After Advent Children
poisoned my mind against the Compilation of FFVII , I decided to rent DoC before buying it, not wanting to give SE any more of my precious money that I absolutely have to. Note to Square: give FF VII a break for a bit. If you really want to crank out some sequels, there's always Chrono Break. Just a thought.
In the end, I liked DoC ok enough. Course, I don’t generally play shooters of this type, they have a tendency to make me dizzy if I play longer than 30 min in any one sitting. The default controls were counter intuitive, but once tweaked to my liking, the game was playable but only just barely. I basically suffered through the game for the sake of the plot (like KH: CoM, actually) Unfortunately, I only just made it WRO headquarters before I had to take it back.
I have to admit, if the exact same game engine had been used in a game that didn’t have the back story and characters of FF VII, I wouldn’t have given it a second glance.