>junction system overly complicated and at the same time easily breakable once you get ahold of it>time travel shit that doesn't make any sense>cheesy love storystill kino.
>>729157534uncslop statslop
>>729157534 Exactly. FFVIII is like a beautiful mess-none of it makes sense but all of it slaps. Junction system is broken but kind of brilliant, plot is confusing but oddly charming, and Squall brooding into Rinoa’s arms is peak PlayStation-era romance. Still better than half the cookie-cutter RPGs today.
>>729157865agreed.
>>729157534i never understood why people think the junction system is complicated
>White SeeD ship>Lunatic Pandora>Can't romance anyone but the writers' pet>grinding 20 Tonberries>party is frequently split up, so you have to spend much of your time transferring spells in menu screens. And then back again and back again and back again>minigame interconnectivity with the Pocketstation (yeah we all have one, right?)>one of the worst sewer levels of the '90sNot kino. It's Onik, the reverse of kino.
>>729158269Well desu as an adult it's not that complicated but when you're a kid it surely is, besides at the beginning of the game Quistis bombs you with endless tutorials with lots of info so the player gets stunned
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You weren't required to master the junction system from the start. The roadblocks that push you to get better at understanding the system are paced pretty well. On your first playthough you should have a pretty balanced experience (unless you're a faggot that knew how to meta minmax that shit before even starting the game)
>>729158694literally the only objectively bad part of FF8 is the D-District Prison level design.
The story, the time travel plot, and the junction system makes sense when you realize that the entire game is about astral projection.
>>729157534The junction system is many things, but complicated isn't one of them.
>>729158269At the time it was but nowadays compared to literally any other Rpg is not. But you do need to understand that in the 90's people found Selecting Attack to attack was incomprehensible, and the retards that to this date keep parroting that it is complicated is just that. They're repeating what other says because they are retarded.
>>729157534you should've understood the junction system after the very first tutorial anon. I have no idea why you faggots complain about a game being "too complex" with a perfectly reasonable system to understand and then complain why everything these days is fucking braindead baby mode
