abstract
| - Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII is an entry in the orgasm-inducingly popular Final Fantasy series, and a prequel to the most well-known entry in the series, Final Fantasy VII. It is part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Before Crisis follows the Turks, who in this game are a larger and more competent organization compared to the Goldfish Poop Gang the players are likely to remember from Final Fantasy VII, and are commanded by a different leader, Veld. The Turks battle the forces of AVALANCHE, the anti-Shinra resistance group led by the young swordswoman Elfé. Contrary to the group of the same name led by Barret years later, this incarnation of AVALANCHE is larger, more violent, more organized, and pose a larger threat to the company. Eventually the Turks find out the AVALANCHE scientist Fuhito is seeking the broken shards of a Summon Materia that calls the ultimate monster Zirconiade, "The One Who Will Burn The World", to do exactly that. The game functions as an RPG but with a simpler system. Materia returned but with a slightly different function, and players could level up and equip armor. Completing certain episodes increased their Turk rank which gave access to stronger equipment and Materia. Before Crisis is currently a Japan-only release, being released in episodic format on mobile phones. Square-Enix announced plans to release an English version of the game back in 2006, but the project has seemed to have died and no further mentions of it have been made aside from whispers of a PSP version. Thus, Before Crisis remains the only Final Fantasy VII spin-off to not see an English localization.
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