According to my own understanding, I will explain the general plot to friends who have never played "Final Fantasy 7". Fans can scold me for talking nonsense. Many places are written according to their own understanding.
In the world set in the game, it is believed that the planet has its own consciousness and life. All life energy comes from the planet itself, and after death it returns to the planet as a kind of energy, and then The planet uses energy to create new life
And in the universe there is a race called Jenova. This race travels between planets like locusts, occupying the planet's resources every time it arrives. Resources were absorbed until the planet was destroyed, and then rushed to the next planet
Thousands of years ago on this planet, there was an ancient race named Settra. This race had highly developed abilities. With wisdom, they can rationally utilize the planet's resources, talk to the planet, and can be regarded as friends of the planet
Until one day, a Jenova came to the planet where the protagonist was, but it was The huge impact energy caused great wounds to the planet
In order to save the planet, the Settra race sealed Jenova at the cost of almost destroying the entire race, leaving only a small part. The descendants gradually developed and became so-called "human beings" while the Settra's inherent ability (talking to the planet and mobilizing the power of nature) also quietly disappeared...
After thousands of years of development, humankind has The power of science and technology has reached an astonishing height, but this height comes at the expense of the crazy extraction of the internal energy of the planet (the so-called "magic light"). Human life has become better due to the utilization of this, but the planet But he is getting older day by day...
In that world, there is a super company, "Shinra". It has become an existence beyond the government by extracting the patent for manufacturing "magic light", and everything lies in it. Under control, some of them resisted, but "Shenra" relied on its huge army and financial resources to remain standing. There was a super soldier in its army four years ago, that is Sephiroth. There is basically no one like him in the world. The opponent, relying on him, "Shinra" was very stable for a while, but he disappeared due to a certain incident and was said to be dead. So, the resistance forces began to fight again... This is the background of the story
< p> At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Claude participated as a mercenary in the task of blowing up the "Magic Light" manufacturing machine (the "Magic Light Furnace") against the "Shenra" organization "Avalanche". The first cooperation was very difficult. Success, but Claude's aloof temper offended many people, and it was only through the persuasion of his childhood sweetheart Tifa that he continued to stay in "Avalanche"The second mission, "Avalanche" was hit In the trap of "Shinra", Claude got separated from everyone and met the flower girl Alice, but the "Shinra" people came to arrest Alice, so Claude accepted the commission and became the flower protector.
After meeting up with the "Avalanche" people, "Shinra" set up a poisonous plan to blow up a pillar of the city, causing casualties among the "Avalanche" members, leaving only the leader and Tifa... However, Alice was captured at this time. Only then did Claude know that Alice was the only remaining descendant of the authentic Settra tribe. She also had those strange abilities, and the purpose of "Shinra" They want to use her to conduct biological experiments and tap into the unique abilities and knowledge of the Settra tribe in order to better extract the energy of the planet!
In order to rescue Aerith, Cloud fought hard with the boss, Tifa and "Shinra", but finally found that Sephiroth appeared to kill the president of "Shinra"! He also took away Jenova's body, which was sealed thousands of years ago and was later discovered by "Shinra" and used for biological experiments!
Once Jenova's power is tapped again, the planet will suffer disaster! When Cloud was a special forces soldier in the "Shinra" force, he had a blood debt to settle with Sephiroth... So everyone had their own minds and worked together to pursue Sephiroth all over the world, and "Shinra" wanted to get back Jack. Nova also started tracking.
In the long-term relationship, Claude and Alice gradually fell in love, but Tifa, who also fell in love with Claude silently, found many strange questions, such as Claude's There was a big discrepancy between what he told about his experience as a special forces soldier and what Tifa knew. Tifa began to doubt Claude's mental condition, but she didn't say anything and just silently cared about Claude... …
Keep everything simple...
When everyone went through many hardships and reached Sephiroth’s lair, it turned out to be the crater left by Jenova’s impact on the planet thousands of years ago. ! In the process, they also learned through many clues that Sephiroth was actually created by "Shinra"'s biochemical experiments using Jenova cells decades ago! Not purely human! In a sense, Jenova is his mother! (Now everyone knows what those guys in the movie mean when they say "mom", right?)