Rhanfahl said: Get rid of the Junction system, Zell, Selphie, Irvine, and make Squall more like his Kingdom Hearts persona...yeah...maybe it won't suck next time around.
The junction system was fine, it was just a lot to take in all at once. If they introduced it in stages and rebalanced the enemies so that you'd have only a few slots to play around with to start and then gained more as you progressed, I could see it working just fine as-is. There might be other problems I'm not thinking of though, it's been a long time since I played VIII.
Final Fantasy VIII had the biggest learning curve, but I actually kind of like the Junction System, since when you've got Squall set right you don't even need spells cuz he swordrapes everything. Now I'm mentally comparing Squall, who cuts dudes in half, to Zell, who hits armored guys. Kind of unbalanced here.