Final Fantasy VII Remake - Chapter 7: A Trap is Sprung, part 1
Cloud, Tifa, and Barret enter Mako Reactor 5. Remember, this is a sneaking mission. However, unless Avalanche are very careful, they are going to get busted. Is it time for the hammer to fall? Or can they evade all of Shinra's traps?
There's a lot of level design homages to the original FF7 in this section as well as some references to the Underwater Reactor. Another thing to note is that Sony California did a lot of changes to Tifa, but... left underage Tifa untouched. We'll call that a mix of "interesting oversight" and "oh, Square-Enix..." there.
This is a Let's Play of Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Normal difficulty with no commentary. The goal is to find hidden content, important details in the environmental storytelling, and interesting material related to fan theories. Any interesting material found will be grouped into smaller Discoveries and Extras videos. Hopefully by the end we will better understand the story, lore, and world building.
This playthrough will be baseline reference material for a future commentated Hard playthrough. The Hard playthrough will focus on story, lore, game design, fan theories, and whether or not Remake part 2 is going to be worth the wait after certain plot twists. You know which ones.
The playthrough is on a PS4 Pro with an SSD.
Thanks for watching!
Link to the playlist for this playthrough:
https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/Jke2LRzyWNMR/
The Discoveries and Extras playlist which accompanies this playthrough:
https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/AZaBH4AhRXhL/
End screen art by DINOmite Comics, whom I am not endorsed by nor receiving any form of compensation from. DINOmite Comics can be found at:
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Time stamps:
0:00 A Trap is Sprung
0:20 Mako Reactor 5 - Interior
0:50 Looking around. That's a (seemingly inaccessible?) location in Reactor 5 from original FF7
1:00 Story Log: Reach Mako Storage + Midgar Wireframe map for Sector 5
1:14 More looking around
1:31 Start of a remade scene from the original FF7
2:11 Hi-Potion x3 + Hey there, Chekhov's buster
2:39 Looking around, the return of
3:01 Barret pointing out some crates
3:19 Tifa: Where is everybody?
3:36 Assessing Monodrive
3:55 Looking around at scenery, the revenge of + Some sleeping mechs
4:25 A nice original FF7 reference + Chest + Monodrives in the background
4:46 Menu: Echo Mist item description
5:49 Looking around, the son of
6:04 Sweeper x2 + Laser Cannon x2
6:52 Assessing Sweeper
9:48 Looking around, the daughter of
10:16 Bulletproof Vest + Menu: Upgrading Light Machine Gun
11:56 Menu: Light Machine Gun description + Equipping it
12:19 Menu: Equpping Bulletproof Vest on Tifa
12:31 Resuming
12:41 Sector 5 Reactor - Core + Looking around, the teacher of
12:58 Is history repeating itself, only somewhat... altered from before?
14:00 Strapping the device to the device
14:43 Story Log: Escape from the Reactor
14:53 In the nick of time! ...or not.
15:03 Does this include the player? asking for a friend
15:53 Despite what he says, this footage is clearly from Mako Reactor 1. There's Jessie (who is back at Sector 7 right now, not here), Biggs, Barret, Wedge, and... no Cloud
17:16 Elite Shock Trooper + Shock Trooper x2, all a-Naruto running
17:35 Assessing Elite Shock Trooper
19:05 Barret's Lifesaver ability learned. Spamming Lifesaver afterwards was a mistake, sorry. I missed the message that Barret had learned it.
20:33 Barret's ...questionable plan
20:52 Checking Lifesaver status + Checking materia
If you want higher quality, this is also on Youtube in 1080p, 2K, and 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Fs12V7x1Y
