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FF7 was also massively influential for environmentalist causes. An entire generation of kids were introduced to tough political problems via this game.

Fnoord 5y ago
Not just FF7. Mystic Quest (Final Fantasy Adventure) [1] was my first Final Fantasy game (I only played a little bit FFXIV ~30 years after) back around 1991/1992 on the orig. Gameboy, and it also had the tree of life paradigm. Though you can regard it as a spinoff, the Mana series, it featured things like moogles, chocobo's, tree of life, Excalibur, ... One of my first RPG games, along with Hero Quest (a simplified clone of Warhammer Quest). One thing it couldn't do though was walk diagonally, which you could with Zelda/Link (forgot the exact name) on Gameboy. I got stuck on that game (IIRC clueless what to do, where to go). In Mystic Quest I only got stuck once, with the palm trees where you had to make the 8 to find the dungeon. I didn't get the clue to it, but then again my native language wasn't English. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure
toyg 5y ago
That's probably more true outside Japan than inside it. By then, just to mention one factor, Miyazaki and Takahata had already smashed the Japanese box office multiple times with "militant" environmentalist films like Nausicaa and PomPoko. In fact, I remember the whole environmental theme being a bit of a clichè in my part of the world (Western Europe) by the late '90s - for us, those themes had really exploded in the '80s as part of the debate over nuclear energy.
BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Honestly, when I was a kid, I didn't get the scenario. What the hell was genova ? Is sephiroth the good guy ? Then why is he trying to meteor us to hell ? And who is really cloud ? But it didn't matter, because it was so incredible to play. I had to replay the PC version later as a teenager to get it. Unfortunately this version was incredibly buggy.
- willis936 5y ago
  The Cloud identity mystery was wonderful for me as a kid. It really had a lot of intrigue and mystique. Even when they explicitly explain it, something didn't seem to fit right. Something about imposter syndrome. Crisis Core helped establish a lot more context but the characters and settings really did feel like Kingdom Hearts 1.5.
- CollinEMac 5y ago
  As much as I love this game some of the story really starts to fall apart around those points. I used to think I was just overlooking something or some details were lost in translation but after playing more of the series it seems like convoluted plots are just kind of part of the Final Fantasy style. note: I've only played the original game and the remake on PS4 and seen Advent Children.

Fnoord 5y ago

Not just FF7. Mystic Quest (Final Fantasy Adventure) [1] was my first Final Fantasy game (I only played a little bit FFXIV ~30 years after) back around 1991/1992 on the orig. Gameboy, and it also had the tree of life paradigm. Though you can regard it as a spinoff, the Mana series, it featured things like moogles, chocobo's, tree of life, Excalibur, ... One of my first RPG games, along with Hero Quest (a simplified clone of Warhammer Quest). One thing it couldn't do though was walk diagonally, which you could with Zelda/Link (forgot the exact name) on Gameboy. I got stuck on that game (IIRC clueless what to do, where to go). In Mystic Quest I only got stuck once, with the palm trees where you had to make the 8 to find the dungeon. I didn't get the clue to it, but then again my native language wasn't English. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure

toyg 5y ago

That's probably more true outside Japan than inside it. By then, just to mention one factor, Miyazaki and Takahata had already smashed the Japanese box office multiple times with "militant" environmentalist films like Nausicaa and PomPoko. In fact, I remember the whole environmental theme being a bit of a clichè in my part of the world (Western Europe) by the late '90s - for us, those themes had really exploded in the '80s as part of the debate over nuclear energy.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago

Honestly, when I was a kid, I didn't get the scenario. What the hell was genova ? Is sephiroth the good guy ? Then why is he trying to meteor us to hell ? And who is really cloud ? But it didn't matter, because it was so incredible to play. I had to replay the PC version later as a teenager to get it. Unfortunately this version was incredibly buggy.

willis936 5y ago
The Cloud identity mystery was wonderful for me as a kid. It really had a lot of intrigue and mystique. Even when they explicitly explain it, something didn't seem to fit right. Something about imposter syndrome. Crisis Core helped establish a lot more context but the characters and settings really did feel like Kingdom Hearts 1.5.
CollinEMac 5y ago
As much as I love this game some of the story really starts to fall apart around those points. I used to think I was just overlooking something or some details were lost in translation but after playing more of the series it seems like convoluted plots are just kind of part of the Final Fantasy style. note: I've only played the original game and the remake on PS4 and seen Advent Children.