System: Playstation 1
Genre: RPG
Whatever about the games that came before, this is the game that truly ignited my love for RPGs. Fate seemed to have a hand to play as very shortly after seeing it at Tony's house and thinking "I want that", our mother won a PS1 in the local supermarket! It's one of those games I "lived" along with the characters, the entirety of Midgar felt like a full-length game in itself so it was such a shock when things finally kicked off after leaving Midgar. I loved all of the characters, the world, the music, the graphics and even the story, nonsensical as it is. It's also the first game to make me cry, even if we stupidly managed to spoil it on ourselves by reading teletext the night before we got to *that* bit in the game. It's such a shame they won't leave it alone instead by releasing one crap spin-off after another when all anyone really wants is a graphical update of the game as it is.
