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Over two years have passed since Squall and his comrades defeated the witch Ultimecia and brought peace to the world.

A peace that was short-lived.

Dollet, sensing Galbadia's weakness after the tyrannical rule of the possessed Sorceress Edea and the many conflicts with SeeD, rallied the resistance factions and remaining Timber military to their cause and set out on a crusade to reverse what the Sorceress War nearly two decades ago did.
As Galbadia grappled with their losses, the newly united faction struck and war ignited across the Galbadian continent.

Balamb Garden and SeeD, originally intending to remain neutral in the matter, the route Esthar took, were called upon by the the Timber resistance factions after SeeD's contract with the Forest Owls was leaked. Unable to back out of the all-encompassing "until Timber's independence", SeeD were washed into the escalating conflict with Galbadia. Galbadia Garden, barely re-established, allied itself with Galbadia unconditionally, pitting SeeD against SeeD.

In the midst of an incursion in Dollet City, Squall Leonhart vanished, motivated an unknown quest for answers. As he continues his search, those closest to him are tasked with his retrieval, all the while asking questions of their own--

What could cause him to leave?




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Finished playing, great start! Love the tutorial menu script, here are the only issues I noticed.

* Pressing X during the title screen splash screens opened the main menu.
* Minor bit of lag after selecting any command in battle.
* The spell name in the battle log isn't centered when casting Meltdown.
* What appeared to be a "back attack" had an extra sprite of the battle members for a second at the start of the battle.
* The battle party member was also facing the right for the entire battle, and still acted first (not sure if this was an actual back attack or just a sprite glitch).
* The description in the party member's status screen cuts off on the first line by a letter or two.
* Animations were very fluid (increased the speed eh?) but the sprite animations seemed much slower (Galbadia soldiers death poses, etc.).

Looking very, very forward to more of this game! :D
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
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I'll be fixing up the open-menu glitch; I was sure I disabled it but apparently not.

The spell names were done that way for the demo and are made with spaces; in the final version they'll be centered automatically instead, since this way is unintiutive and can result in too much discrepancy between skill help.

All pre-emptive and back attack glitches have been fixed now since I mentioned it to Mako straight after I got the first error report.

Status screen isn't final (nor is item or equip)

Yeah, some of the sprite animations need a bit of adjusting speed-wise, it's a lot of fiddly details we didn't end up having time for. I had an assignment due as well, and getting it to this point was a grind and a half!

Glad you enjoyed it though! Getting this out has really motivated me for more of the game, hehe.
Lol, I wasn't expecting to be at such a high level at the start, it was kind of a shock. I kinda worry what directions characters could grow from that level, but you prolly have something in mind to step up the challenge or dial them down a few notches.

Squall was powerful, but not totally Mary Sued out. His skills made sense and he lacked the type of skills that would have made it too much of a cakewalk. Beating the boss would have been really tough without the defense skill. It was still a bit of a grind through the soldiers though, I'd suggest tossing a tougher elite Galbadian or two into the troops with a few tricks up their sleeves.
Puddor
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Yep, my main intention here was to show the basic set-up of the entire game just scaled back to a few skills. The skillset you have here is massively exploitable; using abilities like Rush against the Galbadian Soldiers makes things very easy, Meteor is especially useful against the three-man groups, and Demi can knock off over half of X-ATM174's HP in a few turns. Despite this it's still pretty easy to die; I've had a few people say they've been wiped out because they weren't paying attention to Squall's HP.

That said, yeah, I'll probably throw a bit more variety into the battles in this area later on; it acts as a taste of the full-game before pulling you back to general RPG beginnings (the scene at the end is serious enough injury-wise it knocks Squall back a few (83) levels).

The way this is a bit...skeleton-y to what I want to do with it now having tested it out and knowing this format works. So we'll see how everything pans out in the end!
Surprised I haven't noticed this before. FF8 is my favorite FF. Subbed, and trying out that demo soon!
Great job on the character art. Truly paying respect to FF8.
This game looks very promising I havn't played it yet but I do own final fantasy 8 the original ps1 version :) I never could beat the last boss on it though because of the life force it sucks away to much and etc
I had to make an account after watching production for a few months.

I'm seriously wowed by your talent in making this game, it looks so good and I seriously cannot wait to play it!!

There's a Twitch streamer that I showed this too and he would love to play and stream it when it gets released too. (With your permission of course!) His first Final Fantasy was also VIII so he wants to play this even more.

Keep up the great work!
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
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Thank you! I'm very flattered ^^ I always try and bring 200% to any aspect of this game, so I'm glad it shows.

I'd be happy to see anybody play this game (I have no qualms with this being played live, not like I could stop anybody who wanted to!) and I'm glad this piqued both your interest.
really enjoyed the demo.....now bring on the full release!!
Puddor
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This doesn't warrant a blog post, but it does warrant a post of some kind.
author=SorceressKyrsty
This doesn't warrant a blog post, but it does warrant a post of some kind.
Oh! Is Sleeping Lion Heart part of the Go There campaign now? ;P
Puddor
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Apparently!

(pre-order now to unlock a special sidequest involving a certain place called 'wall street')
author=SorceressKyrsty
Apparently!

(pre-order now to unlock a special sidequest involving a certain place called 'wall street')
Will we get a Vanille skin for Rinoa too? ;P
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
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Hope outfit for Rinoa.
Sazh outfit for Selphie.
Fang outfit for Irvine.
Vanille outfit for Zell.
Jill outfit for Quistis because she'd look ridiculous in Snow's clothing.


but let's all just think about zell in vanille's skirt for a while shall we
author=SorceressKyrsty
but let's all just think about zell in vanille's skirt for a while shall we




Although, on the plus side, I wouldn’t mind seeing some alternate costumes for some of the characters. Maybe not as strange as having Squall dress up in a Lightning costume (why would you even…), but perhaps having Squall dress up wearing his old attire from the original FF8, his SeeD uniform that he wears during the gradation scene, and maybe one of him shirtless (like his alternate costume in Dissidia) would be a nice touch. I dunno – be creative! :D
Puddor
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Squall wears his orange hoodie + jeans for the first section of the game, SeeD uniform/FF8 in certain sections, and a slight redesign for the game post disc 1. So...yeah.


The shirtless one is a great idea though hohohohohoh.
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its insane how good this is and if you are/were a fan of ff8 you will love it even more
for me personally the only thing i disliked was the magic stock/boost system other then that it was a amazing game
^ Agreed. Other than the draw and the junction system, FF8 was a pretty good game. It's not my favorite, but it's not that bad either.

Also, Selphie.
(Selphie is my favorite.)