Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 131
March 5, 2012
There's a moment here, during the video before the exam,...
There's a moment here, during the video before the exam, was when I first remember really getting into this game. The soundtrack was militant and exciting. The characters were all pumped. And here, they zoom in on Squall, and he squints a little, watching a city explode. He looks focused and ready, and wants some action. That's a character I want to play.
Word. Driving. Controls. Ever.
Word. Driving. Controls. Ever.
The first few chapters of Final Fantasy VIII are strange....
The first few chapters of Final Fantasy VIII are strange. Seifer, the nemesis for our hero, is set up as a bit of a bully but also an idiot. He's failed the upcoming exam twice, and almost no authority figure takes him seriously. Within a few minutes, he becomes a playable character and, though he boats superior abilities, actually comes with none. He's around the same level, and you have to give him a GF and magic and all that.
I know Seifer isn't the main villain of the game, but a similar thing happens in VII with Sephiroth. A few hours into the game, you play as him for a little while, and he has all the magic and armour that will take your party 30 hours to collect. It's both intimidating and awesome foreshadowing. It says "hey, if you keep playing, you'll eventually get this strong." In VIII, you play as Seifer and he's just another guy.
That shows up later on in the game when you actually fight Seifer, and he's just not that intimidating as a villain. But then, who is actually intimidating in this game? The fact is, VIII isn't a story about good vs evil, and no bad guy in the game feels like anything but a small obstacle.
There are a whole whack of RPGs that begin with a hero waking up...
There are a whole whack of RPGs that begin with a hero waking up in their bed. In Final Fantasy VIII, you go to your room to change. This happens twice. There's no other reason to come into this room, and because there's so sense of day or night in this game (it's relative to where you are in the world, not when), one could make an argument that Squall has never slept here.
hernameiskarina:
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
"And I imagine, with great pleasure, all the horrible...
:
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
"And I imagine, with great pleasure, all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live."
nudityandnerdery:
…but I got distracted and missed it. Oh my...
…but I got distracted and missed it. Oh my friends tried to describe it to me, but it just isn't the same.
Oh, well. You've got your own problems—ignore me.
