Loveless

I’m digging into meta and commentary about Final Fantasy VII, and I’m realizing that there’s a lot I don’t know about the lore. To give an example, I knew Loveless was a stage play, but I never picked up on the fact that it’s based on an epic poem. To be fair, I think the only hint you get that this is the case comes very late in the game, and the translation doesn’t make it entirely clear what’s being referred to.

I guess a lot of the lore is only explored through “compilation” games like Crisis Core, which I have no intention of ever playing – not for any ideological reasons, but rather because I missed that era of gaming the first time around and don’t have any particular interest in returning to it.