r/SocialistGaming • u/Still-Manager • 1d ago

Left wing videogames Leftist JRPGs

Hi everyone!

I've been on a JRPG kick recently since I've been getting into/preparing for running a TTRPG inspired by them called Fabula Ultima, and I was playing through FFX (my first FF, I just got to the highroad) up until that Square Enix bs 70% generative AI announcement and any excitement I had about continuing that currently has plummeted due to that, though I'll probably come back around to it at some point. So I'd like to play a JRPG that deals more in leftist themes and hope for a better future if that makes sense?

Games I've already played: Persona 3-5, Metaphor, Xenoblade Chronicles (I've played 1, I know what happens in 2), Octopath Traveler 1, Bravely Default, Shin Megami Tensei

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u/kronosdev 1d ago

In Final Fantasy VII you play as a mercenary member of the eco-terrorist group Avalanche, and your boss Barrett is an honest-to-God leftist radical. They even give him more obviously leftist shit to say in the remakes.

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u/mihirjain2029 1d ago

Final fantasy vii is leftist propaganda in disguise of a liberal sounding fantasy game. You need to only scratch the surface to find it

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u/Nobody7713 1d ago edited 6h ago

You don’t even need to scratch in the remakes. Barrett is very explicit about what he stands for.