All I hear is blah blah blah about the story. Half the reason the game is so great is because of it's unique battle system. From area attacks, line attacks, dual techs, triple techs, magic and tech skills made the game different. Also the fact that enemies moved around made it interesting also as you could chance waiting for them to get into position to do that area attack.

The music is great, battle system is great and it also has some of the best graphics on the SNES and is one of the biggest game ever released on the SNES reach 4 MB in size...very few games ever came close to that in size and only a few surpassed it.

Another great thing about the game(as you will find out) is the side quests at the end. They are free form and all actually tell a good part of the story for each character.

Then there is new game + and all the different endings you can achieve so replay is high.

There are multiple approches to activating the final battle with the boss of the game on top of that.

For those reasons and more it is hailed as one of the best games ever.