The mechanics in final fantasy 7 are the only things that don't hold up as well today, but apart from that I still maintain it is the best final fantasy in terms of story, setting, music and characters.

No game in the final fantasy series is perfect (except for tactics, fuck you! Lol) but 10 is simultaneously both the last true final fantasy and also vanguard and harbinger of its inevitable downfall as a series. It's the first to start the no backtracking, linear story progression all the way until just before the last battle bullshit. Generally I didn't like the characters at all minus auron but after playing ffx hd remake waka is starting to warm up on me. Same with yuna.

It also was the first to introduce full voice work so now im forced to listen to the whiny prattling of the effeminate protagonist and their bubbly voiced 16-19 year old blue eyed, blonde haired japanese companions all game. Towns are too small to really explore but at least they have towns unlike ff13.

I could be wrong on this 1 but I think sidequests were either non existent in ff10 or severely limited. Admittedly o don't remember since I haven't played ffx since 2006 and I'm still early in ffx remake on PS3 so I haven't come across any yet.


On the other hand ff7 had none of these problems really and the only knock I have against it is the 4 hour long, unskippable summon animations and a snowboarding minigame that doesn't hold up to how I remembered it