Zkuq said:
I too am waiting for the trilogy to be finished. One thing that helps with that is that I haven't played the original yet but I want to. I think I've started it like twice, but the beginning is pretty boring, and the game is fairly ugly by today's standards... |
I never have been a fan of the OG FFVII. It was the most disappointing experience I've ever had with a video game. I literally beat the game twice because I couldn't accept the fact that it was a Square RPG that i didn't enjoy. I thought "I had to have missed something..." It was worse the second time around. Up until that point, Final Fantasy was my favorite RPG franchise and Squaresoft could do no wrong. I found FFVII to be incredibly mid. It was not a bad game but the gaming press presented it as this all time great RPG and it wasn't. It may be the wrong impression, but to me it felt like FFVII was a lot of people's first RPG. That would be the only thing that explained some of the praise it received. Phantasy Star killed off a party member in two entries, PS2 in 1989 and PS4 in 1993, by the time FFVII launched in 1997. Other disc based RPGs had FMVs and voice acting which FFVII lacked. Even it's graphically style, polygonal characters on prerendered backgrounds, had been done better by RE1 the year prior.
