I liked Raistlin's Final Fantasy bikini.
Idon't know"have no idea" if my opinions are heresy or not...
I'll just state my presuppositions.
I technically started Final Fantasy with Final Fantasy IV (released on SNES as II) but I didn't actually play it, I just watched my cousin.
By the time Final Fantasy VII came out, I forgot what Final Fantasy was and thought it was some kind of action-adventure game. I only picked it up because I saw pics of the characters in a game magazine.
Final Fantasy VII
I don't remember my first playthrough very well, but I think I only kept perhaps two names of the characters and changed everyone else. I know I called Cait Sith "D.C." and gave Yuffie another name because I imagined her original name to be pronounced "Yuff-ee." I changed Nanaki's name and Vincent's. I don't remember who else or what to.
I always thought Yuffie was weird and a little annoying but not nearly as weird and annoying and useless as I believed Cait Sith to be. I hated him.
I always wished AVALANCHE had survived and that there would be more development with them such as follow-up to Jessie's flirtations with Cloud.
I kinda liked Johnny, mostly because of his posturing, his hair and black clothes, and the fact that I associate Johnny with the names of hundreds of old popular characters. Johnny's just a classic. I gave him a last name: Atherton.
I thought the materia system was goofy. I hated that the characters didn't have their own abilities but loved the LIMIT Breaks. I hated the rainbow effect of it though.
The Airbuster looked so damn lame.
I hated Mukki, Big Bro, Don Corneo, and Dio. I wish they'd have some game that features Final Fantasy VII characters... oh wait there're plenty, but damn it, Zangan never appeared in anything.
I hated Cloud crossdressing. (Although I've begun work on an inverse version of the game switching the sexes of all involved characters and renaming them.) I hated discovering the hottub scene and Cloud's personal conversation with Corneo. The AVALANCHE tower scene irritated me. I wanted to be able to play in that park between Sectors 5 and 6. I wanted to see Tifa and Scarlet get it on after their slapfight. LOL. JK. I could care less.
I was unmoved by Aerith's death scene and I don't care what her real name is anymore. I just call her "age".