{"id":144575,"date":"2020-12-14T17:10:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/final-fantasy-7-remake-cyberpunk-2077-openings-comparison\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:10:34","slug":"final-fantasy-7-remake-and-cyberpunk-2077s-openings-have-a-lot-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/final-fantasy-7-remake-and-cyberpunk-2077s-openings-have-a-lot-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Cyberpunk 2077’s Openings Have a Lot in Common"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cyberpunk 2077<\/strong><\/em> has arrived at long last, and the game’s lengthy prologue concludes with an explosive finish as Johnny Silverhand sets off a nuke in Arasaka’s corporate headquarters. And that particular plot point begs an unlikely comparison with another of 2020’s biggest releases: Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Terrorists are usually bad guys in video games. Like Nazis, zombies, and most aliens, they are employed as guilt-free fodder for the heroes to mow down and hew in half. But both\u00a0Remake<\/em> and Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>put players in the driver’s seat of bombers with a grudge against hyper-capitalistic mega-corporations.<\/p>\n

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While it\u00a0is hardly uncommon for games to make players second-guess their avatars’ morality, it is rare for a title to open on such a note, where idyllic\u00a0intentions justify catastrophic collateral damage. Even though\u00a0Remake\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Cyberpunk<\/em> do not have morality systems<\/a> to mechanically gauge and gate player choices, the stories they tell invite players\u00a0to reflect on their protagonist’s actions, and force\u00a0players to deal with the consequences that\u00a0ensue.<\/p>\n

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Of the two video game bombings,\u00a0Final Fantasy 7 Remake<\/em> has more cut and dried morality<\/a>. Even though Avalanche is willing to inflict collateral damage, including the wholesale slaughter of Shinra goons,\u00a0the game makes it clear, early on, that Shinra is undeniably evil. Their activities are bleeding the planet’s literal life force dry and perpetuating a system of negligent governance that results in tremendous economic inequality.<\/p>\n

To further drive home the point that Avalanche are the good guys, Final Fantasy 7 R<\/em>emake<\/em>\u00a0makes a point of having Jesse try to limit civilian collateral damage. Meanwhile,\u00a0Shinra deliberately destroys their own reactor<\/a> in a more violent way to make the\u00a0attack more volatile\u00a0than intended.<\/p>\n

The irony though, is that in both Remake<\/em> and the original Final Fantasy 7,<\/em> the incident paints Cloud as a less relatable character<\/a>, who is more culpable in the Shinra bombing than Cyberpunk<\/em>‘s\u00a0V is in Arasaka’s bombing. He’s also less noble than the other members of Avalanche.\u00a0While Barrett’s people are out to save the planet, Cloud repeatedly makes it clear that he is there to earn a paycheck by any means necessary,\u00a0and doesn’t give a damn about the ideals behind the operation. This is\u00a0mostly supposed to serve as a jumping off point for character growth, but there is no question that Cloud is willing to pull a trigger that endangers thousands of lives.<\/p>\n

While both the original\u00a0Final Fantasy 7\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Remake<\/em> start with the same note, and\u00a0Remake<\/em>\u00a0tries to tone down Avalanche’s inherently violent nature<\/a>, the game still forces players to walk through the aftermath of the bombing and focuses on Tifa’s ambivalent participation in Avalanche\u00a0with greater depth and nuance. Remake<\/em> also uses more NPC dialogue and in-game media to\u00a0condemn Avalanche as violent terrorists rather than noble freedom fighters.\u00a0One gets the distinct sense that players are ultimately supposed to come down on the side of Avalanche, but the game at least wants people to reflect on whether their actions are justified.<\/p>\n

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No matter which of\u00a0Cyberpunk 2077<\/em>‘s three\u00a0origin stories<\/a> players choose, nomads, street kids, and corpo-rats all end up in the same place at the end the game’s lengthy prologue: re-living the final memories of a rockstar-famous terrorist. Johnny Silverhand and his crew storm the\u00a0Night City headquarters\u00a0of the Arasaka Corporation, and level the building with a miniature nuclear warhead. Players are forced to carry out the operation\u00a0from\u00a0Silverhand’s perspective regardless of what choices their avatar, V, made previously. And depending on your background, Arasaka may seem like an unknown quantity at first.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Find GTA San Andreas Easter Egg<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Players who select the corporate background have a little more insight, however. That particular background begins with V as an upper-middle corporate fixer\u00a0for Arasaka<\/a>, dealing with the direct aftermath of a job that has just gone to hell. The exact details are murky, but V’s boss resolves the crisis by\u00a0cybernetically assassinating the members of\u00a0a summit in\u00a0Frankfurt\u2014another drastic act of terrorism that does not actually solve Arasaka’s problem, but manages to buy the corporation some time for further scheming. This scene clearly illustrates the morality of multinational mega-corporations in Cyberpunk, and Arasaka in particular:\u00a0if you are out to make an omelet, you had best be prepared to break a lot of eggs.<\/p>\n

This means that corpo-rats will likely feel less ambivalent\u00a0about Silverhand destroying the company’s flagship building, but regardless of background, V\u00a0repeatedly refers to Silverhand as a terrorist with a great deal of derision.\u00a0It is worth noting that\u00a0depending on the choices players make, V can be just as ruthless as Silverhand. But they are not directly responsible for the bombing, and possibly unwilling to take similar measures. Both games place a buffer between players, and the atrocities their avatars commit.<\/p>\n

While Cyberpunk<\/em> gradually reveals Silverhand’s character<\/a> and his motivations for the bombing, it is worth noting that it has another commonality with\u00a0Final Fantasy 7\u00a0<\/em>Remake<\/em>:\u00a0the target of both bombings are corporations with the power and influence of governments, but none of the oversight. Shinra is a nation-state as much as it is a corporate interest, controlling every aspect of it’s flagship city, Midgar. And in Cyberpunk,<\/em>\u00a0one quickly comes to understand\u00a0the police force, and the rest of Night City’s “government” are\u00a0almost entirely\u00a0beholden to corporate interests. In both cases, the terrorists are not total anarchists or religious zealots, but rebels.<\/p>\n

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In both games, the\u00a0big bad that serves as a justifiable terror target is\u00a0corporations run amok; systems where those in power practice neglect rather than governance. And the perfect metaphor for those narratives, the staple that makes punk stories hang together, is the concept of the mega city. Both Midgar and Night City are metropolises where the street is forced to finds its own uses for things,\u00a0establishing its own tenuous ecosystem of order while corporate heads lounge in ivory towers, sipping champagne.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0would be inaccurate to refer to\u00a0Midgar as a cyberpunk world, given the lack of emphasis on networked technology, but there are unmistakable touches of that genre in the city’s design. The architecture has clear shades of Blade Runner<\/em>‘s Los Angeles, and Barrett\u00a0Wallace technically\u00a0qualifies as an augmented human, switching out\u00a0weaponized arm attachments like Cyberpunk<\/em>‘s runners “swap chrome” for different jobs.<\/p>\n

The unifying factor between both games is punk as a philosophy, with heroes\u00a0rebelling against capitalist anti-utopias. Midgar simply substitutes cyberware with magic.<\/p>\n

Cyberpunk 2077<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is available for PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions also in development.<\/p>\n

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