This game actually impacted me to embarrassing extent. When Final Fantasy VIII came out I was in my obligatory teenage "I hate everyone and I know everything" stage, I really found myself relating to Squall in a sense that I wanted to be like him, I wanted to have people throwing their feelings at me so that I could shun them away. As the game progressed I felt myself changing with Squall as he begins to learn to accept the responsibility of other's feelings and open up. The whole thing made me really emotionally vulnerable and I distinctly remember the space rescue scene and "Eyes on Me" successor scene in the Ragnarok had me completely soaked in tears. It sounds funny to say it but the night I first played through that sequence I have a feeling I really honestly changed me quite a bit as a person.