I have a long held belief that conservatives cannot understand narrative and have no ability to deconstruct story whatsoever. It’s like some kind of universal comprehension barrier that they all share. Talking to them about literally any piece of media is actually a stunning experience.
I don’t think it’s generally because they haven’t played it, though. It’s like the story of that game to them is “I’m the dude with broad sword fighting dude with long sword” and the story around the world is just ignored
my dumb joke aside this is definitely the read i’d agree with
rebirth and remake probably add so much figurative text to the original body of work that i’d wager it becomes harder to ignore the central themes (i’ll never have the time to play them to confirm this hunch.)
I've only played the original and as a 12 years-old non-native English speaker, I still understood the main plot. Early on every conversation was about stopping Shinra from destroying the planet.
I didn't understand corporations, but I could see people who don't care about consequences.
You are right. I played the remake and it extends the first 7 hours to 40 something which a bunch of content that expands on stuff in the original, has VO, and a much strong fidelity of assets to more clearly the nature of the world so I think it'll be extremely difficult for them to miss
FF7 let you rename all of the characters, tho. So unless you’re goig to ask me about Loopy Lou, Criepi the Vampire, or our brave protagonist, Murray, I’m going to be completely lost 🤣🤣🤣
The fucking PS1 demo disc of FF7 contains the scene of Barrett in the elevator telling Cloud “THE PLANET’S DYING, CLOUD”
Anyone who acts surprised that FF7 “turned woke/eco-alarmist etc” clearly has never played the game.
I'm amazed by the way some people will just publicly announce their complete lack of media literacy like this. Like, it isn't even subtext. It's just text!
It’s been ages since I’ve even thought about the chocobo breeding/racing stuff but wasn’t the end result of all that essentially just a big “fuck you” from the game by giving you something you would have already acquired during the process of reaching that point?
“It’s because of those #$!$ machines cloud”
‘Sorry barret but that’s a false flag made by wutai, climate change isn’t real and also mako energy is actually good for you’
Cosmo Canyon is a front for a Wutai disinformation campaign. Just look at this clearly doctored photo of Bugenhagen eating with another person with Godo Kisaragi's head badly pasted onto their shoulders and all will become clear!
