Lastly, drawing isn’t that bad…You can draw up to NINE of a spell at a time from monsters, and that’s not including drawpoints, and the ability to create like 99 of a spell through certain items if you get the proper GF abilities.

Some parts of FF8 are more difficult, but you just have to actually make an effort to LEARN how..It’s not meant to be run through as fast as possible.

FF VIII was the first Final Fantasy I ever played (Some 10 years ago), after that I played FFVII and FFIX, and currently I’m playing FF XIII. Reading this review make think about all the failure points that have been highlighted as absolute downfalls, and maybe it is like that, but for me that game is one of the best games I’ve ever played.

Maybe the story is nonsensical, but at the moment I played it, I didn’t read or understood English very well and I became so hooked up to this game that it was the way for learning english to me. The plot is not the clasical FF all fantastic, mid age magical world. (And the part that all Integrants grew up together and then forgot it to then remember it again is kind of absurd) But plot aside, the whole system of Equipment and Improve of skills is IMO much better than FF IX and in some aspects like Status Junction better than FFVII. Even having to draw the “Magic items” (Wich all the ppl seem so terribly) to be able to equip the “energy items” (Magics) to level up your strenght, vitality, speed ETC was awesome, at least it was open to do it once you have drawn the magics and enabled the attribute. In some others you always have to wait for something to happen to be able to level up your skills. The fact that if i worked hard gathering new and more powerfull “magics” to be able to Junction them up to be sntronger was like freedom compared with e.g XIII and the Crystarium system or the Ability Stones at FFIX. Other thing that i miss so much is the card playing system, I don’t know if people doesn’t like it, but to me was another new thing to accomplish for eventually have a lot of awesome items and make the game larger (Wich I Enjoyed so much to play) Cards at FFIX were weird,I tried to figure out how the hell to play them but never got it. The hidden Quests like the UFO quest, the getting of Moomba kind of GF and everything else was awesome to me and above of all, was a game designed to explore it your self, not like some that there is an explaination to everything.

I think that most people hate FFVIII for being so much different in comparison with FFVII (wich was another awesome FF) and being FFVII so much loved among the FF Fans.
Well, thats what i have to say in favor of FFVIII, is my preferred Final Fantasy game and thats why i wrote all this post.

1) draw system ( biggest waste of time bullshit mechanic ive ever seen in a final fantasy game)
2) GF summons ( imo the fact that you could use these summons to practically steamroll most enemies made the game extremely stale and boring.)
3) no exp from some bosses ( imo the best part of taking down a badass boss is seeing all the exp you get from pwning its face in. Seeing “Didn’t receive EXP” after killing a boss that took you hours to kill just feels like a gigantic middle finger.
4) Junction system ( the junction system was the single most annoying thing when it came to gameplay. I have never seen such an gigantic waste of time as constantly having to rejunction the GFs to every single person every time they leave your party.

in conclusion this stupid piece of shit game will be sold at the nearest pawn shop, slackers, game stop or thrown in the nearest bonfire so that i do not have to deal with the pain of having it in my house anymore.

I also played 13 but i gave up like 10hrs in because it was a never ending hallway of enemies. no shops no nothing.

I am in no way a final fantasy fanatic because I only like 7&8 and i don’t get all gay over the characters. I just enjoy stories about revolutionaries. not to mention ones in a futuristic setting.

this review was funny but its full of bullshit. FF8 is a GREAT game!! and I also agree the FF fan boys are gay lol.