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> I look forward to giving Final Fantasy VIII a try; although it’s widely regarded as one of the black sheep of the Final Fantasy family FF8 is actually so bad
by wredue 3y ago
> I look forward to giving Final Fantasy VIII a try; although it’s widely regarded as one of the black sheep of the Final Fantasy family
FF8 is actually so bad as to possibly turn this person off the series entirely IMO. Bad characters. Questionable, easily exploitable battle mechanics. Terrible, nonsense story with some of the dumbest “reveals” of virtually any game ever. It’s a kinda of neat setting and world, but just used so so so poorly.
For anyone that has played them but wants to, I still recommend 10 with a mod to give everyone experience every battle (spoiler, 10 still had the “haha gotcha for not levelling everyone equally” annoyance that was popular in JRPGs of old).
- bombcar 3y agoAll I remember about VIII was fighting with everyone over playing Triple Triad. I can't remember anything about the story or the game, it was all about working out how to collect those cards.
- djur 3y agoThe thing about VIII is that it has all the pieces of a really interesting story, but they completely fail to cohere into a narrative that supports the themes. The Laguna dreams are a fantastic narrative concept that results in an incredibly dumb reveal, for instance. If you play the game with the idea that it's a story about Squall overcoming his fear of forming connections with others, you can kind of do some surgery on the story as you go, but it still feels like a fever dream. (The story almost makes more sense if you interpret everything after the failed assassination of Edea as being Squall's dying fantasy -- which is not a good sign for the coherence of a narrative!)