The only difinitive value of FF7 was that it was a visual spectacle for its time and that it featured the most engaging duology of hero and villain of any game ever, an element cheapened though through the numerous spin-offs.
The Majority of the talent that worked on FF7 is gone now, currently either in Nintendo or Mist Walker, and it shows in the spin-offs and current quality of thier games, Crisis Core may have been good, but let's stop kidding ourselves, it wasn't FF7.







