Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis

released on Sep 07, 2023

Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is a mobile game covering the whole FFVII timeline by splitting each story into short chapters focused on important moments using animated cutscenes, some with conversation options, followed by a battle. Relive the most memorable moments from FFVII and experience the journey of a young hero Sephiroth. Experience both classic and new stories within the FFVII universe presented in a retro-style look combined with modern, beautifully rendered graphics, that’s easily accessible on the go. Team up your favorite characters and customize each one with iconic gear and weapons to defeat powerful opponents in Solo or Co-op battle mode.


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i might not have even minded this game so much if it just didn't run like absolute shit and crash every other time i would try to launch it. really wanted to stick it through for the first soldier and (potentially) before crisis stuff but god is it boring.

menu after menu blasting you with information, hoping you'll just eventually give up and stop thinking about the numbers and just cough up the dough to get rid of the hassle. drip feeding you the tiniest rewards for completing missions after showering you with goodies for logging in for the first time, hoping you'll try and chase that high by spending your hard earned money to get the ACTUAL good shit.

and can we talk about fucking stupid of a premise this is as a gacha? "experience these fully released video games, only shittier!" it'd make a bit more sense if this was a game where it was recapping EVERY final fantasy game so there's a bit more meat on the bone to it, or if the gacha rewards weren't ONLY weapons. yeah, no, it's not even like hoyoverse games where you have a chance of pulling a character or something, you just get weapons. how do you fuck up a gacha game so badly that you make the main selling point so fucking lame.

shit, going back to that final fantasy series gacha, id play the shit outta that. you're thinking im not rolling for "firion in a maid outfit?" that might be the closest a gacha will ever get to having me pay for something in them.

also fuck this game for not allowing you to log in if you have a VPN enabled lmao, don't play this garbage, not even as a joke.

If you've never played any of the slew of FF7 releases, this is a great abridged version to catch you up to speed. The gacha aspect really simplifies the gameplay, and not in a good way. It is unfortunately also the only way to experience the First SOLDIER FF7 prequel game outside of Japan.

As someone who has played OG, Crisis Core and Reunion, Remake, and seen Advent Children, I feel like I can always just go on my phone and doomscroll while simultaneously playing the game. The game is very pretty for a classic-style remake of the OG and compilation. But the abridged structure that they went with to do a classic remake of the series (especially the original) is a bit rough imo. The game is free, so I don't think that's a huge detriment, but this is definitely not what I'd recommend to a newcomer who wants to experience the compilation for the first time. If EC was an actual 1:1 classic remake of the OG, then sure. But the rest of the compilation was told in cutscenes, many of them with lots of voice acting and also cinematics only doable in the style of CG cutscenes or a full movie. I guess as an OG fan I'm fine with this game; it does look super pretty and has amazing OST rearrangements after all. But the gameplay is honestly just so meh. The battles (at least early on from what I've played) are very easy to beat by doing almost nothing and no real strategy.

I have yet to play the exclusive Sephiroth side story. I intend to play it one day but not soon probably. To be quite honest I think it's pretty jarring that one of the most iconic gaming villains of all time has his entire backstory revealed and told to us for the first time in a free-to-play game that was originally exclusive to mobile (until the PC release three months later). If you really want FFVII players and the fans to like Sephiroth more than they already do, this is not the way I would have done it. Back when the Yuffie DLC for Remake dropped, I remember seeing people brainstorm a DLC episode for Sephiroth for Remake (or some other entry in the trilogy). And I think that would've been much more effective, and would've done pretty good numbers considering who we're talking about here.

I hate that this is something I know I’ll play regularly

THANK GOD i do not have a genetic predisposition to excessive gambling!!! 🙏🙏

This is the only way to "enjoy" and discover:

- The First Soldier
- Before Crisis

Yep. With a gacha. That's how Square Enix appreciate and respect its fans.
Positive thing is that this is on Steam as well.