These students will join their mercenary group called SeeD which is trained to kill sorcerers.
The game begins introducing you to Squall, who is a student at Balamb Garden. This was developed in 1999.Ībout the plot: yeah it’s a bit complicated, but not out of place for a Final Fantasy game. In fact, the compilations of the game’s FMVs over at YouTube can substitute for a good movie. This is a huge advancement in terms of technology, and in terms of presentation. The previous game had only rendered scenes, and the other game before that had sprites.
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Full-Blown FMVs and PlotįFVIII is the first game in the Final Fantasy series to use FMVs in the game. I also came up with this epiphany: Final Fantasy VIII is the best classic Final Fantasy to this day. I attended the recent Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy Kuala Lumpur, and thanks to the surreal experience of living my childhood soundtracks live, it had my gears running. It sounds like a lost cause, to stray off a known path and venture to lands unknown, but in Squaresoft’s case, it gave us a masterpiece. Squaresoft did just that, straying off from common mechanics and concepts that have been ingrained deeply into the Final Fantasy name. The answer was simple walk off the beaten path. So I can only imagine the thought process of the developers over at Squaresoft going somewhat like “How do we top Final Fantasy VII?” Squaresoft had a humongous mountain to climb created by the success of their masterpiece, Final Fantasy VII. The logo accentuates the theme of romance in the game. Nobody is to be blamed from this, though, because its predecessor, Final Fantasy VII, was a cult hit that spawned multiple spinoffs and still is being spoken up to this very day. Released in 1999, Final Fantasy VIII (FFVIII) seems to be one of the forgotten titles from the classic Final Fantasy era.