it, in a masterful, fantastic way.

The special club in Junon that is just for bald people.

Undoubtedly a bored programmer just needing to make a room not empty in the original. But it gets a whole song and dance in Rebirth.

still wild they turned that into a whole minigame sidequest in Crisis Core.

and then again in Remake

This had me dying of laughter more than it should have. I love Cloud and the entire arc so much.

I loved this line, Cloud is such a fucking dork that's trying so hard to be cool, he knows he's nailed it but it goes against the image he's trying to create so he's just sweeping it under the rug as quickly as possible.

The ending when Cloud asks Aerith if she's going to be okay then Aerith asks "And if I said I wasn't?"

A reference to an interaction of theirs in Remake in the park right before they see Tifa in the chocobo wagon headed to Don Corneo

For me it's all the NPC side stories going on, and that they progress and change as you get further into the game. Also, there are alternate versions of some of the NPC stories in Zack's world where the dreams they hoped for in reality come to fruition.

Main world there's a couple you run into that have tried for years to get pregnant. You see them in Cosmo Canyon trying to make peace with it and talking about adoption. Later in Terrier you see she did get pregnant and they say something like "I just wish we had the chance to meet her." talking about the unborn baby. It's bittersweet but illustrates that these extra worlds are for unrealized hopes/dreams/desires.

Outside of that subplot, there's tons of fun details all over:

• Kalm: The two girls fighting over the same guy get into a slap fight, then start dating each other.

• Kalm: A guy commenting about the "hot blonde with pigtails" or something back in Wall Market.

• Kalm: The whole farmers market alley is a delight, same with the vendors in Costa Del Sol.

• Gold Saucer patrons fill all the stereotypical tourist tropes; the over-organized itinerary person, a mom trying to corral her whiny kids, guy forcing his GF/friends back to races to keep gambling, person trying to do too much in one day, etc.

• Love that all the weapons from Remake adorn Johnny's hotel, and the descriptions on all the trophies are great - the Loveless ones hint that Chadley runs a fan club lol.

• All the posters and pictures all over the place, but Tifa's room is the best. On her bed wall she's got pictures of all the locations the party visits in Rebirth (up until ToTA/FC). Love the Zell reference, the weapon posters, Dumbapple juice posters too.

• Chadley dressing up as a Tonberry wizard was so cute!

• All the music for even small things like optional side quests or optional NPCs - the guy playing blues on his guitar in the Crows Nest was awesome and he has 2 songs, who doesn't love Bow Wow Wow, One-two Sabo, the Gus battle area version of his theme, they made unique and amazing music for everything. It's incredible.

• The Cloud Jr. questline: once you finish it and go back with Barrett to Corel, the chicks and the mama bird follow Barrett around everywhere. It's adorable.

• Devs trolling us with the chicken quest.

• Vincent enjoying the decor of the Haunted Hotel

• Vincent being a QB god and the aftermath cutscene of beating Regina was fucking phenomenally absurd over the top anime Yu-Gi-Oh level ridiculousness and I absolutely loved it.

• Cid and Barrett bickering, and Cid showing his true colors if you put around in the tiny bronco enough. If you try to pull up next to the Shinra ship in Junon he gets pissed and says "I ain't dockin' at no Shinra port!!"

• Cloud straight up hitting on the storybook author in Gongaga made me laugh so hard.

• The Yuffie graffiti up Mt. Corel

There's so much I could keep going forever!

You don’t notice it if you don’t stop, but as you’re running to safety as Aerith after the black materia is removed, Cloud sticks by Aerith wherever she runs. If she runs back, only he follows her. I guess that’s their way of writing in that he could be out of his mind but he still remembers his instincts, protection being one of them.

When Aerith gets off of a Chocobo she pats its head, which many people know by now, but something I also noticed is if she gets on the Chocobo from the right, she swings her legs to the left. They could have just animated her on transport sitting on the chocobo’s left all the time so it’s a neat little add in.

A subtle thing I with they didn’t remove from remake was Aerith waving goodbye to Bahamut. It would have been cute if they kept that for Bahamut Arisen.

Dude there are SO many unique voice moments that they totally didn’t have to add but did. Like if you put Elena to sleep in battle, she mutters some insecurities while dreaming, something like “did I do good, boss?” Like the smallest most obscure moment, and they manage to inject some personality traits.

When Bugenhagen says that the Cetra are not a religious people, Aerith is visibly disappointed. Her favorite place in the world is a church.

The extra quests that open up after Ch 12, one has you helping a woman write a children's book. But here's the video if you don't want to play it.

https://youtu.be/pIsaVCnmNNo?si=m664sF6r6SQezrgV

Barrett straight up blocking lmao I love it.

The food bowl for Tifa’s cat, who appears in Before Crisis and Traces of Two Pasts

The grunt on the ground near Cloud's house starts to mutter "Mom" as you get closer.

When Cloud opens up the door to Claudia's house and it explodes, she says, "Run away, Cloud. You have to leave... you have to live." That is the exact same line Sephiroth said in Remake to Cloud after the Bombing Mission during Cloud's PTSD induced panic attack. So Sephiroth saying that to Cloud is what triggers Cloud to call him a "Bastard" Sephiroth repeated Claudia's final words to Cloud.

!They survive the destruction by being scooped up for the Jenova Project. They become clones for the Reunion.!<

Haha I noticed that in the first game it always cracks me up

The two kids behind the counter at the General Store.

IYKYK.

What reference to Zell? 👀

Just wait until you beat the final Queensblood oponent, it's a heavy FF8 reference

Technically I think there’s a part 3 boss in there too.

To the right you can see the normal Valkyrie you fight in Remake but to the left, thats clearly the Custom Valkyrie, the Boss from the Mount Corel climb! Both games are filled with amazing tiny details all around. There are a few more obvious bosses in the Advanced Weaponry like the M.O.T.O.R Ball and the Pride and Joy but this one stood out to me because thats a boss from Rebirth already being built during Remake. Its also just a fascinating little peek into how connected the development of those 3 games has to be, this Rebirth Asset was already done by 2021 if not already during the development of the DLC which probably was 2020. I'm always thinking that the making of these games is similar to how they shot LOTR.

I'm currently doing my second playthrough on PC after a year of waiting since the PS5 release and I will go at it way slower this time looking at things in Photo Mode and listening to the ambient Dialogue. A small thing I also found that was really cool is that you can find the dad of Akira, the Midgar Blues singer in Wall Market in Kalm. So many fun little details in these games.

The Stamp/Zack connection is a major stretch, but otherwise it's a fine enough video. Stamp is a Shinra mascot. That's why Barret refers to him like that, asking if Cloud is scared to bite the hand that feeds him.

Great video! I didn't realise how deep some of these are haha

I have this same VHS. Its basically just a promo advertising FF7 and other popular games at the time. When you bought the original game, you could mail in for your free copy of this promo tape. Its like the "extras" you get at GameStop for reserving a game in advance.

Lol that's awesome. Had no idea they made this.

VHS - Very Hot Stuff. Hot used to mean cool or rad. The usb inside that box should have some very good gameplay.

I wish anyone that owned old promo VHS tapes like this would digitize them and upload for all to see.

I love checking this kind of stuff out. I remember watching the DKC tips and tricks VHS as a kid when one of my friends had it mailed to them. It’s how I learned to throw a steel barrel against a wall then jump on it.

Please keep me updated.

I had no idea. I was wondering about the name she chose. Thanks OP!

In Japanese it’s “Flower Keeper-sama,” probably because that’s an unfamiliar term over there so she still stays anonymous. They had to change it in English to make the ruse work.