It's just weird, because the beastiary goes out of its way to point out that most Marks are benign.
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Yeah, it was lazy. They could have at least made a generic excuse about how some creatures are corrupted or something and you need to go be a good guy for nature's sake but nope, you are just a royal asshole on a sport killing safari
Linearity, fashion disasters, overreliance on voice acted cutscenes, complexity being "good"
I actually renamed him Butz. Bartz sounds american and not so much a European Medieval name.
Yeah. I beat the whole game. I have played 1-7 including after years.
They do the Kojima thing of taking a straightforward plot and making it impenetrable. I should not need to consult a wiki, especially after three discs.
From a literary point of view, sure, the relationship between squall and rinoa is not too well developed and how you go from point A to point B is kinda disjointed and sometimes lazily justified, from a purely entertaining animu videogame point of view you are going suddenly going to space to rescue your waifu and fight an evil demon witch that wants to shoot demons at earth is pretty epic and all the scenes are pretty memorable. I really appreciate them really going out there with wacky fantasy stuff. Does the prison really needs to be a gigantic screw that screws itself into the desert? probably not but is quite cool.
Why I hate the compilation of ff7. Makes the story worse, and homework.
The only thing you really have to grind out for character improvement are GF skills, mostly for their item-to-magic refine skills. Doing this will save you most of the trouble of figuring out enemies have what and whether you really need to bring a Drawbitch along for the fight, because whenever you need one particular spell and high/max capacity for it in order to maximize a given stat, you can just buy the refine for it in bulk.
Is that really better than the proven system where once I have a spell, it just belongs to me?
What about all those amazing GFs you can spam for free, such as Quezacotl's Card, Ifrit's Mad Rush (Haste and Berserk on everyone), Leviathan's Recover (recover all HP / insta-kill undeads), Alexander's Revive (revive all KO characters even when Silenced) and Siren's Treatment (remove all status ailments including Doom).
I'm not suggesting it's better. I'm just saying that there's workarounds to cut down on Draw grinding.
The way I ended up reasoning it out over the years is that VIII is purely a puzzle fight game, because no amount of level grinding is ever going to make the game easier. The way to succeed is learning and understanding how the game works with its own mechanics.
It's a bit unfair to say the story script is bad as a fact considering the translation has been botched. For example, half of the "..." in Squall's english dialogue actually had him talking quite a lot in the japanese script and more than half of the "whatever" lines were actual full-fledged thoughts in japanese that were never translated to english. The western audience only knows the translator's headcanon emo, silent Squall, not the actual eloquent Squall from the source material. Even Ultimecia was made into a saturday cartoon villain in the english release.
I dont like Squall being in slim leather pants.
