Final Fantasy VII

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Final Fantasy VII
Developer(s)	Squaresoft
Publisher(s)	Squaresoft
Designer(s)	Hironobu Sakaguchi
Engine	PowerAnimator, SoftImage XSI, Onyx Reality Engine
Release date	August 31, 1997 (NA) November 14, 1997 (EU) January 31, 1997 (JP)
Genre	Console RPG
Mode(s)	Single player
Age rating(s)	ESRB: T
Platform(s)	PlayStation, PC
Media	3 CD-Rom
Input	Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick or Controller
Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | Walkthrough

Final Fantasy VII was the first game in the Final Fantasy series since the SNES generation. It was also the first 3D Final Fantasy, and probably their most successful Final Fantasy game ever. The effect of it's success is enormous. It helped make Square Co. (Today Square Enix) one the biggest RPG developer in North America. It increased the popularity of RPGs among casual gamers. It's enormous fan following is still active today. All other games related to Final Fantasy VII are part of its series of prequels and sequels, dubbed Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Square-Enix made 2 CG movies years later that continued the story, called Last Order: Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Story 3 Gameplay 3.1 Materia 4 Compilation of Final Fantasy VII 5 Screen Shots 6 External Links

[edit] Characters

• Cloud Strife
• Tifa Lockheart
• Barret Wallace
• Aerith Gainsborough
• Red XIII
• Cait Sith
• Cid Highwind
• Sephiroth
• Yuffie Kisaragi
• Vincent Valentine

[edit] Story

This world, called Gaia, is divided into three large masses, one of them controlled by a de facto world government called the Shinra Electric Power Company. This organization discovered a way to create energy from using the Lifestream, a natural force encircling the planet. They begin draining the planet of Mako, the term for energy retrieved from the Lifestream. This Mako energy can be used not only for electricity, but also in the making of Materia, an orb that contains magical power.

To retain their control over the world, Shinra created a powerful army of supersoldiers, with the assistance of Materia and technology, called SOLDIER. This powerful force brought an end to conflict in the world, and helped established Shinra into a government.

Shinra began to face conflict from those who believed that Shinra was draining the world of the Lifestream, the power that keeps the world alive, and that eventually the planet would die. These ideas brought forth means to stop Shinra at all costs, especially at stopping the operations of the Mako reactors in Midgar, the central city of Shinra. Using violent means, several people created an eco-terrorist organization known as AVALANCHE, to stop the planet from eventual destruction. This group was silenced by an Espionage and Assassination branch of Shinra, known widely as the Turks. The player starts by joining the second coming of AVALANCHE, led by Barret Wallace, and helping the group in stopping Shinra's dark objectives.

The game also introduces the antagonist, Sephiroth, probably the greatest SOLDIER ever, attempting to infiltrate Shinra and destroy the planet, giving him all the energy of the Lifestream and making him a god. Sephiroth requires the Black Materia to cast Meteor, the spell to fatally injure the planet, countering the White Materia, casting Holy, to heal the planet. The plot builds up with introductions of Jenova, powerful monsters called WEAPONS, and a deeper, darker plot to release hell into the planet.

[edit] Gameplay

Final Fantasy VII consists of three types of gameplay: Overworld, Town and Dungeon Battle Map, and Combat. Initially, the player is restricted to travel within a single city, but as the game continues, more areas become accessible, and the scripted adventure sequences gradually yield more freedom to explore. Progression through the game's storyline is largely developed by way of scripted sequences, which cannot be skipped, and require frequent player interaction to proceed. At other times, pre-rendered cinematic cut scenes advance the story.

• Overworld - A 3D environment, scaled down from the entire world, is displayed. The player can maneuver about the environment to travel about to various locations.
• Town/Dungeon Battle Map - On these field maps, the game's 3D playable characters are directed across realistically scaled environments, consisting of 2D pre-rendered backgrounds that represent locations such as towns or forests. Players can then encounter enemies to fight in a Combat sequence.
• The battle screen is a 3D representation of an area such as a building interior or grassland, in which the player commands the game's characters in battles against CPU-controlled enemies through a menu-driven interface. While characters are minimized on maps, in combat their renderings are more realistic and normal-scaled.

[edit] Materia

Throughout the game, the player can find colored orbs known as materia. By placing these in the slots of a character's weapons and accessories, the skills will be made available to them. Skills are not gained instantly, since a certain amount of experience or gameplay is needed before being able to use them. As a party fights battles, the materia they have equipped will gain AP and level, making more skills available, or increasing the effectiveness of the materia equipped.

[edit] Compilation of Final Fantasy VII

• Games
  • Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
  • Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding
  • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
  • Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII
• Films
  • Last Order: Final Fantasy VII
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
• Short Novels
  • Maiden who Travels the Planet
  • On the Way to a Smile

[edit] Screen Shots

Aerith in intro	Cloud in Nibelheim	Wutai	Screenshot from battle
Snowboard minigame	Neo-Bahamut summon

[edit] External Links

• Official Final Fantasy VII website, North America

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Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 7 | Before Crisis | Crisis Core | Snowboarding Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII | Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode
Characters & Locations
Cloud Strife | Barret Wallace | Tifa Lockhart | Aerith Gainsborough | Red XIII | Cait Sith | Cid Highwind | Vincent Valentine | Sephiroth | Zack Fair | Rufus Shinra | Jenova Turks - Shinra Electric Power Company - Characters Gaia (Final Fantasy VII)
Literature, Music, and Films
Last Order - Advent Children Maiden who Travels the Planet - On the Way to a Smile Music
Final Fantasy series