Nothing calms me down quite like playing Final Fantasy VIII. There's something very soothing about spending time with this game I know so well and love so deeply. I'd drifted away from my replay for a year or so, but I picked up the controller and sank straight back in as if I'd never left.
When Julia says, 'You have beautiful eyes. Though they look a bit scared now. Don't worry, I'm not gonna pluck 'em out and eat 'em,' I can really see Rinoa in her.
Zell shadowboxing when he's embarrassed!
'You tell us to go, we go. Even if it is a losing battle,' Zell says to Rinoa. These kids have been brought up in the full expectation that, at any point, someone might tell them to die, and they'll just have to go ahead and die.
(...Feel sorry? Seifer would hate to hear that.) Squall knows Seifer so well; I think, at the start of the game, Seifer is the only person Squall deeply knows. Later: (That's just to ease your mind. Am I the only one who thinks that? No, I'm sure Seifer...)
Poor Zell gets so quiet and withdrawn after he realises he's endangered Garden.
Sort of hits me in the heart that, when Ward thinks he's about to die and can barely speak, he forces himself to tell Laguna and Kiros, 'It was fun, you guys.'
After the second Laguna dream, Squall thinks, If it were just me, I could tell the others it was only a crazy dream. It's so much easier for him to dismiss problems if he's the only one they affect.
When they first arrive at Galbadia Garden:
Zell: Sure is quiet.
Squall: ...I like it.
(Rinoa starts laughing)
It's pretty cute!
I don't remember discovering the Galbadia Garden hockey changing room before!
'Have you heard about that hockey team made up of a bunch of monsters?' the coach asks. 'We're gonna play them next week. To tell the truth, I'm kinda worried. Some guys told me that they play so rough that some of our guys might get killed.'
I am REELING from the discovery that there's an explanation for the hockey monsters you fight on the Galbadia rink later, and the explanation is 'they're a visiting hockey team playing Galbadia'.
I will always love Squall having a long, increasingly distressed internal monologue leading to an outburst, whereas all his companions see is Squall pacing around in silence, then yelling 'I'M NOT HAVING ANYONE TALK ABOUT ME IN THE PAST TENSE' and running out of the room.
I love that, after Irvine flirts with her, Selphie goes 'why is my heart pounding?' and Squall very seriously tells her that it's the pressure of the mission. Bless you, Squall.
When Julia says, 'You have beautiful eyes. Though they look a bit scared now. Don't worry, I'm not gonna pluck 'em out and eat 'em,' I can really see Rinoa in her.
Zell shadowboxing when he's embarrassed!
'You tell us to go, we go. Even if it is a losing battle,' Zell says to Rinoa. These kids have been brought up in the full expectation that, at any point, someone might tell them to die, and they'll just have to go ahead and die.
(...Feel sorry? Seifer would hate to hear that.) Squall knows Seifer so well; I think, at the start of the game, Seifer is the only person Squall deeply knows. Later: (That's just to ease your mind. Am I the only one who thinks that? No, I'm sure Seifer...)
Poor Zell gets so quiet and withdrawn after he realises he's endangered Garden.
Sort of hits me in the heart that, when Ward thinks he's about to die and can barely speak, he forces himself to tell Laguna and Kiros, 'It was fun, you guys.'
After the second Laguna dream, Squall thinks, If it were just me, I could tell the others it was only a crazy dream. It's so much easier for him to dismiss problems if he's the only one they affect.
When they first arrive at Galbadia Garden:
Zell: Sure is quiet.
Squall: ...I like it.
(Rinoa starts laughing)
It's pretty cute!
I don't remember discovering the Galbadia Garden hockey changing room before!
'Have you heard about that hockey team made up of a bunch of monsters?' the coach asks. 'We're gonna play them next week. To tell the truth, I'm kinda worried. Some guys told me that they play so rough that some of our guys might get killed.'
I am REELING from the discovery that there's an explanation for the hockey monsters you fight on the Galbadia rink later, and the explanation is 'they're a visiting hockey team playing Galbadia'.
I will always love Squall having a long, increasingly distressed internal monologue leading to an outburst, whereas all his companions see is Squall pacing around in silence, then yelling 'I'M NOT HAVING ANYONE TALK ABOUT ME IN THE PAST TENSE' and running out of the room.
I love that, after Irvine flirts with her, Selphie goes 'why is my heart pounding?' and Squall very seriously tells her that it's the pressure of the mission. Bless you, Squall.
