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Life, Death, & The Sefirot: FFVII’s History & Remake’s Future in a New Symbol of Reunion
Introduction to Final Fantasy VII’s Symbols During the pre-menu opening credits prelude cinematic in Final Fantasy VII, there’s an abstract symbol with seven strokes – thus having a “VII” in the middle of the words, “Final Fantasy” that differs from
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The Lifestream Presents: “Case of Shin-Ra” audiobook
We’re proud to present the final in our series of Final Fantasy VII audiobooks, “On The Way To A Smile – Case of Shin-Ra”.
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A Fan’s Eye View: Final Fantasy Unlimited Episodes 23, 24 and 25, AKA IT’S OVER!
Yes, it’s finally over. 25 long, insane, barely coherent episodes, we’re done with all the animated Final Fantasy Unlimited that exists. Oh, and we finally get some plot at the end. It’ll be hard to miss, it’s the part where
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Join us for E3 2019!
Continuing our annual tradition of streaming the E3 press conferences!
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Yuffie and Deepground and Textures, Oh My!
Well, that was unexpected! At Sony’s State of Play yesterday, seeing FF7Remake at all for a PS5 port wouldn’t have been completely shocking, but then we got a surprise: Yuffie will be playable in a DLC chapter that runs concurrent
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The Cinematic Failures of Modern FFVII’s Combat
It’s the finale of Advent Children, and Cloud raises his Fusion Sword into the air and 6 swords split away from it to surround the airborne Sephiroth as Cloud flies up from below, initiating his Omnislash Ver. 5 Limit Break.
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Have we seen Final Fantasy XIV’s The Crystarium before?
In Final Fantasy XIV, Patch 4.56 has dropped, concluding Stormblood with the second part of A Requiem for Heroes and setting up the story up for the coming Shadowbringers expansion. That means there are new quests and content to play through, so
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Yuffie and Deepground and Textures, Oh My!
Well, that was unexpected! At Sony’s State of Play yesterday, seeing FF7Remake at all for a PS5 port wouldn’t have been completely shocking, but then we got a surprise: Yuffie will be playable in a DLC chapter that runs concurrent
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New Rebirth Trailer and Release Date
At Sony’s State of Play on September 15th, they debuted our first new look at Rebirth in over a year. And it’s a doozy! The release date is set at February 29, 2024. In addition to fanning the mystery of
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Visit our ‘Dirge of Cerberus Multiplayer’ Archives!
Learn things about this lost online mode that you can’t find anywhere else!
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More about EXP Con 2017
Closing out the new year and ringing in the new one with one more look at the best convention ever
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Dirge of Cerberus ‘All S Rankings’ Run Completed
Recorded and uploaded for the first time: Achieving All S Ranks in Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-
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The Cinematic Failures of Modern FFVII’s Combat
It’s the finale of Advent Children, and Cloud raises his Fusion Sword into the air and 6 swords split away from it to surround the airborne Sephiroth as Cloud flies up from below, initiating his Omnislash Ver. 5 Limit Break.
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New Rebirth Trailer and Release Date
At Sony’s State of Play on September 15th, they debuted our first new look at Rebirth in over a year. And it’s a doozy! The release date is set at February 29, 2024. In addition to fanning the mystery of
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Final Fantasy Coming to Switch! The News Stream
Keep up to date with all the latest Square Enix news in The Lifestream’s News Stream! A port of Final Fantasy VII is coming to Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on March 26th, and it’s available to pre-order now. Alongside that,
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The Lifestream Podcast – Special Mini-sode
It’s a special kick-off mini episode of The Lifestream Podcast in which Carlie and Tennyo discuss some of their highlights for 2017 as well as their predictions for 2018. Email us at [email protected], comment on our YouTube upload of this
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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Job Reviews
Last week we published a review of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, and we now continue our coverage of the MMO’s latest expansion with a comprehensive look at each job in the game. We asked members of our community to give
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Final Fantasy XV lore archive now available!
We’ve been hard at work on compiling all of FFXV’s lore into an archive for you to peruse at your leisure.
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New Forums Are Live!
Today TheLifestream.net completed the transfer to new forum software, and they are live now! So: existing members come and check out the new digs, and if you’ve never signed up before, now is a great time to join the conversation!
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Shinra Archaeology Department launches new website
The Shinra Archaeology Department has made it their mission to collect, translate, and present all of FFVII’s great tomes in their original form.
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Congratulations to Final Fantasy VII Remake at the VGA!
Last night was the Video Game Awards, and our own Final Fantasy VII Remake came away with the well-deserved awards for “Score and Music” and “Best RPG.” Congratulations to Square Enix and the development team! Nothing else of note took
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Scanlation of DC’s Official Complete Guide Now Available!
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII – Official Complete Guide has been officially scanlated by the Shinra Archaeology Department.
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The Unused Text Part 12: The Endgame!
Enjoy the hidden text of the final parts of Final Fantasy VII!
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Inside Final Fantasy VII Interview
Final Fantasy VII may have come out twenty-two years ago but the creators are still giving us new pieces of information and sharing anecdotes about what it took to create the game. In an interview posted on YouTube last week, Yusuke
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