comparing one game to an entire series doesnt make alot of sense,
by default chrono trigger is better than at least a few FF games, ill give you that. (ffx ffx-2 XD), but final fantasy 2 and 3 more than hold their own if you wanna stay old school.
personally i didnt like ff7, the story was too unreal and the characters too unbelievable, i didnt find myself ONCE feeling any emotions for any of the characters, whether it be sad/happy/anger. the story was not played out as well as it couldve have been.
ill catch hell for this im sure, but ff8. all of the characters seemed more real, and the world as a whole seemed more real too, at several points in the game i was genuinely happy or sad for the characters on the screen, it was much easier to put yourself in their shoes (for me anyways)
in that scene towards the end when squall lept from the safety of the spacecraft to be with rinoa as she floated off into space, KNOWING he didnt have enough oxygen to make it back I almost cried.
seeing squall go from a pent up antisocial teenager to someone who would risk his life to save the girl he loved, and eventually step up to lead the entire seed garden thingy was very exciting. The speech he gave when he took command of the garden, combined with the epic ass soundtrack was psyching me up for the coming battle for realz, FF7 NEVER had a moment like this.
chrono trigger? i never got the full experience unfortunately, i bought a used copy that had a save file with nearly maxed chars, but i did play through the game countless times to do everything, and get all the endings.
love the ending where you get to talk to npcs that represent the dev staff =D.
but in the case of this poll, i have to say final fantasy wins, for the reason of ff8 alone. sure the junction system was ***, but once you had everything set up you didnt have to do jack **** =D