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“Underneath the Rotting Pizza” – Cities in the Sky and a Desolate Earth Beneath

The cities of Final Fantasy VII operate somewhere within the aesthetic realm between cyberpunk and 80’s grunge. Sci-fi but not quite, we see a human population with flying airships but no successful human launch into space, chunky computers and PHS phones and a distinct lack of high-speed travel. While Final Fantasy VII: Remake injects a…
Romanticizing a Mental Health Crisis? Revisiting the Lifestream Sequence

The Lifestream sequence refers to an event late in Final Fantasy VII’s story that, after much disarray in Cloud Strife’s alleged background, serves to untaggle the truth of his past. Prior to this, Cloud leaves the party for the first time after he suffered a mental breakdown in Northern Crater and subsequently fell into the…
Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud?

A major argument against Cloud and Aeris’s romantic relationship is that Cloud and Aeris only interacted in disc 1 of the game – a period in which Cloud was knee-deep in his identity crisis, which was not resolved until the game’s second disc. Auxiliary claims allege that Cloud is actually role-playing Zack in disc 1,…