In 2005 though, all we had was a tech demo to go by.Īt the time, it was impressive. Final Fantasy 7 is being remade on new terms, and after suffering a slight recent delay, it will be out on April 10, 2020. Soon, we will see what Midgar and the rest of the opening crew look like in action. It's the sort of game that you play and wonder how it would look with modern technology. The way it frames its firmly angled scenes remains visually pleasing today, even if it's hard to deduce where you can actually walk in the geometry sometimes. Its twists and turns break your heart and delight, all within itty bitty blue text frames. Your ragtag initial party-an ex-military man with some serious baggage, a flower seller with a mysterious heritage, the girl-next-door-who-took-up-boxing, an ecoterrorist with a heart of gold, and a lion that can talk-only gets more rambunctious from Midgar onward. From the moment Cloud leaps off that train with style and the legendary Nobuo Uematsu score kicks in, Final Fantasy 7 feels like an adventure. Still, it's the most beloved Final Fantasy in existence for good reason. Final Fantasy 9, released the year after that, returned to the Final Fantasy 7-ish style, only its stars were a lot more clearly defined the backgrounds more intricate and beautiful than what was possible before.įor all that Final Fantasy 7 impressed with, it was just as swiftly outshone by its own developer, not to mention the rest of the games industry. Cutscenes transitioned immediately into gameplay. Two measly years later, Square Enix released Final Fantasy 8, a game that matured the chibi polygons to actual human-shaped figures.
But it quickly became the victim of the worst fate that can befall awe-inspiring tech: it aged. (It made a star out of Midgar, after all.) In 2005, Final Fantasy 7 itself was still young, not even 10 years old. Before the tech demo, we only really knew Final Fantasy 7's real potential in dreams: The game itself contained just blocky polygons with crude cartoonish faces while its background art became the true star. Yet no matter how large the font that read "technical demo" could be, Square Enix recreating the opening of Final Fantasy 7 for a PS3 engine tech demo was a cruel experiment.
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