Final Fantasy 8

Guardian Forces

GF stands for Guardian Forces. Guardians are just the summoned monsters from FF7 and FFT [Final Fantasy Tactics]. They possesses powerful and devastating magic. Use them wisely. There is a difference between FF7 and FF8 is that now summoning a guardian will requires time as a blue bar will overleap your present time bar and the HP of the Guardian will be covering the character's HP. Last of all, summoning a monster does not required to use MP anymore! Select your monsters and this will lead to the Learn sub-menu.

Learn
As you battle, you will gain AP which is mentioned in Part II. AP is |similar to FFT's job points which allows you gain when the job is |being completed. Guardians also gain EXP to level up and AP to gain new abilities. In this screen, you will be given a lot of list, which the GF required to learn and how much AP is needed.

Junction
Allows spells to be selected through the Junction and Magic menu. This will increases you character's statistics. The more amount of magic you have, the greater your character's stats will increase. Note: NOT all characters can be boosted by the same spells. Auto effect when a GF is being junctioned to the character.

Command
This can be selected through the Junction's sub-menu Ability for the use in combat. More commands in other words. A character can have up the maximum 4 commands [including thr Attack command]

Character {C}
This can be selected through the Junction's sub-menu Ability but these are selected on the bottoms abilities window. Your character's ability will automatically in effect when selected. You can get better results, such as equip Str +40% and Str +20% This will result that the character's Strength increases by 60%.

Guardian Force{GF.}
No need to be selected. In fact, it will take effect once they were learnt. Boost is a crucial ability

Menu {M}
Menu abilities can be selected directly from the main menu. Different Guardian Forces will serve different functions.

The symbols will be seen in the icon next to the ability. Details about these abilities will be described in detail in Part II

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