Why do i love this game so freaken much!? The graphics are...terrible! THe backgrounds are great, and the FMV's are pretty good too, and hell, i can even stand hte battles though to a lesser degree than the first two. however, i cannot stand moving around these blocky disproportioned character...and yet there are so many other redeeming qualties to the game.

The plot...you could make a damn movie out of this plot. and i don't mean something ty like the crap that came out this year in thearters. I have absolutely no problems with the plot, in fact, if more games had a plot like this, i think video game novels would be created....think about it...a full length novel, but in video game form. Entertaining, and yet enlightening.

Sound....OMFG it ranges between okay and putting a man on the verge of impaling himself with the controller. I have heard a few good tunes here and there, nothing specatacular yet though. i am at the part where you go to the space city, recruit cid, steal the broken sea plane, and i have recruited Yuffie from that forest across the river just before Red XIII's village. One thing i wish they had done was put in some voices, and Yes, i understand that at the time this may have been infesible seeing as how this damn game is three disks long alreay, but hell, it would have been nice!!!

Gameplay is so so...it's nice how things can be mind numbingly boring in that at my level....i just ruin around the world and keep pressing O whenever i get into a battle. i win, wake up from my nap, and continue on. The boss battles can be pretty engaging, but smart people like me do not have a real problem with them, seeing as how i rule.

Conclusion?
I had many misgivings about this game when i first started playing it, but now i have come to enjoy it quite a bit. the MIDI music burrowing deeper and deeper into my brain is something i have to cope with....that and dealing with my newly reviived imagination...an imagination needed to make me see better graphics, and anti-aliasing of things to make them look pretty.

IN breif: could have used a MGO (Massive graphical overhall), some NON-MIDI music (or at least some kick ass techno), more of a real time battle engine? (best to leave the formula along i guess...they did get it right the first time.), and some voice acting, at least in the in game movies.

I still can't figure out why i mindlessly play this game for over three or four hours a day...subliminal messaging??? I guess it's the plot really...and the extreme easiness of this game that relaxes me.

why are you all so addicted to this game even though it has been like 7 years since it came out?