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>a better storythat is mostly not even written down. if you go and dig around in various side quests and zones you can pry a great story out of ff8 but they really dropped the ball on completing the game there.
>better settingagain, if they had completed the cetra zones and you didn't completely skip it on your way through it would have been very very good. a lot of ff8 is implied to be a cool setting but the player basically never gets to see it.
>artstyleit has some great designs in the buildings and stuff but oh my lord that 3d. i think ff7 would have been better as a xenogears-tier sprite 2.5d game but ff8 is such an abominable hybrid i dont know how you could make a single continuous style out of anything. it matches the best and the worst.
>writingsee story, its high quality when it exists
>sidequestsin truth non-optional main quest fragments
>battle systemff8 has a very unique battle system but it is very weird and broken and maybe even theoretically impossible to balance meaningfully.
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