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A Contrarian View of FFVII

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spiky-hair dept.

This week is seeing the commercial release of Advent Children, so it's appropriate to see Jeremy Parish discussing the original game. However, he's got a slightly different take on the game than you might be used to. Seen via GameSetWatch. From Parish's article: "What better way to sell to people than by speaking directly to them? Cloud Strife is the everynerd -- wrapped up in delusions of greatness when allowed to take things on his own carefully-selected terms until he sees the world for what it is and is forced to come to grips with the fact that he's actually completely pathetic. That's your average game-obsessed message board dork in a nutshell: the petty tyrant of a tiny little niche of the Internet but a failure in real life. It's the kind of parable Jesus would have been proud to have shared with the hungry masses between bites of magical fishloaf, the cigarette ad of nerd coming-of-age stories -- a promise to nerdlings that if you face down your demons, accept your failures and struggle to move beyond them, you'll save the world and your childhood crush will fall madly in love with you."

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  1. It's better this way... by Qzukk · · Score: 2, Funny

    accept your failures and struggle to move beyond them

    Because obviously trying to improve ourselves is doomed to failure, we're all going to remain permanent virgins for the rest of our lives.

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  2. Mod TFA down by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    (-1 Flamebait)

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  3. Re:Whoa there by jandrese · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do we know it was unsafe?

    For all we know Cloud had to go on a side quest where he slotted up his condom with lube materia.

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  4. Re:Er.. WTF by linvir · · Score: 3, Funny
    As a journalist, it's his job, nay, his duty to inform the likes of us mere readers of our most shameful shortcomings. I don't understand why people like you are always wasting our time with these 'independent thoughts', when people like this are already being paid to pre-fabricate opinions and ideas for us.

    Get over your stupid little philosophy, sit down, shut up and consume. Maybe if you weren't such an ideological insurgent, the elders would have already picked you out to work as a supplier of opinions alongside the eminent Mr. Parish.

    You go ahead and come up with some 'original idea' to counter my arguments, I'm not afraid. My masters in the gaming press will protect me from tyrants like you! Your military training and superhuman strength (apparently you everynerds are all soldiers now) are no match for my robot-like obedience!

  5. Re:Parish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    While singing the praises of Chrono Cross is kind of hard to imagine, I've got some bad news for you: Transformers: The Movie? Ain't that good.

    Sorry.