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  • Final Fantasy VII for PC out now

    Yes, you read that right. Your beloved PSOne classic is not available for the PC with those extra goodies you were promised. Final Fantasy VII is officially available on the Square Enix eShop for a promotional price of $9.99 for 30 days, after which it will become $12.99.

    As reported back in July, the PC version of Final Fantasy VII comes with 36 achievements that you can share with your friends, cloud saves and a character booster that lets you increase your HP, MP and Gil. The system requirements for the game are: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64-bit) • 2GHz Processor or faster • 1GB RAM • DirectX 9-compatible graphic card.

    Watch the announcement trailer below:

    Let the nostalgia kick in once again with this great re-release. Do note that the game is not in HD.

  • Final Fantasy VII Developer Discussion With Nomura, Nojima And Kitase

    Famitsu as part of the Final Fantasy VII 15th anniversary feature interviewed Tetsuya Nomura, Kazushige Nojima and Yoshinori Kitase. Following are some interesting tidbits from the interview.

    Kitase wanted the game to be in 3D but Sprite based models proved to be more popular against their polygon counterparts. They chose to go ahead with 3D models as they helped express characters better on screen. Popular horror game – Alone in the Dark was a huge inspiration in development.

    Hironobu Sakaguchi wanted normal models in battle and SD-Style models in the field to better show character expression. Sakaguchi also helped out with the battle system and is also credited for coming up with the Materia system. On the other hand character designer Tetsuya Nomura helped shape up the Limit system.

    Kazushige Nojima joined the team early in the game’s development cycle when the main character settings were being done as he was busy working on Bahamut Lagoon.

    Kitase and Nomura re-did the whole plot when Kitase was handed development on the game. Tifa wasn’t in the game at first but was added later. Nomura was the one who wanted either Aerith or Tifa to die, little did they know that this would become one of the saddest plot twists in video game history.

    Zack was added at the end of development as the developers wanted to show off a true soldier and Aerith’s first love. Sephiroth was initially planned to be Aerith’s brother, explaining the similar front hair, they later changed it to him being her first lover but at the end of development it Zack got to have all the fun.

    Lastly Cloud’s hair was slicked back at first to reduce polygon count along with Aerith’s one piece dress.

    Thanks to Andriasang for the translation.

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