PlayStation Magazine - 05.2020

004 emaking a game with a cult following is a tricky undertaking. Remaking the one that popularised RPGs outside Japan and is st ...

005 INTERVIEW ...

006 Above Naoki Hamaguchi was inspired to design games after playing FFVI. Right Kazushige Nojima has been a writer on many Fina ...

007 with the right rhythm of the story, and the transitions and obviously how the battles would fit in, how the character growth ...

008 T he series might be called Final Fantasy, but its seventh story has almost become more myth than fantasy, a legend passed o ...

009 T he game’s focus might be on one city, Midgar, but it’s filled with variety and new things to discover as the story draws y ...

010 “WE’VE TRIED TO COME UP WITH A COMPLETELY NEW BATTLE SYSTEM.” BEHIND THE SCENES G one are the random encounters and turn- ba ...

011 “THE MUSIC CHANGES AS YOU EXPLORE, BECOMING MORE URGENT WHEN YOU FIGHT.” T his is the first Final Fantasy game to be made in ...

012 AAAEAAEREEERRRRIIIIITTTTTHHHHH’’SSSSS HHHHHOOOOOUUUUUSSSSSEEEEE L ocated in Sector 5’s slums beneath Midgar’s plates, Aerith ...

013 AAABAABABBBAAAANNNDNNDDDDOOOOONNNNNEEEEEDDDDD CCCCCHHHHHUUUUURRRCRRCCCCHHHHH T his is one of the places where Aerith picks t ...

014 Y ou know someone means business when they’ve got a sword bigger than they are strapped to their back. Cloud introduces hims ...

015 “GOING ROGUE HAS PUT A SHINRA- SHAPED TARGET ON HIS BACK.” PART Y PEOPLE ...

016 “AS THE LEADER OF AVALANCHE, BARRET TAKES HIS DUTIES SERIOUSLY.” PART Y PEOPLE ...

017 Putting the ‘warrior’ into eco-warrior, Barret’s able to see what harm Shinra is doing to the planet. W ith a gun for an arm ...

018 Despite being young, Tifa’s very much AVALANCHE’s mother figure. H aving grown up with Cloud in Nibelheim, Tifa’s the person ...

019 “SHE CAN MORE THAN HOLD HER OWN IN A FIGHT.” PART Y PEOPLE ...

020 “SHE WON’T LET OTHERS TELL HER WHAT TO DO, AND WON’T BACK DOWN.” PART Y PEOPLE ...

021 T here’s more to Midgar’s sweet flower seller than first meets the eye. She bumps into Cloud just after his first mission an ...

022 “HE’S AN HONOURABLE WARRIOR, AND JOINS THE PARTY AFTER THEY FREE HIM.” T his fierce, wolf-like creature was experimented on ...

023 AVA L A NCH E JESSIE S he’s the brains behind AVALANCHE, able not only to construct the bombs the team use to destroy Mako r ...