Play Final Fantasy VII with The Lifestream!

Continuing our theme of making Final Fantasy VII a more multi-player experience here on The Lifestream, we’ve just re-started a Community Playthrough of the game, in which our forum members play along at the same time and all discuss it together. If that sounds like your kind of thing, read on…

Back in August of last year, TLS members began playing Final Fantasy VII collectively and posting their thoughts on it as they went along. Unfortunately, it fizzled out after a couple of months, with the players in Junon. As it was such a popular feature, though, we’ve decided to cast Life2 on it and carry on.

Over the last few weeks, we ran a “Prelude” section to allow new players to catch up with those who were playing last time. With that finished, we’re back to all playing together again. We’ve split the game up into 27 chapters, each of which should take no more than an hour for an experienced player, and something like an hour and a half for new players. There are only two chapters per week, so it doesn’t require a large time commitment. Of course, if you want to learn all the characters’ limit breaks on disc one, you’re welcome to do so, and then tell us all about it! Some people are even streaming their progress on the Lifestream’s Twitch.tv page for others to view and discuss.

If you took part last year, now is the time to dust off your memory card, find out exactly where you left off, and join in with us again. If you want to join in for the first time, on the other hand, it’s not too late! There’s no time limit for playing any of the chapters. You can go through the first six chapters in the Prelude thread, and everything from Junon onwards in the Community Playthrough thread itself.

See you there!