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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
That is a freaking tragedy. FF8 had the strongest music of any of the games. I understand it is kind of the odd-ball among the FF games, being a love story and all, but its a shame it has faded so far into obscurity. Highly under-rated game, and I still play the soundtrack a lot all these years later.
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No it didn't. I know, subjective tastes and all, but there's just nowhere to stand here. FFVI is generally accepted as the best, but you could make a case for VII or possibly IX or IV if you want to talk about the purpose of a sountrack being atmosphere creation. But in spite of having a few decent tracks, VIII was just... there. And "eyes on me" is cringe-worthy.
VIII is a dumb game, basically. You don't even need to get into the mechanics (e.g. the universally loathed "draw" system and the weird way they dealt with "GF"s), the whole story was a mess. The concept of having a school of heroes was a great place to start, but they just had no idea what to do with it. Literally everything that happens after Disc 1 is idiotic. The super high tech secret eastern continent? Idiotic. Flying into space to fight colour-coded aliens? Idiotic. The whole thing about the "garden master"? Idiotic. Time traveling sorceresses who possess people?
Idiotic. And even the stuff that wasn't idiotic in theory was executed poorly - the whole thing about how you have a rival who goes over to the dark side is fine as a device, but it was just so cheesily done, it's basically the storytelling quality of the Star Wars prequels.
But the whole "we all knew each other in childhood and forgot about it and the main villain who was being mind controlled used to be our teacher and was married to the dude who is effectively our Dumbledore and don't worry about how totally implausible a coincidence on this scale is" part has to be just about the worst thing Square ever did in a Final Fantasy storyline. Dumb doesn't begin to describe that. I'll take the FFX laughing scene over that crap.
If they can make enough money off of this VII project to justify it, they definitely need to remake VI next. IX would be a fine one to revisit too - its flaws are fixable. A new IV? Sure, that went a bit off the rails with the whole "we're going to the moon" thing, but whatever, fine. VIII, though, can stay relegated to obscurity as far as I'm concerned.