
Jonathan takes a look back at one of his favorite games of all time. He talk about its many flaws, and how they should be overlooked.

Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.

Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
I even own and enjoyed Advent Children.
Me too, but I'm playing Crisis Core: FFVII for the first time!
Im not a big fan of turned based RPGs, and yet this is one of my favorite games ever.
I still got my original copy and a very tattered strategy guide.
Im kinda scared to put it in my ps3, cause I dont want the possibility of it to break with it inside(paranoid I know).
I love Final Fantasy 7 and I think it is one of the best games ever made. People can pick at its flaws but I never played a game more then Final Fantasy 7. Chrono Trigger came close but 7 takes the crown. I must of replayed that game at least ten times. I even brought Advent Children on Blu-Ray and Crisis Core for PSP. If they made another Final Fantasy 7 game and it looked like a good game then it would be a day one purchase for me.
i loved the mini games, that's what kept me hooked . The golden saucer was a great place to pass time and the battle arena was a fun challenge and rewarded nicely. Same can be said of the card game in VIII, fun ,strategic and rewarding . I wish they would incorporate a multiplayer aspect of mini games into a single player experience ala tetra master from ffxi but u all can imagine what i'm saying . example --- raise a chocobo in game for quest and riding but take it to the arena to race them against others online