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>>1555853
>The major theme of 6 and 7 is that an oppressive empire fucks up the world's balance
...but there's an even more powerful evil behind it, which is only using the empire for it's own ends. Same as with 8.

>Final Fantasy 8 is mainly about puberty and ethics
Stop confusing themes and settings. Settings in 7 and 8 were similar; themes were too weak to be of any importance in any FF before or after. The scripts are really too weak to allow for any thematic analysis whatsoever.

Meanwhile, as I said, in 1-6 it's the empire and an emperor, but in VII and VIII it's the president of a corporation/country. That's what I'm talking about. Both 7 and 8 are high modern fantasy (or whatever you want to call it - highly magical world in a stage that is visually and ideologically similar to the modern real world).

>>1555856
There's nothing "modern" about giant walking robots. As I said, FFVI had a medieval fantasy setting with sci-fi elements, while FFVII and VIII had modern-looking fantasy worlds. The forst FFVII to approximate modernity was VII, and VIII followed it.

I'll put it in even simpler terms for you. FF1-6: king, wizard, spaceship. FF7-8: president, soldier, helicopter.