British Military Parade Plays Final Fantasy 7 Song About Bombing The Military

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The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual musical festival held by the British Armed Forces at the city's castle, and this year, on August 4, the troops did a performance to a live cover of Final Fantasy 7's opening mission theme... without a hint of irony.

If you haven't played Final Fantasy 7 before, it's about ex-military mercenaries and eco-freedom-fighters revolting against the polluting industrial giant that is Shinra, a world-governing and deeply corrupt mega business. To set the scene, FF7 opens with you bombing one of its plants and killing its soldiers, and through the game, you continue to fight back against their troops as you tear down their operations.

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Roshi20 shared a clip of the performance on the Final Fantasy subreddit, and a commenter called ratbastard007 put it best, "Military marching band playing a song called 'Bombing Run' from a game where terrorists bomb a military installation. Ironic." Someone in the comments even wondered if the soldiers grew up playing FF7, making them want to enlist, to which another user fittingly replied, "If playing FF7 made you want to join the military, I have to assume you skipped all of the dialogue".

As you can see in the video embedded above, a bunch of real soldiers in the UK marched to a theme from a game where you killed soldiers to save the planet. Maybe not the most fitting choices of songs, eh?

This played pretty early on in the show as well. The whole event lasted around an hour and 20 minutes, but the Final Fantasy 7 tune came into play only 14 minutes in, right off the back of a fairly cheery beginning. For those who haven't played FF7, it probably felt