Scenario – Opening

Posted at 11:59 PM on Friday January 28th, 2011

We now present to you the early plot of FFX. The commentary of four members of the scenario team is included alongside sections that greatly differ from the final game. From left to right, we have Yoshinori Kitase (Director), Motomu Toriyama (Event Director), Daisuke Watanabe (Scenario Planner), and Kazushige Nojima (Scenario Planner). Opening •The Ruined [...]

Map Analysis Part 7

Posted at 12:00 AM on Tuesday January 25th, 2011

The 7th and final part of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to [...]

Map Analysis Part 6

Posted at 12:00 AM on Sunday January 23rd, 2011

Part 6 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Map Analysis Part 5

Posted at 12:00 AM on Saturday January 22nd, 2011

Part 5 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Junon Pub Speculation

Posted at 12:01 AM on Friday January 21st, 2011

This map, “JUNPB_1″, is very interesting. It’s one of the maps we see in the GameFan article in Prerelease Shots Part 2, written 9 months before the release of the final game. As we can see in this picture, the older version of the bar contains an NPC we’ve never seen before, a black-haired fellow [...]

Map Analysis Part 4

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Part 4 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Map Analysis Part 3

Posted at 12:00 AM on Thursday January 20th, 2011

Part 3 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Map Analysis Part 2

Posted at 10:14 AM on Wednesday January 19th, 2011

Part 1 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Map Analysis Part 1

Posted at 10:47 PM on Tuesday January 18th, 2011

Part 1 of an analysis of all the prerenders found in Final Fantasy VII. Some of the text is too small to be seen without zooming in and some of the pictures are larger than can be displayed on this page, so click here to download them for yourself or here to view them one [...]

Temple of the Ancients

Posted at 01:10 PM on Monday January 17th, 2011

Unused text from the Temple of the Ancients in which Sephiroth explains the origins of summon materia. This is curious because it seems to describe a process similar to the way he himself has become immortal. KURO_82 セフィロス Sephiroth: 「かつて古代種がさかえたころ During the time when the Ancients  豊富な魔晄の光をあびて prospered there existed beings that  育った種族がいた」 grew up [...]