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Final Fantasy Memes

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Final Fantasy memes, shitposts, ok.

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[–] highenergyphysics 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

final fantasy 7’s original plot not being about social issues

Man it must be really something to consume a piece of media and miss the entire point

Like, do you think All Quiet on the Western Front is about how badass war is?

[–] Onarock 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was about being quiet and western

[–] distantsounds 7 points 1 year ago

That was just a front

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a totally different set of issues of class inequality and a commentary of capitalism and environmentalism with some discussions of race and stereotyping in the original. It was made in Japan sure but was a plain old polygon character adventure.

Remake is less about those things (maybe as a way to force them into the sequel) and more about being a sexuality and gender identity anime. Which, hey, sure those are important issues but that's not what the original was. It is a huge shoe horn to me and maybe I should have been more specific. I didn't play the other more recent ones so maybe that's what I should have expected.

Edit: Not to mention it's all in Midgar which was the worst and most tedious part of the original.