final fantasy viii mods system requirements

#FINAL FANTASY VIII MODS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PRO#

i like his battle theme, i like how handsome he is. this game also has the interesting idea of having an alternative storyline playing out, with Laguna Loire, Kiros, and Ward. Midgar and Shinra's politics in FF7 are much more laid out the state of people in the world made clearer, but in FF8 there's conflict as a plot device that doesnt apply to the characters and its fine. the world is more explicitally fantasy/sci-fi and less relatable. the simple character arc over 40 hours genuinely works very well! i dont necessarily like all of the characters (sorry selphie) but there's a lot of good stuff in here. but as the game progresses and squall is confronted with love and earnest attempts to open him up, i felt the need to respond in kind, and i enjoyed that i could allow squall to be more open with his friends and be honest. i didnt want to play squall in anyway other than how i saw him an borthole so for a lot of the game i always picked the dickhead options like 'whatever' and 'shut up' etc etc. the game even lets you choose how much you want to play into with dialogue options. its cute! its good even! squall is genuinely insufferable for a really long time, but his inner monologue throughout the game really does a lot to explain why he is the borthole he is.

this game leans more into anime asthetics to tell a more personable story about, essentially, teenagers falling in love with themselves, and then other people.

#FINAL FANTASY VIII MODS SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS PRO#

i love its down-to-earth human action, its lack of divine intervention, its relatable anti-capitalist pro environment message, i Love it. i think that games story is just like, the bee's knees. i am, famously, an FF7 fanboy which i love to death. this SUCKS!!!!!!!!! i could go on and on about all the weird gameplay decisions they made in this game that make it frustrating and not fun a lot of the time, but the gameplay experience overall wasnt TERRIBLE it was just really, really annoying at the worst of times, and reminiscent of better final fantasys at the best of times.Īll of that being said, the story in this game is the thing that kept me going. this means it can be very easy to obtain certain materials from enemies in the early game, but once you level up a bit too much some items because borderline impossible to get your hands on. maybe i'm wrong but i will not be playing this game again to find out! also the game kinda wants to level its enemies with the party this isnt necessarily a bad thing, but the devs decided that enemies of different level-tiers drop different loot. tbh I didnt check BUT i'm pretty sure you also have to take Squall with you so you cant get out of this. so if Squall is overlevelled, NO one can level up anymore. However when the game deems Squall too high levelled then the amount of XP you get from battles dramastically decreases. and it takes ages! leveling up in this game is basically pointless because the stat ups are minimal, but they can be worth it when you have GF abilities like STR and HP Bonus on your best boy Irvine Kinneas. this makes spell quantities pointless, but again, youd be stupid not to do this because it's just the optimal and easy thing to do. on the magic front of things, drawing it from draw points and monsters is fun in theory but just sucks the fun out of the game if you want to play optimally you will draw all the valuable spells 99 times from every enemy.

there are so many times in this game where its like 'change to zell and his gang' for two fights then it switches you back to squall and his gang, and it takes multiple minutes everytime to switch over all my GFs!!! i'm not leaving GFs and magic on characters im not using bc i'm just weaker for it with my main team! even in the final battle its not like you actually NEED everyone, you just let the people you dont want for the fight die so you can use the actual good characters (Squall, Irvine, and Rinoa). however junctioning them, magic, and abilities, and having to switch them back and forth between forced party members is such a tedious pain in the ass. girlfriends make us strong, and thats the core mechanic of this game. More often than not when a final fantasy game's mechanics get changed up for something a bit more experimental it doesnt work.

Final fantasy viii mods system requirements