AND RINOA OR ZIDANE AND LILI WOULD FIND EACH OTHER IN THE END OF THE GAME? IT WAS MUCH TOO PREDICTABLE. SOME MAGAZINES RATED FFVIII AND IX BETTER THAN VII, BUT THE SAME MAGAZINES WOULD SCORE THE FIFA-SOCCER-SERIES BETTER THAN KONAMIS ISS - THEY JUST LOOK AT THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE GAMES, BUT THE REAL MAGIC OF FFVII WAS ALREADY GONE IN FFVIII. THE ANIME-CHARACTERS CAN EXPRESS MUCH MORE EMOTIONS, THEY ARE NOT SO CHILDISH LIKE FFIX AND NOT SO HUMAN LIKE SQUALL & CO. AND THE STORY FORCES THE PLAYER TO TAKE THE CHARACTERS SERIOUS. AERIS LOOKS VERY SWEET, BUT NOT WITH SEPHIROTHS SWORD IN HER BACK! ANOTHER PROBLEM IN FFIX: NOTHING CHANGES. IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME: LANDSCAPE, SOME FIGHTS, A TOWN, SOME STORY, A BOSS-MONSTER, FMV, LANDSCAPE... OVER AND OVER AGAIN. SOME PEOPLE SAY, FINAL FANTASY HAS TO BE THAT WAY, AFTER 3 EPISODES I FIND THIS REPEATING STRUCTURES NOT VERY EXCITING. I HOPE FFX WILL CREATE THE SAME WOW-EFFECT LIKE VII DID, THE GRAPHICS LOOK AWESOME! LIKE I SAID, THIS IS MY OPINION, MANY PLAYERS PREFER FFVIII OR IX, WELL, MAKE YOUR OWN HOMEPAGE! VIII AND IX ARE GREAT GAMES, BUT ONLY WHEN I HEAR THE FFVII-MUSIC THE MAGIC COMES BACK AND I CAN´T WAIT FOR MY NEXT SESSION WITH CLOUD, TIFA AND AERIS!!
BYE JAN