Final Fantasy VII Love it or Hate It : Reliving The Teenage Years

     As many people born in the early 80's, the early to late 90's where our awakening and first real impressions of RPG's. I think this is the reason we all love the classic JRPG style which seams to haven fallen out of grace with modern younger gamers.
     Of course I had played the Zelda titles, even tried my hand at the Final Fantasy games for both NES and to a limited extent (I had a Sega) the SNES. However it took until high school for an RPG to really grab me by the throat, and heart, and not let go. That game was of course, Final Fantasy VII. Now I know the arguments, its a drawn out, mess of a story, and in a lot of ways it is. In later years, even after playing the game twice threw in high school, I was surprised to read plot points I had completely missed all those years ago.
     I had lost disk 2 of my set many many years ago, and had misplaced my original strategy guide even before that. I watched Advent Children and loved it, the characters seaming as fresh in my mind as the day i first saw Cloud jump off the train, or Sephiroth stepping threw the flames of the Shinra mansion. I decided to use the dread E word and play Final Fantasy 7 again, however it just doesn't hold the feel of the original on an emulator. (hell I own the game, suck it Square) So I waited, the game has grown quite expensive as of late and all i needed was disk 2 so i wasn't about to pay up the high prices it started to command on ebay.
     Then luck, I posted a Smash Bros for 64 on nintendoage a GREAT forum for old school gamers. And traded for a copy of FFVII the case was cracked and there was no instruction manual, but i had both of those....... I want to thank PlayableMoogle for the trade.
     Since I knew I was getting a fresh copy coming i started disk one of the game I do have, on my old school model 1 PSX. And I have to say........ITS STILL GREAT , nostalgia does play a large part I am sure, especially since it is still on disk one, which happens to be the section of the game everyone has played several times. But i even found my old strategy guide, something i use to check once I have made it threw a section just to make sure I didn't miss a key piece of mana or item.
     I plan to keep everyone up to date on my feelings as I progress threw the game, and my thoughts and nostalgic moments from the game. So come back and please comment below.