God save me rejection from my reflection

IX was so much worse!

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It most certainly was NOT!

VIII had the worst system ever in a FF game. Summon, summon, summon, summon some more. Then it had that horrible "summoning affinity" that made summons useless if you transferred them between characters, and the wacky limit breaks that required button combinations. It was lousy!

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The 'draw' system was lame to the power of ten, agreed. But the humble card game has never been more accessible or fun, and the looks and plot of the thing I felt made up for quite a bit. IX irritated me, and I could never put my finger on exactly why. Give me a minute.

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The tiny, tiny people? Or was I the only one frightened by them?

And *raises tentative hand* I liked VIII! Though it was much more for the story and the characters than the overall game play because every bit of "summon, summon, summon" rings true.

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Pro-VIII I was going to cite the kinkiness of the school setting and all the pretty people in uniforms, but I didn't want to reveal my shallowness so early on. Oops.

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Hey, I'd be lying if I denied playing for the pretty, pretty men. Of which there are many. Yay!

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And Squall's outfit. And the cowboy. And Laguna. Hey, sweet is sexy.

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Oh, Irvine! And the possibilities of Squall/Seifer hatesex! Oh, how I do heart the hatesex.

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uiggu.livejournal.com - Date: 2004-12-06 08:11 pm (UTC) - Expand

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Unless you pack your attack slots with kickass spells early on, in which case it's "HAHAHAHA I OWNZ YOUR ASS, UNSUSPECTING SOLDIER!"

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I remember taking down Seifer the first time in only one hit.
Seifer: You can't have beat me!
Me: I CAN'T HAVE BEAT YOU!

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ROFLMAO.

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I will stipulate that the gravity summon (Diablos??) looked utterly awesome in VIII, and that gunblades are pretty sweet (I even went so far as to use one in D&D), but everything else is WRONG!! ;) I never played the card game, but then again I never played any of the FF sub-games.

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You missed out. The card game in VIII was a masterpiece of Good Design, which is more than I can say for IX's.

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I think I avoided playing the mini-games because they tended to be in-game CCG's, and at the time I was already addicted to M:TG.

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VIII's was worth it. Man. So very fun.

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I like VIII. I'll agree that drawing can be a pain and the system is definitely tilted more towards summon that other ones, but if you use the junction system well you can have a LOT of fun, trust me. :D Plus I loved some of the characters and that counted more for me.

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The junction system was kinda cool to a point, but I very much preferred the materia system of VII. There was just something incredibly cool about going into battle with Emerald Weapon, limit meters maxed out, everyone equipped with that "re-run" materia (forget what it was called), and watching the epic ass-kicking movie that would result after the first hit.

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FF7's battle system was all right, but I'm one of the few who didn't really like the characters.

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ZOMG WTF U BITAHC SEPHI-CHAN IS SOOOO HOTT!!!111

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But Sephiroth was the baddest mammajamma on the planet!!!11

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