FINAL FANTASY VIII Reviews

This is the second best Final Fantasy, second only to FF7 and far superior to FF9 and beyond.

Classic

A timeless classic RPG and one of my personal favorites behind Final Fantasy VII. The junction system is an interesting take on the way you build up your characters and unlocks levels of gameplay that were unheard of when the game released on the PS1. Great nostalgia game.

I played this some 25 years ago and had a blast. But lost track of an item at the very end and never finished. As for THIS iteration: 1: Expect controller issues! NOT using Steam Input seems to work best for me but still has issues of wrong prompts (B1-B10 instead of PS or Xbox prompts). Using a PS4 controller. R2 is Pause. Just saying. Inserting codes at a specific segment of the game: 1 and 3 are REVERSED!!! 2: You NEED a Square Enix account.

Best FF ever. Play it and if you judge it on the junction system, you are a fool.

Nothing wrong with the game other than just getting stuck in places for no reason. I am stuck after the fight with the spider during the seed test because my keyboard or controller will not agree to sleep at the hotel. I am stuck at the dumbest fucking place in the game because i cant confirm or exit the conversation. While every other button worked, including all the Fkeys, losing all of my progress up to that point because I couldn't save is fucking stupid. Fuck this game.

I think this is one of the best Final Fantasies. I believe this version of the game can be sped up to help deal with the grindy sections of the game. High Comfy Factor. Remember to upgrade your weapons and junction high level spells to your stats or you will get curb stomped.

Firstly, I feel it's important to know, this game crashed on me 8 times at different points, and every time it was caused by using the trigger command on Squall's gunblade. I don't know if the HD remaster solves this problem, but if you're dead set on trying this game, I would recommend you try that version instead to possibly avoid this issue. FF8 is one of the most frustrating games I've ever decided to finish. Having completed FF6, FF7, and wanting to play FF9, I felt it would be wrong to leave this one unfinished, even though I didn't enjoy most of the experience. FF8 is infamous for its controversial mechanics for a reason. Without getting too deep into it, enemies get stronger when you level your party, making leveling complicated/scary, and magic/summons are equipped to a party member as their main means of gaining stats. There's also no MP, magic is gained and used up like ammunition. Most of your time will be wasted just readjusting your party as the game constantly demands. The story was also disappointing, only a couple of characters feel like they really get time to shine, and the ending wasn't satisfying. I would only recommend this game to people who love grinding and don't mind having to refer to guides a lot. Know that there are missable things in this game, and things that will make the game a lot harder depending on the order you do them/how you do them. It's rough.

I really love this game, but I don't recommend getting it on steam. Just play it on the PlayStation. The awful MIDI soundtrack, that they've used instead of the original PS1 tracks, is so terrible and jarring and completely distracted me from feeling any kind of nostalgia and kinda ruined it for me. You CAN use mods to get the original soundtrack, but you shouldn't have to.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10