Final Fantasy 7, my favorite Role Playing Game for gaming consoles. Won the best game of the year and voted as the top 10 games of the decade that made a significant influence on the gaming industry. I remember it was 10 years back, me and a group of friends would play this game and update ourselves in school everyday.The story unleash when Cloud Strife, one of the greatest former 1st class Shinra's SOLDIER unit, joining AVALANCHE in a series of raids against the Mako reactors surrounding the city of Midgar. Although the first mission is successful, AVALANCHE is trapped at another reactor during a subsequent raid.
The reactor explodes, launching Cloud from the upper levels of Midgar into the slums below. He lands on a flower bed, where he is formally introduced to Aeris Gainsborough. That was Cloud and Aeris first encounter. Prompted by the arrival of Shinra's Turks operatives sent to capture Aeris, Cloud agrees to be Aeris's bodyguard and defends her from the Turks. After meeting up with Tifa in Sector 7, they infiltrate the mansion of crime boss Don Corneo. The party learns that Shinra has discovered the location of AVALANCHE's hideout and plans to collapse the upper plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below.
Shinra destroys Sector 7, killing its population and three members of AVALANCHE The Turks capture Aeris, who is revealed to be the last surviving "Cetra", a race closely attuned with the planet, and previously thought extinct. President Shinra believes Aeris can lead him to the "Promised Land", a mythical land of fertility, where he expects to find Mako energy.
The remaining members of AVALANCHE infiltrate Shinra's headquarters to rescue Aeris. After freeing her and Red XIII, they escape when most of the personnel in the building—including President Shinra—are killed. Cloud suspects that Sephiroth, a man presumed to be dead, was behind the attack, suspicions confirmed by an executive who claims to have witnessed Sephiroth murder the president and state that he would never allow Shinra to claim the Promised Land.
Cloud traveled half of the world in search for Aeris, the love of his life. During his journey, he met several friends, Tifa Lockhart, Barret Wallace, Vicent Valentines, Caith Seth, Red XIII, Yuffie Kisaragi and Cid Highwind. Together, they joint AVALANCHE and has been thru countless battles and enemies and eventually found out Sephiroth's evil plans.
Sephiroth intends to use a powerful spell called "Meteor" to fatally injure the planet, inciting a reaction in the Lifestream to safeguard the planet. Sephiroth would then merge with all of the planet's energy, allowing him to be reborn as a god and rule over the planet.
However, Aeris did not made it till the end. She was killed by Sephiroth. Poor Cloud :( After that, Cloud and his comrades resolve to save the planet from the dying in the hands of Sephiroth. It is revealed that Aeris, in her final moments, was casting the spell "Holy" with the White Materia, the only means of opposing Meteor. Although she succeeded, Sephiroth had since prevented the spell from taking effect.
Cloud tells his team to go find what they are fighting for, before they begin a final assault against Sephiroth. With each member of Cloud's group at peace with his or her past, the group travels through the Northern Crater to the planet's core. They defeat Sephiroth and free Holy, but the spell is unable to destroy Meteor alone. Selected as Meteor's target, Midgar is almost completely destroyed. However, the Lifestream rises from the planet to aid Holy in destroying the Meteor.
That was the game's storyline. I watched the movies too, quite touching. How Cloud fights for the survival of his planet and friends, and how Aeris always stayed in his heart. Although Aeris is no longer there, images of her always appears and constantly being thought... by a man who would go thru anything for her.
p/s: Zack Fair was Aeris first boyfriend and Cloud's best friend. Aiks! Triangle love? lol
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