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Encyclopedia > Rinoa Heartilly
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Rinoa Heartilly

Rinoa at the SeeD Graduation Ball
Game series Final Fantasy series
First game Final Fantasy VIII
Designed by Tetsuya Nomura
Motion capture actor(s) Mayuko Aoki
In-universe information
Weapon Blaster Edge[1]
Limit Break Combine,[2] Angel Wing

Rinoa Heartilly (リノア・ハーティリー Rinoa Hātirī?) is the female lead of Squaresoft's (now Square Enix) Final Fantasy VIII. She is the seventeen year old daughter[3] of General Caraway, a high-ranking officer in the Galbadian army, and Julia Heartilly, a famous singer and former love interest of Laguna Loire.[4][5] Throughout the game, she falls in love with the protagonist, Squall Leonhart.[6][3][7] She has black hair with brown highlights and brown eyes. Rinoa and Squall are featured in the electronic board game Itadaki Street Special. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Square Co. ... Image File history File links Rinoa Heartilly Final Fantasy VIII This work is copyrighted. ... Garden is a group of elite military academies in Squares computer role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII. There are three Garden schools, including Balamb Garden, Galbadia Garden, and Trabia Garden. ... This article is about the Final Fantasy franchise. ... Final Fantasy VIII ) is a console and computer role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. ... Tetsuya Nomura ) is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix Co. ... Mayuko Aoki ), born December 17, 1975 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese voice actress (seiyÅ«) who has worked on several anime and video game productions. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Fiction. ... Square Co. ... SQUARE ENIX (Japanese: スクウェア・エニックス) is a Japanese producer of popular video games and manga. ... Final Fantasy VIII ) is a console and computer role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. ... Square Co. ... Square Co. ... Square Co. ... Squall Leonhart ) is the main protagonist of Squaresofts (now Square Enix) role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII. He was designed by Tetsuya Nomura with heavy influences coming from game director Yoshinori Kitase. ... Cloud Strife from Itadaki Street Special. ...

Contents

Development

Tetsuya Nomura's sketch of Rinoa Heartilly

When designing Rinoa, Tetsuya Nomura emphasized that he tried to avoid letting the possibilities presented by the recent advancements in FMV technology become the entire focus, believing that these innovations might tempt developers to make their female characters "too beautiful" and focus more on physical appearance than personality. With this concern in mind, Nomura set out with the intention to avoid making Rinoa gorgeous, and to simply make her "cute" instead. To further emphasise this, he wrote a list of vocabulary traits and physical habits for Rinoa's character that he felt conveyed this idea of "cute, not gorgeous," and sent them to Nojima along with the character's design.[8] Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Tetsuya Nomura ) is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix Co. ... Screenshot of an FMV from Final Fantasy VIII using Bink Video. ... Knut, a young polar bear at the Berlin Zoo, has been referred to in news media as cute[1]. Cuteness is a kind of attractive beauty commonly associated with youth, innocence and helplessness, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in Ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz. ...


Final Fantasy VIII

Outspoken, spirited, emotional, and honest with her feelings, she speaks her mind without reservation.[3] Because of her ambition, she can often be stubborn.[3] The year before the game begins, she was romantically involved with Squall's long-standing rival Seifer Almasy.[9] Rinoa's weapon of choice is the Blaster Edge, a bladed ring mounted to her wrist that acts much like a boomerang.[1] She is assisted by her faithful dog, Angelo, during battle.[2] Later in the game, she acquires a secondary limit break called Angel Wing, in which she becomes uncontrollable for the remainder of the battle, acting on her own by casting spells with greatly increased power. Seifer Almasy ) (the first syllable is pronounced with a long i sound) is both a playable character and an antagonist in Squaresofts (now Square Enix) role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII. He has short blond hair, green eyes, and a scar across his forehead mirroring Squall Leonharts. ... This article is about the wooden implement. ... Contents 1 Main playable characters 1. ...


In the game, Rinoa is a member of the Forest Owls, a small resistance faction seeking to liberate the small nation of Timber from Galbadian occupation.[10] She is called the "princess" of the group.[11] Rinoa first meets Squall at the SeeD inauguration ball at Balamb Garden. During the dance, she manages to charm the usually antisocial Squall[3] into dancing with her.[12] Her purpose for visiting the Garden is revealed when the Forest Owls hire Squall, Zell Dincht, and Selphie Tilmitt as mercenaries. She clashes with Squall during a Forest Owls operation,[13] resulting in her brief departure. However, she decides to stay with them as they are forced to flee Timber, and ends up traveling along with them. At the end of disk one, Rinoa is reunited with her father, with whom she has a rocky relationship.[5] Square Co. ... Garden is a group of elite military academies in Squares computer role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII. There are three Garden schools, including Balamb Garden, Galbadia Garden, and Trabia Garden. ... Square Co. ... Square Co. ...


On disk two, she shares a moment with Squall at Fishermans Horizon, during a concert performed by the remaining party members.[14] After this, both characters become aware of people's efforts to force them into a relationship.[15] The party soon learns that Rinoa is the only main character to not have spent time at Edea's Orphanage.[16] Later, Rinoa is possessed by Ultimecia when she loses her influence over Sorceress Edea, which causes Rinoa to fall into a coma-like state. Consequently, Squall tries desperately to revive her, eventually traveling to the country of Esthar.[17] However, Ultimecia manages to use Rinoa to release Sorceress Adel from her orbital prison.[18] Square Co. ... Square Co. ... In medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness. ... Square Co. ...

Squall and Rinoa embrace after he frees her from confinement in Esthar.

After Rinoa's use expires, Ultimecia possesses Adel and leaves Rinoa to die in space. Squall rescues her, and the two attempt to share a personal moment on the Ragnarok spaceship while the game's theme song, "Eyes On Me", plays in the background.[19][20] While this is happening, Squall discovers that Edea's power had been passed to Rinoa, turning her into a Sorceress.[21] When they land, Rinoa is sent to the Sorceress Memorial by Esthar, who fear her sorceress powers; however, Squall is convinced by his party members to rescue her.[22] The two share an embrace at the Sorceress Memorial, which is also depicted in the opening cutscene, and continue their quest. During the game's ending, she reunites with Squall, and kisses him for the first time on the Balamb Garden balcony. Image File history File links SnRembracescene. ... Image File history File links SnRembracescene. ... The music of Final Fantasy VIII was composed by regular series composer Nobuo Uematsu. ...


Reception and criticism

Although Squall and Rinoa clearly develop a relationship, it is never explicit until the final cutscene. IGN criticized this, stating that "considering that the love story is so integral to everything that happens — not to mention forming the central image of the box art — it's incomprehensible why no one says "I love you" to anyone, ever."[6] Game Revolution, however, stated "Frankly, you don't even have to play the game to know that love will win out in some way...very 'Hollywood.' But it is the way in which they tell the story that sets it apart from being just some teen-angst drama".[7]


In terms of Rinoa herself, when the Game Revolution reviewer cited the wish that the game had voice acting, he specifically mentioned Rinoa, stating "there is something sorely missing when I can't hear Rinoa talk".[7] She is also the subject of numerous fansites, as well as an 8.0 rating on WomenGamers.com.[23] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...


See also

Terra Branford , Tina Branford) is the heroine of Square Co. ... Aerith Gainsborough ) — known as Aeris Gainsborough in English translations of Final Fantasy VII — is a female protagonist in Squaresofts (now Square Enix) role-playing game Final Fantasy VII. She was designed by Tetsuya Nomura with influence from Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshitaka Amano. ... Tifa Lockhart ), is a female protagonist from Squaresofts blockbuster RPG, Final Fantasy VII designed by Tetsuya Nomura. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Yuna ) is a playable main character in both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 of the Final Fantasy role-playing video game series from Square Enix. ... Ashelia Ashe Bnargin Dalmasca ) is the heroine in Final Fantasy XII and a 19-year-old Hume princess fighting to liberate her kingdom, Dalmasca, from the Archadian Empire. ...

References

  1. ^ a b Final Fantasy VIII Characters - Rinoa. SquareEnix.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
  2. ^ a b (1999) in Square Electronic Arts: Final Fantasy VIII North American instruction manual (in English). Square Electronic Arts, 21. SLUS-00892GH. 
  3. ^ a b c d e (1999) in Square Electronic Arts: Final Fantasy VIII North American instruction manual (in English). Square Electronic Arts, 6-9. SLUS-00892GH. 
  4. ^ Kiros: "Heard she recently got married." / Raine: "Oh yeah! To some army general, right? General Caraway or something?" / Kiros: "I'm not too sure." / Raine: "I read in a magazine that her true love went off to war and never came back. General Caraway comforted her while she was feeling down. That's how they got to know each other." (Final Fantasy VIII
  5. ^ a b Squall: "Where's Rinoa?" / General Caraway: "She has not receive the type of training you all have, and may become a burden. It's for the best that she stays out of this operation." / Selphie: "So you're Rinoa's father?" / General Caraway: "I can't remember the last time she called me that." / Zell: "So the father's a top military officer, and the daughter's a member of an anti-government faction!? That's bad... Really BAD!" / General Caraway: "Yes, indeed. It's a serious problem. But it doesn't concern you. It's our problem." {Final Fantasy VIII)
  6. ^ a b Lundigran, Jeff (1999). IGN: Final Fantasy VIII Review. IGN. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
  7. ^ a b c Liu, Johnny (1999). Game Revolution Review Page - Final Fantasy VIII. Game Revolution. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
  8. ^ Sheila (2003). Tetsuya Nomura 20s. FLAREgamer. Retrieved on 13 April 2006.
  9. ^ Rinoa: "I don't really know. I... I think it was love. I wonder how [Seifer] felt...? ...It was last summer... I was 16." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  10. ^ Zone: "Just stand anywhere you want. This is a full-scale operation. Our resistance, 'The Forest Owls', will be forever known in the pages of Timber's independance! Exciting, huh? It all started when we got a hold of top-secret info from Galbadia." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  11. ^ Zone: "Just take it easy. Here, let me introduce you. Looks like you already met Watts. I guess it's just our princess then." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  12. ^ Rinoa: "SeeD members dance quite well, don't they?" / Squall: "Approach your target inconspicuously at a dance party... There may be missions requiring this sort of subterfuge. It's expected of SeeD to learn various skills." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  13. ^ Rinoa: "...Tell me. This is an order. An order from your client!" / Squall: "How serious are you...? Really...? The 3 of you plop down on the floor to discuss strategy? On top of that, you can't make a decision without our input, right? How do you think we feel, working for such an organization?" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  14. ^ Rinoa: "Fine... I guess I'll have to bug you for the rest of the night. And I'm gonna keep chanting 'concert, concert, concert' and drive you nuts. Is that what you want?" / Squall: "...Oh man..." / Rinoa: "I'm getting to you already, huh? Looks like you have no choice!" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  15. ^ Rinoa: "So that's what you call it. You know Zell said he'll make me one exactly like it. Who knows, maybe I can become like a lion, too. That'd be crazy, huh!? I mean, everyone might, y'know, get the wrong idea about us." / Squall: (If it's so crazy, why do you sound so delighted? Everyone is trying to get us together. It's so obvious even I can tell.) "You sound like you want everyone to get the wrong idea." / Rinoa: "No-no-no-no-no!" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  16. ^ Irvine: "Seifer was there, too. Except for Rinoa, we were all there." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  17. ^ Zell: "Is the princess still asleep?" / Quistis: "She might wake up with a kiss from the prince." / Squall: "Is that why you came all the way out here? To tell me that?" / Quistis: "You're going to Esthar, right? We're coming, too." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  18. ^ Rinoa: "But Edea's still... I can't guarantee anything, either, if Ultimecia possesses me again... You saw me. She controlled me in outer space and made me break Adel's seal. What might happen next time? What will I end up doing? Will I end up fighting everyone? ...Scary thought, isn't it?" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  19. ^ Squall: "Why are you holding onto me like this?" / Rinoa: "You don't like this, Squall?" / Squall: "Just not used to it." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  20. ^ Rinoa: "I don't want the future. I want the present to stand still. I want to stay here with you..." / Squall: (Rinoa...) / Squall: (I don't know what to do... This is just another crossroad in my life. But, for the first time, I don't know which way to go. I've come this far because I've...fallen for you. ......Rinoa...... Now...am I just supposed to let you go?" / Voice: "Respond, Ragnarok!" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  21. ^ Voice: "Rinoa? The sorceress!?" She's on the ship!?" / Squall: (So... It's true? Rinoa is a sorceress?) / Rinoa: "I've...become a sorceress. I can't stay with you anymore, Squall." (Final Fantasy VIII)
  22. ^ Squall: (A fool, huh?) "...Maybe." (What am I doing...? I may never get to hear Rinoa's voice ever again... What the hell am I doing? What can I do? ...Of course...) / Quistis: "Have you decided?" / Zell: "Heading to Esthar, right?" / Squall: "Pandora whatever and Sorceress Adel are out of my hands. I don't even know where to look for Sis. The only think I know is Rinoa. The only thing I want to do for sure right now is for Rinoa. We're going to get Rinoa back!" (Final Fantasy VIII)
  23. ^ Rinoa Heartilly review. WomenGamers.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.

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