>We decided to keep the story simple and make the characters more involved because previous stories in the series got very complicated- Yoshinori Kitase, 1999
>>10919353Timeline fuckery is old hat. The golden age of scifi was in the 50s-60s and you'll find 99.999999% of all scifi stories after that period are derivative. Go read some Harlan Ellison and Isaac Asimov, moron.
>>10919353Whatever...
that's weird, because VIII's storyline is more complicated than most FFs before it, but the characters other than squall and rinoa are unmemorable
The story is pretty simple. There is an evil sorceress trying to compress time. Obviously that is a complex concept but that doesn't make the story itself complex.