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Summary: Stands the Test of Time
Comment: I first played Final Fantasy VII when it came out in the '90s. At the time, I thought it was the best Japanese RPG ever created.
Over the years, something happened to my old copy, and - on a whim - I picked up a used copy, wondering if the game would still be enjoyable more than 10 years later.
The answer is unequivocally yes. The story is still compelling (once again, I almost broke down in tears at a certain infamous scene), the gameplay still engaging, and the soundtrack is brilliant.
That is not to say, however, that this game has aged with perfect grace. The graphics take some getting used to after playing current-generation games, and translation errors add some confusion and some unintended humor to the dialog.
Overall, I would recommend this classic game for anyone who remembers it fondly from the '90s, and for fans of Square's other games.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gaming Perfection
Comment: If you still have not played this game and you have even the slightest interest in role playing games or video games in general, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of this game! If you have a Playstation 3 and internet access you can get a digital copy off of PSN for ten dollars, which is a true bargain for this magnificent piece of gaming history. I cannot say enough good things about it, everything is top notch, even the graphics for its time which is now thirteen years ago. In all my years of gaming I have yet to come by any game that I even remotely enjoy as much as this one. I have played through this nine times and each time I find something I missed the last time, it is seriously that big! This game also has it all, a great cast of characters, an addicting, deep and rewarding battle system, a fantastic soundtrack by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu, hidden characters and quests galore, one of, if not the most moving cinematics in gaming history, if you are willing over three hundred hours of gameplay if you want to build all of your characters' stats to the max 255, and an epic plot to save the world from an evil planet destroying corporation and the best villain of all time, Sephiroth. I truly cannot reccomend this game enough, it is honestly a MUST PLAY!

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Summary: A masterpiece
Comment: Simply stated, in my opinion, Final Fantasy VII is the greatest game ever. It has incredibly memorable characters; a gripping, epic storyline; one of the greatest villains ever devised in Sephiroth (seriously, this guy is EVIL!); and also can brag about having the most shocking moment in video games. Once this game gets a hold of you, there's no letting go until the end.

I'll admit though, that FF7 is not perfect; it has it's faults. The graphics for one--everything is blocky and kind of cartoonish, but it's a con that I'm willing to overlook. Also, the ending is kind of sudden and rushed. FF8 and FF9 have epic endings that have to rank up there with the best, but FF7's isn't anticlimatic. The game just kind of...ends.

But all in all, FF7 is an extremely great game. If you haven't played it yet, by God, do so!! If you have...it's time to play it again.

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Summary: Still one of the best
Comment: For a game whose graphics is nowhere near the level of anything that comes out today on any system, the story-line still has most of these new games beat. My brothers always said I had to play it. I never wanted to but one day, they got to me and I did. I never looked back.

This game made me cry, angry, and then sad and happy at the end. Weird that polygon shaped people can do that to me when newer games with better looking characters can't draw me into them enough to care for anyone other than just wanting to beat the bad guys or beat the game.

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Summary: 10 years old and still an epic game.
Comment: As the title says, this game is old, but it's still epic. I'm a HUGE fan of the FFVII saga and I'm glad that I got this because I played the other one so much that I had to get another one. I must be getting rusty because the boss battles in here I've had some trouble with. But, as always, I find a way to beat them all.
If some are use to playing 3D games, then...uhh...dude, go back to 2D if you're a true gamer. Even after 10 years, the grafics are good, the fighting is awesome, and the story is always as epic as ever knowing that it's from Square Enix. Ha, I just feel old playing this and I'm not even 20 yet! But it's a really good game and you should play it for sure.

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