I don't mind a different battle system, it was the only decent thing to XIII, but NO UEMATSU! ;_;
My mai gripe with Advent Children was the complete change in tone, and how they completely ignored Cloud's development. Cloud isn't supposed to be Squall. Only Reno had any sort of humor, and it was way ooc. That guy killed more people than Sephiroth!
There really was so much lovable weirdness to FFVII; Hojo's mad science attempt to coerce bestiality, the golden, shiny, wire of hope, that scene with 20+ gym bros/male prostitutes and poor Cloud, Tifa and Barett bitching about stairs, the wig that gym bro kept in his crotch, that slap fight on the giant cannon, Barret in a sailor suit, Red XIII impersonating a human, the date play, the bumblebee prostitute that pokes Cloud in the crotch with her stinger, stealing Tifa's underwear, and everyone threatening to maim Corneo's family jewels.
God damn, that game was perverted.

I've moved on from a Nomura-like fascination with belts onto an Amano-like obsession with beads.
Get with the times Addy. ^-^