ArmachiA Wrote:I'm a girl, so I love my romance, but FF8 had too much... even for me. Some of those Rinoa/Squall scenes I wanted to go "Do you guys want me to leave the room till you're finished?"
I wish it had just stopped there. I really do.
It wasn't just that the romance scenes were wholly extraneous, it was that the characters involved had precisely no chemistry with one another. You knew that Rinoa was the love interest because you were told, repeatedly, that she was cute and charming and funny. We never saw her actually being anything aside from petulant, spoiled, and astonishingly stupid. Combine that with the fact that every single character in the game essentially acknowledged Squall and Rinoa as a couple from moment one, and the whole thing felt forced.
I'm going to stop now before this becomes a page-long off-topic rant.
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