The first time a video game made me actually cry, I was twenty years old in 1998, sitting in my cramped dorm room at ASU playing Final Fantasy VII on my roommate’s PlayStation. Yeah, I know – I was a Sega guy playing on Sony hardware, but the Saturn was basically dead by then and I needed my RPG fix. Anyway, you probably know the scene I’m talking about. Aerith, the prayer, Sephiroth with that…
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