I thought FFVIII was a pretty good game overall and completed it a few times over, but I was just looking at some threads about "favourite bad guys" and so on, and I thought about FFVIII's evil doers... and realised that this game really did lack bad guy presence. It was all about the heroes and saving the world but the whole "bad guy" ordeal was really lacking, I find. Hell, you didn't see the main "bad guy" (or girl as the case may be) until the final battle. To me, that's not really a good thing. I prefer the chaps like Kefka, Sephiroth and the whole Shinra crew - even Sin from FFX (despite coming across more like a natural disaster sort of thing than an evil presence bent on taking over the world) was more prominent than the various witches we faced in this game. In retrospect, FFVIII made me feel like I was a "soldier being given documented missions to take on" rather than a "hero saving the world from his great evil enemy" kind of thing. They could have thrown anyone in at the end - Barney the dinosaur for all I care - and it would have meant just as much to me as Ulti did.

Do you feel that this game was lacking a true evil presence?