Anyone else feel like Edgerunner was basically the Midgar arc of FF7, to the point that it felt like the creators just played FF7

The big guy felt like an off brand Barret, the whole thing is like what if the Midgar arc ended with Cloud dying

>>714495005
>up to Rebirth
Okay I can do this. I'll chat up a little background information and I'll touch on a few details about Cloud and Sephiroth without giving up the whole game. Basically I'll try to lay down a few seeds to follow going into Rebirth.

The first thing FF7 wants you to understand is Midgar. See the Planet isn't just a floating rock in space. It's alive. And the lifeblood of the Planet is the Lifestream. Without going into too much detail because spoilers, the Lifestream is responsible for the existence of... well life. So what happens when people start burning the Lifestream for money?

Shinra was a weapons manufacturer that discovered the Lifestream was an incredibly efficient source of energy. So they created the Reactors, machines that siphon up the Lifestream and burn it as fuel. Shinra rebranded the Lifestream as "Mako" and with their monopoly on the best weapons and the best power source, they functionally took over the world. And their seat of power is Midgar, a floating mega city built over top the villages that built it. The rich are able to live on the upper plate while the villages degraded into slums where the power fight for scraps.