During the 2006 Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix had yet again announced another spin off of the legendary game of Final Fantasy VII; this was of course not a surprise, due to the releases and previews of Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus.
Following its other counter-part spin offs, Crisis Core takes place at another time of the combined stories, for this instance, Crisis Core occurs before the original game and incorporates characters only heard of in the original game and some never before seen.
From the trailer that was aired in 2006 at The Tokyo Game Show, it shows the main character of Crisis Core, Zack, a young recruit working for SOLDIER, going from mission to mission given to him by The Shinra Corporation with an older mentor, Angeal, who appears to be holding a sword that creatively looks like Cloud’s signature weapon in Final Fantasy VII, also it has been rumoured that this may be the case. There are also the cameo appearances of Aeris and even a normal looking Sephiroth, this is of course the Sephiroth before he had learnt the truth behind his own birth.
Well for it to be a Final Fantasy, it needs to have the heart and soul of a Final Fantasy game and everyone knows the graphics and music are part of the master plan of these games and Crisis Core is a Final Fantasy due to it having both of these factors in play, the character design is well thought out and very well done, even when the game is on a platform that handles less then one would expect. Music, well if it has anything to do with the other Final Fantasy VII’s, this will surely be a piece of art and power, composed by the very best.
A number of people have landed their hands on some game-play of Crisis Core and the game-play of Crisis Core seems to move away from the normal role-play battle system that Final Fantasy holds dear to a more of a third-person-view battle system, where Zack attacks enemies via high speed movements while the slashing of his sword, whether this will affect how people look at the game is yet to be concluded until it is released and in the hands of the official judges, you and I.
Crisis Core will sure to be the missing link between all Final Fantasy VII games and close most of the gaps in your burning questions, desires and also solve all mysteries that should the misted title and its growing collection of harvesting best-selling games.
Crisis Core Information
Game: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Genre: RPG
Medium: UMD
Platform: PlayStation Portable
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