I know. On the one hand, I usually grind like anything in the Midgar stages at the beginning... but this year I think I was watching it with my fic brain in action, and all I could think was "those are probably actual people in those uniforms; families, friends, consequences,... oh and those uniforms are ruddy 'orrible too!"
Let's face it, the board of Shinra could definitely have done with reading the Evil Overlord list by the time the OG canon starts happening (and it should have been required reading in their science department long before then). A few simple precautions, like "is dropping an entire sector plate and killing thousands of people really a proportionate response to a group which as far as we know comprises a maximum of about six people?" or "if you must create super-soldiers who are a genetic melange of the genomes of humans and some alien whatever, at least let him know this from the start and make sure psychological counselling and monitoring is available" would have really knocked the death rate in that game right down. Even the nice simple ones like "I will not give my troops uniforms with face-concealing helmets" would have been useful (Junon parade scene, anyone?).
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Let's face it, the board of Shinra could definitely have done with reading the Evil Overlord list by the time the OG canon starts happening (and it should have been required reading in their science department long before then). A few simple precautions, like "is dropping an entire sector plate and killing thousands of people really a proportionate response to a group which as far as we know comprises a maximum of about six people?" or "if you must create super-soldiers who are a genetic melange of the genomes of humans and some alien whatever, at least let him know this from the start and make sure psychological counselling and monitoring is available" would have really knocked the death rate in that game right down. Even the nice simple ones like "I will not give my troops uniforms with face-concealing helmets" would have been useful (Junon parade scene, anyone?).