Oh neat, this thread again.
I like Cloud quite a bit because of the psychology that went into making him who he is. Also, he's an excellent hero for skinny white boys everywhere.
He didn't have Aerith going for him, if you recall. He was "filling in" for Zack, since he thought that he was Zack. He always loved Tifa, however, from childhood onward. However, I find it hard to focus on love interests when there's a metric ****ton of stupid going on around you, and so did Cloud, probably. Who knows, we're not Nojima.