Mad-Dogg posted...
I am actually curious if many of us that played FF8 on the PS1 back then and happened to be around that same age group with this same sort of mentality where its like, squall just came off so much cooler as a fellow wannabe edgy teen and so tried to self-insert as him a bit. Like squall has the outfit, the cool weapon, the hair, super cool scar, and then the tude' which appealed so much to 16 year old me. He is close enough in age and so its like this dork is someone you would have actually wanted to be and wanted to live his super cool mercenary school life.
Then after you grow out of that phase its like "man........that was kind of wacky. What was I thinking?"
I don't condemn myself, I still view Squall favorably. He's not an amazing character or anything, I just think he's over hated.