[ShadowHeart]

The game is easier if you stay low levels, mostly because low-level enemies don't have access to all their special skills (Ruby Dragons can't use Breath for example). And it gets ridicolously easy if you stay low levels until you have all stat bonus abilities and power level to level 100 with these equipped (like dappa posted about).

For some reason, I also find the random battles in FF8 horrendously boring and annoying compared to other FF games, so avoiding random battles (using Enc-None) and consequently staying low levels simply makes the game more enjoyable for me..