Strangely, back then I remember liking the Selphie and Irvine dynamic a lot. Their chemistry seemed more natural than everyone else. I used to like pairing them up all the time in fights.

I was 21 when FF8 came out, and it was one of the most significant nails in the coffin for my teenage, FF4- and 6 honed love of JRPGs. The story, and Squall and Rinoa’s relationship in particular, made me feel like I’d outgrown the genre.

As a kid playing this, I was so annoyed at first that he wasn’t with Quistis until I realized that she was too mature for him. She figured her shit out. She was a powerful mature adult woman who liked whip play and she had a thing for him but realized pretty quick that he never had the maturity to get into the same…

FF8 is a* game unlike any other in the series in that it is about one single person. Every single character and place in the game defines Squall, and is largely used to grow or illustrate his character. The game itself is entirely a dissection of the teenage boy, and not a loving one. Rinoa is ‘the love interest’,…

I’d also say, and by no means want this to come off as me trying to take away from the magnificent point being made here, that Squall’s character arc is just as influenced by both the friendships he makes—literally everyone in the party dumps on him for being an asshole, including NPCs like Cid and Laguna—and the…

Forget all this. The most important lingering question is: does Joyce Byers still have a dead demodog in her freezer?

I played on a normal PS4.

Or. Instead of focussing on that, they could focus on implementing a normal tracking system in the game itself, so that people wouldn’t be semi forced to use third party apps to track pokemon.

“...”

“Whatever.”

It certainly catches Squall’s “Whatever.”