Final Fantasy VII: Main

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Welcome to my Final Fantasy VII pages.

I should probably mention first off that I have never actually played any of the FF7 games. I've never been much into video games of any stripe. I am, however, very into the story of FF7 and all its offshoots, which led me to sit through a captured playthrough. And go find all the cutscenes so I could rewatch them. And read up on the system and stats. And track down multiple translations of the script. And...

Well, you get the idea.

At any rate, these pages will not touch on gameplay at all. What they deal with is the shape of the story, and how all the little hints of character and motive and pasts that we get might be fit together.

The only thing in the menu that isn't self explanatory is Heros and Humans, which is a fairly long meditation on the different kind of people in FF7 and what roles everyone plays.

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Links

In case you were looking for a different kind of page.

If you're still trying to figure out what the heck is going on, the Wikipedia entry will help.

If you want copies of the FMVs to examine, try Bluelaguna.net.

The Final Fantasy VII Citadel is probably the best all-around site, and has a lot of useful documentation, including translations of the Japanese script. If it's a transcription of the English script you want, try here.

Final Fantasy VII Online is a somewhat more stat-oriented site, if you need to know about monsters and whatnot.

Glen Morrow's Advent Children plot FAQ lives over here. While you have to be a little careful to distinguish speculative analysis from the text that gives rise to it, this is the case with all analytical efforts and Morrow does a fairly good job of reminding us to do it. It's one of the few genuinely analytical readings you'll find.

Some excellent translations of the side-stories can be found at The FFVII Collection, along with ongoing scripts of Before Crisis. Some other Before Crisis scripts can be found at Gunshot Romance.

Dirge of Cerberus script, as well as other info, can be found at Dirgeofcerberus.net.