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If you follow a certain course of action very carefully, you can recruit Cloud Strife to your party in Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. FF Tactics' many cameos are its worst-kept secret: ...

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for the original Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.] The original Final Fantasy 7 pulls a brilliant, almost nasty, narrative trick. Just as the game ...

The development team behind Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has seemingly taken a side in the great Tifa-versus-Aerith debate. It might seem silly, but the question of who Cloud should smooch has animated the ...

Cloud Strife is your primary guide through the journey of Final Fantasy 7, although the remake trilogy gives more time to other characters whose stories weren’t as big a part of the original game.

As a lover of men, dresses, and men in dresses, you can imagine how excited I was to see Square Enix announce its collaboration with Play Arts Kai on a figure celebrating Cloud Strife’s crossdressing ...