Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
The September 1997 issue of GameFan had a big four-page feature on FFVII and what an amazing game it was and how much was being added to it for the American version, and in the review section, it received scores of 100+, 100+, and 100. And the screenshots looked awesome anyway.
Don't have that issue anymore (lost most of my old EGM/GamePro/GameFan/etc. mags), but I still have the old first look issue with like a 7-page feature of a half-finished FF7 dating back to sometime in '96. Looking back at it some time ago, I saw a screenshot of Aeris kneeling at the Forgotten Capital, and the caption read "Is this where you meet Aeris?!"

I thought it was pretty funny.

I got into FF when I went to a friend's house way back in middle school and he told me about this game that he'd gotten for his birthday that was like nothing he'd ever played before (neither of us had played or even heard of an RPG before that). He was stuck on the set of elevator bosses in the Shinra building and he asked me to get him unstuck. He always did that - we used to play through Aladdin all the time, and he'd always give me the controller when we came to the part where you have to ride Carpet out of the Cave of Wonders. Anyways, I just started a new game instead, and by the time I went to sleep the next morning, I had saved my game just outside of the chocobo ranch.