Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Remaster Retains Sephiroth’s Intense Hair Care Routine

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We bought a bunch of details about Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion at present, together with the essential information that taste textual content about Sephiroth’s gratuitously thorough hair care routine might be carried over from the unique recreation.

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Reunion is, because the identify suggests, the upcoming remastered re-release of Crisis Core, a PlayStation Portable motion RPG from 2007 that acted as a prequel to Final Fantasy VII. When it arrives on each gaming platform underneath the solar later this 12 months, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion will characteristic extra voice performing, upgraded visuals, and new gameplay parts, however Square Enix is planning to maintain just about all the things else the identical.

Speaking with Eurogamer, producer Mariko Sato defined that the unique Crisis Core story stays intact in Reunion, very a lot in contrast to what’s being finished with the continuing Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy. Reunion is essentially meant to reintroduce gamers to Crisis Core protagonist and Final Fantasy VII background character Zack Fair, whose function is increasing within the Remake storyline.

“If you played [Final Fantasy VII Remake], or the original, you’ll probably know that Zack is in the first Remake game where he doesn’t appear at that point in the story in the original Final Fantasy 7,” stated Reunion government producer Yoshinori Kitase. “So he’s featured more than he was. We thought that people who were starting the story there would really want to know more about this character.”

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But let’s be trustworthy: While it was good to see Zack’s backstory fleshed out, the largest second of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII got here after we discovered how the villainous Sephiroth retains his lengthy hair so luxurious. Over the course of the unique recreation, Zack can be part of a Sephiroth fan membership referred to as the Silver Elite that sends him emails with trivia about their silver-maned hero, together with his hair care routine.

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The introductory message after Zack enlists with the Silver Elite reads as follows:

Dear members of the Silver Elite:

In this replace, we current one other piece of Sephiroth trivia—the secrets and techniques to his lovely lengthy hair.

The hair merchandise he makes use of are of the best grade, made and equipped by the Shinra Company.

He appears to make use of one entire bottle of each shampoo and conditioner each time he washes his hair.

They are scented with 13 sorts of perfumes, together with Rose and Vanilla.

Apparently, the scent within the air after Sephiroth tosses his hair modifications every day!

I don’t want to inform even essentially the most hygienic avid gamers on the market that that’s a number of shampoo and conditioner. How does Sephiroth even discover the time to make use of that a lot product between all his battle crimes? Kudos for the dedication to sustaining that lovely head of hair, however rattling, does Sephiroth at all times must be so additional?

“I think [Crisis Core’s story] stood the test of time,” stated inventive director Tetsuya Nomura, a person along with his personal aptitude for the dramatic. “It’s something that is very highly regarded by people. And when I look back over the story and how it’s put together, there are not many faults I can find in it really. I think it’s still a very complete and almost perfectly put together story in a lot of ways.”

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC someday in late 2022.