Customer Reviews:
 One of the finest games ever produced, for any platform! July 7, 2008
I fondly remember the many hours/days/weeks that I played this game. It was the prime reason I bought my first Playstation. I look forward to testing out PS3's purported backward compatibility to the PS2 with this game.
I fervently hope Squaresoft considers reissuing this game for the PS3 with updated HD graphics and surround sound. I would buy it in a heartbeat!
 Better Then The Pc Version June 26, 2008
I Love It Its Fun. i Would Recomened This Game But Wait Just In Case PS3 Version Comes Out
Easily The BEST game I've ever played, and its 2008... June 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me start off by saying, Final Fantasy VII is highly revered by many gamers as the best of the series, and like stated before, like the indie music scene its cool to hate what is so popular, strictly because it has mass appeal. I am a musician, and i've fallen victim to this mindset many times before with pop music, and i've learned when it boils down to it, Like what you like, and don't worry about the mass appeal. I am not afraid to stick to my gun, this game is the best i've ever played.
This game was released in 1997, and it was a launch game for the PS1. I own a ps3 now and surely the games graphics cannot compare to anything today, but when it was released, it had beautiful graphics compared to SNES (or genisis) graphics we've seen before, and brought to life 3d textures which has not been seen in video gaming before. I still recall to this day playing through this game on the brand new playstation and getting fully absorbed in the story, graphics, and game play. I still play through this game to this day, atleast once a year, just to recap the wonders of this game.
This game's story is easily the most impressive story line I have encountered in video gaming history. I could read this story as a book and it would be the best book i've ever read. The character development (with the exception of Cait Sith (strictly matter of opinion), there always seems to be one character that never gets much use in RPGs for me), and twists and turns make this game a EPIC TIMELESS CLASSIC (even if you can muster through the bad graphics compared to this generation). I am a huge RPG fan spanning back to the SNES days (first game system), and playing the greats like Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy 4,5, and 6, and really enjoyed those. Needless to say, This trumps all those games. I also played the more recent Final Fantasy games and still feel this game overtakes those. I was disapointed to see such neglect from Final Fantasy 9 because of its roots to the old school FF titles, because FF7 quite possibly was most people's first FF game. FF9 is easily number 2 in my game rankings. Now there seems to be a clear cut line between fans of FF8 and FF7. It's usually you either like FF7 or you like FF8, and you can't like both. This is the case for me, and many of my fellow FF gamers. I disliked 8 very much because it strayed away from what was beautiful about the FF series. I also feel the same with FF12. FF7 strayed away from the FF series but kept old school FF gamers still intreged.
This is your typical Turn based FF battle system, which many people tend to claim is a bad thing about RPGs, and i think the exact opposite. Turn based games let you think and figure out what you need to do to defeat a certain enemy, and not the same technique is going to work for every enemy, which I feel other genres tend to look over. Needless to say if Story is more important than gameplay to you, than this game is worth a run through. If you're like many others and hate turn based games, and could care less about a story, and you just want to have fun without any of those constrictions, you might want to save your time, and skip this title.
Another thing that is worth an honorable mention is FF7's wonderful lush soundtrack! I can listen to the soundtrack to this day and it will bring in the great memories of playing this game. The experiences of the game are excelently tied into the music and it will stick with you everytime you hear the score. I feel the strongest out of the FF's sound track is FF9 (for its pure variety in musical concepts), but FF7 comes in a close second.
Knights of the Round materia makes this game fairly unfair, but to balance it out, they added two super bosses which are incredibly fun, and even out the playing field
I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but when it comes to RPG games, i'll make the exception. I've played nearly every FF game to date, and enjoy the ups and downs of each game. I also play other genres too, and even through genre crossing this is my favorite game of all time, and I think that wont change. The story is emotional (ill admit it, it made me cry, thats how intense i felt it was... alright time to man up) and very intense, if you can follow it. This game made me offically a follower of RPG video gaming.
 I HATE FINAL FANTASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! June 9, 2008
1 out of 34 found this review helpful
Dumb! It's a bunch of spiky haired teenagers running around trying to fight and idiot named Sephiroth and a stupid electricity company. Sephiroth is stupid because he has WHITE HAIR! No I really mean it! WHITE HAIR! It does not deserve to be called a video game, and I hate anyone who likes it. The focus on the story is so much that the gameplay sucks. The turn based fighting is the absolute opposite of strategic. I HATE THIS **** GAME!
Well, the main reason I hate this game is that they focus WAAAYYYYY to much on the story. They thought about gameplay last.
best rpg eva: June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
fun to play,good music,great story,all around fantastic game,its would be nice to see it in high def on the ps3 though(remake).
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