RagnorokKing
仮面ライダー&#
- AKA
- RK, Kamen Rider Cho Decade, The Fiend of Earth
Now it all makes sense.
i hate everyone
Yeah except for Quistis.I wish that the FFVIII cast died at the end of disc one.
Which makes it fit perfectly with the game.Coming up with theories is all fine and dandy, but come on.
"It was all just a dream" is pretty much the lamest story twist one could think of.
The acid-dropping theorists said:When plot twists are introduced, they are fully explained and are not in conflict with existing plot information. In fact, the more you learn about this world, the more everything seems to make perfect sense. Everything fits together in an elaborate but perfectly designed puzzle. Everything connects and everything is related.
The other interpretation is that Squall’s mind is in its final throes, and in its last moments is failing to recall faces, descending rapidly into chaos and jumbled, manic flashes of traumatic memory. Squall desperately tries to replay his memories, focusing ever-harder on the obscured faces, and only having them slip away. And in hindsight, it is rather evocative of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and if I gave the authors of this game the slightest amount of credit, I might have bought this theory. But I don’t.
Look, it’s cute. I’m proud that you came up with it, and really, it’s better than what was intended. I can appreciate you finally realizing that FF8’s plot is so bad, you’ve invented a better one as a coping mechanism. But it doesn’t really work. Other stories with “crackpot” theories like this (Minority Report, Total Recall) hold more water, and were likely pitched as alternate endings. But look at the story you’re telling if the “Squall’s Dead” theory is true: Squall attempts to assassinate the Sorceress, fails, gets impaled, dies, and…then what?
He’s dead. The dream is ultimately meaningless. Nothing really happens in it that impacts the “real” world. Maybe Squall gets some internal closure, but so what? The Sorceress wins, rules the world, has her would-be assassins summarily executed, and evil triumphs. Hardly a fulfilling close to the story, wouldn’t you say? Not much of a story; a bunch of untrained, untalented pissant mercenaries attack the most powerful, evil sorceress in history and get completely annihilated.
Huh. Okay, I’ll admit that does sound more likely.
Oh it hurts me so much to be unable to defend VIII's unfortunate failings.
Hate who so much? I think FF8 is a great game, Rinhoa aside. It does have some of its unfortunate failures, but it's pretty enjoyable. I would like it if they employed the junction system in some other game again. That was great.So despite my joking here and elsewhere I didn't mind FF8, and actually like Squall. But I certainly understand why people hate them so much.
If you've read as many shoujo mangas as I have you would realize that Squall is not at all that incredibly deep of a character. He has a lot of character clones, and it's all the same thing: jerks on the outside because they don't want to get close to anyone and get hurt. His character is pretty much the character of every other "cold and unsociable" main hero characters in girly romance plots.the guy acts like a jerk on purpose to push people away because he's afraid of getting close to anyone and losing them. That's a deep character actually.