The Official Dissidia Website has been updated with the profiles for Cloud and Sephiroth, completing the profiles for all the 20 original characters.

A new video was also added, featuring a battle between Cloud and Sephiroth, in wich is possible to see the EX-modes and EX-Burts for the two of them. Cloud also summons Alexander, while Sephiroth summons Magic Pot, confirming two more Summons for the game.

For those who can’t see the video in the website, you can see it at the website below.

The mostly unknown 4th Disc of Final Fantasy 7′s International Version has some additional content that many people are unaware of due to the fact that the extra disc is only available in the Japanese Region format. Back when the Advent Pieces box set was released, I took a large number of screenshots of the various pieces of extra content shown on the disc. There are 112 images uploaded in total. Most of the images are composed of the special viewable items. There are a few additional ones near the end of other images, including some Beta version footage Final Fantasy VII. The disc also contains images and models of all of the weapons & key items in the game, as well as 3D models of the vehicles that can be animated during the game. The images that were taken have been uploaded and organized by which city they were found in.

Read the full article to view the images.

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Sideshow Collectibles has put up a images & preorder information for the Static Arts figure for Sephiroth set to be released in Q2 of 2009. It stands at 14″ tall, and will be sold for $150.

And last, but certainly not least, is Cloud’s translated character profile from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania. With Cloud, it is finished! Enjoy all the translated information from the various FFVII guidebooks and remember that other translations will be posted in the feature here as well! Happy Thanksgiving!

Cloud Strife
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – CC – DC – LO

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: 173cm
Blood Type: AB
Date of Birth: 8/11
Birthplace: Nibelheim
Weapon: Sword
First Person Pronoun: 俺 [Ore]
Voice Actor: AC, CC, DC, LO – Takahiro Sakurai

A young man who hides his introverted personality behind a cool facade. He admired the hero Sephiroth and aimed to be part of the ShinRa Company’s elite army “SOLDIER” like he was, but his hopes were dashed along the way, and he fell victim to one of the experiments of Hojo, a ShinRa scientist. Due to the influence of the Jenova cells implanted in his body he acted out a false persona, but with the support of his friends he regains his true self and grows as a person.

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Sephiroth’s translated character profile from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania is now up. Enjoy!

Sephiroth
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – CC – LO

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Date of Birth: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown
Weapon: Masamune
First Person Pronoun: オレ [ORE]*, 俺 [Ore]°, 私 [Watashi]†
Voice Actor: AC, CC, LO – Toshiyuki Morikawa

* ORE – Original game, sane pronoun. Male-only, coarse-sounded pronoun.
° Ore – CC and LO, sane pronoun. Male-only, not as coarse as オレ.
† Watashi – All titles, post-insanity pronoun. Genderless, normal politeness.

A SOLDIER: First Class who possessed outstanding merits, was admired as a hero, and after he learned of his birth, began a series of murders in his quest to be become ruler of the Planet. Though he was killed twice, his spirit will not return to the Lifestream, and remnants of his aggression continue to exist on the Planet. For Cloud, he is the foe that destroyed his hometown, a symbol of the past he must break away from.
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On the eve of Thanksgiving in the US, let us give thanks for the translated character profile of Zack Fair from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania.

Zack Fair
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – CC– LO

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: 185cm
Blood Type: O
Date of Birth: Unknown
Birthplace: Gongaga
Weapon: Sword
First Person Pronoun: 俺 [Ore]
Voice Actor: AC, CC – Kenichi Suzumura

A SOLDIER brimming with kindness, he treasures the bonds between people and would sacrifice his life without hesitation for a comrade facing a crisis. He was Aerith’s first love and close friends with Cloud and Sephiroth. Becoming one of Hojo’s samples as a result of the Nibelheim incident, he met with the last moments of his untimely death whilst escaping with Cloud. Zack’s personality had a heavy influence on the formation of Cloud’s personality when he was under Jenova’s control.
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News scans surfaced today, revealing Tetsuya Nomura’s artwork for Shantotto and Firion’s and the Emperor’s EX-modes.

And here is the 10th Anniversary Ultimania profile translation of the man behind the cat, Cait Sith. Reeve Tuesti. Enjoy!

Reeve Tuesti
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – DC

Character Profile

Gender: Male
Ages: FFVII (35), AC (37), BC (31-35), DC (38)
Height: 180cm
First Person Pronoun: 私 [Watashi] (polite, non-gender-specific)
Voice Actor: AC, DC – Banjō Ginga

The man who controls Cait Sith, and the peace-loving head of the WRO.

The head of the Urban Development Department. Involved in the construction of Midgar from the very beginning, he watches over the town’s development like that of a child. By utilizing his special ability, “Inspire”, he is able to cause inorganic things to emit life; his “child”, the “cat”-shaped robot, Cait Sith can be controlled from a great distance. After Meteorfall, he became the director of the World Regenesis Organization (WRO), which is devoted to the purpose of restoring life to the planet.

「President! Are you really gonna do this?! 」
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Today we feature the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania profile translations of the new Turks of Before Crisis that were released when Before Crisis came to Yahoo and EZ Web phones in Japan. Enjoy!

Legend (Legendary) Turk

Appears in: BC
Gender: Male
Weapon: Bomb
Place of Origin: Junon
First Person Pronoun: 俺 [Ore] (boastful)

Uses bombs as his weapon, he is an agent who loves women. At one time he belonged to an Anti-ShinRa Organization, and from the people of ShinRa he was feared as “The Death God of the Battlefield,” but he was bought by Verdot for his first class ability as an operative and joined the Turks. His actual ability can instantly bury large crowds of enemies, and even though he is lax in his duties, because he is in fact a very capable person he hasn’t been punished for it in his unique career, he is called “The Legend of Turks.”
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Barret Wallace’s character profile translation from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania rounds off our releases for the day. Enjoy!

Barret Wallace

Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – DC

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: 197cm
Blood Type: O
Date of Birth: 12/15
Birthplace: Corel Village
Weapon: Gimmick Arm
First Person Pronoun: オレ [Ore] (male-only, coarse-sounding.)
Voice Actor: AC, DC – Masahiro Kobayashi

A muscular soldier who fights for the planet, Barret comes from the coal mining town of Corel. As a result of the Mako Reactor explosion, the ShinRa army burned the town to the ground. Because he lost his right arm, he now has a prosthetic. The surgical operation performed changed his arm into a literal gun. He is fighting against ShinRa because both his wife and his hometown were taken away by them. He is raising his best friend, Dyne’s daughter, Marlene, as his own child, and is surprisingly doting.

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Here is Tifa Lockhart’s character profile translation, this time from the Crisis Core Ultimania, which details her appearance during the Nibelheim Massacre.

Tifa Lockhart
The Nibelheim girl who is waiting for a “blonde SOLDIER.”

Age: 15
Blood Type: B
Birthdate: 1987/5/3
Hometown: Nibelheim

Tifa lives in Nibelheim, and is a girl considered an idol among boys of the same age in the village. Being the local person who knows the details of the place, Tifa takes charge as the guide who’s going to lead Zack and the research group of ShinRa to the Reactor. During the time of being Cloud’s childhood friend, when Cloud said he aimed to be like Sephiroth and was about to leave the village, Tifa made him promise that “whenever she’s in a pinch, he’ll come and help her”. Since then, she’s looking forward to meeting “an excellent Cloud” again. Tifa starts to learn martial arts from Zangan, a traveler and also a grappler, during his stay in Nibelheim. Her good quality of well-built muscles is recognized by her master.

「 You’re the SOLDIERs who’ve come for the investigation? 」

Link to the FFVII Series

The only woman who knows Cloud’s past.

In FF7, Tifa is the only one who knows Cloud’s childhood, and furthermore, she holds the key to people involved in the story of Nibelheim’s burning down, which is also depicted in CC. She and Cloud came to realize their feelings for each other in the end of the story, and live together in AC and DC.

Believing in Cloud’s promise, Tifa’s waiting to see Cloud become a SOLDIER like Sephiroth. Tifa dresses herself in a pretty and sexy look. Does she do that to spirit up herself in preparing for a touching reunion?

[FFVII] Tifa becomes the only witness to Cloud’s blurry memory, and she also plays an important role in regaining his true self.	[CC] Crisis Core leaves out some scenes such as Tifa facing the enemy who killed her father when Nibelheim was burned down, and the scene where she runs to avenge her father but was badly counter-attacked.

And here is Red XIII’s FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania character profile translation.

Red XIII
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Date of Birth: Unknown
Birthplace: Cosmo Canyon
Weapon: Hair Ornaments
First Person Pronoun: オイラ [Oira, derivative of Ore],
　私 [Watashi] (initially used in front of Cloud and the rest.)
Voice Actor: AC – Masachika Ichimura

He is the survivor of a tribe that protects the planet, living in Cosmo Canyon. His real name is Nanaki. Due to the rare traits that he possessed, such as an extraordinarily long lifespan of a few hundred years, his command of human speech despite being a beast, and his advanced intellect, he became an experimental sample of Hojo. Though he was fearful since he was but an adolescent, in reality he harbored the need to “become an adult as soon as possible in order to protect the hometown’s valley”, a feeling that bordered on impatience.

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