As someone who loves the Final Fantasy Series to death and someone who has loved VII for years to come, playing Tactics recently over a few times that I have to say its becoming my favorite of the series over loving VII for so many years as my top favorite. I'd honestly say story wise it is the best of the series cause it delves deep into not only religion but also cults and politics. Politics is touched slighty in some other titles in the series but this one goes far beyond that and I love it, plus the writing (the way the characters speak) in that game is not seen in any other game in the franchise, I'd say you will definitly love it once you get over the difficulty spikes because the enemies level up with you in that game so don't expect it to get any easier as the game goes on besides staged story fights and boss fights :).
