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  • The whole male staff contributed to making Rinoa "cute" which apparently caught the ire of the female staff who criticized the way she walks in her miniskirt.
  • Nojima admits that the male staff should have consulted the female staff members more concerning the love story aspect of the game.
These two points. Hilarious. Sad. Not at all surprising.

Overall, though, I've always felt like the writing in VIII was an improvement over VII's, though I don't know how much of that was Nojima actually improving by taking feedback and how much was just the translation being much more competent. To me, VIII always felt like it got sillier and sillier as it went along but it kinda worked - even though that was most likely not intentional on Nojima's part. I'm also not surprised that Laguna was meant to have a larger role, though in the end I'm happy we got exactly the amount he got - it was that sweet spot of having enough of him to enjoy him, but not so much that we'd grow tired of him.

Still, kinda surprised there was no mention of Squall and how he was written to convey to us both his interior and exterior at once, which I feel was an icnredibly interesting choice to make, but perhaps that's just buried somewhere deeper in the interview and I'm just going by WK's list