Quote Originally Posted by masamune1600
Basically, Ultima Shadow makes a good point about critical hits. Fortunately, however, the game was designed to allow a Squall to deliver a critical hit every time. Press the trigger just as he's swinging his gunblade, and it will deliver a critical hit. That will hopefully deliver the desired 9999 strikes.

EDIT: Why does my text appear bold, despite the notable fact that I didn't bold it?
Yes. However... Squalls critical hits only does an extra 1/3 or 1/4 dammage while the other characters critical hits does double dammage. Therefore the other characters are able to deliver more powerfull blows than Squall since Squall ALWAYS gets a critical hit if you just press R1 at the right moment. Therefore it may be so that Squall only delivers 8000-9000 dammage with his critical hits while the others does the desired 9999.