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I think some of the reason people obsess over Final Fantasy VII is that it really was a brilliant game.

• unalone 18y ago
  I played it last of the games in the series. My two biggies were FFIV and FFVIII. FFVII I just played a month ago for the first time, and it was disappointing. The plot goes really slowly. The writing's pretty iffy. The big death scene is way overdone. I played it right after rewatching Season 1 of The Wire, which has one of the most shocking death scenes I've ever seen, and it struck me as sad, how immature the writing mindset of videogames is. Even Half-Life 2, which is a pinnacle in a lot of ways, sheers away from really mature themes in plot. Possibly for its time it was a masterpiece. But having played FFVIII to death, moving back to VII saw a lot of things suffer - this opposed to, say, Super Mario 64, which has a childish plot but the gameplay of which is still timeless. (I don't like the slow-paced RPG battle system. Pen and paper works really well with it, but video games are played live. You should be thinking on your feet. For that reason I like the Kingdom Hearts system a lot, though I feel that got botched when KH2 came out. The emphasis switched again away from tactics and towards brute force.)