Crisis Core FFVII gets Euro date

By Robert Purchese Published 16 January, 2008

It's not too far away, either.

Square Enix has finally given Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII a European release date of "spring".

For those unsure, this is the action RPG that caused PSP sales to multiply six times over in Japan last September.

Set before the renowned Final Fantasy VII, you play as Zack who works for SOLDIER, a military group run by an electric company busy at work on building a metropolis.

The game begins when you, Angeal and Sephiroth are sent to investigate the whereabouts of some missing SOLDIER members. Complications ensue.

Crisis Core was among the first games announced for PSP, and its lengthy development means gorgeous visuals and cutscenes to put others to shame.

But its big selling point, the real-time and fast-paced battle system, is yet to be proven. Perhaps we needed more time with it, but when we saw it last May it felt fiddly and unconvincing.

Could be wrong though - Japanese magazine Famitsu gave it a score of 35/40.

Head over to our Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII preview for a closer look.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Beano #1 4 years ago

    Is "spring" a date?

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #2 4 years ago

    Spring aint a date its a season. Fuck Tards!

  • Steroyd #3 4 years ago

    So is this a Japaneese "Spring" as in November?

  • ruttyboy #4 4 years ago

    Japan is in the Northern hemisphere and has the same seasons as we do Steroyd.

  • Goffee #5 4 years ago

    looking outside, seems like Spring to me

  • SpigleyMcCheese #6 4 years ago

    Did they give a year along with that "Spring"? Not that it's particularly important - Advent Children was enough to warn me off Square Enix's "let's milk our most successful franchise" march.

  • Psiloc #7 4 years ago

    Yeah, Advent Children deserves to die. Why have they made Cloud a depressed emo for the compilation stuff? If they remake the original and retcon him to be the absolute self harmer he's made out to be in AC I'm going to cry.

    Still, at least Zack seems normal in this. When is the US release date again?

  • Les #8 4 years ago

    I'm still curious but not so much because of the FF VII link. Will wait for the review texts (scores don't mean anything).

  • Lionheart #9 4 years ago

    FF7 REMAKE!!!

    There is a topic which hasn't been flagged up for a while =]

    In all fairness though, why would i want to play as a 'failed FF7 hero' who got pwnd by Seipheroth?

  • mandeep100 #10 4 years ago

    ive got this on japanese import it is sweet, graphics are awesome, the cutscenes are something else and look better than the advent children film because of the psps small screen, fighting system is a bit button bashy,

    I dont know much japanese but i am easily progressing through the game with just hacking at enemies and barely using any magic or healing although if you have to the menu layout is fairly simple in game and and on the pause menus
    Edited by 1 at 16/01/08 @ 14:27

  • SeesThroughAll #11 4 years ago

    What do you mean, fiddly?

  • Beano #12 4 years ago

    "looking outside, seems like Spring to me"

    Great idea - let's release games based on the current weather :)

    Heard on TV in 2010 : "Here's Tom with the weather... Tom, what games are coming out tomorrow ?"

  • Schiraman #13 4 years ago

    Well I thought this looked pretty interesting until I read the preview and saw that it has random battles. I can just about tolerate random battles in a tactical RPG like FF Tactics, but it's absolutely unforgivable in an action RPG.

  • alimokrane #14 4 years ago

    What a lousy Article. Thank you very much eurogamer for getting my freaking hopes up ... since when is Spring a date ..pffffft

  • Nithron #15 4 years ago

    Ah, so you actually play this one then.
    After FF12's automated gameplay I thought the next logical step would be to remove the gaps between the cutscenes alltogether and just make the entire game out of CGI and Quick Time Events.

  • CitizenGeek #16 4 years ago

    I usually don't import games from the US, but I'll make an exception for Crisis Core :)

  • smelly #17 4 years ago

    Swwet! Might convince me to get anuver psp (sold the last one on ebay)

  • ZuluHero #18 4 years ago

    SpigleyMcCheese
    16-Jan-08 13:34:42

    Did they give a year along with that "Spring"? Not that it's particularly important - Advent Children was enough to warn me off Square Enix's "let's milk our most successful franchise" march.

    Psiloc
    16-Jan-08 13:55:08

    Yeah, Advent Children deserves to die. Why have they made Cloud a depressed emo for the compilation stuff? If they remake the original and retcon him to be the absolute self harmer he's made out to be in AC I'm going to cry.

    Still, at least Zack seems normal in this. When is the US release date again?

    Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?
    Edited by 1 at 17/01/08 @ 07:59

  • SpigleyMcCheese #19 4 years ago

    Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?

    Yes. Did you play Dirge of Cerberus? Watch Advent Children? See how much Square seem to be bastardising one of the greatest games in history for the sake of a higher revenue? None of these new "Compilation" games hold a candle to the original, so I'm not too enthused about them.

  • Meho #20 4 years ago

    I tried a bit of that Japanese version too and the production values are indeed through the roof. The cutscenes look fantastic and the in-game graphics are also of a very high quality. But that is to be expected, of course. The combat is quick-paced and slick, and as far as I could see it was rather easy to dispatch of the early enemies in the game with stylish and dangerouus looking moves, although I have only given it a little time because I see no point in playing a FF game without understanding the story (and I don't know any Japanese, sadly).

  • Psiloc #21 4 years ago

    "Um... Did you even play FFVII. Like. At all?"

    Only about 50 times :-) He wasn't depressed during the course of the game. I guess he was when he was a Shinra guard but it hardly makes sense to apply that to a film that takes place 7 years after that.

    During the present-day course of the game he goes from cold to determined fairly rapidly. He even cracks a joke or two. Just because he mourned Aeris for a few minutes doesn't make him an emo.

  • JamieR #22 4 years ago

    spring I'm used to not getting my hopes up with squares dates but the games are always worth the wait not DOC it was ok though

  • MrObycyek #23 4 years ago

    How long is a piece of string? What is the inside leg of a yeti? When is the UK version of Crisis Core out? I am not waiting for some vague time in spring I will be getting this next week on import. How do you like that eh?