10 Video Game Romances to Make You Swoon
Squall and Rinoa – Final Fantasy VIII
The prom king and queen of the late 90’s JRPG era, Final Fantasy VIII’s protagonists Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly were always going to be on this list.
It’s not often, before or since, that the central theme to a video game is a romance between two playable characters, at least outside of the Final Fantasy series, and so they deserve a special mention.
The central narrative of VIII does become admittedly muddled towards the end, but seeing the lengths these two go to to be together is especially heartwarming, doubly so if you were a teenager yourself around the time of VIII’s release.
Interestingly, despite its reputation for edginess, it is only one of two games on this list in which our lovers live happily ever after. Squall and Rinoa set the stage for video romances to come, and it totally holds up. I promise.
