Parents guide

Some fairly mild sex references.

A massive painting of a girl in a sexualized position wearing a tiny bikini is seen very clearly on the Highwind.

Tifa wears a short skirt and a short shirt that exposes her stomach. Also the outline of Tifas breast being covered by her shirt can be seen as she is fighting monsters.

There are people in the game that can be seen using the toilet in the bathroom in Wall Market and Rocket Town even though it doesn't show them using the restroom.

Yuffie wears shorts and a short shirt that exposes her stomach.

At the Honeybee Inn, there are women dressed in bikini costumes showing off their stomachs.

The red summon user named Shiva can be seen in her revealing bikini outfit.

In the coastal town of Costa Del Sol, the women can be seen wearing bikini swimsuits. One of the men at the bar mentions that you can walk around naked in Costa Del Sol and nobody would notice.

In the mini game Mog house, if the player helps a mouse-like creature impress his girlfriend. They will both mate and have moogle children.

In the Chocobo breeding sidequest, if Cloud finds the male and female Chocobo, then they will mate and produce an egg and the Chocobo will quickly grow up.

When the man in Rocket town tries to tell a funny joke to Cid, Cid gets angry and kicks him back.

Violence is frequent, but never sadistic and barely detailed or realistic.

There is some occasional sight of gore. In one part of the game, you follow a trail of blood at Shinra Headquarters. In another part, you see a huge serpent-like creature impaled on a large pike, with the end protruding from its throat and there is a lot of blood. Also on the Junon ship there are dead bodies with blood trailing. Also at the Gold Saucer in the Battle Arena there are dead guards with blood on the ground who have been shot by a machine gun.

Giant robots can be seen exploding in Midgar after defeating them.

In the turn based random battles the characters use weapons, Cloud stabs monsters with his sword, Barret shoots at monsters with his gun arm, Tifa punches with her fists, Aeris uses her staff, Cid attacks with his spear, Yuffie attacks with her boomerang, Vincent shoots at monsters with his gun, Cait Sith attacks with his fists, Red XIII pounces and claws at monsters, also magic spells, enemy skills and summon magic can be used to kill monsters including poison and death spells.

In one part, there is a closeup of a character being stabbed; we see the sword go through their back and come out their stomach but there is no sight of blood or injury.

In the opening of Final Fantasy 7, the Terrorist group called Avalanche can be seen beating up the train guards.

After the Mako sector 5 reactor blows up. Cloud, Barret, Biggs, Wedge, Jessie escape the exploding fire.

Shinra Soldiers can be seen shooting their machine gun at Cloud right before he jumps on the Train.

Barret can be seen punching one of his buddies at the 7th Heaven hideout gym. Also on the train Barret threatens to beat up one of the passengers on the train.

Tifa calls Barrett a "retard" at one point.

If you're playing on the consoles it was originally released on, then you're going to see all of the profanity mentioned above. But if you're playing it on any newer consoles then a lot of it has been bleeped out after some controversy.

Note: all of the dialogue in this game is written in text displayed on the screen; there are no recorded voices.

Some uses of relatively mild-moderate to strong swearing, including uses of 'damn', 'hell', 'dammit', 'Jackass', 'Ass', 'dumbass', 'fart', 'shit', 'piss', 'crap', 'Jesus', 'Goddamn', and 'Goddammit'.

Swearing Symbols like this symbol @#$%! is often used in both the Playstation 1 and PC version by Barrett Wallace, Cid Highwind, and the townspeople. And also later on in the PC version by Clould and Tifa.

On of the monsters is named "Hell house", and the weapon it uses is called "Hell bomber" and "Hell press", another monster is called "Hell Rider" also Ifrit uses his summon power called "Hellfire" also a boss at Midgar is named Helletic Hojo. Also one of the monsters uses a weapon called "Hell Bubbles"

One of Vincents limit break monster form is called Hellmasker.

The word "Wench" used by Tifa in the Playstation 1 version has been censored out with swearing symbols.

In the aftermath of Sector 7 collapsing by the playground. Barret gets angry and swears at Cloud and Tifa and uses words like Goddamn and Goddammit.

As Cid and his crew get ready to launch the Rocket into space he swears at Shera for being in danger and uses the word "Goddamn" and "Goddammit" at Shera and aborts the launch and he has been angry at her since then.

Pubs found throughout the game. Bar, "Tifa's Seventh Heaven," is run by one of the game's playable characters. The main character can (optionally) drink at one of these bars.

Alcohol is mentioned throughout the game as the town characters talk about beer, wine, cocktails, booze.

The 6 Turtle Paradise flyers advertises alcohol in the poster around the world.

Ashtrays are seen on tables a few times in the game, with cigarette butts in them in places like the Junon Bar.

One character, Cid, is a chain-smoker and is always seen with a cigarette in his mouth. One of his special moves is lighting a stick of dynamite with the end of his cigarette.

A man at the Crane machine at the Gold Saucer Arcade room says "Crap! No Cigar."

Cait Sith can be seen using his slot machine to attack monsters with his gamble attack.

The player can choose to gamble and place bets for a Chocobo at the Chocobo racing in Golden Saucer.

This game is considered to be a dark and gritty themed Final Fantasy game.

This game is very emotionally attaching and at times can be extremely intense, upsetting and frightening to some. It is not recommended to very young players.

The music soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu is known for the scary music themes.

The bombings at 2 of the the Mako Reactors may upset those sensitive to bombing and terrorism.

The motorcycle car chase scene with Cloud attacking the Shinra Solders with his sword causing them to crash can be intense.

A scene with the town of Nibelheim on fire can be seen.

A scene with the Corel Town on fire can be seen.

In the Gold Saucer Haunted Hotel area. There are spooky monsters, ghost and even puppets getting hanged may be frightening for little kids.

A scene with the Weapon monsters being released from the Northern Crater may be too scary for children.

An earthquake happens in Mideel, Tifa and Cloud fall in the cracks while trying to escape.