RPGLipsie: Well, like i said, just use a game-script (like over at gamefaqs) to find where all the profanity is, and then just use that to help find all the "swearing". That way, isntead of going through EVERY text-box, you can start to guess where they all are, AND cross them off as you go along ^_^
*starts thinking*
See, there should be no such thing as "swearing", ie, no words banned from acceptable public use. That would be just one less thing people could do wrong, and no one would care, and this wouldn't even be an issue.
As for you, mister cousin, you seem eloquent and intelligent enough. So you should use your intelligence to realize that "hell" and "damn" are just words, and seeing them isn't going to doom you to either such fate (ie, being damned or going to Hell).
Also, within the context of ff7, there is no Hell, and there's no God to damn or have damn things, so within that context, the characters really aren't swearing at all (I'm assuming that you and your parent's disdain for such words is rooted within deep religious beleifs).
Now, I'm not saying that you should use such words if you don't want to; in fact, it is the mark of a highly respectable person who doesn't degrade themselves to using profanity to get their thoughts across to others. However, being a wet blanket and overly sensitive to just seeing the words on a screen becomes laughable to people who don't give a darn.
You're also missing out on a lot of great things if the only entertainment you partake in has to be G-rated. The best policy, i think, is to take things with an open mind, and NOT CARE about things like explicitives. Not once in the history of mankind has there been a documented case of someone seeing/hearing such words, and all of a sudden they burst into flames, or were smite from above or had some other horirble thing happen to them, so your reservations are not that well founded at all.
btw, this IS such a great game, such a classic and masterpiece, because the storyline has beleivable, realistic charaters. Cid smokes and swears, Barret is a rough-n-tough blue-colalr man with a mouth... that's how some people are. To shield one's self from such things only makes one an unbearable tightwad later in life. Learn to lossen up now, and you'll be fine. Of course, there's still the issue of the parents, and i doubt having a logical discussion about profanity and how it's not the ultimate of sins is going to change their perspective...
So just play the game when they're not home.
ps: I'm not trying to make fun of anyone, but rather try to logically debate with you two as to why your beleifs seem silly to other members of this board.
ps: Qhimm, check out their IP adresses. If they're from like, idaho or some other ultra-religious red-state, let us know, because arguing with goody-two-shoe-ness of that level is actually kinda pointless.