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4	''Before Crisis: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is an entry in the [[RunningGag orgasm-inducingly popular]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series, and a prequel to the most well-known entry in the series, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', kicking off what would become the ''Franchise/CompilationOfFinalFantasyVII''.
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6	''Before Crisis'' follows the Turks, who in this game are a larger and more competent organization compared to the GoldfishPoopGang the players are likely to remember from ''Final Fantasy VII'', and are commanded by a different leader, Veld. The Turks battle the forces of AVALANCHE, the anti-Shinra resistance group led by the young swords-woman Elfé. Contrary to the group of the same name led by Barret years later, this incarnation of AVALANCHE is larger, more violent, more organized, and pose a larger threat to the company. Eventually, the Turks find out the AVALANCHE scientist Fuhito is seeking the four support Materia needs to use the ultimate Summon Materia that calls the ultimate monster Zirconiade, "The World Burner," to do exactly that.
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8	The game functions as an {{RPG}} but with a simpler system. Materia returned but with a slightly different function, and players could level up and equip armor. Completing certain episodes increased their Turk rank which gave access to stronger equipment and Materia.
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10	''Before Crisis'' was [[NoExportForYou a Japan-only release,]] being released in an episodic format on mobile phones before the servers were closed in 2018. Creator/SquareEnix had announced plans to release an English version of the game back in 2006, but this never materialized due to the West's comparatively inferior smartphone network at the time. Director Hajime Tabata said he'd like to remake it for the 3DS, but that also didn't come to pass. Thus, ''Before Crisis'' was the only ''Final Fantasy VII'' spin-off to not see an English localization, and thanks to its platform of release is one of the most obscure titles in the series. The announcement of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIEverCrisis Ever Crisis]]'', which will cover material from all ''Compilation'' titles, will be the first time audiences outside of Japan can experience the game (though to what extent is yet unclear).
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12	An unofficial [[UsefulNotes/RPGMaker RPGMaker]] English [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/9051/ port]], with Shotgun (Female) as the sole protagonist (and inconsistent FanTranslation), has been released in March 2019.
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14	! This game contains examples of:
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16	%%* ActionGirl: All of the female Turks and Elfé.
17	* AllThereInTheManual: Since the player character Turks are interchangeable in-game, their character profiles are the only place to gives any details to their individual characteristics and backstories.
18	* AscendedExtra: "Shuriken (Female)" was given a prominent role in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' under the alias Cissnei.
19	* TheBattleDidntCount: A player-centric version. The Turk gets repeatedly curbstomped by the AVALANCHE higher-ups, but always gets up after the fights with them and even [[UnexplainedRecovery recovers most of their HP and MP]].
20	* BigBad: Elfé. [[spoiler:Fuhito later reveals she was his UnwittingPawn and becomes a DragonAscendant in the game's final chapters.]]
21	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Veld and Elfé are saved and [[DeathFakedForYou their deaths faked by supposed execution]] to throw Shinra off their trail thanks to the Turks, and Fuhito and the Zirconiade Weapon are taken down -- but the Turks themselves seemingly [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat die in the final explosion]]. Reno, Rude and Tseng are blamed by Scarlet for the whole incident as survivors and wants the trio executed, but Rufus pulls strings from behind the scenes to spare them in exchange for their loyalty. As for the playable Turk cast, they use the opportunity to fake their own deaths and leave Shinra for good, coming back in the finale of the original game to help evacuate people during the Meteorfall.]]
22	* ChristmasEpisode: Chapter 6 takes place from 22nd to 24th of the twelfth month, and it involves lighting up a decorated tree.
23	* ContinuityNod: Certain missions portray the launching of Cid's rocket, the destruction of Corel, the infamous Nibelheim incident, and eventually pursue Zack and Cloud when they escape Hojo. The Turks also run across [[VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus Azul and Shalua Rui.]]
24	* CutsceneIncompetence: What often saves the player Turk from a CurbStompBattle from Elfé is her suddenly growing weak and ordering a withdraw at times. [[spoiler:Turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} about the Zirconiade Materia draining her life.]]
25	%%* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler:Rude]] in chapter 6.
26	* DismantledMacGuffin: Played with -- the Zirconiade Materia is fully intact, it just isn't strong enough to summon Zirconiade without the four support Materia.
27	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Elfé is introduced fighting Sephiroth in Junon, and does a good job defending herself to the point Sephiroth admits he's impressed with her skills. Elfé retreats after questioning Sephiroth's reason for fighting and claiming she has hers.
28	* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: Elfé fights in the heat of battle alongside her troops, and expresses disgust with herself for her bouts of sudden weakness and she's unable to fight with them. Late in the game when the player confronts her, Elfé declares directly she's going to take personal revenge for all the AVALANCHE troops you've killed.
29	* GreaterScopeVillain: Zirconiade, the monster that will destroy the world and that Fuhito is trying to summon. [[spoiler:Manifests partially and is the FinalBoss.]]
30	* GreyAndGrayMorality: As the player knows from ''Crisis Core'' especially, while their leaders are corrupt bastards, the rank and file Shinra forces are a varied group of mostly decent people, while AVALANCHE are {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s who want to destroy Shinra through violent methods to save the planet. [[spoiler:Eventually, the Turks turn away from Shinra and try to help Veld, who has gone alone to try and save Elfé from Zirconiade's life draining. Shears leaves AVALANCHE for the same reason and becomes their ally.]] HeelFaceTurn and FaceHeelTurn are certainly in effect, but it's hard to say for who and which way.
31	* HelloInsertNameHere: You can name your player character; they have no canon names, however, and are referred by their weapons and gender, such as "Rod (Male)," "Twin Guns (Male)" and "Shuriken (Female)".
32	* HopelessBossFight: In the earlier levels, player Turk is often subjected to OneHitKO attack from the named AVALANCHE characters. Used quite liberally in later chapters too.
33	* ImportantHaircut: There is a variant, Tseng wears his hair tied in a ponytail, and lets it down to hang loose at the end of the game when he becomes leader of the Turks, at that point comprised of just him, Reno and Rude, and declares the organization reborn.
34	* KatanasAreJustBetter: Elfé's weapon of choice and, of course, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Katana (Male).]]
35	* KarmaHoudini: When President Shinra finds out [[spoiler:Rufus]] is supplying AVALANCHE with money and company info, his "punishment" is to be shipped off to Junon under "house arrest" so Shinra can save face rather than admit [[spoiler:the Vice-President was TheMole in the company.]]
36	* LuckBasedMission: The first mission has shades of that, as it depends heavily on whether you get Potions [[RandomDrop randomly dropped]] from the enemies.
37	** The Bomb fight in Chapter 6 (see WakeUpCallBoss).
38	* LukeIAmYourFather: Elfé's father is [[spoiler:Veld.]]
39	* MadeOfIron: The player Turk recovers surprisingly quickly (and repeatedly) from beatings they take from AVALANCHE bosses and even from being knocked unconscious by ''Sephiroth''.
40	* MadScientist: Fuhito. All you need to know about him can be given in three words: he idolizes Hojo.
41	* MirrorMatch: The security complex in Chapter 3 creates a Materia clone of the player Turk to fight them.
42	* TheMole: Someone in Shinra is leaking AVALANCHE top-secret company information, and someone is funding them a lot of money too. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Rufus, helping them to make his father look bad and take over Shinra.]]
43	* MythologyGag: Yet ''another'' Shinra employee ends up crashing through the roof of the Sector 5 church and wakes up on the flowerbed. For those keeping score, that's three (that we know of).
44	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Fuhito offers his own body to Zirconiade to help summon it, transforming in the process.]]
45	* PlotTumor: The original ''Final Fantasy VII'' contained a passing reference that the bomb plans used by Barret's AVALANCHE were constructed by another AVALANCHE that existed before Barret resurrected the name. Turns out there was a lot more to it than that.
46	* PowerDegeneration: Elfé has superhuman strength, speed, stamina and the like due to [[spoiler:the Zirconiade Materia embedded in her hand.]] It also happens to be slowing killing her.
47	* RememberTheNewGuy: Funny, ''VII'' made no mention of the Turks operating at Nibelheim during the Nibelheim Incident, or really, any of the characters or events of this game.
48	* RuleOfThree: In the first three chapters, the player Turk gets curbstomped by all three leaders of the AVALANCHE: Shears, Fuhito, and finally Elfe.
49	%%* SealedEvilInACan: Zirconiade.
50	* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Rufus is aiding AVALANCHE and later the Turks when they go rogue in an effort to discredit his father's management and seize the company.]]
51	* SuperCellReception: This game lets you use your own cellphone to make Materia in the game via snapping pictures. The dominant color determines the element and grade of the Materia. For example, a majority yellow picture produces Thunder Materia.
52	* ThereIsAnother: This game finally canonically answers the question of just where the hell [[LastOfHisKind Red XIII's]] kids came from, as it features his mate at one point. She was turned into stone, but there's a time limit on it.
53	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Avoiding security robots in Chapter 3. One of the rooms plays more like a level from ''Frogger'' than an RPG.
54	* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: The Turks are the good guys, AVALANCHE is the enemy. Justified, as this and other spin-offs have established the Turks as literal {{Punch Clock Villain}}s, while this original incarnation of AVALANCHE is more extreme than the second incarnation led by Barret, bordering KnightTemplar behavior at times.
55	* WakeUpCallBoss: The Bomb-type enemies in Chapter 6, if you have to engage two of them at the same time. The Turk is underleveled at that point, and the Bombs together can hit for almost the same amount of HP your Potion can heal. The only thing you can do is pray the RandomNumberGod that you'd have to face only one Bomb, or that you manage to dodge their attacks at least some of the time, and ''they'' don't dodge your attacks as often, and you don't run out of Potions before managing to kill them.
56	* WeCanRuleTogether: Surprisingly, Elfé makes this offer to ''Aerith'' of all people, asking her to join AVALANCHE since as a Cetra, Aerith ought to hate Shinra for hurting the planet. Of course, Aerith refuses; she doesn't like Shinra but she's no terrorist either.
57	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Elfé and the rest of AVALANCHE (except for Fuhito).
58	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Fuhito's "Ravens" are genetically modified AVALANCHE troops based on SOLDIER and they're completely devoid of humanity for it.
59	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Fuhito]] pulls this on ''everyone'' when appropriate, even [[spoiler:Rufus.]]

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