mmmm... where is your evidence. I know what your tying to say, and on the surface FF8 appears to be nothing more than a high school flick. But if we take the Odyssey superficially then we could mistake it as "Greek Days of our Lives or Bold and the beautiful"

FF8 does not try to impose its themes (like other FF) bluntly onto the player. Even the GF's in FF8 are the least grandiose GF in any FF. Look at the important status the Aeons are given in FF10.

What am I saying...well FF8's GFs seem weak and irrelevant BUT they carry a more profound element to the game than FF10's Aeons ever did. I felt that the player was force fed the themes in FF10 whereas in FF8 even something as quintessential as the relationship between Laguna and Squall was vague. Same goes for sephiroth and cloud...however cloud just turned out to be a psychopath. (but then modern people find psychology more "soild" than myth....so it is no surprise that FF7 is more popular than FF8)

All I did was merely identify that Women play an important role in FF8, as they have done in european history. In fact Women are deeply rooted in the whole game.

Some people believe this was for sex appeal; but this is like saying that people drink water to live....when in actual fact most people drink because of the sensation of thirst.

I should fine people for irrelevancy when they say the women were just for sex appeal. Where in the game does it state this? where is your evidence. I provide evidence for my topics. I can remember some guy in high school who answer to “why did Macbeth kill Banquo” and his answer was… because Banquo had a better horse than Macbeth…. You people accuse me of going too deep so I will accuse any marketing strategies as being irrelevant. Saying that the women were in FF8 to entice male audience is purely hypothetical and cannot be quantified in ANY form. At least my outlandish analysis are related to the game ITSELF.

Oh by the way I have posted a new FF7 thread. .