

I called EVERYWHERE I could think of looking desperately for a copy. :-( I was working at Best Buy at the time. It inspired my career choice and is still, to this day, the art piece of the medium that resonated the most with me, and against which I measure every other game and fictional world. This game cemented my love for digital story telling. I had no access to anime or teen/adult animation at the time, so seeing a glimpse of that kind of story telling was revolutionary for me. The cinematically alone were incredibly enticing to me. I got the game as a Christmas present and devoured it in two or three days. I KNEW I would love the game just by seeing her dressed in those strange, signed garments (empire or Kremen, cannot remember it’s been 23 years), not to mention her enigmatic black and white look (cyborg or tight fitting suit?), and the smooth, strange wall patterns behind her. But it sold me on the artworks of Azel alone.
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A full length RPG with a complex, rich story. I thought it had lost the war and would disappear in a whimper Then came Saga.

Final Fantasy VII arrived on PlayStation and seemed to be (for me, at the time), the nail on the coffin of my beloved Saturn. I had loved the Panzer Dragoon (1 and Zwei) game demos on the Sega demo cds… fell in love with the world and design rather than the gameplay.
