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Entity13 posted...

I can't even do the soundtrack either

It had a soundtrack?

After coming off the FFVI soundtrack that was so great I went out of my way to buy the CD release (in spite of it being entirely MIDI), and the FFVII soundtrack that was much weaker but still had a few memorable tunes (even if I've never loved One Winged Angel as much as most people seem to), the music in FFVIII felt as completely generic as humanly possible, and it's "hit" single (Eyes on Me) was utterly bleh (though part of that might be because it was the capstone theme to an unrealistic and unwanted romance between two mostly unlikable characters, so it had zero positive resonance for me).

To this day, if you asked me to hum a song from FFI, FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, or FFX, I could easily pick at least one or two (and not the intro or fanfare tunes that are basically in every game). But if you held a gun to my head and told me my life depended on it, I couldn't hum one song from FFVIII. I'm not even sure I could identify one if you played it for me and asked what game it was from. There's just nothing memorable or inspiring about any of it.



Broken_Zeus posted...

idk, you'd want them to keep the terrible character designs? >_> I think Rinoa was the only one who had a half-decent look.

I really liked Quistis' design. Rinoa's fine, but mostly because she's kind of generic. Irvine is just a standard cowboy, albeit with shitty anime touches, and that's a hard look to really screw up. And Squall's wasn't entirely terrible when you consider the standard for FF main characters was essentially turning into "hipster fashion model" - once the franchise decided it was going to be anime-as-fuck, we were going to be stuck with designs like that, and it always could have been worse (Tidus comes to mind). Squall's problem isn't what he looks like as much as his whole personality, motivation, attitude, and the entirety of his narrative.

Zell and Selphie are the ones that really sort of look bleh (though Selphie doesn't look bad in her school uniform), but at least part of the issue with Zell is that he's sort of going down the same path Tidus eventually will (and has a terrible personality to boot).

The real problem is, I wouldn't trust them to redesign them well regardless, because they've more or less still got the same over-the-top anime design aesthetic that they had back then, so there's no guarantee a new, "updated" look would be any better than what they looked like then anyway.
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