FF7

Had Cloud... relatable, adn likealby chracter.... talked smack, looked tough, and had the ability to back it up...

Had a fairly powerful enemy, that looked Bad@ss, especially the whole walking through the flames...

Story line, not overly detailed, but gave you a sense of direction, and a cause to rally behind (Saving the planet, from these capitalist pigs), had a soft spoken dansel in distress Aeria..

Had a killer final move for just the main character, namely Omni-slash..

Had a nice character cast, vincent was cool, yufie was just a fun character, tifa was fiesty (but overally not too appealing to me), Barret, he's a big black guy, come on, he was cool (even though i'm pretty sure he's the only black guy in that entire game, so i'm not really sure where he came from), also you had vincent, a guy who could turn into monsters...

The game play was fun.. had the ultimate weapons for people who wanted to own it up (which i was one person who did kill all of them")

Was revolutionary in it's step for graphics, if you look at other games on the PS they pale in comparison, and for the time it was released, if you measure other games that were out at the exact same day or before, they also pale in comparison.

They had that fun thign with the whole tricking that guy into cloud was a girl, and if you did it well enough, you could get him to pick cloud as the girl he wanted for the night.

While i think the whole cloud memory thing was wack, and couldn't tell you all the details of the story, the central theme, and combative nature of two rivals cloud and sephiroth was awesome..

Sephiroth killed that snake in the water... and later on you can come back and kill it...

Also the mini-games aside from the fun side quests, such as yufie side qeust of beating all teh guys in that tower (which i did at a ridiculously low level with yuffie, excersing pretty good play, and in fact someitme just taking a gamble on luck winning or losing depending on what my oppenent does) were awesome... I liked the motorcylce game, adn snow boarding game, i wish some of the others would have been more developed.... but meh.. Also the arena was a really cool idea, ilike how they basically adopted a similar system in FF9, with the deadly creatures you can face... in that one guys shop..

I really wish they allowed for away to save Aeria(sp), it was cool they allowed for a way to get her final smah, lol, her final limit break, if you really wanted to, i kind of wish i didn't use her so much, in my play through, becuase i didn't know she died... anyway was a great game, innovative, good character cast, and original...

I'm sure there have been better games sense then, but from the persepctive of what game was the best overal, when including originalty and all that.. I think ff7 ranks vey high, since many games just stole from it, or got their ideas from it, even if they did just comparing the games, did make a better game... Ff7 was a venturous step, and that what makes it so great.