An interview with Phil Salvador, who challenges the haters to "eat my ass"
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The best new website of 2024 could be, against all odds, a Final Fantasy 8 fan site.
Yes, that's right: Screw on your fancy new PS5 Final Fantasies – devoted Final Fantasy 8 fan Phil Salvador decided to launch a website dedicated to what he considers to be the best Final Fantasy, full of very funny articles and passionate argument.
In his day job, Salvador works as a librarian for the Video Game History Foundation, which means he's constantly finding and cataloging old game publications and is unusually aware of how games like Final Fantasy 8 were received, discussed and marketed. That, coupled with his deep and abiding love of the game and a penchant for weird URLs (like https://ff8isthe.best), meant that Salvador had more than enough gas in the tank to run an entire website in his spare time.
