This is not helped by the poor translation, whose errors range from horrific spelling/grammar errors ('This guy are sick') to outright misinformation ('Attack while the tail is up'). Squaresoft's change in platform allegiance is said to been a major contribution to the PlayStation's massive success in the Console Wars, with many developers following Square into Sony's camp.įew people completely grasp the plot during the first playthrough even for a RPG, this game can get extremely complicated.
Sony was more than willing to permit more 'mature' content on its systems coupled with the then-impressive storage capacity of the CD-ROM format, this proved to be much more accommodating to Square's design philosophy than Nintendo's restrictions. Squaresoft (now Square Enix) published Final Fantasy VII on Sony's PlayStation console after a falling-out with Nintendo over the latter's extreme censorship policies (as well as a reported refusal to move away from the industry-standard ROM cartridge, which severely limited the scope of a game).
