lol..it seems that some people liek ff8 coz they can relate to it which is good..but is that ALL it is??yeah it was slightly...slightly emotional..and i like the ellone part ..the story was good but just spun odff randomly at some point which IMO made it slightly weak..when i replayed it again..i relaised that ellone visited squall in the beginning when hes in hte room with Dr Kadowskiikik thingy and i totally forgot about that,,..o_O and it was just sooooooo randmy how they were all linked to eachother when they were younger and they didnt remember( yeah i know it was coz of the GFs)tyeah i agrree that it would have ben better if there were more mini games/missions ..i couldnt be bothered to do the chocobo thing it wa annoying ..but the music for that was cooll. i just felt that i had to keep on finding rinoa every half an hour.
the character of squall was depicted good in the game as you got to know him more in an emotional element kinda thing..his feelings and stuff..and the love story coo ^_^