Final Fantasy VIII
Developer(s)
Square
Publisher(s)
JP Square
NA Square Electronic Arts
PAL SCE Europe (PlayStation)
EU Eidos Interactive (Windows)
Designer(s)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (executive producer)
Shinji Hashimoto (producer)
Yoshinori Kitase (director)
Yoshitaka Amano (image illustrator, title logo designer)
Tetsuya Nomura (character designer)
Kazushige Nojima (scenario writer)
Nobuo Uematsu (composer)
Yusuke Naora (art director)
Series
Final Fantasy
Platform(s)
PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
Release date
PlayStation
JP February 11, 1999
NA September 7, 1999
PAL October 27, 1999
Windows
NA January 25, 2000
EU February 18, 2000
JP March 23, 2000
Genre(s)
Console role-playing game
Mode(s)
Single-player
Rating(s)
CERO: B (12+)
ELSPA: 11+
ESRB: T (Teen)
OFLC: M15+
USK: 12+
Media
PlayStation
4 CD-ROMs
Windows
5 CD-ROMs
System requirements
Windows
266 MHz Intel Pentium II CPU, 64 MB RAM, video card with 4 MB RAM, 8X CD-ROM drive, 300MB free hard disk space , DirectX 6.1, Windows 95 operating system or above
Input methods
Controller, keyboard, mouse
Final Fantasy VIII (ファイナルファンタジーVIII, Fainaru Fantajī Eito?) is a 1999 console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Windows-based personal computers as a part of the Final Fantasy series. The game’s story focuses on a group of young mercenaries who are drawn into an international conflict, and seek to protect the world from a sorceress manipulating the war for her own purposes.
Thirteen weeks after its release, Final Fantasy VIII had earned more than US$50 million in sales,
Final Fantasy VIII is a departure from many traditional standards of the Final Fantasy series. It is the first game in the series to consistently use realistically proportioned characters, the first to feature a vocal piece as its theme music, and one of the only titles to deviate from the series’ traditional means of increasing a character’s power. In addition, it does not have a Magic Point-based system for spellcasting.
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Gameplay
An example of navigation on the field map
Like Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII consists of three main modes of play: the world map, the field map, and the battle screen. The world map is a 3D display in which the player may navigate freely across a small-scale rendering of the game world. Characters travel across the world map in a variety of ways, including by foot, car, Chocobo, train, and airship. The field map consists of controllable 3D characters overlaid on one or more 2D pre-rendered backgrounds, which represent environmental locations such as towns or forests. The battle screen is a 3D model of a location such as a street or room, where turn-based fights between playable characters and CPU-controlled enemies take place. The interface is menu-driven, as in previous titles, but with the typical weapon and armor systems removed and new features present, such as the Junction system. Also featured is a collectible card-based minigame called “Triple Triad”.
Junction system
This new system designed by battle designer Hiroyuki Ito revolves around “summonable” monsters, called “Guardian Forces” (”GF”). A character must have a GF assigned (”junctioned”) to them before he or she can do anything in battle besides “Attack” with their weapon, such as “Magic”, “GF” (summoning the GF to perform an action), and “Item”. While previous Final Fantasy titles provided each character with a limited pool of Magic Points (MP) that were consumed by each spell, in Final Fantasy VIII, spells are obtained (”drawn”) from enemies, Draw Points distributed throughout the game’s environments, and usable items. Spells are then stocked on characters as quantified inventory (up to 100 at a time) and are consumed one by one when used. Guardian Forces allow characters to “junction” these spells to their own statistics—such as Strength, Vitality, Evade, and Luck—for various bonuses.
A battle with an early boss, X-ATM092; to summon Shiva, Zell’s ATB gauge is replaced by a blue bar which triggers the summon when it is depleted.
The flexibility of this system makes it possible to build a powerful party early in the game. This alternative use of such summoned creatures was a significant departure for the Final Fantasy series, as they were previously used almost exclusively to deliver a single devastating attack during battles. Furthermore, the system replaced the equipment system of previous games with a permanent, specialized weapon for each character; each weapon can be upgraded several times, which increases its power and alters its appearance. For example, Squall begins with a gunblade called the Revolver, but after fully upgrading it, it becomes the Lion Heart.
Limit Breaks
As in Final Fantasy VII, each character has unique special attacks called “Limit Breaks” (”Special Arts” in the original Japanese version). Whereas Limit Breaks in Final Fantasy VII are triggered by filling the Limit meter through taking damage, in Final Fantasy VIII, they are randomly available every turn when the character’s health (Hit Points, or HP) is below 32% of its current maximum, and influenced also by the negative status effects the character is afflicted with. This system is similar to the Desperation Attacks from Final Fantasy VI, which are triggered on rare occasions when a character is near death. The magic spell Aura increases the probability of Limit Breaks appearing, regardless of a character’s remaining Hit Points.
Another change is that most of the main characters’ special techniques feature interactive elements, ranging from a slot machine design to fighting game-style button inputs. These elements, which are dependent on the character and the nature of the Limit Break, can be used to increase the potency of the attack.
Experience levels
Experience points are awarded following successful battles against randomly encountered enemies. When a character accumulates a certain amount of experience points, he or she gains a “level”, which increases that character’s base statistics. Unlike previous Final Fantasy games, however, randomly encountered enemies have no set level—their levels increase alongside those of the playable characters. Higher-level enemies are capable of inflicting and withstanding significantly more damage, and may have additional special attacks. Statistic increases from “leveling up” are minuscule compared with those that are available through the Junction system.
In addition to gaining levels, Guardian Forces earn Ability Points (AP) after battles, which are allocated to special abilities that Guardian Forces can learn. When a Guardian Force has learned an ability, that ability becomes available for any character—and, in some cases, the entire character party—to use. Through learned abilities, they can receive attack enhancements in battle, refine magical spells from items, provide bonuses to characters when leveling up, provide access to shops, and add battle commands.
Plot
A map of the world of Final Fantasy VIII, displaying some of the major locations
Setting
Main article: World of Final Fantasy VIII
Most of Final Fantasy VIII is set on an unnamed fantasy world with one moon. The planet comprises five major landmasses, with Esthar, the largest, covering most of the eastern portion of the map. The southernmost landmass includes an archipelago of broken sections of land that have drifted apart. Islands and marine structures flesh out the rest of the game world, and a handful of off-world locations round out the game’s playable areas.
As part of a theme desired by director Yoshinori Kitase to give the game a foreign atmosphere, various designs were given to its locations using the style of internationally familiar places, while also maintaining a fantasy atmosphere. Inspiration ranged from ancient Egyptian and Greek architecture, to the city of Paris, France, to an idealized futuristic European society.
Characters
Main article: Characters of Final Fantasy VIII
The six main playable characters in Final Fantasy VIII are Squall Leonhart, a loner who keeps his focus on his duty to avoid vulnerability; Rinoa Heartilly, an outspoken and passionate young woman who follows her heart in all situations; Quistis Trepe, an instructor with a serious, patient attitude; Zell Dincht, a martial artist with a passion for martial arts and hot dogs; Selphie Tilmitt, a cheerful girl who loves trains and pilots the spacecraft Ragnarok; and Irvine Kinneas, a marksman and consummate ladies’ man. Playable supporting characters include Laguna Loire, Kiros Seagill and Ward Zabac, who appear in “flashback” sequences, and antagonists Seifer Almasy and Edea Kramer.
During the game’s pre-production, character designer Tetsuya Nomura suggested the game be given a “school days” feel. Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima already had a story in mind in which the main characters were the same age; their ideas meshed, taking form as the “Garden” military academies. Nojima planned that the two playable parties featured in the game (Squall’s present day group and Laguna Loire’s group from the past) would be highly contrasted with one another. This idea was conveyed through the age and experience of Laguna’s group, versus the youth and naïveté of Squall’s group.
Squall’s gunblade “Revolver”, as seen in the game’s opening credits
To maintain the game’s theme of a foreign atmosphere, the characters were designed to have predominantly European appearances. The first Final Fantasy VIII character designed was Squall. Desiring to add a unique angle to Squall’s appearance and emphasize his role as the central character, Nomura gave him a scar across his brow and the bridge of his nose. As there was not yet a detailed history conceived for the character, Nomura left the explanation for Squall’s scar to Nojima. Squall was given a gunblade, a fictional revolver–sword hybrid that functions primarily as a sword, with an added damaging vibration feature activated by use of its gun mechanism,
With Final Fantasy VIII came the inclusion of some designs Nomura had previously drawn, but had not yet used in a Final Fantasy game. These were the designs of Edea, Fujin and Raijin. The latter two had originally been designed for use in Final Fantasy VII, but with the inclusion of the Turks characters in that game, it was felt that Fujin and Raijin were unnecessary. Nomura had designed Edea before the development of Final Fantasy VII, based on the style of Yoshitaka Amano.
Story
Final Fantasy VIII begins as Squall duels with Seifer in a training session outside the military academy known as “Garden”. The two cadets scar one another’s faces and are returned to Garden for treatment.
During the graduation party, Squall meets Rinoa, whose personality is apparently the opposite of his own.
Students from Balamb Garden battle Galbadian soldiers
After the team escapes, Galbadian missiles destroy Trabia Garden. Fearing that Balamb Garden is the next target of Edea’s campaign for revenge, the team splits into two units: Squall’s group returns to Garden to warn of the attack, but must first stop an internal conflict incited by NORG, who had been staying at the Garden until recently. Ellone eventually escapes to Esthar, the game’s technological superpower.
Throughout the game, Ellone sends Squall and his allies into a series of flashbacks set seventeen years in the past.
Meanwhile, Squall deals with personal conflicts fueled by ongoing developments,
Squall and Rinoa embrace after he frees her from confinement in Esthar
While Rinoa is being treated on Esthar’s space station, Ultimecia uses her to free Sorceress Adel from her orbital prison. Ultimecia then orders Seifer to activate the Lunatic Pandora facility, inciting a rain of creatures from the moon that sends Adel’s containment device to the planet. Time Compression is thus initiated; Squall and his allies travel to Ultimecia’s era and defeat her.
With Ultimecia defeated, the universe begins returning to normal; however, Squall is nearly lost in the flow of time as he witnesses the origins of the game’s story. When a dying Ultimecia travels back in time to pass her powers to Edea, Squall informs Edea of the concepts of Garden and SeeD that she will create. Afterward, he is warped back into the time stream and is rescued by Rinoa. At the end of the game, Squall kisses Rinoa during SeeD’s victory celebration.
Development
Tetsuya Nomura’s conceptual art for the character of Sorceress Edea
Development of Final Fantasy VIII began in 1997 during the English language translation of Final Fantasy VII. Shinji Hashimoto was assigned to be the producer in Sakaguchi’s place.
From the beginning, Kitase knew he wanted a thematic combination of fantasy and realism. To this end, he aimed to include a cast of characters who appeared to be ordinary people. Character designer and battle visual director Tetsuya Nomura and art director Yusuke Naora strove to achieve this impression through the inclusion of realistically proportioned characters—a departure from the super deformed designs used in the previous installment. Additionally, Naora attempted to enhance the realism of the world through predominantly bright lighting effects with shadows distributed as appropriate. Other measures taken included implementing rental cars for travel in-game,
Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima has expressed that the dynamic of players’ relationships with the protagonist is important to him. Both Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII feature reserved, quiet protagonists in the form of Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart. With Final Fantasy VIII, however, Nojima worked to give players actual insight into what the character was thinking; a direct contrast with his handling of Final Fantasy VII’s script, which encouraged the player to speculate. This approach to Final Fantasy VIII is reflected by the frequent use of dialogue that takes place solely within Squall’s mind, allowing the player to read his thoughts and understand what he is thinking or feeling even when he keeps those thoughts to himself.
In 1999, the ballroom dance scene of Final Fantasy VIII was featured as a technical demo for the PlayStation 2.
Audio
Main article: Music of Final Fantasy VIII
Regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu wrote and directed the soundtrack for Final Fantasy VIII, which was released on four Compact Discs by DigiCube in Japan, and by Square EA in North America. Additionally, a special orchestral arrangement of selected tracks from the game—arranged by Shiro Hamaguchi—was released under the title FITHOS LUSEC WECOS VINOSEC, and a collection of piano arrangements—performed by Shinko Ogata—was released under the title Piano Collections: Final Fantasy VIII.
The score is best known for two songs: “Liberi Fatali”, a Latin choral piece that is played during the introduction to the game, and “Eyes On Me”, a pop song serving as the game’s theme, performed by Chinese singer Faye Wong. The latter song was released as a CD single in Japan and sold over 400,000 copies,
Reception and criticism
Reviews
Publication
Score
Edge
9 of 10
Electronic Gaming Monthly
9.5 of 10
Famitsu
37 of 40
Game Informer
9.5 of 10
Game Revolution
A-
GameSpot
9.5 of 10
IGN
9 of 10
Official PlayStation Magazine (US)
5 of 5
Gaming Age
A-
Compilations of multiple reviews
Compiler
Score
Metacritic
90
Game Rankings
89.8%
Within two days of its North American release on September 9, 1999, Final Fantasy VIII became the top-selling video game in the United States, a position it held for more than three weeks.
Reviews of the gameplay have been mixed. Multimedia news website IGN felt that it was the weakest aspect of the game, citing its Guardian Force attack sequences as “incredibly cinematic” but tedious,
Critics have compared the other aspects of the game to previous Final Fantasy installments. Gaming Age cited the storyline and graphics as two major improvements over Final Fantasy VII, while considering the music “hardly a step up…”.
Merchandise
In the month of Final Fantasy VIII’s Japanese release (February 11, 1999), a beginners’ guide and a postcard collection were released. These were followed in March by Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania, a book that features an in-depth guide to Final Fantasy VIII and interviews with the developers. A sticker album (Final Fantasy VIII Seal Book) and a pictorial transcript of the game (Final Fantasy VIII Memorial Album) were released in June and September respectively. An origami book was released on November 19, 1999.
On September 22, 1999, a CD-ROM titled Final Fantasy VIII Desktop Accessories was released. It contains desktop icons, computer wallpapers, screensavers, and an e-mail application. Additionally, Final Fantasy VIII Desktop Accessories features an edition of the Triple Triad minigame from Final Fantasy VIII, creating the ability to play against opponents via a local area network.
The European release of Final Fantasy VIII saw a relatively large amount of merchandise being packaged together with the game for an initial run special release at no extra cost. These were all sold in a large rectangular box which contained a Final Fantasy VIII t-shirt, a PlayStation memory card and a selection of Final Fantasy VIII stickers - designed for adhering to the PlayStation memory card.
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- ^ Raijin: “I dunno. At first, they were sayin’ somethin’ ’bout roundin’ up the SeeDs, ya know!? Now, everyone’s either sidin’ with the Garden Master or the headmaster and fightin’ everywhere, ya know!?” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Squall: “I’m terribly sorry. It was inevitable… We lost control of the Garden.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Squall: “Oh, and one more thing… It appeared that the Galbadians were searching for Ellone. That seemed to be their main objective in FH. (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Squall: “(Ellone has the ability to allow people to experience the past. Maybe the sorceress is after her for this ability. What other reason could there be?)” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Laguna: “A fierce debate ensued about who should govern this country after Adel was gone. I wasn’t paying close attention while they made me up to be this hero of the revolution, and I ended up being president.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Squall: (How long has it been since we started moving?) (There’s not much more to do now. We’ve taken care of all the monsters in the Garden.) (Oh yeah… I still have to report to the headmaster. There’s a lot of things I want to ask about, too.) (He’s probably still busy, trying to reestablish order in the Garden.) (…We’re in the middle of nowhere.) (Man, I’m bored…) (I hate having nothing to do. It gets me thinking too much.) (I hope Selphie and the others are all right. Was it wrong for me to let them go? I wonder how Quistis and Irvine felt about it.) (That sorceress… Who is she? Why fire missiles at the Garden? Is Seifer ever coming back? I’ll get even with him next time.) Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Cid: This journey will involve many battles. A well qualified leader is needed for this. Therefore, I am appointing Squall as your new leader. From now on, Squall will be the leader. He will decide our destination and battle plan. Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Squall: “…Why is it that we forgot? We grew up together as kids… How’s that possible…?” / Irvine: “How about this? …The price we pay for using the GF. The GF provides us its power. But the GF makes its own place inside our brain…” / Quistis: “So you’re saying that the area is where our memories are stored? No…! That’s just a rumor the GF critics are spreading.” / Zell: “So if we keep relying on the GF, we won’t be able to remember a lot of things?” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Cid: She had been a sorceress since childhood. I married her, knowing that. We were happy. We worked together, the two of us. We were very happy. One day, Edea began talking about building the Garden and training SeeD. I became obsessed with that plan. But I was very concerned with SeeD’s goal, that one day SeeD might fight Edea… (Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Edea: …I have been possessed all this time. I was at the mercy of Sorceress Ultimecia. Ultimecia is a sorceress from the future. A sorceress many generations ahead of our time. Ultimecia’s objective is to find Ellone. Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Rinoa: There was a sorceress inside me. Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future. She’s trying to achieve time compression. Square Co.. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Doc Odine: “We just exorcise the sorceress. There iz nothing Odine cannot do.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Controller: “The lunar world is a world of monsters. Didn’t you learn that in school? As you can see, the monsters are gathering at one point. History’s starting to repeat itself. The Lunar Cry is starting.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
- ^ Rinoa: But Edea’s still… I can’t guarantee anything, either, if Ultimecia possesses me again… You saw me. She controlled me in outer space and made me break Adel’s seal. Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Descendant 1: Sorceress Rinoa. Hyne’s descendant. / Descendant 2: Come with us. We must seal your power for the sake of the world. Square Co. Final Fantasy VIII. Square EA. PlayStation. (in English). (1999-09-09)
- ^ Doc Odine: “There iz only only one way to defeat Ultimecia. You must kill her in ze future. …There is no normal way to jump to ze future under normal circumstances. But there iz still a way! It iz because Sorceress Ultimecia plans to compress time. Compressing time with magic… Vat good will it do for ze sorceress to compress time? There may be many reasons, but it doesn’t matter. …In order for Ultimecia to exist in this time, she must take over ze body of a sorceress from ze present. But ze machine must have a limit. Ultimecia probably needs to go back further in time to achieve time compression. Only Ellone can take her back further into ze past. Zat iz why she iz desperately seeking her. We must take advantage of Ellone’s power. …Once Ultimecia iz in ze past, she’ll use ze time compression magic. …Ultimecia also goes back to her own world. Vat would be left is ze time compressed world. Past, present, and future will all get mixed together. You will keep moving through ze time compression toward ze future. Once you’re out of ze time compression, zat will be Ultimecia’s world. It’s all up to you after zat.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
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- ^ Squall: “Both Garden and SeeD were your ideas. Garden trains SeeDs. SeeDs are trained to defeat the sorceress.” (Final Fantasy VIII)
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