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[zen_monk]

 As FFVII trailer goes live and somehow looks well along in development than other certain games have been since their official announcement (both by the same director to boot), it's like old fandom got a fire lit up under their bottom again and reigniting old sores. I guess I can say that I've been into FFVII for a long time, handful of years and nowhere near more than 20 for some folks, but compared to how I was while really into it and now, I'm trying to be more into an interested "meh" stage while trying not to remember my older feelings. Mostly this is because I realized my tastes have changed, and also because how I thought of the game is now more significantly different. 

But here I am, yougling FFVIII person who believes that Squall is the most relevant protag now than he was in his time, that cranky overdone recent grad baby that guy.

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[fragilespark]

I'm so pleased that FFVII got a remake but the fact that they haven't developed an FFVIII remake or sequel always makes me sad. Squall deserves more content (although I am forever grateful that they included him in KH and Dissidia, it's not the same, because the world and the story is missing along with the rest of the cast).

I remember the PS2 demo of a 'playable' dance FMV to show off the console. I think they could have spared resources to do the whole game given what other stuff they've churned out since.

[zen_monk]

What I did like with what SE did with Squall through KH and Dissidia is that it helps flesh out his character a little more, in the sense that it emphasizes that Squall does value other people without having to go through great lengths to prove "the value of friendship" as a meaningful trope. Which it certainly does, of course, in his game and in the respective spin-offs, but I've always thought that Squall's capacity for camaraderie was apparent before he met Rinoa and have her challenge how he perceives himself with other people. It may be because that when you have people so expressive and extroverted like Selphie and Zell picking up the energy and generally being friendly towards him, but the student body of Garden doesn't seem to have a poor reception of him anyway.

I do think that if FFVIII ever gets anything to shine a spotlight on it again, having a great sense of humor about the world and its people would improve it image. There's a lot of potential for juvenile comedy, and I do think that Squall fits into the disillusioned millennial image. Here's a kid who goes through all these drastic hoops to graduate and start his career, and what he finds is a dead-end impossible job with a low salary and dubious management. And then, be expected to do incredible work with tremendous responsibility but in no way has the skillset to prepare himself for it.

And still get paid around 10000 gil per several thousand steps, to boot.