FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered User Reviews

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No sound, no music. :(

One of my favourite Nobou soundtracks, sadly there’s no sound on iPhone or iPad. I sure hope this gets fixed, feels so empty without.

Heat

Game is great runs great one of my favourite classic games. I have iPhone 15 pro but really heats up playing this game as much as resident evil 4 remake

Only works on phone

Awesome game. Doesn’t work properly on iPad. Freezes, lags in sound and then won’t load.
Works great on iPhone.
Fix the iPad problem and I’ll change to 5 stars.

Good job on the update

I’m glad to see that the app received a relatively quick update after it stopped working with iOS 17.2 and above. It now works great. If you have a controller, this is (to me) a five-star game, but the touch controls are just a bit awkward to me. FFVIII is a great game - one of the best in the series in my opinion, and being available for mobile is amazing to me. Thanks for the update, so I can keep playing.
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Weapon

The game now works with the latest update but now you have created a bug where squalls trigger now goes off randomly even when the auto option isn’t selected.

It stopped working.

I tried using this on an iPad 8th gen and it stops working after it says square enix. Sometimes it will go to new game and then completely freeze.
I tried it on my 13 pro max and it does the same thing. I don’t know why it stopped working and it hasn’t had an update in 2 years. I’m on the latest iOS. Please update so this wasn’t a waste of money. I bought this on release day
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Game is no longer working!

EDIT FOR OTHERS AFFECTED BY THIS: Apparently putting your device in airplane mode makes the game actually function again without any issues… besides the obvious one of not being able to get achievements. OBVIOUSLY NOT IDEAL, A FIX IS STILL NEEDED.

This game was working fine several months ago. Took a break from it and came back only to find that it does not work anymore, I’m assuming because of an iOS system update.

This has apparently been an ongoing issue for a little while, based on other reviews. If this is not addressed I will be compelled to ask for a full refund.
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You can only play it offline…

To everyone having a problem playing this title — the issue appears to be with the cloud save server. The game tries to connect to it and then fails. And it doesn’t take failing to connect to the server gracefully. You do not need to enable airplane mode to play this game, unlike what other reviewers have said. Instead you just need to disable Internet access. So you can still use bluetooth controllers if you want!

More than likely it is a server certificate or network protocol issue that cropped up with the 17.2 update. I am certain that all Sony needs to do is push a small update for the app, or possibly even just upgrade the server.
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Love the game it just needs a little improvement

I have played quite a bit of the ff games and I figured I’d buy this one I love it except for the frame rate . That’s my only issue with it, if you’re offline it loads perfectly and runs perfectly but the moment you get back online it automatically runs slow and loads everything slower. If this could get fixed in an update soon that’d be great
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Doesn’t work

Game won’t launch anymore.

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