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Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core
Written by PiotrRasputin   
Sunday, 27 April 2008
thumb_crisis_core_-final_fantasy_viiFew games have been able to captivate audiences for so long. Final fantasy 7 is one of those games. This game has already spawned 2 cell phone games, FF7: Before Crisis(not yet released in America) and Dirge of Cerberus: Lost episode, a movie, Advent Children, a spin-off game, Dirge of Cerberus, an OVA, Last Order, and even a supposed remake of the game that started it all. . Now, fans get to play Zack Fair's part of the story. This is the Crisis Core. Crisis Core takes place 7 years before the start of Final Fantasy 7. Zack Fair is a 3rd class SOLIDER. For reference's sake, Sephiroth is a 1st class SOLIDER. He is dropped onto a train and brought into a station at a Mako Reactor. This begins the simple tutorial that seems to start almost every single game. After some running around and battling, you find out that Zack was in a virtual reality. His role model, Angeal, a 1st class SOLIDER, saves him from the enemies in the virtual reality. For some reason, the virtual reality in Shinra is really advance and you can actually get severely wounded. The story evolves with all sorts of characters from the original game appearing throughout the storyline. I really don't want to reveal too much, it is just so good!  Read More if you must!
Anyway, this game is excellent. The battle system is completely different from the other games. This is all real-time. You are given a basic Attack command, 6 materia slots, and an Item section. To move around that menu, you use the shoulder buttons. A lot of the spells from CC's predecessors make appearances, too. The base spells, fire, blizzard, thunder, and cure, are there, but other spells like Wall(Increase Physical and Magical defense), Drain, Osmose(Drain MP), and Ultima(THE strongest spell), among other appear. The strengths of the spells are still determined by the suffixes, -ara and -aga. Normally spelled, the spell is at its first level. -Ara means that it is stronger than level 1, and -aga means that itthumb_final-fantasy-vii-crisis-core is stronger than level 1 and level 2. New types of spells also come into play. For example, Hell Thundaga preforms the move Thundaga while creating a status effect for the enemy. There are also abilities in the form of materia, such as Assault twister(Spin move for 2 hits, can get a status effect added later), Jump(High Jump is the next level, and it also comes with status effects), and various elemental attacks. There are also some stat boosting materia.
Now for the fun part, the Digital Mind Wave! The Digital Mind Wave, or DMW, is the main component of the battle system. The DMW is essential a 6 reel slot machine. 3 reels are numbers, 1 to 9, and the other 3 are characters. In order to explain this, I will name the number reels 1n, 2n, 3n, and name the characters reels 1c, 2c, 3c.These reels are read from left to right as they would be on the screen. Certain things happen when you get combinations of numbers in the number reels. For example, 777 in the slot machine gets you invincibility. However, after getting the same characters in 1c and 3c, it becomes a “Modulating Phase”. The Modulating Phase is when your limit breaks, summons, and leveling occur. This reel still has the number reels but here, 777 lets Zack level up. Pairs or trios of numbers in the other reels leads to the leveling of your materia.
There is way too much to say about this game. I highly recommend this game to anyone, fan or not. There are so many twists and turns in this game that the storyline becomes hard to follow. The game does have a few short-comings, like the way to level up. It is not random but there is a hidden exp counter that increases the likelihood of getting the 777 in the Modulating Phase. I give this game a 4.5 out of 5.
 
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