i think last order as great and what square tried to do was just to was just to link before crisis with ffvii more (as there's not much in common anyway).

i love having zack as a main chara there...you never get to know him that well. i agree on having more on cloud's childhood or his mother ...but i think that they really should have have something on the time cloud and zack were being used as hojo's guinea pigs.

chara designs were great (off course...nomura) as well as the music and the animation