Good Final Fantasy. It's not half as good as 7, but very few games are. It was the impossible follow up and that is fine. The draw system is fine, it's not great, but it is not bad, as long as you play like a normal person. If you don't stay in the same battle drawing magic for a long time, it won't be a problem. This game has random encounters meaning you will have no shortage of magic available constantly. So do yourself a favour and don't play an insane person. The junction system is really interesting and I enjoyed experimenting with it a lot, I have the feeling that it would work well in an action RPG. The story does fumble in a few places, not too hard, but noticeably. There are moments where the game just goes balls to the walls, you can tell that SquareSoft had a big budget for this game and they didn't hold back, this game would be impossible to remake nowadays.
It does focus a lot on Squall and Rinoa leaving a lot of the characters behind, a big change from VII, but it is not a problem because unlike other games in the franchise it does not start character arcs only to leave them unfinished. Squall is one of the best protagonists in the series and he is pretty compelling and so is his romance with Rinoa. Laguna's journey is also really interesting and fun.
My biggest advice if you're going to play this game is don't follow a bunch of guides that teach you how to break the game and how to exploit the mechanics, play it normally, learning the systems by experimenting and go at you own pace.
The OST is great and one of the best in the franchise, you can hear some FF7 motifs in one or two songs in game which is funny.
Overall, a good game, far from best in the franchise but good.