The original Final Fantasy 7 It might seem at first glance to be a simple, colorful game suitable for all ages, but the truth is that there are several scary sequencesmany of which are related to Sephiroth.
Specifically, according to one of the producers of the role-playing game, the scene linked to Jenova it is one of the most terrifying.
Comments from the producer of Final Fantasy 7
On Twitter, some Japanese developers shared the strangest moments experienced during video game development. Among the various stories is that of Takashi Tokita, a producer at Square Enix, who claims to have been scared on one occasion while working on Final Fantasy 7 for the original PlayStation.
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As translated by Automatonfrom Japanese to English, Tokita wrote: “When I was working on my PC during the development of Final Fantasy 7, suddenly the Jenova footage played on the PlayStation dev kit monitor and I almost had a heart attack.”
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In another comment, he confirmed that it is the scene that takes place in Nibelheim, the flashback during which Sephiroth meets his mother in the Nibel reactor. While it might not seem that scary nowadays, especially to a very young audience, the period and the technological context must be considered.
It was the beginning of the 3D era of video games and SquareSoft (it wasn’t Square Enix yet) was starting to experiment with this novelty: no one had ever seen 3D movies on a home console, so for the producer it was probably impressive also for this reason, as well as for the subject shown.
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