Want more Final Fantasy VII Remake details? We've got them. Following up on a new trailer last night, which teased some core game changes to the 20-year-old original (Aeris, attacked by ghosts?), Square Enix used the beginning of its E3 event to dive...
Square Enix is at E3 2019 and it has one of the flashiest titles of the year, Final Fantasy VII Remake. The company dropped a new trailer and revealed the game's release date during a live symphony performance last night, showing off what it means by...
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a big deal. It's the upgraded, high-fidelity version of a legendary installment in the Final Fantasy franchise, and it's been blanketed in mystery since its announcement four years ago. Today, Sony revealed a new trailer f...
The hero of the awesome action RPG Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is here to remind Cloud Strife action figures that they’re not as original as they think.
The Zack Fair action figure stands about 11″ tall and comes with the Buster Sword that he eventually handed down to his traumatized sidekick. The sword can be mounted on the figure’s back or held in some of the six included hands.
You can pre-order the OG spiky-haired big sword guy directly from Square Enix for $135 (USD).
Along with death and taxes, one other thing is certain: at any given time somewhere in this wide world of ours there are people arguing about Final Fantasy VII. One of the most argued points is whether or not the PlayStation classic should get a direct sequel. Indie game developer Rodensoft wishes for such a thing, and it made a proof-of-concept of its ideas for a sequel using the original game’s engine.
Rodensoft’s Final Fantasy VII: Time Guardian is set in an alternate version of the original game’s events, flourished with features found in sandbox or open world games. The concept gets its name from two things: its premise and its gameplay tweaks. I’m going to talk about Final Fantasy VII’s story for a bit, so if you haven’t played it yet but want to, I suggest you skip the next paragraph.
In Final Fantasy VII Reeve sacrificed Cait Sith at the Temple of the Ancients aka the Black Materia in order to turn it into its more portable materia form and hide it from Sephiroth. But in Rodensoft’s imagined sequel, an entity called the Time Guardian appears at the temple and foils Cait Sith’s heroics. The Time Guardian sends Cait Sith and the other heroes back in time and rewrites their history.
Gameplay-wise, the sequel’s title alludes to the addition of a day and night cycle and its resulting RPG trappings, such as buildings and characters that are accessible only at certain times.
As it revealed on a Qhimm thread, Rodensoft came up with this concept mainly because it wanted to keep wandering in and exploring Final Fantasy VII‘s world. For Rodensoft that meant turning it into an open world game.
So aside from the day and night cycle, the studio added dynamic weather, randomly generated dungeons, item gathering and presumably tons of quests and side quests, things that you can find in open world greats such as Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto. Rodensoft’s trailer sums up the game’s features:
Rodensoft says it already finished most of Final Fantasy VII: Time Guardian‘s code, but it won’t finish the game. Licensing issues aside, it’s just too much work for the studio to make the new content, especially since it structured the game as spanning nine compact discs, and running on the original PS1. The developer says it’s already working on a similar game but with its own setting and characters. So back to arguing folks!
Console modder MakoMod gave me a blast of nostalgia with this wonderful case mod. His PlayStation case mod features a scale model of Midgar, the technological pizza that Cloud, Barrett, Tifa and Aeris call home.
MakoMod made the case mod over an 8-month period. He made the scale model itself from scratch out of aluminum and cold-casted resin. He also used optical fiber to add lights to the scale model. Here’s MakoMod proving that the console is fully functional:
The city has a couple of tiny Easter eggs, including Aeris’ church and a tiny figure of Cloud near the train station where we first meet him in Final Fantasy VII.
MakoMod is selling the console on eBay. As of this writing the bid is at €225 (~$255 USD) with about a week to go. Socket a browser materia and head to MakoMod’s blog for his build log.
If you have played Final Fantasy VII, you might recall the iconic weapon that Squall uses called the Gunblade. The weapon is exactly what it sounds like, a pistol with a big sword attached. The Man at Arms: Reforged team has a penchant for making these virtual weapons real.
Check out the real Gunblade, it has a pistol hilt with a revolver cylinder, trigger, and hammer. The sword blade attached is long and engraved with a griffin or some mythical creature of the like.
The video above walks through the entire build process from design and virtual creation to the finished sword. The finished product is one of the coolest weapons I have seen. Too bad the gun can’t fire, that would be really awesome. Impractical, but awesome.
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Want more Final Fantasy VII Remake details? We've got them. Following up on a new trailer last night, which teased some core game changes to the 20-year-old original (Aeris, attacked by ghosts?), Square Enix used the beginning of its E3 event to dive...
Square Enix is at E3 2019 and it has one of the flashiest titles of the year, Final Fantasy VII Remake. The company dropped a new trailer and revealed the game's release date during a live symphony performance last night, showing off what it means by...
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a big deal. It's the upgraded, high-fidelity version of a legendary installment in the Final Fantasy franchise, and it's been blanketed in mystery since its announcement four years ago. Today, Sony revealed a new trailer f...
