This design decision forces players to carefully select and assign GFs to each character to maximize their effectiveness. Each character in the game begins as a largely blank slate, so much so that characters without junctioned GFs can only attack and perform limit breaks, they have no access to magic or summons or items. Things like your character’s level, weapon, and even their identity matter very little in the grand scheme of combat. You see character growth in Final Fantasy 8 is almost completely removed from typical rpg design conventions. Thus, from the start of the game, rather than rewarding or forcing grinding, a clever management of magic, items, and time is rewarded in the form of stronger characters, easier battles, and more varied gameplay. However, in Final Fantasy 8, purely sinking time into your characters by fighting random encounters or hoarding resources is actively punished by the game and early on the player has access to an Enc-None ability that removes random encounters entirely. Levels equal power and your characters fit somewhere on a difficulty curve based on their level.
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Either figure out how to actually beat the boss or level up to the point where the boss is no longer a threat. Almost all rpgs in some way force or reward grinding they intentionally throw random encounters at you or construct bosses in such a way that they can be beaten with skill or with the brute force approach. Final Fantasy 8 rewards clever use of game mechanics like every good game should, but where it differs from other rpgs is its punishment of grinding and the non-linearity of its character development. It seems to me that Final Fantasy 8’s combat and character development systems are pretty fundamentally different from the average rpg on a philosophical level.
At 8 years old (way too young to play that game by the way) I was exposed to one of the most open, complex, and unintuitive combat systems that I have ever seen in a main stream rpg… and I have been toying with it ever since. Final Fantasy 8 is the first game that I ever bought with my own money.
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