I'm not sure why, given

So you're saying that we need more ending themes like Change Your Way from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment?

...why this song is not longer dammit. ;_;

I'm realllly on the fence with this sort of english-singing fad in Japan.  The way we write lyrics seems to be pretty different.  When Japanese love talking about the long and sad shadow left by the only hopeful lampost on a cold street (or some shit like that), English seems to try to tell some sort of story sometimes.

Either way.  I'm not a fan of lyrical songs.  They're too obscure, and it's too easy to tell they're foreign, it's distracting.  Persona barely pulls it off, but I'd say it works in context... Except for hearing BABY BABY BABY BABY  at least 500 times....

I don't see how anyone could possibly say that FFVII took a step back in story compare to FFVI. It delved into topics VI barely even scratched the surface of. Mega-corporations exerting more power than they should in a government, terrorism, and environmental messages that were pretty fucking heavy coming from a video game in the 90s? Seriously.

It's not even like all the messages smashed the player on the head either (unlike Square's recent shit, which basically explains everything and leaves nothing to the imagination or subtext). As an example, WEAPON is considered the planet's defense system. When they activate, do they go after Sephiroth in the Northern Crater? No, they make a beeline towards areas of concentrated human civilization and start blowing shit up. The conclusion is that the planet can survive meteor but humans were the bigger threat to the planet itself. A good deal of the game's story revolves around humanity's hubris and belief that they are the center of the universe while basically destroying everything they sustains them.

Before Square Enix whored out the series to a bunch of teenagers who make AMVs of the games set to Linkin Park albums, the games relied on a lot of subtext and player thought. VII was basically the epitome of that practice as afterwards the games basically made their messages loud and clear with no real room for debate.

I never played it, but I've seen how bad you can get with bad grammar. This guy are sick, everyone.

Anyone have a small "lolz" moment when you pulled up the area map and saw how... ...well, how zig-zag, up-down, fork-in-the-road-4x, corridor south-east-west-north it was?

(I'm exagerating a bit, but yeah, it's a big, NON-ONE-WAY map)

I want it to do well enough to warrant an EP remake, myself.