Posted on March 27th, 2009 at 8:40 AM by KuraudoStrife
Dengeki PlayStation will bring us another interview with Tetsuya Nomura, along with Motomu Toriyama, Kazushige Nojima, Takeshi Nozue and Nao Ikeda about Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete and Final Fantasy XIII. It will also brings us some visuals of both FF VII: ACC and FF XIII.
The issue will be released on April 2 on Japan, so keep an eye here.
There’s also a new Tetsuya Nomura interview in this week’s issue of Dengeki PlayStation which offers insight into the creation of Advent Children Complete, its story, and a more definitive answer regarding the future of the Compilation of FFVII. Hitoshura did an amazing job translating this interview. Click on “Read more” to read the full interview.
Posted on March 24th, 2009 at 8:14 AM by Makoeyes987
Included with the US release of Dirge of Cerberus – Final Fantasy VII, was a bonus art gallery that contained all the concept artwork for the enemies, items, locations and weapons shown within the game. To view this gallery you had to go through the extra missions, but now you can view the artwork here straight off the game. A big thanks to Suzaku for ripping these from the game. Also included are the five hidden exclusive wallpapers that were released on the US official site. With that, enjoy the multimedia update!
Posted on March 21st, 2009 at 12:39 AM by Makoeyes987
Hitoshura has done some more translations of the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega Early Material Files, this time…looking at the possible scenarios regarding Cloud and the revelation of the truth behind his existence. We’ll look at the first of these scenarios along with another scenario from page 527 of the FFVII Ultimania Omega that involves Barret, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie. Enjoy!
-=The Truth About Cloud=-
[ Materia Chamber ] (* note: Inside the crater in the finished game) (more…)
Posted on March 20th, 2009 at 2:57 AM by Makoeyes987
Hitoshura has done another set of translations from the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega Early Material Files. This time, we’ll be looking at some of the deleted events and dialogue from Kalm and Nibelheim regarding the infamous Nibelheim Incident that changed the lives of Cloud and Tifa forever. While these events were not included in FFVII, one particular scene shows the possible fate of one of the survivors we never hear from again in FFVII proper….
Posted on March 19th, 2009 at 2:12 AM by Makoeyes987
Today we’ll be looking at some of the scenarios that were left on the design room floor in the production of FFVII. Hitsohura has translated some of the scenarios and scripts from the Early Material File section of the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega and most of these scenarios in today’s post involve Jenova and her role within the story of FFVII. Also some bits regarding Tifa and Johnny are contained as well. Enjoy, and know that there are more deleted scenarios to come. Enjoy the “deleted scenes” of the original FFVII!
The ideas of many staff members went into creating the story for FFVII, and there were a lot of scenario ideas and scripts that ultimately got rejected. Here is a sample from that massive document.
Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 11:38 PM by Makoeyes987
Hitoshura has done the next page of profiles from the Early Material Files of the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega. Aerith, Red XIII, and even Cait Sith’s from the next page. The profiles in this update all have accompanying scenarios that examine what their role would’ve been in an earlier version of FFVII. And some of these ideas and game events will definitely surprise you. And don’t forget, there’s much more to come.
Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 9:01 AM by Makoeyes987
Today we’ll start off with the first page of the Early Material File from the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega, translated by hitoshura. This page will look at the early ideas for Cloud, Barret and Tifa. Enjoy! And be sure to stick around, as there will be more to come.
Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 8:30 AM by Makoeyes987
The FFVII That Never Was….a Look at What Was Left Behind
Fans love what FFVII became, that is true. But what about…a Red XIII…that was blue?
There were quite a few things that never made it to the original game, and that’s where the FFVII Ultimania Omega’s Early Material Files come in. While you await the arrival of AC Complete, Thelifestream.net will take a look at what FFVII could have been by doing translations of the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega’s EARLY MATERIAL FILES. You may just be surprised at what was left behind.
Posted on March 13th, 2009 at 8:48 PM by Makoeyes987
SQUARE-ENIX will be re-publishing On the Way to a Smile in Japan on the same day of the release of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete on April 16th with the suggested price of ￥ 1,470. It will come with the already published Case of Denzel and Case of Tifa, as well Case of Barret, which was never published at Japan. Along with them, this version will bring four new stories, Case of Nanaki, Case of Yuffie, Case of Shinra and a mysterious one called…Case of Lifestream. I wonder what that one could be about? Big thanks to Kuraudostrife for bringing this to our attention!
Posted on March 6th, 2009 at 11:24 AM by Makoeyes987
You heard right folks.
The Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania is coming back, revised in honor of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete’s release. It’ll not only be redone but also enlarged with even more information on the world of FFVII. It will be released April 16, 2009 and you can bet we’ll be posting translations from that as well.
Also on April 16th, the “FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE POST CARD BOOK” will be released, and it will be priced at 1,260 yen.
Edit: Thanks to hitoshura for the slight correction on the Ultimania being released on its own, sans the potion. And here I was, looking forward to getting the drink too….
Posted on January 30th, 2009 at 2:11 AM by Makoeyes987
The latest Advent Children Complete Trailer from Jump Festa has surfaced on the web. Thanks to Dacon for bringing it to my attention!
The corresponding translation of the trailer is below the cut, thanks to Hitoshura. Also below, are some wonderful new CG renders of Cloud and Sephiroth from the cover. Thanks Cloud_S!
Posted on November 27th, 2008 at 12:33 PM by X-SOLDIER
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.
