I had this Fantasy one time..

[Red Mage Coffman]

Okay.. I just started playing VIII again. I know, I know, I hate the little thing, but still. Driven to play it by the suicidal part of me. Anyways.. I always had this little thought about VIII that always got to me..

What if a majority of the game was just.. School days like? I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I am. Like. The school is training them to be warriors, or mercenaries or Sorceress Slayers, but instead of traversing the world most of the game, having the Garden being your Home Base or something? Like.. A beaming system! And the game was kinda mission based.. I dunno, just a weird thought of mine. I was always fascinated with Garden and was always sad that I didn't get as much as Garden as I had wanted.. So..

Thoughts?

[Jiro]

Definitely think that Garden is a concept that could've been used better. The fact that you have a SeeD rank and can go up or down kind of hints at what could've been, but at the same time, I'm not at all unhappy with what we did get.

[maybee]

Maybe not as a Final Fantasy game but if Square-Enix made something like this for a new JRPG game it could be interesting.

[Skyblade]

The concept of the Garden as a combat school was heavily influential in Final Fantasy Type-0's design. Class Zero is very much an expansion and fleshed out version of Balamb's SeeD program. If you liked the concept, look into the game some, especially since Square recently decided to talk about the possibility of the US release.

[Shorty]

I, too, would have liked to have seen more development with the Garden scheme.

[Red Mage Coffman]

The concept of the Garden as a combat school was heavily influential in Final Fantasy Type-0's design. Class Zero is very much an expansion and fleshed out version of Balamb's SeeD program. If you liked the concept, look into the game some, especially since Square recently decided to talk about the possibility of the US release.

And.. Going to look into it right now. There are two concepts in VIII I wish were expanded on, and Garden is one of them. If Type-0 manages to do this AND snatch an English release, I'll be preordering it as soon as I can.