ffviii

So, I beat this today for the first time in 8 years. Wanna go back and get missed gf's and sub-quests and such, but all the citys are blocked by some shield thing. Is that permanant or can I fix it? I did a half-assed search for the answer in some guides but I don't wanna read a whole damn guide...

So, i'm going on to play FFVIII, but my question to the QCDNers was, how much did you like it? I mean, you hear alot of stuff about FFVII, the older ones, FFIX and stuff, but I really havn't heard much about FFVIII. What did you think about it, I was just looking at the junction system and it...