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Life, Death, & The Sefirot: FFVII’s History & Remake’s Future in a New Symbol of Reunion

June 29, 2020 0 comments

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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Audiobooks

The Lifestream Presents: “Case of Shin-Ra” audiobook

March 11, 2016 0 comments

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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TLS Presents: Final Fantasy XIII -Episode i-

September 25, 2012 0 comments
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Commentaries

A Fan’s Eye View: Final Fantasy Unlimited Episodes 23, 24 and 25, AKA IT’S OVER!

July 11, 2012 0 comments

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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Community events

Join us for E3 2019!

June 9, 2019 0 comments

Continuing our annual tradition of streaming the E3 press conferences!

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The Lifestream Turns Ten Years Old This Week!

September 23, 2018 0 comments

Join Us: E3 2018 Livestream

June 9, 2018 0 comments

Join us for E3 2017!

June 10, 2017 0 comments
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Compilation

Yuffie and Deepground and Textures, Oh My!

February 26, 2021 0 comments

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 End of Final Fantasy Mobile

April 6, 2018 0 comments

Deepground Lobbies unlocked

November 10, 2016 0 comments
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Editorials

The Cinematic Failures of Modern FFVII’s Combat

April 11, 2024 0 comments

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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Where Are You FFVII Remake?

June 12, 2018 0 comments

The Potential Of: Jenova & Horror

May 7, 2018 0 comments
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Final Fantasy series

Have we seen Final Fantasy XIV’s The Crystarium before?

April 3, 2019 0 comments

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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Final Fantasy VII

Yuffie and Deepground and Textures, Oh My!

February 26, 2021 0 comments

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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Inside Final Fantasy VII Interview

April 16, 2019 0 comments
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Final Fantasy VII Remake

New Rebirth Trailer and Release Date

September 15, 2023 0 comments

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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FFVII 25th Anniversary Stream

June 15, 2022 0 comments

Yuffie and Deepground and Textures, Oh My!

February 26, 2021 0 comments
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Game summaries

Visit our ‘Dirge of Cerberus Multiplayer’ Archives!

February 26, 2017 0 comments

Learn things about this lost online mode that you can’t find anywhere else!

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Interviews

More about EXP Con 2017

December 29, 2017 0 comments

Closing out the new year and ringing in the new one with one more look at the best convention ever

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The Lifestream interviews Ray Chase

November 15, 2017 0 comments
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Let's Play

Dirge of Cerberus ‘All S Rankings’ Run Completed

December 20, 2020 0 comments

Recorded and uploaded for the first time: Achieving All S Ranks in Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-

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Final Fantasy XV: live!

November 29, 2016 0 comments
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Lifestream projects

The Cinematic Failures of Modern FFVII’s Combat

April 11, 2024 0 comments

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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News

New Rebirth Trailer and Release Date

September 15, 2023 0 comments

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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FFVII 25th Anniversary Stream

June 15, 2022 0 comments
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Other games

Final Fantasy Coming to Switch! The News Stream

March 6, 2019 0 comments

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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Smash Bros. Cloud Strife DLC available today!

December 16, 2015 0 comments

Cloud Strife headed for Super Smash Bros.

November 12, 2015 0 comments

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX Announced

September 28, 2012 0 comments
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Podcasts

The Lifestream Podcast – Special Mini-sode

January 11, 2018 0 comments

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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Reviews

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Job Reviews

July 31, 2017 0 comments

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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The Lifestream Reviews: Stormblood

July 17, 2017 0 comments

Final Fantasy XV review

December 17, 2016 0 comments

Kingsglaive: A Nyxed Bag

September 5, 2016 0 comments
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Scripts

Final Fantasy XV lore archive now available!

July 8, 2017 0 comments

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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Site news

New Forums Are Live!

August 11, 2018 0 comments

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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The Lifestream has a new look!

December 27, 2016 0 comments

The Lifestream Gets A DeviantArt Group

September 24, 2015 0 comments
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Spotlight

Shinra Archaeology Department launches new website

June 1, 2023 0 comments

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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Square Enix

Congratulations to Final Fantasy VII Remake at the VGA!

December 11, 2020 0 comments

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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Hajime Tabata Resigns from Square Enix

November 11, 2018 0 comments
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Translations

Scanlation of DC’s Official Complete Guide Now Available!

July 12, 2023 0 comments

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII – Official Complete Guide has been officially scanlated by the Shinra Archaeology Department.

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Unused Text

The Unused Text Part 12: The Endgame!

January 13, 2017 0 comments

Enjoy the hidden text of the final parts of Final Fantasy VII!

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TRAP field finally restored!

May 6, 2014 0 comments

Feature – The Unused Fields of FFVII!

October 27, 2013 0 comments
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Weekly roundups

Inside Final Fantasy VII Interview

April 16, 2019 0 comments

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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The Latest News Stream!

March 19, 2019 0 comments
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