![]() Together, they escape the sunless slums of Midgar for the vast and troubled countryside. The party recruits several misfits along the way, but the leadership includes Cloud and bitter revolutionary Barret Wallace, spunky barkeep Tifa Lockheart, and tragic heroine Aerith Gainsborough. ![]() Through a fateful series of introductions and revelations, Avalanche’s crusade against Shinra becomes a quest to rescue the planet from a meteor summoned by the demented super-soldier -and Cloud’s nemesis-Sephiroth. Disillusioned mercenary Cloud Strife joins the eco-terrorism group Avalanche for a couple bombing raids on the power reactors operated by the Shinra Electric Power Company. Twenty-five years ago, to this day, Final Fantasy VII launched its strange journey. Osama bin Laden died with a copy of Final Fantasy VII on his hard drive in Abbottabad. You can play it on your phone! For such a long and convoluted game, compared to The Legend of Zelda or Super Mario, it has such an absurd reach. Now you can play Final Fantasy VII-the title that marked the series’ defection from Nintendo to Sony-on the Switch. It’s been ported, in all its low-poly glory, to every active video game platform. FFVII is one of those games that’s never gone out of fashion and never will. In the West, Final Fantasy VII more or less popularized Japanese role-playing games, a genre in large part defined by turn-based, menu-driven combat with expressive mechanics, such as elemental magic, stat tradeoffs, and skills unique to a certain character or class. Its release swayed the console wars in favor of the PlayStation in Sony’s market debut against the Nintendo 64 and the soon-to-release Sega Dreamcast. The game sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, earning $16.5 million in North America in its opening weekend-more than the opening weekend numbers of many Hollywood blockbusters up to that point. ![]() ![]() There was Titanic, and there was Final Fantasy VII. There are two world-ending, record-shattering blockbusters released in 1997 that made their respective media a little bigger.
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