“I won’t claim to be a gamer, but I was aware, broadly, of some of the concepts present in Final Fantasy,” Tom Morello – singer, songwriter and political activist, and Rage Against the Machine guitarist – tells me when I ask him if he was aware of the political themes of Final Fantasy 14. Since its (re)release in 2014, FF14 has tackled issues such as anti-colonialism, class struggle, and nationalism, extolling the virtues of active resistance, open rebellion, and pushing back against the established status quo in order to defend the rights and liberties of all people.
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