Demand for a Final Fantasy VII remake began gaining traction around 2001, when voice acting and full three-dimensional graphics became more widespread. The video game industry, like Hollywood, has made a common practice of remastering and remaking old hits - particularly welcome for older games with graphics or controls that have not aged gracefully. The game has spawned animated films and spinoffs and has been rereleased in its original form on every modern gaming platform, including on cellphones. The story was still gripping enough to resonate with even the most cynical player. The original Japanese script became near-incomprehensible in its translation to English because of a compressed localization schedule that filled the game with mangled dialogue - “This guy are sick” was a fan favorite. Final Fantasy VII stars the mercenary Cloud Strife, with spiky blonde hair and a comically oversize sword, on his quest to hunt down the villain Sephiroth and unravel the mysteries of their shared past. Each Final Fantasy game tells a stand-alone story, despite the numbering.
Final Fantasy VII alone has 2,005.Ī large part of the game’s popularity was its storytelling, which was revelatory for the time. For example, the first six Final Fantasy games inspired 924 pieces of fan fiction on the website. The original game, released in 1997 for the first PlayStation, was the seventh mainline entry in a series of popular role-playing games that crossed traditional Dungeons & Dragons fantasy with robots, magical machines and giant spaceships fashioned to look like whales.Īll of the Final Fantasy games have been successful, but few have sold as well as the seventh (more than 11 million copies) or lingered in the cultural consciousness for quite as long. Five years later, the simply titled Final Fantasy VII Remake will be released on Friday for the PlayStation 4.įor many fans, the very existence of this remake is surreal. Raucous applause and internet bedlam followed. For nearly two decades, the idea of a remake for the beloved video game Final Fantasy VII seemed as outlandish as your neighbor’s son’s best friend’s uncle actually working for Nintendo.īut fans were given a glimmer of hope in 2015, when the Japanese publisher Square Enix announced at the industry trade show E3 that the remake was under development.
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