I´m finally playing Final Fantasy 7

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GooseGaws said:

lestatdark said:

Those are some good reasons. Most of the times, when I see people saying those kinds of things, the usual kind of replies that I get is "the game sucked from the get go" or "I can't stand the fugliness of the game" and some other things like that. 

May I ask what was that frustrated you late in the game?

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I don`t have a problem with the Materia system itself, but I don`t like the way it was implemented, specifically with the "ultimate" weapons for each character.  You obtain the best weapon for someone, but if you want to grow Materia you can`t even use it.  Stupid.  The necessity of chocobo breeding/racing in order to obtain some of the strongest Materia was also frustrating, which resulted in my skipping out on getting them.  I didn`t think the big revelation about Cloud`s past fit in very well with the early parts of the game; he seemed too unfocused as a character.  I also didn`t like the way his relationship with Tifa was portrayed late in the game.  These last two points may have something to do with the shoddy localization, which bothered me far more than the dated graphics.  The final area / boss battle was also underwhelming.

Ultimate Weapons suck. They depend on in-battle conditions.

Cloud on his HP, Yuffie on the enemy's level (AKA, worthless against normal enemies), Tifa on how full her limit break is, Vincent on how many enemies he killed, Aerith's only gets stronger if the other members are KO'd, I don't know about Cid and Cait's ultimate weapons, and Barret on how much AP he has on the materia equipped on his weapon.

So yeah, there's absolutely no reason to use them.