

“ the first plot treatment that Sakaguchi-san wrote, it took place in New York, there was an organization there that was trying to destroy the Mako Reactors and a character named Detective Joe was investigating them. Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy 7’s character and battle visual director, recalled the scenario in Polygon’s oral history.

This early outline is still recognisable as Final Fantasy 7, but is framed as a detective story. While development on the Super Famicom version of Final Fantasy 7 was cut short, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi had already written a scenario for the game. Play The Original Scenario Was a Detective Story This cut short the SNES version of Final Fantasy 7, just a few months into its development. The project required more hands, and so the small team working on Final Fantasy 7 was moved over to help on Chrono Trigger. … After we finished Final Fantasy 6, we began working on Final Fantasy 7, brainstorming and holding initial planning meetings.”Īt that time, Square was also developing Chrono Trigger, its ambitious time-travel RPG. Sakaguchi-san was especially fond of pixel art, and we debated a lot about whether we should remain in that 2D style. Talking to Polygon as part of an oral history of Final Fantasy 7, game director Yoshinori Kitase said: “At the time, it wasn’t clear yet whether Japanese RPGs were going to go 3D or not. But during its early development, Final Fantasy 7 was planned as a 2D game for the Super Famicom, better known as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System outside of Japan. Unfortunately, due to a programming glitch, no other Dragon Zombies will use Pandora’s Box again for the remainder of the game making this the most difficult and temperamental enemy skill to obtain.Final Fantasy 7 is known as one of the definitive PlayStation games, and a pioneer of 3D graphics in the 1990s. The first (and only the first) Dragon Zombie that you fight against will use Pandora’s Box against your team as its last attack before it dies. You only have one chance to obtain the spell and that time is the very first time you battle a Dragon Zombie in this area. Dragon Zombies can be found by traveling down to the area where the path splits and taking a right. The only enemy you can learn Pandora’s Box from is a Dragon Zombie in the Northern Cave. Synthesis will use Pandora’s Box but you only encounter her on your way to the end of the game.Location: There is only one opportunity to obtain Pandora’s Box for your Enemy Skill Materia and it is easy to accidentally skip past this opportunity if you are not paying attention.

Use in Battle: Using Pandora’s Box will deal a ton of non-elemental damage to all targets that will ignore any defense that the enemy has. Then use L4 Suicide on it and you will pick up the Chocobuckle skill. Use Sense Materia to confirm the level of the Chocobo while using Greens to ensure that the Chocobo hangs around. Instead, travel to the Chocobo tracks near Mideel and wait until you encounter a Chocobo accompanied by one single Spiral enemy. The ones near the Chocobo Farm will be level 13 unless the Chocobo is accompanied by two Elfadunks or two Levrikons. The Chocobo’s level will be dependent on the enemies that join it in battle. You can search the areas around the Chocobo Farm or the area near Mideel. There are recommended places you can go to find the right level Chocobo. L4 Suicide will only work on a Chocobo that’s level is divisible by 4. You need to use L4 Suicide on a Chocobo which will cause that Chocobo to use Chocobuckle on one party member. Location: You can learn Chocobuckle from a Chocobo but the steps required make it somewhat difficult to obtain early on in the game. Chocobuckle deals more damaged depending on how many battles you have escaped from. Use in Battle: Using Chocobuckle will deal non-elemental damage to a single target.
