When people say "every game on the fifth generation aged horribly", I like to remember this game (among others) as my way of saying "what the fuck you're talking about?". And there's no nostalgia here, I've beaten this game for the first time this decade. Which sadly means I already knew who was gonna die, but even then, it was still a rather emotional scene.

But what's next? You're gonna tackle the other FFs? My advice is skipping VIII for the time being and playing IX first. VIII can be... quite daunting and boring if you play it wrong. But if you play it right, you become A GOD with little to no effort, which is always fun.

When you do FFVIII do not spoil yourself like you did with FFVII, very fun going in blind. Then redoing it with some of the great things in mind.

Good to see that you like Digimon World 3.

I liked all 3 of them, but 1 was my favorite.

This!

im 15 and the only games ive played and finished more than 2 times is Castlevania SOTN and ff7

Good review.
After I finished VII for the first time I thought the game was a bit over rated but it still was very, very good overall. If you liked VII then you'd LOVE IX and VI

any recommendations?

I haven't played it yet, but I'll probably do so when it comes to PS4.

FFVIII is a rather love-it-or-hate-it kind of game, ESPECIALLY the story. It's the FF game with the most theories, which some would say means it's the most interesting and promissing plot, other would say the theories are just there to try to make the plot any decent. There's one particular plot twist on this game that seems to infuriate a lot of people.

Then there's the Draw thing. If you approach it right, and consider the existence of the Refine abilites, it's not a big deal. Also, the game mechanics are broken. What I mean by that, is that you can nearly max out your stats with nearly to no effort. To put things in perspective, this is the only game where I've beaten the super bosses, because they weren't really that hard. I'm not really complaining, I love destroying a game sometimes, but being broken is not exactly a quality.

FF8 is sitting inbetween two fantastic FF games so FF8 is sorta underwhelming in comparison. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good game but the plot is a confusing mind fuck (not in a really good way) and the characters are sort of bland (although I liked XIII so I shouldn't be complaining about that). The battle system can be broken very easily and you can become a god but it's still enjoyable.

Nah, people can bitch all they want, XIII is actually pretty good at character development and interactions. VIII's characters are... just there.