Final Fantasy VII
It's from 1997, before you were born.
- Developer
- Square (Squaresoft)
- Genre
- Role-playing (JRPG)
- Debut platform
- PlayStation (1997)
- Director
- Yoshinori Kitase
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About
As of 2026, it's 29 years old.
Final Fantasy VII landed in 1997 and convinced millions of people that a sprawling, 40-hour Japanese role-playing game about a spiky-haired mercenary, an eco-terrorist cell, and a man with an absurdly large sword was exactly how they wanted to spend their year. It made the RPG mainstream in the West basically overnight.
Its emotional gut-punch of a mid-game moment is one of the most discussed scenes in gaming history, the kind of thing people still won't spoil out of respect.
Epic, ambitious, and genuinely moving, Final Fantasy VII is the game that taught a generation a video game could make you cry — and that the hero's sword can, in fact, be bigger than the hero.
