7 Final Fantasy 8 Facts You STILL Don't Know
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Even after all this time, there are still so many facts about Final Fantasy 8 that are being uncovered and explored. In this third iteration of our Final Fantasy 8 Facts series, we're going to explore more about Gunblades, Gardens and the true story about how Eyes on Me got created!
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Here's a very obscure fact about FF8: if you use scan on the mannequin enemy in the debug room in the English version you just get a random bunch of numbers. In the Italian version, the translator left a hidden message there saying basically: "Help me, this translation is killing me, I'm super tired"
😄 🤣
That reminds me of one of the Aeris in the FF VII's Debug Room. She manages teleports to various maps, but one of them is "Hell" (translated as "Hades"). If you try to select that option, Aeris laughs and says that the debug room IS hell, clearly showing that some devs were... less than happy with their working shifts.
@@Jurarigo dang 😮 I heard about that. It's real creepy
How do you get access to the debug room?
@@japan100100 Gameshark, Action Replay, ROM hacks, save editing, Yuffie Warping bug exploits, etc.
FF8 also was the first to introduce the -ara and -aga naming of spells according to their strength level... as opposed to for example Fire1, Fire2, Fire3 in past games
Thats only true in the western versions. In Japanese, they always had that naming scheme actually
@@ThundagaT2 I probably shouldn't be surprised, considering historically due to character limitations with western dialog boxes in JRPGs had to shorten a lot of things throughout the 80's and 90's... the best example/worst offender being FF1 mandating every playable character and spell name to a mere 4 letters
I was gonna say...i started playing ffix in french for the 1st time....they call it fire plus :p i havent gotten to the level 3 magics though, wondering whats gonna happen next :3
@@ohcharlie428 Fire X most likely
@@nejaahalcyon well color me spoiled for the future of ffixfrancais. ;)
This is why I still watch these videos sometimes: despite being a hyper-fan who could tell you from memory what 90% of the cards turn into using card mod, and what items turn into what spells, there were honestly 5 things I did not know prior to watching this video.
Thank you.
I've always absolutely loved how 90% of FF8's music uses the melody of either Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec or Eyes On Me. Even Waltz for the Moon!
Its true. It's like the are all remixes of each other.
Theres a word for that. Its called a leitmotif (light moe teef is how i pronounce it. Not certain if thats the actual correct way.)
You can hear that neat thematic story telling trick in all kinds of movies and games! Though i agree that ff8s soundtrack does it masterfully.
Its used to associate themes with certain characters amd events and then the music weaves them in to accentuate whats happening in the story.
Much like The Dark Crystal, where all the music is a variant of the Dark Crystal Overture!
Nobuo Uematsu does that a lot
leitmotifs
@@dustinhatfield8373 I'd pronounce it Lay Moe Teef. But that's me.
At the start of 8 you can access the balamb school terminals and can see book returns to the library. The book "the sorceress knight" foreshadowing seifers dream and gives us additional context around the initial fight cutscene between seifer and squall. Thought that was interesting.
I don't know many who ever actually read the terminals. Those actually provided a lot of context to the plot and foreshadowed many plot points that detractors of 8 criticize (i.e., GF memory loss). While that's poor storytelling in my opinion as someone who puts 8 somewhere in her top ten, FF8 *is* nonetheless an RPG that encourages players to examine everything. I love seeing others mention those terminals.
@@Bewear.the.Adjuster I read it thinking it would improve my test scores, It did slightly.
I will put my foot down and say its Seifer who borrowed it.
Dude has an obsession
The movie that Laguna stars in is a film adaption of that book. So, Seifer’s hero is Laguna. He even holds the gun blade like him.
@@SynRequiem not only holds the blade, he copies his moves (swing and victory pose) also thats probably where he gets his knight dream
If we got a remake of this, I could die happy.
Yes I'd love them to give this the ff7 remake treatment
It would hopefully be much better than the ff7 remake, and there is a lot of internal dialog with squall in ff8. A voice over would be weird...
My God Yessss!!!
@@GabrielShakkori I hope not, I despise the FF7 remake, it's literally the second FF game I actually quit playing entirely, lightning returns was the first lol
@@shanematthews1985 did you also get the feeling that Sephiroth got milked throughout every possible scene?
so I have a Final Fantasy 8 forearm sleeve tattoo and today at work I had a customer who had a gunblade tattoo and we instantly became best friends over our love for this underrated entry, just really wanted to share that, it was awesome
Whenever someone mentions FF8 it warms my heart! Thanks guys for this great video 🙌🏼
FF8 came out when I was 17, and interestingly, Squall is 17. I was going through a lot in my life similar to Squall's life. To this day, Squall is still the FF character I related to most.
You were an orphan raised as a child mercenary with super natural creatures erasing your memory?
I was a bit younger than that, but I feel the exact same about Squall. He is my OG FF protag.
I Was 16 When This Game Came Out
& I Was Playing This Game Like No Other Games Existed Lol
I was 11 when FF8 came out. I myself was a lot like Squall growing up, Reserved, Uninterested and quiet, But as life when on I opened up and trusted people around and realize how much I was needed. Squall will always be my favorite FF character
I was a bit younger but felt the same
ff8 was the first ff i ever played and my favorite. i've played it countless times but i didn't encounter even once that ragnarok glitch
My first too. I was so young when I played it, that I had no idea what I was doing. I was level 90 in disc one before I made it to Deling City to assassinate the Sorceress. I was just going around killing things in my first playthrough. 🤣🤣🤣
You can use any of zells moves in his limit break from the start of the game. You don't need to read the books or even have them in the selection box during his limit break to input the button combo for them.
Say WHAAAAAAT????
I'll need to try this as soon as possible, as long as it is still possible in Remastered which I'm playing at the moment.
Eyes on Me...That brings back some really bittersweet memories. A damn fine song that reminds of one of the few people I ever ( and still do in my own way ) gave a damn about.
I honestly couldn't imagine anyone doing it better than Fay Wong.
Another fun fact, only the psx version of FF8 has vibration support. Felt really good hitting the gunblade trigger when the controller would tell you that you hit it right
The PSX version is also one the games that the PS3 couldn't read due to the copy protection they used with the game
@@shanematthews1985 interesting. Didn't knew that
I was literally wondering where the analog and vibration was. I knew I wasn't going crazy! I knew FF8 was the first to support the Dualshock controller, not FF9. I remember discovering this in a section where Find Your Way was playing, because I was thinking about how similar the song was to one from FF7 (the song that plays on the path to the Forgotten City of the Ancients where Hedgehog Pies are found). I was borrowing a legitimate Dualshock and not using my 3rd party one that was just mapping dpad to analog. It was way better. Yeah, you would feel the controller vibrate for Renzokuken.
Because FF7 was my first in the series, when I eventually got 8 and started playing, I was confused and very disappointed to realize Cloud and the others were nowhere to be seen.
I soon realized why that was and eventually became so wrapped up in the story that I got over it.
I had the same experience, I managed to get it 1 day before release day, I got it home and hated it cause it wasn’t 7.
1 year late I went back and throughly loved it.
Same happened with 10.
To this day 9 is still the one I’ve not finished, I just hate it through and through. There is nothing about it I like
@@christinaedwards5084 I didn't like 9 either.
@@christinaedwards5084same here, I couldn’t even get to the end of 9 cuz it was soooo boring to me. Idk why so many people like 9 or think it’s better than 7 and 8 lol
My first so 8 will always have a special place in my heart. I do get the junction system en plot criticism now though.
Here's a fact you all probably don't know. Diablos is the coolest fucking summon ever and his animation in FFVIII is the best of every summon in every game.
Very obscure. I'm a pretty hard-core fan of FF8 and this info is new for me. Gotta love this channel.
Love when you guys cover my favorite game!
Absolutely The Best!!
About Ultimecia's final monologue. She never finishes it, she end it with "And..." But I have a theory. She actually does finishes the monologue. Right after the battle and before she dies and passes her power to Edea in the past, Ultimecia has one final line "I can't disappear yet". I believe that was what she was going to say after the "And..." She was so close to absorbing all of time, space and reality that she was in disbelief that she was about to die. Dumb theory I know.
What about this: Ultimecia is the last human living on the FF8 world, this means nobody is around her to succeed her as a sorceress. This means once she dies she experiences endless agony without any hope to ever rest in peace. She simply had to do something...
edit: in my opinion she is the last because sending her mind to the bodies of past sorceresses (Edea, Rinoa, Adel) means she is unconscious in her timeline, so it would be easy to pwn her while she is in that state (if there was anybody bold enough to sneak around all the monsters in her castle).
FF8 content in 2022, you love to see it.
Oh hey, thanks for crediting my video on the Balamb car glitch! Wasn't expecting to see myself in a video, very cool! Have a nice day
When I was a kid all of my friends argued that FF8 gunblades shoot projectiles "bEcAuSe tHeY uSeD bUlEtS dUh" but I knew better because obviously they didn't have barrels. I also as a kid read about "vibroblades" in science fiction novels and thought that they functioned the same, using supersonic high intensity vibrations to cut through anything. I suppose this is why in-universe gunblades are notoriously difficult to wield (because you have to time pulling the trigger perfectly), and we only know about Squall and Seifer ever using them.
Saying "former Kotaku journalist Tim Rogers" feels a bit misleading, since the video he did that mentioned the Honda Echo giveaway is still on Kotaku's channel, even if he's gone independent since. "Games journalist Tim Rogers, at the time working for Kotaku" would be more accurate. Anyway, it's a good video, go hunt it down!
These videos warm my heart lol. As someone who loved & enjoyed ffvii- ffx-2 throughout my childhood. This may have been my favorite & I always return to it for nostalgia
I was recently reminiscing about how good my experience of final fantasy viii was, great video
Ha. I vaguely remember experiencing the Ragnarok bug too, back in the day. The closest save was like 4 hours behind my latest point so thankfully it wasn't-too- bad.
Ff8 is my all time favorite. Great Soundtracks and awesome characters. Story is also tragic, adventure, Horror, sci fi and romantic. I love it
One Winged Angel is DEFINITELY a vocal theme…
THANK YOU! I've been going crazy looking through the comments for someone else to point this out.
Good video but non-fact is non-fact.
@@chrishaggart9041
And it’s not that it’s not a Japanese theme, cause then My Hands woudn’t count, and it’s not that’s it’s an English theme they are talking about cause then Suteki Da Ne wouldn’t count. So by every metric they could be using One Winged Angel is a vocal theme. It’s be different if they just said “Sephiros” over and over again. But it has Full verses and chorus.
That fact about how the gunblade works is also explained in game. It fires blanks to vibrate the blade.
Great to have you back! Hope you are feeling better now 🤗
Final Fantasy 8 is my joint favourite with FF13. Played FF7, but FF8 just hooked me more. I still remember the end of the TV advert for FF8: The feather floating down from the end cinematic with the text "You'll get over it... someday".
Final Fantasy 13 is one of your favorites?
Forever my favorite Final Fantasy.
"As he was a fan of baseball...and his wife." I feel that
I always thought the symbol from Supernova was a reference to Eden channeling multiversal powers into it's attack, like some mechanical Shinryu. Granted, that would make more sense if you got him from Omega Weapon and not Ultima Weapon, since Omega was the machine built for destroying Shinryu (or... Tiamat? I guess?)
Cannot get enough of this facts... you really got me this time with many new ones for me! kp it up guys!
FF8 is my favorite Final Fantasy game by far. I replay it so much, and when I do I stick with it till the end every time, where most other final fantasy games I replay, I dont make it till the end and stop playing it before I finish. I tried playing FF12 International lately, and just wasent into it.
What didn’t you like about 12? I’ve been decisive on whether I should bother playing past 10
The Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack was really incredibly good. Eyes On Me had fit in perfectly as well. I don't think celebrity singers are needed for a good theme song. They often have their own style that doesn't work with the game or the soundtrack. Leona Lewis was a huge mistake for Final Fantasy XIII back in the day. The only song in the series that I can't listen to. Yet that's what music should do, linger.
I have to admit, that Eyes on me is a much more beautiful song and the singer definitely was great. I was able to relate better to the My Hands song's lyrics, but yeah, the FF8 song is a masterpiece for real. It's a pity FF13 got rushed in so many ways. And its sequels suffered much the same fate. But it's still pretty good content. Just imagining how much better they could have been in the small ways, like, rethinking a voice for the end of the game. Like sure, it's not going to affect the game all that much, but the song can attract new players if it's good, so why not make it the best it can be? More players means more money, hehe.
Fun timing, just replayed 8 for the 11th time through. I saw it has hastily produced this time around, but the gameplay was kickass as always. Yeah I guess the graphics are amazing for their time, kind of overlooked them this time around because I’ve seen it all so many times. Combined with the music, it’s a very aesthetic experience, the tunes stick with you and the scenery is memorable. Fun facts here…wish I had the skill to create experiences like these!
Love this. I only knew about the car one. Stellar work as always team FFU!
For me the thing that really shows just how good the music was:
Not just one but several asian restaurants in town used parts of the FF8-OST as part of their background music. Was really great when i could pull out my phone and play the songs alongside (well, as Midis back then).
FF8 is so unforgettable for me. The Draw system was pure torture
Only if you don’t realise that you shouldn’t use draw to create magic but rather use the m stones/pieces to refine magic using your GFs abilities and/or mod cards as it’s much faster doing it this way and less grinding required
FF8 DESERVES A REMAKE PERIOD.
I always got Supernova and Eden’s Eternal Breath mixed up in my head. I’m glad this validates it.
FF16 should do a promotion for a castle or an airship and have a portrait of Yoshi P hanging somewhere in game.
Also, Eyes on Me is GOATED
I can't blame the designers for disobeying Kitase's orders and trying to sneak easter eggs into the game, the tentation to leave your mark in a videogame like this would be too much for me
Okay, if all 3 Gardens transformed, that would have blew my mind as a kid & even now as a adult
Always love to see one of these videos pop up on my feed
@9:48 Near the top of the screen, above the Ptolemian map, that to me looks like some of the math equations also used during Sephiroth's Super Nova animation. I don't recall the equations being overlaid with Earth/Gaia, but that also very much looks like a reused asset.
Ff8 still my favour8
same, my griever tattoo always reminds me
There are dozens of us!
Hit us with the dad joke alright m8
I remember as a kid finding the car thing odd haha. Anyway, didn't know any of these! Good stuff!
I honestly never knew that they planned to have the gardens combine during development. Pretty interesting, and I guess it explains why Galbadia Garden disappears from the face of the world after the Battle of the Gardens?
I am not sure if it exists anywhere, but I would love to see a "History of Samurai" video sometime, if you were still making those!
Anyway, I look forward to watching THIS video on my break! Cheers.
I named my daughter Rinoa, not only because it's an awesome game and story, but because I just absolutely adored the name.
Side note: I spent countless hours at the abandoned lab where you get bahamut and Eden, I had no idea you had to move when the light dimmed out and stop when it shined, I fought so many rough battles there as a younger teen I'll never forget the frustration of trying to get to that lamp.
Congrats on your daughter! Glad that there is at least 1 Rinoa in the world. Heres to hoping that its no self fufilling prophecy! (In the way that your daughter gets possessed by a horrifying time compressing sorceress)
I've met one actual Rinoa in my life, and asked and confirmed that she _was_ named after the character. She was a year younger than the game. Kinda blew my mind.
....You don't do any karaoke, do you?
same here! I named my baby girl who's 8 months old Rinoa 💙
@@dronmagi510 congratulations! 🎉 Sorry I missed your comment, my daughter's 5 months, so very close.
Cringe.
8:46 Matron and Cid actually explains this to you at her house after the Galbadia Garden. battle
Final fantasy 8 is unique in that it can be either the hardest games in the franchise or the easiest. And if you know what your doing you can overpower your entire party at the beginning of the game
FFVIII is my favorite in the series!!! I never get tired of hearing more fun facts about it! Even if I already know them all lol
Still remains my favourite FF from the franchise. it has its issues, sure, but what I love the most about it (The world and the music) made up for my less favourite parts.
My brothers and I even named our family pet Angelo...... She was a Labrador though, not an Australia Shepherd :p
Shout out to Tim Rogers. Seriously!
His videos are on a whole other level. He made a 7 hour choose your own adventure review of Cyberpunk 2077.
Aaah, yes! More ffviii content is what I needed! 💕
Hell Yeah!!
I liked the piano version of Dance with the Balamb Fish that you had going in the final part.
Rinoa will always be my first love 💓
There are so many little events and dialogue in the game that can trigger by being somewhere at the right time or by returning to the same location over and over. Notable ones can be triggered as soon as you get Quistis and go to the city of Balamb. This game is like an old friend and the world feels so lived in.
2 fun side quests that are ez to miss are story of Zell and girl with pigtails from library, and a little quest in fishermans horizon shop when get control as irvine.
That Rag glitch happened to me when i 1st played and i had to restart all over and i had about 50hrs into that run doing grinding and beating Bahamut.
Though its not stated here, Squalls crit on command is different from other characters crits in that the crits are weaker for Squall. This doesn't really mater and you'll never really notice it in game unless you max out a characters luck stat and see that they deal out roughly 50% more damage then Squall does when upon a crit. Basically Squall's crit is something like a 1.5X multiplier while everyone else has a 2X multiplier on crit. The only time this isn't true is when Squall is performing his Lionheart limit which either has the same crit formula as everyone else or a more damaging one.
I play FF 8 when I was 19 years old and since the beginning, I dunno how, but I always knew how the gunblade works...
When they got Florence for stand by me I got so stoked!! I loved her cover and boy did it fit the style of the game, it really elevated it in my opinion. It’s a fire song, it’s relation to the game isn’t even required for it to be great!
4:45 i made a video of that glitch here on RUclips 13 years ago ..
Ff8 is my favorite and ik definitely knew the gardens one and the gun blade one aswell
Great video, FFU! I never heard about the missing Ragnarok glitch. That is hilarious. Oh well, considering I will probably only ever play the ps4 version going forward, I guess I wont have to worry about it. :)
I actually knew about the gunblade! it was a base for a custom weapon I made for my dnd campaign!
Thanks! I actually didn't know any of these!
I love when people say "deal massive damage" in the early final fantasy games when the damage cap was 9999 and could easily be hit by standard attacks.
Eden broke the damage cap tho, and in 8 in particular there's a lot of mutli hitting attacks which all do way in excess of 9k in the end.
So glad you mentioned the Ragnarok glitch. It happened to me on my first playthrough. I was distraught!
Dude I never knew any of those! You know you can get a Squall replica Gunblade in Parasite Eve 2? You can get it for sale randomly if you keep replaying Bounty Mode along with other goodies. It functions like a shotgun but you can also pull the trigger at the right moment of a slash for a pretty much one-shot kill of anything in the game. Unfortunately it can't reach certain enemies or bosses but you can also use the also insanely-powered Hypervelocity Cannon
Didn't know any of these lol. Super interesting!
Nice to see one of these with facts I actually didn't know.
Still my favourite entry in the series, probably because it was the first one I played all the way through. I hope they do a remake 👍🏻
omg I had that Ragnarok glitch towards the end on a small island. I was a kid and had spend hours playing the game only to have to restart it close towards the end!
the US was not the only one to get a competition with the game. In the UK (and possibly other PAL regions) there was a prize to win a holiday to hawaii, something that fits when you think about Balamb's more relaxed atmosphere.
I remember when i was younger, aournd the early 2000's years, i recognized the battle team being used during the introduction of a news show of an arabic channel (i don't know if it was al jazeera or something else). I never was able to find some footage to prove it unfortunately. If someone else remember the show it would be awesome
there's also some cool scene outside balamb room at 2nd floor, where you'll show a kid how to use magic, and Squall will cast Blizzard then a teacher will scold you, dropping a seed rank hehe
BEST FF for me! Praying for a Laguna Loire spin-off like they did with Zack Fair
I was thrown off by seeing Squall's limit break on the screen without feeling the accompanying vibrations.
Ahhh my first and fav final fantasy, already 20 years ago
I knew about how the gunblade worked since I'm a FF8 geek. But everything else was very much interesting.
Huge FF8 fan. Beat it like 3 times. I love the junction system but hate drawing magic. I also hate the way they handled weapon upgrades.
Eyes on Me gives me PTSD - my disc 3 was scratched and would get stuck after Rinoa gets in Squall's lap in Lunatic Pandora... the only save file I had past that point was a save from Ultimecia's Castle from when I was younger and had leveled badly and missed things, basically stuck with only an unplayable save for the final gauntlet xD
Was years before I could emulate it and finally finish the damn game
Thats so sad 😭😭😭
a remake of this game, with the laguna part as half of the game would be great
Nice vid man ^^
*video not vid. I do not understand the concept of wanting to shorten a word that is already short enough as it is. I find it ridiculous. But I do understand wanting to shorten long words.🤦♂
When I was a kid playing FF8 I would press R1 trying to get critical hits with all the characters because I thought that's how it worked. Much to my frustration it never worked, obviously haha
Random funny bug: In Balamb garden there are a few places with people randomly moving around. If you bump into them, they will move away slightly, then resume their way to their original destination. In the bridge area leading to the central elevator, you can find a guy in a futuristic wheelchair. Bump into him in just the right way, and person and chair will go their separate ways, and the guy will continue floating around.
Another fun fact: FF8's story was so perfectly done it remains one of FF that doesn't have a direct sequel nor remakes.
And yes, I am butthurt of why 7 gets so many extra treatments.
You can actually hit the trigger button to get critical hits for all the playable characters. You have to press it at just the right time, though, right before the weapon strike hits.
no, it's just Squall and Seifer
agreed to this, I was doing those before, zell trigger is his 2nd punch , Quistis and Irvine is the hardest to trigger. Rinoa and Selphie are kind of easy too
and if I remember correctly, Squall effect is explosion Quistis is like thunder
See I always thought gunblades used heavy blank shells, and that the crit while using them was that, as you swung the blade and pulled the trigger, the fire blast of the blank was vented down both sides of the blade, so instead of just hitting with a blade, you were hitting with a blade AND fire.
3:35 They showcase this in the Dissidia NT cinematics, when Squall fights Jecht.
Squall pulls the trigger, and the blade glows red before combusting in front of Jecht.
If glad they didn't go with a pop star I'd instantly recognize for Eyes on Me. While it would be unavoidable for some of the audience due to pop stars being popular by definition, I feel like hearing Celine Dion might have pulled me out of the game's world and back into this one.
"Squall, I'm dying"
"...Whatever"
My fav Final Fantasy this game a masterpiece 🔥 The nostalgia
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is Selphie's POSSIBLE future self?
Just started replaying ff8 for the millionth time; will probably complete it again too.