I know what you mean, Xander. The story events, character development and powerful scenes just don't come to you with the same emotional impact during your second time through the game. But how much I have fun with my second game depends on how much I enjoyed the first time through, and how long it has been since I first played the game. For example, if it's a short time (like less than a year) since I last played through the game, playing the game again usually just doesn't have the magic it had on my last time. Everything's still quite fresh on my mind so the moments playing the game just don't have the same effect. And though I normally like having a good memory, this is where I wish I wouldn't remember the game's events so well when I'm replaying. :/

FFVII's the first FF I've replayed, and the first time through the game was great, and the second time was really outstanding, making FFVII one of my favorite games ever. Chrono Trigger and FFIX were very fun on my first time, but they somehow lost the effect on the second time. Probably because I spent too much time on leveling up, and the story was still fresh in my mind. FFVI was pretty good at both playing times. I thought FFIIIj, FFV and FFVIII were quite good games, though my opinion on them improved on the second time because the stories made a lot more sense on the second time through. I've played FFIV three times, and the last time was the best. Probably because the first time was the easy type with a lousy translation, the second time with the hard type was an unfinished fan translation and the game felt too hard anyway, but the third time was fun.

I didn't have much fun with my first game of FFII, and so far all my attempts to replay the game have pretty much failed. I've finished FFI five times now, and the best moments where during my third game of it, playing a Fighter-Thief-Red Mage-White Mage game on WonderSwan Color. Oh, those fun times. FFX wasn't that fun on my first time, but I try to replay the game every now and then, and so far, it's been okay. Most of the time. FFX-2 was neat during the first time. I haven't really wanted to replay it yet. I loved Kingdom Hearts during my first game, but I haven't started a second game yet. I'm trying to play KH: Chain of Memories before starting a new game of KH.

As for other Square games that I've replayed, I've played Seiken Densetsu 3 loads of times. I'm currently playing it for the seventh time. The game has a pretty good story, which also changes according to which characters you pick, but after playing through it so many times, the story doesn't really matter. It's more about the cool battle system and the excellent replay value that the game has. Hard to say which time through was my favorite since I've had many fun times playing SD3.

That's all I can say about replaying FFs. Just for your information, Xander, there are occasionally times when you won't feel like playing video games at all. When that happens, don't try to force yourself to get back to playing games because that won't help. It can make you even more tired of playing games. So at those times, take a break from gaming. Or try some other genres. I made a long speech about this in this thread, I'm not going to quote all that here, but go read it if you can be bothered to read anymore after this long post of mine.