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Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
dren began, the team agreed that one title was not
enough to cover the entire world of Final Fantasy VII, and
thus Before Crisis and Dirge of Cerberus were conceived to
embrace more aspects.[4] The team expected to be able to
share resources and models across the different projects;
however, they faced difficulties in doing so and Nomu-
ra eventually decided to create different designs for each
title. When asked about the presence of non tradition-
al role-playing game within the Compilation, Kitase ex-
plained that the team’s plan was to make several games
of the same quality, rather than a "hardcore" role-play-
ing game which would stand out from the other titles
and involve too much physical and emotional attach-
The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII logo ment from the team’s part. He added that the existence
of Final Fantasy X-2—the first game sequel in the series
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is a series of games and and a lighthearted title—also helped them consider more
animated features developed by Square Enix based in the various genres than the regular role-playing game
world and continuity of Final Fantasy VII. Spearheaded by type.[4] Square Enix president Yoichi Wada announced
Tetsuya Nomura and Yoshinori Kitase,[1][2][3] the series that the Compilation could remain an active franchise un-
consists of several titles across various platforms, all of til the twentieth anniversary of Final Fantasy VII’s re-
which are extensions of the Final Fantasy VII story. lease.[8] After finishing Advent Children Complete, the team
decided to take a break from the series,[9] stating that
they still have various ideas about what to work in for fu-
Creation and scope ture titles.[10]
Square Enix labeled the project "the company’s first
steps toward ... ’polymorphic content’", a marketing Titles
strategy designed to "[provide] well-known properties
on several platforms, allowing exposure of the products Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
to as wide an audience as possible".[1] Compilation pro- • • Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
ducer Yoshinori Kitase said that when given the oppor- • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
tunity to expand any previous Final Fantasy title for the • Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII
company’s experiment in polymorphic content, he "im- • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
mediately chose Final Fantasy VII", because of its status • • Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
as a milestone in the series’ history, its status as a refer- • Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete
ence in the series, and its popularity among fans.[4] He • Last Order: Final Fantasy VII
further explained that "the ending of FFVII seemed to... • On The Way To A Smile – Episode: Denzel
open up so many possibilities with its characters, more The first title in the Compilation is the mobile game Before
so than other games".[5] One of the main conditions for Crisis, a prequel starring the Turks that focuses on the
the project’s launch was to be able to reunite the origi- six years preceding the original game.[11][12] Released by
nal staff members of Final Fantasy VII; art director Yusuke subscription in twenty-four chapters,[13] full service be-
Naora, composer Nobuo Uematsu, and scenario writer gan in Japan on September 24, 2004[14] for the NTT
Kazushige Nojima joined Kitase and Nomura to work on DoCoMo FOMA 900i series of mobile phones.[12] Advent
the project.[4] Children was the first title announced in the Compilation,
Nomura has revealed that when he was brought onto having been unveiled in September 2003 at the Tokyo
the project, he only expected for Final Fantasy VII Advent Game Show,[15][16] but was the second to be released. It
Children and Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII to be developed, screened in its completion for the first time on Septem-
whereas Kitase envisioned a production of greater scope, ber 2, 2005 at the 62nd Venice Film Festival.[15][17] It is
leading to the introduction of several other titles.[6][7] Ki- a CGI film sequel to the original Final Fantasy VII, set two
tase explained that when development for Advent Chil- years after the conclusion of the game. Produced for DVD
and Universal Media Disc (UMD) for Sony’s PlayStation
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Portable (PSP), it was released in Japan on September new arrangements of songs from Final Fantasy VII such
14, 2005,[18] and in European and North American mar- as battle themes, Aerith’s iconic theme, the Shinra and
kets on April 25, 2006.[19][20][21] Special editions of the Turks’ themes, and Sephiroth’s theme song "One Winged
film included Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, an original video Angel".
animation produced by Madhouse that recounts the de-
struction of Nibelheim.[22]
Another sequel is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Reception
and its mobile phone counterpart, Dirge of Cerberus Lost Though Final Fantasy VII received an overall positive re-
Episode: Final Fantasy VII, both of them first-person/third- ception, the titles in the series have received mixed but
person shooter hybrids.[23][24] Developed for the PlayS- mostly positive reviews. In July 2007, Edge magazine stat-
tation 2 and set three years after the events of the orig- ed that the titles "could be of a high quality, but there
inal Final Fantasy VII,[25][26] Dirge was released in Japan is also a perversion of the original."[32] Dirge of Cerberus
on January 26, 2006,[23] and in North America on August shipped 392,000 units in its first week,[32][33] it also re-
15, 2006.[23] Lost Episode was released for Amp’d Mobile ceived a score of 30 out of 40 from Famitsu.[34] The CGI
phones three days later on August 18, 2006.[27] Finally, film Advent Children met with positive sales figures. The
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is an action role-playing game Japanese DVD release sold over 420,000 copies in its first
for the PSP that revolves around Zack’s past, chronicling week, which was 93% of all published copies at the
the seven years prior to the events of the original time.[35]
game.[28][29] After having been pushed back several Advent Children sold 4.1 million copies worldwide.[36]
times, the game was released on September 13, 2007 in Ja- Crisis Core sold 2.8 million copies worldwide.[37]
pan, March 25, 2008 in North America,[30] and on June 20,
2008 in Europe. The latest title of the series is a director’s
cut version of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children titled Final
See also
Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete. It was released in Ja-
pan on April 16, 2009 in Blu-ray Disc format with the Eng-
lish version also released in the same year. The film also References
includes an original video animation which adapts Den-
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