Why is the ending to Final Fantasy VIII so perfect?

His and Julia's daughter is Rinoa

I played it on pc the first time it came out. Feel my intimidating pressure.

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I forgot, does he hook up with Eloise or whatever her name was?

Um, What?

Eh, so squall literally fucks his stepsister?

In the Japanese version she literally calls him onii-chan

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>スコール
Did you mean to post an image that contradicts your post?

Um. What?

Brain cells, friend. Grow them

Can't see お兄ちゃん anywhere in that textbox

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Were you hoping nobody would know Japanese when you posted that image?
残念だが

Squall is child of Raine and Laguna. Rinoa is child of Julia and the General. I don't see any step-siblings here.

Pretty sure he expected nobody to be able to read text that small, I had to zoom in to make it out.

How did squall and rinoa fall in love? it's like so sudden???

Dude the text is xbox hueg. I was expecting for people to read between to lines and not be autismos

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Squall was annoyed by Rinoa's naivism on open behavior. It bothered him because he had to face his own naivism regarding how he shuts people out from getting to know real Squall and his feelings. Riona bothers Squall so much than when he realizes he might lose Rinoa, he realizes that he wasn't actually so annoyed by Rinoa and he needs her to come in terms with himself and his behavior.

The text from the game was fine, the manga panel wasn't. Post relevant images next time

Try playing gameboy games with kanji once you get past first few months of reading

>How did squall and rinoa fall in love? it's like so sudden???

poor writing

I use a tv screen as a monitor and that image is small even for ant standards my dude.

what the fuck is this thread, what am I even reading?

Laguna never sees Julia again after that sexless encounter in the hotel room. Julia waits for him, but gives up and marries Carroway and their daughter is Rinoa.
Ellone's biological parents are killed during a raid on Winhill, and Raine adopts her. Laguna marries Raine, but Ellone is captured by Esthar so he goes off searching for her. While he's away, Raine gives birth to Squall and dies in childbirth.

Headcanon and outright lies

It's inherited thirst, Squall's dad and Rinoa's mom never got a chance to bone

Between this being repeated so often despite the game making it clear who ended up with who, and people complaining that the game never explains junctioning even though there's a mandatory tutorial at the beginning of the game about it, I'm convinced a lot of you guys are just retards.

It’s more like everyone itt is braindead
except this user

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When Ultimecia possessed Rinoa’s body she used her mind control powers to make Squall a thrall (knight) of Rinoa so he would be compelled to take her to Esthar.
Once in Esthar Rinoa/Ultimecia would then be able to find and possess the much more powerful Adel.
Ulty fucked up by not severing the bond after abandoning Rinoa’s body which led to her downfall.

It just seems sudden because Squall tries to keep his cold exterior up for as long as possible. You start too see it crack as early as the missile base team returning where in his mind he exclaims how glad he is that they're safe. He doesn't realize what it means to lose Rinoa until it actually happens which kicked his emotions into overdrive.

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Will he ever recover and rise from the ashes like the phoenix we need!?

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No, he made the Ultima Retrospective, his Magnum Opus is complete.

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This nigga didn't expect Oldfags to know nip. Some Japanese language knowledge used to be an expected standard and people would be bullied otherwise.

I bet you were the kid who told the teacher when someone bought a gameboy to school.

>フフフー
>気にするな、兄貴

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Nope, his name was Noey, that guy was a fag. I was the guy who would slide his backpack over to help hide the gameboy my friend was playing in class.

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Fucking wrong. Stop purpetuating this blatantly wrong meme.
Even if Laguna did talk that, she did not get pregnant there

That's actually easier than I remember, but it might be SRW games having more difficult vocab

>Even if Laguna did talk that, she did not get pregnant there

I always knew talking to girls would get them pregnant.

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Love the ending, but how the fuck did Seifer not get executed for his crimes

Well I fucked up my plan to fucking destroy the world let's go fishing with the lads I guess

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>I was the guy who would slide his backpack over to help hide the gameboy my friend was playing in class.
noice. mate and i used to do that while sitting next to each other and play advance wars over link cable

Beware user. If you've ever had a job, you probably have dozens of unknown kids by now.

It really isn't. The writing isn't amazing, but the romance is also more subtle compared to others. Doesn't help Squall is recluse as fuck the entire time.
And that they gave the option to send her to the missile base, which some idiots were dumb enough to do.

Wasn't he brainwashed to all hell? I don't really remember anymore. shit is decades old.

Yes. His desire was to be a knight and Ultimecia manipulated that. You can tell it was bad when in the last fight he was dirty and his clothing was shredded

it was just teenage romance

You don't get absolved for crimes just because you've been allegedly manipulated into doing them. Had Seifer redeemed himself in any way then maybe the absolution would have been somewhat credible, but as it stands he's just a genocidal (chronocidal?) terrorist.

I miss those days, when the only way to get the authentic experience was to learn Japanese and play the original game you bought in Japan on the original hardware.
Now everyone is a digicuck zoomer Emunigger that plays fan translations. Shits lame, even my little sister plays the original Japanese games

so? It's FF you zog bot.

FF8 is probably the worst "love story" i've seen in any fucking JRPG ever

I really like it too but why is the rest of the game bad?

>mfw I was a Chad Limitbreaker as a kid because English isn't my first language and I didn't understand the draw system

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it's the most realistic love story

>Was never actually a Balamb SeeD so can hardly call it desertion if they even have that in a mercenary school of child soldiers that's only really existed for maybe 20 years.
>Definitely commits terrorism against Galbadia: Probably promptly forgiven by new and definitely legal Ms. President after prior president retires after mysterious pitchfork incident mid-speech. 1000s of witnesses, but nobody could see what happened. Weird.
>Works as a bodyguard to Madam president, probably even got a wage. All work was in line of duty at time.
>Maybe got hired or commands Galbadian garden as part of some mercenary contract, all above board. No different from liberation of dollet really. Probably persona non grata in Balamb proper as a result but its one tiny fucking island. Missile incident was "regrettable"
>Trabia now a crater, not a country. The world map always actually has a crater there, which we'll assume is just for the game's sake not evidence that the six thousand students weren't made up as Estharian propaganda. Regardless, nobody left to look for war criminals, even if Seifer had a part in that.
>Does a bit of """"advanced"""" interrogation on the side. Only crime here is forgetting to remove zell's "weapons".
>basically does nothing else but get BTFO atop lunatic pandora before going on a fishing trip.

I'm not sure who is left or cares enough to put Seifer in prison. Hell the only prison we saw is a Galbadean one and he's probably a fucking war hero over there if they didn't collapse into a horrific anarchic regime. Balamb is run by a guy who pretty much broke him spiritually and physically, and has no actual beef. If he was directly implicated in all those fucking missile launches that's the only thing I could see anyone bothering to come after him for, and even then those GFs man, they probably forgot who he was a month later.

> tfw I've always sent Rinoa to the Missile Base

What happens if you keep Rinoa in the Garden party?

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Laguna never fucked Julia. Julia went and married general Calloway or whatshisname because Laguna never returned to Deling city after getting injured on the Lunatic Pandora.
Rinoa was born from Julia and Calloway.

This, leg cramp denied him sweet piano lady sex, she got sad for a bit when he went off to war and then hitched up with General Rinoa's Dad. Did he have a name? I swear he had a name.

Fury Caraway.

Ah there we go. Fury, thanks user.

You miss out on several scenes involving her.
And why the fuck are you sending the civilian on a damn mission?

Traitor mcfuckface.
Fuck Caraway. Worst dad, massive faggot.

>FF8 is probably the worst "love story" i've seen in any fucking JRPG ever

even worse than 15's "love story"? At least 8 had the two characters interact

Because I never really use Rinoa, and I for some reason I keep thinking that the Garden Revolt team are the guys that face NORG and so I keep my strongest party members with Squall.

For a realistic love story it lacks any sort of raw sexual attraction from Squall to Rinoa. Even the most basic thing. He runs away from her for 2 fucking discs and absolutely hates anything involving this retarded creature. The game literally needs to re-write his personality at the beginning of third disc for any of it to happen

Rinoa has the highest str and mag stats in the game though.

Oh. Well shit. Time for another playthrough.

Without junctioning, her str is 20 points higher than everyone else's at level 100. I don't really care for either of her limit breaks personally but I always keep her in.