FFVIII and its Romance

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Did it ever seem to you that the romance of the plot ever got in the way of you enjoying the game in any way? o_O
I mean, in particular, saving Rinoa about 4 or 5 times, all the while having to play 'knight' before you lost her again. :dry:

I personally thought it did. Got in the way of my enjoying it anyways.

Thoughts?
 
That´s the reason why so many people hate Rinoa and FFVIII!

Because lets face it during the first two CDs of the game Rinoa is completely hitting on Squall and he does not give a darn about her that´s the truth.

Then all of the sudden we reach the 3rd CD and Squall starts acting like Rinoa is the only thing that matters i mean seriously what´s up with that!?:dry:

And you are right we have to save her a lot of times:

1st) When that pathetic girl as a fit atack and decides to go destroy Edea to show her daddy and the SeeDs that she is also strong and not completely useless which she is.

2nd) When she goes and "help" Zell keep the G-Soldiers out of the square and she gets trapped and ends up almost dying once again.

3rd) When she is possesed by Ultimecia and goes into space and Squall goes into space to save her again.

4th) After the esthar guys take her to the sorceress memorial to send her to space you have to go there and help out again.

You see what i mean!?

Plus right from the begining you can understand that Rinoa is nothing more than a spoiled super sweet 17 girl who decides to form a revolution because her daddy probably didn´t get her a new cellphone or something...

Remember when you are on the train Watts and Zone call her by "Princess" and tell you to go wake her up because it´s her nap time!:blink:

Her nap time!?A 17 year girl is adressed as princess and as a nap time...humm that kind of makes me wonder about her:O

On the other side we have the anti-social Squall who acts like a troubled 50 year old man.

How can two characters who are completely different and the fact that one completely ignores the other for half the game start loving each other from a moment to another?:huh:

You see i really enjoy FFVIII but the main problem is that the "love story" and half the characters in it are completely pathetic.
 
That's one of the main problems with the game. Ever since Rinoa got her claws into Squall, the whole save me dramas/escapades really annoyed me, and I realised that it wasn't worth my time training her.
 
the love story in this game pulled my mind away from the rest of the story therefore making it easier for me to not give a shit about the main story. it just wasn't gripping enough and the love story didn't exactly make up for it, i mean the love story was pretty typical...guy saves the girl, over... and over... and over again. don't mean to get off topic but thats why IX was great it balanced the love story and the main story, and VIII should have done a better job with that. but oh well, whats done is done.
 
I liked Final Fantasy VII because of the gameplay. ;P I really do not like Rinoa. Ughhh Rinoa is a crack whore.
 
Yeah, Squall was like a perfect soldier "cold and realistic" and suddenly Rinoa arrived and turned him into a "soft emotional guy"....


Yeah the love story was not that bad (even though Laguna X Julia's failed love story was way better). After the 2nd disc, everything is about "Rinoa this, Rinoa that....blah, blah, blah"

I knew that Rinoa was going to be absorved by Adel so I never actually trained her.

The game was great during the first 2 discs, went bad during the third, and recovered a little during the fourth.

FFVII had a better plot though FFVIII is still my favorite :D
 
I didn't like Rinoa.
You get here back at the end of the game 20 levels below everyone else and since the Monsters level up with you she really sucks!

Pissed me off when
They make you use her in the final dungeon
 
I thought the romance plot was very immature. Throughout the beginning of the game, Rinoa is constantly hitting on Squall, chasing after him, sitting on his lap. The rest of the characters are trying to hook them up; stopping right in the middle of an important mission to borrow Squalls ring so Rinoa can wear it and feel giddy. Squall abandoned like 928493 of his assignments just to rescue Rinoa.

God...
The romance in this game was quite pesky. It ruined what could have been a great plot.
 
I know, makes the whole thing 'seem' like it's immature, and whatnot.
No offense to those who like the game, I like it too, but it's just this one aspect of it that I thought was really childish.
I thought Rinoa was striving for a bit too much for attention, personally.
And the gang just egged her on.
 
It WAS quite immature to have Rinoa act like she did. I hated how she was all over him like a little school girl. Ugh. Squall should've been like "stfu, bitch" haha. The Romance Story was very...lame. I don't think Squall really likes her. He just knew he could not escape her grasp.
 
Can you just fathom what FFVIII would have been without Rinoa? It would have been awesomesauce. Gallons of awesomesauce.

The SHE had to come in with her badly painted train models, little wing angel gurl getup and chased squall around like a lost puppy.

She got thrown in there for the sake of having a chick female role, well SE made me a permanent hater of Rinoa by taking this course of action, sadly to say.

Where's the Zell, Quistis, Selphie and Irvine luvin? Eh? They got their backstories and character analysis while Rinoa was around, ergo, it never happened.

Everything was 'RINOARINOAHRINOAHOMGRINOAH'

Poor Adel, having to absorb that little girl into his/her body....
 
I didnt mind going to her rescue, lucky her really! I love the Squall and Rinoa romance with some added Seifer. Squall is her Knight after all and does have to go to her aid.
 
blech! Rinoa looks cool, but her peppy "Deal with it""Squall come here""Squall, i command you to do this""Blah blah blah, i'm a princess" attitude pisses me off. I pity my dearest Squall...*sigh*....if only i could go into the game and kill Rinoa.......
 
To tell ya the truth when I saw Rinoa for the first time I thought she's some kind of s**ts! I mean her dress the way she was hitting on Squall..
I think I really hate that Wh**e and without her I'm sure that there'll be a sequel for FFVIII.
oh yea about the romantic thing...that's was piece of crap.
 
I honestly didn't mind it at all. If they wouldn't have put Rinoa in and got rid of teh Romance, then FF8 would have been just another "OMG SAVE TEH WORLD" game. I liked the way the love story seemed to bring more out of it.
 
DemonicGunsman said:
blech! Rinoa looks cool, but her peppy "Deal with it""Squall come here""Squall, i command you to do this""Blah blah blah, i'm a princess" attitude pisses me off. I pity my dearest Squall...*sigh*....if only i could go into the game and kill Rinoa.......
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She didnt command Squall to do anything. Squall chose to rescue her, he didnt have to. He did because he had feelings for her, not because she demanded he save her.

DarkSquall said:
To tell ya the truth when I saw Rinoa for the first time I thought she's some kind of s**ts! I mean her dress the way she was hitting on Squall...
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So, a guy coming onto a girl is not see as being a slut or a creep, yet a female pixealted character coming onto a male pixaleted character is therefore a slut? Grow up and fast.
 
Rinoa a slut? I'm rather bewildered as to how you come to that point of view to be honest. As for calling her a whore, don't talk such nonsense. That's a pretty nasty opinion to have of a game character, whether or not you like the game in question.
 
I thought that the love story was done...rather bad.
Even more so in this FF, because it was suppossed to be LOVE themed.
It would have made sense too if Rinoa was Ultimecia or whatever because she grew to hate the seeds cus Squall died but not even that!
 
I failed to see the game in a serious light because of their immature shananagins...100% of the time, Squall is either taking orders from Cid or his team mates; namely Quistis.

He rescued Rinoa during the Galbadia mission because Zell told him to. He rescued her from the sorceress memorial because Quistis told him to....yada yada...
 
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