Coming hot on the trail of movies like
Armageddon and
Deep Impact FF7 was always gonna be a winner. It made me care very much for Aeris because she seemed so vulnerable and isolated. Sephiroth murdering her made me hate him as the villain like nothing on Earth!!! The final time I played the game I got "nuked" it as they say. I completed every side quest possible. The 7 resteraunt flyers, Yuffie's side quest in Wutai, winning every prize at the Battle Arena, using all 6 standard limit breaks for each character to effect, raising all character's levels to over 90 with four of them hitting 99 (Aeris excepted, she was in the 50's somewhere when Sephiroth murdered her), developing and using all characters Level 4 limit breaks to effect (The exception to those last two being Cait Sith of course and also Aeris, because by the time you are able to lay hands on her Level 4 limit break, she's already dead!), finding all character's Ultimate Weapons and using them to effect, having all possible fights against the Turks (a great favourite was to reduce all Turks to about 10 hit points and then using Omnislash or Knights of the Round), breeding a gold chocobo myself, personally creating Master Materia by maxing out the levels of materia I'd obtained and then fusing them at the lab in Cosmo Canyon, visiting every place on the planet it was possible to and last but not least, killing Ruby and Emerald Weapon. (Both of whom were ten times as difficult opponents as Sephiroth would prove to be.
When I got round to fighting Sephiroth for the last time, I promised myself that I'd let him inflict the Super Nova on me at least once and have it kill none of my characters, because a) it's one cool-ass animation and b) because I'm that fucking bad! lol Duly I took my punishment and decided his time had come. I unleashed Knights of the Round on him. Still alive... bugger. Another Knights of the Round. BASTARD!!! Still alive... bugger twice. Finally I had Cloud unleash the Omnislash that the Super Nova had given him.
STILL SMEGGING ALIVE!!!!!!!!! I didn't remember him being this tough in all the previous whoop-assings I'd given him!
😕 It came around to Cloud's time again and I used some spell or other (can't remember the exact name) that dispelled Sephiroth's
Wall s[ell that had given him a double protective barrier. As luck would have it Tifa chose that time to take a savage hit from him, that filled up her limit break guage. As Seph's protection was scattered like grass in the wind by Cloud, I was hitting one reel after another with Tifa. The first four reels all came down as "YEAH!" and the next three as the more moderate "HIT". Either way, he was screwed. Seven consecutive whoop-assing's from a Level 99 Tifa later (who was armed with her Premium Heart ultimate weapon) and Seph was burst assunder to float away into the ether. Then of course comes the
mano y mano battle with Cloud and Seph, but that was hardly a challenge as Seph went home in slices after one shot.)
8 I quite enjoyed, but it became crushingly boring because of the stupid FUCKING card game rules. I think I got onto disk 3 once, but that was about it. 9 I played for about 10 minutes and then never looked at it again. I just couldn't take a game seriously where the main hero had a fucking tail!

That was the last one I bought.
By the way, why are all the piccies in that screenshot page displayed as red x's?