What went wrong?

[MJN SEIFER]

FFVIII is my second favorite Final Fantasy (I'm afraid my first is FFVII, sorry) but there are things I would have done to make it better. At the top of my head, added some FFVII-esque mini games (coming straight after FFVII made it look a bit flat in this respect) as long as they can fit in like FFVII, and maybe make the storylines of the other characters less optional.

There are other things, I think, but I mostly love it - it gets a lot of critisism where I don't think it deserves it (Squall's development did make sense, the orphanage was foreshadowed, and I don't mean on Squall's computer etc) that the actual places where it failed gets ignored, in my opinion.

I understand why Squall is the way that he is, but I don't believe his character or his development was structured in a way that many people could relate to him. Same for Rinoa, probably.

I could relate to them, they were the easiest characters to relate to for me in the entire series.

Junctioning and combat/scaling was the most ridiculous system in a FF game.

I found it pretty straight forward to be honest, maybe playing it straight after FFVII's Materia system made it easier for me.