Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier

[looneymoon]

I tried this game once, and it was not bad tbh. But unless you have a large screened tablet (which is what i used), you're gonna be playing a game where you have to aim at stuff on a tiny phone screen.

It's especially tough when you're competing against games like Fortnite and Apex, who've have been building and expanding on their games for years. The market is dominated by a big few that have been doing this for a lot longer, with bigger IP crossovers that casts a very wide net in who it brings in. The FS game had interesting core gameplay that set it apart from others in the genre, but Mako is completely right when he says that this was a complete misunderstanding of their demographic. That's not just in reference to FF fans, but people who want to play battle royales.

 

[Shademp]

A file dump was posted on OpenFF7R Discord server today. It has everything except audio stuff.
Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ps-gAZ87-MEaevT8Eca5zMWHRdavYaPV/view?usp=sharing
Discord server: https://discord.gg/DadwWN9c
File dumps channel: https://discord.com/channels/919508629646897234/921227897920954418

Thank you for sharing this!

 

[Odysseus]

I made some art for the occasion

 

[Shademp]

Funkody is accepting requests for recordings of specific FS content/gameplay.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1582170309037555712

 

[NaoyaShinota]

I should do that as well.

 

[Radigar]

Has anyone already posted this github repository before in this thread? It looks like something old.

On the other hand I remember see a special promotional video sent to ambbasadors with Shinra Boxes, that containts a QR with a URL to a video for the "Project 0's 4th testing group". As far as I know there were two versions of the same video in English and Japanese, it seems that the latter has already been removed from GDrive, but the English version can still be downloaded for who knows how long.

• Secret Message from Shinra Company.mp4 (Date: 2021-10-29, Size: 126 MB, Duration: 1:41)
• Secret Message from 神羅カンパニー.mov (Streaming version, not original file but you can see the differences between languages)

By the way, now that the game is going to be closed, should we create a new dedicated archive thread?

 

[jeangl123]

Zack and Cloud event

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587483775499665408

 

[jeangl123]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587503465856737282

Zack can use his CC attacks

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587501691116482560

Lol

 

[ultima espio]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1587353758765264896

 

[ForceStealer]

Like celebrating your anniversary while waiting for the divorce papers to come in the mail

 

[ultima espio]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1613078801537458178

 

[Leafonthebreeze]

RIP. I had genuine fun with this game, but can't pretend I played it all that often. Loved the sessions I had playing with TLS members though!

 

[Strangelove]

this is like, the 4th live service game square enix have shuttered after lasting a year at most recently (not including older ones like g-bike) and i really don't know why you'd trust them with any new titles they come out with to stay up and running.

makes me leery of ever crisis (was that the name? or was that one of the many fake rumour ff7 compilation titles lol), the one that's meant to cover basically every old ff7 release. will they even reach the end of a single game with that, or will they end up stopping service for that within a year too.

 

[OWA-2]

this is like, the 4th live service game square enix have shuttered after lasting a year at most recently (not including older ones like g-bike) and i really don't know why you'd trust them with any new titles they come out with to stay up and running.

makes me leery of ever crisis (was that the name? or was that one of the many fake rumour ff7 compilation titles lol), the one that's meant to cover basically every old ff7 release. will they even reach the end of a single game with that, or will they end up stopping service for that within a year too.

Depends who is working on the game. For example, Dissidia Opera Omnia is doing fine, and it started years ago.

 

[ForceStealer]

this is like, the 4th live service game square enix have shuttered after lasting a year at most recently (not including older ones like g-bike) and i really don't know why you'd trust them with any new titles they come out with to stay up and running.

makes me leery of ever crisis (was that the name? or was that one of the many fake rumour ff7 compilation titles lol), the one that's meant to cover basically every old ff7 release. will they even reach the end of a single game with that, or will they end up stopping service for that within a year too.

It's extra amusing that they think they could convince people to trust them with a game based on NFTs and blockchain, given how quick they are to pull the plug with no recourse on all these other games.

I'm still mostly mad about Chocobo GP. They absolutely gutted that game for no reason but to pack it full of microtransactions and give up on it in 11 months. I was genuinely looking forward to it when it was first announced.

 

[Strangelove]

they definitely have long running ones, record keeper had a good run, brave exvius is at 7 years and has a spin off. it seems hit and miss what survives and the ff7 name doesn’t guarantee it will last

maybe the secret is having ariana grande as a character

sorry gackt, you’re just not going to cut it any more. make way for the new “g”(rande)

 

[MarkFeuer]

I have a few updates I wanted to share on the preservation front for First SOLDIER.

First, I made a full backup of the final Android version in Nox (The Android emulator). It has no player account tied to it and also has server-side files downloaded, so if a private server ever gets running for the game, this could be used to play it again. https://archive.org/details/ff7tfs-nox

There are also several people who preserved the assets from the game in different locations that I could share, but I saw you already found the preservation github repo in this thread. I think he recently updated it with the music and sound effects from the game.