Ah the paradox of FF8. Good topic by the way. Great, game, good story but what ruined it for me were those damn summon sequences and the fact that until you picked up aura spells, summons were really the only consistent damage dealing attacks. Everything else was unreliable or weak. Combat relied too heavily on summons which were way to overpowered. I did love the story though. Of the PS1 stories I rank them 9, 8, then 7 (bash me all you want, I don't find leading emo punk tart chasing after second emo punk tart with an edifice complex mixing it all together with the gaia theory that interesting of a story so 7 earned last for me story wise of the PS1 generation). But because of 8's reliance on summons it drops way down. Changing my order of the ps1 generation of the overall score to 9,7,8. Which really sucks, cause 8 def had potential to blow 7 out of the water. And I'll ignore explaining 9 as it whipped the floor with both of them combined. I rank 8 an 8.