was a role-playing video game developed by Applibot and Square Enix, who also publishes it for Android, iOS and Windows. It forms part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, a series of media spin-offs of the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII.
It is a mobile gacha game that reimagines the timeline of Final Fantasy VII and the Compilation. It launched on September 7, 2023 for Android and iOS, followed by Windows via Steam on December 7 of the same year.
Content Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis is a mobile game. Planned to be released in monthly episodic installments, the game retells events from the 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII, and all canon titles in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII media franchise, including the film Advent Children and the video games Before Crisis, Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. The game also features an original storyline set 15 years before Final Fantasy VII, focusing on Sephiroth's past and three new characters, Glenn, Matt, and Lucia. The game borrows several presentational elements from the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. Chapters can be freely selected from a timeline, allowing players to jump between different entries in the series. The battle system draws from the original game's Active Time Battle system. Character voices are only available in Japanese. The title is free to play, but offers loot boxes that include random selections of weapons and costumes.
Plot Final Fantasy VII
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier
For The First Soldier storyline adaptation, since the source game had no story mode content, two original story seasons and one time-limited story event were exclusively developed and released for Ever Crisis, focusing on the past of Sephiroth, 15 years before the events of Final Fantasy VII.
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier (Episode I) In 1992, three Shinra SOLDIER Class P0's - consisting of Glenn Lodbrok, Lucia Lin, and Matt Winsord - are sent to the Rhadore Archipelago to conduct a survey of regional mako levels in order to determine future potential mako reactor sites. After being shot down by enemy Rhadoran forces, the three meet a youth named Rosen, who tells them of his role as the "Eye of Rhadore", a lifelong duty that involves him living alone on his island to keep watch and warn his people of the risk of natural disasters known as mana torrents. Feeling sympathetic towards the loneliness of this role, Glenn and his team grow to care for Rosen's well-being, before being sent off to the main Rhadoran island.
After finding a suitable site for mako reactor construction, the three are attacked once again by Rhadoran forces, before being rescued by a young SOLDIER named Sephiroth, who assumes control of the mission. After some initial infighting, Sephiroth confides in Glenn's team about not wanting to be a hero, wanting to live a normal life, and that this assignment was his first field mission. Later, Sephiroth further shares a photograph of his mother - Lucrecia Crescent (who he only knows to be named Jenova).
Pushing further on, the team finds a cavernous Rhadoran stronghold and eradicate the forces within. After splitting up and reuniting; Glenn, Lucia, and Matt witness Sephiroth killing all the Rhadoran children and elderly, stating that his training taught him that it's "kill or be killed". Glenn sympathizes with Sephiroth's hardened experiences and tells him that he doesn't need to prove his strength to them, and that he is capable of compassion.
10 days later, while Shinra engineers prepare the site for reactor construction, the team worries for Rosen - still alone on his island, unaware that all his people were killed. Meanwhile, after unsuccessfully helping Sephiroth search for his mother's photograph - lost during the earlier Rhadoran conflicts - Glenn and his team experience tremors all over the island, caused by Shinra explosives placed for site preparation. The explosions cause a disastrous chain reaction and trigger a mana torrent, destroying the main island.
Worrying for Rosen; Glenn, Lucia, and Matt decide to abandon their mission and attempt to rescue him. Sephiroth, despite being warned away by Glenn, decides to join as well and proceeds ahead of them. As they witness the destruction caused by Shinra. Glenn, Lucia, and Matt, each have a change of heart in their role and all decide to cut ties with the company once they return. Catching up to Rosen, Glenn confesses in having a hand in killing the Rhadorans. Grief-stricken, Rosen flees back to his post. Sephiroth catches up first, and Glenn's team watch in shock from a distance as he kills Rosen. After fighting off a giant creature summoned by the planet, Glenn expresses his surprise and betrayal at Sephiroth's actions; then, seeing the photograph of Sephiroth's mother nearby, Glenn kicks it into a nearby chasm in anger. The four of them leave as the Rhadore Archipelago is completely engulfed by the mana torrent.
Eight years later, in Wutai, during the Shinra-Wutai war, Sephiroth meets with Glenn once again, the latter no longer affiliated with Shinra. After a brief skirmish, Glenn apologizes for his outburst years ago, while providing intel on an upcoming aerial assault on a nearby fort, giving Sephiroth an opportunity to heroically save a lot of lives. After fighting off a number of creatures, Wutai forces, and a massive behemoth, Sephiroth is hailed by fellow Shinra forces as a true hero to his people. Then, he suddenly flashes back to his years-earlier confrontation with Rosen, during which he recalls Rosen refusing to be saved, pleading for Sephiroth to kill him as a means of choosing who to save from the mana torrent: Glenn's team or Rosen. Glenn helplessly watches as Sephiroth makes his choice.
Sometime later, in an unknown space, Sephiroth somberly reflects on the events of his past.
Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier (Episode II) A few months after the failed Rhadore operation, in September of 1992, Sephiroth and SOLDIER Second Class Angeal Hewley are dispatched to the Igara Forbidden Zone in Robio, on the southern tip of the Wutai region. They are joined by Shinra journalist Russ Bachman, who films the mission as a way to promote Shinra propaganda via Sephiroth's poster heroics. As they proceed, Angeal tasks the team with rescuing members of a previous SOLDIER unit, three of whom are soon discovered dead. The last team member, Active-type SOLDIER Alissa Goldie, is found to be alive but injured. Upon encountering her, Sephiroth notices her resemblance to his mother, and acts both hesitant and protective towards her.
As the four continue to investigate, tensions arise between Sephiroth and Angeal; the former being stand-offish and prioritizing the mission, the latter focusing on the safety of the group and looking for opportunities to bond. Further into the region, they are stalked and repeatedly attacked by a demonic swordsmith named Masamune, the namesake of his prized blade. Upon their encounter, Sephiroth begins to single-mindedly covet this weapon, much to Angeal's dismay.
Alissa explains that the Igara Forbidden Zone was named so by the Ancients for 2 key destructive events. The first event occurred over 1000 years earlier, and involved a rampaging entity that took 5 great heroes - led by Da Chao - to defeat it via fire magic that uncontrollably grew until it caused a forced evacuation. These fires raged on for three years, killing many, while the surviving population founded a nation to the north of the continent, Wutai. The second incident concerned an attempt to repopulate the area some 500 years later. At this time the local swordsmith, Masamune, felt an urge to produce a weapon of extraordinary power. Upon its completion, the local settlers began to covet the blade. They fought one another over its intended possession, and attempted to steal it for themselves. This population eventually was wiped out via Masamune's own power and madness, and the village was razed to the ground. The truth of the events were covered-up and kept hidden. Seals were placed around the area to prevent Masamune's escape, and he had survived the centuries. Angeal's team witness flashes of the latter incident via spiritual motes of light around the land, which Alissa states as the reason she has this knowledge.
As the group rests, Bachman periodically recounts the journey up that point, Sephiroth seemingly has dreams of wishful interactions with his mother , and Angeal has recollections of his time at his hometown - in particular, his parents.
Journeying further, they come across a cavernous stone temple, wherein Bachman starts to experience the knowledge fed to him by the light motes. He and Alissa deduce them to be spiritual manifestations from the land itself. They find statues - placed by each of the five Ancient heroes - each with a seal, collectively containing the power of the Masamune blade. Sephiroth and the group perceive this series of challenges as a set of trials to determine his worthiness to wield the Masamune. Alissa and Bachman grow to simply accept the spiritual influence and encourage Sephiroth in his pursuit for the weapon, while Angeal grows more skeptical and rejecting, leading to further tensions between him and Sephiroth. After opening all seals, the group uncover a passageway leading to a chamber where the swordsmith Muramasa's demonic spirit challenges Sephiroth one final time. Defeating him, Sephiroth attempts to claim the blade, only for it to fade away, suggesting further trials ahead of him.
As the four of them rest, Angeal comes to realize the memories he's been having recently are falsely modified representations of his past, sometimes presenting him with scenarios he would idealize, and others that singularly shame him. In his determination, he notes the inconsistency between these manifestations against what he knows of his family, and is able to wake himself up from whatever delusional states the spirits place him in.
Soon, the group hear the voice of Glenn Lodbrok, calling out to Sephiroth, apologizing to him for throwing the bracelet, and claiming to be searching for Rosen. This shakes Sephiroth, leading him to reveal the truth behind the previous Rhadoran operation's failure, his deep attachment to Glenn and his team, and his killing of Rosen. Sephiroth also begins to have further recollections of his time on Rhadore , during which Glenn's team note Sephiroth's similarity to Rosen, and anticipate their meeting. Further recollections reveal that the reason he desires the Masamune blade was to honor a desire of Glenn's: that Sephiroth obtain a weapon truly worthy of the hero he's meant to be. Confiding these points to others causes Sephiroth to become slightly more open to making new connections.