I'm moving soon so I've been going through my stuff, sifting through an entire drawer of drawings I've found crap I doodled and small reviews I'd make of games I was playing at the time . Reviews which I intended to throw up on my then (to me) spectacular geoyahoo website.
The following was written likely in early 2000 at some point I may have been as old as 17. It's kind of embarasing but I wanted to open the flood gates to any craptacular reviews you folks may have done in the past .
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Final Fantasy 8
Graphics = 10/10
+ some of the best ever seen on the PSX
+ CG movies are amazingly good
Music = 9/10
+ Surpasses final fantasy 7 in quality
+ The vocal and orchestral tracks are cool
- but the majority is still to synthesized
Gameplay = 7/10
+ The story makes the game fun to play through
- The battles are too repetative
- boss battle difficulty is too erraditic
Replay Value = 8/10
+ It's easy to miss out on some guardian forces and items , so you can play through it again to get them
- but would you really want to waste another 40 hours going through an RPG twice ?
Innovation = 9/10
+ no more MP
- drawing magic tends to throw the games balance off to much
+ It's a new final fantasy game!
Review total 50/60 + personal opinion score of 39/40 = 89
89%
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It's funny to think that I liked squaresoft games so much in junior high and high school and now I have a hard time playing for more then an hour in them. Notice how I mention that the story makes the game fun, and that I'm not to fond of the actual gameplay... hell I even wrote a mini review in a similar vien to this one for FF7 at the time and I was so in love with FF8 I liked it more then 7.
I might add that while cleaning my drawing drawer I also found that old old tear out earthbound print ad, the one with the smelly holes. Even after 10 years they still stink.
The following was written likely in early 2000 at some point I may have been as old as 17. It's kind of embarasing but I wanted to open the flood gates to any craptacular reviews you folks may have done in the past .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Final Fantasy 8
Graphics = 10/10
+ some of the best ever seen on the PSX
+ CG movies are amazingly good
Music = 9/10
+ Surpasses final fantasy 7 in quality
+ The vocal and orchestral tracks are cool
- but the majority is still to synthesized
Gameplay = 7/10
+ The story makes the game fun to play through
- The battles are too repetative
- boss battle difficulty is too erraditic
Replay Value = 8/10
+ It's easy to miss out on some guardian forces and items , so you can play through it again to get them
- but would you really want to waste another 40 hours going through an RPG twice ?
Innovation = 9/10
+ no more MP
- drawing magic tends to throw the games balance off to much
+ It's a new final fantasy game!
Review total 50/60 + personal opinion score of 39/40 = 89
89%
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It's funny to think that I liked squaresoft games so much in junior high and high school and now I have a hard time playing for more then an hour in them. Notice how I mention that the story makes the game fun, and that I'm not to fond of the actual gameplay... hell I even wrote a mini review in a similar vien to this one for FF7 at the time and I was so in love with FF8 I liked it more then 7.
I might add that while cleaning my drawing drawer I also found that old old tear out earthbound print ad, the one with the smelly holes. Even after 10 years they still stink.