I will never be a memory - perhaps Sephiroth's words ring true as Final Fantasy VII continues to shock, awe and shift in the minds of players as the antholog...
FF7 message: Perpetual extraction of natural resources leads to global environmental collapse and the extinction of all life on the planet.
… What? Where did it say that?
FF7 message: Armed resistance is necessary to fight an armed adversary.
…uhhh… hmm… umm… what?
FF7 message: A corporation backed military force that solely serves the corporation’s interests destroys the lives/minds/bodies of civilians as well as the lives/minds/bodies of those individuals in that military force with no hesitation or remorse.
Not just a pipeline, but a whole power plant, and then your party members discuss the morality of blowing it up even though it had workers inside and come to the conclusion that working in a power plant makes you a comprador and valid target
FF7 message: Corporations are bad.
FF7 message: Perpetual extraction of natural resources leads to global environmental collapse and the extinction of all life on the planet.
FF7 message: Armed resistance is necessary to fight an armed adversary.
FF7 message: A corporation backed military force that solely serves the corporation’s interests destroys the lives/minds/bodies of civilians as well as the lives/minds/bodies of those individuals in that military force with no hesitation or remorse.
Seriously, I mean the first mission is you blowing up a pipeline
Not just a pipeline, but a whole power plant, and then your party members discuss the morality of blowing it up even though it had workers inside and come to the conclusion that working in a power plant makes you a comprador and valid target