Let's say Square did make a time system where time runs like a cassette
tape and nothing will change what happens, then there would be no such
thing as free will. How is it then that if you die in game the game is over?
Surely there is no other group of kids who will take up the fight against a
sorceress and then one of them turn into a sorceress and be possessed. If
this does happen then time is no longer just an unchangable force but an
animate one which has predetirmined what will happen. Now let's imagine
that somehow this is true, why would time not always keep Squall and co
alive in order to fulfill its desires? Why is it that you can die and the world
will end, or you can live and save it? This is, in a sense, a free choice and
thus time cannot be static.

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