the Final Fantasy 7 remake is really a
beautiful game there's so much to see
and some of it's a nice little nod hi
folks its Falcon and today on game ranks
the best Easter eggs and references in
the Final Fantasy 7 remake starting off
at number 10
Barrett sings terribly it's a little bit
disappointing you don't get the classic
post battle victory music that's in
every single Final Fantasy game well
it's technically still there kind of
every once in a while after winning a
battle Barrett will bust out a terrible
rendition of that victory fanfare it's
bad it's intentionally bad though so
it's kind of fun to hear
[Music]
thankfully it's not super often because
it is to be clear I'll say it a third
time bad on top of that you actually get
a lot of the classic victory animations
complete with the sweeping camera and
the posing if you win a fight in the
Coliseum or the VR battles some of the
fights even have an updated version of
the classic battle music so you get both
versions
a number nine is bon hora white apple
juice one of the first Easter eggs you
can find is right at the start in Mako
reactor one if you look around right
after getting off the train in the lobby
area you find this ad for something
called BA Nora white apple juice most
people probably don't think much of it
and moved on but there's a connection to
one of the compilation of Final Fantasy
seven games the PSP prequel crisis core
but Nora village plays a huge part in
the plot of crisis core it basically
boils down to being the tragic hometown
of that games bad guy genesis rapsa dos
yep that's actually his name and yes
that's actually what he looks like
besides being a blatant attempt at
making another Sephiroth style villain
he's probably best known for being
modeled on the Japanese pop singer gackt
but there's something else about him
that's actually relevant he always seems
to carry around a white apple and he's
from Panora and those white apples are
probably from bon hora - it's a Benoa
white apple so the ad is a direct
reference to this thing from Crisis Core
but wait there is more
in a bizarre little background detail
Genesis when he was a kid
invented the bin' or white apple juice
this is a real detail he won a
competition for the idea of vanora white
apple juice which became Banaras
trademark export in san apparently sold
at number eight air tonic ideal scalp
care in the upper layer of mid year you
can find this a poster for some haircare
product the name itself isn't a
reference but look down here at the fine
print for astonishingly radiant and
spiky hair now I think everyone has
suspected that cloud has to use
something to get that unique hairstyle
but now we know what it is he's an air
tonic man it's another little thing but
it's a pretty amusing nod to clouds
famous and frankly often parodied
hairstyle at number 7 is seventh heaven
photos a funny one you probably may not
have noticed in the seventh heaven bar
there are pictures on the wall you might
not have thought much about them at
first glance but give them a second look
yeah they kind of just look a good
jumble of pixels from far away but
they're actually a little bit more
they're actually pictures of the
original backgrounds of seventh heaven
let me directly compare them and yeah
they're literally the same there's the
bar the arcade machines which
unsurprisingly exactly the same in the
remake but the interior of the bar ps1
style just comparing the two it is crazy
how accurately the developers were in
remaking locations from the original
game all of the iconic details that are
probably burned into the brains of a lot
of people out there the original Final
Fantasy 7 really holds up in my mind by
having such incredibly detailed
environments where a lot of thought was
put into things that you might look at
and it's true of even places you might
only go once so it's cool seeing them
attempt to continue that in their remag
at number 6
clouds stances here's a little easter
egg that was hidden in plain sight if
you've played the remake you're aware
that cloud has two different stances in
combat operator and Punisher operator
basically normal Punisher slow but heavy
attacks do these stances look a little
familiar well ones more obvious than the
other but they're both significant
obvious one is Punisher stance notice
the way he holds the sword up with a
downward slant to it that's Sephiroth's
katana stance I don't think I'm really
spoiling anything by saying that
Sephiroth was an influential presence in
clouds life and that's illustrated by
cloud using his famous combat style now
the standard stands the operator one has
a little bit more complicated of a
legacy to it yeah it's the normal attack
stance from the original game but how he
attacks is strikingly similar to how
Zack the main character of The Crisis
Core fights Zacks importance in clouds
life is something I can't overstate it's
very important to clouds history but I'm
not gonna go into it too much it's an
important plot point from the original
Final Fantasy 7 and we can avoid
spoilers here it's also complicated
at number five people talking about a
play this is a pretty obscure one so
follow along in the sector seven slums
you might overhear some random
pedestrians talking about a kind of
weird subject some kind of show that
seems to have a different ending this
year what does that mean it's kind of an
odd bit of incidental dialogue but this
is the Final Fantasy 7 remake
everything's either something from the
original game or a reference of some
kind to something this is another crisis
core one the play they're talking about
is loveless you know the big billboard
you see in the opening cutscene no
longer just a little background detail
to flesh out to the world crisis core
but Lovelace was that's kind of the
point of most prequels to over explain
stuff that didn't really need it but
they went overboard I mean look at this
this is ig-88 takes over the deaths our
levels of unnecessary flushing out a
reign and background detail but all you
really need to know is just like the
pedestrians say the real ending is lost
a time or maybe just not fully
understood or something either way it's
a final fantasy universe last act of a
play changes depending on who's
performing and when oh and of course the
bad guy from crisis Court Genesis loves
to quote this play at you what's worse
than bad guys quoting Shakespeare at you
well bad guys quoting made-up
Shakespeare at you shut up you number
four Mughals chocobos Tong berries and
kak tars these little dudes you'll find
everywhere drawing all over the place
but you can find all four of them
scribbles in one spot in the sector five
Orphanage these four critters are
basically the original Final Fantasy
Easter egg being the most iconic
returning enemies and sometimes allies
of the franchise this isn't a most
obscure Easter egg at this point I think
most people with even a passing
knowledge of Final Fantasy would
recognize some of these guys but it's
still cool to see them chocobos are
definitely the most iconic being the
usually flightless birds people ride for
transportation and pretty much every
Final Fantasy game starting with two
they're probably best known for the
incredibly in-depth chocobo farm and
Final Fantasy seven where you could
capture chocobos wild breed them race
them and breed them some more up to
getting the ultimate gold chocobo which
gives you access to the ultimate
someone in the game and perhaps the
entire series knights of the round it
just keeps going Mughals are probably
the second best known being a furry cat
Mouse thing that first appeared in Final
Fantasy 3 Western audiences probably
best know them from the US Final Fantasy
3 which is Final Fantasy 6 where you get
a Mughal as a party member
MOG who gets referenced in Final Fantasy
7 in a minigame and gold saucer also the
Mughal shop owner mentions MOG when you
first meet him - Tong berries may be the
most notorious be incredibly dangerous
but pretty harmless looking lizard
things that they be eaten final famously
5 these guys always attack the same way
they slowly approach the party basically
do nothing and then they unleash this
incredibly powerful often instant kill
attack these guys have gone through a
lot of names for some reason like in the
original US Final Fantasy 6 they were
called pugs pugs like what and in the
anthology version of Final Fantasy 5
they were called dingleberries I am not
joking
the last kak tars first showed up in
Final Fantasy 6 where they were called
kak trucks they were renamed kak tar is
in Final Fantasy 7 and they're just
weird they sort of act like the series
version of metal slimes from Dragon
Quest being dangerous 3r enemies that
like to run away but give you a ton of
experience if you manage to take him out
all these guys are directly depicted in
this game except the tonberry I assume
either way fun to see all of them the
gang's all here at number 3 clouds first
level up there's a small of a kind of
funny reference in the original Final
Fantasy 7 after the first fight on the
game training platform cloud levels up
to level 7
you know because Final Fantasy 7 7 yeah
it's a cute little reference to the fact
that we're now in game 7 of a behemoth
franchise and guess what it's in the
remake as well beat up the first guys
and you see boom you're level 7 the ps1
Final Fantasy games just full of weird
things like this and although the remake
doesn't retain all of them at school to
see some of them
and number two is shinra's secret well
exploring the Shinra HQ you'll end up in
an area dedicated to the company's
history most of it is actual you know
relevant stuff but here's one picture
that hides a pretty amusing secret this
one which just looks like a normal old
tiny factory employee picture if you
look closer though you might recognize
somebody this dude with the weird mask
front and center specifically I'd
recognize this guy anywhere it's pretty
distinct mask it's Shinra from final
fantasy x-2 remember this kid he's the
one who decodes the spheres you find on
Celsius your airship from that game and
his name is Shinra and you're
immediately expecting some kind of Final
Fantasy 7 connection it's a thing that
fans have speculated on for ages but it
really doesn't matter the words of Final
Fantasy 10 and 7 are so different
they're either different universes or
set lots of years apart both the
director of Final Fantasy 7 and the main
scenario writer of both 7 and 10 have
commented on this essentially saying
they thought it was just a kind of
amusing thing to imply the worlds were
connected but it's pretty clear they
didn't put a lot of serious thought into
the idea it's kind of just an odd
connection between the two biggest games
in the series and finally at number 1
this is a remake so it's not a surprise
that a ton of the enemies from the
original game are back but the level of
detail the developers devote to keeping
the enemies accurate is I mean it really
deserves some praise seriously enemies
like the MPs and the breaker look almost
exactly the same just a greater amount
of detail but it's not really surprise
they brought these guys back they don't
look that out of place in an HD world
same with the bosses like guard scorpion
in the air buster they're just big
robots it's more stuff like smoger and
some bosses like apps that really
surprised me
these are goofy looking enemies so the
fact they retain a lot of their original
design as well as most of their attacks
and animations is pretty surprising the
best returning enemy of them all though
you really are not gonna be ilaria with
me on this it's at the Hell House I mean
look at this thing it's a house that
turns into a monster and shoots missiles
at you everything about it is retained
for the remake and I wasn't even sure
they were gonna do that I was prepared
to be fine with them not doing it
even it's amazing seriously if you're an
old Final Fantasy 7 fan who really
enjoyed the hell house like what is this
why is this here this game has been
kinda normal for a final fantasy game at
this point it's truly a thing to behold
so that's all we've got for today
there's tons more in this game this is
literally a love letter to the fans to
the original and to the world that was
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