I can never tell how much of the monsters in FFVII are actually diegetic or whether they mostly only exist out of a mix of mechanical necessity and genre convention.
But it is really funny to think about people being told not to wander off the marked hiking trails around Costa del Sol or else they will be attacked and mauled to death by a pack of wild matryoshka dolls
In FF7 the monsters are created by lifestream energy. This can happen in one of three ways, there's a natural method where the lifestream of the planet comes out of the planet in various places (like a lava flow), it mutates animals into monsters. The unnatural way is that mako power plants cause this to occur with the waste products they dump into the surrounding environment. Then there's the third way which is through human injecting mako directly into their bodies which is what Hojo's experiments are all about.
There's a part in Cosmo Canyon where it's discussed that monsters have been increasing lately and that it coincided with the construction of all the mako plants.
Yeah I could never figure that out either, but I think lore wise the monsters were supposed to be byproducts of mako energy I think? And also Hojo experimenting.
I can never tell how much of the monsters in FFVII are actually diegetic or whether they mostly only exist out of a mix of mechanical necessity and genre convention.
But it is really funny to think about people being told not to wander off the marked hiking trails around Costa del Sol or else they will be attacked and mauled to death by a pack of wild matryoshka dolls
In FF7 the monsters are created by lifestream energy. This can happen in one of three ways, there's a natural method where the lifestream of the planet comes out of the planet in various places (like a lava flow), it mutates animals into monsters. The unnatural way is that mako power plants cause this to occur with the waste products they dump into the surrounding environment. Then there's the third way which is through human injecting mako directly into their bodies which is what Hojo's experiments are all about.
There's a part in Cosmo Canyon where it's discussed that monsters have been increasing lately and that it coincided with the construction of all the mako plants.
TIL that explains a lot.
I can imagine tha amount of hate and anger that caused cactuar. Also malboro is just the lung after marlboro.
Yeah I could never figure that out either, but I think lore wise the monsters were supposed to be byproducts of mako energy I think? And also Hojo experimenting.