Weaponized Nostalgia: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix, PlayStation 4)

How Final Fantasy VII Remake’s opening hours use nostalgia and modern gaming ideologies to redefine how we think about remakes.

Aidan Moher
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19 min readJun 18, 2020

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Spoiler warning: This piece contains open spoilers for Final Fantasy VII Remake’s first five chapters and the entirety of the

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Aidan Moher
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Hugo Award-winning writer ft. in WIRED, Washington Post, and Kotaku, and author of "Fight, Magic, Items." He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and kids.