In Square Enix’s latest epic RPG, the moral monstrosity of slavery is effectively reduced to window dressing

  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know how a Final Fantasy game of all things is not going to be political. I don’t think I have played a single one that wasn’t profoundly political. They are always dealing with war, oppression, exploitation, power struggles and often use metaphors for other issues.

    The beloved Final Fantasy 7 is blatant with its environmentalist and anti-corporate themes. All the Ivalice games (FF12, FFT and Vagrant Story) pretty much breathe politics, and while I didn’t go too far into Final Fantasy 14, that also seemed pretty political.

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      I’ve not played enough of the other FF games since 7 to say with certainty, but FF7,12,14, and 15 were extremely explicit political dramas. That was their entire plots