The only reason one would have to beat FF7 is so fanboys don't go "OMFGWTF U DIDNT GIEV TEH GAEM A CHAENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111" when you give it a bad review and so you can prove your points more efficiently.
FF7 suffers of a highly mediocre plot, that not only fails at being interesting, but also is ridden with plot holes to the point of blatant gibberish, I still see the fanboys smashing their heads agaisnt the wall trying to understand what the fuck's going on.
Character-wise, the game has boring, archetypical characters, all of them ridden with common japanese clichés, and being along the things that made me feel I was playing a very shitty anime instead of a Final Fantasy game.
Cloud was just your stereotypical emoish, angsty, antisocial amnesiac, BORING.
Tifa was your classic OMFG CHILDHOOD FEMALE FRIEND bullshit.
Aeris was just a fuggin mary sue.
Barret is a Mr. T clone.
Cait Sith had no development at all.
Vincent was an emo vampire.
Yuffie was just a whiny piece of crap that doesn't deserve being called a ninja.
Red XIII and Cid, although the only standable members of the crew, had barely any involvement with the plot, that and they weren't THAT special anyway.
I could also go on a rant of how badly developed the game's antagonist is, but I've done that already.
Oh, and to top it all, the gameplay has a horrible, HORRIBLE FLAW: Too much fucking customization.
Seriously, Materia has got to be the dumbest idea ever, so now characters can do anything and everything and have nothing especial to them? stats barely matter in this game aswell, and the only thing to tell one character from another, other than their looks is their limit breaks, which don't really matter that much as you won't be using them 90% of the time.
the difficulty in this game was highly shitty aswell, even the OMFG HARDEST BOSSES (Which the fanboys love to babble about, not capable of realizing they're pathetic) were easy as hell, especially since one of them can be beaten without it even attacking you, is that SUPPOSED to be a challenge?
The graphics of this game were so shitty they made me want to punch someone more than usual, too.
All in all, FF7 was a boring, mediocre RPG with a pathetic plot and characters with nothing unique to them, be it gameplay or personality-wise.
By the way, each and everyone of the minigames in this game sucked, FACT.
Go play FF6, FF4, and Chrono Trigger before claiming this the best game ever, you morons.
Or Super Mario RPG.
Wheee.
