Okay, I was around when it was new and I thought it wasn’t great at the time. Incoherent story, game mechanics that often don’t do anything, it’s good at looking cool and not much else. It came out around the same time as Planescape: Torment, and I sure wish that had been the game that had an influence on the next decade of games instead.

That said, my opinion has evolved since then - FF7 is a hugely important game in the history of RPGs because the cinematic style of presentation it offered absolutely did blow everything else out of the water. I get it, it genuinely was important, it just didn’t really cater to the elements I personally care about.

This was so completely deranged, to the point where it was kind of not fun because what even is this nonsense, but I kept going because I wanted to see what nonsense would happen next. I’m not sure I’d go with “masterpiece of jank” because I think it pretty successfully realized its vision; this is a surrealist and bizarre work, not an incomplete one. …please don’t ask me to explain what that vision is, though.