I really liked it. I loved everything about VIII. I thought it was awesome when your summons finally could grow levels and the detail of them, the best of the PS1. Leviathan had the most detail, you could see how the color of his scales faded together. In VII and IX Leviathan looked like play-doh to me. Draw system got tiresome after a while but it was pretty fun.

Hated It With A Passion! Id Max Out On A Magic And Then Combine It To A Stat And End Up Not Using It, Because It Lowered My Stats.

Easy Game None The Less... But A Didnt Hardly Use Any Magic At All

I loved the draw system, but it was easy to abuse (same goes for Materia system and License board system, though).

But it was awesome the way it was integrated to the GFs, by levelling them up you could get new junction slots if I'm correct.

To tell the truth it didn't bother me at all when I first played the game, since it was my very first FF game. I don't think its really good compared to other games though.

The juction system let you get better without levelling up which was good, it was unique in a way. Only when you got to the end Ultemecia/Griever sucked them all from you! Gutted!!