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Final Fantasy VII (1997)

Square Product Development Division 1

Expanded Game of Final Fantasy VII

PlayStation · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable

4.41 from 5523 ratings · #48 top rated on Grouvee

12244 members have it in their collection · 745 playing now · 3529 backlogged · 1287 wish listed

How long? Main story 41h · with extras 56h · 100% 72h (from 113 logged playthroughs)

The Western release of Final Fantasy VII (released as Final Fantasy VII International in Japan) included additional elements and alterations, such as streamlining of the menu and Materia system, reducing the health of enemies, new visual cues to help with navigation across the world map, and additional cutscenes relating to Cloud's past.

Details

Developers
Square Product Development Division 1
Publishers
Sony Computer Entertainment, Square Enix
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy, Science fiction
Franchises
Final Fantasy
Series
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VII
Events
Sony Computer Entertainment America E3 2012 Press Conference, Sony E3 2009 Press Conference
Steam
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Release dates

  • Sep 07, 1997 (Full Release) (North_America) PlayStation
  • Oct 02, 1997 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation
  • Nov 17, 1997 (Full Release) (Europe) PlayStation
  • Jun 02, 2009 (Digital Compatibility Release) (North_America) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
  • Jun 04, 2009 (Digital Compatibility Release) (Europe) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable

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Rating distribution

5 stars
3168
4 stars
1623
3 stars
570
2 stars
130
1 star
31

Community All Reviews Statuses

WildScallion

Status WildScallion Sep 18, 2023

In my continual burning down of my "list of shame", I finally decided to play FFVII. I'm about 5 hours in to the Nintendo Switch version and I really enjoy it so far, though I find the battling quite boring and lacking in strategy.

The music and cinematic nature is really fun to see. This is the earliest example of …

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In my continual burning down of my "list of shame", I finally decided to play FFVII. I'm about 5 hours in to the Nintendo Switch version and I really enjoy it so far, though I find the battling quite boring and lacking in strategy.

The music and cinematic nature is really fun to see. This is the earliest example of cinematic story telling in video games that I've played and it's really fun to see that. The story is more out there than some of the other early RPGs I've played (FFI, II, Chrono Trigger) and I can see why people were obsessed.

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angryweinerchamp

Status angryweinerchamp Jun 7, 2023

I've been waiting to play this game since I first committed to playing through this series in 2017. I've jumped around the publishing order quite a bit but I'm super eager to finally see what the hype is about. Will this entry unseat FFIX as the G.O.A.T??

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cemakkartal

Status cemakkartal Oct 3, 2022

This chocobo catching thing is getting on my nerves. I finally caught one after many tries (I guess setting ATB to "wait" helped too). But my computer crashed, and now I had to do it all over again. Can someone tell me, how many times do I have to catch a chocobo for the whole game? I hope it's not …

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This chocobo catching thing is getting on my nerves. I finally caught one after many tries (I guess setting ATB to "wait" helped too). But my computer crashed, and now I had to do it all over again. Can someone tell me, how many times do I have to catch a chocobo for the whole game? I hope it's not too many...

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cemakkartal

Status cemakkartal Jul 13, 2022

I finally bought this and started to play. I was a bit skeptical, should I "waste my time" with such an old game, especially after the remake? And then I heard this song:

Oh wow... I've been a long fan of the "battle theme" already (it was my phone's ringtone for a while), but this is amazing! I'm very glad …

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I finally bought this and started to play. I was a bit skeptical, should I "waste my time" with such an old game, especially after the remake? And then I heard this song:

Oh wow... I've been a long fan of the "battle theme" already (it was my phone's ringtone for a while), but this is amazing! I'm very glad about my decision to play.

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kupomog337

Status kupomog337 May 7, 2022

What's up with that one Aeris/Aerith's house minigame anyway? Took me like an hour to finish (first time playing btw).

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timelorded

Status timelorded Mar 20, 2022

i had a few problems with bugs (cid's hyper jump limit) and the lack of save points right before the final boss. besides that, not my favorite ff, but vii is a good rpg with a good story.

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plasmasnake

Status plasmasnake Jan 10, 2022

Playing through with 3x and heavy use of random battle skip is really fun- boss battles are consistently challenging because I'm only doing a few random battles per area (mainly to see what the enemies and 3D backgrounds look like), so haven't leveled up much. Now on level 21 trying to beat a monster blocking the path chasing Sephiroth into …

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Playing through with 3x and heavy use of random battle skip is really fun- boss battles are consistently challenging because I'm only doing a few random battles per area (mainly to see what the enemies and 3D backgrounds look like), so haven't leveled up much. Now on level 21 trying to beat a monster blocking the path chasing Sephiroth into the mountains after Nibelheim- going have level up a little or get real smart with character selection and materia.

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cefer

Status cefer Dec 30, 2021

found these necklaces at a thrift store yesterday, they were $1 each ffvii necklaces

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SIGINT

Status SIGINT Jun 13, 2021

This game seems to have more minigames than Mario Party, including many, many mandatory ones. Impressively, they managed to all be bad in their own unique way. It’s like an entire cursed anime WarioWare game hidden in here.

My party has gotten pretty large now, and I’ve gotten a lot of backstory that wasn’t reached in the remake yet. …

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This game seems to have more minigames than Mario Party, including many, many mandatory ones. Impressively, they managed to all be bad in their own unique way. It’s like an entire cursed anime WarioWare game hidden in here.

My party has gotten pretty large now, and I’ve gotten a lot of backstory that wasn’t reached in the remake yet. Pretty interesting on that side. Game itself has its ups and downs I guess. So far I like it more than the ones I left incomplete for sure, so planning to slowly play through the rest of it. I’m just not ultra hooked like I was with some of the others.

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kingbk83

Status kingbk83 Jun 7, 2021

I missed this when it came to the PS1 (I was a N64 kid unfortunately, which turned out to be one of my least favorite Nintendo consoles), but picked this up on the Switch. What a game! I LOVE FF VI and didn't know if anything could be as good as that one. This could be. The storytelling is fantastic, …

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I missed this when it came to the PS1 (I was a N64 kid unfortunately, which turned out to be one of my least favorite Nintendo consoles), but picked this up on the Switch. What a game! I LOVE FF VI and didn't know if anything could be as good as that one. This could be. The storytelling is fantastic, the challenge is hard but fair, the characters all are unique and interesting, and the depth of gameplay is amazing. There is SO MUCH to do and a lot of freedom for the player to make, from picking who to put in your party of three, to what materia to put with each player, to how you setup your battle formations (front row/back row) to game choices that will affect future outcomes. Top it all of with one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a video game (the boss battle music I won't be able to listen to while driving, as I'll end up going 50 over the speed limit, it pumps you up that much), and I'm so mad it took me this long to play this classic. I'm so happy Square put this on the Switch to give all of us gamers that missed out on this back in 1997 the chance to finally play it. It's up there with Chrono Trigger, FF VI and Earthbound as one of the best JPEGs of all time.

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SIGINT

Status SIGINT Jun 6, 2021

Man, people weren’t kidding. I already almost finished the whole FFVII Remake story in my first sitting with the original. Lol

The opening hour has that monumental and electric feeling you’d expect from this game’s decades of hype, dropping you right into a wild part of the story with sweeping camera shots and pulse-pounding music. Midgar is such a cool-looking …

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Man, people weren’t kidding. I already almost finished the whole FFVII Remake story in my first sitting with the original. Lol

The opening hour has that monumental and electric feeling you’d expect from this game’s decades of hype, dropping you right into a wild part of the story with sweeping camera shots and pulse-pounding music. Midgar is such a cool-looking and interesting setting that it draws you in instantly. Even knowing the story, I felt the same way as when I played the remake, and could instantly see how this blew people’s minds back in the day. This is how you start a game, and in this regard, FFVII stands at the top of the series.

For the next couple hours after that, the experience became a bit more uneven. But, the rate at which they funnel you along to the next exciting moment at this point in the game is crazy, so it certainly hasn’t become boring.

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PKdubs

Status PKdubs May 8, 2021

This game only serves the function of giving me the old FF7 story for me to compare the new one too. Yeah it will be a while before I play this one.

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magohuman

Status magohuman Apr 3, 2021

Um dos jogos mais famosos da história dos games, e que marcou sua época. Desnecessário escrever mais, todo mundo tem uma review a respeito desse clássico. A propósito, o jogo já tem 24 anos. Significa que você está ficando velho hehe

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