Game Review: ファイナルファンタジーVIII リマスタード
2021-Aug-09, Monday 11:59
This is the divisive one.
I didn't own a PS1, so I didn't play the PS1-era Final Fantasy games until later--Final Fantasy IX in 2002, Final Fantasy VIII in 2006, and Final Fantasy VII never--but my friends in high school did and so I was peripherally involved in the wars over its quality.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uriany hated the game, especially the draw mechanic, and made sure to mention it every time it was brought up. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fiendishfanfares loved the story and the characters, and did her best to defend it. I had never played the game so I had no opinion, but the Great Final Fantasy VIII Wars are one of the memories I have of high school.
I first played the game years later and I liked it well enough, but there were still some problems that prevented me from really enjoying it. The way the story kept taking sudden right turns, and the way that magic worked, and the strange difficulty scaling, but I appreciated the Retro Future Art Noveau setting and the focus on character interactions. Years passed, I studied Japanese, and when the Axe of the Blood God podcast and the Square Roots podcast both picked FFVIII as their next game I knew that I needed to play along. Would I enjoy FFVIII as much asfiendishfanfares had if I played it in the original language?
It took me months to finish because there is a lot of text in this game, but I finally see what the fans love about it, even if I can't agree that it's wholely loveable.
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I didn't own a PS1, so I didn't play the PS1-era Final Fantasy games until later--Final Fantasy IX in 2002, Final Fantasy VIII in 2006, and Final Fantasy VII never--but my friends in high school did and so I was peripherally involved in the wars over its quality.
uriany hated the game, especially the draw mechanic, and made sure to mention it every time it was brought up. fiendishfanfares loved the story and the characters, and did her best to defend it. I had never played the game so I had no opinion, but the Great Final Fantasy VIII Wars are one of the memories I have of high school. I first played the game years later and I liked it well enough, but there were still some problems that prevented me from really enjoying it. The way the story kept taking sudden right turns, and the way that magic worked, and the strange difficulty scaling, but I appreciated the Retro Future Art Noveau setting and the focus on character interactions. Years passed, I studied Japanese, and when the Axe of the Blood God podcast and the Square Roots podcast both picked FFVIII as their next game I knew that I needed to play along. Would I enjoy FFVIII as much as
fiendishfanfares had if I played it in the original language? It took me months to finish because there is a lot of text in this game, but I finally see what the fans love about it, even if I can't agree that it's wholely loveable.
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