Final Fantasy VII Remake

Final Fantasy VII Remake
Cover art, featuring the game's protagonist Cloud Strife
Developer(s)	Square Enix Business Division 1
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Director(s)	Tetsuya Nomura Naoki Hamaguchi Motomu Toriyama
Producer(s)	Yoshinori Kitase
Designer(s)	Naoki Hamaguchi Teruki Endo
Programmer(s)	Naoki Hamaguchi Daiki Hoshina Satoru Koyama
Artist(s)	Shintaro Takai Roberto Ferrari
Writer(s)	Kazushige Nojima Motomu Toriyama
Composer(s)	Masashi Hamauzu Mitsuto Suzuki[a]
Series	Final Fantasy
Engine	Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4 Intergrade PlayStation 5 Windows Nintendo Switch 2
Release	PlayStation 4 April 10, 2020 Intergrade PlayStation 5 June 10, 2021 Windows December 16, 2021 Nintendo Switch 2 TBA
Genre(s)	Action role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Final Fantasy VII Remake^[b] is a 2020 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 4. It is the first in a planned trilogy of games remaking Square's Final Fantasy VII (1997), originally released for the PlayStation. An enhanced version, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade,^[c] was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows in 2021, and will be released for the Nintendo Switch 2.

Set in the dystopian cyberpunk metropolis of Midgar, players control the mercenary Cloud Strife. He joins AVALANCHE, an eco-terrorist group trying to stop the powerful megacorporation Shinra from using the planet's life essence as an energy source. The gameplay combines real-time action with role-playing elements, a overhaul from the original turn-based combat.

Final Fantasy VII Remake was announced in 2015 following years of speculation. Several key staff members from the original game returned, including Tetsuya Nomura as the director, Yoshinori Kitase as the producer, Kazushige Nojima as the writer, Motomu Toriyama as a co-director, and the composer Nobuo Uematsu. The staff redesigned the characters to balance realism and stylization.

Final Fantasy VII Remake received positive reviews, with praise for its graphics, gameplay, narrative, and music. Critics praised the expanded story and the updated battle system for its strategic elements and visual flourishes, but the linearity and repetitive side-quests received criticism. The game was one of the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 games, selling more than 3.5 million copies in three days and more than 7 million by September 2023. The second game in the remake trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, was released in 2024.
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