TheFinal Fantasy 7series recently turned 25, and on its anniversary event, Square Enix announced several new projects likeFinal Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2: Rebirth. The Japanese video game giant also touched on other excitingFinal Fantasy 7-related projects. One of them isFinal Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis, which has just got a fresh, action-packed trailer showing a sizable portion of its gameplay.
Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisisis an upcoming mobile game that functions as an episodic retelling of almost the entireFinal Fantasy 7collection.Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisiswas first announcedlast year after being heavily speculated, with plans of launching in 2022. After being relatively mum about the game for quite some time since the initial announcement, Square Enix finally dropped a new trailer forEver Crisis, giving fans a closer look at its seemingly impressive battle system and console-like visuals.
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As seen in the new footage,Ever Crisisis played from a top-down perspective reminiscent of the originalFinal Fantasy 7while in exploration mode. The polygonal character design is still there, albeit a bit more modernized. Yet the major highlight seems to be when the game enters combat mode, mainly because of itsgraphics that look quite indistinguishable from theFinal Fantasy 7 Remake.
Combat inFinal Fantasy 7: Ever Crisisappears to be vastly inspired by the originalFinal Fantasy 7’sActive Time Battle system, which essentially acts like a pseudo-turn-based combat system. This can be considered great news for fans of the original game’s dynamic turn-based system, which waschanged into something more akin toFinal Fantasy 15’saction-based systemin theFinal Fantasy 7 Remake.
Balancing nostalgia and newness seems to be core to the overallFinal Fantasy 7: Ever Crisisexperience. Not only will ittell the story of each game in theFinal Fantasy 7timeline, including spin-offs likeCrisis Core,Dirge of Cerberus, and theAdvent Childrenmovie, butEver Crisiswill also feature some original stories that haven’t been told anywhere else.
All in all,Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisismight come across as a great propositionfor true fans of the series, even if it will only be available on mobile devices. While the game still doesn’t have a specific release date, Square Enix did announce that it will be running a closed beta test forEver Crisislater this year.
Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisislaunches on Android and iOS in 2022.
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