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Mining fuels grisly industry, feeds factories manufacturing machines of war.
New initiatives require new fuel; new fuel requires new drill sites.
Expansion is a must.
The spoils of war are showered on the rich.
The dregs trickle down on the poor.
It is never enough.
The people can only take so much.
The planet can only give so much.
The message was heavy-handed.
Midgars a walled city where the upper class lives on a plate propped up on top of everyone else.
Powerful soldiers exhibit unnatural talents.
Propaganda handles what brute force doesnt.
The answers much clearer now amid callous leadership and technological progress.
Misinformation divides people and halts progress.
Theres greater depth in the world-building and new and enticing tidbits both large and small.
The visuals are frequently jaw-dropping.
More time to explore the city means more time to develop the personalities that occupy the space.
Residents talk and gossip among themselves.
Your friends get deeper, often heartbreaking backstories.
Desperate choices drive the team, but now you get to hear from neighbors rightly terrified by its actions.
This adds new dimensions.
Shinra grasps science as a means of production and consolidating power, but it cant grok consequences or stewardship.
This negligence touches everyone.
Avalanches scorched-earth activism does too.
(Thats also the story of 2020.
Shinra doesnt seem as cartoonish in this light.
The story of the street is people trying to make it through the day.
My new faves are the people of the slums.
I respect the orphanage kids patrolling their neighborhood armed with wooden swords.
I suspect if they were real, wed all wake up mulling over the same thought:Everythings fucked.
What do we do now?
