Final Fantasy 7 On NES Didn't Make It Much Further Than FF7 Remake
The Final Fantasy 7 Remake series’ first entry focused on the Midgar arc of the original, but the NES Final Fantasy 7 made it to the end of the story, albeit with a lot of content removed and altered. Many popular games receive fan-made “de-makes,” where the experience is replicated as if the game was made for prior generation hardware. The NES Final Fantasy 7 was among the first widely known de-makes and draws comparisons to FF7 Remake in a number of ways.
This Chinese fangame reused assets from the original three NES Final Fantasy titles to create an 8-bit version of the PlayStation classic. English-language gamers have been able to experience this strange project for some time thanks to a translation patch, but the more recent “Advent Children Edition” patch provides a somewhat better version of the worst way to experience Final Fantasy 7. This NES FF7 technically makes it all the way to the final confrontation with Sephiroth, and even contains a less ambiguous ending than the original. To do so, the de-make cuts large sections of the story entirely, and hand waves away others, essentially jumping from the end of disc one of the original FF7 to the game's final boss.
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Some gamers complain that the recently released Final Fantasy spinoff game Stranger Of Paradise and FF7R share a flaw, in that both are alternate retellings of classic games that still require experience with the original to fully understand them. Stranger of Paradise revisits the story of the original 8-bit Final Fantasy, adding new and unexpected twists like FF7 Remake did forFinal Fantasy 7. Unlike those official titles, the NES version of FF7 largely remains close to the original game’s
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