As a girl obsessed with the likes of Zelda: The Ocarina Of Time, I was completely unfamiliar with turn based RPGs.  When I recieved Final Fantasy 7 and 8 for Christmas, I naturally tried 7 first.  I was horrified when I saw that you were unable to run around in a free roaming enviornment hacking and slashing at your leisure.  Waiting my turn to deliver one blow was not my idea of a good time.  Disgusted, I removed the game and inserted FF8.  I was floored by the opening cinema.  When the game started, I was confused by all the new terms.  SeeD?  Balamb Gatrden?  Junction system?  What the hell?  But something compelled me to push onward.  I was instantly hooked on the characters, which to me are much more appealing than the lego characters of the previous Final Fantasy games.