FINAL FANTASY VIII
The previous work is also familiar.
As the hardware improved, I was able to create more intricate stories.
At first glance, GF, Junction, and magic rules may seem complicated, but they are actually rough.
If anything, at first glance, even the straightforward fantasy-like 9 has quite a complicated and confusing setting.
It’s hard to tell whether it’s a visual performance like in FF7 or a performance related to the story.
Aervin, why were you acting like it was your first time and flirting with Selphie and Rinoa even though you haven’t lost your memory!
>>6As for Rinoa, never mind.
I wonder if Selphy really has forgotten? I think there were also times when I was probing about it.
>>11Unable to directly muster the courage to flirt with Selphy, I came up with a compromise plan that disguised my intention as being a playboy surrounded by flowers, in order to hold hands.
The face is constantly staring intently at the selfie.
I quickly forget how things were regarding the cloud and the witch, even after hearing the story…
Earlier, when I was mercilessly criticizing the academy’s headmaster, I was made to listen to various insights about being a brave witch knight, and it made me reconsider my thoughts a bit.
>>8In the first place, the scene where future Squall and Ultimecia interact in the main story made Iedea…
It is not clearly stated that actions have begun to draw that future closer.
When looking back at the elements of the main story after seeing the ending, it is structured in a way that allows players to notice this.
Around the same time, there was also Chrono Cross…
The game was enjoyable itself, but I only understood the overall story when I became an adult.
I wonder if I should buy the Ultimania.
At the time of the PS era, it was as if they were saying “If you don’t understand Square games, just read the Ultimania!”
Thanks to that, the Ultimania as reading material was incredibly interesting.
>>12I don’t really understand it even after reading!
7 is misunderstood by Shinra, and Genova doesn’t say anything…
For now, I understand that Sid knew everything and was acting with it in the loop.
>>14What Mama-sensei (Sid) knew was simply that the grown Squall (the SeeD with the Gunblade) would end everything.
I was unsure of my own life or death, but I prepared everything for that day.
Sid, unable to bear the thought that Squall would definitely win and his wife would die, fled during the Garden battle.
When you organize information thoroughly, you can understand at the character level, like, oh, I see…
At the time, when many households did not have internet access, the policy of releasing only the electronic book version of FF9 was implemented.
Why is it called Fisherman’s Horizon in the end?
>>19The momentum of the moment.
Watching the school festival preparation site in a place like an audiovisual room has that nostalgic internet vibe from back then.
Don’t say that my life was decided from the very beginning!
No way… I want Mama-sensei to create a garden and raise SeeD.
SeeD’s mission is to defeat witches.
The one who will defeat the witch of the future is the SeeD with the Gunblade.
I just taught and saluted the past Mama-sensei…
>>22
I thought it was impressive that you managed to stay calm, considering it’s not surprising if Irvine goes crazy.
All the childhood friends have amnesia, and they’re all trying to kill the teacher, which is pretty crazy, right?
Cloud, who has a headache every 30 minutes when he retries, definitely looks like a sick person from any angle.
When Squall became a SeeD, this is what made him a SeeD with a Gunblade.
Even the part where Sid mutters is set up as foreshadowing.
I had no idea what they were talking about.
I guess it feels like being told to go to the future in the midst of time compression.
Please don’t say it like my life is already decided, Squall was getting angry.
Isn’t it Squall himself who started the Squall training plan at Sid Academy?
>>28All of this is an action to help Mama-sensei and Rinoa…
>>28That’s true.
But I want to feel that I made the decision myself, Squall.
GF’s 〇〇J is too heavily relied upon despite being plain.
What is this Power J? Make it stand out more!
My Ultimania is all about reading the data, regardless of the story.
Some pages were lost when the binding came apart.
It’s nice that you can repurchase it electronically.
A time-compressed space where save points mysteriously multiply.
>>32Every moment is there…
Unless you think deeply about the true identity of Ultimecia
The mechanics and development of the story aren’t that easy to understand, right?
The 7 was extremely confusing.
Where is the treasure vault of Ultimecia Castle…?
The existence of Cypher is too much of a source of disruption and annoyance for Ultimecia.
>>40The legendary SeeD that comes to defeat myself.
A distinctive scar on the face.
– A boy in his late teens.
– A rare gunblade user
– Students of Baram Garden
An orphan raised in Witch Idea’s house.
Just as such a guy appeared in front of me, I thought that if I could use him as a pawn, I could change the future.
There was another person.
>>67(There’s something different about him… Should I test him?) “What is SeeD?”
“?…It’s a mercenary unit, isn’t it?”
“………… Go ask the other person.”
And then to the torture of DISC 2.
>>80(I don’t know the squall at the time of torture.)
>>67Why are there two Seeds with the same strange weapon and the same wounds?
>>67You’re so slow, get your act together and rev up the engine!
>>278The original shelter itself
Humans were created before the species was born, so please don’t ask for the impossible.
No, Shumi tribe, what kind of outrageous machines have you been making since ancient times?
The mystery-solving in Rasdan is definitely just the bad jokes of the people involved…!
>>41Dah
Did you understand the foreshadowing in Mumba on your first viewing?
>>42The setting that allows one to never forget a person they’ve met because they remember them by the taste of blood, at what point could it be seen?
Without Koyokoyo or Ultimania, I can’t really give my impressions.
For now, as long as we keep Squall alive, the future of defeating Ultimecia is guaranteed for the time being.
Sid often leaves it to the fate of the squall.
It seems there is something in the garden’s underground! Please do something, Squall! It worked out somehow!
>>44I leave the rest to you; I will spend the rest of my life with Idea.
Time compression, the area around witches, and the area around Elone are causing confusion by involving others, although the details are straightforward.
What is the true purpose of SeeD!
If things continue like this, we’re going to crash into Balam! Do something, Squall!
…Norg faction? …Director faction?
I got so absorbed in the card game that I completely forgot about the story.
>>52(This guy challenged me to a card game in such a desperate state.)
It’s not about the character, and once you grasp the image of raising a girlfriend, it’s not that difficult.
Ragna’s journey was not in vain!
I’m going to start an RTA to train the legendary SeeD!
First, let’s take in Elone, who has become an orphan.
For some reason, I made a connection with the president of Esta, so I will start by entrusting the Idea to Odain and having him conduct research to develop various technologies.
Are you really going to gold the Ultimate?!
Well, you get quite a bit for it, and it’s worth the price.
FF7-9: I couldn’t really understand the story.
Xenogears: I couldn’t understand the story very well.
Chrono Cross: I didn’t really understand the story.
Parasite Eve: I couldn’t really understand the story.
Musashi Legend: When I think about it carefully, I don’t remember what the story is about.
SaGa Frontier 1-2: I didn’t really understand the system.
>>59I thought that couldn’t be true, but I definitely don’t remember it either.
Regarding the Gunblade SeeD, there were quite a few parts that I couldn’t honestly assess due to the self-proclaimed Soldier Class 1st.
I want it to be made clear whether or not she is Ultimecia.
>>61Clearly, both Kitase and Nojima mentioned that they never had that idea, and that players sometimes surprise them, right?
>>92Seriously?
It has lost its charm all at once…
>>107It’s too much of a backlash for just letting my imagination run wild.
>>61According to the staff’s statements, Rinoa and Ultimecia are different people.
I think it’s intentional that there are many similarities, as it is also an “if” route where Rinoa (and Idea) didn’t get a knight.
I used to like adding strange tweaks to the save system during this time.
FF7 is just a joke, though.
>>62Chrono Cross had a similar feel to the Book of Fate, didn’t it…
“I’m looking for my big sister! At that time, I was striking the same pose as Laguna.”
Laguna and Squall are saying things like “Huh?”
Seriously, there are a lot of very subtle foreshadowing elements.
>>63(…This guy’s mind is noisy.)
>>66Like parent, like child.
…Do you want to have a card game?
Honestly, even if I didn’t understand it at all, as long as I could feel a sense of “well, that’s okay!” at the ending, I was generally satisfied.
The video camera effects in the thread image were really great.
The knowledgeable Zel is truly knowledgeable Zel.
I like that character being on good terms with the library committee.
It’s too harsh to say that even the movie I starred in out of financial trouble was not a waste.
>>73It’s not pointless, you know!
It’s not pointless, but thanks to that, a troublesome idiot has been born!
Actually, let’s stop with the nonsense about not having memories, okay?
I have a memory of mixing up Parasite Eve with something similar that was on TV or in a movie at the time.
>>75In other words, the novel came first and the game is kind of… to put it simply, a copy.
>>75Isn’t that similar, or rather, isn’t that the original (it was originally a novel)? It’s not about being adapted into a game, but rather an original story inspired by it.
>>94I didn’t know that…
>>103The original novel is set in Japan and follows the horror story of ancient mitochondria cells that have taken over humans, trying to become a perfect being, but ultimately being defeated; the only enemy is that entity.
I got the idea for making a bio-themed game from that, and supposedly the setting is connected, taking place a few years later.
>>150So that’s why the movie version was set in Japan…
I thought something was strange about the game since it was overseas.
Is FF8 still stuck in a loop after all?
>>76It’s not specifically a loop thing.
>>79The power of the witch trapped in a loop.
The circle of inheritance was created between Ideya and Ultimisia, and it stopped progressing into the future from that point.
>>90Was there such a setting in the game?
Witches don’t have the power to manipulate time.
>>102A witch can never die until she inherits power.
No matter how many generations pass, the power of witches will never disappear from this world.
In the distant future, Ultimecia inherited power from the past deity and fell into a loop of death.
With the end of Ultimecia’s era, the power of witches ceased to exist.
>>118Is that a delusion?
>>122It is explained in the game that witches cannot die until they inherit power, and that is why the power of witches does not disappear from the world.
For some reason, it’s explained through the conversation of bystanders, so people who don’t know won’t know.
Ultimecia inherits from the past Ideya.
The power of the witch of Ideya ultimately reaches Ultimecia and is then inherited back by Ideya, as depicted in the game.
>>176There are actually more than one witch in the world, so it’s not really a significant story.
>>181It’s impressive to dismiss a conversation as meaningless with just one word…
>>200Because the destination of the witch’s power after the ending is unknown.
And the time is not looping separately.
>>206Ideya states in the story that Ultimecia is a witch from her distant future.
>>241I understand that you’re stupid.
>>181Since they were suffering without being able to die, aren’t they the last witch?
>>210It’s not like there will be a witch by your side when you die, just like that.
>>76In the ending, the witch’s power is just looping into the past idea, and Squall and the others are not looping, right?
I don’t really get it!
I love that you can do crazy things right from the start once you understand the system.
Wasn’t Musashi’s story more like the empire just attacked normally?
A story about wandering through various countries to play card games while saving the world.
The SeeD of Balamb Garden is becoming increasingly thin due to the GF.
Have someone else create it by imitating a different garden.
Sid, who has prepared numerous backups including a white ship’s SeeD unrelated to the garden, is quite the strategist.
Still, in a future where Squall cannot survive, all of SeeD are getting killed by Ultimecia, you know? Hehehe.
Samurai Blade: I didn’t quite understand the world view, but I performed harakiri.
It’s Bushido Blade!
Julia fell in love with Laguna after they met each other.
Julia, believing that Laguna was dead, bonded with Carway through comfort and gave birth to Rinoa.
Julia gave up after learning that Laguna was married, and as a result of Laguna getting together with Rain, Squall was born.
So, Squall and Rinoa end up together, huh…
>>87The reason Laguna and Julia were unable to be together despite their feelings for each other is…
Laguna’s love for Rain and Julia’s love for Caraway are not compromises.
>>96Laguna and Raine, on the other hand, the details about Rinoa’s parents are unclear, right?
Rinoa is also acting out, so their relationship may not have been that good.
>>111In the conversation between Laguna and Kiros at Winhill, Julia says she married Colonel Caraway, so it’s confirmed.
Rinoa likes Julia’s song “Eyes on Me,” and since she mentioned in the conversation in Ragnarok that she wants her father, who was once kind, to return, it is thought that her childhood home environment was not bad.
>>87Ordering the conversation in Winhill from the Laguna chapter…
Ragna did not know about Julia’s marriage until he reunited with Kilos.
Laguna was hoping to settle permanently in Winhill.
Ragna and Rain have shared a bed before.
Before long, Winhill is attacked by Esthar, and Laguna sets off on his journey.
So I’m having babies with Rain, regardless of Julia or anything else.
FF8 always makes me cry at the grave visiting scenes.
Neither Sid nor Idea probably intended that at all, but…
Thanks to the decoy created by Cypher, it was fortunate that we were able to protect Squall.
Instead, Cipher became a toy for the witch and the army.
Even Squall’s revolver is pretty much the same.
The Cypher’s automatic will definitely hurt your wrist.
What is a husk of a Hain?
>>98I thought, isn’t Hain just a skeleton? It’s basically a shell to begin with.
PE only has connections like “Mitochondria are amazing!”
>>99Is it that… like how you all live, as in Miyazaki’s work?
Damn it! Cypher, a student from Garden and a SeeD candidate, is taking the president hostage for the witch!
Basically, the witch inheritance system is problematic, but since there’s no way to solve that, it’s a bit unsatisfying.
>>101In the world of the future beyond Ultimecia, there are no witches… is that correct?
>>109There’s no guarantee that a witch’s power is singular.
At least there were two existing at the same time with Idea and Adele.
>>109At the point when time compression occurs, everyone except Ultimecia is probably gone, so I think that place is the end.
You can display many message windows from 7.
I really love how much the range of expression has expanded.
There are a lot of monologues.
The game Parasite Eve is a copy of Resident Evil.
>>106But combat is different…
The theory of Rinoa = Ultimecia is
The scene where Rinoa comes to put the Odine Bangle on Ideya.
It’s amusing to think that Ultimecia was internally writhing, wondering, “What kind of foolish plans was my younger self concocting…!”
Well, it’s a forced theory that is based on ignoring the inconvenient parts, so it’s better to think of it as something that might exist, but not too seriously.
I think Linoal wasn’t aware of it at the time, but recently there are places where it’s officially recognized.
>>112That kind of interpretation might be interesting, and it could be fun for both of us to tease each other about it.
The story is basically about how a witch’s knight is essentially a witch’s lover, so there was never a moment when Cipher could call himself a witch’s knight.
The fact that this is a blow to the already defeated Cypher is terrible.
It’s not a loop, but there is a paradox.
Are you saying that it would be appealing if Rinoa were Ultimecia?
That’s cliché.
>>115It’s more appealing than a sudden, uninteresting final boss.
>>142You were in the idea all the way until the second half, so you’re definitely not just a sudden appearance…
Even though it’s quite a complicated story at 10, by using the ignorant Tidus…
You’re good at explaining things clearly.
Is this a story about Square at that time related to the FH Shumi tribe village event?
I don’t even know if there is only one line of witch inheritance.
I feel like there were some really nice scenarios in the sub-events.
The nice exchange between Skoll and the station master was a subplot, wasn’t it?
The witch’s power is scattered throughout the world hidden by witches, so there should be more than one witch.
Dig up the Lunatic Pandora that was sunk in Esthar’s sea by Ultimecia ♡
I was just whispered to.
Now is the chance for the army to attack Esta!
The executed cipher seems to have too much of a revolutionary talent.
Squall, who has relatively low communication skills, is forced to be a leader because of his future self.
I like growing and evolving in various ways.
>>129Events that allow you to feel growth at various milestones are incorporated.
Speeches and convincing the mayor.
>>129Dark
>>375Dark Fu
There shouldn’t be just one witch per era.
I feel like when I heard the settings for Chrono Cross, it was like, “I see, that’s how it is.”
>>133The stars have summoned the future Dino City! Everyone around is like ???
Even if you defeat the amazing witches that appear during time compression in battle, they do not die.
For detailed settings, please refer to the Ultimania! It was a time when it was happening, though.
I feel like Chrono Cross is the only game I could understand fully after reading all the Ultimania.
>>135A strategy guide that only explains the story is pretty amazing when you think about it now.
If Tifa is Ultimecia, then that’s just too hopeless…
>>136I think those guys will properly look for a trustworthy successor and carry on the power.
Personally, I can’t accept that Cypher hasn’t received the death penalty.
>>137Since we succeeded in defeating Ultimecia, this is probably why… a kind of amnesty has come about.
>>137There are clear depictions of being hypnotized and manipulated by Ultimecia.
The part where I first followed Ideya around, too.
When I was ASMR’d by Rinoa.
Is it just a natural phenomenon that monsters drop down from the moon regularly?
>>140It was supposed to be a natural phenomenon that occurs in a 17-year cycle.
>>159This is the worst world…
Can send a person’s consciousness back in time (not a witch).
Considering the age difference between El-neechan and Squall
In fact, there is a decent possibility that Rain is pregnant with Squall when Kiros visits.
It’s probably still a time when you’re not even aware of the pregnancy yet.
>>145Well, in the end, Laguna left without knowing anything about the pregnancy…
>>152Not pretending to be a father (or can’t?) is impressive.
>>158(I’m glad I didn’t take after my father.)
>>152In the conversation before Laguna departs, Rain mentions the child in her belly.
Surely, a memory shown after the movie filming on Disc 3.
In the first place, Ultimecia just died after losing the witch’s blood, and in the past, Ideya just passes on the witch’s power to someone else.
It’s just that without Ultimecia, there will be no interference from junctions from the future.
>>147The power of the Witch of Ideya was inherited by Rinoa at the end of DISC 2, so she is just an ordinary human now.
It has been revealed through research in Estha on DISC3.
>>153Well, that’s a story from the middle of the game, and the successor of the power inherited to the idea at the ending hasn’t been observed, right?
Just like what Idea and Rinoa did, the power of a witch can be inherited and accumulated.
We can’t say for sure whether any witches remain until Ultimecia’s era, or if there are none left besides Ultimecia.
By the way, is it correct to say that the final boss of 9 is ultimately the summoning magic: Death?
It’s actually quite sad that I’ve been unable to go home since chasing after Elone.
Julia and Rain both know that Laguna is not the kind of person who stays in one place, so they fall silent…
>>157In reality, Laguna is quite the staying man.
>>160Well, that’s because I was injured!
>>163Somehow, I’m still the president and staying in Esta.
He’s a man who dreamed of doing what he wanted while being a member of the Galbadian army.
>>157I became the president of Esta! Both of them are laughing in the afterlife.
>>157Kiros thinks so too, so he’s talking to a publisher he knows about a candidate journalist for travel.
In reality, he tends to stay in one place unless he is compelled by necessity.
Isn’t it safe to say that Estha is a terrible country?
>>166That world is really overloaded…
>>166Well, if shit-like Adele teams up with someone like Odin who has no sense of ethics, that’s what happens.
I quite like that children’s cards are mostly held by parents or guardians.
If the Junction Machine Ellone that Ultimecia is using completely mimics Ellone’s power in the first place,
The power of Elone can only be used by those connected to oneself, so the moment it was used on the distant past’s Idea, it was determined that Ultimecia, who inherited power from Idea and died, would have a predetermined end, no matter how it happened.
When you think about it, it’s a bit pitiable, as Selphie touched on in Ultimecia’s mini-novel.
I bought the Ultimania because I couldn’t solve the painting room in Ultimecia Castle by myself…
Even though Laguna’s journey is full of ups and downs without the burden like Ward, Kiros follows along, enjoying life.
I love the part where Squall, carrying Rinoa on the big bridge, talks to himself so much that I cry a little.
It’s interesting that, just as Idea mistook Squall for Cipher, Rinoa was also dating Cipher at first.
>>178The man Cipher who repeatedly misses the timing to become a witch knight.
>>186A man who ends up being dragged into chaos and being messed with from all directions.
What are those dogs in that world…?
>>179Even the insects, birds, and small fish around here are monsters that have fallen from the moon, and they are mutated beings whose ecosystems have been destroyed.
A dog cannot just be a dog.
>>183Speaking of which, there was the Invisible Moon, right?
Is that power from the moon…?
I tried to find Elone in Esta and deliver her to Winhill, but…
I could no longer leave the country because I was treated as a hero of Esta.
When I had my subordinate deliver it, Rain had already passed away and Elone became an orphan again.
When I went to pick it up, it was gone again.
When I noticed that Idea and Sid were taking care of El,
I was confronted with the fact that there is a boy who seems to be my son, but I can’t even go to the site…
It is said that the part of Laguna’s life that is not covered in the Laguna chapter is even more dramatic and intense.
It begins in the era of the creation of this world when day and night were mixed, and after Hain wiped out most of the monsters, humanity was created.
I thought it was a myth, but the power of Hain actually exists.
What is that story about…? Where and what happened…?
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