#oooh shinra isn't the real enemy the turks are good guys really~

[anakinh]

thought prompted by a caption on a gifset: ff7 remake aerith gainsborough saying stuff like “shinra isn’t the real enemy” and “the turks aren’t bad people”, while technically kinda true, is very much something a billion dollar company making NFTs and blockchain games would say and i fucking hate it

#oooh shinra isn't the real enemy the turks are good guys really~ #okay first of all the turks are corporate hitmen. the turks are assassins for big oil. #second of all if you defeat sephiroth and shinra's still there your planet's STILL GONNA DIE AERITH #who MADE sephiroth aerith??? who made him?? #me.txt #negativity #??? #i guess there's just a lack of nuance. like. shinra and sephiroth can both be bad and both be enemies #the turks aren't fundamentally evil but they are still very much corporate hitmen #and realistically she's just saying that sephiroth is the greater threat at the moment and they can always deal with shinra later #but the way it's worded makes me so annoyed #i guess there's also a lot of minimizing shinra's bullshit both in fandom and in uh. crisis core. #and that annoys me #like people saying 'oh hojo's the worst guy in ff7! shinra's bullshit is because of him!' WHO FUNDED HIM #also i'm probably just salty and easily looking at the worst interpretation b/c of the squeenix nft bull #anyway the turks are hitmen for big oil and SOLDIER is a standing army for big oil that invaded a sovereign nation #all of them are war criminals and that includes zack end rant #okay negate that end rant #not that ff7 was ever a good corporate critique or ever a small indie game. remake actually added more nuance AND made shinra worse #but aerith saying that makes me fear for the next two(?) games #...ironically i think ff7 could've been a better (or at least more focused theme-wise) game without sephiroth or jenova #since they completely derailed the cyberpunk dystopia into cosmic horror #but i straight up would not've been interested in it #i guess sephiroth would've still been there but as their top enforcer instead of half cosmic horror. #i guess i would still be kinda interested in that