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With holiday game launches constantly bombarding us with everything new, it’s only natural that our community begins to feel nostalgia for the past, back to the days when new didn’t entail a standard $60 price tag and costly DLC side packages. The promises of E3 2015 and PlayStation Experience 2014 push Final Fantasy VII to the forefront of our nostalgia ridden minds, leaving a hole and a craving for evidence of a fast-approaching Final Fantasy VII release. The remake still looms in the tauntingly vague future, but Exophase’s trophy list for the original game’s PS4 port could well mean gamers have some replay action in their futures.
Gah, not you. You’re the opposite of good news.
Nearly a full year to date, the PlayStation Experience of December 2014 first delivered the happy news of an upcoming Final Fantasy VII port. Back during springtime-fun in early June, Square Enix delayed the port release until winter.
The first day of winter, in case you were wondering, is Tuesday, December 22nd. Tuesdays and game releases go hand-in-hand, like peanut butter and marshmallow, making it the perfect time to keep a promise. Plus, ya know, it’s right before Christmas, another solid period for promise-fulfillment.
I’ve already mentioned the established pattern between trophy list reveals and the imminent game release follow-up. Another good indicator of an upcoming PS4 port launch lies in the fact that the PlayStation Experience event takes place this weekend on December 5th and 6th. It is by no means out of the question to expect an official release date by the beginning of next week.
No pressure, Square Enix/Sony. Except, you know, all the pressure.
Keep going, trophy list ahead
Unsurprisingly, the PS4 trophy list shares quite a few similarities with the Steam trophies for its Final Fantasy VII port. The list boasts 13 bronze and silver trophies, 5 gold trophies, and of course a single platinum trophy.
Bronze
First Blood Emerge victorious from your first battle
Breaking New Ground Use a Limit Break
Failure IS an Option Have your whole party fall in battle
Consummate Cross-dresser Get Don Corneo to choose Cloud over the two females
Chocochampion Win the Chocobo Racing mini-game
Materia Mastermind Raise a Materia to Lv. 5
Fledgling Summoner Use a summon Materia in battle
Waiting in the Wings Obtain the Bahamut Materia
Making Waves Obtain the Leviathan Materia
Best Bromance Go on a date with Barret in the Gold Saucer
Corel’s Angel Score 10,050 points or more in G-Bike at the Gold Saucer
Shuriken Join Us Have Yuffie join your party
Won’t You be My Valentine? Have Vincent join your party
Silver
Roundtable Destruction Obtain the Knights of the Round Materia
Bahamutype-0 Obtain the Bahamut ZERO Materia
The Slash to End All Slashes Learn Omnislash—Cloud’s last Limit Break
Loose Cannon Learn Catastrophe—Barret’s last Limit Break
See the Light Learn Great Gospel—Aeris’s last Limit Break
Packing a Punch Learn Final Heaven—Tifa’s last Limit Break
A Universe of Pain Learn Cosmo Memory—Red XIII’s last Limit Break
Meet Your Maker Learn All Creation—Yuffie’s last Limit Break
Gale Warning Learn Highwind—Cid’s last Limit Break
Wheel of Fortune Learn Slots—Cait Sith’s last Limit Break
Inner Demons Learn Chaos—Vincent’s last Limit Break
Coming Up All Nines Obtain 99,999,999 gil
Liege of Leveling Reach Lv. 99 with one character
Gold
Emerald Eviscerator Defeat the Emerald Weapon
Ruby Render Defeat the Ruby Weapon
Diamond Disintegrator Defeat the Diamond Weapon
Transcendant Convoker Obtain the Master Summon Materia
A Feat of Meteoric Proportions Complete FINAL FANTASY VII
Platinum
Gaia’s Guardian Obtain all trophies