History VideoGame / CrisisCore

* ControllableHelplessness: They made the final showdown playable...the game has a DownerEnding. Do the math.

** ...plus, his war cry of 'IRASSHAIMASE!' / COME AND GET IT! has the added connotation in Japanese of being shouted out by staff at every shop and restaurant, and would probably be better translated as [[BadassBoast 'COME GET SERVED!']]

* ShowTheForehead: Zack changes his hair to this partway through the game to show that he's gotten serious.

-->'''Sephiroth:''' "Whether your words are lies meant to deceive me.... or the answers I've been searching for all my life... it makes no difference. '''You will rot'''."

* ShutUpHannibal: Sephiroth's delivers one hell of one to [[spoiler:Genesis]]: "Whether your words are lies meant to deceive me, or the answers I've been searching for all my life -- '''you will rot'''."

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The Digital Mind Wave is a manifestation of Zack's thoughts and emotions, and as such his emotional state can affect its results, and if that emotional state is connected to someone on the reel, they have a higher chance of appearing on the reels for a while. Famously reversed in the ending sequence -- [[spoiler:as Zack gets weaker and weaker fighting off Shinra's force, the portraits on the reels fade away, the reels begin to glitch up, and the sound and picture get full of static. His life is flashing before his eyes as his mental processes break down]].

* FoeYay: Genesis seems a little ''too'' hateful at Sephiroth most of the time...

** Zack is free to take missions from Shinra right up until the final area of the game right outside the chamber of the final boss, even though by that time he's a wanted fugitive being pursued across the world.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: You get scenes of Materia creation to battle music. The squatting minigame does the same.
** The Bahamut Fury summon ranks right up there as one of the most outlandish animations in the series. Bahamut flies through space, fires his wing-spikes at the moon, ''destroying the moon'' and turning it into a conduit for a giant laser beam that blasts down through the atmosphere.

* MeaningfulName: Ange(a)l.

* PrisonerOfZendaExit: Genesis after your first fight against him proper.

** Most of the iconic scene at the Nibelheim Reactor was changed, though the end result is the same, and the parts that ''Cloud'' sees are left unchanged. Oddly enough, this is the ''second'' retcon of the scene; the first happened the cellphone Turk-centric game ''BeforeCrisis'' and was reused in the OVA ''Last Order''. Crisis Core is a compromise of that version and the original game's with Cloud tossing Sephiroth into the mako pit but with the location changed to Jenova's chamber rather than the cat-walk outside.

'''''CrisisCore: Final Fantasy VII''''' is an entry in the [[RunningGag thirst-quenchingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series, and a direct prequel to the most well-known entry in the series, ''FinalFantasyVII''. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII''.

** And a bit shorter, if you compare him standing next to Zack and then do the same comparison in ''AdventChildren''. His features are a bit softer, too, if you look. Though that might be from not frowning all the time.

** The game opens with Zack jumping out of a helicopter, running across a train, dodging bullets, and pulling off all kinds of ''AdventChildren''-style kung fu feats. Nothing in this game's actual battle system even ''resembles'' that cutscene. Zack can swing his sword, do a dodge roll, and run around and that is it. He can't even jump. Naturally scenes like this happen throughout the entire game, and the playable battles never stop being any less dull in comparison.

** Also Zack shares voice actors with Gippal from FinalFantasyX-2 for both the English (Rick Gomez) and Japanese (KenichiSuzumura) versions.

* InterserviceRivalry: All over Shinra. With pretty much every department fighting for funding while sabotaging others and security forces almost incapable of cooperation, no wonder Shinra was in such disarray during [[FinalFantasyVII FFVII]].

''CrisisCore: FinalFantasyVII'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag thirst-quenchingly popular]] ''FinalFantasy'' series, and a direct prequel to the most well-known entry in the series, ''FinalFantasyVII''. It is part of the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII''.

Crisis Core follows Zack Fair, a character who had a minor but significant role in the original game, in the events leading up to the introduction to ''FinalFantasyVII''. It also expands on the backstory of [[MrFanservice fan favorite]] [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Sephiroth]]. Many characters from the original game, such as Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth, play roles of various importance in the story.

''Crisis Core'' was widely praised as pretty much the only entry in the Compilation to be a decent game by itself. Reviewers enjoyed the story, direction, and gameplay, though they were turned off by the tedium of the 300 practically identical optional missions and the [[ScrappyMechanic DMW System.]]

** And a bit shorter, if you compare him standing next to Zack and then do the same comparison in Advent Children. His features are a bit softer, too, if you look. Though that might be from not frowning all the time.
** Also, Angeal. He looks like he's pushing forty, and numerous ''FinalFantasyVII'' fans speculated pre-release that he was Zack's father. WordOfGod says he's only about ''25'' years old, and born ''after'' Genesis.

* BadassBaritone: Angeal

* BunnyEarsLawyer: According to the in-game information all prominent 1st Class [=SOLDIERs=] were often considered to be this, with Genesis being the most extreme case of them all. Then their relatively harmless quirks turned [[SanitySlippage into]] [[IAmAMonster something]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation much]] [[AGodAmI worse]]...

** Here's a drinking game - play the game and take a sip every time Angeal says "honor" or "dreams". You'll be tipsy by the end of the second chapter.

Crisis Core follows Zack Fair, a character who had a minor but significant role in the original game, in the events leading up to the introduction to ''FinalFantasyVII''. It also expands on the backstory of [[EstrogenBrigadeBait fan favorite]] [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Sephiroth]]. Many characters from the original game, such as Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth, play roles of various importance in the story.

** This is taken BeyondTheImpossible in the Missions, where one series of missions consists of Zack fighting off hordes of Shinra infanty, culminating with him fighting off [[MultiMookMelee 1000 soldiers]].

* {{Nakama}}: Inverted case when Sephiroth [[spoiler: abandons his comrades, Angeal and Genesis]].
** Though played straight when Sephiroth says he may have to abandon Shin-Ra for the same. Coincidentally, just a few days before the above happens as well.
** Zack also has this with a lot of his SOLDIER comrades. Kunsel even sends him messages [[spoiler: after the Zack escapes from Shinra Manor, saying that he will come save him]].

* StagesOfMonsterGrief: Angeal hates his nature and defies it, while Genesis and Sephiroth embrace TheDarkSide.

* FridgeLogic: A rare in-universe case. Zack receives missions from Yuffie, and after each one she sends him an email telling him where to go next. Eventually Zack stops and wonders briefly exactly ''how'' Yuffie managed to get his email address. The subsequent missions focus on finding out.

** FridgeBrilliance! Zack's a first-class SOLDIER; He can dodge bullets. He knows it, everyone shooting at him knows it. So why are they constantly missing him? They're aiming where ''they think he's going to dodge''. Since Zack knows the first salvo is going to miss where he's standing, why bother moving? It's safe there.

** FridgeLogic: Since he's not using his weapon ''or'' his armor, where is he storing the materia?

* {{Punch Clock Villain}}s: Since the game is now from Zack's POV, you find that most Shinra employees, including SOLDIER, are just normal, decent guys with day jobs--they worry about getting promoted, discuss company hotties, and the higher-up members of the infantry are concerned with trying to get their division more funding. Leads into a lot of FridgeHorror when you realize just ''how'' many mooks you gunned down in the original game. For all you know, one of those random [=SOLDIERs=] you killed was Kunsel.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Rick Gomez, better known for his role as George Luz in ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', voices Zack.

* BadassAbnormal: Genesis, Angeal & Sephiroth all count as this, due to them having Jenova Cells in their bodies. This also counts for Zack, after Hojo uses him in his experiments following the Nibelheim incident. Prior to that, he's the closest thing to BadassNormal that [[BadassCrew SOLDIER First Class]] has, even managing to go one-on-one with Sephiroth.