FINAL FANTASY VIII, the second Final Fantasy game on the PlayStation, expands upon its predecessor in many ways. The core development staff remains, with Hironobu Sakaguchi producing, Nobuo Uematsu composing and arranging the score, and Tetsuya Nomura providing the character designs. The main story revolves around Squall Leonhart, a young member of the military group SeeD, who must begin a dangerous mission against an evil witch, Edea. Along the way, he meets Rinoa Heartilly, a young girl on her own mission. The battle system focuses around Junctioning, a Guardian Force to your character, and the skill of assigning abilities. The Guardian Forces are the popular Summon creatures found in previous games. Magic is used by drawing it from the opponent, then storing it for later use. The graphics are fully 3D in battle, though the backgrounds everywhere else are pre-rendered. The game features over an hour of FMV and fills four discs.

Final Fantasy IX (9) is the third Final Fantasy game on the Playstation and features the major story; Brahne, the evil Queen of Alexandria, is using highly advanced magical weapons to terrorize neighboring kingdoms. Players follow a group of bandits, knights, and magicians as they try to foil her plans. The heroes quickly learn that her wicked doings are part of a much larger plot, and as they progress, they learn about the sinister motives of a powerful sorcerer named Kuja.

Features:

• Create party of 4 from cast of 8 unique characters
• Use variety of weapons, magic, and monsters in quest of good over evil
• New point-based spell-casting system and item-based ability-learning system
• Characters designed by Yoshitaka Amano
• Greatest Hits version

• Join AVALANCHE, an organization sworn to put an end to Shinra corporation's destructive practices
• Move around the world using flying vehicles, submarines, and Chocobos
• Fill the Limit gauge to perform each character's special attack
• Play 7 mini-games, from arcade-type to betting
• Greatest Hits version

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