Quote Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming View Post
ff7 is pretty edgy lol. the main character and main villain are about as emo as it gets. its about a dystopian future where climate change has ravaged the lands purity and where people are killed for speaking out. its dark, its grungy and it works!. but lets not confuse the difference here between light hearted and older final fantasy, because they were still edgy. but there had good soul and good message of hope and unity. and that was never present in dawntrail, ever. what was, felt forced.
I think you might be thinking primarily of Advent Children Cloud (and in general). FVII itself has a lot of locales full of life (especially in Rebirth) and Cloud in VII, Remake and Rebirth is more of a socially awkward individual (but not reluctant to do fun things). Sephiroth is also definitely not emo. He's just a very dangerously ambitious and manipulative man with a pet world ending alien. Message of hope and unity is pretty accurate, though. Despite the world facing its inevitable end, the party fights against it.