FF8 is full of super interesting setups and well thought out connections like that Timber message, it just does a bad job most times of actually conveying them to the player or following through in a way that would be satisfying. It frustrates me because the game is so damn imaginative, it really needed another script rewrite. I mean considering it came out only two years after 1997 they did a good job but there's so many areas where some more time would've cleaned things up.
My hot take has always been that the narrative would be more successful if Adel and Ultimecia were merged into a single character. You have all this setup of Adel layered into the background of the first couple of discs, then Ultimecia pops up out of nowhere and Adel is dispatched in a single boss battle. Adel could've used her evidently potent powers to reach into Edea's mind from space etc.
Slowly becoming a Final Fantasy aficionado. Next up:
FFVI
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azuarc
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