I finished my most recent playthrough of Fianl Fantasy 8 tonight on the 10 anniversary of its North American release of September 9, 1999.

I have a lot to cover, but won't be able to finish tonight.

In space we get Marian into their sickbay and go to see Ellone. It's never a bad time to play cards, especially when you're on a space station... in ( Read more... )

Eshtar is crazy.

Docked at FH I can't take it anymore and lift Rinoa out of bed and do what any other sane person would do and start walking my ass to Eshtar. No train, no car, no giant flying city. Walking. Like a man.

Squall finally opens up to Rinoa about his real feelings for her. Unfortunately she can't hear him because she's in a coma. Timing, ( Read more... )

I did the Winhill sidequest, the ghost hunt. Even though it turns out the mystery was the work of some mischievous chocobo babies you have to wonder if a bit of Raine isn't still around.

We went to Edea's house but encountered Galbadia Garden hovering right outside. The battle was fierce. Galbadian soldiers had comandeered the garden and attacked us ( Read more... )

Well there was some shit going down in Balamb town. The whole place had been occupied by the Galbadian army. Apparently they're out looking for Ellone everywhere.

I had some trouble finding the right people to talk to in order to advance the story here. Once I figured it out though things went smoothly. It was frustrating to see Raijin and Fujin ( Read more... )

Spoke with Mayor Dobe. Impotent piece of shit. He told us that he'll fix our Garden because it would get us out of FH faster. What an ass. He's one of those pacifists who believes that everyone in the world is a reasonable person with whom you can talk to settle your differences. That's simply not the case. Some Galbadian soldiers show up to prove ( Read more... )

Rinoa wanted to go for a walk. That didn't go so well. The Garden slammed into Fishermans Horizon so the walk was kind of put on hold. I didn't really progress the story at all, but I took a lot of time to explore and get reaquainted with the town. For instance, if you go talk to the Weapon Shop guy there's a kid fishing on a boat who idolizes the ( Read more... )

Level 25 and 25 hours in

I've been talking to a lot of people in game and I've probably played about an hour of Triple Triad. After NORG there's a guy on the second floor on your way to see the boat that has a ton of good cards including all the level 6 boss cards. Nice. I got a couple of Elastoids from him so I can refine them into steel pipes to ( Read more... )

I like Laguna. I think he's a really cool guy. I don't know about Winhill though. I mean, it's a nice town and all, but there really is nothing going on there. Maybe the place is more actve at night or when there isn't a Sorceress War going on, but seriously, that place is country.

So turns out Laguna washed up near here about a year ago and has ( Read more... )

Dude you've really gotta slow down on this thing. You've already hit Disc 3 and I JUST got to Disc 2 last night. haha I'm playing this game casually, but you're blasting through. Slow it down a notch now that you're at Disc 3. You're leaving me in the dust

I still haven't been able to upgrade anyone's weapons except Rinoa's. For some reason parts ( Read more... )

That's interesting about not needing the Weapons Monthlies, but now you know where the April one is if you ever want to get it. It seems like there's a Timber Maniacs in every hotel room so stay a night at them all and pick them up. I'm still not specifically sure what they do, but they must expand on the Laguna scenes.

You were right about the ( Read more... )