What didn't work/what didn't you like about this game?

[Elskidor]

I dunno, the ending comes to mind. I give it more beef than I should, but I've lightened up over the years. But coming from the SNES generation as my first Final Fantasy games my expectations were very very high, and perhaps too high, kinda like how VII fans probably felt about VIII when it came around. I'll start by saying I don't like the ending. The ending was weak to me, and I wanted to see more after the escape, and not just seeing Red and pups bouncing hither and tither. Not a big thing, but it bugged me at the time.

Disc 2 and on, save the section of returning to Midgar, I never much liked at all. Well, the mini games and side stuff were always fun fun, especially snow boarding which I could play that for hours. I've also never liked Cloud. Cloud being..well..uh Cloud is a downer by itself. Who the hell is Cloud? Are you playing a bitchy version of Zack half the time, or the annoyed spiky haired whiner? I woulda preferred Zack being the hero, or making Cloud a likable guy. People that praise Cloud but insult Squall is just funny. Cloud has a very big cocky negative attitude that is one of the most annoying I have seen in a main character. Cloud helps drag the game down all by himself.

Much like the unneeded confusion of realizing that your main character is not who he even thinks he is, I didn't find the Jenova and Sephiroth story line anything more than a way to overcomplicate storytelling in 1997, and even when it made more and more sense to me in later plays, I found it very large mess and could have been done a lot better. My first play through I was very "wtf" are they talking about, and it only got worse as Hojo, Lucrecia and Vincent added more to it all?.

Disc 1 is about as perfect as I can imagine right now. I like disc 1, and can't find much to complain about it at all, but somewhere after that it progressively got weaker and weaker. I like most of the characters, granted I like Shinra, Turks, and Zack better than most of the main cast, I don't have issues with them. I like how they gave Tifa, Red, Barret and all of them time to begin to flesh out there characters. Oh, and the music is great...but this isn't a praise thread. Those are the main things that left me dissatisfied at the end.

I played the game a couple months ago, and enjoy it a lot better, but I still ended up stopping at the start of Disc 2. If I ever get around to finishing it and my opinion has changed more so over the years I'll chime back in.