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A mediocre entry in the FF series

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 34
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought my PS2, I got FF10, FF9, and FF7. That was back in 2002. FF10 & FF9 I liked. Good stories & loveable characters. But FF7 was a drag.

Then I saw all the positive reviews ("best game ever"), so I decided to give FF7 a second playing in 2004, to impress me. But I still did not like it. IMHO the major flaw is that FF7 has too many "dry" sections where you fight-fight-fight and almost nothing happens storywise (example - climbing the 100-floor building of your enemy -or- the dumb section where you waste an hour finding a dress). In some sections, literally hours pass by with no story... it feels like a step backwards to the near-nonexistent stories of the original nintendo (1980's nes).

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Also the Battle Engine - totally unbalanced. A good RPG will provide balance between physical & magical attacks, so they are near-equal. A good RPG will make each character unique with specific skills & weaknesses (like real people-some are fighters; others are healers). Not so FF7:

- it's all magic... physical attacks are worthless (about 1/4 the damage)

- and the characters are completely interchangeable. You can equip Fire3 to your man & Heal3 to your girl. And then the next battle, completely flip it around, so the man is the healer & the girl is the killer. And then flip it again! No individuality. Each character is identical. Plus *instant learning* and instant forgetting... not realistic at all.

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Also, the story, while good, is poorly executed. It basically boils down to a meteor poisoning the planet's "health" - very simple concept - but the writer dances around & adds un-necessary complication. He takes 2+2 = 4 and turns it into 1-5+4-6+2-1+7-2 = 4. That's why so many gamers go, "Huh? What just happened?" It was a good story, but a lousy script.

Overall, FF7 is one of the weakest games in the FF series (inferior to the other PS1 game-FF9, super nintendo games FF4, FF5, FF6, even inferior to FF10). I'd recommend playing those other games first, before you touch this one.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: March 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok, Final Fantasy VII is an AWESOME game--one of the best RPG's to ever exist. But DO NOT buy this version of it. 8 out of 10 times this piece of ... won't work on your computer. It's not just ..., it's almost all PC versions of this game. - ...

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok.Final Fantasy Vll.Its a great game.Truely for its time the graphics were great.The carecters are cool,vincent..Hes kinds like squall(ff8)tifa, Barret, arieth, Redxlll(Hes a cat demon), and cloud, they all are classics.

It is a bad game, avoid it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: May 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Bad graphics, re-hashed plot, an extreamly linear story line, a horrible main charactor, and un beatable enemies. Avoid it. If you want an adventure game Play Zelda, if you want an RPG get Baulder's gate. Both are a lot better.

weird...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This installment of the FF series was well... weird. I guess it is just me, because everyone else seems to love the game (why?). The games real time battle system was frustrating because well... I can't do everything or see everything at once! Also, the cartoonish style of the game (not to mention the cardboard figures and heartless charcters) really turned me off. In my opinon FFX is a much better game due to the obvious inhansment in graphices, cut scences, charcters, storyline, minigames, and entertainment. Maybe the game is better on the Playstation but if not buy FFX (possibly FF8 and FF9 but I haven't played them yet. Hopefully they will be better than FFVII).

Best Ever? Not even Close.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 21
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is extremely linear and quickly became boring. It is very easy. I mean there are no puzzles or challenges whatsoever. I don't think I lost a single battle in the entire game. Don't be fooled by all the great reviews. They must have beeen written by pre-teens or very new RPG players. This game is not suiable for adults. It is very good for a console style RPG with many interesting places and effects. However, there are no intellectual challenges and the story is extremely childish.

Best Ever? Not even Close.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Extremely linear game that becomes boring quickly. Much better than many console style RPGs but really should not be considered by experienced adult RPG fans.

Ummmm, no.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: August 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What the hell was going on when you people did this!?!?! The only bit of help I got was in those few sections, where it's not exactly clear where you need to go next (i.e. City of the Ancients, Disc 2), and to help beginers with materia junctioning. And I am missing 2 and only 2 of the Enemy Skills, no thanks to the guide, which only gives you about 10. If you want secrets, hop online kiddiesm cuz this was just no good at all. I'm not even sure if it listed anything about thar damned, locked treasure in the man house in Kalm. Also, no 1/35 soldiers...I have 3! Where are the others? Save your money for something good.

Great game, but doesn't work on many computers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Storywise, graphics wise, and fun-wise this game is great. If you can get it to work, that is. It is a notoriously buggy game that simply will not run on many computers without crashing every 15 minutes. Be sure to check out the tech support to see just how unreliable the game really is, and how little the company cares about making it work correctly.

Great game---but . . ..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

No doubt about it, FF7 is a great game. Awesome graphics, cool story, very well-thought out.

So why'd I take it back?

Because I am not a big fan of swearing. If you don't want a game that swears at you every ten minutes, DO NOT GET THIS GAME. If swearing doesn't bother you, go ahead----you won't regret it.

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