[quote name='wildcpac']It is my favorite one out of the bunch. It is very different as each character is set in their skills. You have a thief, white mage, black mage, tank, red mage, blue mage, a summoner and a lancer. You cannot change their jobs. Each character learns new skills, spells, moves via weapons, clothing and items that you equip. You get experience and skill points? at the end of each battle. So if the black mage as a rod equipped that gives them fira they can only cast fira with that rod equipped. The fira spell might take 30 skill points to master. Once you master it than you can use the spell at any time and not have that rod equipped.
Characters also get ability points. So you set different abilities to each character. Lets say Zidane the main character has 40 ability points. He can equip abilities like experience plus, money plus, health plus, abilities that prevent being blind, being mute, being stoned, and always in trance. Each ability can cost between 2-7 ability points, if not more. So you cant choose them all.
Graphics are the best in my opinion for the PSX FF games. Storyline is well above average with characters that you actually care about. Not enough character development in my opinion though. Setting of the game is pretty old school RPG and non western sci fi like 7 or 8. I am sure the system in the game was compared to the Esper system of 6?[/QUOTE]
Sounds interesting... maybe I'll get 8 and 9 at some point. I enjoyed 7 quite a bit, played it on PC.