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Action RPG (Action Role-Playing Game), also known as ARPG, refers to RPGs (role-playing games) that use direct, real-time, reflex-oriented, action combat systems, instead of the more abstract turn-based or menu-based battle systems.
The physical and mental turmoil that a person may encounter as a result of a traumatic or otherwise extremely stressful situation.
AVALANCHE is an anti-Shinra group. They believe that the extraction of Mako energy harms the planet. That's why they target the Mako Reactors with their attacks.
A condition in which two male characters are socially close, but not sexually or romantically, and are often partners.
Capitalism is an economic system that supports private property and financial gain.
Global Warming is the rising of the Earth's temperature. As temperatures rise, ice caps melt, ocean levels rise, and climates are drastically altered.
A group of platoons, typically four, which are each in turn a group of squads.
Either a force of over arching evil or a parody of the real world. The corporation is a common concept found in Video Games.
Counter-terrorists fight terrorists wherever they are found. These professional soldiers are highly disciplined and skilled in their profession.
One or more events from someone's past that negatively affected them. Plenty of video game characters have such pasts.
A pervasive feeling of sadness, perpetual boredom, or both, which can dramatically affect a person's life.
Eco-terrorism is terrorism conducted with the aim of saving the environment.
Content released frequently, every release contains a small portion of a whole story.
An evil organization is a group of super-villans who are hell bent on world domination or something of a similar nature. Usually defeated by a single Spy/Superhero/Average Joe/small child.
These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.
The political thriller is a story, often action-oriented, that tends to revolve around two or more nations struggling to gain power. Outcomes are usually found through military confrontations, covert wars, and back alley negotiating.
A lack of basic needs like clothes, clean water, shelter, and food.
A follow-up to a game or movie that takes place before the events of the previous installment or installments.
Designed as non-fictional, relating to real or known history, and to claim or reveal that these events actually happened, but were deliberately forgotten long ago.
Characters that harbor their past even though it may be revealed later. They are commonly uncovered in a number of video games.
The use of separating portions of a games story into separate chapters that have definitive beginings and ends, similiar to a serial dramas on television.
Shinra is a ruthless mega-corporation who harvest Mako, the life force of the planet Gaia, and transforms it into electricity to power the city of Midgar and its surrounding area. Famous for the Jenova Project which resulted in the creation of Sephiroth.
Terrorists can be found terrorizing people all over the world of video games. While there is no consensus on how to define the term "terrorism", terrorists are generally considered to be people who express their ideals through violence.
The Turks are an elite organization that perform covert operations for the Shinra Electric Power Company that first appear in Final Fantasy VII.
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