The story(spoilers)

[Enkidoh]

Clearly you’ve never played ff type 0 or ff7 lmao.

You forgot ff8 or ff10 or even ff9 for a good bit

Ughh, I assure you both I most definetely have played all of the above (and the rest of the FF series). And to reiterate my previous post, even in those titles you are still playing the 'good' guys fighting against an oppressive society, organization or country - evil empire in Type 0, evil megacorp in FFVII (and this in particular they were specifically destroying their own facilities and assets simply to paint the protagonists in propoganda as terrorists, which they really weren't), oppressive dictatorship (who was led by a Richard Nixon copy to boot!) that was really being led in the shadows by an evil sorceress in FFVIII, kingdom with jingoistic aspirations being led on a string by a mysterious arms dealer in FFIX... etc etc.

Yes I admit often the lines about who is really in the right can blur slightly, but it's still usually pretty clear cut that the forces you're fighting against are evil or at least morally grey and pretty much you end up trying to stop no less than the destruction or at least ruination of the world ultimately, which the antagonists in every FF game invariably end up unleashing or instigating. Every single time.

As I said before, I get it, evil is cool, bad guys get all the fun, and they wear the coolest outfits and get the fanciest toys. But you need to look elsewhere if you think this game is going to suddenlly allow you to start slapping people around for no reason other than because it amuses you, slaughtering innocents to show how edgy you are, and throwing in your lot with the evil empire or the black clad ghosts from the past who are stuck between Denial and Bargaining on the 5 Stages of Grief, because it simply will not happen.