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The Best Original Final Fantasy VII Mods to Try

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FFVII Mods That You Need in Your Life

One of the most modded Final Fantasy games in the history has to be the original Final Fantasy VII and despite with the recent remake trilogy – people are still creating cool mods for the original version on steam. Today we are going to explore some of the best mods you can download that will both enhance the gameplay, but also do neat quality of life changes that you are going to appreciate.

Majority of these mods are intended for the Final Fantasy VII Steam version, so if you don’t own it yet you can pick it up dirt cheap from this vendor. As a precaution make sure to create a copy of your save files in the game and zip them somewhere incase things go bad.

Majority of the mods will require 7th Heaven Mod Manager to install, so make sure you will be picking that up if you have any plans on installing things.

NewMagic + Hard Mode

NewMagicshardmode v4.3 turns up the heat on Final Fantasy VII! Facing stronger, smarter foes, loot table overhauls, new gear and enemy skills, and balanced materia system. Features even include a mighty Midgar Zolom late‑game boss. Recommended for players seeking a fresh, hardcore experience—just don’t forget your defensive stance…and plenty of Ethers!

Multi-Mode 60 FPS Mod

When it comes to lot of these old games they always had bad frame rates due to technical limitations or other development reasons, luckily incase for Final Fantasy VII we have a mod that allows us to play the game at 60 FPS. The other option offers 30 FPS on battles instead of 60 FPS, which is something i tend prefer with lot of these older games as the attack animations were not planned initially to support such faster frame movement.

Remastered Worldmap Textures

If you want to have more crips and detailed Worldmap textures this 4x upscaled mod gives you a nice look that was created with DCRT type AI Model. Tsunamods has also their own variation of this mod, which you can try too. 

Echo-S 7 Voice Mod

Ever wanted to play the original game with full voice acting? Well now its possible with the Echo-S voice mod. This mod is actually using the original Japanese script from 1997 instead of the Western English translation, so the experience is guaranteed to be bit different from what you had before.

Remastered Backgrounds

If you want those sweet 4k upscaled AI backgrounds you might want to look into this one, which is also created by holynitemare. Pay in mind that this is over 4.5 GB in file size, which almost four times over the actual game in size.

NinoStyle New Character Models

One of the better and more fitting graphical overhaul mods available out there. This mod changes existing characters inside and outside of battle that match original designs of Tetsuya Nomura and the video above and images on the mod page are slightly outdated from the newest versions they conjured recently (which look lot better if you ask me). There is also chibi variations available so you can choose between the two and decide which one fits your graphical style more.

Zack Fair Replacement Mod

This is a pretty simple mod that changes out Cloud’s character model in field and in combat to Zack Fair. It has couple of different variations available due to courtesy of NinoStyles. Might require the installation of FF7_SYW mod tools in order to get it to work.

Lifestream Edition Mod

Final Fantasy VII: Lifestream Edition is an expansive gameplay and graphics mod with many new features, including an enhanced UI, total script revision, new & expanded scenes, name changes, new items & materia, new missions & sidequests, fully playable Jessie, expanded stories & roles for her, Biggs & Wedge, new songs, and more!

Opera Omnia Models Mod

Another alternative character model option to go for – these are inspired by Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia and only change the models in the field, but not in combat. These are also limited to the main cast plus Sephiroth. 

Final Fantasy VII 3D Graphical Overhaul

If you are looking for a massive graphical re-stylization on the game you might want to take a peek at this mod. This mod does complete 3D Visual overhaul on all characters, bosses, enemies and summons and even alternative outfits on minigames.

Cosmo Memory Mod

Another excellent mod created by the Tsunamods team that doing a massive overhaul on lot of the sounds inside the game. It also adds lot of ambient sounds to areas which didn’t have anything playing on the background, which further builds up atmosphere in the game.

If you are looking for mods for other Final Fantasy games we did compile lists for Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XV previously. If you think we missed some really good mod from this list leave us a comment for recommendation and we might add it up here. Note; Some of the mods might get outdated and broken at some point

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