final fight cd wrote:markeconrad wrote:I'm sorry, but I just don't really see FF7 as a good story as much as a rambling mess of a plotline. I don't know if some stuff was missed in translation, but I felt more like I was falling through the plot than I was exploring it. I think the biggest problem was the lack of character development. I mean it's hard to care about what's going on when you could give to shits about the characters.
FFVII has an involved, complex story. i bet the average game will need to play and beat the game at least 2 times, if not more, to fully grasp and understand the story.
are you crazy about character development? the whole game IS character development.
markeconrad is right, the plot is a gigantic, convoluted mess. Read it and tell me that's a plot that makes any sort of logical sense. Good old bizarre new generation Square storytelling.
Also, the game is not character development. Every character is simply a hollow stereotype (again, consistent with Square's new generation Final Fantasy games). You spend the majority of the game chasing Sephiroth around, and then he shockingly kills a main party member -- probably more what people remember than the actual progression of the entire game. All you can give VII is that its characters perhaps have a more defined back story and persona than the games that came before it -- but that in itself would be an interesting argument. They certainly don't have much progression throughout the game, other than being madder after the surprising death.
Boring game, practically incomprehensible plot. The beginning of the murder of the series. How they managed to turn it almost completely around with IX and then fall so far off the map, I have no idea.