Although he was only mentioned briefly and played a very minor role in the original FF7, it was his decisions and sacrifice that ultimately led Cloud Strife to become the hero. Zack Fair's role ...

Cloud Strife is a cool, stoic ... revealed in the original to be a result of his memories merging with Zack Fair’s. Cloud never made SOLDIER, which subverts the idealized image of the powerful ...

At the center of the game is Zack Fair, a young Shinra SOLDIER who both original Final Fantasy 7 fans and Final Fantasy 7 Remake fans alike will recognize as a close colleague of Cloud Strife.

Final Fantasy ... is a Cloud Strife look-alike, Lightning still changed the discussion it came to assessing the role of women in gaming. An NPC in Final Fantasy VII, former SOLDIER, Zack Fair ...

Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. The original Final Fantasy 7 ...

It followed Zack Fair, a mega important (and mega dead) Final Fantasy VII character with close ties to star-crossed lovers Cloud Strife and Aerith ... Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC sometime ...

Protagonist Cloud Strife has quite a remarkable character ... of the Nibelheim Incident are overlapping with those of Zack Fair, the protagonist of Crisis Core who dies in the original Final ...

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's story altered so drastically from the original Final Fantasy 7, its open ending could lead Cloud Strife and his ... experienced by Zack Fair. To combat this, a governing ...

It’s Cloud Strife’s birthday ... However, he wasn’t the kind of hero that his counterpart, the more typical Zack Fair, was. Cloud redefined the antihero trope as his own brand of “anime ...

Zack Fair is a character in FF7 Rebirth who appeared briefly in the original Final Fantasy 7 and its Remake, as well as starred as the main character in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion.

However, Square Enix isn't stopping with merely bringing Cloud Strife's journey to a new generation ... and with it the story of First Class Soldier Zack Fair. Originally released on the PSP ...

Cloud looked up to some guy in SOLDIER named Zack who was everything Cloud wished he was. After Zack was killed in action Cloud essentially assumed his identity, regaling people of tales of Zack's ...