Final Fantasy VIII Was Deeper Than You Remember

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• DF

  @dfchang813 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I was surprised you didn’t mention Squall is Laguna’s son and Rinoa is Julia’s daughter. &nbsp; Laguna and Julia were star crossed lovers that never wound up together due to circumstances beyond their control. Both moved on with their lives but their children ultimately fulfilled the fate they were not able to make happen.<br><br>Edit 09/05/2024. OMG. Can’t believe this got 1000 likes. 🤯

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• LA

  @Laezar1 · 2 years ago

  Growing up made me like squall a lot more. As a kid I was seeing squall as an adult that was kind of a jerk. But now that I&apos;m 10 years older than squall I see a child soldier forced into responsibilities he should never have to deal with. This changes so much of how I read the character.

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• HA

  @hannahshark8080 · 2 years ago

  Mat: (The whole video)<br>Me: Yes. Absolutely.<br>Mat: (pronounciation of characters names that differ from my own)<br>Me: (Clutches pearls in shock)

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• WR

  @wretchedabyss1394 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I DEEPLY resonated with Squall as a teen. My mother abandoned me when I was 6, I knew EXACTLY what he was going through, had exactly the same kind of walls up and playing Squall was like playing an insert of myself. I was introverted, aloof, and distant to many people, but especially my family. <br><br>Everything Squall did made perfect sense to me and his deep relationship with his friends echoed in myself as I learned to reach out to people outside of my family and form close bonds with them. &nbsp;Many of whom have told me I was the best friend they ever had. <br><br>The &quot;Whatever&quot; line comes down to tone. As a teen I mimicked it but I did so the same as how I interpreted it, which was as a despondent tone rather than sarcastic one. The tone shifts &nbsp;how others react to it, a sarcastic tone is blatant disregard said explicitly to trivialize and belittle a persons thoughts or feelings often followed by an eyeroll, a despondent tone is a passive dismissal of interest or affect accompanied by a shrug. Squall shrugs.

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• PA

  @PaleHorseShabuShabu · 2 years ago

  VIII is important to me. I always sent in those registration cards that were in old instruction manuals. One day, Squaresoft sent an email saying I could get Final Fantasy VIII&apos;s soundtrack for free, that all I had to do was reply to the email with my address. I did so, and the four-disc soundtrack showed up about two weeks later. That was my first video game soundtrack and what stared my collection.

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• MI

  @miguelangelcote9168 · 2 years ago

  Edea and Cid knew Squall was fated to defeat Ultimecia but they didn&apos;t knew the path he needed to take to reach his destiny so they make him the leader of the garden during the invasion, a 17 yo kid, not knowing how he could win, but only knowing that he would save them in the end

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• TA

  @tacitidesong · 2 years ago

  There&apos;s one thing I feel like you missed in regards to the team&apos;s lack of reluctance to kill Edea. Yeah, it&apos;s not expressed very well by most of the party, but think back to the assassination attempt scene. Where Irvine is allegedly freezing up because he &quot;always chokes before a shot&quot;.<br><br>Maybe he isn&apos;t hesitating because it&apos;s too much pressure. Maybe he just really doesn&apos;t want to kill his Matron, whom he 100% remembers, unlike the others.

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• BJ

  @bjg8638 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSavCIms638&amp;t=1015">16:55</a> They climbed inside the robot boss they were fighting. Thats why they were reunited after Squall&apos;s group destroys it later.

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• SH

  @shareintheview · 2 years ago

  The whatever line made Squall so much more relatable to me. His character type is one that cant arsed to really push himself or to worry about other peoples feelings, until later in the game ofc. The constant &quot;whatevers&quot; (in his head, never spoken out much) is very realistic and relatable to an outcast teenager.

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• TY

  @tylercafe1260 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSavCIms638&amp;t=337">5:37</a> He didn&apos;t hug Rinoa for that scene so that the later scene when Eyes On Me plays when Squall scooping her up in his arms hits way harder or when he held her in the armchair. He didn&apos;t do it because she wanted it. He did because she needed it.

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• LE

  @levantreven9659 · 2 years ago

  I never considered saying &quot;whatever&quot; as being jerkish or offensive, just that Squall seemed to feel like it wasn&apos;t worth trying to explain his thoughts to people. He always came off to me as a good person that just can&apos;t emotionally connect to others openly. I also identify the most with Squall out of any final fantasy character, maybe any fictional character.

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• ZZ

  @zzmej1987 · 2 years ago

  Edea, by the way, comes from the name of a Muse from Greek mythology - Aoede (Italian spelling - Aedea, Spanish - Aede). Aedea with her &nbsp;two sisters: Melete and Mneme represent steps in creation of a stageplay, Melete - composition/writing, Mneme - rehersal, and Aoede - performance. So Edea is the Muse which leads actors - her children on stage through their &quot;lives&quot; predetermined &nbsp;by the script, which she is handed by Squall at the end of the game.

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