Final Fantasy VIII (ファイナルファンタジーVIII, Fainaru Fantajī Eito) is a 1999 console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Windows-based personal computers as a part of the Final Fantasy series. The game's story focuses on a group of young mercenaries who are drawn into an international conflict, and seek to protect the world from a sorceress manipulating the war for her own purposes.