Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby satan_n_stuff » Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:47 pm

Absentia wrote:I forgot how much I liked the story in this one. Too bad the gameplay was such a mess.

Also, Selphie is by far the most desirable of the three girls. She's the second best part of the game, after Triple Triad.

Could you remind me which of the girls has her own fan club? because I seem to have forgotten.

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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby octoberpumpkin » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:24 am

And we are back! Time to meet the 'Princess' of the Forest Owls resistance group!
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It's the girl from the party! Bet you didn't see that coming!

Also I swear I've seen that exact bed as a furniture option for a Barbie Dollhouse

Anyways, she leaps in to Squall's arms in excitement

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Eventually she decided to as Cid himself for help

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Not quite

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Turns out she was actually at the dance looking for Seifer, who introduced her to Cid
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So that's the situation. We also get an official introduction to the pretty girl, who is named Rinoa!
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We also meet her puppy partner Angelo!
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So cute~

Now with Rinoa awake, we can get the details on our mission
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And since his train is going to show up soon, the Forest Owls came up with a nifty plan of how to deal with his train

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Er... not quite

So we go in to the long, complicated plan
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The mission takes less time than the explanation.

The group also takes the time to poke fun at the one model train Rinoa made, which she defends by saying she made it ugly on purpose to represent her hatred for the president

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With that, we head out on the mission by sneaky sneaking around. Turns out the baddies re having some troubles of their own as the President is not a kind, patient man, who doesn't like having security check up on him. This leads to one soldier losing his salary for the month

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Anyways, it's time to start inputting codes

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Which I've always found nervewracking, even though it's relatively easy.

We see the plan start to work as the train cars uncouple and then we sneak our dummy train in

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The dummy train also contains a dummy president, which seems to be working

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Well, somewhat
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After some more code entering shenanigans, we take off with the President and his train car!
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Hooray!

With that mission accomplished, Rinoa and her mercenaries go interrogate the President, who doesn't seem too concerned
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Well, it turns out we've been duped

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Dang it, I was sure that this group of six that had strategy meetings by huddling up on the floor would succeed without fail when it came to kidnapping the President!
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Oh dear

So the President attacks us

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He goes down pretty easily and then this... happens...

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Well that doesn't look good

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That doesn't look good at all...

So I would show you some of the fight but it was boring because the game decided to unjunction Zell and Selphie for NO REASON so all they could do was attack. Wah wah waaahh

After the fake President is disposed of, we head back to base to discuss what's going on. Watts has some new intel for us

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We explain to them what happened in Dollet

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Rinoa spots opportunity in the middle of this

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And so she, Watts, and Zone huddle around the floor to discuss their next plan. Squall starts to become concerned about going beyond the scope of the contract and so he asks Rinoa to see it
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Greeeeaaaatt~

Timber is in a state of chaos with everything going on, and the soldiers catch on to a certain someone who has been sneaking around

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And some of the soldiers decide to start cracking down on the citizens of Timber

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Despite what their boss tries to tell them

So the group gets dropped off to try and steal the broadcast while Zone takes off with Watts trailing behind him

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We also find this dude who has an obvious crush on Rinoa

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You can also find a copy of Girl Next Door for a certain someone in the Timber Maniacs office, and you meet a dude who talks your ear off.

And this dude

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What an... interesting uh subject for photography

We stop by a house to ask how we can get to the TV station

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She lets us peek from her second story window while her child tries to charge us for the privilege. He gets a spanking

Also, relationship goals
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You can also go visit an old man who offers you his magical healing water for free, since the Inn isn't available for use. Don't steal his money though or he won't let you use it anymore

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We head to the bar which we need to pass through to get to the TV station, but the door is blocked by a drunk who is angry that the Forest Owls tried to kidnap the president and screwed everything up

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Timber's a messed up place

Anyways, you can get him to move by buying him a drink or by giving him the card he lost that you get by defeating some baddies outside of the bar. If you give him the card he lets you keep it and gives you another one

With that we finally get a path cleared to our destination

Unfortunately, Rinoa is having second thoughts about what she should do since there's a lot of security guarding the President (who would have thought)

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This leads to a comment from Rinoa about how sad we are and how easy it must be to just go through life following orders

This leads to a retort from Squall, who questions the seriousness of the whole business

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As it turns out, he's not much impressed with the group
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Selphie calls out Squall for being too harsh so he backs off. Rinoa is a bit put off though

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She tells us she is serious and then takes off. The broadcast starts right after she leaves
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The announcer introduces President Deling, who talks about how people currently have the means for peace

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So he says he will hold a conference with world leaders to discuss it
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As he is about to introduce a Sorceress, Seifer storms on set and starts causing a ruckus

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He takes the President hostage and Quistis tries to calm him down. Selphie and Zell ask if they should do something

Quistis then speaks to the camera, giving us permission to help

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So we rush up where we find Seifer holding the President hostage, saying he knows what are plan was
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It seems maybe Seifer was going to do it for Rinoa

Unfortunately, Zell lets it slip that they're from Garden while he's taking a fit, which basically makes everyone angry
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After fussing at Zell, Seifer grabs the president and heads to the next room, where he is met with
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The ambassador sorceress herself!

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She stops Quistis from interfering and riles Seifer up by calling him a boy when he insists that he's a MAN or whatever

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Seifer releases the President and agrees to go with the Sorceress

The others arrive just in time to watch him leave with her

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Rinoa shows up, asking where Seifer went. We tell her we don't know and she hope he will be okay. She also has some more bad news

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Thankfully, everyone escaped

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As we head back to the bar, Balcony Lady offers us to rest at her place while we plan our next move

Find out what happens next time!

Stay tuned~
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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby KleinerKiller » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:08 am

Man, if only the real president would turn out to be a fake person and then tear open his skin suit to reveal a giant necrotic monster that a beautiful girl and her band of teenage idiots would then destroy. I'd be so much happier.

So I guess you can convince Seifer to do literally anything, no matter how blatantly evil, with childish insults. He'd probably blow up a schoolhouse if you talked about his below-average penis.

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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby Piter Lauchy » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:27 am

KleinerKiller wrote:So I guess you can convince Seifer to do literally anything, no matter how blatantly evil, with childish insults. He'd probably blow up a schoolhouse if you talked about his below-average penis.

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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby octoberpumpkin » Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:02 am

Welcome back~ Being searched for by the Galbadian Soldiers, we take refuge in a lady's home

Turns out the lady is a member of another resistance group fighting for Timber's freedom

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Selphie asks the all important question about what the heck happened last time

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And Rinoa explains that she told Seifer all about the Forest Owls and she thinks he showed up to help

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Meanwhile, soldiers show up at the house

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The lady's daughter ushers us upstairs and assures us that her mother will be alright

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Selphie says that the beauty part really makes it sound like a legend because she just can't help herself.

Thankfully, Galbadian Soldiers apparently don't know how to go up stairs so we're safe to converse about what's going on

Quistis says Seifer was talking about going to Timber but she didn't think he was serious

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Reason #1 Quistis was fired: Lacks Leadership skills
Reason #2: Apparently doesn't know anything about her own students
Reason #3: Acts like crazy girlfriend towards her student when he dances with a pretty lady at his graduation party

Don't you worry, there will be more

They ask what happened to Seifer and Squall says he may already be dead. Because of the whole assassination attempt on the President thing

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Rinoa does not take kindly to his considering the possibility of his death and says she hopes he's okay. Squall says what she wishes for is her business

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At this point, it seems the Galbadian Soldiers have withdrawn

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So we head back downstairs to consider our next move

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Quistis points out some Garden SeeD rule number

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And because Squall is a surprisingly good student, he knows what she's talking about
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With our destination in mind, we head over to the train station where we run in to our old friend Zone who is disguised as an old man. He informs us that all of the train tickets are sold out buuuuut

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Unfortunately, he didn't know Quistis would be showing up, so he kindly offers her the ticket he had planned to use to escape. She tries to reject it but
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He fakes one of his stomach aches and shoos us away
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So we hop on the train for a short time. Selphie interrupts Squall's motivational speech a few times to ask for the pass to be let in to the train hallway to gaze out the window. Shortly afterwards, we arrive at our stop and head through a forest to get to our destination

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Unfortunately morale is low and Selphie worries about them getting arrested while Zell worries about Balamb Garden being attacked because of his earlier slip up
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He's so worried that his speech bubble is way on the other end of the screen

He asks Squall is they would really attack Garden and Squall says maybe

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Squall says that they might
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Rinoa once again doesn't approve of the military student giving a realistic rundown of possibilities instead of telling them what they want to hear. She says that he needs to give words of support and encouragement to Zell instead

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But before Rinoa can fuss at him more (I'll give you a rundown of their early game relationship: Rinoa fusses at Squall and Squall gets confused and exasperated) the high pitched noise starts up again

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And while it may seem like he faked a headache to get out of an argument, Selphie and Quistis soon pass out as well

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"Oh, okay, that explains it"

Sure enough we do end up back with Laguna and co.
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Anyway, we head down to the weird place where weird mining is being done and find ourselves surrounded by Esthar Soldiers. One can only assume these are soldiers from a place called Esthar

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They're weird lookin

So we head deeper in to this weird, unattractive, and somewhat maze like area

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You can also find two Old Keys which Laguna will promptly drop

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This may seem pointless but all of the extra little things you do here that seem to have no effect do end up having an effect later on

Here's a quick note in case you play the game!
*Pick up the Old Key near both entrances
*Remove a lever from a floor panel
*Find the detonator and flip the red switch followed by the blue switch
*Move the boulder away from the tunnel to reveal the Cure Draw Point

After doing all of that we find an exit. Unfortunately some Esthar Soldiers find us and the exit led to a cliff. Roc and hard place

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So this leads to a battle with some creepy Esthar Soldiers
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When you defeat the last one, he will render two party members to 1 HP before he finally kicks the bucket
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Unfortunately, Ward sustained a heavy injury
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"I can tell magically without properly examining him because this is a dramatic moment"

Ward manages a few last words before becoming mute

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................................

Moving on

Laguna spots some boats in the ocean and decides to throw the others off the cliff to safety

As you do
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Laguna then tries to gingerly ease himself off the cliff before he falls off

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With their fate undetermined, we return to Squall and his companions who have finally woken up

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Quistis is confused about what the heck just happened but we all decide its best to put it out of our minds for now and keep going to Galbadia Garden. But not before Rinoa apologizes to Squall

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Stay tuned for next time when we get another party member!
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Re: Let's Play the 3RD BEST GAME EVER!!! (FFVIII)

Postby KleinerKiller » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:07 am

octoberpumpkin wrote:Stay tuned for next time


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