“Didn’t you hear it? As if to say . . . I hurt, I suffer.—Bugenhagen An alien entity threatens the world of Final Fantasy VII (FFVII), and its influences have permeated the lives of all of its characters. Having been exposed to this alien entity, Shinra—the massive corporation doubling as plutocratic hegemony—begins to extract Mako (the planet’s spirit energy) seeking the Promised Land (a place full of Mako energy). Unfortunately, Shinra’s actions threaten the planet and all planetary life. From... the very beginning of the game, the main characters identify themselves as renegades bent on saving the planet by committing acts of ecoterrorism, such as blowing up power plants, in order to destabilize Shinra.While “going green” is certainly all the rage these days, why would Sakaguchi Hironobu and Kitase Yoshinori, the game’s designers, create characters who rage against the energy infrastructure on which a video game depends? Though the game’s imagined world ultimately reflects ecological concerns in the real world, it does not simply reject all notions of technological development.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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