Final Fantasy VII

This is my first entry to the Final Fantasy series, and a solid candidate to be the last.

3D graphics might have been a cool thing in 1997, a thrill to have 3D characters to move in 3D environment, wowza.
In 2021 this thrill is non-existent, mere annoyance to have a scene after scene where the point is to walk from one end of the screen to the other (with added challenge of wanting you to be in an exactly correct position and direction to do something, or not being particularly forthcoming about where you are supposed to be going, so just stumble everywhere until you hit the right spot and get to move forward). Yay.

The controls in general leave something to be desired.

I haven't played a lot of JRPGs, mostly some stuff picking up influences from them, like the typical line-dancing combat. The nice thing about those I've known was that they were turn-based and had at least some tactical element in them. Here the combat seems to combine the bad traits of turn-based and real-time combat, there's little tactical interest and real-time always makes me feel a bit rushed, but still there is that stiff standing around and waiting, and missing the urgency of real-time.

And save points are really too scarce, which becomes an annoyance with all these cutscenes, scenes having you to walk from one side to the other and random filler battles (I kinda hate designated save point system in general, and this one is really expressing why).

There might be interesting story, characters or world, but of that I have no idea because after half an hour, the game mechanics made me want to die. If this milk was tasty in 1997, it is not so now.