[sailoranna]

I have non facts or real information about this but I have noticed for a while that the FF6 and FF7 have very very similar tones and generated sounds. And when I will look over at my mp3 player and think its ff6 and its really ff7. And the newest artical about the sgi FF game got me to thinking was maybe there at least some layout of a sprite ff7 game before the 3d thing seemed doable? I so doubt there is any work left from it but it would be sorta of intresting to think how ff7could have been layed out as a 2d game. Just curious.

[Fredde]

The closest thing to a 2D Final Fantasy VII we'll ever get is probably the following sprites from the saving screen on the Playsation version of FFIV:

Cloud:


Sephiroth:

[Smeg]

I think the sound programmer was just lazy.

[KlarthAilerion]

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on any of this stuff. In fact, I know nothing.

If the music for Final Fantasy VII was originally composed for SNES hardware, there would have needed to be some major revamping for porting it onto PlayStation. The sound engines in the SNES and PlayStation are pretty much different. Sound samples for one system would need to be pretty much re-written for another system, without an intermediate piece of software. While I'm not saying it's impossible, I've never heard of such a thing. Oh wait, yes I have. Tactics Ogre. So, uh, yeah.

Judging by what Hironobu Sakaguchi said in that interview, I'd assume that there was no drafted work on a 2D Final Fantasy VII. As an imitation software developer myself, I'd venture to say that there may have been talks about "what are we (Squaresoft) doing next" and there may have been some generic concepts thrown around, but nothing that would have been qualified as "Final Fantasy VII". Then again, I've seen rumors that state otherwise, but I don't believe much of what I read on the internet. Oh, the irony.

[Carnivol]

My guess is that the reason why the styles are similiar is because the composer is the same as usual, Mr.Nobuo Uematsu and having made sound/music that's limited to the Snes hardware for several years probably affected the first piece of music made for the PSX hardware too.

+several FF games have recycled tracks made for previous games.
Like how that art collector's house in FFVI has a recycled track you can find in FF2j, and how Sephiroth's/Reunion theme in FFVII is very identical to the Mirage track from FFV and so on.



Recycled tracks, same composer and new hardware.

[Smeg]

I don't hear any re-used music or motives, other than the obvious (the FF prelude, Chocobo music, etc). The reason the music sounds similar to me is the actual instrument samples more than the composition. As far as I know, Uematsu never did his own sound programming, that's why I chose to blame the programmer. Do you have more examples of non-obvious "recycled" tracks?

[ArnoldRimmer83]

It should be mentioned that the FF2j version of the art house theme can only be heard on an "All Sounds of Final Fantasy I - II" CD, and possibly some other FF soundtracks. It doesn't appear to have been implemented into FF2 even as an unused track, as the nsf file doesn't have it.

[Carnivol]

[DarkTetsuya]