>>9801475I played FF6 late, like, a year before FF7 came out. So I was hyped when FF7 came out. I thought it was a very good game indeed. But of course, the "Console Wars" happened and it soured my memory of FF7.
In retrospect, I think FF7 was legit and great for newcomers while FF6 was more for the veteran JRPGer. I ain't throwing shade here. A lot of what made FF6 mindblowingly great were the "tropes" it broke. You'd think Kefka was just a regular early boss, like your typical nobleman or mid-ranked officer in the evil empire, who would antagonize the hero early on before inevitably being dispatched and the real threats start showing up. You certainly didn't expect what would happen in the mid-game because just about every other JRPG brought you to the brink by their endgame, or even with the villains successfully summoning the dark god/goddess, but the heroes would simply prevail. And speaking of heroes, FFVI messed with your idea of who the MC was.
Again, no shade on FF7. It introduced coolness and edginess. It introduced a sort of love triangle, beastiality, tragedy in a scene that surely made even a FF7 hater weep, and basically, it was just cool. It had a great cast of heroes, like Cloud, Tifa, Aerith/Aeris and Cecil, Bleu and Lufia. It MADE Final Fantasy and the genre as a whole. Without FF7, there would be no Legend of Legaia. That alone elevates FF7 to greatness.
