When Final Fantasy VII entered development, it represented the biggest technological leap for the series to date. The PlayStation offered Squaresoft the technol🃏ogy to make a game th🧔at used 3D graphics, as well as the inclusion of FMVs and high-quality audio due to the CD-ROMs that the games would use.
The move away from Nintendo and their strict content policies also allowed Square to tell more adult stories than what they had been allowed to tell in the past. The time had come for Final Fantasy to include more violence, as wꦉell as conte🌜nt relating to human orientatoin.
The developers of Final Fantasy VII knew that they had something special when the game entered pre-production, which is why edits were being made all through the development process. Ideas were pitched and then thrown out when it was decꦏided that they didn't gel with the world of the game.
There were some amazing and peculiar ideas for Final Fantasy VII that were removed during the scripting stage of the game. There were also some ideas that entered p🀅roduction and had to be removed at a later date, which wasn't discovered 💮until the players went digging through the files of the game.
We are here today to reveal the awesome ideas that never made it into Final Fantasy VII - from the early appearance of a prominent villain from Final Fantasy VIII, to the secrets of one of the dirtiest places in the Final Fantasy series.
Here are Twenty Amazing Things Deleted From Final Fantasy VII (That Would Have Changed Everything)
20 Edea Was Going To Be In The Game 🐼
The Final Fantasy games have included subtle references to future titles that are in development. There have even been instances when ideas from one game will be 𓃲moved from one ti🌟tle to another.
Edea from Final Fantasy VIII is one such character that switched p﷽rojects. Tetsuya Nomura had designed a ꦐcharacter known as " to appear in the game, who would likely have been involved with Jenova.
The early idea for Jenova was that it was the name for a part of the brain that could only be accessed by certain people. Once active, the Jenova power would grant the user special abilities. When Jenova was turned into an alien being, the idea for the Witch was scrapped. Nomura liked the design so much that he reworked her into Edea in Final Fantasy VIII.
19 There Was A Materia That Made Fun Of Lawyers ♏
It seems that some of the staff at Squaresoft had an issue with lawyers, as there is a hidden piece of materia within the files of Final Fantasy VII that exists just to make fun of them.
There is an unused materia in Final Fantasy VII , which roughly translates to "Law". This materiaꦿ taught the ඣuser the Gil Toss command, which allowed the character to throw a selected amount of money at the enemy in order to deal damage.
The idea behind this materia is that hiring lawyers is the same as throwing away your money. It's unknown why it was added into Final Fantasy VII or why it was removed.
18 Cloud Wasn't The Original Protagonist 🤪 🍷
The original plot of Final Fantasy VII wasꦆ very different than what appeared in the game.
The original script for Final Fantasy VII w𒁏as a crime story, starring a character named Detective Joe. The game would be set in New York City, with Joe hot on the trail of the group who had destroyed the city of Midgar.
A detective character would later star in Final Fantasy VII Lateral Biography Turks -The Kids Are Alright- which is a spinoff novel that is set before the events of Advent Children. The protagonist of The Kids Are Alright is a detective named Evan Townshend, who is sent o🌊n the trail of a member of SOLDIER who went missing before Midgar was struck by Meteor.
17 🅺 There Were Different Pl🍸ans For The Ancient Forest
The Ancient Forest is one of the most peculiar locations in Final Fantasy VII. You c𝓀annot access the Ancient Forest without either defeating Ultimate Weapon or breeding a green/black/gold chocobo. Once you have found the Ancient Forest, you are treated to an area filled with bizarre puzzles that are poorly explained by the gaꦚme.
There is cut dialogue in Final Fantasy VII that suggest that the Ancient Forest was going to be part of the and not an optional area. There is an unused cave entrance in Corel Valley which many have speculated would lead to the Ancient Forest, as well a♑s unused dialogue in Bone Village which explains how the puzzles work.
It's likely that the player was meant to travel to the Ancient Forest before reaching the Foౠrgotten Capital, but it wa🍒s turned into an optional area at some point in development.
16 ♔ The Ability To Dual-Cast Spells Was Going To Be A Status Effect
Magic spells have appeared in every Final Fantasy game. This started out as using the Vancian magic from Dungeons & Dragons in the original Final Fantasy, before switching to a magic point system in late🍷r g🐈ames.
It's possible for certain characters to be able to cast more than one spell per turn, such as by using the Double or Triple spells in Final Fantasy VIII.
It appears that Final Fantasy VII may have been planning to include its own version of the Double spell, 🔯as there is an unused status effect which fans have speculated would allow a character to cast two spells at once.
The ability to cast ಞtwo spells was given to the W-Magic materia.
15 ﷽ There Was A Quest Where You Travel The World & De☂liver Letters
There are several items within the files of Final Fantasy VII that cannot be accessed by the player. These include the Letter to a Daughter and the Letter to a Wife, which were intended to be given to the player by in Gongaga so that th𒐪ey could be delivered to his family in 🔴Kalm.
The traveling salesman was intend🏅ed to inform the player about the existence of the Titan materia which can be found near the Gongaga reactor, but the developers ran out of time and were forced to cut him from the game.
14 Cloud's Mission Would🙈 Have ꦐBeen Revealed Much Earlier
The first time that Sephiroth is mentioned in Final Fantasy VII is during the flashꦅback sequence at the start of the game. We see a young Cloud tell a young Tifa that he wants to join S🐻OLDIER and be like Sephiroth.
Cloud doesn't re🅘veal the details of what happened with Sephiroth at Nibelheim until after the party leaves Midgar.
The scene where the members of AVALANCHE returned to the Seventh Heaven bar after their first mission was originally going to include between Cloud and Tifa that reveal⛦ed a lot more about the plot.
Cloud was originally going to mention that he was hunting Sephiroth and wanted revenge fꦐor what happened to the people of Nibelheim.
13 There Was An Opposite To The Regen Status ♉
The Regen status effect (short for regeneration) has appeared in many different Final Fantasy titles. When a charact⛄er is under the effects of Regen, they gain some of their hit points back every turn.
An opposite version of Regen was programmed into Final Fantasy VII but it goes unused. Tღhis status effect was and it would drain a character's hit points over tim🐼e.
It's possible that this status effect was cut due to how Poison acts in a similar manner and there wasn't a need ﷽for two hit𝓰 point draining effects.
12 The Explanation For What The Summoned Mons💙ters Are
The ability to summon monsters into battle using magic debuted in Final Fantasy III and has been a recurring element of the series ever since. There are some Final Fantasy games where the summonable monsters are important to the plot, while in other♔s they are🧜 just another combat ability.
The reason why summon materia exists in the world of Final Fantasy VII is never explained. There is from Se𒉰phiroth during the Temple of the Ancients dungeon that would have explained what they are.
The summon monsters in Final Fantasy VII were creatures that had absorbed Mako, which allowed them to seal t༒heir consciousness within a piece of materia, allowing their power to live on in the world, so that they can be called on to defend the Lifestream from harm.
11 The Fate Of Bu🥀genhagen Was Meant To Be Ambiguous
Bugenhagen is one of the few characters in the world of Final Fantasy VII who is aware of the destruction that the Mako Reactors were causing and how the p✅lanet would eventually be consumed. He is one of the staun🅠chest allies of AVALANCHE and does his best to help the group to stop the Shinra Corporation, as well as Sephiroth.
Bugenhagen passes away of old age near the end of Final Fantasy VII. The scene where he passed away was originally going to be as to 𝔍his fate, with Bugenhagen telling the group not to worry about him, as he was going to be watching over the future ꦐof the world.