So I was wondering to all the people who've played this game... what's it like?    I just saw an epic battle scene with Genesis and Sephiroth.
I was blown away...

I really want to play this game now simply because I love the style that they choose for the VII series.  It's futuristic with swords... that's just brutal.  Also, VII hasn't died yet, and I'd love to see a remake, but I am so very curious about Zack's story before the events of VII.  If anyone's played it, let me know and tell me what it's like and how awesome it is...cause I want a PSP..

bakusan have you seriously been playing the japanese version?

also, i'm lightweight astounded at how good they made it look, given that it's on the psp.  it also sounds like it's easily the least hackneyed, transparent attempt at fanservice of all the ff7 spin-offs (although i don't know a whole lot about dirge of cerberus or whatever, so maybe it's not horrible either), but i'm still not especially hopeful; like marcus said, being on top of a giant pile of shit is nothing to brag about.

i'll GIVE IT A GO, but only because i can download it in like twenty minutes, because i would never pay just to satisfy the vague curiosity i have as to whether it'll be godawful or just mediocre.

jesus christ CELL PHONES.  i forgot about that shit.

i really, really hoped it would just be, "here's a little background on ff7," and nothing more, with no gay advent childrenesque bells and whistles.  i mean, it's been a while since i played it (a long while), but ff7 had a pretty heavy amount of backstory and significant events/characters that took place/existed before the game even began, so this is arguably the MOST justifiable spin-off yet.  you can always try to say, "hey, characters like vincent and reno needed flushing out," but that can be argued of a lot of supporting characters in most games, and advent children was just a wholly unnecessary and mostly incomprehensible excuse to have cloud and sephiroth fly around and backflip between motorcycles in amazing cg visuals, but i had hopes that this would at least just be them legitimately trying to set the tone for the original game, and not another attempt at making some money.

i didn't have anything resembling high hopes, but i really thought it might not be that rabidly gratuitous in its execution.  the premise, at least, seemed like it could be legit, so for a while i thought they maybe just wanted to make a decent prequel to a game that could actually have sort of used one.  guess i was wrong!

Essentially, if you thought advent children was ok, but would like a little more storytelling, and some equally as cool cut-scenes, coupled with some fairly decent gameplay, I'd pick it up.

If you're expecting another FF7, you might be waiting a while.

I'll give you a kitten if you send me your copy of FFVII or VIII.
Our copy of VII got stolen, and our copy of VIII is overplayed,
so it freezes at the Shumi Village entrance.

You play as Zack right... in the end he dies (sob)
but are there any new characters?

Essentially, if you thought advent children was ok, but would like a little more storytelling, and some equally as cool cut-scenes, coupled with some fairly decent gameplay, I'd pick it up.

If you're expecting another FF7, you might be waiting a while.

hey darkjak, welcome back!