Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis Introduces Upgrades, Summons & Materia in New Trailer

Square Enix has shared a new trailer for their upcoming mobile title Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, highlighting enhancements and growth. Players can enhance their weapons with items, and upgrading beyond the weapon’s level threshold requires more highly specific items.

Materia is gained from using materials for synthesis recipes, but like a typical mobile game, this process takes real-life time. Item usage can reduce wait times. Character stats can be increased by unlocking nodes using certain materials and character memories.

Lastly, Summons earn new abilities from clearing pact missions. They can then be strengthened after binding by using specific items, too.

Pre-registration is available via the official website.

The title recently achieved 1.2 million pre-registrations.

• Check out our Preview of the game.
• 25th Anniversary Trailer
• Compiled Interview Information
• Summer 2023 Trailer
• Summer Games Fest Trailer
• First Featured Games, Playable Younger Sephiroth
• Gameplay Features, Outfits & Co-Op; Younger Versions of Characters Planned
• Character Trailers
• CBT Report
• Main Theme
• “Fight On!” Theme
• “The Prelude” Theme
• “Bombing Mission” Theme
• Story Trailer
• Gameplay Trailer

You can view the enhancement and growth trailer for Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis below:

Introducing the Game: Enhancement and Growth

Enhance weapons and materia with items, synthesize materia using recipes, strengthen characters and summons, and learn new limit breaks through the statstream. #FF7EC #FF7EverCrisis #FF7 pic.twitter.com/qiXualsEiO

— FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS_EN｜FF7EC (@FFVII_EC_EN) August 16, 2023

Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis will launch for mobile devices via iOS and Android on September 7, 2023.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will release for PlayStation 5 in Early 2024 on two discs. We’ll keep you all updated on this highly anticipated release.

Check out our previous coverage for screenshots and staff comments.

We also shared our thoughts on the latest trailer.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the sequel to the first entry in this ongoing Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy effort. Throughout the announcement trailer, players got a tease of the Nibleheim flashback with Cloud and Sephiroth and Zack carrying Cloud, seemingly from either the end of Crisis Core or the end of Remake.

The latest trailer from Summer Games Fest showcased quite a bit more, with a relatively open world, team attacks, Chocobo riding, and fascinating story developments that have truly made this entry diverge from the original game’s timeline. Still, familiar areas like Cosmo Canyon and the Chocobo Farm are also present. Oddly, Square Enix calls this a completely standalone entry, which comes off as too blatantly untrue, even for marketing purposes.