The opening scene of FFVII is literally eco terrorism 🤦🏿♂️
The company's name literally translates to "all encompassing god" and you're blowing up stand ins for reactors that are sucking like life out of the planet.
It's bait Anyone who's played FF7 knows beyond a shadow of a doubt it's about the horrors of man. Their impact on not only man but the environment, big corpo, militarized government, fighting the power and............... Magic lol
Yes, they did. In 1997.
to be fair, back in 1997, there were people who returned the PS1 disc, "sorry, I didn't know there would be reading." There has always been dumb people in this world.
The Final Fantasy games are about getting powerful enough to destroy gods, demiurges and dictators, of course they're political! That's the point!
they smack you over the head with the message of vii in the first minute of the original too its as subtle as a brick to the face how tf honestly amazed theyd touch it because of the cast being fairly diverse.
What's funny here is that in Remake they kinda turned the eco-terrorism button down a bit too. The original was much more unabashed!
Starship Troopers is the only story these people actually got the message of, and they are *still* fuckin‘ pissed that Paul Verhoeven dared to make a satire of it.