Story - I felt like I was trudging through mud to the end. I was never shocked nor excited during the plot. This game was the only Final Fantasy in which I didn't want to play the second I got home because I wanted to know what happened next.

GamePlay - Drawing -IS- tedious. There had been plenty of battles where I found myself realizing that I had no potions, then come to find out no cures either. So I try to draw a cure to save my party and it fails and the monster does an all character attack and I'm dead. I also feel that draws are a waste of a turn, it doesn't mean they -are- but I found myself using -alot- less magic in this game just because of the draw system.
Junctioning was okay I guess, I never really used it enough to get anything good out of it.


Personally, I feel that FFVIII had so many added things that it was too much, now if FFVIII were like an MMO setting and you weren't bound to a story line -that much- I feel that all the extra's would have been easier to deal with.

FFVIII to me just seems like your following the character instead of actually gaining the feel of the character. The character's themselves where pretty bland, so nearly anything they could do or say could easily be predicted by someone playing the game for the first time.

The graphics were nice though, although I believe when it comes to rating games graphics come last over story and gameplay and all others.

Either way, I play FFVIII when I get bored and -really- have nothing better to do. Usually if I do do a replay I'm not motivated enough to start playing again, which.. yeah leads to no more playing.
I think the only credit it should be given is it's graphics for it's time, but that's about it.

Also, since there's hostility I'd like to state.
I've played the game enough, I've tried to like it, I've formed my opinion since the game came out, if no one likes my opinion good for you, that's why it's an opinion, nothing anyone can say can change my veiws that have been formed over many years so trying to make me "see the light" will be in vain.