Category: Final Fantasy Series

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth adds these ornate black-and-gold potion vending machines to Cloud Strife’s quest, and longtime visitors to the Video Game Soda Machine Project already know the truth: potions are just fantasy soda. [Source]

Cloud Strife stops to admire this vending machine from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. After all, hauling around an absurdly oversized sword can really work up a thirst.

Thank to MattP3000 for the screenshot!

We’re all about completionism here at the Video Game Soda Machine Project, and this screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV adds a few additional soda machines not currently in the archive. Thanks for the screenshot, Norah!

Dawntrail, the current Final Fantasy XIV expansion, added these soda machines to the long-running MMORPG. If you ask me, they should have waited for the upcoming January 2027 expansion, Evercold.

Thanks for the screenshots, Harrison!

Final Fantasy VII Remake features vending machines that sell potions and music. Is this like one of those promotional campaigns where you get a free iTunes download code from inside the cap of a 7 Up bottle, or what?

This next vending machines only raises further questions…

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I’m awarding bonus points to this Energy Drink Potion machine from Final Fantasy VII remake for its savvy bench ads. After all, bench advertising is a cost-efficient way to generate high impressions and enhance brand recognition across a wide demographic range. Even a mercenary like Cloud Strife knows that’s good business.

Thanks for the screenshot, Oscar!

Spike McLeod poses in front of some drink machines in Final Fantasy VII. I still can’t believe they changed his name for the remake.

Thanks for alerting me to this one, Eric!

It’s always been my fantasy to travel on a train swanky enough to have its own drink machine, and thanks to Final Fantasy XV : Pocket Edition, that fantasy is now a reality. Thanks for the screenshot, lookat!

Snow is rebuffed in his heroic attempt to buy Hope a soft drink from this vending machine in Final Fantasy XIII. [Source]

The same soda machine also appears in Final Fantasy XIII-2, as seen in the screenshot below…

Thanks to satsumaclementine and Cornscope for helping me track these down!