Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
[...]with the exception of the camera angle in combat and the pre-rendered CGI cutscenes, VII does not really utilize 3D in any way that takes advantage of its third dimension that could not have been done in 2D.
This is something that's completely true, but nobody ever bothers to mention, and this is EXACTLY why I always thought it would have been better in 2D. The 3D aspect of the game pretty much just trades in sprites and grids for little lego models. The quality of the sprites in Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger was higher than the quality of the character models in VII. Plus, the backgrounds were basically just JPEGs.