  is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by squaresoft. it is the seventh installment in the final fantasy series and the game is the first in the series to use 3d computer graphics, featuring fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds, and was the first game in the main series to be released in europe. final fantasy vii follows protagonist cloud strife, a mercenary who initially joins the eco-terrorist rebel organization avalanche to stop the world-controlling megacorporation shinra from draining the life of the planet for use as an energy source. as 
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