Even if you don't particularly want this game, you could get a Gamecube anyway. I personally love mine. Resident Evil, Zelda, Viewtiful Joe... *drool* However, if you ARE interested in connectivity, there are other games I can reccomend more than FFCC (I own FFCC, btw). Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords Adventures is an INCREDIBLE game. It's not that fun to play alone, but if you have even one other person it's amazing. Even if it just degenerates into killing the other players for force crystals, it's a wonderful time. In fact, I like this game so much I'm going to rant about it.

First off, unlike FFCC, it's VERY fast paced. FFCC seems to involve slightly more strategic planning, but it's just a matter of figuring out which magicite to equip. 4SA has much more intuitive controls so it just feels a lot quicker. None of this waiting around for your ranged attack or spell to charge up, you just hit the appropriate buttons and BAM. The two games are very similar in a lot of ways, but I think you'll wind up enjoying 4SA more than FFCC. I don't feel that FFCC is a BAD game, but a lot of things were implemented that shouldn't have been, and a lot of things that should have been implemented weren't. I personally love hack 'n slash games, and I like those aspects of this game, but it's trying too hard to straddle the fence between Final Fantasy and Legend Of Zelda. If you could level up I think this game would probably have been more enjoyable. The relic system is fun, but it's also limited and it gets VERY tedious completing the same levels over and over again only to get +1 to your strength.