Final Fantasy VII - Restart

That's right, I've restarted FFVII too.

One of the best games ever created for use on a Sony console is also one of the biggest time consumers. You just don't realise how long you play for, and as a game originally on three discs it is exceptional in its longevity.

Poor Cloud. All he wants to do is to make a bit of quick cash and he gets his band of freedom fighting mercs all attached to him. Barret, Biggs, Wedge and Jesse of Avalanche just wont let him keep to his own devices, they jabber away about how he has to help them save the planet. You might think that he's hard enough to deal with this - being a former member of the elite fighters known as SOLDIER, but then they have their secret weapon - his childhood friend (and potential sweetheart) Tifa Lockheart. Such emotional ties aren't good for business ;)

So, Cloud is busy trying to prove that he's not the bleeding heart they all seem to want him to be, but then he gets separated from the group, and falls through the roof of a particularly flimsy church, landing on some particularly resilient flowers.
This would be the part in the story where you say, well if Tifa's not the love interest he's very lucky and may be able to become the badass he wants to be. Of course, he's landed at the feet of a girl. A pretty little young thing named Aeris (or Aerith - but then who is Cloud to judge about names and identities? More on that later!) who has, shall we say issues. The most immediate of which is that she is being hunted by the Turks (not the whole nation from Earth, a group of dirty deed do-ers, Mafia style if you will).

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More as the story unfolds on the playstation, as its been a while ;)