![]() ![]() This means that if I review the first few hours of story like I usually do, it won’t really serve too much of a purpose in conveying what the actual majority of the game is about. The other reason, which i’m not sure if this can be considered a spoiler or not (I personally wouldn’t consider it a spoiler, more of a “heads-up”), is that the game’s story kind of does a complete 180 and changes drastically after about the first 5-10 hours, depending on how fast you progress through the beginning of the game. One reason, of course, is that the game spans 3 discs, which means that overall there is just a lot of different stuff going on during the game. The story in Final Fantasy VII might be the hardest part for me to talk about. Last but not least, disc 3 with Sephiroth on the front Release Date: JP: October 2nd, 1997 (International ver.) / JP: September 14th, 2005 (Advent Pieces: Limited ver.) Style: Japanese Role-playing Game (Turn-based) Are the masses just blinded by nostalgia, “my first Final Fantasy/first JRPG” syndrome, and/or Tifa’s “Makou Reactors”? Are the masses actually on to something? Let’s find out! Many people who have played Final Fantasy VII consider it to be either the greatest JRPG of all time or even just the greatest game of all time. With a development budget of around $40 million USD at the time (around maybe $55 million USD equivalent nowadays?), Final Fantasy VII set the bar and established a new standard for JRPG quality, and whether you like Final Fantasy VII or not, it’s almost impossible to ignore its influence on most JRPGs that followed it. While nobody can argue that Squaresoft wasn’t the graphical powerhouse during the 16-bit era, Squaresoft completely changed the game and were in an entire different realm during the 32-bit era. Released early in the PS1’s life-cycle (early 1997 in Japan, late 1997 in North America and Europe), this was the first Final Fantasy game to feature 3d graphics and FMVs (Full Motion Videos, people call them “Pre-rendered cutscenes” nowadays…), which not only took fans by storm, it also changed the perception of how games, particularly other JRPGs, should strive to look. The first Final Fantasy game released on the PS1, and for some reason the first Final Fantasy for an oddly large majority of Final Fantasy fans, this is the game that everybody who has even the slightest interest in JRPGs knows about (even people who don’t like JRPGs usually still at least know about the game). Final Fantasy VII – A game that truly needs no introduction.
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