Since its release in 1997 this game has set the benchmark for all other RPGs, since its release there has been up to FF XIII so far in the series but as the number of the series increases there seems to be some lost. been making FF games less popular. So Square-Enix has been going back and replaying their previous FF games for handheld gaming, but enough of the facts, let’s talk about the game.
When FFVII was released it was the first of its kind, a 3D RPG that had one of the most detailed storylines of its time, the main source of evil and enemies in this game comes from the Shinra company that controls a city where most people live called Midgar. The Shinra company mainly supplies electricity to the city and other places around the world with reactors, but the problem is that they make this electricity by taking the life force of the planet (basically taking the current problems with energy to the extreme), but in addition to supplying electricity, Shinra has an army of troops, the strongest being SOLDIER 1st class, who are genetically modified humans who have been exposed to the life force of the planet and injected with alien cells.
These alien cells come from an all-powerful being named Jenova, who crash-landed on earth hundreds of years before FFVII. Shinra found Jenova and took her captive and performed various experiments, including creating a human from Jenova’s cells.
Like every game has an evil guy this game has Sephiroth who was the best SOLDIER ever, during a routine check on a reactor Sephiroth walks into the nearby Shinra mansion and starts reading some books from the secret lab underground, one The book mentions a son of Jenova who has superhuman physical abilities and is the best fighter in the Shinra corporation. Sephiroth believed this child to be himself and took it upon himself to free Jenova from captivity and destroy the planet, but was stopped by two Shinra. SOLDIER Zack and Cloud (the hero of the game) and when Shinra learned of their victory, they captured the two SOLDIERs and performed various experiments on them until the day they escaped. But during his escape, Zack was killed.
FFVII takes place five years after Sephiroth was killed and you take on the role of Cloud, as you progress through the story you meet new friends and even some old ones from Cloud’s past throughout the game, these friends will join you in the fight against Shinra and Sefirot. The battle system is time-based, which means you don’t always have to think about what you want your character to do, which keeps the action and pressure going over and over again. During battles you have a wide variety of moves that are upgraded as you progress through the game. The main factor that affects your movements is the ‘material’ which will allow you to cast a variety of magic spells, draw and even summon monsters. There is also a factor that can turn the tide of battle in the blink of an eye, it’s called the limit gauge and it fills up according to the amount of damage your character takes, when the gauge is full you’ll be able to perform a special move which deals high damage. Your limit move will update depending on how many enemies you kill and also how many times you use it, each character has around 8 different limit moves and they are very different from each other, I’m sure FFVII fans will understand when I say “Omnislash Destroy everything!” Google it if you don’t know what Omnislash is.
As you can see from the length of the review, FFVII was a very long but entertaining game. Most PlayStation games usually have one disc but this game had three and since its release there has been what is known as a ‘FFVII Compilation’ and in this compilation there is a fully animated movie (Not Cartoon looks more like the real life) which was a huge success and also games that tell the story of the past and future of Final Fantasy VII and also other character stories, FFVII was so successful that there have been millions of requests for a new version of the game.
Even though it’s a PlayStation 1 game, it’s worth buying and better than most games available today. It’s also my favorite game of all time, and Cloud’s rules!!!!!!!
Boydies Overall Score: 10/10