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In most peoples eyes, a return to form for Final Fantasy. Returning to the 'Old School' type format, with Knights and Dragons and all that. People didn't even seem to mind that the game became more 'cutesy' than was expected. Many people prefer that type of thing.
Myself, I prefer the darker element in VII, but the style of VIII. But, IX was a classic and will never be an underdog in any kind of gaming list. Without the travel like in VIII, I was left wondering what kind of story IX would have.
Luckily, I was no where near disappointed. The story surpassed VIII's in elegance, and was more involving than in VII.
Then why, you ask, is VII better than IX in my opinion? Because of the bad guy. IX's bad guys were a fat elephant, a bloke with a tale and a woman who ends up being your mate.
In VII, however, the bad guys were conflicted. Rufus, the leader of an evil corporation, fighting both the good guys and the other bad guys.
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Sephiroth, the best bad guy in a Final Fantasy game to date, and his mother, a big ugly slug type monster thing who got its head wripped off.
It's quality like that that gave VII the edge against its descendant. The locations were more imaginative in VII as well. In IX you have your traditional villages and castles. Granted, there may be a couple of spectacular and interesting locations, like that place with the mad people, but overall they are not that imaginative.
In VII however, you have a huge dark city with a plate which block sunlight for the peasants in the ;slums', a Rocket Launch pad, a city underneath the ground which was home to a superior race who got wiped out, and a big base for the Shinra, with a huge 100 foot long gun sticking out of the front of it
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