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Bummer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Pros- Good graphics, 1st disk

Cons- Poor sappy story line, poor music, watching the GF summon sequence for the 1,000,000,000 TIME, Poor charicter development, too easy 2nd 3rd and 4th disk.

I've played squaresoft games for a good 8 years enjoying their wonderful games such as FF 1, 2(4), 5, 3(6), 7, tactics(the irony of tactis is that it isn't very tactical, but thats another story), Chrono Trigger, ect. So i was expecting great things out of FF8. After watching the opening scene i was hooked, at least i thought, When i started summoning the GF's i was delighed at the graphics. But about half way through the 1st disk i relised that I HAD TO FIND MY OWN WEAPONS! At this i was very suprised, this puts the emphsis on useing magic and GFs to beat your enemy. Well this seemed all good untill about 1/2 way through the second disk when i had to watch ifrit and shiva for the umteenthmillion time. On top of the repition of battle scens, story line tends to center around one very simple concept. Get Riona, loose Riona, Find Riona, Save Riona, Loose Riona et cetra, et cetra. Poor charaicter developmentn other than Riona(who is more ditzy than anything) leaves you with a feeling of, emptyness. And finally the game is soooooooooo, easy. I beat the game in 3 weeks only playing on friday nights and saturdays. Leveling up is almost pointless since the enemies are always somewhere around your level, any vet. of RPGs shouldn't have a problem with maybe 85% of the enemies faced. The hardest part of the game is finding the white ship! Overall the game lacks in many departments and it seems square just gave up on many aspects of the story to give the game good graphics. The game would be decent if square never put out the 2nd 3rd and 4th disks

All hype, no play value

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Final Fantasy series has been steadily declining in worth since FF6. Squaresoft now seems to rely on 'pretty boy' villian such as Sephiroth and What's-his-name from this game. The plot of the last two games was just plain bad. The GF system in this game was extreemly annoying. Why play this when GOOD games like Baldur's Gate are out there? My advice is to avoid this game like the plague and save your money for something else.

Good for the Playstation, bad for the PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 53
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Playstation has a 33mhz proccersor, 2 megs of ram, no hard drive space, and runs a game that requires a pentiumII 266mhz. I just can't update my pc, the game itself is good, but when it plays like it was in slow motion on my machine, then you shouldn't buy it for the pc.

effritable magical experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Oh no more materia to power your weapon and magic ok replace by some powers you have to find and win ok new challenge.
Yes no more saucage charcters human finally. If only Final Fantasy 7 could have human type character instead of those funny 3d balloon looks well then ff7 would have kicked ... of ff8.
Folks did you know that FF7 has one the most amazing ending it is in the top 10 of the best ending game of all time.

If you haven't played the game get it ride the chocobos use alexander materia, oh oh and use the so powerfull bahamut zero and omega materia ouch i killed sephiroth like that :o)

GhostRider666 The Spirit Of Vengeance.

Cool Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I do not own Final Fantasy VIII, but it's a great game that I'm trying to find and buy it. I tried it at one of my friends house and I asked him where he got it and he said Camp Snoopy.(I think I was dreaming). I really did play it and I came home and started searching for it. Bizrate is doing alot of searching for it though so if you want it check there. I think Final Fantasy VIII is one of the best games ever!

Is it really worth it??

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Though considered a classic by many, FF8 raises the question "Is it really worth it?" The first good RPG I played was FF7. After playing FF7 I went on to purchase FF5,6,8,and 9. A great disappointment was my purchase of FF8. The game was lacking in its fantasy like elements. The opening to the game was very impressive and caught my attention immediately. The games graffics were mediocore and the battle system was missing great features from the first game. They replaced them with the junction system which drew all the fun out of the game. Overall if you look beyond its flaws, weak story line, and pointless plot ideas and misselaneous missions ypu have a, well bad game.

Pretty good game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Graphics- Awesome. The FMVS are near lifelike and the Guardian Forces are well animated. The only lack is when you're walking around the city, it's obvious their just polygon shapes etc.

Music- Good selection of Music, but it sometimes freezes and stops playing when the screen goes black.

Gameplay-They really need to work on this one. The draw system sucks compared to the MP system. Battles are long and pointless and boost on GFs is really annoying.

Storyline- Its pretty good for the first two disks, but then it cuts off. By the end of the third disk I really didn't feel like finishing the game.

Overall- Worth it if you stick to it. This game takes somewhere around 60 hours to finish if you're up to it.

alex, a fairly normal kid from connecticut

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

wusup? if you want a good RPG, you should get this game. IMHO, it is the best game ever made. i don't usually get obsessed with games, but i got it christmas and i already have over five hours on it. it will keep you intruiged throughout the entire game. It is difficult for the first two hours, just reading your screen about how to play, but after that it is great. you cast spells that have awesome graphics and it has a very cool atmosphere. you will take on monsters, humans, and robot spiders. this game kicks!

A movie, not a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I know that a lot of people really want to believe that this is a good game. I was once one of the faithful too.

Final Fantasy 8 is just plain ridiculous. Here is a simple explanation for this uncharacteristic phenomena. It is a movie that has a little bit of gameplay inserted. You seem to have almost no control over the game for the first disk. You are constantly having to wait for slow moving, automated character animations and boring dialogue. Your character is only sporadicly under your command. You move a few feet, throw a switch, and presto! Another pointless animation sequence which robs you of any feeling of real accomplishment. If you keep yourself healed, and utilize the guardian forces (cool for the first time, infuriating after that), the game will play itself with little or no help from you.

The graphics are pathetic. They remind me of Kings Quest (you know what I am talking about!) The sound (midi?), I mean come on. My old school NES had better music than this game offers.

Here is the one cool part. The cinematic scenes. That's it. You waste hours of your time in some pathetic addictive persuit for more of these audio visual masterpieces. Right from the start of the game, you are hooked. I think that a lot of people really liked the cinematic sequences. So much, in fact, that they had to justify wasting there time with this game by giving it a positive review. Here is the real deal. The cinema scenes and story are good. The game itself is absolutley pathetic.

I just really wanted to see those movies too...

Sweet Publisher Sweet Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this game is great, the storyline 5 stars, the challenge 5 stars, Music 4 stars, Side quests 4 should have more sidequests,GF's 5 stars, and Cinemas 5 stars. I think you should really get this game and it is worth more than the price.

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