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I'm not buying how FF7 wasn't originally political in nature.

FF7 was deeply political, in a hamfisted way that games (especially of that era) tend to be, sure but it was deeply political all the same. Besides the most obvious parts, there's a reason why the narrative takes you from North Corel to the Gold Saucer to Corel Prison and it was no accident.

I think this part of the video essay is illustrative of the whole "Back before I was politically-aware, things weren't nearly so politicised as they are today!!" phenomenon.

don't much care for final fantasy but one sure can't help thinking that we took a really really wrong turn when it comes to game development when in 1997 they could sell you all of final fantasy vii for sixty bucks, gave you three discs and a full game and then made three more final fantasy games within the next four years while now two decades later it takes more than a fucking decade to remake the very same game and they need to sell it to you three times