FFVIII ending wasnt really sad to me. throughout the whole game..we knew that raine was dead. its not like at the end i was like "what?!?!...raines dead??...thats sooo sadd!"..it was just whatever. the main characters were all happy in the end and most importanly, squall and rinoa both had happy endings. FFX was like...irony. since halfway through the game we think (SPOILER)yuna is the one that will die, but instead...it was tidus(not die..but disappear from the world). and in the end, neither one of them was completly happy. the sad part was at the end, yuna was whistling by the sea thinking tidus will come for her which takes you back to the promise they made in the beginning of the game.