I love the game and agree with all that you said. The story gets a lot better, I actually think that playing the game knowing after playing FF7 is actually worse than playing the game w/o playing FF7.
The thing is that all throughout CC you know your character will die by the end of the game. I started to really like Zack over the Emo Cloud that i liked in FF7. Cloud in FF7 is my least fav character out of Zack, Cloud(in CC) Cloud (in FF7) and Cloud(in AC).
But i love the game and think every RPG fan should play it because even the battle system is good. Though i do not like the choosing of magic, attack, item, etc... but i think it is good for all the choices available.







