More FF8

[mimi_sardinia]

Rinoa is twerp.

Quistis, your timing is the worst.

Edea looks young for a woman who aught to be at least in her late 30s.

I should read battle info before I go and slaughter non-random enemies, I want to collect all the damn GFs.

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[feywood.livejournal.com]

She's just so bloody useless. And gets in the way all the time.
Quistis is lovely when she gets her act together.
Edea uses Odine brand magical wrinkle remover. :3

And after a while, you just get so paranoid about GFs that the first thing you check is the draw menu.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I will stand by my belief that Squall sees sense after the end of the game events - or is rescued from Rinoa's clutches by either Seifer (who looked damn good on that float) or Laguna.

I hope so, she seems otherwise a sensible person.

Heh, figures. ^_^

Yeah, I'm starting to see that. Is there a way to change the attack order mid-fight? I know FF7 had it but it seems like it's not there in FF8.

I'll have to climb those crates again anyway, thankfully I tend to be a bit on the paranoid side when it comes to saving.

[feywood.livejournal.com]

He's so smirky and handsome there. <3

She just needs some time to get over the whole "I love Squall but he's my student and now I'm not a teacher anymore ohnoez".

No, I don't think you can do that (though I didn't even know you could in FF7. o_O How?), you just need to make sure to get that done before you start kicking ass.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

FF7 there's an option in the command menu of [Defend], found by going to the far right of the menu (it's a little pop-up submenu of it's own).

[Change] is the other way, go left. It skips the character you were on and goes to the next person up instead without any action.

Admitedly, I am not sure [Defend] does much either, it may mitigate attacks that hit that character in that turn but I've never really studied it real hard.

[feywood.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what that does. FF9 (which is what I've been playing recently) has that too and I'd been wondering. I was just too lame to actually see what it does. xD
In that case, no, FF8 doesn't have that.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

It's good if you have a character who has a particular command you want to use before you attack an enemy - like Steal, or in FF8 the Draw command.

Given that I am a horrific cheat (I lover Griever, and it's sister program, Jenova) at this stage of the game I damn well wish FF8 had it because I don't give everyone the Draw command (it's damn annoying that you can only pick three commands).

[feywood.livejournal.com]

I just have all the other characters standing around doing nothing while I steal/draw over and over till I have what I want.

I tend to only give one character the draw command, the others go around with revive/recover/treatment and all that as soon as I have those abilities.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, much like I do, everyone has GF so I have a toss-up on the other commands on what to give them.

[blueshinra.livejournal.com]

Hmm... not quite ;) Change changes the position of the character (from normal to long-range, or vice-versa), but it uses up that character's turn; Defend essentially skips the character's turn.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Does it? I'd never really noticed! I'll keep that in mind for next time I play 7, I usually only put Aeris in the back row.