Summary

• JRPGs convey pro-environmental messages through themes like friendship, differing perspectives, and harmony with nature.
• Games like Final Fantasy 5, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Wild Arms 3 use storylines to emphasize protecting the planet.
• Through nuanced storytelling, JRPGs like Tales of Vesperia and Final Fantasy 7 address the destructive consequences of human greed.

JRPGs are known for being thematically heavy-handed: this is not automatically a bad thing. Most of the lessons taught by them are ones that should be reaffirmed time and again: the power of friendship, the appreciation of differing perspectives, and the importance of achieving 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:harmony with nature.

As industrialization leaves nature behind and damages our own planet, it's♎ important to appreciate the art that rages against this wanton destruction. These stories are meant to encourage us to look after our own 💝environment, even if it's as small a step as recycling plastic.

8 Final Fantasy 5 �෴�

By the time Final Fantasy 5 came out, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:classic JRPG trope of gathering crystals to save the world had grown tiresome. These crystals represented the planet, yes, but over the course of several JRPGs - Square-💃developed and otherwise - they had turned into simplistic deus ex machinas.

Final Fantasy 5 freshened up the crystals plot by adding a more nuanced environmental message to it. The crystals are being exploited by humanity for their power, much like resources are in real life. As the crystals get exhausted and shatter, the world draws closer to collapse. Bartz's party, in being chosen as protectors of the crysta💎ls, are serving as protectors of the earth.

7 Xenoblade Chronicles 2𓂃

The world of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is home to the Titans, and the Titans are home to human🧸s. The scarcity of resources drives humanity to war, however, leading to the suffering of the Titans. When a Titan dies, the world suffers: entire ecosystems collapse, threatening the existence of humanity itself.

This symbiotic rel🌌ationship is the fulcrum on which the game's plot balances. While Xenoblade Chronicles 2 carr𝓰ies a lot of other themes, the undercurrent is always about saving the planet. The only hope for humanity to survive is to rejuvenate the world they live in.

6 𒉰 Wild Arms 3 ಞ

Nature has always been a central theme in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:desert landscape of Wild Arms. This is most prominent in the third entry: the environment in Filgaia is a🍌ctively decaying, leading to a scarcity of resources. Even the seas no longer h🎉old water.

The Prophets are a trio of scientists who purport to save the envꦕironment, but are quietly chasing their own personal ends. Their callous attitudes clash with𝐆 those of the Drifters, who work with the planet's Guardians to protect it. Wild Arms 3 reminds us that we cannot use greater-good objectives as an excuse to cause suffering in the short term.

5 🐽 Tales Of Phantasia

Tales of Phantasia is a pioneer among JRPGs: it had a vocal theme on the SNES, real-time elements in its combat, and a nuanced villain with an objective other than revenge or world dominatio🎀n. Dhaos' motivation for fighting against the pro𓂃tagonists is to revive his home planet.

The overuse of mana, derived from the World Tree, caused Dhaos' planet to collapse. When he came to Aselia, he saw the same thing happen. Despite his warnings, the kings of Aselia kept draining ওthe environment, driving Dhaos to extreme measures. Even Cress' party sympathizes with Dhaos' drive to save both his planet and theirs.

4 Chrono Cross ജ

Chrono Cross' tropical landscape isn't just a fantastical setting for our consciousness surrounded by 🍷concrete. It is a world that is slowly, surely, and forever under threat. When Serge and his allies find a small piece of the future nestled in the Dead Sea, they find a swath of mechanical wreckage: a landfill of old robots, car parts and computer components.

This is the future that humanity, with its exponential gorging of nature, has built for itself. It has chased the other sentient species away, hunted Hydras to near-extinction, and left no ground untouched. And all it achieved was extinction. Lavos came back 168澳洲幸运5꧙开♒奖网:not because Chrono Trigger's ending was retconned, but because 💧humans never struck a deal with natuꦓre.

3 Mother 3

Earthbound is the most popular game in this series, but Mother 3 is the better game. Shigesato Itoi's masterpiece centres on a small village that is corrupted by capitalism after industry rears its ugly head. Villagers abandon their princ𓆏iples and their neighbours, so long as they can have their happy boxes - Mother's equivalent of televisions.

The game's logo acts as a gauge of nature's health. On 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the title screen, it shows metal and machinery encroaching on the once-wooden sign. The post-game logo shows the lo💮go with its greenery restored, sym💛bolizing that nature is healing.

2 🅘 Tales Of Vesperia

One of the biggest hurdles environmental conservation faces, and one that few will admit to themselves🎉, is that we love our luxuries too much. We are the only species intelligent enough to destroy our planet, and we justify it because our convenience comꦕes first.

Tales of Vesperia is an unabashed pushback against that mentality. The game features Yuri Lowell and his friends saving the world from a destructive force awakened by humanity's overuse of blast🐬ia - technology that is convenient and nigh magical, but that comes at the expen🎐se of the planet's health.

1 🐻 Final Fantasy 7 🦂

Final Fantasy 7 saw the series move in a sci-fi direction, while keeping its themes of nature intact. Final Fantasy 7 is the best game about saving the environment, because it presents a nuance🍷d portrayal of the issue. Even if you've never played through it, you probably know about the opening level of Final Fantasy ෴7: of Cloud and co. conducting a bombing mission against the Shinra corporation.

Avalanche, designated eco-terrorists by Shinra, believe that their crusa𝓀de against capitalism means killing a few civilians is justified. But as Barret learns, the pla𝓀net dying is no excuse for harming innocents. The Shinra corporation should be the one to pay, going so far in its exploitation that the planet itself fights back.