Gamlet Trivia #39 — 2026-08-10
The answer was Final Fantasy VII — Its US marketing blitz — prime-time TV and cinema ads — reportedly cost more than most games' entire budgets..
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- A 1997 PlayStation epic across three discs, ported to Windows and re-released endlessly before its episodic remake.
- A turn-based RPG built on materia: socket orbs into weapons to mix magic, summon leviathans, and unleash limit breaks when the gauge fills.
- Developed by Square as it jumped from Nintendo's cartridges to Sony's CDs.
- A flower seller's fate is gaming's most famous spoiler, and its spiky-haired hero with an oversized blade became shorthand for an entire JRPG boom.
- The brooding ex-soldier protagonist: C.S.