Final Fantasy VIII Wish List

Thanks for all your wishes! I've managed to hand pick some of the better ones out for show. From now, however, on, the Final Fantasy VIII wish list is closed, but look out for a Final Fantasy IX one soon!



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Compensate for the Dissapointment with FF7's 'Love-Story'
Name: Goku797
E-mail Withheld - Friday, October 30, 1998 at 10:53:15
Wish: "I do not know what to really expect from final fantasy viii, it could be an a$$ kicking game or it may be not as good as we expected it to be. so i'm not expecting much, but i do hope for 2 things. number 1, that we will NOT see rinoa become squall and zell's enemy just because of the possible connection with edea. she and squall HAVE to get together in order to compensate for the disappointment on the love story that had never went far for cloud and aerith!(yes, i actually wished cloud and aerith had gotten together, just my opinion also, so please do not feel that you have to defend yourself in any way ^_^) and number 2, that IF square does decide to release ff8 for the pc, LEAVE EIDOS INTERACTIVE OUT OF THIS!!!!! they've ruined ff7 for the pc, and it's enough....."
Webmasters Comments: "Ooooh, I can promise you that Final Fantasy 8 is going to be some game... an epic. Trust me, if Square mess this stunner up, then I think I'll cry. You are not the only one to voice their dissapointment with Square and their handling of the 'Love-Story' in Final Fantasy 7, but as Final Fantasy 8's theme is of love, then I suppose your wish has been granted!..."


Less of the Boring 'Plot Building'
Name: WolfBoB
E-mail WolfBoB6980@hotmail.com - Thursday, October 29, 1998 at 20:51:43
Wish: "In Vll, there were just too many long, BORING, and nearly unneccesary dialog/plot-building scenes. I mean, a couple are ok, but the scene where Cloud was floating under the Materia bush(?) was over 10 minutes and that's if you sit there and hold the damn X button and don't read what they're saying. Which was almost pointless to the plot. But enough gripes, I want the general wishes: voices, weapons outside of the battle sequences, and chocobos, chocobos, chocobos!..."
Webmasters Comments: "Well, I don't know whether I agree with you entirely, sure Final Fantasy 7's plot building with Cloud's 'flashbacks' were long, and for some tiresome, but if you felt the need to press X quickly so as not to read the messages, then I'm afraid you might not have got the full jist of things, as it were..."


Moving from one thing to another
Name: J.R. Butler
E-mail jrbutler59@hotmail.com - Thursday, October 29, 1998 at 14:13:31
Wish: "It only took me 42 hours to beat VII. and the ending wasent all that great. I wish VIII to be more difficult. More chalenges that make you think. I got the fealing that I was just moveing from one thing to another in VII..."
Webmasters Comments: "Yes, things were too linear, if that's what you mean, and I do hope that things do change in Final Fantasy 8 as to the RPG aspect of the game. Final Fantasy 7 was just too linear to be an RPG in my eyes, lets hope Square addresses that problem..."


Everado's Wish List :)
Name: Everaldo (Brazil)
E-mail everaldo@xoommail.com - Thursday, October 29, 1998 at 06:45:41
Wish: "In first place I would like to say that I am Brazilian and excuse me for the language mistakes that come to happen. I will list to be more specific than I would place or it would remove:

I would place....

+ Gameplay: to get stairs and go up montains (Mt. Nible) was terrible in FFVII
++ Sounds: Voices at least for the interjections and call spells, songs as themes of the towns and endings instead of simple sound arrangements.
+ Playtime: minimum of 60 at 70 hours instead of 30 at 40
+ Minigames: +++++..... ;-)
+ Humor: tends as example FF4 and FF5
+ Creative spells: Fire could burn ;-)
++ Subquests: More difficulties and cools; boss as the weapons; -)
++ Strategy elements: Climate, terrain (poison floor), scenery and temperature, more interaction with the scenery.
+++: Equipments with different attributes and you altered for use during the whole game without attributes as defense, attack.... directly instead attributes as: HP up, MP up, critical hit, etc. more or less as in P.E; Fast save game, i.and. Saga Frontier; Artificial intelligence for the enemies; abilities out of the battles (i.and. Breath of Fire II); team combos (i.and. saga frontier) alternative clothes (visual of the equipments?); Damage limit Up for 99999 instead 9999 (Bahamut Zero ^_^).

I would remove:

- Items without usefulness (i.and. gambler, masamune sword, autograph, 1/35 soldier)
- Character entering inside of character (already removed ;-)
- Focus in the main character
- Futuristic look (argh!)
- Dialogues in text box with visible backgrounds (it would place transparent backgrounds to appreciate the scenery)

Wooow!!!! this was very big, I'm sorry, publish this if you want ^_ ^ ..."

Webmasters Comments: "Woowsers! Thanks for that, Everaldo, your english is very good!... A few points to clear up; I think the futuristic look of Final Fantasy 7 has been scrapped (in Squall's world at least...) in favour of a more 'medievil' or 'classical' approach (but things are still a bit techno) so your wish has been granted there! Heh, about the 'getting up the stairs' bit, I can't remember that at all!!..."


Laguna's a Cross-Dresser
Name: Jeff
E-mail cloud5ii@yahoo.com - Sunday, October 25, 1998 at 09:33:11
Wish: "It should be harder. Way harder. And if you loose against the final boss, there sould be a different ending like if Sephiroth won the world, he would get hit by the meteor and explode. Also, NO GAY CHARACTERS!!!!!!! Please, but i think Laguna is a crossdresser ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Yes, Laguna does look like a flamming poof, but that's the way the Jap's like their males, and, um, seeing as they made the blasted game, who are we to argue?..."


Materia Sucks
Name: Barrie
E-mail fpoucher@dowco.com - Sunday, October 25, 1998 at 02:02:39
Wish: "i would like to see no more mataira, i mean it was cool and all to have it, but it sucked at the same time because you could only have two slots to put them in. i would like to hear them talk and to improve the graphics on the characters.to see weapons on them when they walk you know the basic stuff. ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Your wish has been granted! Materia has been abolished in favour of the all new 'Junction System'. Take a look at the Information Section..."


Is this still Final Fantasy?
Name: Dais
E-mail Withheld - Saturday, October 24, 1998 at 19:32:45
Wish: "I would like to see:: I think it would be good if Squaresoft, just every so often, steps back and ask's: "Is this a Final Fantasy game?" FF7 was good, but the leap from FF6 was a little jarring... ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Yes, I know what you mean. Gone are the days of Castles and 'Save the Princess', Final Fantasy has had to change its image. Think about it, would Final Fantasy 7 have been so popular in the west, and even Japan, if it retained the same sort of looks and story as the classic on the SNES?"


Chocobos with Four Heads!
Name: Heather
E-mail Withheld - Friday, October 23, 1998 at 16:36:52
Wish: "Remember how we all had to breed Chocobos in 7? Well, with the amount of inbreeding that went on in most of my game, I would personally like to see the results of such inbreeding in 8. You know, four heads, three eyes on each head, five legs, three sets of hips, and so on. You get the idea. ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Nope, please explain..."


Chocobos that Breath Fire!
Name: Solid Snake
E-mail SolidGear2@aol.com - Friday, October 23, 1998 at 00:41:46
Wish: "I wish their was alot more fun Minigames in FF8 just like FF7 like snowboarding I also like to see different Chocobo Like ones that can fly and breath fire. Thank You! ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Heh, well the idea of more mini games is bound to be granted in Final Fantasy 8 because basically FF8 is going to be a much bigger game than FF7. Chocobo's that 'Breath Fire'!! Well, I don't think that will ever happen. They've got that cute image to maintain, you know."


Codes I tell ya, CODES!
Name: Squall Leonheart
E-mail JMK1457@aol.com - Thursday, October 22, 1998 at 20:47:24
Wish: "I want the game to have codes, think about it, wouldn't it be cool to beat the game then play it as another main character? ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Yes, codes would be a great idea for bringing extra life into the game when you've completed it and got every secret known. But isn't that what the Game-Shark's for?..."


DEATH TO EIDOS, BURN THE BRINGERS OF PAIN!!!
Name: Paul
E-mail Withheld - Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 01:05:57
Wish: "What I would really like the most out of Final Fantasy VIII is that when it comes time to do the PC version it will not be put into the hands of Eidos Interactive, creators of such wonderful hideously programmed PC games as Tomb Raider and Deathtrap Dungeon. I work for a small PC store where FFVII was the best selling game for a good two months, eventually so many copies came back that we stopped carrying FFVII for the PC as it is notoriously diffucult to get to run on all but the most delicately maintainded machines, i.e. your hardcore gamer's rig, people like me who A: Have great hardware, and debugging hardware knowledge B: Know what software to avoid and knows how to treat "deviant" software (DirectX), and C: Developed software skills thanks to the good old days of DOS, oh the joy of beating your system to death to get that one extra K of conventional memory... memories. I have spent some much time tweaking, no shoehorning FFVII on so many machine! s that the fun of the game was long since beaten out of me. I can tell you how just horrible it is to maintain the near perfect balance that must be maintained between DirectX, DirectVideo, DirectShow, DirectDeath, DirectSex, etc. and all the lame peices of crap hardware out there. I mean come on Eidos. What user honestly knows how or where to get all the misc. bull$h|+ that software, like the most up to date drivers for their hardware, that are needed to get the game to run correctly? This rant really isn't aimed at Squaresoft as they do not have to worry about compatibility as they are working with dedicated hardware, PSX, but i just had to add my two cents. DEATH TO EIDOS, BURN THE BRINGERS OF PAIN!!! AH HA HA HA... Hmm... more coffee.

Better graphics would be good, better ending to. More chocobos, you just can't have enough Chocobos. ...."

Webmasters Comments: "Yes, I heard that the PC converstion of Final Fantasy 7 was very poorly programmed/converted. This is bound to happen when there's 3 Gigabytes of stuff to convert, most of which is done by the notoriusly untidy Japanese coders. I don't think that Tomb Raider was poorly programmed, but yes, Final Fantasy 7 was a disgrace for many people. When you think how much more powerful your average PC is nowadays than the Playstation, it's quite a shame..."


Squall and Rinoa should get togther...
Name: Ami Hoshi
E-mail amihoshi@aol.com- Tuesday, October 20, 1998 at 22:40:44
Wish: "I would like for Squall and Rinoa to have a girlfriend, boyfriend realionship, I mean the Cloud & Tifa thing just left to many questions,in the back of my mind I like to think that they got together,and because I've been a good girl mabey just mabey we could see Cloud and Tifa, and mabey even Barret or mabey even hear or read *voices would be nice* there names. thats about all I can beg for now, except mabey this time a game that took me two weeks to beat might have a little more ending. ...."
Webmasters Comments: "I think that your wish has been granted! Squall and Rinoa are very close at the ball, take a look at the news section..."


More Optional Sub-Quests
Name: Kenny
E-mail bzzap@hotmail.com - Tuesday, October 20, 1998 at 11:13:48
Wish: "I liked the way FF7 was constructed; not too difficult and yet not too easy. This allows the player to enjoy the story while getting some challenge. The ending was great too except I had to watch it a few times to understand it fully.

I would like to see more optional quests where you can get bonus items for completing them. Voices for the characters would be a real nice touch too. The last thing I want to mention is that I would like the graphics to smoother. The arms in FF7 were just weird looking. :-) That's it for me...."

Webmasters Comments: "So basically in wanting more optional quests, you want FF8 to be more of an RPG than an adventure which FF7 was. I really don't know yet if FF8 will be more 'RPGish' in its nature..."


Think More About the Secret Characters
Name: Hentai Amarillo III
E-mail odioloco@whistle.org- on Sunday, October 18, 1998 at 23:08:24
Wish: "I would like the ending to include the secret characters. It has come to my attention that Yuffie and Vincent fall into the chasm in the Northern Cave in FF7, because they shoor aren't in the ending. They should also include some secret scene-cuts that include the optional characters and maybe some interesting extra plot. ...."
Webmasters Comments: "Couldn't agree more. The fact that the secret characters weren't shown in the Northern Cave only suggests further that FF7 was an unfinished product..."




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