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i-cast-zone-of-truth · 4 months ago

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My biggest criticism of the ff7 remake is that they use smartphones instead of flip phones. It's not even about purity; the flip phones were not in the og, they're a later-game addition. But they fit the universe SO WELL. In my mind, the PHS is absolutely a flip phone.

The rotary phones in the og are not bad. Smartphones in the remake, on the condition that only the most powerful bad guys have them, not the worst. But something about the flip phone, ephemeral and now marginal irl in the time of rapidly-evolving technologies, being the phone that in ff7 while technically available is not often used to supplement the community landline, in a world of deliberate anachronism, magic, extreme class divides, and made-up technologies... it just hits so right.

#ff7 spoilers #i can live with the bad guys having smartphones. if aerith ever talked on one i dont know what I'd do #ff7 #is it that flip phones are now the cheapest ones you can get that still work in the US?#is it that flip phones evoke middle school to me personally so strongly?#is it the juxtapostion of the Gossipy Teen Girl With Flip Phone image with a band of desperate adults on the run?#whatever it is smartphones are PALTRY in comparison #i think the flip phone was introduced by Zack in crisis core and that's very fitting if true #...is it my BIGGEST criticism?........ok no. they do actually do a bad job at one important thing. may discuss someday

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