Aww that was great. I had a feeling Neo would be going and when I saw the Banned sign I was wondering how it happened. You kept me right up until the very end of the last post to find out too. Ah drama, gotta love it.

Anyway on topic I do have to defend the junctioning system, and the menu system in general. As far as rewarding skill only FFVII competes IMO, as does depth. Drawing does NOT take hours of boredom, and as far as levelling and strengthening through drawing go, VIII is probably the fastest I've played.
I gotta agree on the amnesia thing, that was just ridiculous.