20 Facts About Midgar

Midgar is a fictional city from the Final Fantasy media franchise.

Midgar is a major aspect of the metaseries' industrial or post-industrial science fiction milieu with recurring appearances in related media, and is the centerpiece of the 2020 video game Final Fantasy VII Remake.

Midgar is featured prominently in discussions about Final Fantasy VII themes of class conflict and environmentalism.

Developers of Remake wanted to show more of the ordinary citizens living in Midgar to give players a better sense of the city and its culture.

The story and scenario writer for Remake, Kazushige Nojima, said that stopping the game at the point the party departs Midgar would allow for an adequate amount of planned story scenarios to be incorporated throughout its narrative.

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Midgar is located on a world referred to as "the Planet" by series characters, and which is retroactively named "Gaia" in some Square Enix promotional material and by Square Enix staff.

Midgar is originally formed from the consolidation of several smaller, independent towns in the distant past; each settlement made up one sector and gradually lost its original name.

Midgar serves as the setting of the early hours of Final Fantasy VII.

The cannon succeeds, but a simultaneous attack by a rampaging Weapon damaged some areas of Midgar, destroying the upper floors of the Shinra headquarters.

In one instance, Midgar is nearly destroyed in its entirety by the large cannon stationed at Junon, which AVALANCHE had temporarily seized.

The setting of Midgar in Remake is noted for its linear nature; while the upper plate regions were mostly inaccessible in the original game, Remake allows players to explore many of these areas and interact extensively with its residents through new story scenarios.

Midgar has appeared as a level or stage in various Final Fantasy spin-off titles outside of the Compilation metaseries.

Outside of the Final Fantasy franchise, Midgar has appeared in the Itadaki Street series, the Super Smash Bros.

Stephen K Hirst from Ars Technica suggested that a major theme of Final Fantasy VII, which involves an armed struggle between members of the working class and a "hyper-capitalist machine hellbent on extracting every ounce of value from the planet" to benefit Midgar's elite, resonated with a generation of players and inspired some to become environmentalist advocates and activists.

Midgar has been a popular subject of fan labor, with some fans attempting to recreate the city's likeness in a real world or fictional context.

Midgar city has been digitally recreated by fans within other game worlds like Minecraft, and Second Life.

Harry Mackin from Paste Magazine said the opening act of Final Fantasy VII in Midgar is the game's mostly fondly remembered aspect, and that the city recalls the cyberpunk themes of Akira and Blade Runner.

Konstantinos Dimopoulos from WireFrame concurred, noting that Midgar is a "place that managed to define, encapsulate, and summarise a whole setting – a pithy urban symbol of FFVII's world".

Jason Faulkner from GameRevolution opined that Midgar is an exemplary JRPG setting which "stands as one of the best examples of world-building in the genre", and the "crowning achievement" of the entire Final Fantasy series.

Nadia Oxford from US Gamer found that the visual upgrade of Midgar in Remake provides an unsettling observation on how Midgar's expansion damages the planet it is located in environmentally, as well as the ease of which to spot the parallels of "human excess and hubris" between the real world and the game's sickened world that inevitably leaks to a bleak future.