History VideoGame / FinalFantasyVII

** Icicle Inn is the first new location visited in Disc 2. It's generally peaceful and humorous, is home to the snowboarding minigame, and it's sandwiched between two of the story's biggest WhamEpisodes: [[spoiler:Aerith's death]] and [[spoiler:Sephiroth's summoning of Meteor]].

* KillSat: Using Bahamut Zero summons a dragon that fires its BreathWeapon from space down onto your unfortunate enemy.
%%** Barret's "Satellite Beam" Level 3 LimitBreak

* BreatherEpisode: Right before the Temple of the Ancients is a lighthearted date scene. The first new location visited on disc two is the rather peaceful Icicle Inn, which is host to a snowboarding minigame.

%%* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Red XIII's father, Seto.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:We don't actually see if Holy was enough to stop the Meteor from impacting the planet. As Holy surrounds the meteor, there is a bright flash that makes everyone turn their heads away and then there is a shot of Aerith opening her eyes. Cut to credits. Post credits, there is an epilogue 500 years later of Red XIII and his children standing on a cliff outside Midgar, with the city completely fallen apart and covered by plants, showing the planet at least recovers, but we don't see any humans. Subsequent media such as ''Advent Children'' of course give a more definitive answer on humanity's survival, but at the game's release, it was uncertain.]]

* MutualPining: At various points, [[ChildhoodFriends Cloud and Tifa]] demonstrate they have feelings for the other in their interactions, but thanks to emotional hang-ups caused by their [[DoomedHometown shared trauma]] as well as the impending threat they face taking priority, neither are really able to act on it until near the end of the story.

%%* HonestCorporateExecutive: Reeve.

%%* IndustrialGhetto: Lower Midgar.

* ColonyDrop: The upper plates of Midgar serve as gigantic expansions of the city itself, each the size of a small town and supported by gigantic pillars, and Shinra conspires to drop the entire upper plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below in an effort to get rid of AVALANCHE. Cloud and company try to stop the Turks from following through the plan but fail.

* ColonyDrop: The upper plates of Midgar serve as gigantic expansions of the city itself, each yhe size of a small town and supported by gigantic pillars, and Shinra conspires to drop the entire upper plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below in an effort to get rid of AVALANCHE. Cloud and company try to stop the Turks from following through the plan but fail.

* DragonInChief: Rufus, who's first the vice-president of Shinra, Inc. but then takes over for his father as president and becomes considerably more powerful.

* ColonyDrop: The upper plates of Midgar serve as expansions of the city itself, each supported by gigantic pillars, and Shinra drops the entire upper plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below in an effort to get rid of AVALANCHE. Cloud and company try to stop the Turks from following through the plan but fail.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Cait Sith sacrifices himself to let the heroes escape the Temple of the Ancients - [[DisneyDeath but because he's a remotely controlled robot, he comes right back not ten minutes later.]]]]

* RelationshipValues: Though most people either end up with Tifa or Aerith, it's possible to get either Barret or Yuffie to accompany Cloud on the Gold Saucer date.

%%* {{BFG}}:
%%** The aptly named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Big Cannon]] at Junon.

* BettyAndVeronica: Tifa and Aerith zig-zag between the two. Tifa is MsFanservice, but acts frequently between Type B {{Tsundere}} and a ShrinkingViolet. Aerith does not look as wild as she is, [[TheTease yet is very flirty with Cloud.]]

* ColonyDrop: Shinra drops the entire plate of Sector 7 onto the slums below to get rid of AVALANCHE.

** And if you think the English translation is bad, the Spanish translation is a Blind Idiot Translation of the English Blind Idiot Translation. Highlights include Aerith and Yuffie being referred to as men at times, Aerith's mother having two names, "techno" translated as a substantive rather than as a prefix/adjective, in a way that ''in every case'' it appears it sounds like they're talking about the musical genre (someone in Corel calls Barrett a "monstruo del tecno", which makes it sound like he's a really badass DJ), and "well" somehow being once translated as "rueda" ("Wheel"), among lots of other "marvels". A Spanish LetsPlay concluded Aerith was a hermaphrodite.

%%* BonusDungeon: The Sunken Gelnika and the Ancient Forest.

Squaresoft (now Square Enix) published ''Final Fantasy VII'' on Sony's [=PlayStation=] console after a falling-out with Nintendo over the latter's extreme censorship policies, as well as a reported refusal to move away from the industry-standard ROM cartridge for the Platform/Nintendo64, which severely limited the scope of games. Sony was more than willing to permit more "mature" content on its systems; coupled with the then-impressive storage capacity of the CD-ROM format, this proved to be much more accommodating to Square's design philosophy than Nintendo's restrictions. Squaresoft's change in platform allegiance is said to been a [[GameChanger major contribution]] to the [=PlayStation's=] massive success in the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars, with many developers [[FollowTheLeader following Square into Sony's camp]].

For nearly two decades, aside from the PC, this game, like all of Square's output in UsefulNotes/{{the fifth|GenerationOfConsoleVideoGames}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames sixth console generations]], [[NoPortForYou was only playable]] on the [=PlayStation=] line of consoles, whether it be through backwards compatibility (up until the [=PS3=]) or UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}}. This since has changed with Square Enix bringing the game to Steam in 2013, Platform/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} phones in 2015, and {{UsefulNotes/Android|Games}} phones in 2016. 2018 saw the announcement that ''VII'', alongside other [=PS1=] and [=PS2=]-era installments (''IX'', ''X/X-2 HD'', and ''XII: The Zodiac Age'') were at long last going to be released on a Creator/{{Nintendo}} platform through the Platform/NintendoSwitch, with the games being ported in 2019 to the Nintendo Switch and the UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

* SoleEntertainmentOption: Strangely it does not have this worldwide entertainment in the largest city, Midgar. Rather, they have an entire amusement park just outside one of the ''smallest'' cities in the game. And believe me, nothing spells entertainment better than trying to force Chocobos to go the way you want them to go.

* VillainousBreakdown: The ''entire goddamn Shinra company'' after Meteor is summoned. With a big-ass ColonyDrop in the sky barrelling down on them, panicked civilians running for the hills, a veritable QuirkyMiniBossSquad of giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s roaming the lands, and the [[MacGuffin "Promised Land"]] turning out to be fake, everyone at Shinra [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt knowing that the world was coming to an end]]. They try shooting 20 year-old derelict rockets at Meteor (which proves more dangerous than just letting it be). After Rufus is incapacitated, the other execs turn on each other and Reeve and Palmer get thrown under the bus. Hojo goes nuts and tries to beat Meteor to the punch by blowing up Midgar himself. And worst of all, the remaining execs try to kill the heroes ''while they race to stop Hojo from blowing up Midgar''. By the end of Disc Two, Shinra Inc. has effectively killed itself, with the party's role in its downfall being [[VillainsActHeroesReact nothing but the natural reaction to their self-inflicted deathblow]].

* VillainousBreakdown: The ''entire goddamn Shinra company'' after Meteor is summoned. With a big-ass ColonyDrop in the sky barrelling down on them, panicked civilians running for the hills, a veritable QuirkyMiniBossSquad of giant {{Eldritch Abomination}}s roaming the lands, and the [[MacGuffin "Promised Land"]] turning out to be fake, everyone at Shinra [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt knowing that the world was coming to an end]]. They start by trying to ''[[VillainBall execute the only people besides themselves who might have a chance at stop Meteor]]''. Then, they try shooting 20 year-old derelict rockets at Meteor (which proves more dangerous than just letting it be). After Rufus is incapacitated, the other execs turn on each other and Reeve and Palmer get thrown under the bus. Hojo goes nuts and tries to beat Meteor to the punch by blowing up Midgar himself. And worst of all, the remaining execs try to kill the heroes ''while they race to stop Hojo from blowing up Midgar''. By the end of Disc Two, Shinra Inc. has effectively killed itself, with the party's role in its downfall being [[VillainsActHeroesReact nothing but the natural reaction to their self-inflicted deathblow]].

* RefugeInAudacity: Nintendo of America's legendary censorship enforcement led to American releases of this series being much more G-rated. For North American fans that had played the earlier, {{Bowdlerized}} entries up to that point, it was quite a shock when 20 minutes into the game, you're a transvestite hooker who visits a {{gym|Bunny}}, whorehouse, bathroom, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking dress shop]] to get your clothing. Cid and Barret curse constantly (though the harshest of it was still censorsed). There's a GayOption on the one date. And [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Tifa calls Barret a retard]].

* TalkingInYourSleep: There's a guy in a cave past a river near Junon, seemingly sleeping endlessly. If you talk to him, he'll tell either tell you how many times you've battled, how many times you've escaped from battle, or mutter about how to get Master Materia from Huge Materia, all while apparently still sleeping. However, if the lastg two digits of battles match (i.e. 122, 355, etc.), then he will magically wake up and award the player either a Bolt Ring or a Mythril, depending on whether the digits are even or odd.

** Disc One, after Cloud is tricked into handing Sephiroth the Black Materia. Cloud realizes what he's done and suddenly flips his lid, giving Aerith a severe, misplaced beating.]

* NotMeThisTime: Sephiroth laughs at your party when you get attacked by a dragon in the temple of the ancients and think that he is responsible for it.

-->'''Barret''': That was for the life of the planet. Ya gotta expect a few casualties

* TheMole: Cait Sith is actually controlled by Reeve of Shinra, but still decides to remain with you once discovered. The trope is later inverted when he essentially becomes a spy for AVALANCHE within Shinra, despite starting the other way around, by feeding

** A non-plot related example, also due to translation issues: [[spoiler:"Beacause you're a puppet."]]