I realise I'm going to be the first of many to say this, but really? You didn't like FF7? What was it you didn't like?
Nearly everything. It's not so much a game as it is a "choose your own adventure" book with only one path available. The endless morality lectures that you had to actually push X to get through each line (taking up to 30 minutes just to get past some horrid dialog), the stupid chocobo raising one had to do just to get a certain item, the combat blew, the fact that you couldn't just save anywhere, the random encounters when trying to cross 3" of TV real estate space that ended up taking 5 minutes for what should have been a 2 second walk, the cheesy story, the complete lack of freedom...
It was playing in some guy's anime. I had to finish it because I'm compulsive like that, but it was the most grueling, tedious, boring, frustrating, generally svcky game I've ever had the misfortune to play.
FF-VII was
the last JRPG I've ever played. It annoyed me so deeply that I swore off of the entire genre.