Rinoa Heartilly is the fictional character and co-protagonist of Square's 1999 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VIII.
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19 Facts About Rinoa Heartilly
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Rinoa Heartilly's is a teenaged member of a resistance faction known as the Forest Owls.
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Rinoa Heartilly has made cameo appearances in other Final Fantasy and Square Enix games.
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Rinoa Heartilly felt that the more realistic graphical capabilities the original PlayStation could provide, along with advances like full motion video, made female characters too beautiful and was overshadowing their personalities.
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Rinoa Heartilly believed that these innovations might tempt developers to make their female characters "too beautiful" and focus more on physical appearance than personality.
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Nomura stated that the reason Rinoa Heartilly did not appear in the franchise was because he did not have a clear understanding of Rinoa Heartilly's personality.
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Rinoa Heartilly's first voiced appearance was in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, with Kana Hanazawa providing her voice in Japanese, and Skyler Davenport performing the English version.
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Rinoa Heartilly is the 17-year-old daughter of General Caraway, a high-ranking officer in the Galbadian army, and Julia Heartilly, a famous singer.
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Rinoa Heartilly is a member of the "Forest Owls", a tiny resistance faction seeking to liberate the small nation of Timber from Galbadian occupation.
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Rinoa Heartilly first meets Squall at the SeeD inauguration ball at Balamb Garden.
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Later on, the evil Sorceress Ultimecia possesses Rinoa Heartilly after losing control of Edea, which causes Rinoa Heartilly to fall into a coma-like state.
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Rinoa Heartilly discovers that she now has Edea's magical powers from her time possessed by Ultimecia, making her a Sorceress as well.
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Rinoa Heartilly appears in Square's and Sony's PlayStation 2 technology demo.
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Rinoa Heartilly, accompanied by her pet dog Angelo, appears as a playable character in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
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Rinoa Heartilly has been mostly well received by video game critics and the general public.
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In 2020 NHK conducted an All-Final Fantasy Grand Poll of Japanese players, with Rinoa Heartilly ranked as the thirty fifth greatest Final Fantasy character by Japanese respondents.
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Natalie Flores from Paste Magazine praised her character arc as Rinoa Heartilly starts as a pacifist heroine and becomes motivated to aid SeeD to defeat Edea and Ultimecia.
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Rinoa Heartilly's has been noted due to her beauty by multiple video game publications.
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Reed included the theory of Rinoa Heartilly being Ultimecia on the list of top nine lingering plotlines in video games.
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