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Review Final Fantasy 8 features enviroment that is similar to 7.You cannot rotate the camera.Cameras are placed overhead in most enviroments with a 2-D look but coupled with 3-D effects to feel the 3-D enviroment.The FMVs is very well done,even the intro music is very well done and you can expect tons of quality music from Square in FF8.The most noticeably thing in battle is the removal of MP and a limit gauge bar in used in Final Fantasy 7,which believe will be carry over to Final Fantasy 8.Even the most successfully system of materia combination is removed.Characters still have an ATB to determine whose fought first.Instead,you will be able to draw spells and magic from enemies.The draw command enables you to stock up spell for later use or cast straight away.If you select the magic command,you will be shown with a selection of spells and you will noticed a number besides each type of the spell.The number indicates how many spells you can use for that type of spell.The summon spell ahs also been replaced by the guardian force.In this demo,the only character who can use guardian spell is Rinoa and the only summoned spell available in this demo is Leviathan,the water snake.Any diehard Final Fantasy fans will remember it since its first appearance in Final Fantasy 2.The difference is that there might be a chance that the creature might not amke an appearance.Instead of making the creature appear shortly after it is summoned,the summoner's HP is being replaced by the summoned creature HP and the summoner's ATB bar is being replaced by the summoned creature ATB.Sounds confusing but not actually.You will have to wait until the summoned creature's ATB is full before the creature would appear and wreak havoc on the battlefield.During this time,before the creature's ATB is full,any attack on the summoner will go directly to the summoned creature.Once the summoned creatured is dead,you cannot summoned it again until the next battle.It has been said that in the final version,all Guardian Force will be able to gain exp and levels,but not in this demo.As you can see,the Leviathan gets so realistic than the one in Final Fantasy 7.

There is a good news to all duel shock owners.Unlike Final Fantasy 7,you can use a duel shock controller and you will feel every bit of vibration.The summoned creature,Leviathan is a good example to feel the vibration.In the 7 series,there is a limit break and a gauge bar to indicate how close it is a character is to achieve a limit.However,in 8 series,there isn't any limit bar gauge to tell you and all special attacks are achieved randomly.Another sad new is that you cannot carried these special attacks over to the next battle.As you can see,the graphics during the battle field has improved over tenfold and no longer has big windows.The spells like lightening,Fire and so on is a cool visual and you swear it is much better than Final Fantasy 7.The spell has improved significantly.Not only just lightening effects,the sound effects are really good and keep up to Square's quality.Perhaps the most innovative feature is Squall's gunblade.You can inflict extra damage with the R1 button.All in one,Great graphics,great music and great gameplay;could be the best RPG games ever made and might have a potential to be the best Final Fantasy series ever made.

Note:This review was written by me and based on my own opinion,including the rating below.Feel free to give me comment.

Graphics: 8.5/10.0
Music: 9.0/10.0
Sound: 8.0/10.0
Gameplay: 8.4/10.0
Overall: 8.5/10.0

With the demo rated as 8.5,you can expect it to be a great game when the final version comes,it's gonna not be this rating but 9.0 and over.Noone can stop us from buying Final Fantasy 8.

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