Final Fantasy VII
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Video Game Reviews of Final Fantasy VII
Customer Review: #1 RPG of all time
Summary: 5 Stars
FF7 is the best RPG ever made. It's one of the few games you can never get tired of playing.Customer Review: the best game of its time.
Summary: 5 Stars
very expensive, but this game is worth it. for anyone looking to buy it know that the ps3 has it as an available download for like 10 bucks. ya its no on a cd like you remeber, but hey it saves you some cash. this game is great its a must have game for any true rpg gammer.Customer Review: FF7 is the best game ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply put, this game is the best ever made. The combination of storyline and character development drags you in and invests you in the outcome. The game dynamic is fun and simple. I first played this game when I was 12, and now, ten years later, I still play it every now and then.Customer Review: Best Video Game Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I have played this game over and over again. It never loses its touch. Truely the game of the century.Customer Review: Classic game that holds up well in 2009
Summary: 5 Stars
You know a game is probably pretty good when it has over 1,200 reviews written about it. This review, hopefully, will be slightly different than most - I love RPGs, but never played FFVII back in the day and just completed it for the first time. So I'm not really biased due to loving the game back in my younger years and will try to review with an objective eye.
As you can probably gather from the mountain of other reviews, this was the game that, for better and worse, changed the RPG genre. The, somewhat dense, storyline basically revolves around Cloud and company in their quest to save the planet from various forces (mainly the evil company Shinra and, the very VERY evil, bad guy Sephiroth). Several traditional RPG elements are present - battle monsters, equip magic, find new and better weapons, grind your character up, etc...
So, what made the game different? Basically, two things (in my opinion). The first, as talked about above, is the storyline. Yeah, it's the typical, "save the world" stuff that can be found in oodles of other RPGs, but this it is different - it was deep, filled with twists and turns, and was more like an actual story you would find in a novel. Some would say the story borders on being convoluted (a complaint I have a hard time arguing with), but it holds up well today and was nothing short of groundbreaking 10-15 years ago.
The second was the amazing graphics and cut scenes. Of course, neither are nearly as good as the more recent stuff, but again it was revolutionary at the time and everybody loved it. Combining the "fun" elements of RPGs that were already present with a deeper story and amazing graphics and it is no wonder this is one of the most beloved games of all time.
Still, the game does have its warts. First, it is a very linear story. Part of the charm of some of those early Final Fantasy games (and other RPGs) was the feeling you could explore the entire world. Here, for about two-thirds of the game, you have no control over where your characters go or what happens (it's really like reading a book). By the time you actually get the airship (and can really start exploring) you are just about ready for the final showdown. Plus some of the really cool weapons to found cannot be obtained until you have virtually completed the game (Final Fantasy games have done this for years, and I have never understood it, what is the point of these amazing weapons when, by the time you can acquire them, your characters are so leveled up they are killing everything with ease anyway?).
The second major issue, touched on above, is the fact that this story is tough to keep up with at times. I've played Crisis Core (the prequel to this game) and that helped a lot, but there are times when you are just going to be like, "what in the blue sane h*ll is going on here?" Yeah, the story is different, but different isn't always better.
Overall, the game is one of those games that should be played by all gamers. Yeah, there are problems (the story, the somewhat dated graphics, the linear game play), but it's still an amazing play. By the way, you can download the game from the Playstation Store for both the PSP and PS3 for [...]- so do not pay these insanely high prices.