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Final Fantasy VII

Original title: Fainaru fantajî VII
  • Video Game
  • 1997
  • 12
IMDb RATING
9.5/10
12K
YOUR RATING
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
Fantasy EpicSci-Fi EpicActionAdventureDramaFantasySci-Fi

A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.A former soldier from an evil company joins a mercenary clan to fight the company he once served.

  • Directors
    • Yoshinori Kitase
    • Yasushi Matsumura
    • Masato Yagi
  • Writers
    • Kazushige Nojima
    • Yoshinori Kitase
    • Hironobu Sakaguchi
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    9.5/10
    12K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Yoshinori Kitase
      • Yasushi Matsumura
      • Masato Yagi
    • Writers
      • Kazushige Nojima
      • Yoshinori Kitase
      • Hironobu Sakaguchi
    • 134User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 3 nominations total

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    10tant-64989

    Best game ever

    Yeah, just want to say that it's the godamn best game ever
    10Leumas E.

    The most beautiful game ever!

    This game is, without question, the greatest one ever produced. With lush, beautiful graphics, a wonderful musical score and a story that beats all other RPGs, Final Fantasy VII certainly is a landmark in gaming history. You play the young mercenary Cloud Strife, who suffers from anamnesia, with a past shrouded in mystery. In the course of the game you gather weapons, magical artifacts and information in the search for the truth of who and what you are.

    This game is recommended to everyone, as it is not only a game for hardcore RPGers but for everyone.

    I have yet to play the sequel, Final Fantasy VIII, but I doubt it can surpass the splendor of this magnificent game!
    action-6

    Perfection!

    Final Fantasy VII is one of the best games ever made, and sold millions when it was released back in 1997. The game looks amazing, but it is the story that is the core of the Final Fantasy series. Cloud Strife is the main-character, he is a mercenary who has agreed to work for a rebel group called AVALANCHE. AVALANCHE is fighting against the evil Shinra-inc., a company which is absorbing all energy on the planet. Cloud meets different characters as the game evolves. FF7 was the biggest games of all time when it was released, because the game comes on 3 massive CD`s packed with action, adventure, romance, love, comedy, fantasy, drama, horror etc. 10/10
    dylankielman

    A Work of Art

    When Final Fantasy VII came out in 1997 it did not only give the gaming world a magnificent game full of lush graphics, amazing music, a near perfect plot, and some of the greatest characters ever to be conceived in any form of entertainment, it gave them one of the most fantastic, spellbinding, and magnificent games ever made!

    At the beginning of the Game you play as Cloud Strifer a mercenary for a group named Avalanche. From the outset it seems that this just going to be another linear RPG that you'd be seeing in the bargain bin in a couple of weeks. But thats where you would be wrong. About 1 to 2 hours of the way in you be introduced to Sephiroth who, in my opinion is THE greatest villain in any form of movies, literature, etc.

    "DON"T READ ON IF YOU HVEN'T PLAYED FFVII"

    But the one event of this game that makes it so famous in my opinion is the death of Areis, that scene alone is probably one of few events in entertainment where I was on the brink of weeping, to me that scene will always be remembered as the greatest scene in video game history.

    I will end this review with somewhat of rant, you know how on the news these days you hear politics like Joe Liberman and Jack Thompson saying that "video games are destroying our youth" and "video games are the sign of evil" apparently these kind of people never sat down even for a minute to play this game. Or have they listened to 'One Winged Angel' certainly not! If they would, then I think they would have a different view of video games as being a work of art like this game.

    Overall this is a must play game, even if don't know how to play games you should give this game a try.

    10/10 I'd even give it a 1000000/10 if I could
    10hybridlock

    So much more...

    Every now and again a game comes along that shapes the way we see the genre in which it rests but this isn't one of them. Every now and again a game comes along that shapes the way we play the genre in which it rests but this isn't one of them. Final Fantasy VII is so much more then that, it is a game that has completely changed the way we look at all video games as a whole.

    It has its detractors, mainly those who refuse to like anything of popularity or prefer to let nostalgia cloud their judgement. They will point to the previous titles in the series as the true pinnacle of storytelling and gameplay. I find this to be an entirely elitist viewpoint by people who got everything they ever hoped for, the popularity of their favorite game type, and found it to be more fun to have lived in a private "Clique".

    Before this game the RPG was an unheard of genre to play yet today it is RPGs such as Diablo II and Chrono Cross which top off the charts. All of that has happened because of this game. It was the title that introduced deep, adult story lines to the American Public in a package complete with awe inspiring graphics and moving gameplay. It was the game that sold the Playstation.

    A few will say that story was too twisted for its own good and lacking clarity, especially in the ending. These are the same people who will tell you that they don't like the open ending of Casablanca because we don't get a text display of what happened to each character afterward. Perhaps it is time we learn to appreciate the ability to decide fate for yourself or at least have the ability to question them.

    What started as a simple rebellion turned into so much more and what started as a simple video game turned into a Every now and again a game comes along that shapes the way we see the genre in which it rests but this isn't one of them. Every now and again a game comes along that shapes the way we play the genre in which it rests but this isn't one of them. Final Fantasy VII is so much more then that, it is a game that has completely changed the way we look at all video games as a whole.

    It has its detractors, mainly those who refuse to like anything of popularity or prefer to let nostalgia cloud their judgement. They will point to the previous titles in the series as the true pinnacle of storytelling and gameplay. I find this to be an entirely elitist viewpoint by people who got everything they ever hoped for, the popularity of their favorite game type, and found it to be more fun to have lived in a private "Clique".

    Before this game the RPG was an unheard of genre to play yet today it is RPGs such as Diablo II and Chrono Cross which top off the charts. All of that has happened because of this game. It was the title that introduced deep, adult story lines to the American Public in a package complete with awe inspiring graphics and moving gameplay. It was the game that sold the Playstation.

    A few will say that story was too twisted for its own good and lacking clarity, especially in the ending. These are the same people who will tell you that they don't like the open ending of Casablanca because we don't get a text display of what happened to each character afterward. Perhaps it is time we learn to appreciate the ability to decide fate for yourself or at least have the ability to question them.

    What started as a simple rebellion turned into so much more and what started as a simple video game turned into an epic. It is one of finding who you are and defeating the impossible odds, one of love and loss. Final Fantasy VII is the War and Peace of video games, the game you simply have to play once in your lifetime. n epic. It is one of finding who you are and defeating the impossible odds, one of love and loss. Final Fantasy VII is the War and Peace of video games, the game you simply have to play once in your lifetime.

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    • Trivia
      The first Final Fantasy game to show blood.
    • Goofs
      In the Sector Five slums, Cloud will stop outside the pipe containing the sick man, and Aeris will say, "This guy are sick."
    • Quotes

      Sephiroth: [to Cloud] What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion

    • Crazy credits
      After the closing events of the story, just before the end credits begin, an enigmatic shot of Aeris is shown, more or less identical to the first shot of her at the very beginning of the game.
    • Alternate versions
      The word "Shit!" used by Barret, Cid and even Cloud in the 1997 Playstation 1 version has been censored in the 1998 PC version with swearing symbols. Also the word "Wench" used by Tifa has also been censored with swearing symbol as well.
    • Connections
      Edited into Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box (2012)
    • Soundtracks
      One-Winged Angel: Sephiroth Choir
      Composed by Nobuo Uematsu (uncredited)

      Soprano: Matsue Fukushima, Minae Fujisaki

      Alto: Kazuko Nakano, Saki Ono

      Tenor: Toru Tabei, Daisuke Hara

      Bass: Toshizumi Sakai, Masashi Hamauzu

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    • Release date
      • January 31, 1997 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Final Fantasy 7
    • Production company
      • Square Company
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 4:3

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