Let's Play Final Fantasy #009 - Back to Balamb

Hey people, welcome back to my LP of Final Fantasy VIII, in the last video we escaped from the giant spider robot and we're going back to Balamb!
And even with some mistakes i think we can get a nice starting SeeD rank...
Now we're dispensed...
We're going to take a look on Balamb now...
If i'm not wrong, i think there's a magazine up there in the room.
Actually you don't need to sleep here i guess, just go up the stairs.
It's a collectable magazine you found through the game...
And it's nice to pick all of them!
Here we have a Thunder Draw Point.
Here we have a junk shop, which basically you can remodel your weapons to stronger versions. Now i don't have any item to remodel my weapons...
As soon as we get the Card Mod ability we can turn card into items and then remodel our weapons!
Here in Balamb City, which is the hometown of Zell, we have his house! (oh really)
We can play cards with Ma'Dincht (Zell's mom), she have his card, but we don't have any good cards for now, so, no chance.
So, let's get back to the Garden!
Just follow the road...
But before doing that, i'll go to the Fire Cavern...
I want some cards...
Now he will learn Str+20%!
Now we can junction magic to Zell's HP!
And basically for now every random battle i'll card all enemies, that way i don't gain any levels, just the AP.
You can do this before, right after the Ifrit battle, to get some cards, actually i just want the Bomb card...
There we go!
Before doing anything, let's use Scan.
330 HP, nice.
I'll get 2 Bomb cards, i'll meet you when i finish this.
Hey people! Now i have all cards that i wanted, and i've got another card, that i wasn't expecting
Which is the Krysta card! When you card some monsters they can transform into another monster(usually rare cards) card, like this, the Bomb and the Buel monster can turn into the Krysta card.
I'll meet you back in the Garden...
Well, i was in a random battle and Shiva learned I Mag-RF, now i can turn items into Water/Ice magics!
Like M-Stone Piece, we can turn this into 5 Blizzards (every piece), you can choose who will receive the magics, Squall for example, and choose how much you want based on your items.
One useful thing, you can use these Fish Fins from that fish-like monster and turn into 20 Waters each, a pretty nice magic to junction in your Str stat. (or Mag).
So it's basically what Refine abilities does.
Now Zell and Selphie will leave from our party...
And we're free to explore the Garden (again).
Now we just have to walk around the Garden a little bit until the anouncement of the exam results...
I want to save my game... WHY I CAN'T SAVE MY GAME T_T
grr... nevermind, let's continue...
Bleh, Seifer.
We just need to wait here for a while...
See you in the next video!