final fantasy 7 for the first time (also others)

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this was a few weeks ago, been sitting on it and I think I need to play it again
but goddamn now that I'm familiar with the game, it's kinda ruined how I previously felt about ff8. used to kinda shill for that game tbh
but anyway yeah with so many years of being surrounded by ff7 based media, and having unironically watched advent children before even touching the game, I regret not playing this as a kid lol. aerith's death and the final cutscene did not have quite the impact I expect they would have had, if I had played it at age 12

I'm playing through ff6 at the moment, also for the first time. this paired with ff7 really makes ff8 look like a mechanical step backwards tbh.