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theprof00 on 02 July 2014
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Egann said:

What a surprise. I disagree with someone from N4G.

Final Fantasy VII is actually one of my least favorite of the old Squaresoft games. Every FF game has it's faults, but I found VII particularly irritating. The lifestream business irritated me almost as much as Cloud giving an abrupt character 180 when Sephiroth shows up. And then Tifa knew the whole time that Cloud had Zach's memories and said NOTHING?!

Yeah, good gameplay doesn't make up for stuff like that in my book. Crisis Core is the only FF VII game which doesn't suck.

If you are looking for a traditional party-based RPG, I would say Chrono Cross is the better game, both with gameplay and story. If you are willing to consider non-traditional RPG's, I have to mention Parasite Eve, which was short and really didn't give you a ton of options, but one of Square's best constructed stories. And then there's Xenogears.

Take your pick. I prefer all three of those over VII. Heck, I would prefer VIII, as faulted as it is over VII. Square had a ton of really good RPG games back in the day, and a lot of what you will find enjoyable in each is personal taste. But I do think some of them deserve mentioning in the same breath as  nostalgia-goggled VII.

Lifestream business? What's the problem?
Cloud character 180? You mean when he realizes who he is?
Tifa knew what and said nothing? Cloud only believed he was the person with Sephiroth and some other minor things. He only shows up in the middle of the Avalanche story. Tifa hasn't seen him for years. When he talks about going to Nibel, that's exactly when she DOES say something, because she knows that's not correct. Also, Cloud didn't have Zach's memories, he was just confused about the events in Nibelheim because he underwent mako poisoning, was traumatized by Seph, and then injected with Jenova, meanwhile Zach was talking to him in his coma. There's nothing about actually possessing his memories through lifestream or whatever. As a 10 year old I understood this.

And no, as far as stories go, it's hard to find one as well constructed as ff7. You'll call nostalgia goggles, I'm sure, but my two other favorite storylines in old rpgs are ff:tactics, and suikoden 2. I'm not saying it's amazing...I'm saying it's better than most. You could write a list of all the ones better, but I'll quadruple your list with ones that are worse.