Final Fantasy VIII/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** Which has more to do with the translation than anything else. In Japanese, Rinoa had a lot of cute dialogue that was unique to her, kind of like Selphie. In English, this was all removed instead of being adapted to any localized American form, and some new dialogue habits were added that may have been intended as cute, but ended up being anything but. For example, "not nice!" was replaced with "meany!" which isn't a very endearing thing to say when you're on the verge of tears and seventeen years old. Another example is one of the early scenes, in a forest near Galbadia garden and right before a dream sequence with Laguna, where Rinoa confronts Squall about his callousness. The English translation made her considerably more grating than in Japanese.

* [[Angst Dissonance]]: Squall became an introvert as a result of the fact that he grew up as an orphan, the only person he ever connected with left him at a young age, he was never adopted, spent most of his childhood raised in a mercenary academy, and had his memories suppressed by Guardian Forces so he never got to the point where he could come to terms with the trauma of it all.

* [[Damsel Scrappy]]: Rinoa, at least before she achieves her [[Game Breaker]] status.

* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Rinoa.

*** There's the Random rule, which automatically selects 5 random cards for your hand, instead of allowing you to select cards manually. Fortunately, if you make a habit of throwing away or converting weak cards when you get them, it ceases to be an issue.

*** The Same and Plus rules increase the complexity of the game greatly, and can allow either player to turn their opponent's overwhelming advantage into a crushing defeat at the last second. Then again, there are people who love these rules for those exact reasons.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: The traditional magic system was replaced with the Draw System, equipment was eschewed in favor of Junctioning spells directly to a character's statistics, and [[Dynamic Difficulty|enemies leveled up]] [[Empty Levels|with the party]]. Meanwhile, the characters were more realistically proportioned, and the world took on a more sci-fi feel.<br /><br />Not coincidentally, the game seemed to be ''much'' better received in Europe, where it was only the second Final Fantasy game released (and the first one played by many gamers) and where it wasn't so much encumbered by the reputation of ''[[Final Fantasy VII|VII]]'' or even the series at large.

* [[That One Attack]]:

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Surprisingly for a ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game, the androgyny is kept to a minimum, but there is still some.

** Adel the ''sorceress'' has the body of a ''male'' underwear model.

* [[Wangst]]: While Squall is guilty of it, unlike most examples of this, he doesn't burden others with his problems or invite anyone to a pity party. Rather, his wangst is internal, and like his other feelings, he [[Cannot Spit It Out]].

* [[The Woobie]]: Ellone. Just ask {{spoiler|Laguna}}.