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VIII's real weird. It does away with a lot of JRPG staples at the time, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, but its mixed together in a way that makes it really the most late 90s JRPG I can think of. Its overly melodramatic and tries to hard and is probably a big mess and I love all that about it. It also has the best card game of any video game ever.

Nah, I've never been big into the series actually. The humor always put me off it and as much as I can respect the Diablo-esque aspects of it now, I didn't care about that kind of stuff when it first came out.