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>>3848825
It's a matter of ratios, yeah? Homer was sick of that shit in his day, and it's still a big trope in 1997 and warrants response.

Nice passage though.
Cloud: "Shut up."
FF7 did it better.

FF7 obviously didn't invent the human condition, but it doesn't have to in order to be a great expressive work. It does convey those themes in a manner that is effective and relevant today. Its wackiness adds an earnest/raw quality that's hard to find elsewhere, and the heavy stuff hits way harder as a result. And it leaves so many of those real-life question marks intact that you can feel the developers also struggling with those ideas on a personal level. (Even the Oddyssey castrates death by over-defining it through lore.) It's in sympathizing with the developers and fellow players through the lense of the story/presentation that FF7 derives its special value. It's not going to resonate in that way with everyone, but it has for a lot of people.

And it's catchy af