The Legend of Final Fantasy VII

by Mehdi El Kanafi, Nicolas Courcier

Overview

What gamer hasn't tried Final Fantasy VII? The game, released in 1997, is now the standard-bearer of a whole generation, and it's also the one which catapulted Sony's PlayStation onto center stage. To celebrate this mythic video game's 15th anniversary, Third Editions wanted to throw itself back into this unbelievable universe. This carefully crafted publication takes a look back at all the titles that helped forge Final Fantasy VII's mythology (including the Compilation of FF VII), and deciphers their content through examination and original analysis. This book was written by Nicolas Courcier and Mehdi El Kanafi, former authors and now publishers. The first print was release in 2011.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791094723555
Publisher:	Third Editions
Publication date:	02/01/2018
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Fascinated by print media since childhood, Mehdi El Kanafi, alongside Nicolas Courcier, wasted no time in launching his first magazine, Console Syndrome, in 2004. After five issues with a distribution limited to Toulouse, France, he and Nicolas Courcier decided to create a publishing house under the same name. One year later, their small business was acquired by Pix'n Love, a major publisher of books on video games. Over the next four years in the world of publishing, Mehdi published more than twenty works on major video game series, and co-wrote several of those works: Zelda. Chronicles of a Legendary Series, Metal Gear Solid: Hideo Kojima's Magnum Opus, and The Legend of Final Fantasy VII and IX Since 2015, his publishing endeavors have been focused on analyzing major video game sagas through a new publishing house he co-founded with Nicolas: Third.

A fan of print media since childhood, Nicolas Courcier launched his first magazine, with Mehdi El Kanafi, in 2004. The magazine's name was Console Syndrome. After five issues with a circulation limited to Toulouse, France, he and Mehdi decided to create a publishing house under the same name. One year later, their small business was acquired by Pix'n Love, a major publisher of books on video games. During the following four years in the world of publishing, Nicolas published more than twenty works on major video game series, some of which he co-wrote: Zelda. Chronicles of a Legendary Series, Metal Gear Solid: Hideo Kojima's Magnum Opus, and The Legend of Final Fantasy VII and IX Since 2015, his focus has been on analyzing major video game sagas through a new publishing house he co-founded with Mehdi: Third.

Table of Contents

Preface 007

Foreword 011

Chapter I Universe 015

Chapter II Final Fantasy VII 071

Chapter III The Secrets of Final Fantasy VII 093

Chapter IV Advent Children 113

Chapter V Before Crisis 129

Chapter VI Dirge of Cerberus 135

Chapter VII Crisis Core 143

Chapter VIII Spin-Offs 155

Chapter IX Tetsuya Nomura 161

Chapter X Themes 167

Conclusion - The Question of a Remake 193

Bibliography 197

Acknowledgments 199