Final Fantasy 7 Team Shares Heartfelt Message On 25th Anniversary

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Today, January 31, 2022, marks 25 years since the launch of the original Final Fantasy 7. To celebrate the occasion, Square Enix is holding a celebration featuring special guests and focusing on FF7 mobile game, The First Soldier. The stream will likely include news on season two of the game. Some will be hoping for information on FF7 Remake Part 2, but since The First Soldier will be the focus, it's probably best to keep your expectations low.

Directors of the original game Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura will both be present for the celebration. Both have also shared emotional messages about the original FF7 and everything that has been spun from it, particularly in recent years. From Remake to First Soldier, to Ever Crisis which will arrive on mobile later this year should everything go to plan.

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“I had always thought of Final Fantasy 7 as a recent game, but it has actually now become one of the games from the ‘early series',” Kitase writes. FF7 launched ten years after the first Final Fantasy game, so very early in the grand scheme of things considering all the games that have come since. It does make sense that it feels newer though as FF7 was such a success, it has never really faded from people's memories, even before Remake, and despite more and more Final Fantasy games being added to the series.

Kitase also revealed the original FF7 was recently voted the third-best game of all time in a Japanese TV poll. Nomura's comments focused more on FF7's future as opposed to its past. “There will be even more new Final Fantasy 7 projects that started up after the remake coming in the future too. The team see this 25th anniversary as a waypoint on our