The author shares their experience of replaying the original Final Fantasy VII game on the PlayStation Vita and how it reignited their love for the handheld console.
The entire time I was playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth — the second part of a planned trilogy of FF7 remakes — I couldn’t stop thinking about replaying the first game from 1997. When the credits rolled on Rebirth , I had a difficult decision to make: how to play the original? There is no shortage of options. The game has been ported to most modern platforms, and I still have the original PlayStation discs (all three of them).
But ultimately I decided on a beloved but oft-forgotten piece of video game hardware, the PlayStation Vita. And you know what? This little thing still absolutely rules. My rekindled love affair with the Vita started because of FF7, and I’ve been been making my through the game in fits and starts. But it has also blossomed from there. I had forgotten not only how good the handheld is for playing classic games, particularly timesinks like RPGs, but also how many excellent indies it ha
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