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Sensenmann
Sep 8, 2012
I honestly think that FF VIII is one of the absolute best in the series and I never understood the hatred a lot of people seem to have for it.

It's weird, it's goofy, the party is complete very early on and the only one I could do without is Irvine. Everything about this dude rubs me the wrong way.

It goes off the rails fast and never bothers to slow things down. Quite the opposite. Everything gets dialed to 11.

It's like a freight train hauling rear end straight into a mountain side to tunnel its way right through it.

There aren't a lot of things I don't like about this game but if I had to name some it would be

a) unskippable cutscenes
b) the needlessly long "floating in space to rescue Rinoa" part and
c) the constant party switching in the castle. The Junction system really gets annoying at this point. Luckily, it doesn't take long on replays.

Overall, I think the game deserves a lot more love just for how weird it is.

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Sensenmann
Sep 8, 2012

X-Ray Pecs posted:

Are you sure it doesn’t go off the rails like some kind of… Doomtrain? 👻

drat, that was right there. I failed. :(

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