The story begins with the happenings in Final Fantasy: Crisis Core, Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. Cloud is the Hero. Sephiroth is the Villain. The main character (Cloud) will experience hardships/sacrifices/friendships and relationships between characters. Cloud will experiences a near death situation, and survive. The friends Cloud meets along his travels that help him in his agenda. His goal is to save the planet from destruction.