A behind the scenes look into the process of Zack Lydon’s “Final Fantasy VII” Tribute. This video includes a wider look at the scanned contact sheets, and videos of thumbnail, tiedown, and digital color passes of animation.
Gerard Way feat. Kyosuke Himuro — Safe and Sound
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children soundtrack
(It was a damn crime this song was only in the Japanese releases of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and not internationally. I weep to think about all the folks who never got to see this video and only heard a snippet of the song in one of the trailers. Petition for part three of the remake trilogy to have this as its theme song.)
*The original uploader has upscaled the video to 4K to celebrate 15 years since their original upload.
I know how many people are excited that Cloud and Tifa FINALLY get to kiss in Rebirth. But remember that Rebirth is only part 2. Part 3 of the Remake series is probably going to confirm that Cloud and Tifa are endgame. Of course that includes the infamous “Under the Highwind” scene. What I think they’ll do for that is that they’ll show Cloud looking for Tifa only to find her sad about the world ending. He calms her down (“Tifa, it’s okay. I’m here, you’ll be okay”), and they finally confess their love. Afterwards, we get a brief scene of them embracing and making out (think Grey’s Anatomy and other cheesy drama shows). That will be followed up with them both preparing for you-know-what. The screen will cut to black, and while we don’t see them, we’ll hear both of them saying the three words EVERYONE has been dying to hear from them since 1997….
“I love you.”
The next scene has them lying down in a cot/sleeping bag. They are naked, but because this game is rated T, they’re only shown from the neck up. And the next day, when they both board the Highwind, Tifa suddenly realizes that the rest of the crew might have saw them. They did, but Cloud and Tifa quickly change the subject to the final battle against Sephiroth.
We don’t know anything about FF7R3 yet, but I’m hoping most of this ends up being true. I know FF7 isn’t really a love story, but if they keep doubling down on Cloti being canon, it will be a fitting conclusion to their character arc. 7R3 is gonna be the Return of the King of video games.
Sidenote: This is a playlist I made featuring songs that remind me of them. I’ve already made two of them but I’m not proud of those. This is the definitive one, I swear.
The Parson's Farewell
Black Sails Musical Parallels | I. IV. VII. XXXVIII.
music variation note: this almost always plays as background music that exists within the scene itself.
The exception to this being in VII, where it begins as tavern background music while Gates and Dufresne talk, and builds to become much grander, introducing the hurdy gurdy and more electric-sounding instrumentation as we cut back to Gates and Flint preparing for castoff.
I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)