(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)
If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don't think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.
For me, it's Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.
Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark... it was a generational leap above anything I'd played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I'd love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.
Final Fantasy 7 (the original).
And it's not even close. What a journey.
Man, I fucking LOVE the storytelling in 7. It's so insanely well done and the music just makes it all the better
That music lives inside my head. I often play it as background music when I'm doing stuff at home.
I played 8 first and fell in love with it, then I played 7 and it was so fucking incredible to my little brain, I had so many dreams back then about that game. I really liked 9 and gave 10 a shot but neither of them really hit me the way that 7 and 8 did.