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Final Fantasy VII’s Music: A Clerith Tradition

With the announcement of Radiant Melodies, a new soundtrack coming early 2023, it seems like a great time to look at some of the previous Final Fantasy VII soundtracks. Radiant Melodies’ cover was revealed to feature Cloud and Aeris’s church reunion – which certainly illustrates how high Square holds this scene in regard, if it’s…
“Underneath the Rotting Pizza” – Cities in the Sky and a Desolate Earth Beneath

The cities of Final Fantasy VII operate somewhere within the aesthetic realm between cyberpunk and 80’s grunge. Sci-fi but not quite, we see a human population with flying airships but no successful human launch into space, chunky computers and PHS phones and a distinct lack of high-speed travel. While Final Fantasy VII: Remake injects a…
Romanticizing a Mental Health Crisis? Revisiting the Lifestream Sequence

The Lifestream sequence refers to an event late in Final Fantasy VII’s story that, after much disarray in Cloud Strife’s alleged background, serves to untaggle the truth of his past. Prior to this, Cloud leaves the party for the first time after he suffered a mental breakdown in Northern Crater and subsequently fell into the…