{"id":461825,"date":"2020-04-03T18:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/461825\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:01:14","slug":"final-fantasy-vii-a-literary-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/461825\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy VII &#8211; A Literary Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m6QfkrBgN_s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust in time for the remake, the Game Professor takes an in-depth look at the story and themes of one of the most beloved games ever made.<\/p>\n<p>1:32 &#8211; Sector 1: &#8220;So let&#8217;s hear your story&#8221;<br \/>\n20:16 &#8211; Sector 2: &#8220;A golden shiny wire of hope&#8221;<br \/>\n26:11 &#8211; Sector 3: &#8220;Constructed piece by piece&#8221;<br \/>\n29:27 &#8211; Sector 4: &#8220;The Planet&#8217;s dyin'&#8221;<br \/>\n43:05 &#8211; Sector 5: &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna think of them as dead&#8221;<br \/>\n57:37 &#8211; Sector 6: &#8220;I am what you see&#8221;<br \/>\n1:12:44 &#8211; Sector 7: &#8220;After all, Cloud, you are&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n1:29:09 &#8211; Sector 8: &#8220;Nothing is meaningless&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Some people are experiencing some distortion during Cid&#8217;s portion of the summary; it&#8217;s something on Youtube&#8217;s side, so I hope they fix it and I&#8217;m sorry if you get it!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the series? Support it on Patreon!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gamesaslit101<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>RESEARCH SOURCES:<br \/>\nFinal Fantasy VII: An Oral History<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.polygon.com\/a\/final-fantasy-7<\/p>\n<p>How Final Fantasy VII\u2019s Cross-Dressing Segment Saved My Life<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/medium.com\/athena-talks\/how-final-fantasy-viis-cross-dressing-segment-saved-my-life-41ec8320c709<\/p>\n<p>How should we talk about Final Fantasy VII&#8217;s crossdressing sequence?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"VGGZmOUvKm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/07\/17\/how-should-we-talk-about-final.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How should we talk about Final Fantasy VII&#8217;s crossdressing sequence?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How should we talk about Final Fantasy VII&#039;s crossdressing sequence?&#8221; &#8212; Boing Boing\" src=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/07\/17\/how-should-we-talk-about-final.html\/embed#?secret=K3GgciP6Vm#?secret=VGGZmOUvKm\" data-secret=\"VGGZmOUvKm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Barret&#8217;s translation:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kotaku.com\/final-fantasy-viis-barret-is-solid-snake-in-japanese-m-1797836407 <\/p>\n<p>Sephiroth and Me: Playing Final Fantasy VII As A Jewish Person<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/deorbital.media\/sephiroth-me-7062724fe598<\/p>\n<p>The Kabbalah and FFVII<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/mythrauders.livejournal.com\/2439.html<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\nArcade Academy, by Pixel Head &#8211;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arcade Academy by Pixel Head\" width=\"770\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F133992545&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=300&#038;maxwidth=770\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Art:<br \/>\nJimi Bonogofsky-Gronseth &#8211; http:\/\/www.jkbono.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/gamesaslit<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gamesasliterature<br \/>\nPatreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gamesaslit101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the remake, the Game Professor takes an in-depth look at the story and themes of one of the m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,20423,341,4721,202308,202309,2919,202307,15,6639,61335,202310,74,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-461825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-ffvii","9":"tag-ffr","10":"tag-final-fantasy","11":"tag-final-fantasy-vii","12":"tag-games-as-lit","13":"tag-interactive-art","14":"tag-jrpg","15":"tag-literature","16":"tag-rpg","17":"tag-sephiroth","18":"tag-storytelling","19":"tag-video-game-education","20":"tag-video-games","21":"tag-vii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}