Does anyone revisit Final Fantasy VII on PS1?

Dark Coz · 07-08-2008, 02:39 PM

I did, of course. But if anyone has oddities about that game, like why Barret's Mind Blow has no effect on bosses after Bottomswell (at Junon), why Aerith was named Aeris in the PS1 U.S. version, and why the character models in the field (not battle or CG movies) don't have a mouth (I think), feel free to ask here.

**helix eternal** · 07-08-2008, 02:49 PM

No but that reminds me I had an itch to play through FF9 again.

FF7 was a great game it just got a ridiculous amount of fanboyism, so now all the big e-penis wagglers out there say it sucks just to try to be cool.

I remember always giving my characters silly names though, like Mr. T (Barret), Jugs (Tifa), Cat Shit (Cait Sith), etc Generic but I thought it was funny when I was 15 or whatever.

Dark Coz · 07-08-2008, 02:59 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot a detail here - I found plenty of FAQs/Walkthroughs in GameFAQs web site on FF7, and many have recent updates. I know that FF7 was critically accliamed when it was released just about a decade ago, but with more FF7 released like Advent Children, Before Crisis, cough...Dirge of Cerberus, and Crisis Core to expand the story, especially since the artist of FFVII did them all including Crisis Core (Tetsuya Nomura I'm talking about, who also did Kingdom Hearts). I did ask the questions in the first post, but I think they would already be answered in other sites (I'm looking at you, GameFAQs).

ChibiValkyrie · 07-08-2008, 03:38 PM

If you just asking do I replay it, then yes. I replayed 7-X2 a few months ago. Of course, since I did them all so close together, I didn't take the time to do anything special. I just kinda wanted to do the highlight points in the stories again.

Have you ever played 7 and noticed that sometimes the characters don't have both of their eyes? (out of battle)

*Kyosuke Kagami* · 07-08-2008, 04:33 PM

FF VII isn't half as great at people claims it is.

I must admit Disc 2 was epic, though.

Karnov · 07-08-2008, 05:48 PM

FFVII was alright at best...
nothing too special
now FFV, FFVI and VIII on the other hand....

Hiryuu · 07-08-2008, 05:58 PM

FF VII's going to be one of those games that, if you're into RPGs, you have to play at least once regardless of whatever anyone on the planet tells you. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. It's more of a 'dividing line' game that's done extraordinarily well.

Usually, fanboyism games give me a bad case of the turnoffs, but I wasn't even that far introduced to FF until the later 90s as it was, so when I DID play it 10 or so years ago via recommendation I was pretty happy with what I got.

Now to play through it again, I'd have to overmax my stats on every character and hit 9999 every time with Cloud's Buster Sword and use Cover 100% to shield the rest of my crew and simultaneously evade every attack given by anyone in the game, including Emerald Weapon, or it just wouldn't be worth it.

The only problem is I grew up after 10 years ago.

linkismyhero · 07-08-2008, 07:26 PM

FFVII was great... the first time I played it. My favorite of the PS1 era was IX though, just because it had the appeal of the classic FF games on SNES, which were the ones I grew to love the series on.

Novasonic of /flex · 07-09-2008, 05:18 AM

I'm pretty much gonna repeat what everyone else said, 7 was a great game, but got way too much fanboyism and hype. Especially since VI did everything so much better.

That's right I said it but I doubt anyone will disagree with me.

桜の色 · 07-09-2008, 06:44 AM

After playing VII originally, I remember that I had enjoyed it, but wasn't incredibly fond of it because of the fact that there were so many plot-holes (mostly due to bad translations) and all the hype surrounding the game. However, I did go back and revisit playing through FFVII once I finished playing Crisis Core; that actually gave me a newfound respect for the game. Especially since Crisis Core kind of fills in all those little plotholes and things (like the voice in Cloud's head being Zack, etc.). Sephiroth is still a stupid villain, but the game at least was better than I remembered.

Dark Coz · 07-09-2008, 01:46 PM

I have noticed that Emerald Weapon was not found in the original Japanese version. Anyone figure that out why he wasn't underwater in the older JPN ver.? Did Square add that boss battle to provide an additional challenge for importers who finished the import version?

桜の色 · 07-09-2008, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Coz

I have noticed that Emerald Weapon was not found in the original Japanese version. Anyone figure that out why he wasn't underwater in the older JPN ver.? Did Square add that boss battle to provide an additional challenge for importers who finished the import version?

Emerald was added in as an additional challenge in the US version, yes. I believe Ruby was too, but I'm not 100% sure on that. The US version also has a couple extra FMVs in it as well.

Dark Coz · 07-09-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ColorOfSakura

Emerald was added in as an additional challenge in the US version, yes. I believe Ruby was too, but I'm not 100% sure on that. The US version also has a couple extra FMVs in it as well.

I'm also wondering in the U.S/PAL versions, why did Square go with the name, Aeris instead of Aerith, then use the Aerith name in Kingdom Hearts/Crisis Core?

Novasonic of /flex · 07-09-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dark Coz

I'm also wondering in the U.S/PAL versions, why did Square go with the name, Aeris instead of Aerith, then use the Aerith name in Kingdom Hearts/Crisis Core?

Translation issues, simple as that.

kannazuki · 07-09-2008, 03:03 PM

The only reason I played VII was because of the cameo appearances of Cloud and Tifa and Yuffie and whoever else in Ehrgeiz and the place I got it from was selling a pretty nice bundle with Parasite Eve. VII was an alright FF, but I still prefer VIII and IX, IX in particular because of the story.

I did like the materia system of VII though, I had fun swapping out different materia between characters.