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That evil reveal thing is in Portal, too, where GlaDOS is guiding you through the game with a promise of "cake" at the end, but in reality she's trying to kill your character.

I used to think the story of Final Fantasy 7 was "brilliant" but now I know it's just convoluted. :P In fact, Tetsuya Nomura seems to be a big storytelling sinner, in general. FFVII had alot of these cliches, FFVIII had the Last Boss Out of Nowhere, amnesia, and probably others that I can't think of right now. FFX sort of had Last Boss Out of Nowhere. Kingdom Hearts had a really screwed up and convoluted story, but I don't think it violates any one of these specifically. The World Ends With You started out with a good story, but after some interesting reveals it eventually started going downhill in the story department. Then there's a big WTF Irrelevant Twist at the end of the game, before you face the final boss, that completely breaks the entire story.

I still enjoy Final Fantasy 7. I don't even know why; it's not the music, it's not the gameplay, and it's DEFINETLY not the graphics. Collecting and leveling materia is kind of fun in a weird sort of way, and there's some entertaining mini-games. But, it's like another online reviewer said, "Maybe if you made the core gameplay more substantial, you wouldn't need to break up the monotony with pointless minigames." Maybe it's because the story is so messed up, so bizarre, so convoluted, that it's actually so bad it's good. I mean, in what other game do you dress up your character as a woman to sneak into a mobster's hideout? Not even GTA has done anything like that.