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@kyleforrester87 Seeing you talk about the start of Disc 2 in FF8 reminded me that I recently abandoned a playthrough at the start of Disc 2 for the literal 4th time.

@nessisonett Yes, in my version of FF8 the squad grow old and die in prison, apparently.

@kyleforrester87 I know a lot of JRPGs have that one point where playthroughs are abandoned but I can’t think of anything as clear and obvious as that bloody prison.

@kyleforrester87 They aren't dead, only Squall. The whole game after disk 1 is Squall's dream after he was killed by Edea

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@belmont Sorry, been a wild few days…Yeah, the auto ring isn’t great if you want to strategize at all. Torgal in general is easy to forget about but he’s so integrated into my combo structure now, I can’t imagine not having him by Clive’s side!

Yeah, it really does pick up. Another user here, Voltan, was saying he wished FF mode would have been available from the start as hard mode and I mostly agree. The balance just feels a lot better.

The nice thing about mastering all of the abilities is you can map them to any eikon, enabling you to create the flow that works best for your fingers. Basically you only have to consider which three core feats are useful to you and then build out from there.

What are your thoughts on the upcoming DLC? What are you hoping to see from it?

@belmont They are dead in my version, I assure you!

@Jimmer-jammer There are many things I don't enjoy in FF mode and if it was not needed for the platinum, I wouldn't play it. Even you strategize a lot still the enemies are «bullet sponges» and battles take a lot of time. What I ended up doing, since I can't memorize the moves and I always press the wrong ones (man I suck in 3d action games) I put