I want to say that the rumor was not really a rumor and more of a really great marketing ploy by square. They leaked that information down and it got out on the net and built up hype. Sounds plausible.
Re: Final Fantasy, controversial, what (some religoius stuff too)
I want to say that the rumor was not really a rumor and more of a really great marketing ploy by square. They leaked that information down and it got out on the net and built up hype. Sounds plausible.
I can blatently see it in Xenogears and I sorta see it in FFVI but the only thing that was even somewhat related in FFVII was Jenova and how it's supposed to ploy off of "Jahova".
Also I'd like top point out that if these people who don't like the religious symbolisim in games I got a piece of advice for them, DON'T PLAY IT.
I want to say it's spelled Iahova, that was in Indiana Jones, right?Originally Posted by Joel
Anyways, I don't see too much controversy in any of the Final Fantasy games. I think the controversial games should be stuff like GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. I have nothing against the games, but a lot of people do.
Castlevania's Cross weapon was changed to "boomerang" and stuff Breath Of Fire III also had you fight "God" (who happened to be female).
However, both of those are non-Final Fantasy games, so I guess they don't count. FFX had stuff like praying to statues and they even had their own Hymn (Hymn of the Fayth).
I personally don't care about that, 'cause I know what I believe, and no video game is going to change that.
:shoot:
The only people who seem to care are people that just like to get in a fit about it. Gives them something to do.
A lot of games and anime and such from Japan are ripe with religious themes. I have pictures of a toy called God/Jesus or something like that, he's a robot and he wields a cross. There's a store called God Clothing, and on my Korean phonebook the company stated is 'We Make Design OhMyGod'. They just have a different take on religion than we do.
But they ARE evil and dangerous!!! Honest to God! Blank sheets of paper are the spawns of Satan. You can get papercuts and bleed to death if you do not handle them with care!
Papercuts don't bleed.
Depends how deep it is.
In FFVII, the only religious bad thing I remember was the old and battered abandoned church, and the fact that you fight in it and generally destroy it.
If there is something like that in a game, I don't think it would offend anyone (certainly not me) and the people who do this are just nit-picking over stupid things. Most newspapers and people who don't play videogames just do this because, as Czanthor said, they don't understand it, and are afraid of things they don't understand.
eg.
"Oh my god I just killed someone on FFVII and am going to go on a mad rampage with a katana and start maiming cows."
Most wouldn't dream of it.
there was a picture here
Gospel Decay has some interesting takes on symbolism in FFVII.
http://www.peach-arrow.net/ff7/index.php?id=background
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Anima: an-nee-mah (german) "my soul"
Thats kinda religious
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They named Anima based on its definitive quality as the feminine inner personality, a play on the (SPOILER)fact that Seymour's mom is the fayth
Plus, it sounds cool.
That's awesome. Good find, now I see it, at least it isn't as wide open as XG is.
They used symbolism in FFVII, but they didn't bash you over the head with it like Wisdom Tree or anything......
Legend 1 was harder I'd say. The ending was interesting, with the creator stuff. The orbs thing sucked, I hated it. Of course looking at it now it was such an easy puzzle, but for a little kid it wasn't so easy!
I enjoy the religious allusions in these games. Religion is man's most interesting creation.
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