Quinn Angstrom
sometimes I think about how it's hard to do a really good visual metaphor cyberpunk city because Midgar already did it as well as is physically possible
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you can't make a cyberpunk city better than Midgar without making it at least partially Midgar
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the omnipresent pressure exterted by the steel ceiling
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You'd have to go more into the cyber
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if that makes any sense
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part of the brilliance of the setup is like
Princess Emily
yeah but damn the PLATE
Princess Emily
is SO STRONG
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the people below can ALWAYS see the plate,
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but the people above NEVER see the people below
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the pizza doesn't just oppress the lower class, it hides them from the upper class
Princess Emily
there's also (and it's touched on more in the remake) how like
Princess Emily
the pizza is controlled by Shinra
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the lights that the people down below need to not live in darkness
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YEP
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the pollution coming in from above
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the underside lives and dies at the whims of the corporation
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also something that can be said is like
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we talk about how the lower class are gonna look up and go "god DAMN you upper class folk, living up there,"
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and the upper class are like "out of sight out of mind with these lower peeps"
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but in the end
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Shinra's the one who can go "let's drop a plate"
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YES
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the destruction of Sector 7 is the PERFECT demonstration of Shinra's beliefs
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and then both upper and lower class ALL die
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there's the poor, the rich, and the ultra-rich
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and the ultra-rich don't care about ANY of them
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they can, and will, do literally anything
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and nobody can stop them
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Midgar doens't have a government
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it just has Shinra
Princess Emily
I could honestly play an entire game about Midgar, it's such a great setting
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....I mean, I guess that's what FF7R is,
Quinn Angstrom
the mayor lives in Shinra Tower
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his job is a joke
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but like. I could play an entire game where it's the entire game and entire story.
Quinn Angstrom
the mayor of Midgar is President Shinra
❆𝒮𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝒴𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻
shinra blatantly owns the law enforcement too, who are not actually held to uphold any laws but rather just carry out whatever duty shinra gives them
Quinn Angstrom
yeah the 'cops' are just shinra military security
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they do not follow any order other than the Shinra Corporation's bottom line
skerple
there's this one moment from the original game that FF7R didn't recreate, to its detriment
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of President Shinra standing in his office, watching the plate fall, while he listens to lovely classical music
skerple
it is the EPITOME of what Shinra is