Impressions or your mini review of FF8 overall?
Jan 2, 2015 6:07:37 GMT -7
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Post by Shinryu on Jan 2, 2015 6:07:37 GMT -7
First off let just get what is wrong with the game out of the way first.
The battle system, drawing system, junction system, magic and enemies levelling up with you in the game.
Maybe if they worked on it more it could have been better but what we got wasn't that good.
I basically played the game and never even went over level 20 with Squall.
drawing magic early on is a chore, magic is ruined because you never want to use it and waste it.
junction magic and re arranging it becomes tedious especially if you switch party members.
The battle system can easily be broken, basically I got the Lionheart and kept Squall always low health and would press the circle button constantly until his limit break would trigger and then I would just kill basically every boss in either 1-3 turns of repeating this.
Also the card game is really hard once rules change and unless you look up guides you don't really know what you are doing and it makes for a very annoying experience.
Now for the good.
that Siren summon
Zell is awesome.
Laguna is awesome.
Quistis is hot.
Rinoa is beautiful.
Squall is fun for some angsty teens to relate with... and he creates a language out of just using ellipsis to speak lol. Now one thing I enjoy is that he progresses as a character and once he really gets his act together thanks to Rinoa he changes and becomes a better person. I really liked that character development.
As far as the story goes I really like the idea of "time travel and outer space witches in a scifi world"
Ragnarok is the coolest airship ever to be in an FF game I think.
Find Your Way is a great creepy and eerie song.
Mashing square during summons is fun because you finally get something to do during summons, although they are way too long in this game. I did enjoy the idea though.
I enjoyed the game's "romance" theme and I know lots of fans like myself like the game because of it.
That Waltz for the Moon balroom dance scene was fun and even the part in outer space where Squall has to catch Rinoa is great.
And yes even the ending when Eyes on Me plays is fun. I actually like the song unlike some people
Overall I enjoyed the game but its the weakest of the PS1 FF games, FF7 and FF9 are much better.
The battle system, drawing system, junction system, magic and enemies levelling up with you in the game.
Maybe if they worked on it more it could have been better but what we got wasn't that good.
I basically played the game and never even went over level 20 with Squall.
drawing magic early on is a chore, magic is ruined because you never want to use it and waste it.
junction magic and re arranging it becomes tedious especially if you switch party members.
The battle system can easily be broken, basically I got the Lionheart and kept Squall always low health and would press the circle button constantly until his limit break would trigger and then I would just kill basically every boss in either 1-3 turns of repeating this.
Also the card game is really hard once rules change and unless you look up guides you don't really know what you are doing and it makes for a very annoying experience.
Now for the good.
that Siren summon
Zell is awesome.
Laguna is awesome.
Quistis is hot.
Rinoa is beautiful.
Squall is fun for some angsty teens to relate with... and he creates a language out of just using ellipsis to speak lol. Now one thing I enjoy is that he progresses as a character and once he really gets his act together thanks to Rinoa he changes and becomes a better person. I really liked that character development.
As far as the story goes I really like the idea of "time travel and outer space witches in a scifi world"
Ragnarok is the coolest airship ever to be in an FF game I think.
Find Your Way is a great creepy and eerie song.
Mashing square during summons is fun because you finally get something to do during summons, although they are way too long in this game. I did enjoy the idea though.
I enjoyed the game's "romance" theme and I know lots of fans like myself like the game because of it.
That Waltz for the Moon balroom dance scene was fun and even the part in outer space where Squall has to catch Rinoa is great.
And yes even the ending when Eyes on Me plays is fun. I actually like the song unlike some people
Overall I enjoyed the game but its the weakest of the PS1 FF games, FF7 and FF9 are much better.
