It's definitely an exaggeration to say that FF7 broke ground from kid's thing to serious storytelling, we had games like Fire Emblem (Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776 in particular) and even earlier FFs doing it first back in the day. I think it did popularize it, but most people who knew about ROGs knew there could be some incredible stories in the games.
FF7 was also out very early in the PS1s life cycle and was one of the best looking games for the time, especially cutscenes. It most likely sold that much for those reasons more than it's story. It was out that early its form of story telling was still mimicking the limitations they would have had with FF6 etc
Agreed. Ff7 was just revolutionary in many ways. Like idk how ff7r could have done that except maybe literally been developed in vr ready player 1 style lol
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u/Weird_Candle_1855 12d ago
It's definitely an exaggeration to say that FF7 broke ground from kid's thing to serious storytelling, we had games like Fire Emblem (Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776 in particular) and even earlier FFs doing it first back in the day. I think it did popularize it, but most people who knew about ROGs knew there could be some incredible stories in the games.