The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It went very platinum here.....it broke the mold for RPGs in NA. NOthing since has even come close...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I hardly noticed any hype for Final Fantasy 7 at all. In fact the only place I ever really heard of it was whenever I went to gaming sites on the Internet.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That's where the hype would be. I saw it all over magazines and videogame sites.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>There were ads for that game like for no other PSX game before it. I couldn't get away from the hype.....not that I tried (I still thought the series was unbeatable before I bought it).. But I saw TV commercials, PoS displays, print ads, 'Net hype, and all sorts of stuff</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>The commercials created alot of hype as well. All of my friends who usually play nothing but sports games were dying to get it, because of the FMV commercials, however once they realised they had to read, and discovered it was RPG gameplay they returned their copies....</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't even recall ever seeing a commercial for it, then again, I didn't really watch much TV around the time of its release. I do remember Resident Evil 2 though</div>