The game's frame rate is fairly smooth during most gameplay sequences, but it slows to a crawl whenever you're traveling between destinations on the 3D map. You'll frequently get frustrated looking for the hotspot to exit a screen then again, you'll also frequently witness some of the most impressive computer-generated cinematic sequences ever made. That's the problem: Although Final Fantasy VIII looked stunning on the PlayStation, its visuals seem to lose far too much quality in translation to the PC. The game has a cohesive cinematic appearance, consistently inventive artistic design, and remarkably high production values throughout, even though its appearance is mired under what seems like a coat of dust. You can tell Final Fantasy VIII is a beautiful game underneath it all the composition and design of virtually every scene are of exceptional quality. This makes everything clash and makes the whole game look much worse than it should. The background scenery fares even worse the game's characters look sharper and much more detailed compared with the washed-out settings throughout the game. The characters are made of simple polygonal shapes, and they're painted with blurry, low-resolution texture maps. It might look good on a television, but on the PC you'll immediately notice all the flaws in Final Fantasy VIII's graphics.

That's because Final Fantasy VIII for the PC is a completely inadequate conversion of the attractive yet problematic console role-playing game.įinal Fantasy VIII would have looked and sounded much better if it were originally a PC game. What's more, the PC version of Final Fantasy VIII seems hell-bent on completely alienating its audience of innocently curious computer gamers, as they'll likely end up utterly bewildered if they ever made the mistake of buying it. Now, one year later, the epic role-playing game has become available for the PC with much less fanfare surrounding its publication, probably because most everyone who wanted to play Final Fantasy VIII already has. In early 1999, Final Fantasy VIII for the Sony PlayStation sold millions of copies within days of its release in Japan.

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