FFVII: ugly. ace story.
FFX: Pretty. crap story.

Square was too busy playing with the swirly ps2 graphics to put a decent story in. Its all about spheres because they could make nice looking circles. It had a lot of water because they could make pretty water. FFVII had little fancy water effects and even less circles.

What wrong with being able to kill things in 1 hit? I do that all the time. *chops random monster*