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Final Fantasy 8 - Triple Triad. The best mini-games

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  1. What game: Final Fantasy 8
  2. Type of additional entertainment: a minigame built into the main campaign

Long before the world saw Gwent in The Witcher 3, we could have been playing memorable card battles in the eighth major part of the Japanese Final Fantasy role-playing game series, between saving space-time and learning the love story of Squall and Rinoy. While FF7 was stuffed to the brim with smaller attractions, the eighth part focused on quality rather than quantity and got one extra activity – and it was a huge one.

In Triple Triad, like in Gwent, you can play with characters you meet while exploring the world of the game – but interestingly enough, in different parts of the game, the rules of the game differ slightly from each other. Overall, the game is about playing cards one at a time on the board of the size 3 by 3 fields. If the card we play turns out to be strong enough, it will change the color of the card that belongs to the opponent to the one that our cards have. The opponent's moves are similar, and in the end whoever has more cards on the board wins.

Triple Triad returned in several later Square Enix games, including Final Fantasy XIV. - Not just the thread - the best mini-games ever - dokument - 2020-06-14
Triple Triad returned in several later Square Enix games, including Final Fantasy XIV.

Easy-to-understand rules and a lot of modifiers make the Triple Triad addictive for many hours. And it evokes a lot of excitement because of its reward system – whoever wins gets one card from the opponent. On the one hand, this allows you to rapidly expand your deck; on the other hand, if you lose your most valuable card, the defeat can be very severe and difficult to recover from.…

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Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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