There seems to be a link between her and your love interest Rinoa - with tantalising clues and strange allusions - but it’s a lacuna, an absence, like so many elements of FFVIII’s lore.īut a recent replay changed my mind.
Just who is Ultimecia, the sorceress from the future, and what does she really want? It’s never satisfyingly explained, nor how the sorceresses came about. Everyone grew up together in an orphanage but forgot due to Plot Convenient Amnesia (discussed once and then forgotten). You are mortally wounded and impaled in the chest at the end of Disc 1, then awake apparently unharmed. They’re training to become elite special forces, but have no idea their school is really a front for a millennia-long war against a time-travelling sorceress who wants to destroy all existence. Yes, for the record, this was also my favourite element of the game.You play a group of teens at a high-school-cum-military academy who spend their days planning prom dates, riding hoverboards and munching hot dogs at the school cafeteria. I remember spending hours and hours fine-tuning my home-made scenarios to play through, crafting my objectives in a way I had not experienced before, certainly not in any console game anyhow. In fact, the Xbox version allowed for ten bots per map, compared to the PS2 and GameCube’s measly seven. This wasn’t just because of the vast amount of cosmetic options at hand, such as bots, items and tilesets, but also due to the ability to create your own complex and detailed missions. Despite how impressive it was in Timesplitters 2, the new and improved Mapmaker went further and was truly groundbreaking. Timesplitters: Future Perfect also saw the return of the series’ much loved Mapmaker mode. It was all about the local multiplayer and campaign co-op modes that’s where Timesplitters: Future Perfect shone brightest. Although online play was available, albeit in its relative infancy, it didn’t matter. And that is exactly what makes Timesplitters so enjoyable, oodles of different modes of play, match conditions and characters to play as. There are loads of characters to get, old and new, and the vast majority of customisation options returned. Yes, both Arcade and Challenge modes returned, complete with unlockables and medals to be earned. Never fear though – multiplayer was also strongly represented in Timesplitters: Future Perfect.
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