oh if we’re talking about vidya as repository of Japanese self-narratives, everyone realizes that FF6 was (in part) that classic Japanese form of “WWII metaphor, slightly kinked”?*

That royal/roughneck brothers Edgar/Sabin are England/America, captive general Celes is France

Emperor Gestahl is the old imperial Germany, and his usurping mad clown chancellor Kefka is obviously Hitler

Which means samurai Cyan of Doma is a self-pitying Japan. We only got into this cause honest feudal politics but crazy ol’ Kefka went to WMD and now everyone’s dead

The Ghost Train was about postwar Japan dealing with everyone having someone they love be dead

The World of Darkness is obviously about being nuked and ruined

* others: Strike Witches and Gate Keepers. Tag your faves!