This article is submitted by the author: Noer and first published in the public account: Lost Raiders Group
For every player, there will be a game that will be hard to forget.
Although I often talk about the history of past consoles in my articles, in fact, as a young man born with a tail in the nineties and now in his early twenties, my childhood is not much different from most of the post-zero zeros. When I began to contact computers and video games, the brief glory of domestic stand-alone games was gone, video games had become a flood beast in the eyes of many parents, and even the "burning expedition" in the year I bought the first computer in my home had begun for a while. Of course, the first video game I came into contact with in my childhood was 4399, a robot and a mole, and my father didn't know that I had come down from that website.
(When World of Warcraft: Burning Expedition came out, I didn't even have a computer at home.)
If it weren't for the "adventure" of sneaking to my cousin's house that summer, I might have just walked by console games and embarked on a very different path than I do now.
Let's flip the calendar back to 2008, a year when there were many big events that deserved to be recorded in the history books, but for me, who was still a schoolboy at the time, the top priority in the summer was still the summer homework stacked into a hill. So, one afternoon, I looked at the empty room in my house and had a thought:
"Why do I have to honestly write my homework at home?"
The idea was quickly translated into action by me, and I didn't know where the courage to go to school and be accompanied by friends would not be afraid came from, and I embarked on a 1.6-kilometer "grand adventure" alone towards my cousin's family, which usually took me to play.
(Considering that this road has not been overhauled in these years, this value is basically credible)
The "adventure" naturally ended with a reprimand from both parents and a meal of bamboo plate stir-fried meat, but it was in that summer 13 years ago that I first met the PSP in my cousin's hands, and a game of a man with black hair holding a big sword.
(At that time, PSPs were really rare things.)
That glimpse didn't bring any changes to my life later, I was still playing downstairs with my friends, still arguing about some topics that now seemed extremely childish, and still crying the girl in the neighbor's house to complain to my parents... The summer of 2008 didn't seem to change much from one of my "adventures," but it showed me a "new world" I had never seen before.
For a long time after that, I was curious about the device in my cousin's hand and the images displayed inside, and more than once tried to find clues about the device and the game on the Internet. In this way, the vast and magical new world of console games gradually unfolded in front of me, who was still young at that time, the tip of the iceberg. I started until there were amazing games in the world, and these strange worlds and ups and downs, and I knew the name of the game I saw at the time: Final Fantasy VII. (A few years later I didn't know I was seeing its spin-off, Final Fantasy VII: Core Crisis.)
(Final Fantasy VII)
As a result, "Final Fantasy" became the "white moonlight" in my heart, and became the initial motivation for me to study in the future, choose a major, and now choose a job.
So when SQUARE ENIX officially unveiled Final Fantasy 7Remake at E3 in 2019, I was uproar all night with excitement — even if I didn't even have a console at the time.
So what is it that makes Final Fantasy 7 remembered by countless players 24 years after its release, and why is Final Fantasy 7RE 24 years later so exciting for countless players?
Final Fantasy, originally known as ファイナルファンタジー" is a transliteration of the English "Final Fantasy" (literally translated as Final Fantasy). As the name suggests, the Final Fantasy series was originally born as a desperate fight for square on the verge of collapse, but it was this final attempt that made the JRPG top game that would later compete with Dragon Quest, and also gave birth to today's SQUARE ENIX.
(Final Fantasy 1)
In 1997, Final Fantasy VII, the seventh orthodox installment of the Final Fantasy series, was released, with the short blond-haired Claude carrying a sword of destruction and embarking on an adventure with his companions around the magic and the fate of the planet. The first work in the Final Fantasy series to take full advantage of the performance of the original PS console, using 3D characters combined with well-drawn 2D backgrounds and a large number of CG broadcasts to provide an unimaginable audiovisual feast for players at the time.
(At the time, the final fantasy VII graphics seemed quite elaborate))
Of course, the success of Final Fantasy VII is not all due to the graphics, and the game's own story, music, and characters are also far superior to similar works in that era. Tetsuya Nomura, who was the first person in the Final Fantasy series, presented the players with the characteristic and recognizable character design of Final Fantasy 7 for the first time, and also made the "Final Fantasy" series set in the "Kill Matt" road forever. The story script from Tetsuya Nomura has created impressive protagonists such as Claude, Alice, tifa, and Safiros, one of the most charismatic villains in video games. Along with its memorable plot, there is also an excellent soundtrack from Nobuo Uematsu.
(Sephiroth is arguably one of the most famous villains in video game history.)
It can be said that it was the combination of these elements that successfully created the "Final Fantasy VII" that haunted countless people in 1997. After that, SQUARE ENIX began the "Final Fantasy VII Completion Plan" around Final Fantasy 7, which included the PSP game Final Fantasy 7: Core Crisis, the mobile game Final Fantasy 7: Before crisis, the CG film Final Fantasy 7: Children Of Arrival, and the series of novels "Road to a Smile".
(Final Fantasy VII: Core Crisis)
The "Final Fantasy 7 Completion Program" has greatly increased the influence of this series of games among players and non-player groups, and has also left some impressions on the characters of Claude, Alice, Zacks and other characters even if they are not exposed to video games, making Final Fantasy 7 still have a lot of discussion many years after the end of this article.
(Final Fantasy VII Completion Project LOGO)
Final Fantasy 7 is certainly not perfect, as the first work in the series of 3D, it cannot avoid many technical problems, and its performance in many places is difficult to compare with the more mature "Final Fantasy 8" after that, but the memory is sometimes so unreasonable - even if the latecomer is better, it will always leave a place for the forerunner.
(Final Fantasy VIII is clearly more technically mature.)
So we can see the cheers of players at E3 2019 when they see the title of Final Fantasy VII Remake, can linger on Midgar, which was rebuilt with Unreal Engine IV after the game was released, and can also hold their breath because of zax who rubbed shoulders with Claude in the illusion near the end of the game, and can also discuss the many changes to the original story in the game all night.
Final Fantasy 7RE is a state-of-the-art JRPG made today's technical specifications, a panacea for SE to save the series of games after Final Fantasy XIV Waterloo, and an emotional and sincere "love letter" dedicated to the departure of Alice a few years ago, for Zacks's sacrifice, for one after another that has lost color in memory and moved to tears.