What bothers me about this game and really the entire compilation series is that Tetsuya Nomura wanted to fulfill his ambitions of making VII darker -- which was "hindered by graphical limitations" on the PSX.

The games and movies of Compilation are supposed to be dark? Huh.

I'll admit that VII seems goofy at certain points of game play, but it is much more darker than any of those incarnations will hope to be. Better graphics has nothing to do with a game's substance. Sure they add to it, but mood is established by more than just one element and VII's graphics were pretty good. It was that character models that sucked. I would have preferred a CC with the original graphics.

Oh here's one of my favorite review quotes about FFVII.

"Before we continue, a few things: smurf Advent Children. smurf Before Crisis. smurf Dirge of Cerberus. smurf Kingdom Hearts II (just for good measure). smurf that cockteasing PS3 hardware demo that's got the fans clamoring for a full remake. smurf lunatic Sephiroth fanboys. smurf lunatic Sephiroth fangirls. smurf Square Enix for taking SquareSoft's most revered project and blatantly milking it for every last cent they can possibly squeeze out. And if you've ever been involved in a heated arguement with someone about why Cloud/Sephiroth deserves to beat out Mario/Link/L-Block/Mighty Bomb Jack in the latest GameFAQs Character Battle - well, quite frankly, smurf you."