Which blew the industry open again, and I suspect will teach developers how to build a more compelling open world next generation.įF7 is a lot like Half Life, a lot of young people played them long after release, but before they played them they played their spiritual successors, then get confused about why they were so groundbreaking & call the originals "overrated" Pretty much every JRPG after FF7 has tried to change their protag to fit the mold of Cloud or as people like to call it "Emo protags" & take other elements from FF7.įF7's story telling was something else in 97, there has always been a little bit of talk it was inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion & you can somewhat see that, Cloud totally subverts what players are expecting from a hero, he was a dumb kid who wanted to join Soldier to impress Tifa, he couldn't reach first class, then on top of that, his childhood hero kills his entire village & then his best friend gets killed, he couldn't stop this from happening & couldn't accept how much of a weak failure he was, so he has a complete breakdown & lies about his identity, i don't believe any JRPG came close to this level of depth for a protag. (this is a thread about the greats right?) Zelda OoT wins this one hands down, the series might have had a notable sequel with MMask, which while breaking new ground with NPCs and world building, was a far more limited experience than OoT, the series never hit these highs again, until BotW IMO. I love these games, these are 2 of my favorite series, and while I lean more towards Zelda, I do think FF7 is the best in the series, though I will admit that I missed out on ff6, buying Chrono Trigger that year instead, a purchase I do not regret in the least, as it's probably the best RPG ever made. OoT is also a near perfect game, only held back by it's technology and given a new coat of paint, holds up better than FF7. Having said all of that, it's clear that OoT is the superior game in every aspect, primitive open world, z-targeting, story telling, yes this last one is key, while FF7 arguably has a more intricate story, the industry followed OoT's story telling aspects to this very day, it changed how the industry made games. I'm a huge fan of FF7 and it drove that generation's software direction, though it was built on all the classic RPGs that came before it.
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