Final Fantasy VII
- For Sony Playstation
- 3 discs
- 69 page manual
Product Description
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Long recognizable as role-playing sports meeting par excellence, the Final Fantasy series gets a technological makeover in this installment (and series debut on the PlayStation). Shedding the two-dimensional graphics and limited sound capabilities of its predecessors, Final Fantasy VII features lush 3-D graphics, perfectly animated “movie” sequences, and soundtrack-quality music. Coupled with the game’s intricate storyline, endearing characters, and immense yet highly imaginative world, these new advancements make for a quite an engrossing experience.
The tale of Final Fantasy VII centers around a solider named Cloud Strife, who joins forces with Avalanche, a group of resistance fighters, to take down an evil mega-corporation known as Shinra. (The fate of the world hangs in the balance, of course.) Truly epic in scope, this four-disc game requires a considerable amount of time to complete—this reviewer gladly gave up over 80 hours of his life to end it. But it’s certainly a rewarding adventure that every PlayStation owner should consider undertaking, especially since it’s now one of the low-priced “Greatest Hits” titles. –Joe Hon
Pros:
- Intricate and absorbing storyline with endearing characters
- Immense and highly imaginative game world
- Special battle system
- Perfectly animated movie sequences
Cons:
- Your friends and family may feel neglected
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Final Fantasy 7 has no tale and the entire gameplay is very frustrating, nearly as if looking at puppet theater for 50 hours straight…it’ll guide you nuts!!
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
When I first bought my PS2, I got FF10, FF9, and FF7. That was back in 2002. FF10 & FF9 I liked. Excellent tales & loveable characters. But FF7 was a drag.
Then I saw all the clear reviews (“best game ever”), so I chose to give FF7 a second playing in 2004, to impress me. But I still did not like it. IMHO the major flaw is that FF7 has too many “dry” sections where you fight-fight-fight and nearly not anything happens storywise (example – climbing the 100-floor building of your enemy -or- the dumb section where you dissipate an hour finding a dress). In some sections, literally hours pass by with no tale… it feels like a step backwards to the near-nonexistent tales of the original nintendo.
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Also the Battle Engine – really unbalanced. A excellent RPG will grant balance between physical & magical attacks, so they are near-equal. A excellent RPG will make each character unique with specific skills & weaknesses (like real people-some are fighters; others are healers). Not so FF7:
- it’s all magic… physical attacks are worthless (about 1/4 the hurt)
- and the characters are completely interchangeable. You can equip Fire3 to your man & Heal3 to your girl. And then the next battle, completely flip it around, so the man is the healer & the girl is the killer. And then flip it again! No individuality. Each character is identical. Plus *instant learning* and instant forgetting… not realistic at all.
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Also, the tale, while excellent, is poorly executed. It basically boils down to a meteor poisoning the planet’s “shape” – very unadorned concept – but the novelist dances around & adds un-necessary complication. He takes 2+2 = 4 and turns it into 1-5+4-6+2-1+7-2 = 4. That’s why so many gamers go, “Huh? What just happened?” It was a excellent tale, but a lousy script.
By and large, FF7 is one of the weakest sports meeting in the FF series (inferior to the other PS1 game-FF9, super nintendo sports meeting FF4, FF5, FF6, even inferior to FF10.
Rating: 1 / 5
Dumb! It’s a bunch of spiky haired teenagers running around trying to fight and idiot named Sephiroth and a stupid electricity company. Sephiroth is stupid because he has WHITE HAIR! No I really mean it! WHITE HAIR! It does not deserve to be called a video game, and I despise anyone who likes it. The focus on the tale is so much that the gameplay sucks. The turn based fighting is the resolution contrary of strategic. I HATE THIS **** GAME!
Well, the main reason I despise this game is that they focus WAAAYYYYY to much on the tale. They thought about gameplay last.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is the worst Final Fantasy ever done. Why? Play every FF from 1 to 6, you will see a progression in the depht of the gameplay, the characters, the tale shape. In FF5 you had the job system, in FF6, you had FOURTEEN characters to choose from and all of them with a deep personality, in FF6 you had to use eight and in the final dungeon TWELVE characters at the same time. When you buy this game, you get a “main” character with punky hair and who never says a word, you can only use *three* characters, the stroy line is so complex that nobody knows what the heck happens at the end. OK, the tale is not really complex, it’s just perplexing and pointless, it happens that the game designers had to rewrite the tale three times in order to make room for the polygonal graphics, and then include enough eyecandy for the Sony/Squre executives.
The end result is a dull game with no meat, no substance, no fun
Rating: 1 / 5
This game is probably the worst Final Fantasy on the PSX. The graphics suck and the plot development is so slow. I played it all the way owing to when I was a kid. I recently selected it up again and started to remember how aganizing the pain was from the first time. I got owing to the first disk then bunged playing and broke all three of the disks so I would never stumble on it again. The only reason that this game has such a cult following is because it was the first Final Fantasy on the PSX. There are much better Final Fantasy’s out there Like 6, 8, 10, and tactics.
In my dorm building I questioned all of the gamers what the worst Final Fantasy was and they all said 7. Trust me, if you play this game you will become emo just like Cloud.
Rating: 1 / 5