>>715897647 (OP)
Why build such a resort in the middle in a desert shithole? Why not build it right across a nicea beach, heck, Costa del Sol is in the vicinity >Vegas
The question still stand, really.
>>715899208
In the original canon it wasn't originally a desert. In Barret's flashback you can see the area is a forest.
In Remake however they changed it so that it's no longer built on top of Old Corel, so who knows.
>>715899208
The lore in the remake is that Dio convinced higher ups to finance it as a museum of some sort and slowly converted it into a huge amusement park which proved successful. The location is probably because they expected it to be shit at first.
>>715902103
Technically it was flourishing like Gongaga, but due to mako sucking in order to keep every light on, this caused the formation of the desert. In fact in Rebirth there's 4 little mako reactors that keeps the entire park active.
>>715903641
it would has been nice to see, if the day shifting was not fixed for "lore" purposes, considering that all the events of FF7 happens in around 1 month.