I'm probably gonna sound really fan-boyish, but I still think that the later FF games have astounding writing - The Earlier ones have it too, but most of it gets lost in the translation (that's not to say that the later ones don't have translation fluffs aswell - there is a whole project in the FFVII board for just that), but for the most part the dramatic moments actually made me feel the way the game clearly made me feel - it didn't matter that the were no voices because I could "hear" it as I read it, I personally believe the FF games were actually more "alive" without Voice Actors - It's just my opinion, but there you go.