sábado, 18 de octubre de 2008

Final Fantasy VIII

The greatest story ever is about to start. Its been like since i was 15 that i didnt saw this scenes but casually i saw one in youtube and started to search and brought me so many memories.

This story is about honor,strength,moral,dreams,thoughts,fears,friends,life and love and im going to be your personal narrator :)

Hope you enjoy with this and helps you someway,sometimes, like did to me long ago,this is very special for me and i want to share it with you. And also i want to dedicate the story to the fans of ff and in more personal way to my friend (and actually boyfriend) ,cos im sure he can get something special about this as he is also special for me :) Hope you all like it.

Squall Leonhart is a young boy that feels quite old, lives and prepares in Balamb Garden directed by Cid,to become a Seed and prepare for battle against enemies and take mission requests. He was training with Seiffer here at the beggining ,a selfish boy very problematic,who injured him in the face during the training,leaving a scar it will never go...



Squall later on went to take the test to become a Seed and he passed it :D Once becomed a Seed he went to took his first battle shamely with seiffer as the leader,but that was about to change...



During the battle Seiffer demonstrated that he was selfish and a bad leader so Cid took off his tittle of seed,and Squall now had to be the leader of a small group formed by Zell(very noisy,hiperactive boy) and selphie (a little cute girl that often falls).

Back to Balamb garden they got prepared for the festival party were Squall met a stranger...




Quistis seems to like Squall someway,and thou she knows him very well she cant understand him that well. But its ok cos Quistis real love will come later on,when she sees that Squall is not really hers.

The next days Squall received a mission order so he had to left with his group, now formed by Zell,Selphie and Quistis. Once in the train ,just about to know the ones who requested his help ,finds out another surprise... (Watch till minute 2:21)



Rinoa speaks in a so strange way about Seifer because they were romantically involved time ago,but its not like that anymore.Seifer has changed alot and his own hate is leading him into his darkest side.

After the succeed in the mission,Rinoa decided to travel with them and because of her extraversion gets soon close to the team members. During a stop in the journey around the world they get to meet Irvine (a country style boy,very into romance and quite naughty)
(watch from 2:58 to 3:18)



Continuing with the journey back to Balamb Garden they get into know each other a little more, but the world worries Squall quite much,there are notices saying that a dangerous sorceress is growing in power. Nothing seems quite right,and some moments when squall falls asleep can see images from the past of a man called Laguna,but nothing seems to make sense,who can be that? and why does he see's those strange things? Nevermind is time to think about the concert they must make back at Balamb...




Squall had many dreams of those,when his sister went off and left him alone and he grew in an orphanage,but he has a lack of memory about that time.

Squall is told that the sorceress called Edea is aclaimed by the people and theres going to a be a festival in her honour, they know shes dangerous and must stop her before she gets to the top of the power,so they get on a move and make a plan to surprise her, but they also get surprised when they see that the knight of the witch is Seifer... (watch from 3:20 to the end)



Squall is very bad injured and rests in balamb hospital, when he recovers and wakes up everyone make him informed; The sorceress Edea apparently looses her powers and wakes from an hipnotised state,she is surprisingly the wife of Cid and she's been possesed by some future sorceress called Ultimecia from the future. Now squalls starts wondering if the "dreams" he has about the past has something to do,soon it will all start making sense.

They start to remember and it seems Edea was the one who took care of the orphanage,and not just that but that everyone except Rinoa grew there in the orphanage,now he starts to remember.

Squall asks about Rinoa,but theres bad news,since that time Rinoa felt into a deep sleep coma-state and no one knows what happened to her,but she doesnt wake up. Squall gets shocked,and very nervous,starts calling everyone to make Rinoa revive,but everyone says that theres nothing to do but to wait,and they must continue with their seed plans,things are getting difficult,they must go to the Space where sorceress Adel is there in its orbital prision.

But Squall gets desesperate...



He decides to get back with Rinoa but they decide to take her with them to space,once in space and talking about the plans the alarms sound,Rinoa waked up and released sorceress Adel from her orbital prision. Adel grows in power,the moon feels the darkness and grows monsters from the deep,Rinoa after realeasing Adel gets lost orbiting in space,and wakes up from an hipnotised state. (watch from 6:55 to 7:20)



Everyone gets into the emergency capsules back to earth as monsters are starting to fall and burst from the moon attracted by Adel gravity power,but squall its not quite happy with the idea of leaving Rinoa orbiting in space forever,infact fills him with terror and doesnt know why has that feeling,but he has to do something...







Squall realises that Ultimecia has given her
powers to Rinoa choosing her as the new sorceress and as soon as they get back to earth she will have to be prisioned and controlled like when Edea.



So they go to rescue her...



After Rinoa is rescued they decide to go to the old orphanage to speak with Edea and plan something,and to have a few of joy before all this war continues. Before getting to the orphanage they meet Laguna the one with whom squall "dreamt" so much,they were all conected some way.

They solve many of the doubts,Ultimecia was a sorceress from the future that needs something from the past to make hers the power of time travelling,but ultimecia thou she opened a door to the past she cant control the power but shes very dangerous as she reads minds,so she knows whats the weakest points of every person.

The legend says that the sorceress needs a lover knight beside her to keep herself sane,if not sorceress turn insane,cold and dark,and very dangerous,and uncontrolled state,they loose they identity,some theories said Ultimecia lost her knight and she turned out bad, theres a question also that doubts if Ultimecia is Rinoa in future and she lost Squall.

But so many questions are growing their hearts in fear,more than ever its time to keep strong and speak together,make a promise to fight for...



After the talk they get into action and right to get Adel that has grown a magnetic "temple" of darkness,but Ultimecia that reads minds and controls Adel,knows Squall weakest part and makes Adel get Rinoa,so Squall has to fight against Adel without hurting Rinoa. After a looong fight (depending in your final fantasier lever :P ) Adel is defeated




Next step is Ultimecia but they must be carefull as we know she plays with minds. Last battle will may not require physical strength but a heart strength...

Rinoa dissapears,everything dissapears,Squall finds alone in an interminable dessert running to the place he promised Rinoa he was going to be, but he never gets there,just keep running till Ultimecia starts playing with his mind,taking him to other moments,Ultimecia knows his biggets fears,and takes advantage of it.

She tries to make him forget and confuse Rinoa identity,Ultimecia knows Squall thinks Rinoa could be dark side Ultimecia in future which means he,the knight died,and hes convinced he must die thou he fears it,but is the fear what makes him believe and make it true...



But Rinoa appears and Ultimacea cant fight it,because she can read minds but she cannot read the feelings, and thats the invisible and unbounded energy that joins identities and lifes...



Seifer learned from his ignorance and sarted to be a better person.

Laguna went to see her brides grave,as she died after he asked her to marry him,and remembers the good moments,he still haves the young ellone to take care of and be happy about,which also means in the story or looks like to mean that Ellone is Squalls sis therefor Laguna is his father,also they look very similar.

Irvine by the other side still played naughty with Selphie,but she doesnt seem to unlike it.

And the very last part: (watch from 1:58 till the end)



And everyone lived just by the only way of doing it,living,with their ups and downs but their strong reasons to fight for and happy about the war that ended,the new lifes coming,the unbounded friendship and loves union :)

Hope you liked it ^^