Just that FF8's plot is even more confusing and "trying too hard for a twist" than FF7... It was fabulous game until end of disc 2... then we pull off the worse brainwash excuse you can ever come up with, and it was all down hill from there to me.
I don't think FF8's system is really that well designed heh... monsters level up with you but the lack of correlation between your kind of level up and their kind of level up... yeah... As much as I know how normal attack dominates early FFs in the series, FF8 is one of the worse at it. Junction system's "dare use any spells? sacrifice your stats! Oh wait your normal attack which cost nothing is stronger than spells to begin with" is a terrible design failure for me...
Materia is old and not as gamebreaking as everyone claim to be. But sometimes old things linger around because it works.
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