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The first time I played this game I only really started to understand the junction system right at the end of the game. And I really struggled to beat ultimecia at the end as the battle was a long drawn out one with her blowing all my junctioned magic away one by one.

But the second time round when I figured out how you could manipulate the junction system to created godlike characters the game was a breeze to complete.

I had a similar experience with final fantasy 7 too. Sephiroth was hard for me to defeat the first time round as I had rushed through the game. Everyone was around level 30 and cloud was level 49.