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.

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Join us once again as we delve into a longer version of the train event, extended dialogue from the people of the slums, and alternate camera angles for familiar scenes.…

Narratively, the events in the Sector 7 Slums serve to bring the player closer to the main characters and the slum dwellers. Originally this narrative included a lot more obligatory…

The original Final Fantasy VII is widely known for the many secrets left behind in its code. However, by using a field editor anyone can view the game's used and…

Previously I posted the translation of a small, unused cutscene, originally included in Robert Seddon's Debug Room Cutscenes article. Now the full version of that scene has been found by…

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…

Some untranslated text concerning Chocobos. Not too remarkable. ZZ3 A little snippet of dialogue from the Chocobo Sage. 「海を渡れるチョコボが A chocobo that can cross 　生まれるんじゃ。 the ocean will be born.…

The travelling peddler is part of a cut sidequest in FF7. Two unused Key Items for this quest also exist, Letter to a Daughter and Letter to a Wife. More…