ANOTHER FF7 Spin-off?? Really???
Dirge of Cerberus was one of the absolute worst games I have ever played (barely competent in technical terms, I'm speaking mostly of the beyond-retarded story).
Advent Children was just as bad for story (protip; recurring villains always lose their menace vs those that stay dead), and while the fight scenes were impressive to watch, I never once felt any dramatic tension because I knew they couldn't kill off or significantly harm any of these characters.
That, and it forever turned FF7 from a Cyberpunk-esque story with believable characters (well, mostly. There were the stereotypes too...) into Dragonball Z.
It's the reason I had mixed feelings about Crisis Core; Zack was probably the best-written character in the series. On the other hand, we are also forced to accept this (most stupidly named child ever) "Genesis" incident as canon because the writers had to shoehorn a generic villain into the story somehow...and it doesn't fit in anywhere within the original FF7 plotline because of this!
It didn't help that the gameplay was totally fucking bland; and it had such tremendous promise too!
And now they want to butcher some more lore. Well Squeenix, you already raped the story sideways in my eyes by pandering to the Magic Karate Show crowd, might as well throw some more Out of Place Wacky Plot out there in your quest for fan-service cash.
So lets get ready for another entry wherein your character is a total badass in the cutscenes, but can barely wipe their own ass in actual gameplay.