I have a friend that I recently got to start playing this game, and he told me he enjoys it, but he seems to want to use GF's in everyone of his battles. Now I probably should not even give a crap, and let him do as he pleases but I need to live with letting this bother me.. He actually uses GF's as main characters, and the real characters, as back up characters! o.O

The thing that is really baffling, is how he told me that when he is fighting a simple guard that should certainly be killed with one, or no more than two attacks from Squall, or probably any other characters. That it takes him about 6 attacks to kill each guard! Something must be wrong there. I asked him if he was ever running away from a lot of monsters, or maybe, not getting into any extra encounters, just to level up your characters some, and he told me that he has hardly ran from anything, and has fought in some extra battles before. So this leaves me confused... I probably would know the solution here, but I have not played FFVIII for a longtime, other than just fighting Ultimecia.

So any ideas whats going on here? Thanks.