The game is trivialized by just kind of knowing what you’re doing. I did a run without grinding magic draws or card refine or grinding for items to refine or anything like that and I still breezed through it. It’s probably the easiest Final Fantasy game I’ve played.
Quistis is phenomenal. But she’s a terrible match for Squall. She likes him because he’s not childish. But he’s still not mature. And she’s more of an intellectual who needs mature conversations, which Squall is not equipped for. There’s a reason why she only really gets close to Cid.
Also, the whole teacher/motherly figure aspect is very problematic. So while she’s best girl, Rinoa is best girl for Squall. Same how Aerith was best girl, but Tifa was best girl for Cloud. Or Quina was best girl, but Garnet was best girl for Zidane.
What’s unbelievable is that the plot explanation required an entire 45 minutes
“Make sword also shout dragon kill eat sweet roll not die”
Twerk eat hot chip and lie
Last of the blades, forgive nazi dragon, kill Voldemort dragon in Valhalla
Was there more to the plot?
Take back what you said about Paarthurnax or I’ll start listing reasons why FFVIII was the worst PS era Final Fantasy
I mean, I forgave the nazi dragon. You know how valuable having a dragon on your side is?
1: the game is trivialized by 15 minutes of grinding magic reserves at the start
The game is trivialized by just kind of knowing what you’re doing. I did a run without grinding magic draws or card refine or grinding for items to refine or anything like that and I still breezed through it. It’s probably the easiest Final Fantasy game I’ve played.
2: Quistis is best girl and yet we are forced into the Rinoa romance
Quistis is phenomenal. But she’s a terrible match for Squall. She likes him because he’s not childish. But he’s still not mature. And she’s more of an intellectual who needs mature conversations, which Squall is not equipped for. There’s a reason why she only really gets close to Cid.
Also, the whole teacher/motherly figure aspect is very problematic. So while she’s best girl, Rinoa is best girl for Squall. Same how Aerith was best girl, but Tifa was best girl for Cloud. Or Quina was best girl, but Garnet was best girl for Zidane.
3: Irvine not saying anything about all his childhood friends not recognizing him
Bro had a whole glow up and knows it, the first thing any real person would have said was “Hey dudes it’s me! I’m a hot cowboy now!”
It’s been beaten to death before but it’s just so fundamentally stupid it must be said
It would take 45 minutes just to explain the convoluted time travel shenanigans that explain why Alduin appeared in the first place.
“Somehow, dragon returned”
45 minutes high time is like 5 minutes tops in real time. Or at least that’s how shit like movies and conversations always feel for me.
I mean, if you really get into the lore, there is a lot there. The actual immediate plot, however, could be so summarized.
Pointy end goes in the other guy