Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII falls under the genre of role playing game or RPG which was developed abd published by Square in 1999. The game was the 8th sequel of the Final Fantasy series. The game was designed by Yoshinori Kitase, and the story was written by Kazushige Nojima while the songs were composed by Nobuo Uematsu. The game has an ERSB rating of T (Teen) and feature only a single player mode.

Features

In Final Fantasy VIII the game is divided into three parts, which are the world map, the field map, and the battle screen. The world map is a 3D display in which the player may navigate freely across a small-scale rendering of the game world. Characters can travel across the world maps by foot, car, Chocobo, train, and even an airship. The field map consists of controllable 3D characters overlaid on one or more 2D pre-rendered backgrounds, which represent environmental locations such as towns or forests. The battle screen is a 3D model of a location such as a street or room, where turn-based fights between playable characters and CPU-controlled enemies take place. The interface is menu-driven and with a new feature added called the Junction system. Besides that, the game also features a card-based game called Triple Triad. Players are given the opportunity to play six different characters in Final Fantasy VIII. These are Squall Leonhart, a loner who keeps his focus on his duty to avoid vulnerability; Rinoa Heartilly, an outspoken and passionate young woman who follows her heart in all situations; Quistis Trepe, an instructor with a serious, patient attitude; Zell Dincht, a martial artist with a passion for martial arts and hot dogs; Selphie Tilmitt, a cheerful girl who loves trains and pilots the spacecraft Ragnarok; and Irvine Kinneas, a marksman and consummate ladies’ man. In addition to that, players are also allowed to play temporarily characters such as Laguna Loire, Kiros Seagill and Ward Zabac, who appear in "flashback" sequences, and antagonists Seifer Almasy and Edea Kramer.