Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)
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Final Fantasy VII
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| Publisher: | SCEE |
| Developer: | Squaresoft |
| Alternative Title: | None |
| Release date: | JP: 31/January/1997 NA: 31/August/1997 EU: 1/November/1997 AU: date/monthintext/year |
| Genre: | Role Playing Game |
| Number of Players: | 1 |
| Rating: | ESRB - ERSB-rating PEGI/ELSPA - 15+ CERO - CERO-rating |
| Platform: |  Sony PlayStation
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| Media: |  CD-ROM |
| Online Functions: | none |
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Description
Final Fantasy VII is Squaresoft's (now known as Square-Enix) seventh game in the Final Fantasy series and the first of three to appear on Sony's PlayStation. It is also the first Final Fantasy to appear on another console other than Nintendo's.
Story
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
The world of Final Fantasy VII is economically, militarily, and politically dominated by a powerful conglomerate called Shin-Ra, which profits from the use of generators known as "mako reactors". These reactors siphon a green ethereal energy (called "Spirit Energy or "Mako Energy") out of the planet and convert it into a source of power.
It is revealed that the source of the Spirit Energy required to create mako is the Lifestream, a flow of life energy within the Planet's mantle. All life energy originates from the Lifestream, and returns to it when an organism dies. Thus, the Lifestream is the sum — and source — of all the life that have ever and will ever walk upon the Planet. The process of extracting its energy literally drains the life of the planet in order to generate power, and will — over time — result in the Planet's decay.
Shin-Ra's executives are concerned with the expensive process of refining Spirit Energy into mako, and are fascinated with the idea of the legendary Promised Land, a place the company's president believes to be fertile with natural mako energy that flows to the surface of its own accord. According to legend, only a race called "the Ancients" (also known as "the Cetra") are able to find this land. However, the Cetra have been driven to extinction, with the exception of one: Aerith Gainsborough (also known as "Aeris Gainsborough" to some fans, due to her name being spelled "Aeris" in the non-japanese versions of the game).
The city of Midgar is a municipality created and operated by Shin-Ra. It is also the location of the Shin-Ra headquarters and serves as the home to their nemesis, a rebel resistance group of eco-terrorists called "AVALANCHE," who fear for the Planet's safety and desire to topple the Shin-Ra Company before irreversible harm can be rendered to the Planet. The game opens as AVALANCHE hires a mercenary named "Cloud Strife," who claims to be a former member of Shin-Ra's elite special forces unit, SOLDIER. He's been hired to aid in the destruction of the eight mako reactors situated along the perimeter of Midgar.
Cloud shows little interest in AVALANCHE's cause at first, as he is — by his own admission — interested in only the money he's been offered. Eventually, however, Cloud discovers the connection between Shin-Ra's ecologically destructive actions and a mysterious figure from his own past: a man named "Sephiroth," a legendary SOLDIER who destroyed Cloud's hometown. As Cloud is drawn deeper and deeper into the multi-faceted conflict among Shin-Ra, AVALANCHE, and Sephiroth, Cloud's own true identity and past come into question. Themes explored in the story include the concept of identity, the nature of life and the necessity of self-acceptance.
Gameplay
The gameplay mostly involes running or walking around the screen to get a certain location which you are usally told in text boxes which are used for the characters to speak when you walk around certain places or the world map (does not include towns) the screen will spiral round and a battle screen will come up with your chracters on one side and the enemy on the other. You will also see numbers at the bottom of the screen with HP and MP in front of them HP (hit points) indicates your life if this is reduced to 0 then that chracter is dead. MP (magic points) these are used to cast magic and summons when this is reduced to 0 you will not be able to cast magic or summon. When Active Time Battle (ATB) bar fills up, a menu will appear asking you what attack you which to do. These include
- Attack: attacking with equiped weapon
- Magic: attacking with a certain magic
- Summon: Summoning up a monster to attack for you
- Item: which lets you use all sorts of items from healing to attack.
There are plenty of other skills you can use thoughout the game as well. Once you have them.
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Trivia
- A follow up film was recently made called 'Advent Children' to appease the many fans who wanted another taste of the FFVII world.
- Also there are 3 different games coming out that are set in the FFVII world they are: Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII a third person shooter for the PS2, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is action role playing game for the PSP and Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII for mobiles.
Credits
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External links
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This article uses source material obtained from Wikipedia The original article can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_vii
