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''Final Fantasy VIII'', a 1999 role-playing video game by Squaresoft, features "SeeD", an elite group of mercenaries, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after its release, it had earned more than US$50 million in sales, making it the fastest selling ''Final Fantasy'' title at the time. The game has shipped 8.15 million units worldwide as of March 2003. Additionally, ''Final Fantasy VIII'' was voted the 22nd-best game of all time by readers of ''Famitsu'' in 2006. The game's characters were created by Tetsuya Nomura, and were the first in the series to be realistically proportioned in all aspects. This graphical shift, as well as the cast itself, has received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites. The six main playable characters in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' are Squall Leonhart, a loner who avoids vulnerability by focusing on his duty; Rinoa Heartilly, an outspoken and passionate young woman wh ...
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Final Fantasy VIII
is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation console. It is the eighth main installment in the ''Final Fantasy'' series. Set on an unnamed fantasy world with science fiction elements, the game follows a group of young mercenaries, led by Squall Leonhart, as they are drawn into a conflict sparked by a sorceress named Edea Kramer who seized control of a powerful military state. During the quest to defeat the sorceress and the forces manipulating her, Squall struggles with his role as leader and develops a romance with one of his comrades, Rinoa Heartilly. Development began in 1997, during the English localization of '' Final Fantasy VII''. The game builds on the visual changes brought to the series by ''VII'', including the use of 3D graphics and pre-rendered backgrounds, while also departing from many ''Final Fantasy'' traditions. It is the first ''Final Fantasy'' to use realistically proportioned characters consistently, featur ...
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''Final Fantasy VIII'', a 1999 role-playing video game by Square (video game company), Squaresoft, features "SeeD", an elite group of mercenaries, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after its release, it had earned more than United States dollar, US$50 million in sales, making it the fastest selling ''Final Fantasy'' title at the time. The game has shipped 8.15 million units worldwide as of March 2003. Additionally, ''Final Fantasy VIII'' was voted the 22nd-best game of all time by readers of ''Famitsu'' in 2006. The game's characters were created by Tetsuya Nomura, and were the first in the series to be realistically proportioned in all aspects. This graphical shift, as well as the cast itself, has #Reception, received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites. The six main Player character, playable characters in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' are Squall Leonhart, a loner who avoids vulnerability by focu ...
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ...
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Yoshinori Kitase
is a Japanese game director and producer working for Square Enix. He is known as the director of ''Final Fantasy VI'', ''Chrono Trigger'', ''Final Fantasy VII'', ''Final Fantasy VIII'' and '' Final Fantasy X'', and the producer of the ''Final Fantasy X'' and ''Final Fantasy XIII'' series. He is currently the head of Square Enix's Creative Studios I and II, the ''Final Fantasy'' series Brand Manager, an executive officer at Square Enix and a member of the board of directors at both Square Enix Co, Ltd and Square Enix Holdings. He was the head of Square Enix's Creative Business Unit 1 as well as Business Division 1 during their entire respective existences as well as a Corporate Executive. He is also part of the ''Final Fantasy'' Committee that is tasked with keeping the franchise's releases and content consistent. Biography In July 1978, at the age of 11, Kitase watched the movie ''Star Wars'' for the first time and was deeply impressed with it. He later examined the making ...
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Cloud Strife
is a character in the media franchise ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'' by Square Enix. He is the protagonist of the role-playing video games ''Final Fantasy VII'' (1997), ''Final Fantasy VII Remake'' (2020) and ''Final Fantasy VII Rebirth'' (2024) and the animated film ''Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children'' (2005), and appears in several other installments in the wider ''Final Fantasy'' series''.'' He has also appeared in other media, such as the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series by Square Enix and Disney and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series by Nintendo. Throughout ''Final Fantasy VII'' and its compilation that expands its universe, Cloud Strife is portrayed as a revolutionary working for an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche against a mega corporation known as SHINRA, who plans to drain the world of its lifestream. Cloud's internal struggles, which involve confronting his own traumatic past, including that of his former colleague Sephiroth (Final Fantasy), Sephiroth, are shown as ...
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Final Fantasy VII
is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. The seventh main installment in the ''Final Fantasy'' series, it was released in Japan by Square and internationally by Sony Computer Entertainment, becoming the first game in the main series to have a PAL release. The game's story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins an eco-terrorist organization to stop a world-controlling megacorporation from using the planet's life essence as an energy source. Ensuing events send Cloud and his allies in pursuit of Sephiroth, a superhuman who seeks to wound the planet and harness its healing power in order to be reborn as a god. Throughout their journey, Cloud bonds with his party members, including Aerith Gainsborough, who holds the secret to saving their world. Development began in 1994, originally for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. After delays and technical difficulties from experimenting with several platforms, most notably the Nintendo 64, S ...
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Kazushige Nojima
is a Japanese video game writer. He is best known for writing several installments of Square Enix's ''Final Fantasy'' franchise—namely ''Final Fantasy VII'' and its spin-offs '' Advent Children'' and '' Crisis Core'', ''Final Fantasy VIII'', and '' Final Fantasy X'' and '' X-2''—in addition to the '' Kingdom Hearts series'', the ''Glory of Heracles'' series, and the story to the Subspace Emissary mode in '' Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. Nojima also wrote the original lyrics of " Liberi Fatali" for ''Final Fantasy VIII'' and both "Suteki da Ne" and the "Hymn of the Fayth" for ''Final Fantasy X'', as well as " No Promises to Keep" for '' Final Fantasy VII Rebirth''. He is also the founder of Stellavista Ltd. Biography Kazushige Nojima first joined Japanese video game developer and publisher Data East. Square Co. He joined Square in 1994. He began work on ''Final Fantasy VII'' after the main character settings were done, though Nojima considered this early in the process; he w ...
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Laguna (Italian and Spanish word for lagoon), is a Spanish, Italian, and Polish surname. It may also refer to: People * Andrés Laguna (1499–1559), Spanish physician, pharmacologist, and botanist * Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva (1822–1902), Spanish forester, entomologist and botanist of Spanish and Philippine flora * Theodore de Laguna (1876–1930), American philosopher, taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Philippines, early feminist. * Aleksander Łaguna (7/10/1894 – 9/10/1934) – Major pilot of the Polish Army, knight of the Virtuti Militari * Mikołaj Łaguna (14/06/1890–1940) – Polish lieutenant, murdered in Katyn * Piotr Łaguna (1905–1941), major of the Polish Army, pilot * Stosław (Klemens Stanisław) Łaguna, (23/02/1833-28/04/1900), professor of Polish Law at the University of Saint Petersburg, January Uprising participant * Stanisław Ignacy Łaguna (18 January 1878-1 August 1943) – Polish engineer, councilor of the Lviv City Council ...
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Ultimecia
''Final Fantasy VIII'', a 1999 role-playing video game by Square (video game company), Squaresoft, features "SeeD", an elite group of mercenaries, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after its release, it had earned more than United States dollar, US$50 million in sales, making it the fastest selling ''Final Fantasy'' title at the time. The game has shipped 8.15 million units worldwide as of March 2003. Additionally, ''Final Fantasy VIII'' was voted the 22nd-best game of all time by readers of ''Famitsu'' in 2006. The game's characters were created by Tetsuya Nomura, and were the first in the series to be realistically proportioned in all aspects. This graphical shift, as well as the cast itself, has #Reception, received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites. The six main Player character, playable characters in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' are Squall Leonhart, a loner who avoids vulnerability by focu ...
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Edea Kramer
is a character and major antagonist in ''Final Fantasy VIII''. Protagonist Squall is sent to assassinate her, though it is later discovered that the Sorceress Ultimecia had Edea under mind control. It is also revealed that Edea was the matron for Squall and the other main characters at an orphanage years in the past. Edea was created by Tetsuya Nomura, who originally intended her to be an antagonist named "Witch" in ''Final Fantasy VII'' who served the character Jenova, one of the game's major antagonists. The design went unused in ''Final Fantasy VII'', but because Nomura liked it, it was featured in ''Final Fantasy VIII''. She has received generally positive reception, being noted as an effective villain and praised for her dress. Concept and creation Edea is one of three character concepts, along with Fujin and Raijin, to have been created before ''Final Fantasy VIII''. Edea's design, created by Tetsuya Nomura, was originally intended to be featured in ''Final Fantasy VII' ...
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Seifer Almasy
''Final Fantasy VIII'', a 1999 role-playing video game by Squaresoft, features "SeeD", an elite group of mercenaries, as well as soldiers, rebels, and political leaders of various nations and cities. Thirteen weeks after its release, it had earned more than US$50 million in sales, making it the fastest selling ''Final Fantasy'' title at the time. The game has shipped 8.15 million units worldwide as of March 2003. Additionally, ''Final Fantasy VIII'' was voted the 22nd-best game of all time by readers of ''Famitsu'' in 2006. The game's characters were created by Tetsuya Nomura, and were the first in the series to be realistically proportioned in all aspects. This graphical shift, as well as the cast itself, has received generally positive reviews from gaming magazines and websites. The six main playable characters in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' are Squall Leonhart, a loner who avoids vulnerability by focusing on his duty; Rinoa Heartilly, an outspoken and passionate young woman wh ...
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