Final Fantasy 7.
The Good: Its uniqueness, and the impact it had on the industry. The setting is very interesting. And it has an absolutely amazing soundtrack.
The Bad: Dated gameplay, with clunky controls to explore the overworld, random/forced/notbychoice encounters interrupting your time exploring the world, basically forcing you to grind and giving you (me) a heart attack anytime I'm about to open a chest/go to another location as a loud as fuck screamer with a super flashy screen filter just HAPPENS out of NO WHERE (but who likes to have the choice of what to fight or when to grind? Immayrightguyz?). A battle system that really lacks "meat" to it; attacking your enemies is NOT satysfying at all and landing a timed hit doesn't feel anymore "stronger" than a normal attack would, plus, timing those attacks basically has no skill to it, there isn't any visual/audio hint to help you land it, so it becomes a matter of luck/playing the game a thousand times to learn to have that PIXEL PERFECT timing, blocking/orwhatever also falls under this BS. For all the time I played, I NEVER, EVER, needed to use a single item (besides 1 TIME, in that, from what I remember, my materia configuration was completely removed from all my characters before fighting a boss WITHOUT WARNING ME BEFORE IT, or just giving vage hints of the fact) my magic was always enough to cure my party when needed, and I always had a place to recover my magic when needed. For all the people that keep complaining about FFXV being a mindless and dumb action game just for being an Action RPG I expected something with a little more strategy here than just ATTACK>BEATTACKED>REPEAT>LOSEMUCHHEALTH>CURE>REPEATHOLEPROCESSINFINITELY, I'm not even exaggerating when I say that the Devil May Cry games, yes, a hackn'slasher/buttonmasher/flashoversubstance/whateveryouguyscallit game series has 100x more strategy than this. The only characters I found interesting were the Berret (I think that was his name?) and Tifa (Yeah, the boobz chick), everybody else I found boring and made the whole experience a utter chore.
The Worst: It spawned one of the most cancerous fanbases I've ever seen besides the Sanic one.
Well, that's quite the essay, cheers if you make it through the whole thing. I dare you.
I'm now filled with determination.
