

And a huge effort to make Cloud look so pretty. It's a huge undertaking to expand a 90s JRPG into a full fancy 3D affair. Even in this form, it's still so far short of the full game, mind, with only about a third of the original game. Along with looking prettier, obvs (including fixing that damn door), it adds a new chapter starring Yuffie. Squeenix's pretty-pretty remake of the 1997 JRPG debuted on PlayStation 4 in April 2020, then in June 2021 hit PS5 in the expanded Intergrade edition. While the original had turn-based battling, the remake makes it a 3D action game with tactical pausing. It tells the story of Cloud Strife, a supersoldier-turned-mercenary who joins up with a gang of eco-terrorists fighting a planet-destroying megacorp, and who refuses to admit that he likes anything or anyone even though he's clearly a giant doofus softie baby. It looked basically like real life! Or so my pal insisted. Final Fantasy 7 is probably the best-known game in the series, the game which sold untold millions of PlayStations.
