plus, the romance part of ff8 was truly beautful, more so then any other game.
Ok, stop right there. The 'romance part' of FF8 was its worst aspect, which I found particularly disappointing as I am a big romantic and was really looking forward to the love story. I had just gotten married a few months before the game came out, and couldn't wait to see the tried and true tail of an anti-social "self-reliant" teenage boy who thinks he’s got everything figured out until a dark-haired girl whom is his polar opposite comes along and totally screws up his world view for the better. If you turned Squall in to a black guy and took away the GF's that’s basically the story of Mr. and Mrs. Silvercry.
Here come the spoilers!So imagine my disappointment when, after two discs of Squall treating Rinoa like a mere responsibility at best, and a liability at worse, she falls in a coma and he's suddenly all. "Oh no! I must save her, no matter what it takes, rest of the world be damned!!!" Much like the Orphanage revelation, and the Ultimecia revelation, this smacks of out-of-nowhere-ism, which FF VIII reeks of. There are parts of the game I like. I don’t think it deserves all the crap it gets from people like Sentenal, but this aspect of the storyline was fundamental flawed. Worse Love Story Ever, I had called it once. A few years later I saw Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and FFVIII quickly lost that title.
In the many, times I've replayed that game I've tried to find any hint of Squall's feelings for Rinoa prior to her falling after the second battle with Edea, and I've come up with nothing. If anything, he resents eveyone else trying to push them together, and during the festival, he nearly smacks her for being an idiot. By the time they do get around to "admitting" they feel something for one another, I was so jaded by the terrible buildup to that moment, that the whole thing fell flat.
Spoilers End.So yeah, that’s my take. If anything FF X (which I loathe entirely) had a better love story, the evolving of feelings between Tidus and Yuna were believable. Awkward. Honest. Difficult. Heart-warming then finally heart-breaking. To the point where I could care less about everything else in X-2 (which I also hate) so long as I can get 100% completion and get those two back together where they belong. No, I don’t count that as a Spoiler. What did you think was going to happen with 100% completion? I mean, really.
