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But, I will say this game at some points feels really drawn out, and in my opinion, unless you know all the tactics for monsters a lot of the story encounters, and random encounters can be brutal! No, not girlfriends, but some of them are female or feminine, mean special creatures that make things easier for you to win battles!.

Werewolf The Apocalypse Earthblood. It also evolves as you play through the game, too! So the thing about Triple Triad in this game, is that you basically need to struggle through it for awhile, and find the right NPCs random people to challenge in card games. We need to defend ourselves! Heck yeah! Metro: Last Light Redux. In closing, this game has a pretty intense combat system for a turn-based game in my opinion. What part does the mysterious Laguna play? Only you can decide what happens next, as the greatest Role Playing Adventure of all time returns Be the first to leave your opinion!

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Though, fortunately, they are significantly more articulate - the translation is much better than FF7 - and you will no longer see phrases like "Shinra're the VERMIN for killing the Planet! So shu'up jackass! So, what else is in the game? This is the stuff-I-forgot department. First of all, the Card Game.

If you played Magic: The Gathering back in high school, you'll probably think this is familiar. Well, it's not, that's what I thought too. But it is the best analogy: you have monsters, and you make them fight.

Sort of like gladiators, but not quite. You have monster cards, of varying levels, and each card has 4 digits on it, aligned in a north-south-east-west fashion. There's a board, on which the cards are laid, and depending on the rules of the game, there might be or might not be spaces that boost or retract from a card's digits. The idea is, that once someone puts down a card, you want to match his card with a card of a higher value on the side that touches it: so if someone puts down a card that has a 3 on top, you'd want to put a card right above it with a 4 on the bottom or higher.

There are also other things you can do, such as defeat not one but multiple cards, through Combos, Pluses and others; but those are more advanced rules, and they serve no purpose other than unnecessarily complicate this explanation. As you travel around the world, you will gain new cards, and will encounter different opponents of varying strengths - and some will teach you new rules, whether bad or good.

Once you learn the new rules, you will distribute them to all other players you play with, so watch out that you don't distribute rules you hate to play with, such as Random which no longer allows you to choose your deck of cards, but they are picked at random instead. However, should you happen to distribute an inconvenient rule, you can look for the Queen of Cards, a woman that will revoke a rule from a region for a fee. Of course, this review wouldn't be complete without outlining where SquareSoft really dropped the ball.

These have been mentioned throughout the review, but I reiterate them here, for I think they are extremely important, and as Square prepares itself and the series for the exciting, uncharted, and terrifyingly unknown foray into the double digits after all, nobody's ever had Why did I skip over FF9, which was just recently announced? Mainly because it wouldn't sound cool to say 'the terrifyingly unknown foray into the digit 9'.

Nonetheless, nothing would rejoice me more than a proper port of FF9 - but, unfortunately, it's still being developed for the original PlayStation, so I don't think we can really hope for that: all factors noted, Square doesn't seem to be keen on re-rendering its backgrounds for PC users, even though the current hardware is absolutely capable of displaying higher-resolution graphics.

In addition, if anything, they could at least code in a keyboard interface. And, perhaps, make the Save menu not look quite as PlayStation'ish - what's up with the two memory-card-looking slots?

Ah, but I'm not done yet. The fact that I believe the reviewers were playing with a SoundBlaster 16 is irrelevant; more to the point, what happened to SoundFonts? Nothing of the sort in FF8. Apart from that, maybe a button to skip FMVs once the player saw them at least once. There is much more to FF8 than what I was able to describe in this short little blurb. And we mean ever.

Square must have commandeered every single workstation in Japan and had them running 24x7 for a couple of years to end up with as much quality footage as they have here. Then there's the story. It starts off as wet as a puddle, with too much slop and sentiment, but you just know it's going to improve.

Flashbacks mix with dream sequences and character betrayals to provide more plot twists than the entire archive of Tales Of The Unexpected. You genuinely care about the characters you're playing and although Squall, the central hero, is a bit of an arse, you still get attached to him.

And, if you don't get out much - and you won't once you start playing this game - then Rinoa and Selphie should provide fuel for your fantasies. Although admitting attraction to animated characters is not something we approve of. We're not giving away the plot. If you want to know what happens, you're going to have to be prepared to invest 50 hours of your valuable time repeatedly hitting the 'x' key on your keyboard.

Are we being a bit harsh on the gameplay? For the first ten hours of the game you can't put a foot wrong. Battles are too easy and it's impossible to wander away from the all-important storyline. Progress through the second CD and fights start to level out and you're likely to see the 'Game Over' legend appear on your screen a few times.

This uproots another problem: if you've played FFVII you will know that the summon spells take a long time to brew.



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