#2. Final Fantasy X-2 Secretly Makes You the Bad Guy of Final Fantasy VII
Remember when you could pick up any Final Fantasy game and experience the magic of getting stuck on the first dungeon without having to play any of the previous entries in the franchise? They all had completely unrelated characters and plotlines, but now it's not that simple -- not only are they making confusingly numbered sequels, but some small clues left in Final Fantasy X-2 (pronounced "ten two," which isn't the same as "twelve") revealed that two of the most popular games in the series are actually connected. Basically, if you played X-2, then you're responsible for everything bad that happens in Final Fantasy VII.
How does that work? Well, in FFX there's a guy called Rin who owns a shop. In FFX-2, a precocious kid called Shinra talks to Rin about his idea of harvesting the "life force that flows through our planet" and turning it into energy. This isn't a major plot point, and it's only in a small footnote that you discover that Rin eventually says "Aw, what the heck" and bankrolls the kid's project. All of the money you've been giving Rin to buy potions and whatnot has helped him fund this venture for Shinra. But what's the harm? You've helped develop a possible new source of clean energy and made a little boy happy in the process.
Oh, and you're also responsible for the horrors of a tyrannical regime. Remember this logo from Final Fantasy VII?
That belongs to the Shinra Electric Company, aka the bastards who ruin everything for everyone in Final Fantasy VII. They're ruled by President Shinra, a global autocrat with a private army who essentially owns the metropolis Midgar and controls every aspect of the citizens' lives. The Shinra Electric Company is also behind some pretty horrific genetic engineering that causes trouble for everyone involved. And how do they get their energy? Why, by harvesting the life force of the planet -- the same process little Shinra from FFX-2 invented, although he probably didn't foresee that it would turn the mined areas into desolate wastelands.
So, yes, President Shinra is little Shinra's descendant. In other words, by giving a nice man some money in a game set 1,000 years earlier, you helped fund an evil, world-destroying corporation. Nice one, jackass.
Cuanto menos curioso xDDD
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