My Final Fantasy VII Gold Saucer Park for Planet Coaster 1 on the PS5!
Hayo, I’m RoughStough and welcome to my amusement park I made in PlanCo 1 for the PS5 based off of Gold Saucer and the surrounding area from the original Final Fantasy VII. This is my first venture into playing and creating within any roller coaster or amusement park type simulation game and my first park I created and finished within Planet Coaster.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/r4rG7WyT8t8?si=WPpV8cGsUUt3-7Kc
*Look up “Gold Saucer” on the PS5 PlanCo 1 Frontier Workshop and also read the bottom text here to see recommended seating to use for each ride within the park if you end up downloading it on the workshop!*
-Come visit Gold Saucer!
-Follow the train tracks from the Corel Number 27 Reactor, surrounding Mount Corel and cave systems within, and beyond!
-Visit the dilapidated remnants of North Corel and gaze up upon the Gold beacon of affluence and “progress” from below!
-Ride the gondola up to Station Square and pick which saucer to visit from there!
-*OR* walk through the Gold Saucer area desert and make your way up the park structure from Corel Prison! But be careful of the bandits on the prison grounds and be wary of the broken elevator inside the park structure!
-Rocket along on the Shooting Coaster at Speed Square!
-Visit the cafeteria hub based on another great FFVII/Gaia location!
-See monsters in waiting as you make your way to attempt to battle Proud Clod in the Battle Square arena secret battle!
-Blast through the arcade trio of games deep within Wonder Square!
-Race chocobos along the outskirts of the saucers and see the “holographic” sights of Chocobo Square racing!
-Come visit Ghost Square during the witching hours to witness the nightmares that await you at the Picman Hotel!
-Take part in the new play production of Pricilla’s Pirates on the Gold Stage of Event Square! Make sure to look at the world map stage props while you’re there!
-Although closed to the broader public, make sure to still mime/mimic the gondola ride date night as you follow 21 stars in the sky starting and ending from within Round Square! Don’t forget the fireworks show and cameras attached to the display sequence hidden at the end!
-Find access to Dio’s Buggy around the back of Gold Saucer and explore bandit dens, Dyne’s turf, and the many other perils and sights within the desert surrounding Gold Saucer!
-Find all 8 Save Points throughout the park for hidden FFVII Easter eggs!
-Explore all corners of the park for even more hidden Easter eggs and tons of details, including the various areas that the different rides pass through (Many rides were designed to just show glimpses on purpose!)!
-Best times to visit: *11:00*, 17:50, and 00:00!
I began designing and making this park due to my love of Final Fantasy VII and was led to PlanCo in general due to reading some forums that recommended playing games such as this as a means to help me cope with some trauma from the last several years. Just like more simple games such as Tetris and Sudoku I was hoping messing around in Planet Coaster would bolster positive brain chemistry and give me some catharsis through building. It did that for me plus a whole lot more. What I ended up finding was a rich community of creatives building wildly magical, artistic, and impressive parks, and searching further sent me along a couple years worth of YouTube spirals and into a glorious world that was new, shiny, and magnificent to me.
I was inspired by numerous creators such as Syhlex, SilverPunker and many more, and while I had already begun designing this park when I came across SilverPunker’s Final Fantasy VII PlanCo 1 park, seeing it gave me even more inspiration on how amazing a park in this world could be. However, my biggest inspiration and influence into delving as far into PlanCo as I have is by far, the content creator and spotlighter, Iron Matty. I have probably seen most if not near all of his Planet Coaster spotlights. So this park is dedicated to Iron Matty as this probably wouldn’t be here if not for him. Plus, he says FFVII is his favorite game of all time, so this one’s for you Matty!
I’ve spent near 2500 hours on and off these past couple of years playing Planet Coaster on my PS5. And yes, I know that I am late to the party as Planet Coaster 2 is more than a year old now and not too many people are probably interested in content from the first game anymore, but I was so far into it when PlanCo 2 was announced that I knew I had to complete it for at least my own sake. I even postponed uploading it for the past 9 months after finishing it due to life hardships, but convinced myself to upload it even though people are focused on Planet Coaster 2 now. Hopefully I can convince someone to spotlight it, but hopefully I’ll release my own walkthroughs at some point soon. I really hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed creating it!
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*Recommended seating for each ride*
-North Corel Express: Either Front Bumper, or Car 3 Seat 2 (cinematic can be fun too!)
-Gondola to Gold Saucer: Front Bumper (Orbit is a good choice too!)
-Pricilla’s Pirates: Guest Facing on any seat row 7 and row 13, zoomed out
-The Picman Phantasms: Seat 2
-Chocobo Racers: Guest View, camera tilted up slightly
-Wonder Arcade Trio: Seat 2, and/or play shooting ride
-Battle Square Proud Clod: Any
-Shooting Coaster: *DEFINITELY* Front Bumper
-Gold Saucer Broken Lift: Seat 1
-The Buggy Bolt: Car 1 Seat 2 (chase is great too!)
*Created by RoughStough*