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I don't know. My initial reaction was wtf but looking on it it was a pretty impactful story. The balance near the end is out of wack and they start giving these options to overpower yourself but then almost nothing to act out upon after it. Content wise, it is about half of FF6. So right about the time you can grind the chocobo / battle arena games, you've basically already beat the game and there's nothing to use the rewards on.

And if you do grind enough to beat them, you'll end up with enough items, money and upgraded materia that the rest of the game will get steam rolled like you were visiting the beginning of the game again.

The game story wise was great though. We'll never be able to get games like this ever again. Graphics wise it's just as good as it ever was. Gameplay and graphics - gameplay cohesion is so much more important than just some 'high graphics 3d simulator'. I feel that the game did play on it's graphics for the time and ultimately lack content though. When looking at FF6, FF7 had the content of just the first world of FF6.

I thought the materia system was cool to say the least, the combos made for some interesting strategy crunching. However I was not a fan of that ie steal, morph, throw, mime, enemy skill etc weren't baked into specific characters like in FF6. In FF7 you could just roll with essentially 3 characters of your choice the whole way. I was not a huge fan of every time the characters were cleared out it took me like 30 minutes of strategizing gear / materia before I got it all set.

Also the 'missable content' level in FF7 was staggering. I remember playing through FF6 with no guides, to later go and read guides much much later to find out I found everything in FF6 on my own. In FF7, I think the prime bs example is, right before you attack Kojo near the end if you don't have Barret in your party, a chest with his best weapon won't even show on the screen. And it's an area you can never go back to. Wtf?

There are also other areas in FF7 where if you didn't know what to do next, you may just give up literally trying to find what to do next. Literally the first 3 times I tried to play this game years ago this is what happened. Ie just in the shinra building. They have like literally 5-10 minutes of just walking up stairs. I literally just simply got bored of the game, couldn't figure out what to do, figured I was in the wrong place in the wrong time and just quit.

So unfortunately you have to play the game with a guide nearby, and if you actually want to enjoy the game and not have the whole thing squashed and killed by just reading through a guide as you go through, you have to play a part, read the guide for it, find incredible missable things you missed, reload the save before that part and redo it.

I feel like I'm missing something that is there now though.