In contrast to Final Fantasy VI, which featured multiple "main characters", Square's staff decided at the outset of Final Fantasy VII 's development that the game would follow a single identifiable protagonist. Cloud has been voiced by multiple actors, with Steve Burton and Cody Christian's English vocal performances being the subject of praise.Įarly sketches of Cloud's design by Tetsuya Nomura He has also become the basis for a variety of merchandise, such as action figures and jewelry. His characterization and design have also served as a trope for other characters, most notably Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII. He has ranked highly in various character lists compiled by video game publications, and remains popular among fans, continuing to place highly in popularity polls conducted by Famitsu, Guinness, and other organizations. Additionally, he is seen as a messiah figure in both the game and film for standing against Sephiroth's schemes and supported by his allies. Described as iconic, Cloud has been cited favorably as an example of complex character writing in video games, as one of its first unreliable narrators, and for the game's depiction of his mental disorder. For Remake, the team tried making his classic design realistic.Ĭloud has garnered a primarily positive reception from critics. After VII, Nomura redesigned Cloud for Advent Children, giving him realistic appearance alongside new weapory and mutfit. Yoshinori Kitase, director of VII, and Kazushige Nojima, one of the game's events planners, developed the story and wanted to create a mysterious character who acted atypically for a hero.
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series by Nintendo show the character.Ĭloud was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, a character artist for the Final Fantasy series, whose role expanded during the title's development to include supervision over Cloud's personality. Various titles outside the franchise such as the Kingdom Hearts series by Square Enix and Disney, and the Super Smash Bros. He acts in a supporting role in other Compilation of Final Fantasy VII titles, and is featured in several other games in the wider Final Fantasy series. Relying solely on his large broadsword, Cloud joins the resistance group AVALANCHE in the fight against Shinra, and driven by a feud with his former superior, the primary antagonist Sephiroth who attempts to conquer the world, Cloud learns to accept his troubled past and adapts to his role as a leader.Ĭloud reappears as the protagonist in the 2005 computer-animated sequel film, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, in which he fights a new threat composed of a trio attacking his allies while also dealing with his own terminal illness, "Geostigma". In Final Fantasy VII, Cloud is a mercenary claiming to be formerly of SOLDIER, a group of elite supersoldiers employed by the Shinra Electric Power Company, a megacorporation responsible for draining the life from the planet. Yukihiro Aizawa ( Final Fantasy VII Remake, young)Ĭloud Strife ( Japanese: クラウド・ストライフ, Hepburn: Kuraudo Sutoraifu) is the protagonist of Square's (now Square Enix's) 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII, its high-definition remake, and several of its sequels and spinoffs.
Kenyu Horiuchi ( Ehrgeiz, arcade version).
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