Final Fantasy VII was a tough act to follow. I don't think that the junction system is all that complicated. I used to, but it makes sense. It's just different, and a lot of people who like something don't like changes. This game is amazing though, once given the chance. I think so anyway. >.o

Eh im one of the people who loved the game as well. I can say partilly it was due to it being the first FF i played besides part of ff1 for the nintendo while i still had it. Graphics were great and the characters seemed more real to me. You could relate to them easy and understand what drove them to saving the world and all that crap. Yes it revolved around a crappy love story as many say but it also had much more back story to it that made it all the more intresting; war, the sorceress, and a band a friends separated and for no real other reason then the GF(which was not explained) all but 1 and actually 2 lost all thier memories of one another.

I think FFVIII is my least favorite FF-game. Only FF-game which sucks even more is FFX-2 but I havent play it but yes I can tell just by looking at X-2 and tell it sucks.

Oh yes this was FFVIII thread. Music and Graphics were awesome in this game. I really liked both. Unfortunately I basically didnt like the rest.

Junction-system was really annoying and even though monster level with you they only get more HP but nothing else but they fall still very quickly. This FF-game has also the most ugliest monsters in FF-games history. There were not many nice looking monsters. I dont mean big and scary but pokemonlike monsters.

Characters- I can stand all from the main six except Quistis who did nothing in the late game and she rarely opened her mouth. Lagunas crew was okay so was Seifer and his buddies. But the characters I hate most were Cid and his wife. Espescially Cid. Worst Cid ever. He was such a boohoo loser who left school immediately as things went wrong and returned when things were okay again. I could impale that fat old man.

With uninteresting characters you cant have good plot. There were good parts but I didnt like most of the plot twists. They suck mostly like that orphanage scene where they remember everything. That was ridicilous.

It was nice though that theme was love. Yes in RPG i like more fantasy than futuristic world but it was nicely realistic.

One more thing: I really hate Cid and I could smash his head with a rock and pee on his corpse. Yep that fat man was so loser.

No, monsters don´t have to look cute but more animal and humanoid like than just some random shit. Like enemy called Buel (lives in Ifrits cave)
it just look weird and not even funny weird it is just ugly. Other very good ugly monster examples are Geezard and Gayla. http://www.ffonline.com/ff8/enemies-fg.htm
Look at them.

so what about the whole uglyness thing. FFVIII is still the best i mean come on, look at your mom, her face kinda scares me but I still play w/ her.

the only factor is how well it kept u entertained.

well if you hate it for how ugly the enemies look, you must dispise VII because those were much worse. I personally thought they looked quite nice compared to most. they are just simple compared to enemies of the later FFs. but the look much better than any that have come before them.