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Final Fantasy VIII

1999 · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation · PlayStation Portable · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Card & Board Game

86IGDB player score
525 ratings

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525 ratings at an 86 clip. Solid numbers for a solid game. A role-playing game built for the long haul — the kind you lose weekends to. A single-player game with no interest in being anything else. Respect.

About this game

Final Fantasy VIII is the eighth main installment in the Final Fantasy series. The gameplay makes a departure from many series standards. While it still uses the Active Time Battle system, it deviates from the series' traditional means of boosting a character's power via leveling, although levels are not completely abandoned as they were in Final Fantasy II. In addition, it does not have a Magic Point-based system for spell-casting. Instead, magic is collected, drawn, and created from items, and is used to power up the characters via the junction system.

Final Fantasy VIII is set on a fantasy world with science fiction elements, and focuses on Squall Leonhart, a young SeeD mercenary hired out to various missions by Balamb Garden. Squall and his friends are enlisted to help a group known as the Forest Owls led by Rinoa Heartilly, an endeavor that escalates into a conflict against the forces led by Sorceress Edea.