Final Fantasy VII - Introduction / Story / Main

Category: Final Fantasy 7

Story

A giant energy manufacturing company known as Shinra Inc. is harvesting the sheer life energy of the Planet as a simple fossil fuel. Processed and made into products known as Mako and Materia, these materials can work miracles, granting the wisdom of the Ancients to the user. However, this substance, like all other fuels, is finite in supply, and the Planet's life-force is being malevolently drained by the constant exploitation of Mako by Shinra. Though aware of the harmful effects, they function without remorse.

However, the real battle lies not with a corporation, but a force much more competent from the distant past. A long-thought dead warrior bent on becoming more and more powerful, coupled with the Planet's drained energy, threatens the very existence of everything sacred.

Now a small rebel group emanating from the slums must quell the various dangers toward the innocent, and one mercenary for hire must look amidst the lies and deception and find the man he is within.

Review

This was the first game I played when I got my PlayStation, and it's what got me hooked on RPGs. It's also one of my favourite games ever. The story is based around a group of people trying to save the world from an evil corporation named Shinra that is sucking all the energy from the planet. It soon becomes clear to this group of misfits, especially to the leader, Cloud (who is the game's main character), that they have an even worse enemy - Sephiroth, a genetically engineered soldier long thought dead, who has returned with only one thing on his mind: total destruction of the world he believes punished him with his very creation. Now it's up to this group of unlikely heroes to stop Sephiroth from causing the end of the world, even as Cloud struggles to find his identity and uncover the secrets of his own mysterious past. This game has awesome graphics, an incredible story, and even moved me to tears at times, something a video game has never done to me before. I highly recommend this to all RPG fans. Even you're not an RPG fan, I'd even suggest giving it a try. You might just end up enjoying it, like I did.

Review by Rebecca Herman