Would FF8 have been better as a movie?

[Goldenboko]

Is VIII's battle system really that much different from IV-IX, and X-2?

Or are you referencing the junction system rather than the battle system?

I don't think VIII would have been better as a movie. For one, it'd be longer than the Lord of the Rings movies, and those were pretty long.

I think that if it wasn't a game, I'd prefer a novelization rather than a film. Square has think about bad movies anyway.

Maybe Fabio could be on the cover as Squall.

Junctioning influenced the Battle System. Magic became useless, and even if it was useful, using it would weaken your characters. Skills like "Revive" made life useless. It became "Attack, Limits, Heal" and little else. I found little challenge in any of it because of this, most work was done in Junctioning before the battle.