FF8 is great, you just gotta know how to play it. It doesn't hold your hand and that's what I like about it.
In most other RPGs you get new magic spells just for playing the game: You reach a certain level, you get a new magic spell. Not in FF8. In FF8 you have to EARN your magic spells, and even then you have to use them sparingly since there is no MP in FF8, spells are treated more like items.
And THEN the game makes you responsible for boosting your own stats since monsters level up with you. So just level grinding alone isn't going to cut it. You have to apply your magic spells to your stats to boost them, and certain spells have different values for certain stats, so you have to experiment. You can't just put any spell on any stat.
It's a very technical RPG, but that's why I like it I guess. :p
Last edited by Paperboy_J - on 14 September 2018
