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[Ouch!]

Originally muttered by Tallulah

7/10.

Good enough game, but loses marks for plot holes larger than Canada. And Rinoa. :mad2:

I really couldn't have put it better myself, although I'd argue that a seven is fairly generous.

[Hazzard]

7/10

Good game, entertaining scenes. However, focused largely on only Squall and Rinoa, and ignored all other characters. Lame cover up with the whole "Orphanage" crap, but excellent top notch soundtrack. Nice rivalry between Squall and Seifer, his relationship with Laguna could of been elaborated on to with higher scales, and dealt with better. But hey, that's VIII for you...an unfinished piece of work.

[Takero]

8/10
I really like this game, but i think it could have been better if the game was not centered on Squall that much.

[leader of mortals]

7/10

It had triple triad!!!

[Ouch!]

Originally muttered by leader of mortals

7/10

It had triple triad!!!

This is also a very important redeeming quality.

[Bahamut2000X]

2.

It had some good use of the FMVs early on which I loved (Quistis' intro and the transition from your walking to FMV level) was brilliant I thought. I liked the idea of the junction and magic and GF system, but it was poorly implemented I thought. The story was meh I thought. It was decent early on but once Edea appears it just goes down the crapper. I disliked the characters too, Zell, Selphie, Irvine, and Quistis kind of just were there 'cause, they had very little depth I felt and the game focused on the Squall-Rinoa love story more then it should. I give it props for the use of Garden, making a unique vehicle and the car and train system was nice, but I never made use of it unless I was bored. Over all it didn't feel too FF'ish and seemed more like an attempt to just push a sci-fi RPG.

Though I also hold very high expectations of FF's in general, so that's my main reason for a low score. >.>

[ReloadPsi]

7, but that doesn't stop me thinking it's awesome. I'm just fully aware of its shortcomings and acknowledge them. Shortcomings like boring Laguna sequences (some of them are alright, some are dull as hell) and how broken the game is once you get magic refine abilities and all the stat Junctions.

[Raebus]

Ha, the day FF8 deserves a 2 is the day I'll respect Aerith's Knight or the day monkeys fly.