Closing Fantasy 8 Is My Favourite

Ben Starr, the actor behind the finest a part of Closing Fantasy XVI, steely protagonist Clive Rosfield, has been selling the sport for a sizzling minute. As you may think about, he’s talked to lots of people and has in all probability answered plenty of questions on his efficiency and the franchise. However it appears there’s one factor about him he needs folks to know so that they cease asking: His favourite Closing Fantasy is Closing Fantasy VIII.

On the 2023 Golden Joystick Awards, Starr received the award for Greatest Lead Performer. Upon accepting his statue on stage on the London occasion, his match was, as Kotaku’s main style correspondent Alyssa Mercante describes it, “the way you do a blazer and a t-shirt,” with a velvet, “pumpkin spice-colored” go well with, and a t-shirt beneath. That t-shirt was white, other than one essential element: the emblem for Closing Fantasy VIII.

Starr gave a shoutout to the performers who voice Clive in different languages and to his tabletop group at Pure Six, and took a second to clarify that the sport on his shirt is his favourite in Sq. Enix’s long-running RPG sequence.

“What I do need to say is that this: Firstly, Closing Fantasy VIII is my favourite Closing Fantasy,” Starr stated on the Golden Joystick stage. “Cease asking me that query. And this sequence modified my life. It modified my life. This recreation has modified my life. Thanks a lot to everybody. I actually respect it. I’ll treasure this for the remainder of my life.”

Closing Fantasy VIII doesn’t rank fairly so extremely for me, and it ended up across the center of our current sequence rating right here at Kotaku. Nonetheless, I can’t assist however stan a stan who’s dedicated to the bit. Carrying a t-shirt in your fave beneath a blazer is a serve. It’s a daring assertion to declare your love for one thing with all these eyes on you, and for that, I’ve to respect Starr’s resolution to talk his fact. However Ben, I gotta know: what’s your opinion on Closing Fantasy X-2?

For extra on Closing Fantasy XVI, take a look at Kotaku’s evaluation.