Honest to God, why do people love 7 so damn much? I tried, I really did, I played it without cheating, learned all the characters names, even sort of began to understand the story a bit and by the end of the first disc I had absolutely no interest in continuing to play it. It was boring, overstuffed with trivialities and generally no goddamn fun.
9, on the other hand, I loved. I'm not sure why, but I think it has something to do with it being pretty. I actually had like an entire wall of my bedroom wallpapered with the art from that game, from concept right up to FMV screenshots. I'm not usually into games just because they're pretty, but the storyline was kind of obscure, the gameplay with nothing groundbreaking and the map was kind of shit, so I guess it had to be the pretties.