It is such a huge and utter piece of shit. I’ve got about 5 hours of game-play and I am fucking done with it. I’ve played a fair amount of RPG’s in my time, and this is probably the fucking worst one I have ever played.

Square should be ashamed of themselves.

The story is pretty dire, I have just dug this game out having fairly fond memories of it way-back-when only to realise had I actually been reading through the story I would’ve done the right thing and buried this game in the back garden.

The gameplay is your fairly bland RPG-fare, which was what I was looking for to kill a few hours, but the plot is unforgivable. The dialogue is rushed and nonsensical, replacing consistant characters with extreme punctuation (anything more than one ! is just a waste). The orphans growing up together plotline was completely redundant as it added nothing to the story but had me perplexed as to how this got the Final Fantasy seal of approval.

I think 7 and 9 did more to develop the characters and give them discernable personalities, in 8 the characters seemed to exist solely to give the next plot device.

The Squall/Rinoa romance may hit the right note for an emotionally retarded Twilight fan, but the whole plotline was just so laboured, as if it was only added to satiate those confused by the ambiguous romantic subplot in 7.

If you have to justify your position with ‘I’ll kick your head in’ chances are you’re probably wrong.