so i purchased the ultimania archive book (great book, i recommend)
link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-Ultimania-Archive-2/dp/1506706622
and there's a bunch of interesting stuff like, mako reactor first concept art is literaly a nuclear power plant, also it confirms once and for all the discussion about the translation and that aerith was zack girlfriend . There's kitase and toriyama story ideas for FFVII,
kitase wanted a story that you would play in the past with a father and in thefuture with the son where the past and the present choices you make affect the story of each other.
toriyama wanted a traditional story of chosen ones by the gods, where normal people doesnt know if the gods exists for real.
Also there's the famous snes pic of FF7. A different type of slums and in one early image you can read "america" , maybe a reference to FF7 to be set in US.
another interesting stuff is the unused content i never knew before like this monster:
its called the Onyx dragon.
description "It was to be used as a living weapon prototype for ultima weapon".
there's also 2 unused Limit break arts
one for barret thar paralyze the enemy foes called "Paralyzer"
one for aerith, that would boost attack called "maiden whisper"
another unused content is the art of 2 marlene's friends, and a different type of soldier design.
but the most interesting to me was this:
so what it changes?
There's 2 new areas:
- Museum
- Volcano Region (probably reduced to that map in the statues)
2 area changed
- thermal region to swamp
- glacier range to great glacier
a name change of elm to kalm
Maybe other people already knew that since the book isnt quite new in japanese (but its kinda new in english, released december last year). But i thought that to be very interesting and it would be cool if something of that could appear in the remake.
link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-Ultimania-Archive-2/dp/1506706622
and there's a bunch of interesting stuff like, mako reactor first concept art is literaly a nuclear power plant, also it confirms once and for all the discussion about the translation and that aerith was zack girlfriend . There's kitase and toriyama story ideas for FFVII,
kitase wanted a story that you would play in the past with a father and in thefuture with the son where the past and the present choices you make affect the story of each other.
toriyama wanted a traditional story of chosen ones by the gods, where normal people doesnt know if the gods exists for real.
Also there's the famous snes pic of FF7. A different type of slums and in one early image you can read "america" , maybe a reference to FF7 to be set in US.
another interesting stuff is the unused content i never knew before like this monster:
its called the Onyx dragon.
description "It was to be used as a living weapon prototype for ultima weapon".
there's also 2 unused Limit break arts
one for barret thar paralyze the enemy foes called "Paralyzer"
one for aerith, that would boost attack called "maiden whisper"
another unused content is the art of 2 marlene's friends, and a different type of soldier design.
but the most interesting to me was this:
so what it changes?
There's 2 new areas:
- Museum
- Volcano Region (probably reduced to that map in the statues)
2 area changed
- thermal region to swamp
- glacier range to great glacier
a name change of elm to kalm
Maybe other people already knew that since the book isnt quite new in japanese (but its kinda new in english, released december last year). But i thought that to be very interesting and it would be cool if something of that could appear in the remake.
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