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The political landscape of FF7 doesn't really...make any sense.
You have Midgar, Junon, (both Shinra run) a loose collection of little hick towns, a former superpower (Wutai), and uh...
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the game, but I can't help but feel Square didn't really put a lot of thought into how nations, politics, etc actually work. I know Shinra was a worldwide power, I get it, but still...?
Don't get me wrong, I know that there are most certainly other towns/villages and all that (golden rule of RPG,s etc), but I don't mean that. I mean how there just seems to be no sign of any other national/international entities besides Shinra and Wutai (even though Wutai doesn't really matter anymore). Okay, Shinra is this big world controlling power, but...what was there before Shinra? The company itself isn't that old where nobody would remember. It just seems that it was Shinra...and Shinra.
Like, even taking into account the possibility/probability that Shinra just BOUGHT any old nations/kingdoms/whatever, there don't seem to be any remnant of those, either. No old capital cities, no castles, no former evidence of any major power, no real big cities, no anything, really. Besides for Midgar and Junon, it just seems like Shinra rules a whole lot of nothing. Hell, even in FF6, the Empire took over what USED to be nations. Tzen, Miranda, and Albrook used to be their own nations, and hell, even a lady in Tzen says "Yeah the Empire killed our entire royal family". By comparison it just seems like Shinra just bought miles and miles of just podunk farm towns.
You have Midgar, Junon, (both Shinra run) a loose collection of little hick towns, a former superpower (Wutai), and uh...
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the game, but I can't help but feel Square didn't really put a lot of thought into how nations, politics, etc actually work. I know Shinra was a worldwide power, I get it, but still...?
Don't get me wrong, I know that there are most certainly other towns/villages and all that (golden rule of RPG,s etc), but I don't mean that. I mean how there just seems to be no sign of any other national/international entities besides Shinra and Wutai (even though Wutai doesn't really matter anymore). Okay, Shinra is this big world controlling power, but...what was there before Shinra? The company itself isn't that old where nobody would remember. It just seems that it was Shinra...and Shinra.
Like, even taking into account the possibility/probability that Shinra just BOUGHT any old nations/kingdoms/whatever, there don't seem to be any remnant of those, either. No old capital cities, no castles, no former evidence of any major power, no real big cities, no anything, really. Besides for Midgar and Junon, it just seems like Shinra rules a whole lot of nothing. Hell, even in FF6, the Empire took over what USED to be nations. Tzen, Miranda, and Albrook used to be their own nations, and hell, even a lady in Tzen says "Yeah the Empire killed our entire royal family". By comparison it just seems like Shinra just bought miles and miles of just podunk farm towns.