Why love Final Fantasy VII?

[Dark Eternal Knight]

I used to think that i liked it so much because it was my first FF but it's not the main reason.
FFVII (for me) has a certain charm that it's quite hard to explain.I think it's the general atmosphere of the game (music,environments,characters) that i always loved.
I also liked it's humor and that it didn't take itself very seriously (unlike FFXII for example).

That's kinda the same for me.

I just think it came out at the right time; you've got the Playstation 1, which at the time, was the biggest thing in gaming. 3-D graphics, cd quality sound, and new innovations in games that people just weren't used to seeing. So you can imagine that when a game that has the Final Fantasy brand attached to it and it releases for Playstation, it was destined to be huge. Don't get me wrong though; I don't for once believe it was overhyped. I just think that the game releases, and now you have this gigantic RPG giant that pretty just did everything right for the time: great music, great story, amazing graphics, and just plain epic. It attracted a lot of people, many who have never touched an RPG, myself included, and they experience something they've never experienced before, and history is made.

Are those people wrong for thinking it's the best game ever? NO. Are you wrong for thinking it's NOT the best game ever? Absolutely not. Everyone is entitled to think what they think and feel what they feel about FFVII.

But here we are today, and everything about that original game is going to scream nostalgia for those gamers, and for me, that's what's keeping that game so close to my heart, is the feeling I get when I think of it. Granted, I like ideas and mechanics of some of the other FF's more (FFVIII is personally my favorite one), but FFVII just makes me feel like a kid again, remembering the thrill and joy of experiencing it for the first time. So someone can come along and tell me they think it's the worst game on the planet, but I'm not gonna knock on em for hating on it. It's not going to ruin and change how I feel about it. Sorry, never gonna happen. And in no way does that make me a "fanboy."

Squaresoft did everything right for it to be destined an instant classic.