My favorite opening to any game ever, and it's not even close. Rest of the game is astounding too but Midgar is on a different plane of atmospheric, immersive, scene-setting perfection.
quite literally unplayable past midgar without a guide, major chunks of the translation are butchered, and the ending kinda irks me BUT equipping yuffie with the curse ring and deathblow+added cut materia might be the most fun I've ever had in an RPG so it's a 10/10
if you take a magnifying glass to the game and pick out everything that sucks about it it'll sound terrible, but it really is more than the sum of its parts. honestly I really just don't think someone can *get* it without experiencing it firsthand. just make sure you play the orignal version on a CRT if you can, it truly looks fantastic when all the dithering and whatnot is working as intended.
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