Final Fantasy VIII models

[SierraLatkje]

It was really weird. Yesterday was a terrible day from minute one. (I woke up and checked that my video had finished uploading to YouTube only to find they had muted the sound on it! ) By five o'clock-ish, I was in a right horrible mood, screaming at the cats and knocking over the recycling pile then kicking it instead of picking it up again...for me, the extremes of temper. I didn't know what else to do, and I didn't want to clean my mess up, so I decided to play the final battle of FFVIII and find out what my two mystery models were, and if Ultimecia's other forms had different names. And the battle that was so hard that it made me cry in frustration the first time I played it...somehow made me feel better. I have no idea what happened, but I was actually enjoying it, and stuck around for the whole battle instead of turning it off when I learned what I needed to. And then I felt so pumped that I finished preparing the entire next batch of models! Like I said, weird. And I just felt like sharing for no particular reason.

Okay, so the new batch of models proves that I was wrong last time when I said I was uploading the last of the standard enemies, 'cause it turns out there were still two more left. (But these two really are the last; no one but party members in the final batch. Yes, final! The next batch will complete the full ripping of FFVIII battle models! Yay! Now if only I could get my hands on NON-battle models...)

Spoiler

First up, we have Elnoyle, who's actually just a texture/palette swap of the early boss Elvoret, but...anyhow, here it is.


http://www.mediafire.com/?3ohdjq58cnwd5qx

Then we have Slapper, the demonic hockey player? (I dunno.) You fight him in Galbadia Garden. So the question is, did G Garden's hockey team decide that it wanted to follow Seifer and the Galbadian Army, or does the Galbadian Army have a hockey corps?


http://www.mediafire.com/?i3gd6z4ny6c0vlf

Then we have the last of the bosses, including the final boss herself!

Spoiler

But we're starting out with Catoblepas, 'cause I'm doing things in alphabetical order. Of course, Catoblepas is just a skin change for a Behemoth, but...there's a lot of skin change monsters/bosses in Ultimecia's Castle, as you'll see below. (There's still two more of 'em in this batch...)


http://www.mediafire.com/?dho421qao7972qv

Next, the Red Giant. (How's that for a creative name?)


http://www.mediafire.com/?65wftrzraj811ec

And now we have Tiamat, the primordial ocean from whom all life sprang, cut down in her prime by her mutinous descendent Marduk--oh, wait, wrong Tiamat. Yeah, so Final Fantasy's Tiamat is a wind-based evil Bahamut....sigh....no one respects myths anymore...


http://www.mediafire.com/?2s3rzfm562tb6a5

And now we finally move on to the final battle! But before we get to the real participants, we have what I have tentatively dubbed "Final Battle Misc." which I don't know if you want to put it under bosses or add an "Other" category. It consists of the two mystery models I posted about earlier. The lightning-bolt looking one is called Helix, and Ultimecia summons it in her second form as an assist. (Over and over and over again...) Its primary purpose seems to be to destroy any GFs you might try to summon. So it's a very annoying thing, but anyway, there it is. The other I've called "defeated essence" because it seems to be the model used to represent the defeated Griever and the defeated Ultimecia as Ultimecia junctions herself to Griever in order to create her creepy second form. (Not as creepy as her third form, but...anyway...) So, I don't know if anyone actually wants those models, but here they are for the sake of completion!


http://www.mediafire.com/?dzqhwmc15yod9jd

And now Griever, who Ultimecia describes as the strongest GF...and who shares the same name as Squall's ring, and looks like the lion-thing on his gunblade and necklace. (So, did the ring and necklace come in a special edition version of his gunblade? Is he secretly a weapons otaku? That would be hilarious. Although the idea that he named the face on his ring is also pretty funny...)


http://www.mediafire.com/?8isd858seh61sff

And finally, Sorceress Ultimecia herself! In all three of her forms, none of which had alternate names. However, I couldn't decide how to handle the preview, because her incredibly creepy third form has this enormous cape-thing that's actually a large part of the battle ground, so I wasn't sure if I should try to show that or not. So I did two versions, one showing the enormity of her third form, and one giving a closer view of the part that's actually interesting.



http://www.mediafire.com/?p5es53q4ndnw3d5

And now we're finally moving on to the party members! Yay!

Spoiler

We'll be starting with the player character, Squall Leonhart. (Not because he's the player character, but because he's alphabetically before Zell.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?d3z96op4g6iw5rr

And here are his gunblades, in a separate download, as suggested:


http://www.mediafire.com/?h8g1q6q06wwa010
Though as you can see from the preview, although he has a lot of different upgrades available for his gunblade, there are more textures than there are weapon shapes.

Anyway, moving on, we have the energetic Zell Dincht! (If you're wondering, I'm sticking with the order they were in within the game files, and that's why Zell is next, instead of the next party member you receive, or whoever. Actually, if I wasn't following the file order, I'd have started with Laguna!)


http://www.mediafire.com/?365294gp5dzquz7
I've included a readme file about the lack of hands.

And here we have Zell's weapons, though they are unfortunately textures only. (Naturally, the readme is in there, as well.)


http://www.mediafire.com/?x7wadigwp8bmu5h

And that's that! Just one more batch of characters, and then I'll be done! One less thing hanging over my head as a project I haven't finished yet! Yay! And then I can start ripping the portraits from Chrono Cross!....and get another project hanging over my head...oh well....