Now let me begin by saying I'M NOT AN RPG gamer, I borrowed this from a friend because I was hearing so much about how great this game is, I recently borrowed it during the summer and I must say I...LOVE..THIS...GAME.  I mean at first I wasn't into the plot(I started getting sucked into it as soon as I got to Disc 2)and the game aswell but after a few hours of playing I WAS HOOKED, now as I stated before I am not an RPG gamer but this game had one of those really cool anime/type plots and the turned base battles were pretty cool.  The gameplay was pretty fun and I was always excited to see were the game would take me next, the dialoug IF YOU ASK me was a little dumb, I mean just because Barret is african american every most of the things he says has to always be spelled differently and have 4 letter words?  Ok I'm done gripping.  Other then Plot and gameplay, I really liked how the materia/magic worked aswell as the summons(man they are such a treat to look at).  And I think I'm going abit too far but I thought the CG scenes(though very limited in the game)were beautiful.  As for visuals, I don't see why people are saying this games visuals are terrible this game was made back in the mid 90's!!!  I thought the visuals were great!  And the pre rendered backrounds were great aswell!  Stop complaining it's an old game!