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  • Was Final Fantasy VII Indifferent to Class Struggle?

    Was Final Fantasy VII Indifferent to Class Struggle?

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    Eric Jackson
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    After AVALANCHE’s destruction of the Sector 01 Mako reactor in Final Fantasy VII, Cloud analogizes the lives of the slum’s population to the controlled and limited mobility of a train on rails; unfortunately, this focus on class struggle is short lived. Conversations about class solidarity are often pushed to the side by the greater cause…