Did you not use Aura to spam more Limit Breaks?

I was very young when I played FF8 so I would refrain from keeping my character in low health to activate the limit breaks. There was Aura though, but that was another spell I would use for Junction.

I experimented with Draw-Cast for a while but never used it that much. If I remember correctly the spells you could draw from enemies were spells that didn't have much effect against those same enemies either. Fire monsters = fire spells = useless against them. But of course, you would draw spells from monsters for Junction, until you could fly to the "Island Clases to Hell" and "Island Closest to Heaven" (if I remember correctly the name of those islands ^^')

When I battled I spammed GFs and indeed they dragged the fight a lot.

I guess that now that I am older I would play the game differently and be more wise in my playthroughs, just like it felt to revisit old Resident Evil games some months ago and how easy they felt to beat in comparison to how I remembered them.

The key to the game is GF leveling, controlling how they level. Early game bosses is using them to do the fighting for you as they are more powerful than you, late game is you doing it instead after leveling them up correctly. The Junction system is actually more in depth then people think.

Most important is Refine abilities, they allow you to compensate for lack of draw to max out characters traits. 

After about a few hours, I don't even use items at all, my main thing is Attack, Magic, Draw, GF with a couple of other things later. Magic was only for heals or elemental bosses. Final bosses are 'Meltdown', to burn them, then Aura on Squall who has ultimate on Attack. Win.

If PS5 BC is a thing, I'll considering getting this as long as it's not too expensive. I mean I can play FF8 whenever but would be nice if I could just turn on an play at sometime.

I guess they finally found the source code they apparently lost.

Aura was one of the good spells to couple, not sure which stat. I never really felt the need for it. Though I have to say I never honestly tackled Omega Weapon where I might have needed it.

Day one on Switch, and it looks great too!

It was definitely necessary to keep capped, but for any tedious fight like bosses with too much hp, it was very useful to spam Limit Breaks.

They didn’t license any music for FF VIII.

Everything, including Liberi Fatali and Eyes on Me, was composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

Faye Wong sang Eyes on Me but didn’t write or compose it.

The game’s music is entirely the property of Square-Enix.

Loved this game

Damn I'm excited for this!!! Day one buy!
Got FFVII and FFIX on my ps4 already, time to complete the PS1 trilogy of greatness.