FF7's special skills were their limit breaks. Pro-tip, use a Fury on everyone so they use limit breaks more often. This differentiates the characters a great deal.

Sometimes the stray cat enemies are hard to get to come up. He probably had it when you first played because he came in on that enemy group. Gau will get all the rages of whatever enemies are in the group you jump into, and in the group he returns on.

You don't need to get all of his abilities. Just a few key ones. Takes maybe 10 - 15 minutes tops.

I personally love them both. I remember back in the day I used to HATE on FF7, but I actually hadn't really played it. Of course, I missed out on a lot of greatness for a while. The Materia system is simple but brilliant. I think overall FF6 is just slightly better as a pure game, but FF7 was probably better as an…

Personally, I still think 6 has the best music. It isn't as good quality, but it just has so many great melodies.