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User Review : Final Fantasy 7

Ups
  • Fantastic Characters
  • Emotional Ride
  • Great Story
Downs
  • Plot Holes
  • A tad bit confusing

Take me with you.

Squaresoft. One of the most dominate developers and history and arguably the greatest during the original Playstation era. They never would believe that they would be in the situation they're at right now. Now is the ultimate risk, an ultimate chance to culminate themselves.

Final Fantasy 7 starts out a bit slow. You start out with a tough and gritty character named Cloud Strife who is on a mission with Barret Wallace. He just left soldier and is reuniting with a longtime friend, Tifa Lockheart. He is confused about what happened years ago, and after soldier, he becomes a changed man.

The battle system is turn-based and fun for Classic RPG fans. It might be outdated today, but at its time it was amazing. Its all about strategy and how your characters match up. Limit Breaks and Magic. Materia System is what makes this game shine. It works really well for players and gives them plenty of options.

Graphically, its was very impressive for its time. Eye popping cinematic and an amazing environment. The world map is really fantastic and so is the blossoming theme.

The soundtrack is just beautiful, you could even find yourself searching the internet just to hear some of the tracks, Nobuo Uematsu and his team did an amazing job.

One of the biggest pluses for Final Fantasy VII is the Characters. One of the greatest cast of characters in Final Fantasy history. You care and want to know the characters. They're very honest and human. They have feelings, emotions, and love. They all get their own part in the game, so in turn you learn a lot about them. They're all unique to the game and each posses different abilities. The characters in this game, are truly one of a kind. The main antagonist is brilliant as you journey to find him, before he finds you. He is truly amazing and one of the best characters in the series and serves the game well.

Story wise, plenty of games can't compete, the story is well-put and truly shows the character development and even makes you grow with them. However, the story does contain a few plot holes and might be a little confusing for some. It certainly doesn't mean the story was bad. The story in this game serves the game well and shows how great SquareSoft is at story telling. I got out a few tissue boxes for Aries special scene.

Overall, this is a game that you should definitely play. It's one of those games that you'll never forget. It shows how brilliant Squaresoft is and how amazing the Final Fantasy series is. It's truly an amazing game. Still affects me till this day.

Score
9.4
Graphics
Great graphics, might not be the best on the fifth generation era. But fantastic for its time.
9.5
Sound
9.2
Gameplay
9.7
Fun Factor
Enjoyable Mini-Games, Strategic, and very creative.
Overall
9.6
fsfsxii3883d ago

Its not very confusing at all IF you played Crisis Core.
Anyway, i beat the game about a month ago, ever since then, my taste in gaming and everything has changed.

Finalfantasykid3881d ago

Crisis core pretty much answers and clears up all the confusion and plot holes. But I suppose this review should only take into account FFVII, and not any of the spin offs, especially since they didn't come out until a long time after.

nooneknows3881d ago

True, however, its confusing for first timers who'v played the game for the first time.

Like the guy said below, this only accounts for FFVII.

fsfsxii3881d ago

My bad.
I wanted the review to have a little more depth but its good nonetheless

iliimaster3883d ago

i remember playing this game for hours and hours just to level up, it re introduced me to the franchise and had me hooked till 10x2 after the turn based system went it wasn't final fantasy anymore it was world of warcraft 2.0 i even fired off a letter to their cooperate office to voice my displeasure, i even have purchased this last one with lightning ? i dont even know the games name but i have the part 2 to it aswell. and i cannot bring myself to get thru the first one to play what they said was kinda fixed from the first one...

good read

wishingW3L3882d ago (Edited 3882d ago )

Justin Wong turned into a believer after beating the game for the first time a couple of weeks ago. And for those that don't know who he is, he's the protagonist of EVO Moment #37 and one of the best fighting game players (if not the best) in NA.

If a game this old still has the capacity to impress people then imagine playing it when it came out....

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Square Enix Already "Hard At Work" On Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3

Development on the next game in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy might be further ahead than we thought. In a video discussing the series, the project leads say they are "hard at work" on the finale, right after launching Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

This comment was made by Remake and Rebirth director Tetsuya Nomura, who says that he and the scenario writer Kazushige Nojima are already working on the next game. Better yet, composer Nobuo Uematsu says that he'd be "honoured" to return for the finale, despite previously fearing that he doesn't have the "strength" for another game.

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just_looken18d ago

So i take it they won't be fixing there last game with the visual/movement problems.
https://youtu.be/B2rHUbqauU...

Just keep tossing them out

Barlos17d ago

Nothing worse than a grammar nazi

_Decadent_Descent17d ago

@Barlos

Nothing worse than those that let others keep on making a fool of themselves and say nothing to correct them. That's why they continue to keep making those mistakes.

Pyrofire9516d ago

I appreciate that many more people are agreeing with the grammar correction and disagreeing with Barlos.

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garos8217d ago

yikes talk about nit picking and strawmanning

roadkillers17d ago

This is something most crtics bring up... but they still gave the game 9+ score. As big of a deal as you are making it, a VAST majority of players were just fine with the graphics compared to waht they got with Rebirth

DarXyde16d ago

Dude complains about everything.

I haven't finished the game yet, but I'm having a blast.

Just negative for the sake of being negative.

dumahim17d ago

While I'd guess they're probably not going to do much else about it at this point, just because they're working on the sequel doesn't mean they can't have someone working on the visual issues for Rebirth. Likewise, it also doesn't mean they're not working on a DLC for it either.
Either way, I'd put money on it that they'll update the game for PS5 Pro.

Exvalos17d ago

Keep up the hatred fanboy, and we will keep playing great games

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GoodGuy0918d ago

Sweet....and hopefully can actually answer all the wtfs rather than giving us more questions that has been happening in these games lol. And I hope they just end the game properly instead of trying to milk VII even more. I'd very much like to see remakes of other FF titles on the same level.

-Foxtrot17d ago

God I hope this is it for VII

They’ve milked it far too much over the years, I mean Wikipedia has its own VII specific page because there’s so much media for it

It’s time for other FF games to get some love

gold_drake17d ago

im all for it, remake and rebirth were fantastic, especially rebirth, my god wat a brilliant game.

i mean, we had 16 and 14 still be a thing.
and 9 is getting a remake too, apparently

FinalFantasyFanatic17d ago

As much as I love FF7, they have really milked it to death, 2 compilations of FF7 which includes novels, games, mobile games, movies and animation...

They really need to put more effort into newer FF games.

-Foxtrot17d ago

@FinalFantasyFanatic

Yeah I mean look at it man, why does anyone want it milked even more when other FF games are starving for attention.

https://i.ibb.co/3mT2TRc/12...

Furesis17d ago

Well when you have Tetsuya Nomura hands on something, that is what you get. Whether you like it or not that's another thing.
I don't think they should make remakes like this anymore, and they won't that's what they said also. It takes too long and it just fragments the game too much for my taste. And i'd prefer a more 1 to 1 remake with maybe a slightly smaller budget so that it would actually be made in a reasonable time rather than these 10+ year projects.

gold_drake17d ago

nomura doesnt ely that much of a role in the trilogy, its Nojima u need to blame ha.

as for the og, there are mods u can use for that.

we'll never get an updated og game. it would take them years to finish it, even if its 1:1

fr0sty17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

nobody will buy a 1:1 remake, they already know what is going to happen exactly... and you can't properly remake a 20+ year old game 1:1 anyway, so much needs to be done to bring it to modern standards, that you have to change some things.

Michiel198917d ago

@frosty that's the same thing the execs at blizzard said about WoW classic and here we are. You think you do, but you don't

dumahim17d ago

They did a Remaster for Crisis Core, which seemed near impossible due to a licensing issue not too long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same for Dirge of Cerberus before part 3.

I do worry what they'll do with part 3 though. They're not just going to abandon the nonsense. Rebirth was like 98% fantastic, but those whispers moments and their take on what is one of the most iconic scenes in video games ever just upsets me.

Hofstaderman17d ago

80 hours into rebirth and loving it. Bring it on Square.

gold_drake17d ago

i had 118h at the end. with everything done minues the queens blood stuff. and i absolutely loved every minute of it

Hofstaderman17d ago

I just want to say bugger mog house level 6. Will return to that later

Shiro17316d ago

Only one thing I hated it and it was the relic hunt for the sand spot next to the flying saucer. I hated that mini game for the relic. Killing those cactus with Aerith was annoying.

fr0sty17d ago

I like the remakes better than the original that I grew up playing back in the 90s... they are doing it right. And that soundtrack... I still jam the Gongaga theme all the time.

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Final Fantasy 7 at 26: Kitase on Nintendo inspirations, discarded concepts, Rebirth changes to come

In an exclusive interview, Yoshinori Kitase sheds some light Final Fantasy 7's development – and hints at changes to come in the Remake series' future.

Nyxus443d ago

Can't wait for FF7 Rebirth!