![]() 22 years later, we still see these same things happen worldwide, with large corporations hurting the environment through over-consumption of resources, destroying nature to expand and exploiting certain areas of the world to access their natural resources. As mentioned above, The Promised Land is one of the plot’s main devices, as Shinra wants to take it and use it for their own gain. This serves as one of the main motivations for character Barret Wallace to go against the Shinra corporation, along with many of the main characters having their own motives. It spares little expense in conveying the damage that the mega-corporations cause on the world around the player, including the city of Midgar being surrounded by barren, dead grassland as the player leaves the city for the first time, villages such as the appropriately named “Rocket Town” living around Shinra Inc.’s abandoned space station and the town of “Corel” now being a destroyed, crudely put together village of survivors after one of Shinra’s “Mako Reactors” exploded and Shinra tried to kill survivors to prevent them from spreading stories about the reactors exploding. One of the biggest themes that Final Fantasy VII conveys is its anti-corporate, anti-government take on saving the environment. Characters from left to right: Reno, Cloud, Tifa and Barret. But what makes the story even more engrossing is it’s relevance 22 years later.Ī battle scene in Final Fantasy VII. The story of Final Fantasy VII is no doubt what propelled this entry to be the most iconic in its series. ![]() The story then becomes a race against time in stopping Shinra’s plans to take The Promised Land for themselves, and stopping a super soldier entity known as Sephiroth in order to save the planet from assured destruction. The game’s story centers around an area known as “The Promised Land”, an area untouched by civilization and is said to be brimming with Mako energy. Shinra specializes in the extraction of “Mako energy”, a literal life source of the planet. AVALANCHE’s mission is to destroy the expanding Shinra Inc., an energy industry giant which has blurred the line between business and government, effectively shadowing as a ruling power of the city of Midgar. However what tends to really be VII’s biggest strength is its story.įinal Fantasy VII puts the players in the boots of ex-mercenary Cloud Strife, a young, depressed man who’s agreed to help out eco-terrorist group “AVALANCHE”, spearheaded by hot-tempered Barret Wallace and his childhood friend Tifa Lockhart. And to most people who play role-playing games, it’s not hard to see why, with a stellar combat system supplemented by easy to learn yet deeply layered mechanics, a near magnum opus soundtrack from Nobuo Uematsu, and a cinematic presentation which pushed the envelope for both JRPGs and video game at the time. VII was noted for being one of the large breakthrough hits in its genre worldwide, and is often ranked as one of the greatest video games of all time. Characters from left to right: Jessie, Barret and Cloud.įinal Fantasy VII is a Japanese role-playing game (or JRPG) released in 1997 for the first PlayStation console.
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