History Trivia / FinalFantasyVII

—> ''“All it takes for your dreams to come true is a little money.”''

** In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', the Partnership Towers dungeon is basically one big reference to this game�s Shinra Headquarters, including the option to skip part of it by taking the stairs.

** A Skylit Drive makes a bunch of references to Final Fantasy in general in their music, but they seem particularly fond of VII and X. To note, their second album �Wires...and the Concept of Breathing� has song titles such as �Knights of the Round,� �This Isn�t The End,� referencing the summon and a line from Aerith. �All it Takes For Your Dreams to Come True� takes the cake, as the entire song is about the events of the game and the title is taken from a speech Rufus delivers to Cloud during their showdown in Disc One (�all it takes for your dreams to come true is a little money.�)
** There�s a metalcore band called Aerith. They released a song in 2020 called �For The Fallen,� which is about the relationship between Aerith (of course) and Zack. The cover art is flowers with a buster sword.
** Veil of Maya has a song called �Aeris.�
** The songs �Masamune� and �Ragnarok� by {{Music/Periphery}} were both named after weapons used by Sephiroth and Cloud, respectively.

*** Conversely, there was supposed to be a

** Prior to ''VII'''s release, JRPGs often performed poorly in western markets and many game companies, including Square themselves, regularly avoided localizing them. ''VII'''s runaway success greatly vitalized the genre's popularity worldwide.

*** At the end of Disc 2, if Cloud's affection points with Tifa are high enough, the two of them will spend the night together underneath the ''Highwind'', with the implication that [[PreClimaxClimax they had sex]]. This was toned down significantly from what was originally planned: the game would have cut to a scene of Cloud and Tifa [[RollInTheHay exiting the Chocobo Stable]], looking disheveled and nervously looking around to see if anyone had spotted them.

** For ''years'' everyone was saying it was only a matter of time until Square Enix remade ''Final Fantasy VII''. On June 15, 2015, they ''finally'' announced it at E3, and the first part of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake FFVII Remake]]'' was released on April 10, 2020. [[note]]Due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, ''Remake'' was released earlier in Europe and Australia on April 1.[[/note]]

* NetworkToTheRescue: Not only did Sony help cover the costs for the game, but they also handled the North American distribution (Square didn't have an American distributor at the time, having previously relied on Creator/{{Nintendo}} for that department).

* NoExportForYou: ''Before Crisis'', particularly annoying because it's almost universally agreed by reviewers to be the highest quality cell phone game of all time, even as of TheNewTens. There may yet be hope now that Square has ported two cellphone projects to other platforms explicitly to ensure Western release, but this one remains a curious omission.

** Twice with Aerith, counting Music/MandyMoore from her ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' appearance. Since then she's been voiced by Creator/MenaSuvari in ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', and has since been replaced by Andrea Bowen for ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' and ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012]]''.

** Twice with Aerith, counting Music/MandyMoore from her ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' appearance. Since then she's been voiced by Creator/MenaSuvari in ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children]]'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', and has since been replaced by Andrea Bowen for ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' and ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012]]''.
** Sephiroth's VA in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' was Creator/LanceBass. Creator/GeorgeNewbern took over the role in ''Advent Children'', and has held on to it ever since.

* AscendedFanon: Sephiroth's signature black wing never appeared in the original game. While he ''is'' the original "OneWingedAngel", and sports a black wing in his final form, he never had any wings in his human form. Said wing made its first appearance in ''Kingdom Hearts''. It seems to have proven popular with (most of) the fanbase, though, since it appeared in ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' and pretty much every game Sephiroth's made a cameo in since.

* {{Blooper}}: The four on the clock in the Temple of the Ancients is incorrectly labeled "IIII".
** Most real-life clocks and watches use "IIII" in place of "IV." According to tradition, clockmakers believe that "IIII" appears to be more symmetrical with "VIII" on the opposite side of the dial. There is also a likely apocryphal belief that the place of the numeral IV in the lower right hand of the clock dial was disrespectful to Jupiter, the king of the Roman Gods, as his name is rendered as "IVPPITER" in Latin. This tradition informed the design of the clock screen in the game.

* {{Defictionalization}}: In 2014, Square Enix started up a subsidiary company to explore the potential applications and development of [[IncrediblyLamePun "cloud"]] gaming platforms. They named it "Shinra Technologies, Inc." The real-life company even uses a variant of the in-universe Shinra logo.

** For ''years'' everyone was saying it was only a matter of time until Square Enix remade ''Final Fantasy VII''. On June 15, 2015, they ''finally'' announced it at E3, and the first part of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake FFVII Remake]]'' was released on April 10, 2020. [[note]]Due to the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Remake'' was released earlier in Europe and Australia on April 1.[[/note]]

** Twice with Aerith, counting Music/MandyMoore from her ''Kingdom Hearts'' appearance. Since then she's been voiced by Mena Suvari in ''Advent Children'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and has since been replaced by Andrea Bowen for ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' and ''Dissidia 012''.
** Sephiroth's VA in ''Kingdom Hearts'' was [[Music/{{NSYNC}} Lance Bass]]. George Newbern took over the role in ''Advent Children'', and has held on to it ever since.
** Yuffie's VA in ''Kingdom Hearts I'' and ''Advent Children'' is Creator/ChristyCarlsonRomano; in ''Dirge of Cerberus'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', she's played by Mae Whitman.

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* FanNickname: Sephy. Also, a lot of people rename Barret "Mr. T." This makes for an amusing bit of dialogue when Aerith calls him "Mr. Mr. T."
-->'''Mr. T''': That don't sound right!

** A pretty one-sided case with ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon Saga''. ''Saga'' was made to compete with this game and be the KillerApp for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Unfortunately, since ''Saga'' was a late arrival in the Saturn's trouble life, it never stood a chance.

* DuelingWorks: A pretty one-sided case: ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon Saga'' was made to compete with this game and be the KillerApp for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Unfortunately, since ''Saga'' was a late arrival on the Saturn, it never stood a chance.

** Could also be seen as this with ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Both of these games are considered by many to showcase of the capabilities of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation and UsefulNotes/Nintendo64, respectively.

* MultiDiscWork: ''Final Fantasy VII'' is split into three disks on the [=PS1=].

** In ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', the Partnership Towers dungeon is basically one big reference to this game’s Shinra Headquarters, including the option to skip part of it by taking the stairs.

** A Skylit Drive makes a bunch of references to Final Fantasy in general in their music, but they seem particularly fond of VII and X. To note, their second album “Wires...and the Concept of Breathing” has song titles such as “Knights of the Round,” “This Isn’t The End,” referencing the summon and a line from Aerith. “All it Takes For Your Dreams to Come True” takes the cake, as the entire song is about the events of the game and the title is taken from a speech Rufus delivers to Cloud during their showdown in Disc One (“all it takes for your dreams to come true is a little money.”)
** There’s a metalcore band called Aerith. They released a song in 2020 called “For The Fallen,” which is about the relationship between Aerith (of course) and Zack. The cover art is flowers with a buster sword.
** Veil of Maya has a song called “Aeris.”
** The songs “Masamune” and “Ragnarok” by {{Music/Periphery}} were both named after weapons used by Sephiroth and Cloud, respectively.

** Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor says that if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break, Great Gospel (which you can't use). Or the fact that her InfinityPlusOneSword is only obtainable in Disc 3, long after she has bitten the dust. Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aerith, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

** Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor says that if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break, Great Gospel (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aerith, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

* ActorAllusion: For both Cloud and Sephiroth, starting from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Blond and Spiky haired? Has the Cloud name? Voiced by Creator/TakahiroSakurai? Hello, [[Anime/ZoidsNewCentury Bit]].
** A white-haired long-haired villain voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa? Hello, [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Griffith]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A large conflict in the game is Mako Reactors, which are clearly an allegory for Nuclear Reactors in the real world, with one town even significantly damaged by a Mako Reactor meltdown. The game portrays the reactors as causing irreparable harm to the environment and a major source of pollution. To cap it off, one town that was ruined by a reactor was a coal mining town, with coal being portrayed as a more positive and environmentally friendly alternative to Mako energy. Back in the [=90s=], this was a very common view when it came to nuclear vs coal. However, as [[TechnologyMarchesOn technology marched on]], it's widely become more known that nuclear energy has a far, ''far'' less harmful impact on the environment compared to the likes of coal and other fossil fuels. This can make such references as coal being a better alternative to Mako come off as ridiculous these days.

** Naturally, after it was announced that the game would be a UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} exclusive, there were persistent rumors among Nintendo loyalists that the game would eventually be ported to the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. In fact, throughout pretty much the entirety of UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames, gaming forums were regularly flooded with fake previews, videos, etc. for the Nintendo 64 version of [=FF7=]. This was all despite Square ''repeatedly'' stating that a Nintendo 64 version would've been literally impossible to make, due to the system's cartridge unit. Not to mention that Square flat out ''dissolved'' their working relationship with Nintendo in late 1996 due to frustration with the company's censorship policies, hardware design choices, etc., leaving the two companies on pretty bitter terms until 2002, when they finally made amends and Square began making games for the UsefulNotes/GameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.

** Naturally, after it was announced that the game would be a UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}} exclusive, there were persistent rumors among Nintendo loyalists that the game would eventually be ported to the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. In fact, throughout pretty much the entirety of UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames, gaming forums were regularly flooded with fake previews, videos, etc. for the Nintendo 64 version of [=FF7=]. This was all despite Square ''repeatedly'' stating that a Nintendo 64 version would've been literally impossible to make, due to the system's cartridge unit. Not to mention that Square dissolved their working relationship with Nintendo in late 1996, leaving the two companies on pretty bitter terms until 2002, when they finally made amends and Square began making games for the UsefulNotes/GameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.

** Naturally, after it was announced that the game would be a UsefulNotes/Playstation exclusive, there were persistent rumors among Nintendo loyalists that the game would eventually be ported to the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64. In fact, throughout pretty much the entirety of UsefulNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames, gaming forums were regularly flooded with fake previews, videos, etc. for the Nintendo 64 version of [=FF7=]. This was all despite Square ''repeatedly'' stating that a Nintendo 64 version would've been literally impossible to make, due to the system's cartridge unit. Not to mention that Square dissolved their working relationship with Nintendo in late 1996, leaving the two companies on pretty bitter terms until 2002, when they finally made amends and Square began making games for the UsefulNotes/GameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance.

** Naturally, after it was announced that the game would be a Playstation exclusive, there were persistent rumors among Nintendo loyalists that the game would eventually be ported to the Nintendo 64. In fact, throughout pretty much the entirety of TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleGaming, gaming forums were regularly flooded with fake previews, videos, etc. for the Nintendo 64 version of [=FF7=]. This was all despite Squaresoft ''repeatedly'' stating that a Nintendo 64 version was literally impossible to make, due to the system's cartridge format and that they had cut their ties with Nintendo altogether[[note]]before the two companies finally made amends in 2002 - by which point the Nintendo 64 had already become obsolete[[/note]].

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Rumors abounded for ''years'' about ways to bring Aerith back from the dead. One of the most popular back in the day stated that you could retrieve the White Materia from the pool in the ancient city and use it to revive her. Another popular rumor says that if you were really mean to Aerith but nice to Tifa, then ''Tifa'' would die instead. Before the days of the internet and data mining, rumors like this caught a lot of traction. Also not helping is the availability of Aerith's final Limit Break, Great Gospel (which you can't use). Or that if you go back to the Sector 7 church (after getting the Midgar key) where you met Aerith, you can see her 'ghost' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance above the flowerbed.

* RealitySubtext: There are some circulating rumors that the reasoning for Zack's anti-climatic death in the original compared to a valiant LastStand in ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'' was because the mother of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the series, died during the game's production. This in turn made him pursue [[RealityEnsues "human deaths"]], meaning no {{Last Stand}}s or any [[DyingSpeech parting words]]. Keep in mind that despite what many people think, Sakaguchi did not actually direct or do much writing for the game, so these rumors could be wrong. This was, however, stated by the actual director Yoshinori Kitase, to be the intent behind Aerith's death.

* DuelingWorks: A pretty one-sided case:''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon Saga'' was made to compete with this game and be the KillerApp for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. Unfortunately, since ''Saga'' was a late arrival on the Saturn, it never stood a chance.