I'm roughly 90 minutes into Final Fantasy VII so far, and I streamed my whole play session over on. Here's and, a small WiFi SNAFU broke the stream about half way through. Anyway, I guess the supreme tl;dr of my first impressions of FF7 is this is the port you'd expect, and I mean that in both a good and bad way.
Jan 20, 2008 Game Title: Final Fantasy VII Game ID(s): SCUS_941.63 pSX Version(s): 1.13 Linux I'm having an issue, and I've. Jan 31, 2017 Over 11 million copies sold worldwide!FINAL FANTASY VII now on Android. The first Final Fantasy to feature 3D backgrounds. I go to open on.
It appears to be a port of the PC version of the game, which means the graphics are ever-so-slightly better than the original PlayStation version, and on my iPad Air 2 it runs flawlessly. As far as thoroughly stoking the coals of fiery nostalgia for this epic RPG, this port will definitely do the trick, and all the more janky aspects likely won't come as much of a surprise if you've played any of the iOS Final Fantasy ports released on the App Store so far. The game is played with a mess of on-screen virtual controls which work totally fine for the (typically) slow-paced gameplay of FF7, but feel far less than ideal. Character movement is handled either via a super-rigid on-screen D-pad or a much better virtual analog stick.
Toggling between the two is easy, as for some incredibly crazy reason, the toggle for such thing constantly lives at the bottom of the screen. Said button reads 'D' when you're in D-Pad mode and 'A' when you're in analog mode. Seems weird, but this is just scratching the surface of the odd things about this port. All the other buttons of the original PlayStation controller are represented in the various corners of the screen. I'm not looking forward to this layout for faster-paced parts of the game, like chocobo racing, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
Diving deeply into the game's menus reveal some additional control options, which allow for limited tweaking. The opacity of the controls can go all the way up to 100%, or down to 0%.
The controls initially look pretty obnoxious, but considering you're just going to be using a virtual joystick and the select button a lot of the time, I feel like you could pretty easily rock 5-10% opacity and just squint a little harder when you need to hit any non-standard button. Also, there's four different layouts for the buttons, but there isn't much difference between them. They either squeeze the controls towards the middle of the screen, the top, or the bottom. So, you probably expected some weird virtual controls, but from there, things get weirder. Next to the ever-present toggle of the virtual D-pad and virtual joystick is a button, which is always on the screen, for you to enable or disable random enemy encounters. I'm not sure if I'm a purist, a curmudgeon, or a little of both, but this is really annoying to me. It's like having a cheater button on the screen at all times just always taunting you.
As far as I can tell, there's no way to disable it. So much of playing these games is dealing with random battles, coming up with an inventory strategy, and having the overall stamina to make it through different areas an ultimately fight a boss.
Sure, random battles can get annoying, but just having a toggle to turn them off entirely always taunting you? Stranger yet, this isn't the only cheater option the game has. Inside of the game's menu, on the same screen where you customize controls, the color of the text windows, and other things, you can max the stats of all your characters. Not even joking.
One quick dive into the menu and all your dudes are level 99, with 9,999 hitpoints, and just for sh*ts, they also give you 999,999,999 gil. On the up-side, at least this just isn't always staring you in the face like toggling random battles on and off, but it's real weird that this is all just there tempting you. I'm not even sure what the logic behind this is, as if you decided to download the game, immediately level all your dudes to level 99 and turn off random battles, what would even be the point of playing? I guess it's good they give you the option for this, but I feel like this kind of thing shouldn't be so front and center, right? I'm not being crazy about this, am I?
Back in the days when FF7 was released, enabling this kind of thing in video games would require either beating the game first or using some kind of cheat code/device. But, hey, I concede the fact that maybe there's people out there who just want to experience the ellipsis-filled plot of FF7 without futzing around with any of the battle stuff. It seems insane, but, there might be someone out there. At least games with 'pay to win' elements have those 'cheats' gated by paying money, instead of just always being there.
But, hey, it's not all bad. They included iCloud syncing, and didn't half ass this.
It's the good kind of iCloud syncing where you totally manage when your saves get uploaded and downloaded. So, say you're playing a ton on your iPad.
When you eventually reach the end of your session and save, you can get back out to the main menu and just upload that save to iCloud. Then, on your iPhone, you can similarly manually download it. This is my favorite type of iCloud syncing, as if there's one thing you can count on with automatic iCloud syncing, it's a total f#$& up. This gives you a real clear idea of what you're doing too, both showing relevant data about both your local save and your iCloud save, so if you mess it up.
It's your fault, not Apple automagically nuking your save game. The in-game menus have an 'auto save' function as well, but I can't for the life of me figure out how it works.
It's entirely possible I'm overlooking something obvious, but if it's automatically saving anything I'm not sure where it's saving to or how to then re-load that save. I've tried a bunch of different things to try to trigger auto-saving including getting in random battles, walking in between screens, and no matter what when I close the app (force close it, via double tapping and swiping up) I'm loading in back from my last save point. I'll concede the fact that I might just be an idiot, but I can't seem to get it to work. Which seems kind of troubling considering save points in FF7 were designed for console-style play and typically seem to be spaced around 20 minutes of play time apart. That's an eternity for a mobile play session. But, hey, it's Final Fantasy VII on your iPhone.
Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 32 Bit Torrent Download more. This is the kind of thing that would be a joke to even suggest as a possibility not more than a few years ago. If you told my late 90's bowl cut and ball chain wearing skater self that 18 years later I'd be playing it from the toilet on a cell phone, I'd probably ask you, 'What's a cell phone?' (Although, in 1997, I probably knew what a cell phone was, but you get my drift). For people around for the original release of Final Fantasy VII, this kind of thing is just really cool, even with a layer of jank spread across it all like well buttered bread.
Additionally, I suppose on the spectrum of things Squeenix could've done to screw up this port, some weirdly obvious cheater options and the not that great virtual controls you probably already expected, we could've done a lot worse. Shaun is working on a 'full' review for us, and if I know Shaun, he's probably going to wax intellectual about the plot of the game and all sorts of other things. I'll just leave you with this: Love it, hate it, or never played it, Final Fantasy VII is an iconic RPG. It's one you need to play, and one that's worth revisiting, even if you only play it long enough to get the inescapable twinge of nostalgia when Aeris's theme plays.
Update: It also has. International App Store Link.
I love both FFVI and FFVII, but if you believe all FF7 was is 3D graphics, then I feel sorry for you. FF7 revolutionized and created a standard in the PSX era that even JRPG's today have a hard time accomplishing. It broke the barrier as RPG's being a niche genre and made it more popular. I even know people who hate RPG's but give FF7 the grand exception. Has interesting and memorable characters, dark but simple story to follow. You can say you didn't like it, but saying it was just 3D is far from wrong.
Haha these haters hate your comment! 7 only had one thing greater than 6 and that was materia. However the materia was a ripoff of all of 6's special attacks. Cyans limit breaks were added to all characters.
Tifa had setzers slots. 7 just basically borrowed everything from 6 and made it materia.
Nothing really special about any characters when it came to fighting. 6 had much better characters, greater party customization, the best villain of the series, better secrets, it was longer, the music was better, whereas 7 had 3d graphics, the first main character to die, the first fmv's, the first neo modern world instead of the common Knights and mage type classical fantasy world. I enjoyed both, I loved both, I laughed and cried in both, I maxed out my characters in both and as someone who started playing final Fantasy from the beginning of the series when ff1 was brand new for nes, I can give you my agreement that 6 was better, but its only my opinion. 7 was probably the most popular because a lot of the nes and snes generation didn't play ff1 2 and 3. Ff7 was psx and had a lot of commercial hype that had awesome cutscenes that enticed the masses to check it out.
7 was for sure more played and more popular, but 6 was still better. As a counter point to your complaint about the 'random encounters' button: the 3DS game Bravely Default had this same option (and it was VERY handy), but it was hidden deep in the menu's. I used it often, usually when traveling back to a town to rest up and didn't want to get killed on the way, but found it rather annoying to navigate all the menu's to activate or deactivate it. So although I understand the 'cheating' aspect, I can definitely appreciate having the convenience of it for those of us who appreciate the option! Malgudi Days Tv Series Free Download Torrent. The main reason for random encounters in old RPGs had more to do with memory usage than any gamer preferences or styles.
Can you imagine how a SNES or even PSX would have melted down if they tried to track and plot let alone DISPLAY hundreds of characters on the same map at the same time? Processing power is the biggest driver why most games don't utilize them today. Although truth be told, in an RPG, I would MUCH rather have random encounters.
More frustrating, sure, but to me, its what separates a true RPG apart. There was an RPG that was able to show enemies on screen and gave you the option of fight or avoid them, and its called Chrono Trigger: Squaresoft's true masterpiece. Still, FFVII is the milestone that proved that video games can successfully apply cinematographic designs, that giving more attention to presentation than to gameplay is a profitable choice, and that 3D and optical storage were the future of videogames. In small words: that nintendo's vision in that time was wrong. Big milestone that left a deep impresion in a generation governed by nintendo, that's for sure.
So I can kinda see the point of a random encounters toggle - be it for newbs or whatever - but not on the main screen. There are already 17 other buttons.
Why not put the d-pad and random battle toggles under options? The super mega cheat seems so bizarre. Sure I've played God mode on Quake (google it youngsters), but that was a mindless FPS were killing lots of things was the point.
The point of RPGs is the slow gradual increase to ultimate power! This is like: Start game. Toggle max everything. High five self. Take #winner selfies.
Start next game. Part of me is like, I can stick this on my iPod and play with my moga!
Part of me is like, I have this on psn, I can just download it on my Vita or PSP. $15 back in my pocket. It was one of the first games in my collection that I ripped, so it's not even like the phone novelty is new for me (this was one of the poster games for psx4ios back in the day, and it runs great on androids fpse).
Still, if you've somehow missed this, totally grab it. I prefer 6, personally, but this is in the same league and a classic. I beat this game back in 1997. It is really epic and I can't wait to live the experience again! However, ever then the random encounters were a pain - and I was/am an 'hardcore' gamer. Sometimes it was late in the evening, I had to go to sleep, and I still had to spend one hour to reach a save point due to the flurry of pointless RE (not to mention that they break pacing and atmosphere). Maybe a better solution would have been to implement three settings: classic game, less random encounters and no random encounters.
I'll turn them off, since what matters to me is the whole experience (like watching again a beloved movie on TV without ads). If you play FF VII for the first time, then the better solution, IMHO, is to try both options, and see which you do like better. To be perfectly honest, I'll be surprised if more games don't start having 'no-gameplay' modes to combat 'let's plays'. You're essentially 'let's playing' with yourself. This kind of thing become really problematic for older Final Fantasy games because the characters combat elements and strategies were actually PART of the story of the game. Take Kain in FF2, for example. He was a troubled character who drifted in and out of your party over the course of the game.
It's not a coincidence, then, that his special command was 'jump', which took him out of the battle for a few turns off-screen. This meant that whenever the player was coming up with strategies, you usually had a separate one for Kain and for the rest of the party because they were on separate cycles in the turn-based combat. By rendering combat irrelevant, you are actually stripping out a chunk of what caused people to bond with the characters to begin with. About Us 'TouchArcade covers the latest games and apps for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.
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