Can You Beat Final Fantasy 8 With ONLY SQUALL?
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2023
- Can Squall do it alone?
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Challenge Rules:
1. If Squall is in the party, he is the only one who is allowed to do damage to enemies.
2. The only action other characters can take is to attack themselves or other party members.
3. Until all other characters are dead, Squall may not take any action except attacking his party members.
4. Squall may only junction GF's that he acquired from enemies as well as the GF's he starts with at the beginning of the game
5. No gifts from other characters may be used unless they are required to advance the game.
6. Card mod can not be used to acquire magic beyond what is already available at that chronological point in the game.
7. No chocobo quests (that's a friend. We don't like friends.)
8. No invincibility (come on. It’s a challenge!)
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We JRPG fans consider not having friends so novel and unusual we happily watch long and intricate videos about it
Saving Rinoa isn't so much about being her friend, it's more about pissing off everyone in the world, and it's against her wishes, so win win?
Against her wishes because Squall is a douche and causes her to lose hope. She gave up because Squall had no idea how to say I love you and I'll be damned if they take you away.
Thanks for supporting my quasi-joke
Because I always draw GFs from bosses first thing I never realized that they gave them perks like Auto Reflect. Very cool little detail.
huh you wot???
@Aeris Gainsborough He says it right in the video. The Iguion (I probably butchered the spelling) have Auto-Reflect until you draw Carbuncle from them and then they lose it. Because I always Draw GFs first I never knew.
@@rpproductions6241 huh...just scrolling the comments and STILL finding new things out...I thought I was the BIGGEST geek at this game but...
@Aeris Gainsborough I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about this game myself but there's always new things to learn. Then again I haven't done challenge runs on this game yet myself so I'm not wholly surprised I never discovered this.
Does this happen to all the bosses with gf? Like does edea get something for having Alexander?
What I truly appreciate most about your solo character challenges is that you make them truly challenging. I know for a fact anyone could blow through this game with any single character if I play the way I normally do.
Cool video. Seems you have a challenge idea that you can apply to a lot of RPGs. Cloud Only, Tidus Only etc 👍
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I feel like a chance was missed by not asking, "What happens when Squall's friends actually go talk to walls and leave him by himself?" 😂
It’s not like hed care
some hidden part of this challenge seems to be that Tantacles doesn't use limit breaks, doesn't use cheat items, and mostly uses Magic attacks only :o
Challenges should be challenging!
He carries the goddammit game even more so if you get lionheart in disc 1 with ungodly amounts of grinding
Love to see you branching out. All this recent growth is so deserved! Please just never stop being you, its refreshing to have a creator seem comfortable actually being themselves.
❤️
Great run, awesome finale. Love your problem solving!
Another banger of a video! I love that you always include classic songs and themes from some of my favorite jrpgs in your videos. Tantacles content is best content!
Yay! I’m so happy that you do a video about the 8. I’ve been enjoying your content a lot lately and ff8 was a game I wished to see you do content on.
It helps that enemies level based on the average party level, makes doing a solo squall run comparatively easy to some other titles in the franchise, specifically older ones.
Nice one.
I like the limitations you put on yourself to stop it being a cakewalk.
Well done.
Thank you! Based on your profile pic, seems like I might need to do some Pokémon…
Great video 👍
Just started watching your videos, and I'm loving it ❤
Thank you!
I died during that drill part on two play throughs as a adult. I thought I was a cut scene and I forgot about it the second time I played it…and thought it was a cut scene again 😂
ff8 is my favorite game. Super glad you did this!
Love the sudden realizations of stuff to make it work, great use of the Ace Attorney track
This video was fantastic squallity keep up the good work
Thank you!
Do other card players count as friends? If they don't, this challenge should be a cake walk
as someone who plays trading card games IRL i cna tell you they are not your friends many will shittalk and steal from you if you dont pay attention.
Sorry I can’t not… Squall isn’t affected by Blind. Like ever. His base accuracy is 255. He physically cannot miss a physical attack…. Even with Blind…. Just saying…
That aside… I love these challenge runs, honestly they’re so fun and you’re brilliant, I legit love your videos. Been a long time since I’ve seen videos that made me laugh out loud like that 😁
Blind does have an effect on Squall, it disables his gunblade trigger, so he loses the 50% damage increase he gets from that on his normal attack. In Exchange his limit breakers get even stronger, and honestly, its an excellent trade.
@@mauricesteel4995 you're right I should've been clearer, I just meant that he won't miss his straight attack. His trigger won't... well .. trigger, but his actual attack command will always hit.
I’m so glad people are still playing this game in general
I never knew I needed Final Fantasy videos with Drag Race references and clips, but here we are.
Keep up the awesome work.
*tongue pops*
i get the feeling that everyone who played final fantasy in their childhood ended up clinically insane later on in life.... that is, of course, operating under the assumption that any of us subscribe to clinical psychology
Final fantasy and Drag Race references? I've found my people 😍
I always love seeing your challenge runs. Wonder what your next one is. I would love to see you come up with a different FF6 one from the typical challenges.
For my next challenge I will get rid of all of my real life friends as fast as possible
"Can you beat FF6 WITHOUT turning all your party members into Ultima cannons?" (I can't)
I applaud the use of World Revolution from Chrono Trigger at the end
impressive journey you did. Also, this was nuts, especially the final battle which has as many main phase as there are PS1 Discs holding the original game
You know, if you missed the GFs earlier you can draw them from the bosses in Ultimecia's castle. The only one I remember off the top of my head is Bahamut from Tiamat.
Any of the none-story & non-zone optional related Guardian Forces can be obtained through Ultemica's Castle. Eden, Alexander, Siren, Bahamut, Cerberus, Pandemonia, Leviathan, Carbuncle. Tonberry, Doomtrain, and Diablos (If you delete or sell the magic lamp) cannot be obtained in the final act, but Cactuar can if you beat the giant cauctar.
Hold up... I thought Tiamat gives you Eden. You still need to go that abandoned sea lab thingy to get bahamut and you can even do it on disk 4
@@adventureoflinkmk2 Okay, I looked it up and it's Siren from Tri-Point, Carbuncle from Krysta, Leviathan from Trauma, Pandemona from the Red Giant, Cerberus from Gargantua, Alexander from Catoblepas and Eden from Tiamat. Bahamut can only be gotten from the Underwater Research Lab.
@@noahhobson4521 interestijg.. didnt know you can draw cerberus on disk 4. Learn something new everyday lol
Been waitin' on the FF8 stuff. Hell yeah! 🤙
You combined Final Fantasy 8, Drag Race memes and Persona 5 music in the background all into 1 video and for that alone I will subscribe
My schtink finger thanks you
I love your channel so much. XD
You just made my day a bit more interesting
If you think this is insane, Beat Nocturne on Hard with no extra press turn with Demi-Fiend only would send you to an Asylum. LOL
Did you know if you go in and out of the area that raijin spawns when fight him the first time a certain amount of times he will just be there without doing the puzzle
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@@tantacles Yeah try it
@@tantaclesI just checked the amount of times you need and it's 17
I just discovered your content and I am rolling xD
60+ deaths. Thats brutal. lol You should live stream on youtube every now and then. I like to watch you actually doing these runs live.
The music portion actually effects the conversation Squall and Rinoa have in that section, you can either make a bad mismash, eyes on me or an irish jig by assigning the right instruments.
The submerging jail killed me as an adult - there were many times i didnt understand i had control, but thought i was in a cutscene. Oops.
#metoo
Best name for Rinoa; Go Away haha
26:32 Final Fantasy 1 had the flying fortress, which turned out to be a satelite in orbit. The moon in FF4 as you mentioned, and in FF7 taking the huge materia to space.
Still possibly my new favorite creator
This old thing? 💅🏼
@@tantacles abso positively you better believe it.
Great video, impressively done.
To answer your question, yes, I have died in the sequence where the prison is going back into the sand. I've also managed to die during the sinking sandship sequence in Xenogears.
Love the videos man just found this channel and I'm loving the rpg runs and would like to see a xenosaga challenge run if anyone has heard of that game
Damn. That looked HARD AF
"How did I mess that up?"
That's a question I ask myself on a daily basis. haha
In classic, you could skip the tutorials once they actually started by holding cancel as the menu came up. Not sure if that functionality ported, but try it out
You can... skip them by pressing B (Xbox, i think its Circle on Playstation)
Final Fantasy + Drag Race = One more subscriber Love the videos
CUH-TOE-BLEH-POSS he says (catblepas)?! dude this was an insane video, love it! especially chaotic
You know me so well…
Thank you
I, too, died at the submerging jail. It gave no indication I was supposed to move.
I feel what you said about FF4. Going to the moon just feels like another cave or underground section.
The Kandy Muse cameo at the beginning really took me off guard 😂
ehh i like the idea that everyone looks like crap and squall just happens to be the best of the bad🤣
I did this when I was a kid. Love this game.
I suppose if you really wanted to you could make use of Eden's Devour command (or do the pupu quest for the 1 item that can teach devour) and oh so slowly raise most of Squall's stats to max without any magic junctions. At which point you have a bunch of junk magic in your stocks to protect your major offensive spells like meteor
You can use a Phoenix down on the president’s zombie form because he’s undead and instantly kill.
Literally died to the easiest boss in the game 😅
N00b moments, Tantacles edition
This probably shouldn't be too hard. You can become broken so early in this game
This is the greatest video ever
i just blow the like and subscribe button, nice run!!
oh I definitely died during the submerging jail part.
Like how was I suppose to know that it wasn't just a cutscene?
I was a child!
I say this on any ffviii video I watch.
My favorite part of 8 is paying more attention to the dialogue from anyone other than Squall's point of view.
Let me explain>
There is a scene where Seifer is being sentenced to death for the attack on the president.
Squall and friends are sitting around and talking about their relationship with Seifer. you got quistis talking about how he was a disruptive student but was in general a good person. Rinoa dated him and even though they are broken up she wonders if she had loved him. Zell hated the guy but he was 'one of us, y'know?' and then there's Squall. Leaning against the wall and listening to everyone talk about Seifer. Talking about how he WAS this and he WAS that. and as Squall put it 'talking about him in the past tense' as if he had already been executed.
We as the player, who gets to hear all of Squall's inner monologue get to 'hear' what Squall is really feeling about the situation and can relate to Squall in some way. He starts to wonder if others will talk about HIM the same way when he dies. He WAS this he WAS that. and this truly upsets Squall. Eventually these feelings bubble to the top and he shouts out " I will not be talked about in the past tense" and runs out the room. This makes sense since we got to connect with Squall in only a way the player can.
Now remove his inner monologue and look at it from everyone else's point of view.
One of their crew has just been sentenced to execution and now are talking about the person he was and their relationship with him. Friend, Frenemy, Lover. When suddenly, Squall jumps up and yells " I will not be talked about in the past tense " and runs out the door.
It's absolutely hilarious.
"Is he off his junctions?"
There are so many interesting views to look at with this game because of Squall’s internal monologue, it’s really cool. But it’s not like Squall’s reaction is in the spotlight when he freaks out, everyone thinks hes being a whackass too because Selphie springs up and yells “are you MAD?”. Also its worth mentioning that Rinoa never dated Seifer, she just had a crush on him. She says she doesn’t know if Seifer ever liked her back
@@LyntzbartzkyPerez I do agree that it was probably just a crush but there was a small hint they could have gone out at least once or twice. I had to search for a script for the words but right after she was questioned if he was her boyfriend she wondered if it was love and wondered how he felt then said " It was last summer... I was 16. Lots of fond memories... " Which don't necessarily hint much but in a later scene Seifer tells her " remember a year ago we... " and then gets interrupted. They could have just hung out and been good friends with a potential romance in the future or he could have known how she felt and was saying this to manipulate her in some way ( As this was once he became the sorceress' knight and this was right before one of the fights you have to have with him )
Beating the game with other character than Squall would be good to see
Every time boats are mentioned, I feel like there’s a reference to an argument you and your bf had about owning a boat 😂😂😂 it sounds SO personal lol
DO NOT BUY A BOAT
There are two days every boat owner remembers. The day they bought the boat, and the day they sold it.
I'm a little late to the party on this one (we were on our honeymoon!), but this challenge run was really impressive to see. Definitely a lot to account for in FF8, but seeing you adapt and overcome, finding solutions to the problems that came up was really cool, and all without breaking the rules! Side note, it was cool of you to put the footage of you playing in the corner, your reactions and facial expressions were great and you could see just how seriously you were concentrating towards the end of the run. Were you livestreaming this somewhere or just recording yourself for the video?
Thank you!
I was just recording myself this time. I plan to eventually stream these runs (and gameplay like it) on RUclips, but I want to make sure I have an audience for that first. Streaming to no one is exhausting business, and I know that because I’ve tried it!
@@tantacles Totally understand! Keep up the awesome content!
In the Balamb Garden civil war part of the game, you dont need to fight the T Rexaur. If you fight the enemies on the left and dorm, head back to the lift, and it skips the other 3 fights
WHAAAAT
@@tantacles old trick I remembered from my childhood, fight enemies at infirmary, stage, cafeteria and dorm, skips the carpark, training centre and library. Nifty for speedrun 😊
Being honest Squall with just auto attacks and the multi attack junction ability can result in you casually dealing over 20k damage a turn with max stacks of the right draw magic applied to stats.
I don't trust what you say because you're a cat.
I would actually argue that squall and decider are quite close. Especially at the offset, they know each other more intimately than any other two characters.
Most canonical run ever
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If I wasn't already subbed, I would sub again. For two reasons.
1:You're playing my first and favorite FF game.
2:You used Legend of Dragoon music for your channel plug. XD
I'm easy to impress. >.>
21:30 Jokes on you, I'm already subscribed.
I too died on the rails at the desert prison. And I had/have the guidebook. I actually went the wrong way the first time lol.
I love how Blue Dragon is clearly green
I did indeed die during that one prison eacape scene when I was a kid.
Moombas are so underrated
When I first played this game, I accidentally basically did this challenge. If you get early Diablo and just use Darkside Squall just deletes most enemies very quickly.
Loving you posting more and more RPG content. I'm all for your Joke-aholism. Thanks for having fun with your videos and challenges too, it shows :).
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I never bought the actual remaster, but the ps and original pc version (I believe) had a way to slip the tutorial, you just have to hold the cancel button. This is one of the few games I've done a solo run for, but I only limited myself to a solo run, no gf/junction restrictions in my case.
Wow. You piss off alot of people off. Definitely a refreshing change of pace lol
An annoyed viewer is a happy viewer, I always say! 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼
I subscribed once...took it away and re subscribed again it was that great. Keep it up bud. Cheers
Not every video can be for every person, but I really appreciate that you tried watching another one.
Mallow only on Sunday.
Not a single complaint. You good bro
I'm going to watch this, I'll edit comment once I finish. Reaction to the tittle "Of course he can, he's Squall "
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Word, a challenge run I actually wanna do myself.
Most other runs seem just annoying.
Zell is literally male Tifa gameplay wise. I like the dude he'll punch anything
Oh man this'll blow your mind, if the menu pops up in a tutorial just press triangle, can skip all of it.
Dead
Squall Is The True Queen
Yassssssss
She ghosts us all
With the leveling system, this makes it much easier to play with only one character, it's the only way I play it, but I junction everything and only use other characters when needed. I like being overpowered
omg i gagged " I have a terrible memory .. " Ru paul XDDD
SEATTLE
"He denies this cute little twink a handshake". Squall is all about big guys or skinny girls.
How about fighting minerva in final fantasy crisis core, but using the early curse ring to keep yourself at lvl 6
That was a super fun watch. What's the song that plays near the very end as Ultimecia was speaking?
Can you give me an exact time in the video?
@@tantacles 42:56
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Past From Far Distance
ruclips.net/video/tvpLYZg5LO4/видео.html
@@tantacles It's so ominous and beautiful, thank you for sharing!
Side note: I love the Persona 5 and FFIX songs vibing in the background.
9:03 "Of course I have a terrible Memory"
Yeah, like forgetting that Squall has 255% Accuracy and CANT MISS, even while blind.
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excellent stuff. now did you go back and beat Cerberus?
Wait… can you go back there?
@@tantacles ha well perhaps a mod is needed to resolve this. I appreciate you attempting that battle several times though
Curious on how superbosses would go without friends (assuming you don’t instakill them), and make sure you do many attempts on it yourself before saying “you can’t”
Depends on the game and rules set in place. FF8, with the current rules they're using, no chance really. If they eased up on the gf junction limits, absolutely possible.
How do you not have any GF's with Elem Atk J? Does Squall beating Ifrit up and subjagating him solo not count?
You can actually skip tutorials in FF8 by pressing the cancel button, circle by default.
There is something so charming in the edginess and grindfest that is FF8, is far from my fav FF title, yet is my most replayed one. It's hard to explain... whatever
good stuff tantaces, but the Hero item make you invincible to all attacks, including shockwave Pulsesar(I think you get it from fighting Seifer)
Too easy. Challenges should be challenging.
@@tantacles Well you taught me about SPR. I didn't know if you knew about the Hero Item. I love FF8 and great video
What level were you at the end if i may ask?
I think around 20
i did, i died in the sand rail segment as a kid
You go to space in FF4, FF7, and depending on how you see it the the Sky Castle/Floating Castle in FF1 some argue is in space too, but at the very least FF4 and FF7 you go to space even if briefly.