Combat is significantly better than ff7 and the story while not on a big of a scale, is something i found more entertaining in this game. ff7 tends to have a little bit of story than a dungeon or bad gameplay segment. This game trys to mix the two and gives more dialougue and characters interacting than ff7. The dungeons are actually pretty cool most of the time and are different than ff7 where they were just corridors and mazes filled with random encounters. Another great thing about this game is that they give you a way early on to reduce random encounters by half or completely which makes it significantly better. The final boss sucks dick though. It can completely halt all progress and without save states and a guide, would have taken me a long time.