PlayStation Magazine - 05.2020

024 “SEPHIROTH HAS BECOME ICONIC BEYOND THE CONFINES OF THE PS1 GAME.” E x-SOLDIER 1st Class, Sephiroth is powerful and shares a ...

025 EOPLE SHINRA PRESIDENT SHINRA A s the leader of the Shinra Corporation’s that’s bleeding the planet dry of its Mako energy, ...

026 A bilities and magic are tied to a character’s equipment in Final Fantasy VII Remake, building on the system introduced by t ...

027 SHIVA T he original ice queen, she’s a mainstay of the series and can always be counted on to appear over the battlefield li ...

028 M idgar might not have been turned into an open world in Final Fantasy VII Remake, but that doesn’t mean the JRPG can’t have ...

029 “CHADLEY IS ABLE TO DEVELOP MATERIA.” N ew character Chadley, who you can find in the Sector 7 Slums, has a whole series of ...

030 PUMP SOME IRON Wall Market is an adult entertainment district, but people there have to work out too. In the original, Cloud ...

031 2 Sneaking into the Shinra building required a bit of stealth. Back on PS1 the idea of avoiding random encounters was novel, ...

032 CHAPTER 1 COMPARISON 2 This time the guards actually check the train and don’t just stand around waiting to get punched out ...

033 12 The explosion looked fiery on PS1, but in Remake you really get a sense of the destruction that happens from various angl ...

034 3 On the way to the next Mako reactor something goes wrong with the group’s security bypass, and the whole team must jump ou ...

035 8 Unfortunately you end up dumped in the sewers having to fight (no joke) ninja turtles, and this horny beast, Abzu, who mak ...

036 “A L L T H E FA N FAVOU R ITES RETURNED, LOOKING HOTTER THAN EVER.” N ot a fan of 2001’s early-era CG movie Final Fantasy: T ...

037 ONON TTHEHE WWAYAY TOTOTO AAA SSSMIMIMILELELE A dvent Children not enough for you? This collection of short stories by Kazus ...

038 T he PS1 game might have released in 1998, but could anyone be more 2006 than our goth king Vincent Valentine? What better w ...

039 “THIS IS THE GAME THAT REALLY DIGS INTO THE WUTAI/ SHINRA CONFLICT.” B efore Cloud, there was Zack Fair. Sure, his name migh ...

040 Matthew Egee Killing Demonwall the first time after watching my friend fail miserably at it on his own game the week prior. ...

041 TOUR GUIDES The devs’ favourite places in Remake’s Midgar – make sure you visit them! Naoki Hamaguchi CO-DIRECTOR I’d say fr ...

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