FF8 is one of squresoft's best releases. This game is about a mercenary who joins an underground resistance group to defeat an evil sorceress. Eventually he falls in love with a member of resistance and is intent on getting her life back after it is taken by an evil sorceress in the future. When FF8 first came out I couldn't get over some of the qualities that just weren't typical FF style like the way they walked. In most FF games the characters are inside the lead character but not in this one. I eventually got over it and I'm glad I did because the game turned out to be awesome. I strongly reccomend this game to any FF fan because this game offers nice graphics, a deep storyline filled with: love, hate, betrayal, and pretty cool combat moves. The above review said that a con on this game is the fact that there are to many random battles, but that actually helps for quick leveling. The one downside to this game is that the last boss (Ultimecia) is very hard and so I reccomend getting as much work in the game done as possible before entering Lunatic Pandora.