Seriously? If internet boards were comparable to today's when 7 came out how would there not be threads complaining about how un-Final Fantasy this game is? >futuristic setting >focus on le big action set pieces >pre rendered background that make movement a pain. >similar amount of time to ff13 (which everyone did complain about) before game world opens up. >Somehow worse version of atb.
I genuinely don't understand how the 7th game in a franchise sold so well (especially to casuals) and was so well received when it's even more of a slog to play than NES JRPGs. I was a feeble baby at the time so by the time I heard of FF7 all I knew is that people said it was the greatest game ever, then I played it for the first time a few years ago and hated everything but the music.
