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** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' starts off as a campaign against the Gestahlian Empire until halfway through, [[The Dragon]] becomes a god and destroys half the world, leaving you to recover your lost allies and destroy him.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' begins with Cloud and AVALANCHE's brave struggle against the evil Shinra company executives, who are draining the life out of the planet to maintain an electricity monopoly. About five hours into the game President Shinra is killed and the Shinra's relevance to the plot dies with him, the focus then shifting to leaving Midgar to pursue Sephiroth across the planet and stop his scheme to summon Meteor and become a god.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has a very, very clear line in its plot where the focus shifts completely. The first two disks of the game consist of Squall and the forces of
** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', the first part of the game focuses on Queen Brahne's conquest of the continent, the plot switch occurs when the party decides to go after Kuja, Brahne's weapons supplier, and he becomes the main antagonist when he promptly offs her at the end of the current disk. A plot switch then occurs a second time with [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|Kuja is an alien from Terra sent by Garland to destroy the world, and Zidane was meant to be his successor and spiritually is his brother that Kuja abandoned on Gaia}}.
** Mostly averted in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', where the overarcing plot is always the pilgrimage to destroy Sin. Once Seymour is revealed as an antagonist, rebelling against Yevon and uncovering the secrets of the organization becomes another major plot point, but it never overtakes the fight against Sin as the game's focus.
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