I really loved this game. I really loved the story and the characters. I also absolutely loved the music. There were many aspects of the GF and draw systems that annoyed me. I did not do all the side quests and find all the GFs, although I could always do another play through. I thought the system of upgrading weapons was interesting, but I suppose I didn't put enough time into playing the card game to get enough items for all the weapons.

Unfortunately, I had a severe issue with the game that makes me unable to give this game a positive review. There is a point late in the game where every time a boss used it's attack my whole game would stop responding. The screen would freeze, the music would keep playing, and I'd have to force quit the game. I tried messing with some of the settings, but absolutely nothing worked. Fortunately I was able to discover that the remaster of FF VIII is still similar enough to this version that I was able to move my save file from this directory to the remaster directory, and was able to beat the game. I will be reviewing the remaster positively, as it didn't have any game-breaking glitches.

I was able to get through most of this game before the fatal error. It was on the 4th disc, in ultimecia's castle, at Tri-Point, whenever it would use Mega Spark, it would cause this glitch. I had to buy the remaster just to finish the game.