scary how a buncha me and friends, many non-gamers (and many gamers who don't even play much FF7) read up about it and watched Advent Children and...
I swear, something about that game/story/universe that really just hits the right chord, you know? even we were doing some (minor) roleplaying lol
but really, it's just (to me) the most balanced character ups and downs (tho some still think Cloud is to emo, I think he's, as a character and as well as the game as a whole, more legit than other FF7 wannabe FF games ^^)