<div align="center">Saving the Planet from Two Different Sides</div>
My second Final Fantasy played and still my number one favorite. The Storyline began with a simple blonde just looking for a way to make cash with his skill. He seems like a silent type who doesn't care much for anything except himself, until he finds his childhood friend, and a young woman after an attack on another life draining machine. He encounters many friends along the way, in the most odd ways, from attacks in the forests, through rescue missions, to even opening a coffin and a simple talk. They say friends come in different shapes and sizes, they should have also added ways.
Sure, the graphics might've been abit similar to legos actually, but you can't blame them, being developed in the 1990s. But if you looked at it from another way, you might've discovered something else.
Each and every character's personality.
The characters, the emotions that seem to be poured into them, are amazing, breath taking even. If you even took away one of these characters from the game, you wouldn't have a game, you'd have a disaster, one character binds the whole thing together. Like a skyscraper; Take away one support beam, and the whole thing collapses right before your eyes.
Before the name-change, Squaresoft seemed to have put a lot of thought into the storyline. Just playing the first few hours of the game.... You're hooked into a web of questions looking for answers, and the only way to find them is to continue playing, continue going through lies and truths about the characters and the hardships they face. Sometimes, it'll seem like it really did happen, and then, at other times, you know it's just what it is. A fantasy. The storyline was bound to have a few tear-jerkers, whether some people would like to admit it or not. One's past, another's death, someone else's struggle to help their friend, another to help the dying planet and to stop the company destroying it. The lies behind what someone had thought they knew all along, and a single dream being shattered as a young woman was killed, by the man who had lost his sanity to a few books, and horrifying experiments found on an adventure in SOLDIER.
The sound effects and music, had to be my favorite next to the characters and storyline. I loved how they could do so much with so little just a couple years back. It's suprising on some points but then again, it is Squaresoft. It actually sounds like their running, actual gunfire at times, and the rain, so much rain to almost drown everything from what I heard. When I character attacked a monster, priceless. I've taken a liking to the music of Final Fantasy VII so much, I'm actually learning it on the piano by ear. The battle theme, One Winged Angel, Boss Themes, the music just really set the scene.
Gameplay was awesome, how you had so many choices to choose from sometimes, and the suprises you encountered along with the consequences. Really liked it. They could jump, climb, talk, run, all those things add their little touch to the game in my opinion.
Well, I laughed, I fell silent, I grew frustrated, I smiled, I played, and I finished the game. The storyline had me playing almost everyday after, before school, and on the weekends. I have to say, they did a great job on this game. Today, Squaresoft is Square-Enix. But everytime I turn on my PLaystation2 and put in Final Fantasy VII I see Squaresoft and that's what I remember it as. Everything's weaved together in a little web of lies, deceit, betrayal, joy, friendship, love, loneliness, and more. So, in overall, I'd have to give the game
10/10. =)
Oh, and also, if you haven't played this game or finished it...
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