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Triple triad from Final Fantasy 8.
Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game
It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.
CC Club side quest and Queen of Cards spoilers
Completing the CC Club side quest is necessary to complete prior to Disk 4 if you want to have access to them on Disk 4 (they're inside the Ragnarok). Queen of Cards is available on Disk 4 by default (she's on the Lunar Pod crash site in Esthar), so you can just play her there for a quicker access to the cards only accessible through her.I loved Triple Triad, and loved the way it broke the game!
Shout out to all the hours I wasted soft resetting so I could eliminate the Random rule from Ellone. Honorable mention to the Laguna card, which refined into 100 Heroes and made every single fight after it complete child's play.
I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.
With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child's play. Too bad I didn't already know that on my first playthrough.
Never bothered with Queen of Cards quest, as the walkthrough of that is... Sizable, to say the least. Also, there's only one relatively decent reward out of it (Doomtrain).
As for CC: they are a source of all rare cards besides the ones Queen has. Thus, if you want to have Vit/Str/HP Ups - they're your best bet (also, getting enough of those makes Omega Weapon fight a breeze, you can reliably kill it without ever reaching Megido Flame and foregoing Holy War usage).
But yeah... Triple Triad is fun, especially since it translates to sth that will impact your game.
EDIT: also, you can get 3x100 Flare on your entire party on the first disc, but it's a major PITA to get (iirc, 300 Red Dragon cards, so good fuckin' luck). So yeah... Triple Triad brekas the game if you have the patience for it ๐
EDIT 2: also also, Queen of Cards is available at the crash site on Disc 3 as well
Oh, I know! ๐
In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3ร100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3ร100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC--it's been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail's pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the "Crab Mecha" on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).
I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.