Recently, I managed to track down the contact information of a number of game developers, in the hopes of respectfully asking them about longstanding gaming mysteries. Today, I share with…
We are speeding through the world of FFVII, hence why the article titles will read as “Location A to Location B” for a good while from now on. In this…
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The Midgar Train, Sector 7 Slums and the Honey Bee Inn, all areas that Motomu Toriyama was responsible for, provided us with condensed amounts of unused material. As we take a pause from his work, the game heavily decreases in unused content per area. Though no field in later parts of the game rival the sheer amount of unseen text as seen in the game’s beginning, there is still much left to analyse.
Now, let’s get out of Midgar. The individuals of the FFVII development team responsible for this article’s main events are Masaru Oka and Kazushige Nojima. The former left behind a more difficult version of Mayor Domino’s password challenge in Shinra HQ, while Nojima wrote aspects of Sephiroth’s character that would not be used until ten years after the original game’s release…
Fasten your seat belts, dear readers. From now on we’ll be speeding through the game’s scenarios.
Of all the areas in Final Fantasy VII, the Honey Bee Inn ranks as one of the most memorable. The staggering amount of unused material here serves as a tribute…
BLACKBGK This room is named after Masato Kato, who received a Special Thanks credit in FF7 and later went on to direct Chrono Cross. Dark city fourth street 暗黒街４ちょうめ{End} ☞The…
BLACKBGI The text here is duplicated in BLACKBGH, CANON_1, CANON_2, MD8_BRDG2, MD8_6, MD8_B1, MD8_B2, MD8_32, MTCRL_2, SBWY4_22, SEMKIN_1, SEMKIN_2, SEMKIN_3, SEMKIN_4, SEMKIN_5, SEMKIN_6, SEMKIN_7, SEMKIN_8, SPIPE_1, SPIPE_2, SPGATE, TUNNEL_4, TUNNEL_5,…
BLACKBG8 This room is named after Kazuhiko Yoshioka, one of the event planners of Final Fantasy VII. Tifa: Tifa ティファ Tifa “Going to north Corel. 「北コレルにとびます。 Warping to North Corel.…
BLACKBG7 This room is named after Kazuhiko Yoshioka, one of the event planners of Final Fantasy VII. DEBUG よしおかデバッグ画面やねん{End} This is Yoshioka’s debug screen. DEBUG {Call 0} Barret: Organaize…
BLACKBG6 バレット Barret 「ニイハオ。わたしバレットアルヨ。 Nihao. Me am Barret. kyoukai no yane kara ここは、教会の屋根から This is route that start from church roof 5bangai ５番街スラムへつづくコースアルネ。 and continue to Sector 5…
BLACKBG4 EARITH HOME お家 House いつか帰るよマイホームタウン♥{End} Someday I’ll return to my hometown. ♥ 1F okaasan au １Ｆ お母さんに会ってね ☞1F Come meet my mom! 1F katari haha １Ｆ 母、語る 衝撃の事実！！ ☞1F Mom speaks,…