So I played FINAL FANTASY VIII For The First Time...

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  @rahim6852 · 2 years ago

  I’m going to be honest, this is my favorite final fantasy game

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  @Thenewbagman · 2 years ago

  Squall starts opening up slowly. During disc 2 and especially after all the Rinoa incident during disc 3. He starts to care not only for Rinoah and his partners but he learn to care how to care about his Garden. At the end of the day its a traumatized child overwhelmed for the situation.

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• SP

  @spacepan · 2 years ago

  When I told a friend that I thought Squall was too whiny and emo, he responded by saying "well how would you feel in his situation?" and this just radically altered my perspective. Squall owes NOTHING to anyone. He's a literal child soldier thrust into a conflict that makes no sense. The best example to think of is right after the ball scene when Quistis brings Squall to the training ground at night. She is abusing her authority and absolutely should not be putting her student in a position like this. How unbelievably inappropriate and awkward this is (it's a makeout spot!).. but unless you actually stop and remind yourself that Squall is a person, a 16yo orphan child (and what if he's autistic? No one knows because no one cares, all I know is fuck him for not charging into war fervently enough and wow how dare you not be emotionally vulnerable also!), and his teacher is just dishing out all her laundry onto him then having the nerve to judge him for not responding how she wants or whatever, then weirdly people just go through this game and think "it's so weird that Squall is so emotionally distant". That's the most normal and relatable thing about him!

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  @shinotenchi · 2 years ago

  Laguna isn't just the president of Ishtar, he is Squall's father. That's where the connection of the dream segments came from, and Rinoa is Julia's daughter. Which is why 'Eyes on me' is such a beautiful song...

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• SU

  @Sundayskullz5736 · 2 years ago

  Some things about final fantasy 8 didn’t work quite as well as some had hoped, but it definitely has its place in series. It gave us triple triad and of course gunblades

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• KY

  @KyleS.1987 · 2 years ago

  Nowadays I can see the flaws in it, but I'll never love another game like I loved FFVIII when I was 13.

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• MI

  @miguelangelcote9168 · 2 years ago

  Squall is a very well written character, especially for his time, and I love you get to see his thoughts in real time, and how he develops through the game

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• NI

  @nixilaas8071 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Squall is a very accurate depiction of a young person dealing with trauma stemming from issues caused by abandonment, that&apos;s why he seemed externally cold/distance.<br><br>And of course the game is going to confuse you if you forget sis aka ellone exists, like you&apos;ve done. She links the present and the past with people whom she was close to (squall at the orphanage and the man who literally raised her, Laguna)

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• GR

  @greencastle337 · 2 years ago

  I never worried myself with the level scaling honestly when you use the junction system efficiently you still end up more than strong enough regardless of your level

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• ZB

  @Zbzdz10 · 2 years ago

  There are some very small references to the effects of GFs on people who junction them losing their memories but it just wasn’t talked about enough during the lead up to the basketball court.<br><br>If they ever do a remake they can easily remedy this, have conversations where people ask squall and other party members about where they grew up or their childhood, and have them get hit with some kind of mental block, have them discuss it and brush it off as the GFs effecting them.<br><br>The plot device of GFs causing memory loss is fine as a concept but just needs to be built up and developed along the way much more than it is in the original

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  @steveozone4910 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Irvine didn&apos;t pull the trigger because he was the only one who remembered Edea was their Matron. The sorceress was basically his mother.<br><br>Another easter egg is Amnesia Greens. It makes you forget abilities GFs have learned. Another way to show they make you forget?<br><br>There were actually 3 Ragnaroks. There&apos;s a cut scene you get when you speak to Laguna, that explains the Adel backstory. It shows the 3 ships is how they launched Adels prison into space and how the lunar base was built to watch over her prison. After the mission the Ragnaroks became unresponsive and were lost around the station.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlD54S2Jgk">https://youtu.be/eqlD54S2Jgk?si=iqWmfOwjqY4MhOJJ</a> Here is the cutscene. A lot of players actually miss it the first time around. So Laguna basically defeated Adel and that&apos;s how he ended up as President of Esthar.

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• LO

  @Loofty777 · 2 years ago (edited)

  They mention GFs impact your memory disk one on the terminals in the first classroom. Irvine is from a school who doesnt use GFs which is why he remembers everyone at the orphanage.

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