What story would that be seifer? Link?

Anyway i agree that Rufus and Shinra made the story special. Now every FF had final and then a true villain but FFVII handled it the best if you ask me. Sephiroth was revealed relativly early and Shinra a stayed around to put up just as good a fight as you do. Evn after Sephiroth has a achieved ultimate power in the form of Meteor and tricked the Weapons in doing his battles for him Rufus was at least effective as Cloud in answering these threats.