Square Enix's Hollie Bennett Reveals Why Final Fantasy VIII Is Her Favourite Game
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Hollie Bennett - Director of Public Relations at Square Enix. Before that Hollie previously worked at companies such as CD Projekt Red and Bandai Namco. Here Hollie discusses her favourite game of all time, Final Fantasy VIII
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Awesome to see Hollie is at Square Enix, I remember her fondly from the old Playstation Access team days. Great video!
Hollie!! So she's at S-E now. She turned me onto the Yakuza games when she still worked at Playstation Access and I will be forever grateful to her for it
I disagree about Yuna just being a love interest. She is a wonderful character that is feminine yet strong in her resolve and will. She faces the most difficult challenges with a smile for others benefit and not her own. She isn't there just for Tidus to get with. It happens naturally and to me is believable these two would connect and if anything Yuna is the driving force with the narrative focusing around her so I disagree with the take she's just a love interest as she's so much more and affects every party member differently with their unique relationships with her.
Thank you. That was hard to watch. Rinoa i can understand, but seeing her just reducing Yuna and Garnet to just be a "love interest" (just because they happened to love someone which is the case) and therefore not a great women, and liking Lightning because of the lack of it, just spine-chillingly rubs me the wrong way about her as a person. Like even Quistis that she looks up to would beg to differ - until the ending, _she wanted to be the love interest._
Right? I mean the game is basically about her, but from his POV. Without him the game would still work, but without her 3/4 or more wouldn't make sense.
Agreed. They actually have a lot in common, but enough different to learn from each other and grow together. They’re pretty solid. I love 8 and I love squall and rinoa, but they mostly got together because it was fate and because she wore him down and called him out. It’s good but there are far worse ff couples than tuna.
Based on the comments about having a strong female lead to *identify* with though, the lack of them in 15 and 16 particularly, I think the issue is a little blurred regarding what is meant by "just a love interest." Yuna is a great character who is very hard to fully identify with - passive but powerful, and all her work is done offscreen - we don't see her train, we don't see her learn, we don't see the mechanics of her trade really. They imply it well and they really convey the depth of emotion (and framing it from Tidus' POV allows them to get away with it) but depending on how you approach it, Yuna is a little secondary to what the game needs her for.
I have no idea if I've managed to explain my thoughts at all lol. I personally think they did the right thing, it's good to write stories with a specific point of view, and that means it can't be everything to everyone. (For what it's worth, I don't really think FFX has male characters to identify with either, lol. I don't think that's a weakness.)
No, I agree, Yuna is definitely the protagonist.
It's true that the first one you play holds a special place in your heart. My first Playstation era FF was also Final Fantasy VIII and I couldn't understand why people preferred VII. The limit breaks, cutscenes, GF attacks, soundtrack, world, characters (I had a crush on Quistis), Laguna/Kiros/Ward being a fun side story, etc. etc. FFVII felt ancient when I decided to finally try it afterwards. To be fair though, I fell in love with VII too, and it's one of the first games I tried to 100% (got close, but missed some blue magics lol).
So true. Ff9 was my first and favorite.
FFIX was my first final fantasy game yet it doesn't crack my top 10.
A lot of people's favorite FF is the first one they played but not me. 7 was the first I played. I played it so many times. It was great for its time, but I just can't go back to it in modern times (don't care much about the remake). 8 was the first I owned and it was my second favorite. A lot of people love 9 but I find it a bit clunky or sluggish (it took so long between input and the character acting that I had to predict or make a wrong move). X is my favorite. I think it is a masterpiece.
IX was my first and I love it. 7 was second and I adore it. 14 was like my 6th and it’s (imo) the most heavy, heart filled, emotional and hope inspiring story ive ever experienced.
Honestly??? Why can't we just all agree that ALL of them are just top tier from FFVI-FFX. I honestly can't even decide which of the 5, sometimes, I actually like more. It's like the one that is my fav is the one I am currently playing or focused on. But then as soon as I pop in, say, FFX after FFVIII, suddenly FFX is my fav. Now I'm playing FFVI and I'm just stunned. They are ALL 10/10 to me. ALL 5 of these.
FF8 is my favorite FF. Mainly for the characters and story. But still, my favorite nonetheless. And I've never been afraid to say it lol.
Same, even though Remake and Rebirth made me fall in love with the FF7 cast all over again 8 will always hold a place in my heart.
"It's one of those games you're hesitant to admit you like" that hurt my heart to read that... 💘
FFVIII is still my favourite video game of all time. I played VII first but it just didn't grab me. But VIII came at a time when I really needed it and it is quite literally my comfort blanket game. It introduced me to walkthroughs, online communities, fanfiction - in some ways, to my entire on-line life as it is today! It isn't an overstatement to say I owe it my sanity and many of my pleasures. I was so excited when the remaster came out. There seems to be a lot of interest in VIII at the moment (Hollie and Ben as celebrity fans, FFUnion's complete timeline, Alleyway Jack and Game Dove delving into specific areas of the game) - will SE listen to fans and give us an actual remake? Especially now that Hollie works for them!
"Comfort blanket" is such a great way to say it. Balamb Garden is the best "safe haven" kind of trope I've ever experienced (even though it isn't always safe!). The music there and in Fisherman's Horizon is so soothing and peaceful.
@@ASteveVaiFan the OST for VIII and Legend of Dragoon are my favorite soundtracks of that generation of consoles. Some of the Persona games are going to give it solid competition, but Nobuo Uematsu's orchestrated sounds are hard to top.
Nice..always love to see more of us Final Fantasy VIII-stans coming out of their shell! Seems like a movement is underway or something :P
stans lol
I was never ashamed of liking FF8. You all might've been but not me.
@@Halcon_Sierreno :P
Riiiight? @@Halcon_Sierreno. I aint ashamed of my passion for this game. I'm appalled by all the hate it gets...
I'm not a FF8 fan, but it's really great to hear how much joy she got out of it.
I like FFVIII as a teenage and FF XII as an adult with kids. Sometimes i replay FFVIII or Legen of Dragoon just to re-live those simpler years.
Ff8 is still my fave as well. The characters, world setting, the varied combat animations of Renzokuken, the ability to move during pre rendered cutscenes and most importantly, triple triad.
I am so glad to see this episode with Hollie! I loved when she was on PlayStation Access and sad when she left. I also love FF 8.
I’ve been a diehard FF7 fan for a while. But after Endwalker….. 14 is easily my favorite experience ever. It transcends gaming and stories. My all time favorite piece of fiction. Genuinely can physically feel my love for it everytime i think about it, never felt this before.
FF8 has always been my favorite. I did start with the FF7 demo but the art style just didn't grab me as I was more a PC gamer but FF8 had me as engaged as one could be. Beautiful game with beautiful music and story.
The flaw of the junction system isnt that people didnt know how to use it. It was a creative system. The problem was it discouraged using magic. FF fans like magic...good game tho
The whole enemies level up with you discouraged battling altogether. The fact that the easiest strategies involve you fleeing every combat encounter and trading in triple triad cards for magic just seems a bit silly to me. Yes I do cherish the game for it's fantastic characters, story and amazing music, but the gameplay really pushes me away.
Also, drawing isn't fun. If the system incentivizes something, it should preferably incentivize something that is fun to actually do.
I disagree with all 3 comments. Gamers who got into FF but started with an earlier one either learned magic by just leveling up or equipping something for one spell. 8 falls into the same category as 12. Those who didnt understand the Gambit System also struggled with the junction System so the game was difficult for them until they looked up Tips and all of a sudden it became too easy. But seriously, yall were also looking up how to beat the weapons in 7 and what materia combinations work well.
Even when i play 8 now, im still leveling my characters to 100 early on, simply because spells and items that you get earlier while still being stronger as all the enemies by a mile. The only time you are ever in danger is when the Red dragon uses its breath.
And drawing is just a stat increasing System. Noone says you have to do it just like noone ever told you to Max out materia to duplicate them which took much longer. If you freely want to use magic, then do it! Its not like you cant Max out your stats to 255 in this game with just 1 drawn spell junctioned later on. Junction spells you dont care about and then just use the ones you want to use. With 300 of every offensive spells in your Investory you have more than enough magic to finish the whole game twice so there really is no need to hold on to it.
It doesnt discourage using magic, is the min maxer mentality and same fear that makes people hoard items. I played it a dozen times, just use the spells, no way you use them so much it hurts your stats before you can replenish them with the myriad options you get to do it. I think the issue was western audiences, there is a reason why square sent the easy mode version of FF4 to the west, those people are impatient and not very bright.
Also most magic has 3 levels. If you have a character with HP-j then junction curaga to that and use cure and cura with that character if you have to and then have another character without hp-j cast curaga as your main healer. Same with all other magic.
Why would you hesitate? I’m proud of it! Ben Starr is proud of it! A whole community of people are proud of it! Join the club!
It's my favorite.and I haven't got out of the fire cavern! had to stop playing. circumstances you know..
But I know it's my favorite. FfVI is my favorite FfVII as well. 9 s got that mystic magnificent fantasy epic touch to it 😊
They are not comparable. They did something outstanding with almost all of them. I just know Ff8 is very special. I've heard lots of music from it and stuff. I'm waiting for the perfect time to play it. I hope it will be perfect and that I'll be able to appreciate it properly..
@@Tommi1981 You should definitely make time for it! It is a special game, just as FF IX and VII in their own rights. These worlds and characters are unique and will have you feeling like you are one of the party members. As you say, they are not comparable, but I've found that they each hold their own special place in my heart. I played them all over 30 years ago yet they all remain in my memory so vividly, it might as well have been yesterday. And it's not just me... There's millions of others out there who I'm sure can say the same. Btw, FF X is also in that category, while others also really appreciate XII, XIII and XV (although perhaps not as much).
it took me to disk 4 to find out that junctioning quake etc to a thingy the element will heal you hahah
Saw the title and completely agreed. This was my gateway to Final Fantasy. After 8 I went back and played the older ones.
I had no idea about any of the mechanics until I became an adolescent. I muscled through the game with almost 0 drawing 😅
LOL I was choking on my own breath laughing when she said that Junction wasn’t a flaw, you just didn’t read the instructions.
It’s so true! It was my first RPG ever, but I was so into it I took those instructions seriously and figured it out.
But it wasn’t til years later that I learned there was a better way to stock up on some spells that wasn’t just drawing from an enemy all day long. Those GF abilities that turn items and cards into spells, just mmmm!
OMG, 8 was the first game too! And I also thought that this game had such amazing strong female characters.
Also, yes!!!! The fish on tha beach outside of Balamb with cure was my go to for junction HP boost XD
8 and 10 are by far the best
There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to liking the masterpiece that is final fantasy 8. I get it a lot of fans for some particular reason like to hopscotch on final fantasy 7 so much but I never really got the appeal that it was better than final fantasy 8 or especially 9 tops both of them in terms of story style and gameplay....
Underrated game.
I remember trying a few Final Fantasy games when I was very young and not understanding how to play them. Didn't complete one until FF7 and that was a great game but it was FF8 that captivated me. Squall in particular was a big draw since I acted much the same way as he did at the beginning of the game. The other characters were great too and as much as people didn't seem to like the Junction system, I loved it. For me, it was fun to find those broken combinations that let you take on just about anything.
Hearing A Realm Reborn brought back so many memories. My first and last MMO 😢
Final Fantasy 8 Is Still My #1 RPG
Seriously Waiting For A Remake Announcement
💯
To this day, the Junction is my absolute favorite system in any FF game. I love games that handsomely reward players when they put the effort in learning the systems.
You barely have to grind once you get the refine card abilities from the GFs.
The most underrated and underappreciated
I remember being a kid when seven came out as the launch title for PS1. All my friends were crazy about it. But when I played it, It was just another RPG. Even though it was next-gen mind-blowing graphics at the time, I couldn't for the life of me find what was special about it.
But 8, it has that special feeling.
0:45 I hear her! FFVIII got me into RPGs. I rented it, returned it like 2 days later, and then bought it.
I'm not a big fan of 8 but, it's still a final fantasy game and it will be loved by millions❤
I love the other FF games but I agree with her because FF8 has got to be my favorite as well because of the mixture between retro and modern machinery and graphics but the character designs Is the cherry on top because some of them are good looking but In FF XV the male characters are FINE 😍
I love VIII! I think it's my second favorite FF behind VI
Same as me, I missed 7 and 8 was my first. I actually picked it up because of the 4 discs and the cool box art I didnt know what Final Fantasy was at all. I hadnt played an RPG before. Fell in love with it. What a game.
I always loved the character model on the disc they were so cool
I decided to replay the older gen PS Final Fantasy games and having them decked-out with shiny HD mods. I just finished 100% FF7 and am now in the process of modding FF8, watching guides, which is probably why this video popped-up in my feed.
FF4 was my first final fantasy and rpg in general. It's still my favorite to this day, even though it's dated. I wasn't a fan of 8,but i played it when it launched, and haven't since. I'm wanting to give it another shot.
FF 7, 8 and 9 are my Top 3 games of all time!
I loved Final Fantasy in my younger days. Played FF1 on the NES when it came out. 4 and 6 were staples of my adolescence, the latter to this day remaining one of my all-time favorite games. I played 7 before the Internet blew up the biggest spoiler in video game history. I loved the series.
I felt the same way about 8 that Roger Ebert felt about the movie "North".
9 was great, but it's the last JRPG I ever played. I fell out of love with the genre once the PS2 came out, and 8 was the beginning of the end.
8 is my fav game of all time too.
I couldn’t agree more about the junction system. It made it so you could play the game really fast and have a challenge or really break the game wide open . Ff8 was a special game
I massively prefer 8 over 7 and 9. In fact I don't really like 9 that much at all these days. Though I've finished all the Playstation FF's many many times. (including Tactics fwiw.)
Being a grown up by the time the Commodore 64 was released, never mind the Playstation, I played the Final Fantasy's pretty much in order. FFX is my favourite overall. (offline, I have approaching 19 years subbed to FFXI and then FFXIV.)
Easily my favorite also.
Had to emulate it on my phone a few years back since I had free time whenever we were told to hurry up and wait at times.
No mobile game comes close to the quality of fun it gave me.
Dunno who this is but she's a winner in my Book! FF8, Disc 1 Junction explanations! 🤠
I’m lost. Final Fantasy VIII may have my favorite ost of all-time, and I loved the story and characters. Triple Triad is easily my favorite mini-game in jrpg history. The only gripe is the leveling. VIII is top 5. IX, VI, X, VII, Tactics. Aw, crap. Top 6!
I love FFVIII and I've never hesitated to admit that 😀
Up to date in FFXIV and she's on patch 4.5/6? Did this interview take place in 2019? We're waiting for the PLL for 7.2! Either way, great stuff!
I agree with a lot of things here. I also skipped VII and went straight to VIII. The teenagers were for me somehow relatable. Squall just wanted to be alone, Selphie wanted friends and so on. I liked the characters. But strong women??? Where?
On introduction and on the surface that might seem that way, but nearly every major woman in that game wants to be rescued by a hero at some point.
Let's start at the beginning. We are introduced to Quistis who is this tough teacher, that gives Seipher crap (or flat out bullies him) having flunked the tests a couple of times by now. Just a few (gameplay) hours later, she admits to Squall, that she is totally lost in this teacher role and quit and needs him to be there for her. She is opening up about her feelings to someone who has been her student just moments ago. Red flags everywhere! (Yes, I know... They have history... But they don't remember that!)
Selphie. Well... She stands her ground and although it has been some time, since I last played, I cannot remember her being extraordinary brave nor extraordinary whiny.
Rinoa. Gets introduced as this young woman who knows her way around the world and basically seduces Squall. Well done. After CD1 (or so), it is all about protecting her, because she has magic powers now???
I could go on, but let's just say that Dr. Kadowaki was the only real tough woman in that game.
Another note to be fair: these teenage boys and men were not so much better. Squall complains all the time, that everybody is looking up to him (and I as well have no idea why anyone would), Seipher is so full of himself, that it makes you sick, Xell has probably undiagnosed ADHD, Professor Cid is afraid of his own wife and Squalls bio dad can't think about talking to women without getting cramps.
In conclusion: All characters are deeply insecure, vulnerable and rely on help from others. That is what makes them relatable and to their (or the writers) credit, they carry on regardless of their fears and insecurities.
wait wait - Hollie Bennett works for Square Enix now? Damn she's moving up and up since PS Access! Good on her.
Ff8 isn't my favorite but this game impact me so much (it's was my first). i love it
FF 8 was technically my first but we rented it so that ended at an early T-Rex death... so actually FF 9 is my favorite even though initially I couldn't complete it because disc 2 was so scratched and I couldn't refight the final worm boss things and the save on disc 3 failed
Lmao I was slowed for years for the same reason disk 2 with me too. Cinematic was making the game crash for me and sometimes some fight (I forget the issues). What I did was opening the cd port. It's skip cinematic (I was so desperate I try everything)
Hollie is awesome. Haven't seen her since Night City Wire. Good to see her here
VIII was also my first. I went on to play many of the others but can't really pick a favourite. VIII blew me away though as my first FF. I think the best are between VI-X, and between those it's very hard to pick a favourite; they're all brilliant in their own way.
FF8 is as if a YA novel was a FF game and i absolutely love it
Shame she has very bad takes on the female characters (Rinoa and Yuna in particular, and instead preferingf someone like Quistis) because of their (in her eyes) seemingly traditional feminine roles. Someone else in the comment section already explains why Yuna is far more than a love interest, wont repeat it again. As for Rinoa, she elevates Squall to step to the forefront and encourage him to be best version of himself. She is uplifting and has very good social skills, traits I think are more interesting and in way more powerful than being a stoic unemotional character like Quistis. Just a shame these modern feminist tropes always causes to dismiss and overlook positive human traits and ending up seeing only more stoic, rational character traits as being strong, and anything else as weak or less, a very flawed way of thinking.
it's because women that aren't typical is very rare in games. So they attract women who likes to be more individualistic. The days they start being equally prevalent and seen more in games are the days their appeal will drop cause it is seen as normal.
I find it so weird... when I was a freshmen in college FF8 came out and my roommate bought it launch day. We both played it sooo much and we were absolutely hooked on it! I have played through FF8 more times than any other FF game, hell any game period aside from vanilla wow. I have re-leveled 1-60 sooo sooo many times lol.
But its not a perfect game... I have literally fallen asleep every single playthrough drawing from biggs and wedge lol.
In fact I wouldn't even call it my favorite entry, that goes to FFX. Me and FFX have a LOT of history lol and it spans across both of my marriages lol
Besides maybe a few esuna at the beginning and reflect later (which can be fast), there's not much to draw from Wedge and Biggs. It's weird that you don't fall asleep in FFX which is a big and tiresome game.
@canalultimateattack3169 Well in fairness when I play through FFX I use the mod to share AP. It massively speeds up grinding and really lets me focus on the story.
In ff8 I fall asleep drawing from them all the time. But I'm very much a completionist power gamer 😂. So when we get to Biggs and wedge I spend so much time drawing out 99 reflect/Regen/haste. I know it's not necessary and it's much easier to just get those later lol. But I'd rather get it out of the way early and feel OP.
@ ah, so you used a third party add on to make FFX better? I see...
In FF8 you can get overpower with much less than that, and the cap is actually 100, not 99.
8 was my all time as well. First game to make me tear up when it ended.
FF8 is the only game I was ever seen playing on the bus and someone said, "What game is that? That looks epic!" (School bus, played on my PSP)
FF8 is still my childhood and personal favorite FF.. It's one of the few FF games where you can replay it many times and you can still see it differently compared to the first playthrough with hidden mechanics and choices you somewhat made. Subtle but it's there sort of deal.. Destroying the X-ATM092 is not something you would know the first time.. It's one of the FF games that tried something new to make it fun which fair play before going back to traditional MP..
this is awesome, you can tell she's a legit fan and loves ff8 lol
It's my second favorite game of all time.
Hollie has impeccable taste! I could talk about FF8 until physical removed from the premises 😂
My favorite Final Fantasy games of all time are:
#1 Final Fantasy X
#2 Final Fantasy VII
#3 Final Fantasy VIII
I played VII first, then VIII, but i equally like them both. The fact that she likes XV and XVI but not IX is very questionable. IX is an amazing game with great characters. Only issue i have with IX is how slow the battle sequence is.
FF8 is counter intuitive to rpg players. Its telling that a woman who never played jrpgs before 8, sees no flaws with ff8 mechanic choices.
Not to say its bad but its really experimental. I didnt mind it but i can see how people didnt jive with it.
The flaws that exist in FF8 exist in other games. It's hard to think of a FF except for maybe 4 that doesn't have major mechanics issues.
Almost every issue someone has with the junction or draw systems can be circumvented completely if you actually engage with the game's systems.
@DengusK I'm not sure what your point is? FF8 is not a typical jrpg. It has systems that are counterintuitive to jrpg players. A small example, casting a junctioned magic makes your character worse. In what game does casting magic effect anything but your MP? Most people will run into the same issue of junctioning a magic and seeing the stat go up and then never checking it ever again not knowing their stats are going up and down with every cast and draw.
The amount of tutorials menus, sub menus and sub sub menus in FF8 is ridiculous. Witout a guide and seeing (Elem-DEFx2) pop up randomly a 7 year old kid might not know what is and that it's only unlocked and not automatically applied, you have to "equip" your buffs.
Most jrpgs are easy to learn and difficult to master. FF8 is the exact opposite.
Big respect
VIII was definitely not my first Final Fantasy game, but it has always been and still is my favorite.
Tetsuya Nomura Gains international fame as the genius behind the characters of Final Fantasy VIII, who are credited as being "the most well developed and realistic characters ever to grace a video game, past or present." (1999)
Is fluent in Japanese and English.
Is the current main character designer and illustrator of various Square Enix games including Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X, Parasite Eve and the Musashi video game series (Brave Fencer Musashi and Musashi: Samurai Legend).
Man, I'd love to get a proper remaster of FF8, ideally with true analogue controls. The HD version currently available is fine enough, but something that looks a bit better with slightly more robust quality-of-life improvements would be great.
OMG, I had boxes of floppy discs dedicated to each character's pictures, lol
7 will always be my favorite (not my first FF game but is my most loved FF game) and I will always like it more then 8 but 8 was awesome and the 8 hate is completely stupid. The Junction system was the best and anyone who hates it ... well that sounds like a skill issue to me! Love your take on FF8, more people like you need to speak up more. Great game, great system and great memories!
Final Fantasy 8 is indeed a great game along with 7 and 6 and 4 are the greatest Ff games. Resident Evil is awesome too. I like 1 2 and 3 and those are the ones ones I play. Yes the music is glorious. Hollie looks more like Quistis then any other Ff character. She looks good.
FF9 and FX are better then 4
Its crazy how ignorant people put such a stigma on one of the best selling final fantasy games of all times and part of its golden era. Down with this historical revisionism of pretending FF8 was bad.
I think it was the English localization, I've played it in Spanish and the story grabbed me really well, but it apparently has very little to do with the English one.
There's no revision going on. It is literally bad. The localization if you have zero clue (which you do judging by your ignorant comment) was atrocious. In addition, the FF8 that we received was after it was massively cut (just how FF15 underwent) from the original concept Kitase wanted to tell. In that version Laguna was one of the main characters of the game. This also explains that terrible "reveals" later on in the game that came out of no where.
viii and xiii, she knows where it's at!
YES ❤
8 still my favorite
8 is my favourite Final Fantasy aswell 💯❤️
4:02 It's been a while since I have played but Quistis takes Squall to a make out spot in one of the first scenes in the game, calls him her star student, and memorizes his speaking patterns. She's definitely proposed to be someone who is attracted to Squall. Welcome to anime. A lot of Japanese properties do this. Even if they aren't explicitly in a relationship, female characters always have a way of making sure the players know that they are interested in the main character just in case the player is more attracted to that character than they are the main love interest.
Terra is probably the better example of a character that is not purely the love interest of a male protagonist.
I'm honestly shocked that no one has given the Junction System another shot. It's a brilliant system that didn't get a chance to be well executed thanks to the game's hellish development.
The problem with the junction system is that you basically couldn't use the magic you used for junctioning or your stats or resistances would drop. The game basically just becomes junction to max your stats, and use Attack over and over. Once you get Aura, spam limit breaks. The game is extremely dull if you understand the junction system fully.
@@lens_hunter That is true, but your stats don't drop until you've cast the affiliated spell, like...at _least_ 5 times. Also, because every major boss aside from Seifer -- if you count him -- was resistant to magic anyway, being extremely powerful mages. So it makes sense in that regard.
Either way, the notion that you couldn't cast spells was a serious miscomprehension and a weird mentality people still carry on with 25 years later. That's literally why the game has the refine method; it's so easy tor restock your spells and regain your stats as a result. Also, unless you're a serious spellcaster, using magic every few seconds, this isn't an issue. I always just junction spells I don't plan on casting while my spellcasters, typically the women in the party as they have the highest magic stats by default, are free to cast whatever they please.
I mean, who's going around using spells like Firaga and Thundaga an excessive amount anyway? Most enemies are weak to Ice magic, so the former two are safe to junction. Zell and Irvine never use magic when I play because they're so bad with it that I have them junctioning spells as powerful as Ultima and Quake.
There is a variety of ways to go about it and, at this point in time, all these years later, people really should start to notice this.
Junction is fair. Just they should not relate on GF. GF Equiping cause more problems than junction. And Item command too. Both junction and Item should not rely on GF. It seem like GF hold items bag for each peolple. That I'm not agree, Player should hold them and use on their own.
@@lens_hunternah I always had character being magic users. You just don't junction the magic you want to used in combat. Doing Triple heal/DPS/buff/debuff in one turn is just strong
I really feel like FF8 needs the remake treatment. It was my favorite Final Fantasy game in terms of world and storyline.
The thumbnail is quite true. For a time! I'm not afraid to admit i love FF8 nowadays.
PLEASE REMAKE VIII 😭
8 is so good. Still the best FF soundtrack (although Soken does have some bangers in XIV)
Seifer is a tie for me with Balthier as my favorite 2 FF ever characters!!
Chicken wuss!
I don't know who she is but she's right!
FF VIII is one of these games that needs a proper remaster. Square has the means to recreate the sceneries and add some QoL content
FF8 is a great game, just hope they would give it a FF7 treatment.
Yeah IDGAF what others think..😂that was my favorite it's was on the pizza hut demo disc..played the heck outta that demo.
FF8 Movement is growing!
It's not my favorite, but I love it and it's possibly the only game in the series that actually /needs/ a remake
I've never been hesistant to admit i like FFVIII lol...
FFVIII is my favorite too.
the first Final Fantasy game with the characters actually looked like people.
Loooove VIII
The junction system was a flaw of the game, it trivialized everything in the game (super easy mode). The draw system was its biggest fail of the game along with not being able to use your junctioned spells (among many other flaws).
This attitude towards ff8 may be true in america, but here in Europe things are different. Everyone i know loves ff8 and we considered it being one of the best jrpgs ever without a doubt
please remake 8 🥲
So many people love 8.:let’s push SE to remake it
8 is the best 👌
Hollie, please push for the 8 remake. From the inside, get Ben on it too 😂