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Hi, everyone; I'm making an update to one of my games, but I'd like the update to be downloaded while playing, so that the player wouldn't need to download the update (or DLC, if you wish) using an external program or site; is there any script that can do this? I had one that was similar, but hated how the interface worked. Thank you in advance. And, sadly, the script I had, worked only for VX and XP. :(.

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It's terrible to see the worm that doesn't break promises in his duty. The parasite that learned to tolerate a frown while pursuing vengeance on irrationality, and after seeing that danger seeks dead stars, he wants to warm his cold with a sick song:

"Why do wolves see in my wet and red condition the inevitable death?"

Happiness, which walked years back alongside his spirit, now lurked, strange and kind, stealing the desire of God from himself; and that monster, clinging to leisure, rarely regretted his actions at dawn.

Final Fantasy VIII
Review
After the big success that Final Fantasy VIII made, who would have thought that Squaresoft was going to make the next entry in the series, during the English localization of the previous game?
Well, 1997 was the year where the Company began the 2 years run to finish their future game…
But did it end well? No, it did not.

First of all, the context of the video game must be taken into account. The seventh title of the franchise was an enormous hit not only in Japan but in the rest of the world. This was nothing new for the west, despite only receiving the fourth and sixth title, which were named as final fantasy II and III.
It cannot be denied that due to Final Fantasy VII world spreading achievement, the bar was set very high, almost unreachable. There are many people who think that the company was doomed from the start, and I partly agree.

We must also know that, despite the exit of the previous title, it constituted the end of the Golden era for the franchise. Some of the changes introduced in the first PlayStation video game did not fulfill the desires of the older players. The new ability and magic system were highly criticized by them, the same happened for the main cast and for using 3D graphics as an incentive to buy it. It was the first time that the fan base was strongly divided; with detractors and lovers.
All of this was not that big, but when the eighth entry came out, the issue became bigger, and thus, the fans were completely disunited.

THE GAME

LEVELING AND GF SYSTEM
Final Fantasy VIII was a huge change from the past entries, reminiscent of Final Fantasy II, released in 1988 for the NES. The most important aspects of the gameplay of a role-playing game changed. The Exp gaining system, the battle system itself, the ability and magic learning, etc. It was not the same, and all these things have been one of the most common arguments against the game through almost 20 years; the reasons are easily found between the first half and end of the first cd.
Enemies level up with you, so this makes classical grinding useless. The system makes you use it as much as you can, so here comes the heart of the subject:
There are some summons; three that are linked to the main story, and thirteen optional ones that can be obtained through the game. As in Final Fantasy VI (III), those summons, that are called GF in this title (Guardians force), need to be equipped to a character, in order to gain access to the battle commands and for some passive abilities.
Therefore, GFs are essential. They are needed to use the battle commands, for the special battle commands and for raising up your stats. This is when magic is presented to the player.
There are some ways for obtaining spells; 3 actually. The first and second one are the clearer ways, those who are shown in the tutorial from the game. In some places, you will find a purple haze and if you have the GF ability "extract" attached to you, you will likely use them. These purple spheres are used to obtain some magic spells; each one contains a spell, of a random number (it can vary from 1 to even 13). You approach them by pressing the accept button when near, extract the spell and now you can do two things. Stock the magic ability, so you can use it in battle, or just link that spell to a stat, which varies depending on the GF and its abilities. Then, you can do two things, take a walk and keep walking (not in the same room where the magic extraction point is) until the extraction point is recharged, or just going on with the story.
The other way is more of the same. With the extract command equipped, you must enter a battle. In that fight, you need to use that ability to gain spells from the monsters. If you know that you can have 100 numbers of a spell and 32 spells per character, you have to know that filling your stacks will take some time; furthermore, "extract" can be also used for using the spells that the enemy has, so the players do not have to waste their stacked spells.
The third way is the easiest to use one, but the hardest to discover. There is a card game called Triple triad in this entry. In order to obtain cards to play it, you must speak to a man that is in a bridge in the Balamb garden or obtain a skill called "card" from the GF Quetzalcoatl. This battle command will let you turn monsters into cards. Then, you must have the ability "card mod", from the same GF and turn these cards into items (you can also obtain cards by playing the game, which is easier, but hard at the beginning with an initial deck). So now you must use another ability that some Guardian forces have; "refine", which it can be used to refine items to gain spells for a specific element, depending on the Gf, to gain curative items, or to convert items onto other items. If use this way as soon as you start the game, you will probably end up by having 100 curagas, 100 quakes, or even 100 holys between the first and second hour of gameplay.
One of the essential points of this game system is gaining AP (ability points). Ability points are some separated earnings from Exp points. They are used to gain skills for the GFs, which can be a trouble when you don't want to level up; that's why you turn monsters into cards, to end the battle without gaining Experience points but Ap.
Leveling can be troublesome; so at the end, you must be well junctioned, rather than overleveled;
And this is what makes the system tedious, that if you try the third way, the length of the game can be increased up to 60 or 70 hours, which is quite a lot. In fact, the battle system is quite the same as the other games, with an ATB bar that dictates the turns of the fight.
As I said before this was one of the main arguments against the title, so this means that there are most arguments in disagreement with the game.

THE CHARACTERS AND THE STORY
There are 6 main characters that form the cast and 5 that are secondary, thus not playable, with one exception. Compared with the 9 playable characters from the seventh game and the 14 playable characters from the sixth game, this falls short. By looking at this, you may have thought that they did this to stop making optional characters, but an adventure full of important characters, with greater development and backstories… It is just the opposite. Only one character receives some development; although Quistis seemed to receive some development, she was overshadowed by Rinoa, and then she became nothing, be just a cool fighter.
The characters suffer from that, from being nothing but a piece for the story, with a basic personality and almost no development.
Zell, for example, has no development through the entire story, and his personality is quite straightforward and really annoying.
Selphie is more of the same. Almost no personality and a pretty poor personality. As Quistis, she looked that she was going to receive some development in one part of the story, but then she is not developed. I can say this for every character from the game, but for Squall and some (but little) for Rinoa.
I cannot say this for Laguna, for example. He is far more interesting and well developed than most of the characters in the game. This let me develop a small theory. Laguna was going to be the main character from the actual game but was changed by Squall, to engage the younger audience, I guess.

Squall has a nice backstory and a personality change that made sense with the story. There are a lot of people who say that he is emo, but I disagree; in my personal opinion, I think he was a child suffering from PTSD and a bit of depression.

The story itself is not that bad, actually. It has an interesting world (though a bit empty), some nice locations, and an interesting beginning, with one of the most iconic Animated cutscene of all time. The problem is about the narrative.
The story is poorly told, with a lot of issues.

The plot is quite simple. In the world, there are three gardens with a group of elite soldiers called SEED. You are a part of that soldiers, and your mission is to protect the world for every possible conflict.

(Warning, Final Fantasy VII and VIII spoilers here)

GRAPHICS AND MUSIC
The graphics are amazing, they aged well, as the characters models are quite realistic. This is a huge step up from the previous game; the maps have more detail put into them, the battle scene is more dynamic, the monsters and the battlers feels more natural, etc.
To sumer it up, everything is more polished and, as I said before, realistic. Now you control characters who look like real humans, not only polygons.

The music is also pretty good; there are a lot of pretty good themes, and some of them that are amazing. Like most of Nobuo Uematsu works, it is consistent, and matches the scenes perfectly. We have some complex themes and some ones that are more simplistic, but there is not any song out of place, everything makes sense with the feel of the game. I must say that the use of the leitmotiv is done nicely, with two main themes; the Balamb Garden melody and “Liberi fatali”. One of my favorites song from this title is “The extreme”, the last battle theme. It is a fantastic track, and one of the best that the composer did. Other great tracks are “Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec”, “Premonition”, “Liberi Fatali”, “Fisherman’s horizon”, “The man with the machine gun”, etc.

REPLAYABILITY
The game has a lot of replayability value, with many secrets to discover and side quests. This entry also engages the player to start a new game and try to play without GF, without using cards to grind, without refine, and with more handicaps, so there is a lot to do with this title.

FINAL SCORES
-Graphics: 10
-Music: 9
-Story and characters: 6
-Playability: 6

TOTAL SCORE
7.5