Final Fantasy VIII

Title screen

The famous intro. Rinoa in the flower field... "I'll be waiting for you"

Intro continues. Edea. Ominous church-like music with choir and orchestra

Squall and Seifer: friends? Enemies? Latent homosexuals? You decide :)

Ohhhh... the famous love story. Squall and Rinoa

Squall wakes up after heavy injury and immediately has to answer questions. Just leave a guy alone...

Balamb Garden. Classroom

The ultra-complex menu. GF junctioning

Random battle on the world map

Playing Triple Triad, the in-game collectable card game

Lovely pre-rendered backgrounds ooze style and atmosphere

Roaming the world map

The famous Shiva summon attack

The first boss battle in the game: against Ifrit

Squall in his dormitory room

This time around, the omnipresent Cid is the principal of Balamb Garden

Cool, we can drive a vehicle!

Battle on the streets of Dollet

Locations like this reflect the beautiful retro setting of the game

Title screen

Main menu

Save status consists of showing the characters you play with, your residence, current playing time, money, and CD disc.

Opening cinematic mixes actual intro with events that will later occur

You and Irvine, the sharpshooter, are to assasinate the sorceress (these spinning rings marks saving point, which aren't that frequent).

Squall and Seifer, two friends that like to duel without restrains only too often

The crowd below is more under sorceress' influence then their own will.

Just in time to save Rinoa (better get used to saving her, it's rather frequent).

Real-time, turn-based combat, whatever.

Shiva is definitely the best animated GI (in my opinion, at least).

Victorial salute to defeated (call it saving-your-skin happiness).

Just as this seems romantic, it is nothing but polite.

Rats are the last thing you can find in these sewers.

Ingame menu you'll use often on maximum level.

Just preparing for the ceremonial party.

Our hero up close and personal in actual gameplay.

Boy, do we guys all fall for the same words :-)

What happens if we both see the falling star with the same wish?

We SeeDs have many skills :-)

Nope, this scar is not from a dance, but a Seifer's gunblade instead.

Even your fighting teacher seems to be amazed by your other virtues.

The nearest town can always supply you with potions and informations.

When on global map, you can save at any point.

Forest always seem to have enlarged bugs.

Victory's the only way to survive (unless you flee).

With Ragnarok as a vehicle, this map would see small, on the contrary when you're navigating with your garden.

Ragnarok going to space.

Irvine taking it easy

Seifer preparing to attack Garden

Zell's Intro

Squall bleeding

Battling Bahamut

Revenge

Dark Messenger

One of the Chocobo forests

A random battle at Ultimecia's Castle

The 3rd of the 4 possible finishing moves for Squall's limit break.

It's getting bigger - as in other Final Fantasy games.

The team gathers for the final showdown.

Game over