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PlayStation •: January 31, 1997 •: September 7, 1997 •: November 17, 1997 International •: October 2, 1997 Microsoft Windows • NA/PAL: June 25, 1998 •: May 16, 2013 iOS • WW: August 19, 2015 PlayStation 4 • WW: December 5, 2015 Android • WW: July 7, 2016 Mode(s) Final Fantasy VII is a developed by for the console. Released in 1997, it is the seventh main installment in the series. Published in Japan by Square, it was released in the West by, becoming the first in the main series to see a PAL release. The game's story follows, a mercenary who joins an organization to stop the world-controlling, Shinra, from using the planet's life essence as an energy source. Events send Cloud and his allies in pursuit of, a superhuman intent on destroying their planet.

During the journey, Cloud builds close friendships with his party members, including, who holds the secret to saving their world. Development on Final Fantasy VII began in 1994 for the.

After delays and technical difficulties from experimenting on several platforms, Square ultimately moved development to the PlayStation, largely due to the advantages of the format. Veteran series staff returned, including series creator and producer, director, and composer.

The title became the first in the series to use and, with most scenes using character models superimposed over backgrounds. Although the gameplay systems remained mostly unchanged from previous entries, Final Fantasy VII featured elements with a more realistic presentation. The scale of development was unprecedented at the time, with a combined development and marketing budget of over USD$80 million, and a staff of over 100. Assisted by a large pre-release promotional campaign, Final Fantasy VII received widespread commercial and critical success upon release, and is still widely regarded as a landmark title and one of the.

It was acknowledged for boosting the sales of the PlayStation and popularizing worldwide, with praise being given to its graphics, gameplay, music, and story, although some criticism was directed towards its English. The game won numerous awards, among other accolades. Its success has led to enhanced ports on various platforms, a subseries companion of media called the, and a for the. See also: The gameplay of Final Fantasy VII is mostly comparable to earlier Final Fantasy titles and.

The game features three modes of play: the world map, the field, and the battle screen.: 15,20 At its grandest scale, players explore the entire world of Final Fantasy VII on a 3D world map. The world map is littered with representations of areas for the player to enter, including towns, environments, and ruins. Natural barriers—such as mountains, deserts, and bodies of water—block access by foot to some areas; as the game progresses, the player receives vehicles that help traverse these obstacles.: 44 can be found in certain spots on the map, and if caught, can be ridden to areas inaccessible by foot or vehicle.: 46 In field mode, the player navigates fully scaled versions of the areas represented on the world map. For the first time in the Final Fantasy series, this mode is represented in. The player can explore the environment, talk with characters, advance the story, and initiate event games in this mode.: 15 Event games are short that use special control functions and are often tied into the story.: 18 While in field mode, the player may also find shops and inns. Shops provide an opportunity to buy and sell items that can aid Cloud and his party, such as weapons, armor, and accessories. If the characters rest at an inn, their and will be completely restored, along with any abnormalities contracted during battles.: 17.

A battle scene with Cloud, Barret, and Tifa facing a dragon. In this given moment, the player must choose a command for Cloud to perform. At random intervals on the world map and in field mode, and at specific moments in the story, the game will enter the battle screen. This screen places the player characters on one side, the enemies on the other, and employs an 'Active Time Battle' (ATB) system in which the characters exchange moves until one side is defeated.

The damage (or healing) dealt by either side is quantified on screen. Characters have many statistics that determine their effectiveness in battle; for example, hit points determine how much damage they can take from enemies, and magic determines how much damage they can inflict with spells. Each character on the screen has a time gauge; when a character's gauge is full, the player can input a command for that character. The commands available change as the game progresses, and are dependent on the characters in the player's party and their equipment. Commands may include attacking, casting magic, using items, summoning monsters, and other actions that either damage the enemy or aid the player characters. Final Fantasy VII also features powerful, character-specific commands called Limit Breaks, which can be used only after a special gauge is charged by enemy attacks. After being attacked, characters may be afflicted by one or more abnormal 'statuses', such as poison or paralysis.

These statuses and their adverse effects can be removed by special items or abilities. When all the enemies are defeated, the battle ends and the player may be rewarded with money, items, and.

If the player is defeated, it is and the game must be loaded back to the last save point.: 20–27 When not in battle, the player can use the menu screen. On this screen, the player can review each character's status and statistics, use items and abilities, change equipment, save the game (when on the world map or at a save point), and manage orbs called Materia. The main method of customizing characters in Final Fantasy VII, Materia may be added to equipment to provide characters with new magic spells, commands, statistical upgrades, and other benefits. Materia level up with their own experience point system, and can be combined to create different effects.: 30–42 Synopsis [ ] Setting and characters [ ]. Main article: Final Fantasy VII takes place on a world referred to in-game as the 'Planet', though it has been retroactively named 'Gaia'. The planet's lifeforce, called the Lifestream, is a flow of spiritual energy that gives life to everything on the Planet.

Its processed form is known as 'Mako'. On a societal and technological level, the game has been defined as an or milieu. During Final Fantasy VII, the Planet's Lifestream is being drained for energy by the Shinra Electric Power Company, a world-dominating headquartered in the city of Midgar. Shinra's actions are weakening the Planet, threatening its existence and all life. Significant factions within the game include, an eco-terrorist group seeking Shinra's downfall so the Planet can recover; the, a covert branch of Shinra's security forces; SOLDIER, an elite Shinra fighting force created by enhancing humans with Mako; and the Cetra, a near-extinct human tribe which maintains a strong connection to the Planet and the Lifestream. The central protagonist is, an unsociable mercenary who claims to be a former 1st Class SOLDIER.

Early on, he works with two members of AVALANCHE:, its brazen but fatherly leader; and, a shy yet nurturing martial artist and childhood friend of Cloud. On their journey, they meet, a carefree flower merchant and one of the last surviving Cetra;, an intelligent quadruped from a tribe that protects the planet;, a robotic cat controlled by repentant Shinra staff member; and, a pilot whose dream of being the first human in outer space was not realized. The group can also recruit, a young ninja and skilled Materia thief; and, a former Turk and victim of Shinra experiments. The game's main antagonists are, son of President Shinra and later leader of the Shinra Corporation;, a former SOLDIER who reappears several years after he was thought dead; Jenova, a hostile extraterrestrial life-form imprisoned by the Cetra 2000 years before. A key character in Cloud's backstory is, a member of SOLDIER and Aerith's first love. Plot [ ] AVALANCHE performs a successful bombing operation at a Shinra Mako reactor in Midgar.

A second run on another reactor goes wrong, and Cloud falls into the slums of the city. There, he meets Aerith and defends her from an attack by the Turks.

Meanwhile, Shinra finds AVALANCHE's location and collapses part of the upper city, killing most of AVALANCHE along with the slum population below. Aerith is also captured; as a Cetra, she can potentially reveal the 'Promised Land', which Shinra believes is overflowing with exploitable Lifestream energy. Cloud, Barret and Tifa rescue Aerith but are captured after encountering a specimen dubbed 'Jenova'. They awaken to find their prison cells opened, and escape to find President Shinra killed.

A katana in the President's body indicates that the attacker was Sephiroth, who was presumed dead seven years earlier. The party escape Midgar and pursue Sephiroth across the Planet; along the way, they are joined by Red XIII, Cait Sith and Cid, and can recruit Yuffie and Vincent. The party meet Sephiroth at a Cetra temple, where he reveals his intent to use the Black Materia to summon 'Meteor', a spell that will fatally injure the Planet with a meteorite strike.

At the point of impact, Sephiroth will absorb the Lifestream as it attempts to heal the wound, becoming a god-like being. The party drives Sephiroth back, retrieving the Black Materia, but Sephiroth manipulates Cloud into surrendering it.

Aerith sets off alone to stop Sephiroth, following him to an abandoned Cetra city. During her attempt to pray for help from the Planet, Sephiroth tries to force Cloud to kill her, then kills her himself before fleeing, leaving the Black Materia for the party to reclaim. The party then learns more of Jenova, whose remains were unearthed by Shinra scientists several decades earlier and mistaken for a Cetra. In an experiment at Nibelheim, Jenova's cells were used to create Sephiroth. Five years prior to the present, Sephiroth and Cloud were sent to Nibelheim on a mission, where Sephiroth discovered the truth about his origins. Driven insane by the revelation, he murdered the townspeople, then vanished when confronted by Cloud. The party heads to the Northern Crater, where Sephiroth will use the Black Materia.

Confronting him, they learn that the 'Sephiroths' they have encountered are Jenova clones created by the insane Shinra scientist. Confronting the real Sephiroth as he is killing his clones to reunite Jenova's cells, Cloud is again manipulated into delivering the Black Materia to him, summoning Meteor. Sephiroth then taunts Cloud by showing another SOLDIER in Cloud's place in his memories of Nibelheim, suggesting that Cloud is also a Sephiroth clone. Sephiroth summons Meteor; Cloud falls into the Lifestream and the party evacuates with Rufus and the Turks, who arrest them. Shinra focuses its efforts on protecting humanity from the Planet's defensive force ('Weapon') and attempting to destroy Meteor directly, which eventually costs the lives of the majority of Shinra's personnel, including Rufus.

Escaping Shinra, the party discover Cloud at an island hospital in a catatonic state from Mako poisoning. Tifa stays with him, and when the island is attacked by a Weapon, the two fall into the Lifestream.

Within the Lifestream, Tifa helps Cloud reconstruct his memories. Cloud was never accepted into SOLDIER, instead becoming a low-ranking infantryman. The SOLDIER in his memories was his friend Zack. At Nibelheim, Cloud was injured, but fatally wounded Sephiroth, who only survived due to Jenova. Cloud and Zack were then taken for experiments by Hojo, with Zack escaping four years later with a catatonic Cloud. The two were eventually cornered by Shinra soldiers, and Zack was killed; the combined trauma of his experience, the experiments and Zack's death triggered an identity crisis, with Cloud constructing a false persona around Zack's stories and his own fantasies. Realizing and accepting his past, Cloud recovers and together with Tifa reunites with the party.

It is revealed that Aerith's prayer to the Planet was successful: the Planet had attempted to summon Holy to prevent Meteor's impact, but Sephiroth blocked Holy. After killing Hojo when he tries to aid Sephiroth, who is revealed to be Hojo's biological son, the party descends into the Planet's core and defeats both Jenova and Sephiroth. The party escapes and Holy is summoned, attempting to block Meteor as it descends on Midgar. As Meteor is too close, Holy cannot block it, but the Lifestream rises from the planet and aids Holy in destroying Meteor. Five hundred years later, Red XIII is seen with two cubs looking out over the ruins of Midgar, which are now covered in greenery, showing the planet has healed. Development [ ].

Producer and director, who together helped create the story and gameplay concepts for Final Fantasy VII. The initial concept talks for Final Fantasy VII began in 1994 at Final Fantasy developer, following the completion of. As with the previous installment, series creator reduced his role to that of producer and granted others a more active role in development: these included, who had been one of the directors of Final Fantasy VI. The next installment was initially planned as a for 's (SNES). After creating an early 2D prototype of Final Fantasy VII for the SNES, the team postponed development to help finish.

Once Chrono Trigger was completed, the team resumed discussions for Final Fantasy VII in 1995. The team reviewed the option of continuing the 2D strategy, which would have been the safe and immediate path just prior to the imminent industry shift toward, and the radical new development models that these 3D consoles would require. The team decided to take the riskier option and make a 3D game on new generation hardware, but had yet to choose between the -based or the -based from. The team also considered 's new console and the personal computer (PC). Their decision was influenced by two things: a tech demo based on Final Fantasy VI created using the new software that impressed both staff and external developers, and the escalating price of cartridge-based games, which was limiting Square's audience.

Tests were made for a Nintendo 64 version of the game, which would use the planned peripheral, even in the face of a lack of 64DD development kits and the prototype device's changing hardware specifications. This version was discarded during early testing, as the 2000 polygons needed to render the Behemoth monster put too much of a strain on the Nintendo 64 hardware, causing a low. It was later estimated that it would have required thirty 64DD discs to run Final Fantasy VII properly with the data compression methods of the day. Faced with both technical and economic issues on Nintendo's current hardware, and favorably impressed by the increased storage capacity of CD-ROM when compared to the Nintendo 64 cartridge, Square shifted development of Final Fantasy VII in addition to all other planned game projects, onto Sony's PlayStation.

In contrast to the visuals and audio, the overall gameplay system remained mostly unchanged from that used since, using research done to promote player control. The initial decision was for battles to feature shifting camera angles. Battle arenas had a lower polygon count than field areas, which made picking out distinctive features for each one more difficult. The summon sequences benefited strongly from the switch to the cinematic style, as the team had struggled to portray their scale using 2D graphics. In his role as producer, Sakaguchi placed much of his effort into developing the battle system, also proposing the Materia system. Materia provided more character customization than previous Final Fantasy games: battles no longer revolved around characters with innate skills and roles in battle, as Materia could be reconfigured between battles.

Nomura also contributed to the gameplay, creating the Limit Break system as an evolution of the Desperation Attacks used in Final Fantasy VI. The Limit Breaks served a purpose in gameplay while also bringing out each character's personality in battle. As with every game prior to Final Fantasy VII, Square had continued to use the passion-based game development approach present with their early projects, but now had the resources and ambition to create the game they wanted. This was because they had extensive capital from their earlier commercial successes, which meant they could focus on quality and scale rather than obsessing over their budget. Final Fantasy VII eventually became ranked as one of the most expensive video game projects at the time, coming in at an estimated $40 million USD, which adjusted for inflation came to $61 million in 2017. Development of the final version lasted just over a year, and included a staff of between 100 and 150 people. As video game development teams were usually only 20 people, the game had what was described as the largest development team of any game up to that point.

The development team was split between both Square's Japanese offices and its new American office in Los Angeles, with the American team primarily responsible for city backgrounds. Art design [ ]. Promotional artwork of the main cast. All main characters were designed by; Final Fantasy VII was his first role as character designer. The game's art director was, who had worked as a designer for Final Fantasy VI. With the switch into 3D, Naora realized that he needed to teach himself drawing all over again, as 3D visuals required a very different approach than 2D.

With the scale and scope of the project, Naora requested and was granted a development team devoted entirely to the game's visual design. The department's duties included illustration, modeling of 3D characters, texturing, creation of environments, visual effects, and animation. Naora later defined the art style of Final Fantasy VII as 'dark' and 'weird'.

The Shinra logo, which incorporated a kanji symbol, was drawn by Naora personally. Promotional artwork, in addition to the logo artwork, was created by, an artist whose association with the series went back to its inception. While he had taken a prominent role in earlier entries, Amano was unable to do so for Final Fantasy VII, due to commitments at overseas exhibitions. His logo artwork was based on Meteor: when he saw images of Meteor, he was not sure how to turn it into suitable artwork.

In the end, he created multiple variations of the image, and asked staff to choose which they preferred. The green coloring represents the predominant lighting in Midgar and the color of the Lifestream, while the blue reflected the ecological themes present in the story. Its coloring directly influenced the general coloring of the game's environments. Another prominent artist was. Having impressed Sakaguchi with his proposed ideas, which were handwritten and illustrated rather than simply typed on a PC, Nomura was brought on as main character designer.

Talking of his role as character designer, Nomura stated that when he was brought on, the main scenario had not been completed, but he 'went along like, 'I guess first off you need a hero and a heroine', and from there drew the designs while thinking up details about the characters. After [he'd] done the hero and heroine, [he] carried on drawing by thinking what kind of characters would be interesting to have. When [he] handed over the designs [he'd] tell people the character details [he'd] thought up, or write them down on a separate sheet of paper'. Something that could not be carried over from earlier titles was the chibi sprite art, as that would not fit with the new graphical direction.

Naora, in his role as an assistant character designer and art director, helped adjust each character's appearance so the actions they performed were believable. When designing Cloud and Sephiroth, Nomura was influenced by his view of their rivalry mirroring the legendary animosity between and, with Cloud and Sephiroth being Musashi and Kojirō respectively.

Sephiroth's look was defined as ' kakkoii', a Japanese term combining good looks with coolness. Several of Nomura's designs evolved substantially during development. Cloud's original design of slicked-back black hair with no spikes was intended to serve as a contrast to Sephiroth's long, flowing silver hair in addition to saving polygons. Nomura feared, however, that such masculinity could prove unpopular with fans, and therefore he changed Cloud's design to feature a shock of spiky, bright blond hair.

Vincent changed from researcher to detective to, and finally to the figure of a former Turk with a tragic past. Scenario [ ] Sakaguchi was responsible for writing the initial plot, which was substantially different from the final version. In this draft for the originally planned SNES version, the game's setting was envisioned as in 1999. Similar to the final story, the main characters were part of an organization trying to destroy Mako reactors, but they were pursued by a hot-blooded detective named Joe. The main characters would eventually blow up the city.

An early version of the Lifestream concept was already present at this stage. According to Sakaguchi, his mother had died while Final Fantasy VI was being developed, and choosing life as a theme helped him cope with her passing in a rational and analytical way. Elements from the original plot were used in later Square projects, for example resulting in the New York setting for. While the planned concept was dropped, Final Fantasy VII still boasted a drastic shift in setting from previous entries, dropping the Medieval fantasy elements in favor of a world that was 'ambiguously futuristic'. The cutscene of killing. This key story sequence has been called one of the most 'shocking', 'cinematic', and 'genre-defining' moments in video games.

When Kitase was put in charge of Final Fantasy VII, he and Nomura entirely reworked the initial plot. Scenario writer joined the team after he had finished his work on. While Final Fantasy VI adopted a style of making all playable characters equally important, the team soon decided that they needed a central protagonist for Final Fantasy VII. The pursuit of Sephiroth that made up a large part of the main narrative was suggested by Nomura, as it had not been done in the series before. Kitase and Nojima conceived AVALANCHE and Shinra as opposing organizations, and created Cloud's backstory as well as his relationship to Sephiroth.

Among Nojima's biggest contributions to the plot were Cloud's memories and split personality; this included the eventual conclusion involving his newly created character of Zack. The crew helped Kitase adjust the specifics of Sakaguchi's original Lifestream concept. When talking about the overall theme, Sakaguchi said it was 'not enough to make 'life' the theme, you need to depict living and dying. In any event, you need to portray death'. As a result of this, Nomura proposed the idea of having the heroine die. Originally, Aerith had been the only heroine, but her potential death led to the creation of Tifa. It was decided that Aerith was the one to die as her death would be the most devastating and consequential.

Kitase wanted to depict it as very sudden and unexpected, leaving 'not a dramatic feeling but great emptiness', 'feelings of reality and not '. The script for the scene was written by Nojima. Kitase and Nojima then planned that most of the main cast would die shortly before the final battle, but Nomura successfully protested against the idea, thinking that it would take away from the impact of Aerith's death. Several character relations and statuses underwent changes during development. Aerith was originally going to be Sephiroth's sister, which influenced the design of Aerith's hair. To bring depth to Aerith's backstory, the team then made Sephiroth a previous love interest of hers, but later changed this to Zack being her former boyfriend. Both Vincent and Yuffie were originally intended to be part of the main narrative, but due to time constraints, they were nearly cut and eventually relegated to being optional characters.

Nojima was charged with writing the scenario and with unifying the team members' ideas into a cohesive narrative, as Kitase was impressed with his earlier work on the Heracles no Eikō III: Kamigami no Chinmoku, an entry in the series. To make the characters seem more realistic, Nojima wrote them so they would not unanimously agree, with some raising objections instead: while this inevitably slowed down the pace of the story, it added depth to the characters. The graphical improvements enabled even relatively bland lines of dialogue to be enhanced. As the inclusion of voice acting would have led to significant load times, it was decided to be omitted. Another writer who contributed was, who wrote several late-game scenes including the Lifestream sequence and Cloud and Tifa's conversation before the final battle. Initially not involved with the project, he was called upon to help flesh out less important story scenes.

He wrote his scenes to his own tastes without outside consultation, something he later regretted. Graphics [ ] With the shift from the SNES to the next generation consoles, Final Fantasy VII became the first project in the series to use. Developers initially considered overlaying 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds, but decided to forgo pixel art entirely in favor of polygonal models. Aside from the story, Final Fantasy VI had many details undecided when development began, with many things filled out along the way. In contrast, with Final Fantasy VII, the developers knew from the outset it was going to be 'a real 3D game', so from the earliest planning stage detailed designs were in existence. The script was also finalized, and the image for the graphics had been fleshed out.

This meant that when actual development work began, storyboards for the game were already in place. The shift from cartridge ROM to CD-ROM posed some problems: according to lead programmer Ken Narita, the CD-ROM had a slower access speed, delaying some actions during the game, so the team needed to overcome this issue. Certain tricks were used to conceal load times, such as offering animations to keep players from getting bored.

When it was decided to use 3D graphics, there was discussion among the staff whether to use sprite-based character models or 3D polygonal models. While sprites proved more popular with the staff, the polygon models were chosen as they could better express emotion.

This decision was influenced by the team's exposure to the 3D character models used in. Sakaguchi decided to use deformed models for field navigation and real-time event scenes, for better expression of emotion, while realistically proportioned models would be used in battles. The team purchased Silicon Graphics supercomputers and related workstations, and accompanying software including Softimage 3D,, and for an estimated total of $21 million. Many team members had never seen the technology before. The pre-rendered backgrounds, such as this scene in Midgar, provided the developers with a choice of camera angle, giving a more cinematic experience. The transition from 2D graphics to 3D environments overlaid on pre-rendered backgrounds was accompanied by a focus on a more realistic presentation. In previous entries, the sizes for characters and environments were fixed, and the player saw things from a scrolling perspective.

This changed with Final Fantasy VII; environments shifted with camera angles, and character model sizes shifted depending on both their place in the environment and their distance from the camera, giving a sense of scale. The choice of this highly cinematic style of storytelling, contrasting directly with Square's previous games, was attributed to Kitase, who was a fan of films and had an interest in the parallels between film and video game narrative. Character movement during in-game events was done by the character designers in the planning group. While designers normally cooperate with a motion specialist for such animations, the designers taught themselves motion work, resulting in each character's movements differing depending on their creators—some designers liked exaggerated movements, while others went for subtlety. Much of the time was spent on each character's day-to-day, routine animations. Motion specialists were brought in for the game's battle animations.

The first characters the team worked with were Cloud and Barret. Some of the real-time effects, such as an explosion near the opening, were hand-drawn rather than computer animated. The main creative force behind the overall 3D presentation was Kazuyuki Hashimoto, the general supervisor for these sequences. Being experienced in the new technology the team had brought on board, he accepted the post at Square as the team aligned with his own creative spirit. One of the major events in development was when the real-time graphics were synchronized to computer-generated (FMV) cutscenes for some story sequences, notably an early sequence where a real-time model of Cloud jumps onto an FMV-rendered moving train.

The backgrounds were created by overlaying two 2D graphic layers and changing the motion speed of each to simulate depth perception. While this was not a new technique, the increased power of the PlayStation enabled a more elaborate version of this effect.

The biggest issue with the 3D graphics was the large memory storage gap between the development hardware and the console: while the early 3D tech demo had been developed on a machine with over 400 megabytes of total memory, the PlayStation only had two megabytes of system memory and 500 kilobytes for texture memory. The team needed to figure out how to shrink the amount of data while preserving the desired effects. This was aided with reluctant help from Sony, who had hoped to keep Square's direct involvement limited to a standard API package, but they eventually relented and allowed the team direct access to the hardware specifications. Final Fantasy VII features two types of cutscenes: real-time cutscenes featuring polygon models on pre-rendered backgrounds, and FMV cutscenes.

The game's (CGI) FMVs were produced by, a then-new subsidiary of Square that specialized in computer graphics and FMVs creation. Visual Works had created the initial movie concept for a 3D game project. The FMVs were created by an international team, covering both Japan and North America and involving talent from the gaming and film industry; Western contributors included artists and staff who had worked on the film series,,, and. The team tried to create additional optional CGI content which would bring optional characters Vincent and Yuffie into the ending. As this would have further increased the number of discs the game needed, the idea was discarded.

Kazuyuki Ikumori, a future key figure at Visual Works, helped with the creation of the CGI cutscenes, in addition to general background design. The CGI FMV sequences total around 40 minutes of footage, something only possible with the PlayStation's extra memory space and graphical power.

This innovation brought with it the added difficulty of ensuring that the inferiority of the in-game graphics in comparison to the FMV sequences was not too obvious. Kitase has described the process of making the in-game environments as detailed as possible to be 'a daunting task'. 'One-Winged Angel', the theme used during a part of the final battle against Sephiroth, is recognized by many as one of Uematsu's best works.

The track uses high-quality digitized voices, a first for the series. Problems playing this file? The musical score of Final Fantasy VII was composed, arranged, and produced by, who had served as the sole composer for the six previous Final Fantasy games. Originally, Uematsu had planned to use music with vocal performances to take advantage of the, but found that it resulted in the game having much longer loading times for each area. Uematsu then decided that the higher quality audio was not worth the trade-off with performance, and opted instead to use -like sounds produced by the console's internal, similar to how his soundtracks for the previous games in the series on the Super NES were implemented.

While the Super NES only had eight sound channels to work with, the PlayStation had twenty-four. Eight were reserved for sound effects, leaving sixteen available for the music. Uematsu's approach to composing the game's music was to treat it like a film soundtrack and compose songs that reflected the mood of the scenes, rather than trying to make strong melodies to 'define the game', as he felt that approach would come across too strong when placed alongside the game's new 3D visuals. As an example, he composed the track intended for the scene in the game where is killed to be 'sad but beautiful', rather than more overtly emotional, creating what he felt was a more understated feeling. Uematsu additionally said that the soundtrack had a feel of 'realism', which also prevented him from using 'exorbitant, crazy music'. The first piece that Uematsu composed for the game was the opening theme; game director showed him the opening cinematic and asked him to begin the project there.

The track was well received in the company, which gave Uematsu 'a sense that it was going to be a really good project'. Final Fantasy VII was the first game in the series to include a track with high-quality digitized vocals, 'One-Winged Angel', which accompanies a section of the final battle of the game. The track has been called Uematsu's 'most recognizable contribution' to the music of the Final Fantasy series, which Uematsu agrees with. Inspired by by to make a more 'classical' track, and by rock and roll music from the late 1960s and early 1970s to make an orchestral track with a 'destructive impact', he spent two weeks composing short unconnected musical phrases, and then arranged them together into 'One-Winged Angel', an approach he had never used before.

Music from the game has been released in several albums. Square released the main soundtrack album, Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack, on four Compact Discs through its subsidiary in 1997. A release was also produced, containing illustrated liner notes. The regular edition of the album reached #3 on the Japan charts, while the limited edition reached #19. Overall, the album had sold nearly 150,000 copies by January 2010. A single-disc album of selected tracks from the original soundtrack, along with three pieces, titled Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks, was also released by DigiCube in 1997, reaching #20 on the Japan Oricon charts. A third album, Piano Collections Final Fantasy VII, was released by DigiCube in 2003, and contains one disc of piano arrangements of tracks from the game.

It was arranged by and performed by Seiji Honda, and reached #228 on the Oricon charts. Release [ ] Final Fantasy VII was officially announced in February 1996. Square president and chief executive officer Tomoyuki Takechi was fairly confident about Japanese players making the game a commercial success despite it being on a new platform. A playable demo was included on a disc giveaway at the 1996, dubbed Square's Preview Extra: Final Fantasy VII & Siggraph '95 Works. The disc also included the early test footage Square created using characters from Final Fantasy VI. The initial release date was at some point in 1996, but to properly realize their vision, Square postponed the release date almost a full year. Final Fantasy VII was released on January 31, 1997.

It was published in Japan by Square. A re-release of the game based on its Western version, titled Final Fantasy VII International, was released on October 2, 1997.

This improved International version would kickstart the trend for Square to create an updated version for Japanese release, based on the enhanced Western versions. The International version was re-released as a physical disc as part of the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box Japanese package on December 18, 2012. While its Japanese success had been taken for granted by Square executives, North America and Europe were another matter, as up to that time the Japanese role-playing genre was still a niche market in Western territories.

Sony, due to the PlayStation's struggles against Nintendo and Sega's home consoles, lobbied for the publishing rights in North America and Europe following Final Fantasy VII 's transfer to PlayStation—to further persuade Square, Sony offered a lucrative royalties deal with profits potentially equaling those Square would get by self-publishing the game. Square accepted Sony's offer as Square itself lacked Western publishing experience.

Square was uncertain about the game's success, as other JRPGs including Final Fantasy VI had met with poor sales outside Japan. To help with promoting the title overseas, Square dissolved their original Washington offices and hired new staff for fresh offices in Costa Mesa. It was first exhibited to the Western public at (E3). To promote the game overseas, Square and Sony launched a widespread three-month advertising campaign in August 1997. Beginning with a television commercial that ran alongside popular shows such as and, the campaign included numerous articles in both gaming and general interest magazines, advertisements in comics from publishers such as DC Comics and Marvel, a special collaboration with Pepsi, media events, sample discs, and merchandise. According to estimations by Takechi, the total worldwide marketing budget came to USD$40 million; $10 million had been spent in Japan, $10 million in Europe, and $20 million in North America.

Unlike its predecessors, Final Fantasy VII did not have its numeral adjusted to account for the lack of a Western release for, and V—while only the fourth Final Fantasy released outside Japan, its Japanese title was retained. It released in North America on September 7, 1997.

The game released in Europe on November 17, becoming the first Final Fantasy game to be released in Europe. The Western version included additional elements and alterations, such as streamlining of the menu and Materia system, reducing the health of enemies, new visual cues to help with navigation across the worldmap, and additional cutscenes relating to Cloud's past. PC version [ ] A version for PC was developed by Square's Costa Mesa offices. Square invested in a PC version so they could reach as wide a player base as possible; many Western consumers did not own a PlayStation, and Square's deal with Sony did not prohibit such a port. Having never released a title for PC, Square decided to treat the port as a sales experiment.

The port was handled by a team of 15 to 20 people, mostly from Costa Mesa but including help from Tokyo. Square did not begin the port until the console version was finished. The team needed to rewrite an estimated 80% of the game's code, due to the need to unify what had been a custom build for a console written by multiple staff members. Consequently, programmers faced problems such as having to unify the original PlayStation version's five different game engines, leading to delays. The PC version came with a license for 's S-YXG70, allowing high-quality despite varying sound hardware setups on different user computers. The conversion of the nearly 100 original musical pieces to files was done by Yamaha.

To maximize their chances of success, Square searched for a Western company to assist with releasing the PC version., whose release of had turned them into a publishing giant, agreed to market and publish the port. The port was announced in December 1997, along with Eidos' exclusivity deal for North America and Europe at the time. To help the product stand out in stores, Eidos chose a triangular shape for the cover and box. They agreed on a contract price of $1.8 million, making initial sales forecasts of 100,000 units based on that outlay. The PC version was released in North America and Europe on June 25, 1998; the port was not released in Japan.

Within one month, sales of the port exceeded the initial forecasts. The PC version would end up providing the source code for subsequent ports. Localization [ ]. See also: The localization of Final Fantasy VII was handled internally by Square. The English localization, led by Seth Luisi, was completed by a team of about fifty people and faced a variety of problems. According to Luisi, the biggest hurdle was making 'the direct Japanese-to-English text translation read correctly in English' because the 'sentence structure and grammar rules for the Japanese language is very different from English', making it difficult for the translation to read like native English without distorting the meaning. Michael Basket was the sole translator for the project, though he received the help of native Japanese speakers from the Tokyo office.

The localization was taxing for the team due to their inexperience, lack of professional editors, and poor communication between the North American and Japanese offices. A result of this disconnect was the original localization of Aerith's name—which was intended as a conflation of 'air' and 'earth'—as 'Aeris' due to a lack of communication between localization staff and the Q&A team. The team also faced several technical issues, such as dealing with a fixed font size, and having to type in additional symbols using so the code would function.

Consequently, the text was still read as Japanese by the word processor; the computer's spellcheck could not be used, and mistakes had to be caught manually. To complicate matters, the Japanese text used obscure kanji symbols carried over from Chinese writing. Swear words were used frequently in the localization to help convey the original Japanese meaning, though most profanities were censored in a manner described by Square employee as the 'old comic book '@#$%!'

-type replacement'. The European release was described as being in a worse condition, as the translations into multiple European languages were outsourced by Sony to another company, further hindering communication. For the PC port, Square did its best to fix translation and grammar mistakes for the North American and European versions, but did not have the time and budget to retranslate all the text. According to Honeywood, the success of Final Fantasy VII in the West encouraged Square to focus more on localization quality; on future games, Square hired additional translators and editors, while also streamlining communication between the development and localization teams. Later releases [ ] The International version of Final Fantasy VII was released on (PSN) as a PSOne Classic in Japan on April 10, 2009. This version was compatible with both and with support for and coming later. Final Fantasy VII was later released as a PSOne Classic in North America, Europe and Australia on June 2.

The PC version was updated by for use on modern operating systems and released via Square Enix's North American and European online stores on August 14, 2012. It included high resolution support, cloud saves, achievements and a character booster. It would later be released via on July 4, 2013, replacing the version available on Square Enix's North American and European online stores. The PC version would be released in Japan for the first time on May 16, 2013, exclusively via Square Enix's Japanese online store with the International version title. It has features unavailable in the western version including high speed mode, no random encounters mode and a max stats command.

A release for, based on the PC version and adjusted for mobile devices by, was released on August 19, 2015, with an auto-save feature. After being announced at PlayStation Experience 2014, the PC version was released for on December 5, 2015. DotEmu developed the PS4 version. A version for was released on July 7, 2016.

Reception [ ] Initial reception and sales [ ] Reception Review scores Publication Score N/A N/A A+ N/A N/A N/A N/A 9/10 N/A N/A 9/10 N/A N/A 38/40 N/A N/A 38/40 N/A N/A 300+/300 N/A N/A 9.75/10 N/A N/A 9.5/10 PC: 8.0/10 N/A N/A N/A 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 8/10 N/A N/A RPGamer N/A N/A 8/10 10/10 N/A N/A Aggregate score 77/100 N/A 92/100 Within three days of its release in Japan, Final Fantasy VII had sold 2.3 million copies. This popularity inspired thousands of retailers in North America to break in September to meet public demand for the title. In the game's debut weekend in North America, it sold 330,000 copies, and had reached sales of 500,000 copies in less than three weeks.

The momentum established in the game's opening weeks continued for several months; Sony announced the game had sold one million copies in North America by early December, prompting business analyst Edward Williams from Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. To comment, 'Sony redefined the role-playing game (RPG) category and expanded the conventional audience with the launch of Final Fantasy VII.' By the end of 2005, the game had sold over 9.8 million copies worldwide, making it the highest-selling game in the Final Fantasy series. By the end of 2006,, the bargain reissue of the game, had sold over 158,000 copies in Japan.

Final Fantasy VII is credited as 'the game that sold the PlayStation', as well as allowing Japanese role-playing games to find a place in markets outside Japan. By May 2010, it had sold over 10 million copies worldwide, making it the most popular title in the series in terms of units sold. The original PC version surpassed Eidos' expectations: while initially forecast to sell 100,000 units, it quickly exceeded sales of one million units, garnering royalties of over $2 million for Square.

As of August 2015, all physical and digital versions have sold 11 million units worldwide. The game received widespread acclaim from critics upon release. It was referred to by as 'quite possibly the greatest game ever made', a quote selected for the back cover of the game's. Commented that 'never before have technology, playability, and narrative combined as well as in Final Fantasy VII,' expressing particular favor toward the game's graphics, audio, and story.

's Jay Boor insisted the game's graphics were 'light years beyond anything ever seen on the PlayStation', and regarded its battle system as its strongest point. 's Alex C praised the dramatic story and well-developed characters. Noted that Final Fantasy VII had come close to being an in playable form, praising its combination of a complex story that went against Western trends and 'excellently orchestrated chip music'. RPGamer praised the game's soundtrack, both in variety and sheer volume, stating that 'Uematsu has done his work exceptionally well' and saying that it was potentially his best work. Final Fantasy VII has received some negative criticism. ( OPM) and GameSpot questioned the game's progression. OPM considered the game's translation 'a bit muddy' and felt the summon animations were 'repetitive.'

RPGamer cited its translation as 'packed with typos and other errors which further obscure what is already a very confusing plot.' Also considered the Japanese-to-English translation a significant weakness in the game, and IGN regarded the ability to use only three characters at a time as 'the game's only shortcoming.' Reviewers gave similar praise to the PC version, but criticized its various technical faults. Computer Games Magazine said that no other recent game had the same 'tendency to fail to work in any capacity on multiple [computers].' Complained that the music quality suffered on PC,' and found the game's pre-rendered backgrounds significantly less impressive than those of the PlayStation version. However, the latter magazine found the higher-resolution battle visuals 'absolutely stunning,' and Computer Games Magazine said that they showed off the potential graphical power of PCs. All three magazines concluded by praising the game despite its technical flaws, and summarized that, while 'Square apparently did only what was required to get its PlayStation game running under Windows,' Final Fantasy VII is 'still a winner on the PC.'

Awards and accolades [ ] Final Fantasy VII was given numerous awards in 1997. It won in the ' first annual Interactive Achievement Awards in the categories 'Console Adventure Game of the Year' and 'Console Role Playing Game of the Year' (it was also nominated in the categories 'Interactive Title of the Year', 'Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics' and 'Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Design'). In the, it won in the category 'Best Roleplaying Computer Game of 1997.' It was also awarded the 'Readers' Choice All Systems Game of the Year', 'Readers' Choice PlayStation Game of the Year' and 'Readers' Choice Role-Playing Game of the Year' by, which also gave it other awards for 'Hottest Video Game Babe' (for Tifa Lockheart), 'Most Hyper for a Game', 'Best Ending' and 'Best Print Ad'. Since 1997, it has been selected by many game magazines as one of the top video games of all time, listed as 91st in EGM 's 2001 '100 Best Games of All Time', and as fourth in 's 'Top 100 Games' in 2004. In 2005, it was ranked as 88th in IGN's 'Top 100 Games of All Time' and as third in 's 'The Greatest 100 Games Ever'. Final Fantasy VII was included in 'The Greatest Games of All Time' list by GameSpot in 2006, and ranked as second in 's 2006 '100 Greatest Games of All Time', as third in 's '100 Greatest Games' in 2008 and as 15th in 's 2009 'Top 200 Games of All Time' (down five places from its previous best games of all time list ).

GameSpot placed it as the second most influential game ever made in 2002; in 2007, GamePro ranked it 14th on the list of the most important games of all time, and in 2009 it finished in the same place on their list of the most innovative games of all time. Restaurant Accounting Software Reviews. In 2012, named it one of their 'All-TIME 100 Video Games'. It has also appeared in numerous other greatest game lists. In 2007, gave it the 'Best Story', 'Best RPG' and 'Best Overall Game' retrospective awards for games on the original PlayStation. GamePro named it the best RPG title of all time in 2008, and featured it in their 2010 article 'The 30 Best PSN Games.' In 2012, also ranked it as the sixth saddest game ever. On the other hand, ranked it seventh on their 2003 list of the most overrated games.

Final Fantasy VII has often placed at or near the top of many reader polls of all-time best games. It was voted the 'Reader's Choice Game of the Century' in an IGN poll in 2000, and placed second in the 'Top 100 Favorite Games of All Time' by Japanese magazine in 2006 (it was also voted as ninth in Famitsu's 2011 poll of most tear-inducing games of all time). Users of voted it the 'Best Game Ever' in 2004 and in 2005, and placed it second in 2009. In 2008, readers of magazine voted it the best game ever made, as well as the ninth most tear-inducing game of all time.

Music from the game's soundtrack is often performed live in symphonic concerts, such as the event in 2009. The game has inspired an for the NES by Chinese company Shenzhen Nanjing Technology. This port features the Final Fantasy VII game scaled back to 2D, with some of the side quests removed. The game's popularity and nature also led director Kitase and scenario writer Nojima to establish a plot-related connection between Final Fantasy VII and. The character Shinra from Final Fantasy X-2 proposes the concept of extracting the life energy from within the planet. Nojima has stated that Shinra and his proposal are a deliberate nod to the Shinra Company, and that he envisioned the events of Final Fantasy X-2 as a prequel to those in Final Fantasy VII. The advances in technology used to create the FMV sequences and computer graphics for Final Fantasy VII allowed Sakaguchi to begin production on the first Final Fantasy film,.

The game introduced a particular aesthetic to the series—fantasy suffused with modern-to-advanced technology—that was explored further in Final Fantasy VIII, The Spirits Within, and. Re-releases of Square games in Japan with bonus features would occur frequently after the release of Final Fantasy VII International. Later titles that would be re-released as international versions include Final Fantasy X and other follow ups from the franchise, as well as the Kingdom Hearts series.

Several characters from Final Fantasy VII have made cameo appearances in other Square Enix titles, most notably the fighting game and the popular Final-Fantasy-to- crossover series. Additionally, fighting video game includes Final Fantasy VII characters such as Cloud and Sephiroth, and allows players to fight with characters from throughout the Final Fantasy series, and its follow-up,, included Tifa as well. In 2015, Cloud was released as a character for the Nintendo, along with a stage based on Midgar. Aerith's death in the game has often been referred as one of the most significant moments from any video game. Related media and merchandise [ ]. Further information: The world of Final Fantasy VII is explored further in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, a series of games, animated features, and short stories. The first title in the Compilation is the, a prequel focusing on the Turks' activities six years before the original game.

The film sequel, set two years after the game, was the first title announced but the second to be released. Special DVD editions of the film included, an that recounts the destruction of Nibelheim. And its mobile phone counterpart,, are set one year after Advent Children. Dirge focuses on the backstory of Vincent Valentine, whose history was left mostly untold in Final Fantasy VII.

The most recent title is the game, an that centers on Zack's past. Releases not under the Compilation label include Maiden Who Travels the Planet, which follows Aerith's journey in the Lifestream after her death, taking place concurrently with the second half of the original game. Final Fantasy VII Snowboarding is a mobile port of the snowboard minigame featured in the original game, featuring different courses for the player to tackle. The game is downloadable on V Cast-compatible mobile phones, and was first made available in 2005 in Japan and North America. Final Fantasy VII G-Bike is a mobile game released for and in December 2014, based on the motorbike minigame featured in the original game. Main article: With the announcement and development of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, speculation spread that an of the original Final Fantasy VII would be released for the.

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The plate'll go PING and everything's gonna go BAMMM!! I heard their hideout's in the Sector 7 Slums.

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I'm expecting a lot out of her. / Red XIII: The Promised Land? Isn't that just a legend? / President Shinra: Even so, it's just too appealing to not to pursue. It's been said the Promised Land is very fertile.If the land is fertile.

/ Barret: Then there's gotta be Mako! / President Shinra: Exactly. That is why our money-sucking Mako Reactor is a necessity. The abundant Mako will just come out on its own. • Square Co (September 7, 1997). Final Fantasy VII.

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All that boundless energy will be mine. By merging with all the energy of the Planet, I will become a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet. I will cease to exist as I am now.

Only to be reborn as a 'god' to rule over every soul. / Aerith: An injury powerful enough to destroy the Planet?

/ Sephiroth: Behold that mural. The Ultimate Destructive Magic.

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I know what you want to say! That I wasn't in Nibelheim five years ago. That's it, isn't it? / Sephiroth: I see you finally understand.

/ Cloud: But, I want to ask you one thing. Why are you doing this? / Sephiroth: Ha, ha, ha. I want to take you back to your real self. The one who gave me the Black Materia that day. Who would have ever thought a failed experiment would prove so useful?

Hojo would die if he knew. / Cloud: Hojo!? What does he have to do with me!? / Sephiroth: Five years ago you were.constructed by Hojo, piece by piece, right after Nibelheim was burnt. A puppet made up of vibrant Jenova cells, her knowledge, and the power of Mako.

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