These are some initial impressions of the PSP iteration of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.  They include spoiler-free details on the first couple hours of the game from the vantage point of someone having just picked up the localized…

I didn’t make it to the Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII launch party, but Siliconera reader, RagolSlayer did. For everyone who wasn’t at the Metreon, RagolSlayer did us a huge favor by taking pictures of the party and writing up…

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII comes to North America tomorrow with an added feature, hard mode. No multiplayer, but at one point Hajime Tabata, the director of Crisis Core, was considering it. On the newly opened Square Enix members site there…

If you’re in San Francisco and a Final Fantasy fan, get out your planner. Square Enix is having a Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII launch event on March 25 at the PlayStation Store in the Metreon. The party will run…

And by English I mean British (PAL) version of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. In the press release announcing the limited edition version of Crisis Core for Europe it also mentions “additional gameplay challenges not included in the original Japanese…

Square-Enix recently unveiled a massive collection of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core screenshots from the localized version.  The count is over 90 of them, and many of them showcase the gameplay, so there is plenty enough for everyone to get…

While we’re on the subject of languages, did you know the “Asian” versions of PSP/PlayStation 2/PS3 RPGs are typically in Japanese? This fact is probably commonly known within the savvy Siliconera audience, but it’s still a nuisance if you live…

Thanks to the vigilant CAG community and a Square-Enix press release you probably already know about the pre-order bonus for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. We don’t get the headphones gamers in Japan received. Instead North American gamers get a UMD case…

That’s the consensus from the supporting cast of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Cloud looks up to him and Aeris adores him. Square-Enix even makes him loveable to the audience. Unlike the mentally mixed up Cloud, Zack has a clear…

While I failed the mission of securing a Crisis Core Slim PSP bundle I did pick up a copy of the game. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII begins with a dramatic train sequence. Zack runs on top train cars and slices…

Square-Enix is not taking any chances with Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Billboard sized ads are outside when you wait for a train and when you get on the train a silent LCD screen rotates through a Crisis Core ad.…

Since Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is about to dawn on Japan Square-Enix has been promoting it with two different TV ads. This one is the extended cut, which has a smidge of battle footage in between cutscenes.    …