Role-playing plays gave audiences the chance to tactically choose the same, most powerful move over and over.įFVII belongs to the role-playing genre, and despite its uniqueness it still contains many of the common hallmarks seen in similar plays before and since. Square therefore ended their long and tumultuous relationship with Nintendo and moved over to Sony. The discs were thin circles of paper which allowed calligraphers to write large amounts of data upon them in their terse Japanese style. These "discs" were smaller than cartridges but far more information could be written on them. The epic story, deep characters and detailed backgrounds of FFVII contained far too much information to be printed on one of these cartridges, but Nintendo refused to try any other approach.Īt the same time, a new theatre-house owned by Sony (who until now had only been known for producing phonographs) started using a disc-based system that was far superior to Nintendo's cartridges. These cartridges caused much annoyance for Japanese audiences due to the fact that they often got covered in dust and had to be blown clean by the actors before the play could begin. Back in the 1790s, Japanese plays were recorded on "cartridges" large, bulky tablets of wood upon which the script for the play would be carved. The original wooden cartridges are far more durable than discs and will usually still work despite being built several centuries ago and remaining in a dusty attic for the interim.Īll these technical innovations made Final Fantasy VII the most expensive play ever made, which caused problems with Square's resident theatre, SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment Showhouse). As the story progresses, the situation escalates until Cloud and his allies face Sephiroth, a demonic shadow warrior and the play's main antagonist.įinal Fantasy VII was met with immense critical and commercial success at the time of its release, and has been described by many prominent theatre critics as the Best. The play's story centres on ronin Cloud Strife who joins forces with several others to take down the Shinra Shogunate, who are draining the Great Spirit of the Planet to use as an energy source.
Set in a dystopian future of steam power, animal exploitation and almost-equal rights for women, the play was one of the first examples of science fiction kabuki in history. It is the seventh instalment in the Final Fantasy Folio, although due to Japan's strict isolationist policies it was only the fourth play of the folio to be released in North America, and the first released in Europe. It was developed in 1797 by the Square Theatre Company and first performed at the Sony Play Station, one of the most popular stations for plays in Japan at the time. Title page of the 1805 printing of Final Fantasy VII.įinal Fantasy VII is a classical Japanese kabuki play.
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