Final Fantasy VIII/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

**** Unfortunately, the weapon simply cannot work due to the laws of physics. The blade is connected directly to the pistol grip, so if you pull the trigger, the bullets have no where to go but explode, blowing up your hands. In fact, trapped bullets are exactly why flintlock pistols were immediately abandoned as soon as possible. That, and how would you reload the gunblade anyway?

*** Except ''the gunblade doesn't fire bullets.'' It's a bloody [[Vibroweapon]]. The "bullets" are charges that send shockwaves down the blade into the target. Reloading the gunblade is as simple as reloading either a revolver or pistol in real life; you just flip open the cylinders and change ammunition, or you pop the charges out like a magazine and put in new ones.

*** Seifer doesn't shoot people with his gunblade, he blasts them with a Fire-type spell. It shows this quite clearly; during his limit breaks, he opens with his PALM pointed at the enemy, just like his magic-casting pose. His No Mercy limit break involves him throwing blades of energy at the opponent(s) and his Demon Slash just involves him spinning around like a lunatic, knocking his victim into the air with each spin. His Bloodfest limit just has him open a hole in the ground with a pair of perpendicular Blade Beam-style moves. I've never once seen Seifer SHOOT anyone with his Hyperion.

***** Damn they chose a gunblade when a chainsaw sword would do the same thing.

* I know [[Death Is Cheap]] in this game, what with Phoenix Downs, etc. I am also aware that things are far less lethal in games than they would be in real life. But ''that ice-shard punches clean through Squall's chest, pretty much where his heart and lungs are''. The absurdity of his survival is even pointed out by ''Squall himself''. Everyone else just ignores the fact. What [[Just Bugs Me]] is how it's even possible he could've survived that. The rest of Team SeeD are captured and stuck in that desert prison, and it doesn't seem particularly in keeping with their idiom that they'd bother to revive Squall at all. Edea was just too evil at that point (and mind-controlled by Ulty, so she wouldn't have had room for her own compassion and affection for Squall - hell, if that had come through she would never have fought him in the first place), and Seifer's just plain too stupid to accomplish that task himself.

** Edeamecia probably healed him so that he could be interrogated regarding the true nature of SeeD. As team leader, he'd be the most likely to have information.

**** Losing an organ is not the only way of dying. That ice chunk had to hit something vital. If Squall got lucky, it pierced trough his lung. No biggie, you can live with only one. If it missed the lung, it would have hit his subclavian artery and he would bleed out before any help arrived. Then again, it's not real life, let's resort to magic!

**** The wound appears to be clean. As long as the ice spear wasn't removed before someone could step in with healing magic (and Edea is ''right there'', with Seifer right beside her) then there won't be much blood loss.