not necessarily... lefting things behind on the sortyline is not always a problem nor a bad thing... sometimes it can atually help the story... or even to rise its "lengedary" status

But speculation is half the fun for me! Square didn't screw up, they made shitloads of money.

No speculation my ass, I have a friend who will argue up and down all day that Squall died, and that Rinoa was seeing his ghost.

But I do agree, Seven had a more speculative ending than Eight. In fact now that I reflect on all the Final Fantasies I think it is pretty much the only one without a straightforward ending.

I don't think FFVII ended on anything that should have been expanded on.

Soul Reaver did. That's why SR 2 and Defiance made me more eager to play them.

@ Nique: Sure, I'm game. I think the link to the online card game is on Wikipedia. I gotta figure some stuff out.

Here's what you do.

First off, in your first real mission, KILL Zell and Squall. Have Seifer fight to gain AP with all GF's junctioned until you know the various magic levelling up abilities (like fire to firaga). Once that is done, go about having him draw 100 of everything repeatedly, improve it, and repeat until you have 100 of every draw magic you can get.

That SHOULD allow you to survive until you get to the cactuar GF, who already has four slots for character abilities.

You'll have to fly your little spaceship over and fight/defeat him. Done?

Wonderful.

Now use all those spaces for various stat + things (off your other previously leveled GFs). Which ones is up to you. Now take your character who has it equipped, kill the other two party members, and get odin.

Now head on over to island closest to hell and level the fuck up, as that with four character abilities for stat + your levels FAR outdo those of the monsters (and you still get to junction shit to your stats after that).

Save between EVERY battle. Odin will be summoned a lot to take out the enemies and your buffified character will have a chance on his own at around level 25.

Once he hits 100, move the stuff over to another character... because he'll be invincible as can be, anyway.

What I did was start with squall and ifrits STR things, and then junctioned other GFs to him while I was levelling him up there, to learn other abilities.

The other route is the card ability.

However, I'm impatient and that annoyed me.

I have the program that gets into the game disc itself for the card game. To play with someone it requires inputting your oppoents IP or something weird, I think, so that could get messy. I'll look it up on wiki and see about another way...

Seeing as my 8+ hour file just got corrupted, I think I'll do just that.

But; why save between every battle on the ICtH?

Because if Odin doesn't activate until you hit level 40 or so, there's a good chance your ass gets creamed and you die. And even after that there's a chance, as that you're fighting level 100 beasties alone. On the plus side, hitting level 40 or so doesn't take too long, and neither does 100... and once you get a full team of level 100s made like that you'll kill everything with ease. Horrible horrible ease.

I just bought FF VIII. It was the first copy my store has received in almost a year, so I bought it right away. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm having a lot of trouble with the Trigger thing. I'm not sure when I'm supposed to press it, aside from when the blade is about the strike. But it never does anythng...

That's what you have to figure out. If it told you when, you'd get criticals every hit.

Edit: All of this makes me want to play FF8, but I hate getting up to the point where **spoiler** Balamb becomes mobile.

I was way too weak at the end of the game, so I deleted my good file.

If you hit it right when the blade hits the enemy it makes an explosion effect and does more damage. There's around a second long opening. Just vary the timing until you get it right. That's what I did.

Also, the renzoukuken has a little thing that moves across the bottom and into a square. You have to hit it when it's in the square during the limit breaks.