On April 11th and 12th, Square Enix held a special event for the upcoming release of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete in Ginza. Members of the press, people in the industry and a few lucky bastards who won a raffle were all invited. There, the movie was shown in all its reformatted glory. In attendance were all the usual Square Enix troops: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue, Shinji Hashimoto, etc.
The day before the event, Final Fantasy VII was put into the Playstation Network’s Game Archives for the reasonable price of 1,500 yen, or around 15 bucks. I think that this is definetely a game that deserves to be immortalized in digital form. This would be a great thing for the U.S. Playstation Network since the average price for a used copy of Final Fantasy VII is over fifty freaking dollars online! I am not saying that it’s not worth that much, but it just seems to me like people are taking advantage of bandwagon-jumpers…
You know you want this bitches…
As you may have already guessed, this means it is possible to play Final Fantasy VII on your PSP – legally. It was also announced that the PSP’s analog stick will work with the game, woo. Above, Yohinori Kitase shows a PSP which already has FF7 installed on it. The full game comes in at 1.8 GB, which is not bad at all.
In addition to the announcements and electric pleasure, it’s pretty obvious that Square Enix went all out decorating for the premiere. There was some stuff there that I would do horrible horrible things to acquire:
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I totally wanna play with my Final Fantasy VII figures on that scale model of Midgar. I would have them bomb all the reactors!
I am getting really excited to get my copy of Advent Children Complete, but mostly just for the Final Fantasy XIII demo. Maybe all this Square Enix generated hype has something to do with it as well…
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My name is Roy and this is my blog about games that I enjoy. My favorite games are RPGs, but there are a few wild cards from time to time. I use my elementary knowledge of Japanese language and culture to translate info on upcoming games in Japan. When time (and publishers!) permit I also preview games and write reviews.
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I can’t wait until it comes out either. But because I chose the cheapest shipping option, I’ll probably have to wait an extra week.
Also I saw Amazon has the bluray (no demo, I’m guessing) up for pre-order, and a June release date.
I went with the cheapest as well, but I did notice I have already been charged for it. I wonder if that means it is shipping ahead of schedule
I think that is for the actual US release which doesn’t matter to me anyway, since Blu-Ray discs are the same region in the US and Japan. Besides, I am sure it will not be as cool in terms of extras and packaging.
Hopefully that’s the case, but some times I’m charged before shipping on other pre-orders, so I guess only couple more days to a week ’til we see.
And I was referencing to a US release, but I kinda like the cover they have, instead of the “Sephiroth want hugs” one we get.
I just got got an e-mail saying my order has been shipped, hopefully yours as well.
I still haven’t gotten a shipment notice, but I remain hopeful. I totally lol every time you make that Sephiroth-wanting-hugs-and-Cloud-too-cool-to-hug reference.