We have reached the pinnacle of games I have beaten in the year 2021 on stream and will review. Final Fantasy VII is a game I have played time and again, and either this or Final Fantasy IV is the most played game for myself. In this way, I have a pretty thorough analysis about this game so it will come with a lot of in-depth thoughts. I will try not to spoil a lot for you guys, the readers. However without further ado, here is my review of Final Fantasy VII.
Positives:
1. A massive change is successful- From the NES to the SNES, Final Fantasy was going to be on the N64 but a falling out at the time paved the way for Final Fantasy to go to the PlayStation due to the need for it to be on a CD. The end result? Only the most popular game of the 90's coming together and to this day over 13 million copies of this game sold. It brought Sony relevance, and a major name to the forefront of marketing to a young person. You wanted this game, you had to have it. You wanted the Greatest Hits Edition when that happened. It also, after some years, sparked spin off games like Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus, and Type 0. It also sparked a movie, Advent Children. It also paved the way for a Hollywood bust of a movie, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. And would you look at that, it sparked a Remake of the game over two decades later. Needless to say there are some games that are just legacy games, like Chrono Trigger, Super Smash Bros, and to an extent as well, Super Mario 64. Final Fantasy VII though is the most well known, most popular legacy game of all time.
2. Music- Nobuo Uematsu probably has his most well known masterpieces on this game, whether at the time he realized it or not. He likely has now but the same tracks are still well known and has been remade in some way in the remake of this game to start. Obviously his track of One Winged Angel is the most well known track but Shinra's music is amazing, same with the world map, Cid's Theme, boss theme, regular battle theme, and so much more. Another likely legendary track is Aerith's theme. It's something to have a great soundtrack, it's another to have a legendary soundtrack like this game is.
3. Characters- Yes you know all of them, yes the main ones have significant character development, yes they are amazing. The main characters are well known to society so that is all I will say on that. However yes most of the characters have significant development.
4. Graphics.. for the time- They were fantastic.. for the time. I will elude on that as it goes but I felt they were really good for the time. Overall, given how the other games of its age when it came out, it was probably the best Square got.
5. Story- Yes the story is very deep, and I mean VERY deep. This starts as one thing but then continues into a more massive story. Overall, I very much enjoyed the story and have continued to hold it very well in light to this day. Overall the story starts very central to one thing but once something else happens, it becomes very broad but central to one thing. That's what I enjoyed about the game.
6. Villain- Yes Shinra was a villain to start, but the main villain is world renowned to this day, the one winged angel Sephiroth. He is a terrific villain and one that has had legacy follow him to this game among different games as well. Most recently, he came to Super Smash Bros Ultimate, so he has had lasting power all along. But he is a perfect villain and goes at the antagonist, Cloud.
7. Combat/Limit- I include this together because Limit Breaks happen with your combat. Overall I do like the limit breaks and the combat all together. It speeds the game up but also provides an active time attacking style. So you have to have quick strategy while playing and figuring out the next steps.
Negatives:
1. Plot holes- Yes there are significant plot holes, and no I don't think Square thought it to the idea that they were going to make more FF7 type spin off games to this but they almost were forced to when that was brought up in the game with the plot holes. I overall see why they had them, but it feels that they had this happen and needed to do the explaining. AKA: The stories behind Yuffie and Vincent, those are the major plot holes of which they needed to explain a lot later on.
2. Graphics.. again at the time- Note, in FF8 they do a lot better with making graphics not polygonal and they flow more than need to come into frame like FFVII goes into. I do understand that this is an 'at the time' thing but when FF8 got going not more than a couple years later and FFIX a few years after FFVII, I felt they could have flowed better with the graphics.
3. Weapons- Yes I realize that they are optional and are super bosses but they could have toned down the stupid levels of tough. Yes I have beaten the Weapons in my times but they have also had a lot of patience required.
Overall Rating
Final Fantasy VII is very much worth the investment and the ability to game. I would highly recommend this game to everyone and make it at least one time. I have learned things through other streamers playing so I did well to learn from them as well. It is a well rounded game and something that every gamer I think would appreciate.
Overall Rating: 9 out of 10. It would be higher if not for the plot holes.
Of my personal preferences of Final Fantasy games in order (to this point having played and completed and not including Tactics, just the numbered FF games.):
1. Final Fantasy VI
2. Final Fantasy IX
3. Final Fantasy V
4. Final Fantasy VII
5. Final Fantasy IV
6. Final Fantasy VIII
7. Final Fantasy I
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