Final Fantasy VIII

The Good
Final Fanstasy 8 is one of the games I enjoyed the most. First of all I wanna congratulate the producers for the amazing graphics they were able to create, the GFs are beautiful and the CG scenes are astonishing. Moreover the design of the characters (in the battle or in the field) are much, much better than in the FF7, which had those ridiculous tiny characters, even in some of the CG scenes. The fact that you can link magic to your status is a really good idea and the GF system is also great, you create a relation between each character and the GF, for example in my game Shiva is always junctioned to Rinoa, Ifrit is always junctioned to Squall and Quezacotl with Zell, for some reason I feel comfortable.

The Bad
Unfortunately some vital points makes this game be off the '10 best of all times' list: -Being able to get the Ragnarok only at the middle of the third cd is ridiculous, until then you have to drive that slow and huge thing, which is not attractive at all. -Using magic is worthless, the gf and limits damage much more. The magic is useful to increase defense or attack against a specified element. -There's a huge level gap between Squall and the other members for he is never out of the party, this is a critic I already had when I played FF7, you must be able to form the party the way you want, leaving behind this boring 'main character thing'. -Not so many characters to play with. In FF7 we had something like 10 or 9 different characters to choose in order to form a party.

The Bottom Line
To the readers,

I've read and heard a lot of bad critics about FF8 not being as good as the others so here comes my opinion: FF8 is a game for people older than the ones that played FF7, the storyline is as good as the one in FF7, the sounds are ok and the graphics are much better. I don't know which one to choose between FF7 and FF8 but I think I would prefer to do what I'm doing...Playing both!