Quote Originally Posted by MJN SEIFER View Post
I never really had a problem with the Junction system, probably because I played this right after I completed FFVII.
Really? I think that makes it worse. The Materia system was so simple, and so visual. The color-coding and streamline nature made it very easy to pick up and work with.

Then the Junction system rolls around, and it junks that beautiful interface for a very unfriendly, text-based UI. It felt like a step backward.


True, the whole concept of magic augmenting your stats was an extension of Materia's stat changes, but, really, the Junction system seems overall much less polished than the Materia system. More tedious, less involving, more unbalanced, and nowhere near as good of an interface.