High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII is a Japanese action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix in 2004. It was the first original (i.e. not an enhanced remake) game to be produced by Square Enix exclusively for mobile phones, and was released on NTT DoCoMo's FOMA iMode line of phones on a monthly subscription basis. Following an announcement at TGS 2006, it was released for the first of two additional Japanese mobile carriers, Softbank Yahoo! Mobile, in January 2007, and a version for EZweb was released in April 2007. In their pre-E3, 2005 press conference, Square Enix announced that an English version of the game would be released in the United States in 2006. It wasn't. The prevailing rumour is that the game will be released on Sprint mobile phones; it has not been verified. Before Crisis is the prequel to the 1997 PlayStation video game Final Fantasy VII, taking place during the six years prior to the events of that game.