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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by munificent on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:31PM (#36619656)
That's weird. I always had the exact opposite impression.

Early JRPGs felt comfortably Western to me because they just lifted the Tolkien-esque medieval fantasy vibe whole cloth.

But FF7 felt like a totally random pastiche of genres that were jammed together in such an unusual combination that I could only imagine someone from another culture thinking to combine them.

Like making an apple pie with hotdogs in it. Yes, nominally it would be super American, but no American would ever think to put those together in that way.

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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by stuckinhell on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:24PM (#36620535)
Certainly once you played it passed a certain point, but by that point you bought the game.
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Re:Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second... by throwawaymobule on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:32PM (#36660577)
Or rented it, or borrowed the first disc from someone who's on the second one. Don't have any numbers on the latter, but games including a 'demo disc' seem like they'd get free advertising.
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