Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII is a role-playing adventure set during a war between Galbadia, a global superpower, and Dollet, whose training academy is home to Squall Leonhart and Seifer. Squall is seen as lacking team spirit, while Seifer lacks the discipline of his rival. A chance encounter with the free-spirited Rinoa Heartilly unsettles Squall, who has always relied on discipline, and he begins to dream that he is Laguna Loire, a soldier in the Galbadian army. Meanwhile, a sorceress manipulates Galbadia’s most powerful men. Squall and his party must face her, while Laguna’s role in events remains to be discovered.

Game features

The game includes Magic Booster, which adds 100 of each of these spells to your inventory: Cure, Cura, Curaga, Fire, Fira, Blizzard, Blizzara, Thunder, Thundara, Sleep, Blind, Silence, Berserk, Bio, Esuna, Aero, Confuse, Break and Zombie. You can activate it from the launcher.

It also includes the full game Chocobo World, previously released as a separate application. You can start it from the launcher after booting Final Fantasy VIII, and meeting specific conditions in the main game lets you synchronize data between the two games.

New game boosters

• High Speed Mode: Fast-forward scenes, including cutscenes, movies and battles. Speeds vary by cutscene and average about five times normal speed. Some computers may not process the game properly in this mode.
• Battle Assistance: Keeps the ATB gauge and HP full and makes Limit Breaks always available. Characters die instantly if they take damage exceeding their HP.
• 9999: Normal attacks, certain Limit Breaks and certain G.F. attacks deal 9,999 damage.
• AP MAX: On the world map, sets the level and AP of all acquired G.F. to maximum. It may not work properly during event cutscenes.
• Magic and Gil MAX: Sets each acquired magic spell’s inventory to 100 and gil to its maximum limit. It cannot be used on menu screens, during cutscenes, in combat or at shops; it can be used while moving between areas during Laguna’s Dream.

The AP MAX, Magic and Gil MAX, and Battle Assistance commands can only be executed via keyboard.