the only monster I hate on this game is the "Marlboro" it will **** you up if you don't have "pain" on your status def junction

I played it for a few hours but never really got into it.

I remember the commercial airing every 5 minutes when it got released.

To be honest I always just auto-junctioned things. I never really got it.

Buy 9 tents, refine them, get 99 curagas. Either strength or HP. Lol. Wait until you get your SeeD rank and then get it as high up as possible.

Learn Card/ Card Mod and play lots of Triple Triad= funnest playthrough ever and easy bosses. Have fun one of my fav games of all time!

Playing this right now! @LadyGagaStan93 - learn the card command early! It saves you from learning experience but you still get AP for your GFs! You don't need to level to be powerful!

One of the best places to grind early on is the jungle you pass out in between Timber and Galbadia!

On to Disc 2.

Disk 2 starts off so flawlessly with the Laguna flashback but then the damn prison is so annoying and you have to go back and forwards. But the game gets really exciting and tense afterwards. God I remember my heart racing with the missile base mission too - ugh flawless game! Yass at you PERFECT people making this thread relevant and serving some justice for the king of FF games. Eternally overlooked in favor of FF7 and no one knows why.

The prison.

I try to forget about that. Disc 2 is really my favorite tbh. The story is at such a climax, the middle base, making Balamb Garden mobile, Fisherman's Horizon, finding Ellone, the final war against Galbadia . They truly could have ended the game there if they wanted to and filled it up some more with character development in between. Lord knows every character needs it other than Squall and Rinoa.

So true. The game kind of takes on a new life after disk 2, it sorta feels like a sequel in itself. Not gonna lie the whole Ultimecia thing is a bit out of left-field, but going to space was a really cool moment in the game and the MV's with the Lunar Cry is seriously cool.

Feels really weird spoiler alerting a 15 year old game but okay.

That's actually a very interesting but wonderful way of looking at the game: it is basically two different games. The first being the development of Squall and him learning how to mingle with his peers and accept the fate of leadership bestowed upon him and ending the first cycle with Edea/Matron. The second half (disc 3 onward) is almost like the Final Fantasy XIII-2 to XIII: wacky, romantic, and interstellar. Going into space is by far my favorite part.. heading into the Ragnarok for the first time and having to clear it out with just Squall and Rinoa just gives me the shivers. Gives me Alien teas tbh.

This was something I found a couple of days ago while playing VIII that really helped shape Squall's character in my mind - especially with his relationship with Seifer. Very well worth reading!

Right now, everyone just finished their concert for Squall and Rinoa and we're getting ready for Balamb. It's still a pretty cool segment in the game so I'm looking forward for that boss fight again.

Y'all better stan for me.

Yass king! Flawless username. If I buy ATRL+ when the update happens (and that's a big "if" ) I'm definitely converting to a FFVIII themed username. OMG so many flawless usernames ripe for the taking.