I dunno, it just didn't grab me. I love magic and being able to customize my characters, so considering that, the materia system was a bit disappointing. Especially since my equipment would affect how much materia I could equip.

I didn't like most of the characters. And characters are the first thing I look for in a game. I liked Red XIII, Cait Sith. I didn't mind Beret, or however you spell his name. Cloud annoyed me most of the time. I haaaaated Aeris. I mean, I actually wanted to kill her myself throughout the whole first disc. She made the game so much worse for me. But I am obsessed with keeping all of my characters as equally used and built as I can, so I still kept using her anyways. When I ended up on the date with her I actually turned off the system and quit playing for a while.

Some of the areas didn't do it for me and some of the sense of humor I didn't really like.

It definitely could have been worse. It's certainly not my favorite, though.