The action starts from the very beginning, starting with a terrorist group called AVALANCHE on their way to destroy a power plant called a Mako Reactor, which sucks the life out of the planet in order to provide the people of the city Midgar with electricity

They are putting up Mako Reactors that suck the energy from the Earth and convert it to power

I've mentioned Avalanche destroying MAKO reactors that Shinra

Before then procede with the destruction of the power plants, that suck up the earth's mako, they hire a indepedent soldier named Cloud

In addition to saving the planet from Shinra's economic stranglehold and planetary life essence-sucking Mako reactors, it is resolved to find Sephiroth and put a stop to his mysterious designs, at which point the leadership reins are passed from Barret to the main character, Cloud

Mako is destroying the planet & Avalanche (known as hippies or treehuggers) is trying to stop that from happening

The story begins when Cloud Strife, a teenager who joined a secret organization known as AVALANCHE, tries to help destroy huge machines called Mako Reactors, which suck the planet's life energy away in order for electricity to exist in Midgar (a city).

Mako is destroying the planet & Avalanche (known as hippies or treehuggers) is trying to stop that from happening

Shinra has been sapping Mako, a refined form of the planet's life force called the Lifestream, from the ground and using it as an energy source

Shinra is searching for The Promised Land, a mythical Mako-rich land to further bolster their power over the world, but the members of Avalanche believes that Shinra's constant siphoning of Mako is slowly killing the planet and want to bring down Shinra before it's too late

You start as Cloud Strife,mercenary for hire who has joined forces with the rebel group Avalanche to help bring down the monopolizing giant Shin-Ra corporation who is spending their time and energy sucking Mako energy from the planet

Other than that, they aren't stunning, and leave you sometimes confused as to what you can walk on and what you can't, but I really don't look at a game for the graphics if it's an RPG

Im still alittle confused as to why square never remade this game with updated H.D graphics for any of the current consoles , just keeping everything the same other than the visuals, there is a whole lot of money to be had there, just ask capcom with all there Resident Evil Remakes

all RPG's the game can get a bit static and repetitive as you get stuck on your first adventure

i bought thta as fast as i could

VII stands as outstanding graphically as it did then and weaves a tale that will still amaze.

I bought this game for under 20$ back then, and as great as it may have been then

Honestly, when I randomly decided to look up old videogames for fun and happened to check out the reviews for FF7, I was confused as to why anybody who played it would give it anything but 5 stars

And the story, It starts as cloud blowing up a

This game is a great game...though not as great as it's decendant (FF8).This game offers great graphics the best ever next to 8.I have yet to play (ff9).85 %-90% you will play the part of cloud strife,an ex-SOLDIER.Soldier is an elite group of men and Women taught to fight very well

And you’ll be confused as to why the game costs so much

And after a couple of months, or a couple of years pass, you will start this game over and beat it again, just with the same feelings of satisfactory, entertainment, exhilartion, excitness, fun, proudness, as when you first played and beated it

not as good, not nearly as good as ff8

Has beautiful CGI cutscenes, that look better than the in-game cutscenes of Final Fantasy X (in some ways)Has fun gameplay (aside from the mini-games), and will keep you hooked for hoursHas great music, and will keeped you hooked into the game for hours, even if the gameplay doesn't, which it shouldHas an even better storyline, and like Final Fantasy X, if for some reason you hate the gameplay and the music (which is a hard thing to do), the story should keep you glued to your TV set with controller in handHas an easy 30+ hour completion time, without doing the side quests, ideal for those that like lots of gameplay timeHas good player customization (with what you call "Materia"), but not nearly as good as Final Fantasy X (although if you thought it was too time consuming in Final Fantasy X, this is much faster)The battle speed can be set as slow or fast as you want, with many settings in betweenCons:This game has a somewhat high encounter rate; if you're just playing this game for the story, you may want to consider using a cheat code for no random battles or something, as you'll be spending huge amounts of time with the random battlesThe graphics outside of the battles are very awful, using low polygon levelsThe graphics inside of the battles aren't too bad, but still leave a lot to be desiredIf you have much in the way of scratches on your discs, namely where the CGI cutscenes happen to be, look forward to the game going into an eternal freeze, and not being able to do anything about it, except try it on your PS2 or PS3If lots of extreme "French" language bother you, you may not want to play this game, as two of your main characters use these words a LOT and other side characters do as wellThis game comes with 3 discs, so if you are too lazy to get off your rear end after so many hours of play, to switch the discs, then this game is not for you.

Trust me the graphics may be good but the story is not as strong as FF7

And the songs J-E-N-O-V-A and One Winged Angel at the end of the game

You are in control of a lame-o named Cloud, an ex member of the famed Soldier