Final Fantasy VIII-Rate the Game!

[f f freak]

2/10

It deserves nothing more than this. The only reason I'm awarding it this score is because I liked Quistis, though she had hardly any development. They could have done a lot with her character. Squall and Rinoa annoyed me. Their 'love' was forced on us. You can't even call it love. Their, what, 17? Chances are, they'll last for a year or two and then they'll have a big fight over absolutely nothing. Seriously, I liked the first disc but then it just went to pieces and Zell, Selphie, Quistis and Irvine got left behind, while Squall and Rinoa had this fantastical time in space and crap like that. This game is lucky I gave it a two. Obviously, I'm feeling kind today.

Uh, the game is a love story, thus their love had to be forced or else the story would have lacked. Not to mention, most characters in FF are like 17 to 22 so looking at any of the "love stories" within any of the games with that kind of cynical outlook is pointless. It's like anime's with 12 year olds falling in love, no one questions that because 12 year old anime chara's are normal.

Either way, I give it a four out of ten.

I know it's a love story, though it does an awful job of that. Let me rephrase it then. Rinoa was forced on Squall. She was forced on the player. In the other FF games, while the love is forced, the characters aren't forced. Take FF X. You can tell Tidus and Yuna like each other at least a little bit and that slowly develops in the game leading up to the scene in Macalania. With Squall and Rinoa it's like, Rinoa flirts, Squall ignores, Rinoa goes into Coma, Squall goes crazy, Scene in space, Squall retreats into shell, more rubbish like that. The characters are like blocks.

We aren't talking about anime, we're talking about Final Fantasy.