Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 3 Has Funny Final Fantasy 7 Reference
The minds behind Rick and Morty have never been shy about poking fun at the gaming world, with Final Fantasy 7 and its Buster Sword-wielding hero being the latest to get some comedic shine from the series. Given how stylish and over-the-top the game itself is, Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon weren't short on possible material to pull from for the latest episode, «Bethic Twinstinct.» The show isn't overt with its reference, either, and lets it sit in the background momentarily as part of the episode's running joke on video game design.
Rick and Morty's visual gag sees Morty playing games at home with his older sister, Summer, as a way to distract themselves while Beth and Space Beth grow closer. Rick joins them and, at Morty's suggestion, turns the console's realism setting up to max, resulting in games that provide a more «realistic» experience. This leads to Summer and Morty playing a «realistic» version of Final Fantasy 7 where Cloud is facing off with a random monster, but the realism setting makes his giant Buster Sword unusable.
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Final Fantasy 7 isn't the only game which appears to comically suffer as a result of the show's idea of what realism in video games should be. The cartoon gives its take on what a «realistic» version of Street Fighter, Galaga, and text-based games would be, the former of which forces the players to find each other on the street to fight before their «forget» meter fills up, and they forget why they were going to fight to begin with.
The overall gag is a funny jab at the idea of realism in video games, developers promising more «realistic» experiences within their games, and what the end results can sometimes be. Part of the issue with
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