Quote Originally Posted by SABR View Post
I've tried re-playing it several times. I keep forgetting a certain GF and starting over, because I learned the hard way that without GFs, you are *screwed!* Truthfully, I've only passed disc 1 on ONE occasion. I really hate FF8. But I still love it. It's weird.
Except you can get most of the Guardian Forces INSIDE Ultimecia's Castle. Practically every boss there has a GF you can draw from it, if you don't already have the corresponding one. Even then, the only GF's you really need are Alexander, Bahamut, Cerberus, Diablos, Doomtrain and Quezacotl. All the rest are just making up the numbers really, and filling out the Junction slots.

If you're really having that hard a time of it though, I suggest you actually level LESS. Omega Weapon is the only enemy whose level doesn't scale with yours, and the lower level will cause your enemies to actually have less abilities, e.g. Ruby Dragons won't be able to use Breath, while you can manipulate Mid Mag-RF, High Mag-RF, and Forbid Mag-RF into getting you the higher level spells that you can't draw from the weaker enemies. This puts you at an overwhelming advantage over them as you junction these spells to your stats.