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"

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

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!

If we got a remake of this, I could die happy.

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.

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.

Whenever someone mentions FF8 it warms my heart! Thanks guys for this great video 🙌🏼

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My first so 8 will always have a special place in my heart. I do get the junction system en plot criticism now though.

Very obscure. I'm a pretty hard-core fan of FF8 and this info is new for me. Gotta love this channel.

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.

FF8 content in 2022, you love to see it.

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.

Love when you guys cover my favorite game!

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.

I was recently reminiscing about how good my experience of final fantasy viii was, great video

Forever my favorite Final Fantasy.

That fact about how the gunblade works is also explained in game. It fires blanks to vibrate the blade.

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

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.

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

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".

One Winged Angel is DEFINITELY a vocal theme…

Ff8 is my all time favorite. Great Soundtracks and awesome characters. Story is also tragic, adventure, Horror, sci fi and romantic. I love it

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!

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!

Great to have you back! Hope you are feeling better now 🤗

FF8 is so unforgettable for me. The Draw system was pure torture

Love this. I only knew about the car one. Stellar work as always team FFU!

"As he was a fan of baseball...and his wife." I feel that

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.

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!

I always got Supernova and Eden’s Eternal Breath mixed up in my head. I’m glad this validates it.

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

Aaah, yes! More ffviii content is what I needed! 💕

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).

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

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

@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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

8:46 Matron and Cid actually explains this to you at her house after the Galbadia Garden. battle

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.

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 remember as a kid finding the car thing odd haha. Anyway, didn't know any of these! Good stuff!

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

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.

Rinoa will always be my first love 💓

FF8 DESERVES A REMAKE PERIOD.

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!

I liked the piano version of Dance with the Balamb Fish that you had going in the final part.

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...

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.

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. :)

Ff8 is my favorite and ik definitely knew the gardens one and the gun blade one aswell

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

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.

Thanks! I actually didn't know any of these!

I actually knew about the gunblade! it was a base for a custom weapon I made for my dnd campaign!

Didn't know any of these lol. Super interesting!

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 👍🏻

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.

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.

So glad you mentioned the Ragnarok glitch. It happened to me on my first playthrough. I was distraught!

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.

a remake of this game, with the laguna part as half of the game would be great

Nice to see one of these with facts I actually didn't know.

I knew about how the gunblade worked since I'm a FF8 geek. But everything else was very much interesting.

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.

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

BEST FF for me! Praying for a Laguna Loire spin-off like they did with Zack Fair

Did you know that Ultimecia... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is Selphie's POSSIBLE future self?

Always love Faye Wong - love to know how important that song is!

I was thrown off by seeing Squall's limit break on the screen without feeling the accompanying vibrations.

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!

One of the only FF characters to get the girl. Tactics Ramza only had his sister - No win Ff7 - Cloud goes cross dresser no tifa no arieth - No win FF6 Mostly dudes - Only female was a trans - no win FF5 Butz doesn’t make moves - No win FF 10 Tidus at least gets a kiss - semi-win FF1-4 no relationships FF8 My boy squall gets rhiona - win win This is why 8 and 10 will always be my favorites. They got to smooch or win the girl. You can gauge who’s the strongest, who’s the coolest, but for me, if they’re ain’t no romance and championing the girl, that’s a no go for me, without women life would suck, their love is my relief to this world of grief. Can’t wait to get back on the market, and start smooching again. Cho choo coming through.

My fav Final Fantasy this game a masterpiece 🔥 The nostalgia

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

FF8 was my first game and I must say one of the top FF stories

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.

Favorite Final Fantasy. Favorite game of all time.

4:45 i made a video of that glitch here on KZfaq 13 years ago ..

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.

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

Nice vid man ^^

Just started replaying ff8 for the millionth time; will probably complete it again too.

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