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#18 Final Fantasy 7

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First of all, the soundtrack. #2 favorite soundtrack (#1 was earlier in the list).

I think the Materia system is very underrated. The gameplay of FF7 *is* Materia, basically. It seeps into every aspect of the game.

You find yourself caring more about your materias' xp levels, than your characters' levels!

And you find yourself using bad weapons because they have a materia levelling up multiplier, or because they have more materia slots, or junction slots. You find yourself exploring for secrets much harder, because you don't want to miss some strategy-upending unique materia.

...Then you find yourself following a 10 hour side-quest, in a 40 hour game, just to get ONE really fancy materia!

The story *as a whole*, is good, but not great. But Midgar is really good, and, there are some very impressive plot twists in the late game (not including the most famous two-word twist, which I think is actually kinda meh).

BEST PART: Midgar is one of the best openings to any game I can think of--I love how quickly you start playing, and committing terrorism!! But that whole first 5 hours rocks. I usually bounce off RPGs because of slow openings, but definitely not here.