https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en...
Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.
FF8 was universally lauded by the major sites as the best JRPG since sliced bread. In reality it had an unlikeable lead character, an absolutely bizarre plot with time flashbacks that were totally nonsensical, the main party was composed of thoroughly unlikable teenagers, the plot twists about their shared mother was just dropped out of nowhere, the game mechanics required you to "junction" to a summon spirit to get things out of your backpack, leveling up was actually a bad thing, and ... just so much more. Cards. Draw grinding. Gunblades.
This VERY LONG review perfectly tears it apart, but, uh, warning it has epiteths like "fag" and others that date it to the teenage slang of the late 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTkY0IFL1g
I think he may have rereleased this at some point and cleaned it up of the unfortunate language.
I’ve played it basically every year since release, it scratches an itch that no other Final Fantasy does. It’s very marmite but it’s far, far from bad at all.
They were all in the same orphanage run by Edea, but only the gun guy remembered, the rest forgot due to (HANDWAVE) GF junction amnesia.
... it's kind of spectacularly good and bad at the same time. But it is bad. The spoony video shows how bad it is, and yet like you it is clear he's played the game MANY times.
…whatever