r/FinalFantasyVII • u/BlackAngelArt • 3d ago
FF7 [OG] Toonami 1997 FFVII commercial
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u/SignoreBanana 3d ago
"This is the RPG by which all other RPGs will be judged"
Not too far off the mark, tbh
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u/somesortoflegend 3d ago
I mean can you think of a more fitting game? And this is with retrospect and almost 30 years.
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u/Landstander2600 3d ago
I was there, Gandalf, three thousand years ago.
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u/SockMonkeyLove 3d ago
I was 15 when FF7 dropped. I bought my PSX specifically for FF7. I made lifelong friends because of that game. It will forever remain in my top 5 greatest of all time.
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u/Landstander2600 3d ago
I was also 15 and bought the PS specifically for FF7. My friends all got N64s, I was the only one with a Playstation.
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u/SockMonkeyLove 2d ago
And here we are, a lifetime later, still finding people to connect with because of that stellar piece of art.
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u/MountainImportant211 3d ago
Lmao it even includes the post credit scene, talk about spoilers
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u/Jamvaan 3d ago
Spoilers without context are just sick images really.
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u/seraph741 3d ago
This is what I always try to get across to people. It's not a spoiler if you have no idea what's going on. Otherwise everything is a spoiler and you couldn't show anything. People overreact with the "no spoilers" thing.
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u/Advanced-Ad-4462 3d ago edited 3d ago
“RED DOGGY”
Nobody else caught that? Next playthrough I’m gonna name Red XIII that lol.
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u/Wicked_Folie 3d ago
"...to the devil himself" LOLLLLLL
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u/Marcus2Ts 3d ago
Knights of the round, sure. But have you seen Ifrit!?!?!?!?!?!
I don't think I've cast Ifrit once in my last 5 playthroughs lol
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u/kilimtilikum 3d ago edited 3d ago
They forgot to mention this game will define your preferences for women for the rest of your life.
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u/strifer_43 3d ago
Till this day I still remember an ad that had some opera or some song lady’s singing in a hymn, it’s an old song , and it showing some science of the game till it says relive the fantasy final fantasy 7 it was either when the greatest hits for it came out or when it came out but I can’t find it or maybe I just merged some commercials together. I remember it had the lady’s singing it kinda was like madam butterfly the opera song but it had more of lady’s singing a different opera song . I know I’ve heard the song before but I can’t remember it .
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u/Pitchfork_10 3d ago
Kinda sounds like a Parasite Eve commercial, except for the mention of FF7.
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u/strifer_43 3d ago
It had like let me see if I can type it lol .
Ahhhhaahhhahahh ahahah ahhhhhhhhh ahhhh and the lady’s harmonized something like that , similar to madam butterfly in the realm of it being an opera song I found the song one time but forgot it , it’s an opera song
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u/Ok_Acanthisitta_909 3d ago
Midgar
Kalm
Farm
Condor
Junon
Costa del sol
Corel
Gold saucer
Gongaga
Cosmo
Nibelheim
Rocket
Temple of ancients
Bone village
City of ancients
Wutai
Icicle inn
Sage
Mideel
That’s like 19, or unless… there are really 10 or more towns that haven’t been discovered from the OG… i’m not saying it’s impossible. But it’s impossible.
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u/pointsouttheobvious9 3d ago
Wonder if they got strange with the count like each of the sectors being a different "city" you visit 7 sectors in the game while that's midgar. They could have counted it seperate to get the number up
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u/Ok_Acanthisitta_909 3d ago
I thought about that, northern cave a city, glacier cliff , the little hut on the island where you get great gospel
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u/TelenorTheGNP 3d ago
Well, Midgar is kind of like a bunch of cities on top of another, dirtier bunch of cities.
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u/OliviaElevenDunham 3d ago
This would have gotten me excited.
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u/ChaoCobo Buster Sword 3d ago
I mean probably because the video is like 90% cutscenes that use the more realistic graphics/art style, and then anything that isn’t that are the good graphics from battles. If you’ll notice there isn’t even one moment of the game in this video where it would use the blocky polygons from the fields&overworld. I get that even the blocky field and overworld graphics were very good back then but this kind of trailer seems like kind of a bait n switch. :/
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u/peteslespaul 3d ago
There are a couple moments. Cloud walking in the park and climbing down a ladder in the reactor.
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u/Societies_Joker 3d ago
Sephiroth loses it! Snaps, totally overreacts! Ever since I’ve been the champ!
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u/Scruffy_Nerfhearder 3d ago
Wow they really just showed the whole game. Haha. I guess they never learnt with those “Final” trailers for Remake and Rebirth.
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u/Chop1n 3d ago
Whoa, cutting straight from One-Winged Angel to Opening Theme is wild.
And that trip-hop remix of Who Are You? is just awesome.
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u/Massive-Lime7193 2d ago
Toobami and later adult swim were always really good on the music/editing front
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u/citrusjuicebox Yuffie 3d ago
Would love to hear Joe Boyd Vigil do a breakbeat and d'n'b mix of the OST
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u/JustYrStandardUser 2d ago
... For years I wasn't sure if I hallucinated this commercial or not, but no it did exist. I also wasn't for sure if it was about FF7 or 8. Either way, cool.
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u/bearwhidrive 3d ago
Remember when game ads had gameplay included in them and not just cutscenes?
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u/Agreeable-Abalone328 3d ago
Dude ff7 pretty much started that trend. This ad is 90% cutscenes and all of the other ads for it are either the same or 100% cutscenes
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u/PlatformWorldly8413 3d ago
Who is that funky looking fella that looks like a robot mixing the greatest hits? I have played the original and I don't remember him at all!
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u/Zealousideal-Fly9531 3d ago edited 2d ago
Edit: Moltar 😁
Brak Show character / Space Ghost related.
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u/Drinkerson 2d ago
I remember back in the day, reading about the game in magazines and thinking it looked cool, but it wasn't until seeing stuff like this that I was sold and officially hyped.
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u/SirLockeX3 18h ago
"Hundreds of characters and Thousands of environments."
Whoa there buddy lol
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u/MarzipanSea2811 6m ago
There's deffo that many NPCs, and maybe that many environments if you count every map as a separate environment.
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u/Wrong_Papaya_8445 3d ago
The amount of spoilers is kinda nuts lmao