I've spent a lot of time playing VIII. My first time through, I was pretty new to RPGs and was an idiot as figuring everything out. It got pretty easy once I finished it though. I played it through a couple of times again to add stuff to my site, and then once about a year ago to remember why I had liked it in the first place . It has a relatively light plot for a FF game (no in-game deaths, worlds getting destroyed, etc.), it's really easy to finish if you don't level up much and remember what to do to progress the game, and I just enjoy it. It's not as good as some of the other FFs, but still pretty good imo