# Final Fantasy VIII - a good game in its own right?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-fantasy-viii-a-good-game-in-its-own-right/345414 "2006-02-21T01:42:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-fantasy-viii-a-good-game-in-its-own-right/345414/81 "2006-03-04T21:38:45Z")

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> [@Taran](#):
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> Seriously though, I wonder why you don’t get to mess with the names of the secondary characters? It’s not like they had a bunch of FMVs of people shouting each others’ names.

Several of the characters - specifically Selphie, off the top of my head - get nicknames in the orphanage scene. Selphie’s ‘Sephie’, which makes me giggle since that’s also how I and quite a few people I know refer to Sephiroth.

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**Author:** ![Taran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Taran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taran)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/final-fantasy-viii-a-good-game-in-its-own-right/345414/82 "2006-03-05T02:31:40Z")

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> [@Tengu](#):
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> Several of the characters - specifically Selphie, off the top of my head - get nicknames in the orphanage scene. Selphie’s ‘Sephie’, which makes me giggle since that’s also how I and quite a few people I know refer to Sephiroth.

Ah, good, call, I’d forgotten about that.

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