Play The Hardest Bosses Were Added for the International Release Perhaps if the compromise was never made, Yuffie would have been a very different character. The Yuffie we see in Final Fantasy 7 is quite different to her original design, which - as revealed in the Ultimania - was an ex-SOLDIER who was hunting both Cloud and Sephiroth. Her appearing in a battle and talking with her afterwards, all those were his ideas, and as development moved along the scope steadily got bigger and bigger.” Talking in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania, Kitase revealed why Yuffie in particular has so much content: “The main reason for there being so many cut-scenes for Yuffie is down to the strong attachment that Akiyama, who was in charge of them, had. This is why both characters’ storylines are side quests, and they don’t appear in the expensive pre-rendered cinematics.ĭespite this, both characters are fully fleshed out and woven neatly into Final Fantasy 7’s wider lore.
But we somehow managed to veto cutting them, and as a result they became the secret characters they are today.”īy compromising and making Yuffie and Vincent optional characters, the team didn’t have to include them in the story’s main plot and cutscenes. In an interview for the Final Fantasy 7 10th Anniversary Ultimania book (translated via The Lifestream), Nomura revealed: “There was even a time when some people thought we should cut them because we didn’t have enough time. Two of Final Fantasy 7’s most-loved characters, Yuffie Kisaragi and Vincent Valentine, were almost not in the game at all. This character never made it into the final version, but the plot is recognisable as the blueprint for the opening hours of Final Fantasy 7, just set in the fictional Midgar rather than New York City. Talking to IGN in 2012, Nomura also mentioned this story, referring to the investigator as “Hot Blooded Detective Joe”. One of the members of this organization trying to destroy the reactor was the prototype character for Cloud.” There were other characters involved, too. “ the first plot treatment that Sakaguchi-san wrote, it took place in New York, there was an organization there that was trying to destroy the Mako Reactors and a character named Detective Joe was investigating them. Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy 7’s character and battle visual director, recalled the scenario in Polygon’s oral history. This early outline is still recognisable as Final Fantasy 7, but is framed as a detective story. While development on the Super Famicom version of Final Fantasy 7 was cut short, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi had already written a scenario for the game. Play The Original Scenario Was a Detective Story This cut short the SNES version of Final Fantasy 7, just a few months into its development. The project required more hands, and so the small team working on Final Fantasy 7 was moved over to help on Chrono Trigger. … After we finished Final Fantasy 6, we began working on Final Fantasy 7, brainstorming and holding initial planning meetings.”Īt that time, Square was also developing Chrono Trigger, its ambitious time-travel RPG.
Sakaguchi-san was especially fond of pixel art, and we debated a lot about whether we should remain in that 2D style. Talking to Polygon as part of an oral history of Final Fantasy 7, game director Yoshinori Kitase said: “At the time, it wasn’t clear yet whether Japanese RPGs were going to go 3D or not. But during its early development, Final Fantasy 7 was planned as a 2D game for the Super Famicom, better known as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System outside of Japan. Final Fantasy 7 is known as one of the definitive PlayStation games, and a pioneer of 3D graphics in the 1990s.
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