@sydragosa: good evening class tonight we are talking advent children cloud, grief relapse, and forgiveness! #ff7 #cloudstrife #adventchildren #gaming

Rey :

The book On A Way To A Smile add a lot of context to Advent Children.

Video Game Professor :

"Dilly dally, shilly shally"

Jackie :

he's dealing with major survivors guilt. avoiding to confront it makes him a bad partner/friend to Tifa, to the point she has to call him out on his bs. this movie is written so well, especially if you read the books that play between the game and movie. it's one of my comfort movies 🤧

CC-Rockit :

I can talk (at length) about all the ways Advent Children’s extended edition is not only one of the best video game movies ever made but also finally resolves this story. It’s the perfect ending in so many ways, it actually crazy to me how people hate Advent Children to this day. My singular complaint is that AC needed more character moments, more Barrett, more Cid and DEFINITELY more Vincent.

Koizumi :

People lately have lost narrative literacy. Character progression doesn’t have to be linear. Just like in real life, depression comes and goes. Cloud is 1 of the most relatable fictional characters because he’s driven by his emotions. His grief, his will. He waivers, he’s unsure of himself, he carries his trauma with him and it pushes his actions. They did a really amazing job showcasing all of it with AC.

Jake :

don’t forget his line as he defeats sephiroth too, “you’re wrong, there’s not a thing i don’t cherish”. showing how he truly feels about everything around him

BahTheBuilder :

Man when aerith and zack see him off at the end😭 hit my heart

Hannah’s Corner💫🌸 :

Cloud in advent child is the product of realizing he wasn’t a solider and stuff .. he’s grieving and feeling guilty and disappearing cause of that survivors guilt

gangstalicious :

The game takes place over like a month and a half and he only finds out his past in like the last few weeks. Not to mention the stress of being the leader of the group trying to save the world. Advent children does a great job

Deep_Blue_22 :

Don’t forget he lost his town, family, friends and then spends the time after as an experiment in Shinra Mansion.

soopofthaday :

I’m so glad you mentioned the Jenova cells. When I first started watching Final Fantasy VII videos after playing the games as a kid everyone was talking about how clouds behavior was all the product of a mental health crisis where he just assumed Zach‘s identity without mentioning that their consciousness is literally blurred together because they shared connected Mako chambers for four years.

Otis :

First time hearing Advent children has criticism

Swampman :

Wow this is my first time hearing people hated AC. I freaking loved it

카이 :

Not to mention that Cloud is also affected by the stigma. At the beginning of the movie it is pretty clear people was dying of sequels of the stigma and there was no cure. Cloud in this depression post ff7 game story decides to also isolate as well to not bother anyone in his "terminal" disease. Kinda like an aloof wolf (even tho i have yet to understand what the wolf means in that last symbolic scene), decides he prefers to die alone. Kinda makes me think bc he feels he deserves it bc of the guilt he carried as well for losing two friends (unable to protect them)

BeAllThatYouCanBee :

that's why people should play Crisis Core to also get a better look into who cloud was too.

King ArtMonger :

Glad I skipped the criticism. I thought we all had fun and enjoyed seeing FFVII characters do stuff. I guess it was just some of us 🤭

Darren :

If anything cloud in ac is very realistic

MoNKeePeaCHeZ :

My brother and I have but multiple versions of Advent Children. Special edition DvD’s to Blu-ray to digital downloads. You broke down everything my brother and I knew but I never really put it together like you did. It was really refreshing to hear that you said Cloud needed his time to grieve because he never got it. Most people on the bandwagon don’t understand the duration and time each event takes place because they aren’t paying attention. Thank you so much for sharing.

benmarshall653 :

I like your hair girl

yodaoda :

This movie made him more human rather than a typical hero that saves the world and moves on like nothing happened.

MattieStaddie :

“Saving the World didn’t save Cloud”

MountainTea :

Fan service is Crisis Core and the remake games

vergil :

T.D. McIntosh | Author :

People forget that Cloud was imitating Zack for 75 percent of the game. Advent Children Cloud is literally him dealing with magic cancer.

Salem Haze :

It's why I love that Tifa says "Cloud is Cloud". Because this movie is the showing of who Cloud is, not the persona he built around Zack.