AC is largely a snuff film for VII fans who just wanted to see a realistic 3D Cloud fight his realistic 3D counterpart Sephiroth but the story is terrible and the whole thing feels like pandering to the lowest denominator.

Crisis Core is a terrible story and mostly feels like a Gackt FFVII fanfiction.

I've yet to bring myself to play Dirge of Cerberus...

Before Crisis plot is just retarded.

Last Order... Is not so bad, outside of Mako eyes Cloud its not as bad as the rest and at least follows the original games plot. It still has some serious wire-fu hi-jinx but whatever...

Squenix's smartest business move in the 2000s was to stop making titles for the Compilation.