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Idol group attempts to save the world with the power of music, but that doesn’t work so they switch to the power of violence

With the way the game is now, it’s more like:

Time traveling fangirl gets fated hero to speedrun saving the world ten times simultaneously.

A whole ass-stadium of people yelling “a minor” lmao

And reviews at the time didn’t like it!

What was “the war” in Pokemon? Lt Surge fought in it, and apparently Pokemon did too, but there hasn’t been any prequel game that explores it.

But here’s an interesting reading: so in early Pokemon content guns were a thing, but later on it was decided that guns don’t exist in the Pokeverse. This could be explained in-universe - perhaps guns were a common sight at one time, but they’ve faded out as the Pokeverse’s society has gotten more utopian. This can also be seen in the schemes of the Pokeverse’s organized crime - Giovanni and Team Rocket were up to some bad stuff, racketeering, gambling, poaching, but as you go forward in time the worst crimes committed by society’s anti-social element are tagging and petty larceny.

Could it be that “the war” was the final war, and Lt Surge was a member of the People’s Army that finally defeated the bourgeoisie, allowing for the creation of utopian post-capitalist societies where lotteries are held just for fun, kids can go on cross-country trips unsupervised, and the only vestige of currency is play money paid out just for participating in society and used to buy non-essential things because all of the necessities of life are distributed for free?

It’s not impossible!

This is super cool. My dream game grand strategy game is something with CK-style intrigue, TW-scale battles controlled via an M&B-style character, so this is one more step closer to that.

I always assumed that Barrett convinced everyone else to go for it or lead the charge in some way which was why he caught most of the blame, but yeah I guess they don’t really say that explicitly do they. Also I’m pretty sure the Corel reactor exploding was a random industrial accident that got blamed on the town by Shinra (unless that got retconned at some point).

from natopedia

the Engineers, a group of terrorists which is trying to coerce the United States into recalling all of its troops stationed abroad.

I think they launch attacks against military bases/the white house, but it’s been a very long time since I played this game. If I remember correctly the game’s dialogue is like if chatGPT was exclusively trained on War on Terror scaremonger articles, everyone just free-associativity rants about the quds force, al quaeda, chinese special ops, spetznaz, etc.

I agree that that’s what the main games are for, but I also think that there’s more than enough room in Pokemon’s franchise for side games that cater to older fans with more complex battle and sim mechanics. Pokemon Colosseum 1 & 2 feel like they could have been the starting point to a whole secondary line of JRPGs in the Pokemon world with unique stories and mechanics, but they never followed up on them and now those games are just a weird outlier in the franchise’s history.

is objectively correct and fully justified in all of his rhetoric and actions, but the lib writers of FF7 nevertheless felt the need to explain his anger as being some kind of personal revenge quest and make his character arc about realizing that doing violence against Shinra was bad.

I’m imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud

You should DEFINITELY seek out the communism side quest. I think it appears in your journal as something like “make contact with your fellow communists”? There are a few people who will point you towards the event I’m talking about that are missable if you rush through the investigation.