So who is your favorite GF?

[Wolf Kanno]

I really loved the Guardian Force selection but which ones were your favorites? I'm partial to Alexander, Diablos, and Tonberry were my favorites. Though Cerberus and Doomtrain are certainly the most useful.

[Sephex]

In terms of design, I thought Leviathan and the summon animation was very awesome and handled perfectly. I agree with you on Doomtrain being one of the most useful summons. I also like Odin's summon animation and how ridiculous Eden's summon animation length gets.

So favorite? The very first one I mentioned: Leviathan.

[Jiro]

Diablos is awesome but effectively useless as a summon in battle. There was something rewarding about having Tonberry and Cactuar, some satisfaction at having two series mascots at your disposal (instead of as purely enemies). However I do have to agree that Doomtrain was by far the most useful, and probably the only one I actually used in battle last time I played through.

[Rodney]

In terms of animation, the Brothers. In terms of battle effectiveness, Doomtrain, Eden, and Shiva.

[Sylvie]

Diablos was my favorite overall. Anything that makes getting King Tonberry less tedious is wonderful in my book.

I also really like Leviathan, Ifrit, Shiva, and Quezacoatl.

[Depression Moon]

I don't think I was ever able to get Doomtrain. I think it required a lot to get him. I have to say that Cerberus was the most useful for me. Triples for everyone!

[Sylvie]

Doomtrain required getting the Solomon Ring, and using it after you've obtained:

• Steep Pipes, x6
  
  - Steal from Wendigo, right outside of Galbadia Garden.
• Malboro Tentacle, x6
  
  - Junction "Initiative" and "Mug" to a character and go hunting for Malboro.
• Remedy+, x6
  
  -Buy 60 Remedies and use Med LV UP to turn them into Remedy+.

[Mirage]

Cerberus was probably the most useful for me, but I liked the appearances of Shiva and Diabolos the most. Never really used the damage-only GFs, and the only status effect i cared for was vit-0 which i could get without using doomtrain.

[BG-57]

Diablos is my favorite GF and my second favorite Summon overall (next to Anima). He's just awesome. In terms of practical use my favorite is a maxed Cactaur since does tons of damage without boosting. Eden is too overpowered for most situations, a lot like KoTR.

[Night Fury]

I love all the summons in VIII as I think they have some beautiful animation.

Shiva in her VIII form is my favourite.
In terms of usefulness; as others have said Cerberus and Doomtrain.

I think my favourites in terms of their little sequence are Shiva, Bahamut and Cerberus. I also love Carbuncle as it's so cute.

Eden is super powerful but my GOD that animation goes on forever.

[SeronStar]

Diablos is my favourite GF. Other GFs I like are Siren and Brothers.

[Iceglow]

I love Diablos the design really works for me Diablos is a summon you could get inked on your skin with some pride left.

[ReloadPsi]

Being able to disappear for a minute so that your opponent can be run over by a giant frowning locomotive is one of the best things I have ever had the pleasure of doing in any video game ever made. I'd like to see Sabin suplex THIS train!

Doomtrain motherf***er!

[Shorty]

Shiva, hands down. One of the first GFs you receive and that always sentimentally stuck with me, so I always had to be using her for the main party.

[ReloadPsi]

Shiva, hands down. One of the first GFs you receive and that always sentimentally stuck with me, so I always had to be using her for the main party.

I am also quite fond of Shiva. I just couldn't mention her in the same post as I made before for fear of taking some limelight away from the star of it :3

My solitary gripe with Shiva is how even though she's one of only two GFs with Str-J for most of disc 1 all her +X% abilities are defensive.