The second edition of The Oral History of Final Fantasy 7 is now available
500 Years Later: An Oral History of Final Fantasy 7, by Polygon’s own Matt Leone, is a comprehensive chronicle detailing Square Enix’s creation of the legendary game. Originally published on Polygon in 2017 and printed a year later, the story has just received a second edition courtesy of the publishers of Read-Only Memory.
The hardcover tome offers 240 pages of detailed interviews from more than 30 developers, designers and artists who worked to Final fantasy 7 to life. The printed version of this epic story contains illustrations commissioned by the artist Sparrowsin addition to eight interviews that cannot be found in the original 2017 online publication.
The second edition arrives just in time for this month’s release Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PlayStation 5, and the printing has been improved with enlarged text, dark turquoise ink and a new holofoil cover, but is otherwise unchanged from the original. If you’d like to add this impressive insight into video game history to your shelves, you can pick up a copy for $37.99 exclusively from Read-only memory.
For more examples of Matt’s work, we encourage you to take a look Like a Hurricane: An Unofficial Oral History of Street Fighter 2, available by Read-only memory, Amazonand the Polygon store. Initially published as a series of articles on Polygon, Like a hurricane is the result of years of research and features interviews with more than 60 professionals who played a role in creating the classic fighting game.