Final Fantasy VIII (Review)

1998 | PlayStation | ★★★☆☆ Final Fantasy VIII is an odd beast. Feeling both underbaked and bloated, it takes big swings of ambition that should be praised for the daring, yet I feel it never quite strikes home. Nestled between a pair of games I consider masterpieces, I suppose VIII always had big shoes to fill, and its reputation as a black sheep precedes it. 1 It would be unfair to call it bad,…