Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: The Best Game You Never Played
The Final Fantasy series of video games has grown an avid following, with fans anticipating each new release as eagerly as Harry Potter fans pant in anticipation for each new book or movie release. Crisis Core is the tile of the latest chapter in the Japanese animated saga, and it may be the greatest video game that you have never played.
Sept 13, 2007
The release date of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII has been pushed back more times than a release date for the next Peter Gabriel album. This has helped not only to build anticipation, but get some great publicity for video game players who might not have any of the Final Fantasy games. The latest release date for Crisis Core is September 13, 2007. Whether Crisis Core will actually be released on that date is anybody’s guess.
Crisis Core’s trailer was first shown in 2005 to rave reviews. Since then, Crisis Core seems to be the video game world’s equivalent of The Last Temptation of Christ, which took director Martin Scorsese nearly twenty tears to get made.
Crisis Core will be released - whenever that happens to be - in both Japanese and English versions. Die hard Final Fantasy fans will most likely buy both versions. Crisis Core will be made for Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) at an average price of $30 (US). You can pre-order it basically anywhere electronics are sold.
Not So Final Fantasy
For a series called Final Fantasy, it has taken seven chapters so far. But with Final Fantasy being such a smash international hit in 1987 (older than most of the Crisis Core target audience), sequels were inevitable.
The Final Fantasy series appeals not only to video game players, but also to those who like the best of Japanese Animae-style art and to those who love a good storyline. Final Fantasy follows the misadventures of four young saviors of their Middle-Earth-Meets-Shogun world, called Light Warriors. They each have a special weapon that corresponds with a traditional element of the earth with which they can destroy the Bad Guys - in this case, the Four Fiends of Chaos.
They have to travel many different surroundings and challenges in order to find, fight and vanquish the Bad Guys. This simple storyline of good verses evil is flexible enough to allow many entertaining, artistic and character-developing plotlines, hence the Final Fantasy taking up seven chapters (so far).
Final Fantasy was the brainchild of a company once called Square, now Square Enix.
