We can always trust Square Enix to capitalize on the recent release of its spin-off to the famous Final Fantasy VII title, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. The company, in collaboration with Play Arts, will be featuring miniature action figures of Cloud Strife and several other characters at the upcoming New York Comic Convention 2008 this weekend. You can take a look at a preview of the Cloud figurine in our full article.

Our friends in Japan are just exactly three days away from getting their hands on Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. We will really be honest with you now because we're pretty sure that we are all on the same boat - we're jealous of them because Square Enix has yet to confirm if the game will be available in English-speaking territories.

To help alleviate our suffering, here are nine new videos for Crisis Core. Some of these are cut scenes featuring much-loved and important characters such as Zack Fair, Genesis, Angeal Hewley, Lazard, and Sephiroth. Two separate video clips are dedicated for Cloud Strife and eye-candy Aerith Gainsborough (God rest her soul).

As much as we enjoyed watching these cut scenes despite them being in Japanese, we find the last couple of videos highly important as they show how the new Crisis Core: FF VII features work like the new battle system and materia system. Have fun!

See the rest of the videos after the jump!

We still have no word if Square Enix is planning to release Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII in other markets aside from Japan but the last we look, September 13 the Japanese release date is still a go. To compensate, here's the opening cut scene for Crisis Core from QJ.NET reader EGC.

This fourth entry in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series is very crucial as the game focuses on the events of Nibelheim. Here, we get to see 1st Class SOLDIER Zack Fair as well as Cloud Strife when he was still a Shinra Guard. In terms of gameplay, we're pretty sure that you will all be looking forward to the new battle system known as Digital Mind Wave.

On a hopeful note for our readers, a previously released trailer for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII might have hinted on an English release for the game as the credits in the said clip were done in English. Apart from that, there's no other form of confirmation about the matter...yet.