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I'm not buying how FF7 wasn't originally political in nature.
FF7 was deeply political, in a hamfisted way that games (especially of that era) tend to be, sure but it was deeply political all the same. Besides the most obvious parts, there's a reason why the narrative takes you from North Corel to the Gold Saucer to Corel Prison and it was no accident.
I think this part of the video essay is illustrative of the whole "Back before I was politically-aware, things weren't nearly so politicised as they are today!!" phenomenon.
FF7 message: Corporations are bad.
FF7 message: Perpetual extraction of natural resources leads to global environmental collapse and the extinction of all life on the planet.
FF7 message: Armed resistance is necessary to fight an armed adversary.
FF7 message: A corporation backed military force that solely serves the corporation's interests destroys the lives/minds/bodies of civilians as well as the lives/minds/bodies of those individuals in that military force with no hesitation or remorse.
Seriously, I mean the first mission is you blowing up a pipeline
Not just a pipeline, but a whole power plant, and then your party members discuss the morality of blowing it up even though it had workers inside and come to the conclusion that working in a power plant makes you a comprador and valid target
It's amazing how the series went from FF7 to FF8, whose central message was that... uhhhhh