Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005)

LO's narrative requires knowledge of the FF VII game, specifically the Nibelheim incident. If you don't have it, you'll not understand who, how or why anything in the anime takes place. If you did play the game, then piecing together events from it and LO will paint a fuller picture of what transpired.
I've witnessed some fanboys get in a tizzy over certain plot discrepancies, and I guess if I was a VII fanboy then I'd be tizzy too, but I'm not.
Animation is by Madhouse, so it's high quality. But the extra story is far from essential unless you're one of the aforementioned fans.

2½ friendly rivalries out of 5