I had this Fantasy one time..

[Red Mage Coffman]

The concept of the Garden as a combat school was heavily influential in Final Fantasy Type-0's design. Class Zero is very much an expansion and fleshed out version of Balamb's SeeD program. If you liked the concept, look into the game some, especially since Square recently decided to talk about the possibility of the US release.

And.. Going to look into it right now. There are two concepts in VIII I wish were expanded on, and Garden is one of them. If Type-0 manages to do this AND snatch an English release, I'll be preordering it as soon as I can.