The story might be great, but the narrative or way its told was difficult for me to follow and get invested in. After playing hundreds of hours of Tactics I still couldn’t tell you the names of the main characters or antagonists. It was almost purely the challenge of the strategic combat system that kept me coming back to Tactics. Pretty much the opposite of FFVII which felt too easy in combat often times (due to enemies not scaling and some op materia combos), but the story and narrative always keeps me engaged.
Started replaying FFVII recently. Anyone around here get much into any of the mods? New Threat mod looks like it might be a good one.