I knew I knew it from somewhere.
I did actually take that into account putting in the spoilers! It's why one is specifically labeled as "Omi might not have explored" so he can skip out on opening it if he hasn't, so at most it just hints at "oh hey there's a different encounter table in this particular spot". I also didn't add in every monster he could have potentially fought by now, since Omi hasn't mentioned heading to the Training Area of Balamb Garden which while accessible doesn't have much reason to be visited right now unless you really want to solo-grind Squall's level without Quistis around (or search for loot I guess).
If you make one post that you go back and edit pictures later as you get them so it's all in one place, I would threadmark it as Informational.Others covered it before I did since I was busy with other things in FFVIII, but yeah it's just the age old JRPG menu option of "remember where my cursor was" which lets you repeat the same commands over and over whenever a character's turn comes up. Very useful for making drawing magic more efficient, or for beating down bulky enemies/bosses that are otherwise not too threatening.
As for Other Things, since Omi mentioned the idea, I figured, why not!
Tah dah, Enemy Bestiary for everything Omi has (probably) run into so far! Barring Ifrit, I got the idea after fighting Ifrit and saving and I don't feel like replaying the first half hour to hour of the game just to get that scan. Rest assured, he lacks enough clothing to probably break forum rules.
If it helps at all with making a decision: the game has less than 150 different enemy types. Which is shocking, because, and this is just my personal opinion, I find that FFVIII monsters, even weak ones like the Bite Bug and Red Bat, have a level of personality that no monster in any of the previous games managed to show.
Sorry, you're talking about Slifer, the Executive Producer?
Pity that FF8 doesn't have a Bestiary page, not even in the Remaster. It could have been a cool feature, you scan an enemy and it goes in the Bestiary. Like how it works in FF7R.Others covered it before I did since I was busy with other things in FFVIII, but yeah it's just the age old JRPG menu option of "remember where my cursor was" which lets you repeat the same commands over and over whenever a character's turn comes up. Very useful for making drawing magic more efficient, or for beating down bulky enemies/bosses that are otherwise not too threatening.
As for Other Things, since Omi mentioned the idea, I figured, why not!
Tah dah, Enemy Bestiary for everything Omi has (probably) run into so far! Barring Ifrit, I got the idea after fighting Ifrit and saving and I don't feel like replaying the first half hour to hour of the game just to get that scan. Rest assured, he lacks enough clothing to probably break forum rules.
I mean, he is a president of Hell who is also a giant lion head with multiple goat legs sticking out that teaches among other things natural philosphy. That is just some inspired character design right there that really hasn't been surpassed since Ars Goetia was written.
This is something I forgot to mention in the last two updates (so much to cover), but one thing that struck me about enemies in FF8 so far is that every one has a death animation. Instead of simply playing out their standing cycle while turning red and vanishing, they each have a (sometimes pretty theatrical) way they react to the final hit and collapse to the floor, the way only Hojo did in VII. It's really characterful and neat to see.If it helps at all with making a decision: the game has less than 150 different enemy types. Which is shocking, because, and this is just my personal opinion, I find that FFVIII monsters, even weak ones like the Bite Bug and Red Bat, have a level of personality that no monster in any of the previous games managed to show.
Not sure if you agree, but once you're deeper into the game and have seen a few more of them, I'd like to hear your opinion on that, if you feel like sharing!
I dunno, isn't everyone? Look at him!
FFVIII enemies are absolutely full of personality compared to the sort of... polygon amalgamations a lot of FFVII enemies are, for sure. Just as a minor example and expanding on that "over the top death animation" bit, Bombs seem to have multiple "hit taken" animations depending on the attack. They spaz a bit from a regular attack, a crit/gunblade firing will send them spiraling back to bounce off the ground before they shake it off and get back to wildly floating in place, and of course death animation has their death throes as they hit the ground before finally fading away.
Welp I've learned something new from the thread today.
Because a lion head with a wheel of legs that rolls around is awesome, like something out of the Wizard of Oz books.
You can't really outlast in triple triad, can you? But hey if you're beating them with the cards you're beating them with the cards
