So I just finished playing Final Fantasy VIII. For the first time. I've had the game since it's debut, but I think I was ticked at the time that it wasn't more like FF VII, my first FF game. "No materia! Surely this game doth suck!" And off it went into storage for all those years.

I had the initial obstacle of trying to buy a PSX memory card to save games on. That was quite a feat in the year 2007 let me tell ya. That alone took me a couple weeks to complete my quest!

I started the game anew this time with more of an open mind, and more experience with FF games and their ever changing game mechanics. I got into the whole junctioning mechanic this time and summoning the GFs was very satisfying after the lackluster ESPer mechanics in FF XII. I even came to enjoy the card minigame. My favorite mingame remains Blitzball from FF X for some reason (leave me alone)! :)

So basically I can't believe I waited this long to play, and I thoroughly enjoyed the game. That is all.