“Dark and industrial” kind of suits the general theme of VII, and that’s one of the many reasons I think the soundtrack was a great success. And by no means I meant to make VI’s soundtrack any less of a masterpiece, it’s just about my personal experience/preference. In general, the quality of Uematsu’s compositions…

While I agree, that VI’s soundtrack features more highlights, I value VII’s more because the composing took some nice departures from the ‘traditional FF sound’, and created succesfully an otherworldly mood which suit the game perfectly. “Searching For Friends” is one my favourites also.. but VI soundtrack has one…