Lack of FF8

[Lambdafish]

I've noticed increasingly this expansion that references and callbacks to old FFs are becoming more and more prevailant, especially FF6, but I have also noticed that we have barely any references to FF8 at all in the game, with the only one I can think of being triple triad, which is a minigame not battle content. Does Yoshi P hate FF8?

Is it too much to ask for a garlean magitek spider, or a blue garlean battle tank?

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