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Because FF7 looked like a cool american game. You had a blonde hero with a giant sword, a cool black guy (Mr. T knockoff) with a gun arm, and beautiful women in
by stuckinhell 3y ago
Because FF7 looked like a cool american game.
You had a blonde hero with a giant sword, a cool black guy (Mr. T knockoff) with a gun arm, and beautiful women in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It really nailed the zeitgeist at the time.
- intotheabyss 3y agoAnd also the storyline, where big corps destroy the planet for profit.
- munificent 3y agoThat's weird. I always had the exact opposite impression. Early JRPGs felt comfortably Western to me because they just lifted the Tolkien-esque medieval fantasy vibe whole cloth. But FF7 felt like a totally random pastiche of genres that were jammed together in such an unusual combination that I could only imagine someone from another culture thinking to combine them. Like making an apple pie with hotdogs in it. Yes, nominally it would be super American, but no American would ever think to put those together in that way.
- stuckinhell 3y agoCertainly once you played it passed a certain point, but by that point you bought the game.
- throwawaymobule 3y agoOr rented it, or borrowed the first disc from someone who's on the second one. Don't have any numbers on the latter, but games including a 'demo disc' seem like they'd get free advertising.