25 years later, Final Fantasy 8 remains the best love story told in gaming
I'll be waiting for you. If you come here, you'll find me. I promise.
I love FF8, I love the stupid draw and junction system, I love Squall's boring ass, I love the limit breaks, I love the dog-shit graphics when you're not in a cutscene, I love the music.
The game is amazing, and my friend always called Rinoa "Rin-wa"
Rin-wa
ex-friend, right?
Rhymes with Quinoa?
Originally, like I suspect many who played ffvii as their first ff, I hated it. Hated how Squall was such a tool. Didn't really get the magic system. It was so different from ffvii and I has such high hopes.
Over time I have really warmed to it. The story goes incomprehensible toward the end (for me at least) but the road to it is really quite fun. The draw system is interesting even if it discourages you from actually using magic. And yes, the love story is quite sweet at times.
Squall is still a tool though.
I played the shit out of 7, but only played 8 for like 2 hours. I really hated the gunsword mechanic. JRPG battles are tedious enough without having to time a button during an attack to get the battle over with a little faster.
FF8 has so many flaws but honestly the (optional) gun blade mechanic was sweet. At least it was better than just mashing X all fight long
My PC was so slow that I was playing FF8 at a ridiculously low resolution and was still only getting 10fps.
Didn’t stop me from playing all day every day.
I played it on PS1, not sure the frame rate was any better! Seriously though, to me these are the moments when you tell a story is great to someone, when they’re willing to put up with that.
I’d love to hear the thoughts of those who disagree with the article. Let’s build some conversation around it.
i loved ff8 so much but it often gets overlooked because ff7 was so good). sadly, it also came out my last year of high school right as i was going into university so i didn't get to spend as much time on it as i did ff7 :(
@helloharu It's great, but I'm still heartbroken over Cloud and Aerith.
