Square Enix announced this week (after terrible market value news last week) that it has shipped 7 million Final Fantasy VII: Remake/Intergrade copies for PS4, PS5 and PC. The number also includes digital sales. This are hopeful news for a company that lost close to $2 billion in market value over the last few months….
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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Further Embraces its Sequel Role in New Trailer
I had to two main gripes with Final Fantasy VII: Remake. The first one was the it wasn’t a remake of the original, but a sequel, marketed as a ‘remake’ of the legendary title. The second, that Nomura’s nonsensical approach to story telling had turned Final Fantasy VII’s original Sci-Fi/Fantasy tour de force into a…
TBT: Final Fantasy VII: That Time a Popular Game Killed its Princess
So, at this point, it is well known in the gaming world (it has been nearly 26 years), that Aeris (now known as Aerith) died (was murdered really) in Final Fantasy VII. Gamers born after the fact, or near it, will not quite appreciate the shock and awe factor, of watching a heroine, or better…
Final Fantasy VIII: The Most Underrated Final Fantasy?
Now, the heading above, will sound hypocritical to some who have read our reviews over the past 20 years (the site turns 20 in 2023). Until very recently, I did not like Final Fantasy VIII; at least, not nearly as much as I did its legendary predecessor. Final Fantasy VIII was the first video game…
Final Fantasy XVI to be More Mature Than its Predecessors?
News and recent trailer of the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI have been exciting for many FF fans for a variety of different reasons. First, the game is seen as some sort of rebirth for the series after nearly two decades of unpopular mainline Final Fantasy games. Second, the game’s producer, Naoki Yoshida, has a good…
The Best Games of 1997 According to GameRankings
Ah! 1997! The year where pop music and JRPGs boomed into mainstream consciousness. By this time, the Sega Saturn was done, as rumors of a successor codenamed “Black Belt” were flourishing quickly in western media. Proof of the Saturn’s impending doom is that none of its games made it to the top ten listing…
Batman (Robert Pattinson): I Thought I Was in Love with Aeris and Tifa!
Hollywood stars, while rich and famous, also happen to play video games. Even JRPGs like Final Fantasy VII! In Robert Pattinson’s case, it is likely that he played Final Fantasy VII back in the 1990s, before he was famous. But his experience with the game has stuck with him for decades. According to an interview…
Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2 Information Coming Later This Year
None of us expected the Final Fantasy VII Remake project to be completed on the PlayStation 4. In fact, most of us don’t expect the new series of FFVII titles to be finished before 2030. Case in point, FFVIIR-2 has yet to be announced, even though FFVIIR will turn two years old in just a…
Throwback Bit Thursday: Final Fantasy VII – The Game That Changed Fortunes
This week, Final Fantasy VII turned 25 years old (Japanese release), and it seems like the perfect moment to think back and reflect on how big a game it was for both the Japanese Role-Playing genre and the PlayStation’s emergence as the dominant home console player in the mid to late 1990s. Squaresoft Never…
Stranded on a Deserted Island: The Top 10 Games I Would Want to Have
What ten games would you bring if you were stranded on a deserted island? has crossed my mind before and is an often used, made up scenario to discuss “the best”. In the unlikely event I ended up stranded on a deserted island, I would need an irrational Tetsuya Nomura/Kazushigue Nojima plot device that would…