Quote Originally Posted by Christmas
That person has really, really crappy characters to get to Chocobo WEAPON, he's tottaly going to get stomped...

FFVII has/had characters lots loved, that doesn't mean they were great, it doesn't mean they were bad but it does mean they were popular. I personally think the characters were excellently done:
-Cloud, I liked the issues with his character and how interwoven it was with various parts of the story.
-Tifa's way of connecting to Cloud worked well for me making her another good character.
-Yuffie was fun- not a deep storyline character but the hyper one who was just fun.
-Barret was the leader of Avalanche which leads to later feelings I wish were more expanded on but it leads to some great scenes and lines.
-Aeris... ignore her.
-Red XIII was fine- no problems but nothing really in the character.
-Cid, so many blocked out words, he didn't really add much but I found myself liking him every time I play through.
-Cait Sith is a character who betrays you and works for the enemy. I really like what the game does with this because they never really discussed it (it wasn't important and shouldn't be overdone) but it was always another touch to the characters in this game.
-Vincent was fine, he didn't have a character I found remotely interesting, he could be called badass but that doesn't mean anything without another part of the character to play against which he lacked. He was okay.

I also loved the storyline, the graphics were pleasant to my eyes, the script was reasonalbe and the materia system was awesome if highly abusable.

But what I loved about this game (and it's not my favorite, 2nd or 3rd, so very close) was the world created. From Midgar a run down city with very different sectors and the plate up above the people. One of my favorite scenes has Barret and Cloud in a train there talking about the plate and people who don't move there because of various factors. It creates a world easy to dream about and fall into and most of all have fun with. That's what I found most in this game. I like FFVIII's world a lot FFX's too. But FFVII is my favorite with it's only competition being FFIX's.

I don't know if others agree with me about this but the world, going from various cities to the idea of the lifestream (which has becomes connected to Empedocles in my mind ever since I studied him for a project) this game gains an overall feel based around the world. And I'm repeating my self but the world is wonderfully done. FFAC is not interesting to me, but the landscapes that come from FFVII (midgar) are great and the city itself contains the essence it had before. I'm probably describing this badly but I hope someone agrees with me...