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Final Fantasy VII is widely considered to be one of the greatest videogames of all time. Despite being freed in 1997, fans of the game still find themselves principally attached to it. It seems like with each new generation of consoles comes a cry for Final Fantasy VII to be remade. What was it that has made this game so popular? In my sentiment there are two reasons. The introductory being the complexity of the storyline which contained eco terrorism, global corporatocracy, an alien threat, a love triangle and perhaps the most unforgettable villain in videogame history – Sephiroth. This brings me to the second reason, Final Fantasy VII had a fantastic cast of villains which helped the player get behind the good guys. Along with Sephiroth there were five other main villainous forces in FFVII as well a host of other lackeys and antagonists. At the very beginning of FFVII the main enemy of your party is President Shinra. President Shinra is head of Shinra Corp, a company who started out life as a weapons manufacturer and later became energy suppliers through their Mako energy project. President Shinra is an fabulously greedy man: not content by the corporatocracy he has devised he also wishes the find The Promised Land, a land brimming over with Mako energy. Mako energy, while much more convenient, is devised through the converting the Lifestream which is the blood of the planet. This means that Shinra’s business is in a literal sense killing the planet. President Shinra dies comparatively early in the game – killed by the sword of Sephiroth. President Shinra is succeeded by his son Rufus who runs the company in a more or less dissimilar way, using fear rather than cash to control the people. He still maintained the same goal as his father however. At the head of the Mako exploration is Professor Hojo. Hojo runs a series of what most people would consider immoral scientific projects and very much enjoys “playing God”. He is directly responsible for the birth of Sephiroth the games main villain and also to blame for Cloud’s identity crisis. Like more governments, Shinra had an intelligence agency called The Turks. The Turks are a shady institution who try and succeed in kidnapping Aerith from your party. While you are competent to recover Aerith The Turks seem to appear around each corner to offer resistance versus your team of fighters. The main villain altho is most unquestionably Sephiroth. Sephiroth worked as a SOLDIER for Shinra before learning that he was the result of a scientific experiment. He mistakenly believes himself to be a demigod as he is born of Jenova’s cells (more on that later). The most villainous act Sephiroth commits is the killing of Aerith one of the games main characters. This was a revolutionary plot twists as far as videogames were concerned at that time and is portion of the reason FFVII is so memorable. Sephiroth also uses his immense powers to summon a comet that will destruct the earth. In a good deal of ways the genuinely evil strength in the game is Jenova. Jenova is an alien entity that came to world thousands of years prior to the game and tricked the Cetra people and infected them with a sickness which closely wiped them all out. While it is motivatings for doing this aren’t exclusively clear it is most likely that Jenova wished to ruin all living beings so that it could leech off the Lifestream of the planet. However Jenova was sealed off (it is not brought up by whom but perchance the last surviving Cetra managed it) where it was trapped for two thousand years. It was later dug up by Shinra who believed Jenova to be one of the Cetras with the potential power to lead them to The Promised Land. Professor Hojo used cells from Jenova in a lot of of experiments one of which was the creation of Sephiroth. After Sephiroth had killed President Shinra he started out a question to reunite all the parts of Jenova which had separated. At this point Jenova was in total control of Sephiroth who was merely doing his “mother’s” bidding. Of course at the end of the game good was competent to triumph over evil and Sephiroth and Jenova were defeated, but were they killed? Judging on Advent Children, a movie follow-up to FFVII, Jenova is still very much alive and has the capability to fetch Sephiroth back to life. An ending such as this leaves game makers Square Enix in the position to make a unfeigned Final Fantasy VII sequel – a sequel that would be widely welcomed by fans of FFVII. Will we see one? I suspect that, sooner or later, we surely will. |
