Errrr isn't that like as old as discussion about BoF 4 being a prequel? I am sure I saw that before I saw that stupid Rinoa is Ultimecia stuff.
Of course you get some IotD at the conclusion.
The truth is, I don’t think there is a substantial amount of evidence to conclude whether or not the writers intended for the audience to interpret the game in this fashion. I choose to believe that this is how the game was intended to be understood because, to me, the game makes no sense otherwise
Other than the fact that during development they were open about the fact that they wanted this game to be a love story? Yeah there is no secret there. No hidden unexpected twisted interpretation, just a bad story with bad fucking writing. End of goddamned story. It is an interesting piece of mental agility to juggle everything and come up with an alternative interpretation, but that is all it is, an interpretation. You can't stop shit from being shit just because you want it to badly not be shit. Plan 9 From Outer Space is a great piece of cinema that everyone should watch, it is an absolute masterpiece and is one of my favourite movies of all time. It is a horrible movie. Same situation here. FF8 is a fun game, but it is terrible and no amount of mental agility is going to turn it into a compelling amazingly told masterpiece.
And hey you know what? Even interpretting that way FF8 is still a shitty story with no resolution built on stupid ideas. Congrats, you spent an entire disc building up plot that you would have effectively made ENTIRELY FUCKING IRRELEVANT BECAUSE YOU KILL THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE ACTUAL STORY AND DON'T RESOLVE SHIT ANYFUCKINGWAY. Squall's story, let alone Disc 1 Squall of no goddamned personality and whiney bitchiness is not a compelling story to finish at Disc 1. You would have a plot of this guy is a douche. He got killed by some chick. EXCITING STORY MANG, NOW WATCH NONSENSE FOR 30 MORE HOURS.
It is still a shit story even interpretting it that way.
