In Square Enix’s latest epic RPG, the moral monstrosity of slavery is effectively reduced to window dressing

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      Art is “political.” It’s not being “made political” if the game brings up a heavy topic and then blinks. The game made itself “political” by making slavery an element of the world.

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      I don’t know how a Final Fantasy game of all things is not going to be political. I don’t think I have played a single one that wasn’t profoundly political. They are always dealing with war, oppression, exploitation, power struggles and often use metaphors for other issues.

      The beloved Final Fantasy 7 is blatant with its environmentalist and anti-corporate themes. All the Ivalice games (FF12, FFT and Vagrant Story) pretty much breathe politics, and while I didn’t go too far into Final Fantasy 14, that also seemed pretty political.

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        I’ve not played enough of the other FF games since 7 to say with certainty, but FF7,12,14, and 15 were extremely explicit political dramas. That was their entire plots

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      Judging by the replies: yes and no, respectively. No fun allowed, there’s offense to be taken!

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        If you don’t want to engage with political issues, don’t bring up political topics. Using oppression for flavor text instead of confronting it as a major issue in your story is tacky. Star Wars suffers from the same problem.