Ya... first time playing this back in 97 or whenever it came out, the true version of Ultimecia, how she looked, what she was saying, and the music... it was chilling.

The music gave me more anxiety than the battle tbh 😂😜

@@VanessaHolguin It hits hard, because she possessed Edea Kramer(Matron), as the sorceress that killed a man at the podium, in front of a large crowd in Deling City. I like how the ending shows exactly when Matron got possessed. There was a reason she was trying to set Adel free, and it coincides as to why they shut down communications 17 years prior to the events of this plot. I think Ultimecia possessed Adel before Laguna and his team sealed her off in space. I didn't think much of it when I first played. The mission in Dollet in the first part of the plot, is a huge foreshadowing to the whole entire narrative presented to this point.

Yeah, the music for FFVIII's final boss is amongst it's best work. Better than 7, 9 and on par with 6s Kefka fight

all of uematsu-sama's works are masterpieces, but his magnum opus is certainly and undoubtedly Dancing Mad.

I have seen in another video, she is also preparing to cast Apocalypse, if they take too long to get rid of her. I always wondered what that lower portion was at the bottom. She draws apocalypse from her former form. Edit: if you think about it, she watched them grow up along Matron, when she possessed her. It's scary that the final boss is also someone who watch them grow until they left the orphanage.

Depending on exactly when she possesses Edea that could mean she's just a tragic figure looking for a place to die and she literally raised these kids and created SeeD with the intent of having someone to defeat her, tbh her constant destruction of countless SeeDs and the fact that she's known throughout history so would be hated from birth by those in her timeline would strongly lend to that trope.

Nothing like victory secured via Rocket-Propelled Canine.

Imagine irvine angelo ammo

i always thought that was something moving in the background up until now

As it should be

Once you know what you are doing this battle is a joke

Squall,Irvine,and Selphie is how I beat her.😓😓😓

Once I gave Squall hero and he limit breaked her to death

@@nope9858 well thats true with every game. but in terms of end bosses in a final fantasy id say shes one of the strongest. it all comes down to how powerful you are. some people plow through others stop and grind at the end for ages

Her voice is so young

Toward the ending of this game, it got really.... unsettling, dark, and just overall uncomfortable

when this game first came out the internet as a public domain was in its infancy. fuck, google didn't even exist yet, and webcrawler and excite did just as many hits per month as yahoo.

Reflect on your childhood... Your sensation... Your words... Your emotions... Time... It will not wait... No matter how hard you hold on. It escapes you. And...

​@@nickp8041then, we die! And the cycle goes on.

You should play the Requiem Mod, it makes the game much harder but more fun.

... hidden monkey quest?

Renzokuken also goes well with the beginning of the extreme. Sometimes you get a Lion Heart and it trivializes the fight.

yeah. the quiet sound mixing with renzokuken and lionheart 😀

interesting, that is a drastic change imo

It’s why a lot of people are confused about the story, so much context is left out of the English version. Translations are better now than before but even so, a lot is lost in the Japanese to English translation still, especially in jrpg’s

@@leonc9760 kinda makes me wish ff8 got a remake instead of 7

Ps1 game thing, due to how the store data in blocks, English translation would require a lot of paraphrasing to fit the remaining blocks. Surprised the remaster didn't attempt to remaster the translation now they are not limited to ancient technology

I think Ultimecia said something like this in the Japanese version during the opening moments of the battle: "SeeD… SeeD…SeeD… SeeD, SeeD, SeeD!! It displeases me… Why do you interfere with sorceresses!? Why won’t you let me be free!? In just a little longer, my perfect world of time compression would have been completed… I won’t allow you to interfere… Your very existences shall be absorbed by the algorithm of time compression!! You will feel agony as your thoughts are ripped apart and all your memories fade away to nothing. There won’t be a thing you can do, think or even feel! That’s the world I’m going to send you to! There will be absolutely nothing you can… …No, you’ll be able to worship me, the sole existence for all eternity!! So, who will come first!? Who will fight me!? Hmpf, it matters not, the end will be the same! I will choose!" Then this one when she summoned Griever: "I will summon the one you believe is most powerful. The stronger you believe he is, the stronger he becomes. That will surely make you suffer. Muahaha!" During Shockwave Pulsar: "Muahaha, Have you forgotten? (lit. Are you losing your memories?) That is not the real terror of a G.F. I will teach you the true terror of a G.F. Griever! Show them your power!" When she merges with Griever: "The prelude is over! Now I will junction myself to Greiver!" Before the final battle: "I am Ultimecia. I will compress all time and refute all existence." Ulti's dying words: "Have you remembered something? Something from your childhood A sensation The words from back then The emotions from back then As you become an adult You leave something behind, throw something away Time will not wait for you Even if you cling to it It slips away the instant you open your hands And…"

Meltdown and Doomtrain are the best spell/summon. its almost a shame they didnt come back in later games

If I remember correctly meltdown works on everything.

Same, when they died I restarted the battle to try and keep them alive it was a waste of time lol

He's a good poopers!

Riki from Xenoblade Chronicles: "A lot I have learned from this game" *Proceeds to spit at their god as well*

It looks like it crashed. Lmao

That makes me think that one could viably create an Ultimecia virus where it gets progressively worse until you go and reset your computer, and then last form Ultimecia stays on your computer or something and cannot be wiped out itself.

Same!

Its actually Ellones head...😮

I just found it funny how he punched himself knocking himself out

I wouldn't agree on that completely, but I like that we know basically nothing about her motivations. She does sound like some sort of tragic villain from the dialogue, but, in the end, we don't know. Sometimes, knowing less about a villain is for the better. I don't need Ultimecia to have a tragic, sad backstory. All I need is some cool music and an overall cool fight. And Ultimecia certainly has one of the best fights in the series.

@@D-Nova My argument for her being the best villain is that others wanted to control the world, and maybe the cosmos, but Ultimecia wanted to control and absorb all of time and every possible reality. But I like every villian in the OG series so don't get me wrong, it's a very very close race for every game.

Ultimecia in her final form isn't even the same "her" in my opinion as the one we see in the red dress, I think she is junctioned to some sort of omipotent being the same way Rinoa was junctioned to Adel, and by defeating that version they stop the cycle of the sorceress curse, because they actually went outside of time to defeat the true sorceress that has been repeating this cycle. the only question is when Edea receives Ultimecia's powers in the endgame, does the cycle just start over. I just love time travel concepts, and this one is one of my favorites.

@@Maltozombie kefka and sephiroth are in my opinion the best.

@@wi11ow8 I agree

Even if they do it, it will never reach the epicness of the original....

​@@LordPrutsikasв главной роли будет женщина афроамериканка феминистка мужененавистница😂

For sure. Seymores mum is the „dead” human body linked to herserself which is Anima. For me it looks like its dead rinoa linked to Ultimecia. In FF dissidia rinoa can cast Apocalypse btw. Pretty sure Ultimecia and Rinoa are the same Person but even if not, its definitly rinoa junctioned to Ultimecia ! Ultimecia also couldnt possibly know about the lion or griever. Its only logical rinoas grief of being alone actually became a summoning.

​@@juliuscasar7202 In the Japanese version she states that she draws it from Squalls ring. Also, c'mon now, look at Rinoa and Ultimecias faces in Dissidia, they're completely different. And not in a growing up kind of way, her head is far more longer and slim than Rinoas rounder face.

I think in your position I would have committed fratricide

I could listen to Maybe I'm A Lion all day

That's what Ultimecia gets for bootlegging Squall's Ring. You know she drew Griever from that copy of the ring Rinoa had Zell take from Squall in Disc two.

Legendary Beast didn't even get played until he use Shockwave Pulsar and it is entirely possible to skip it

And the funny thing is that Ultimecia (in the Japanese text) summon Griever, then junctions herself onto Griever, to mock what strength they can muster against her. And if you have been interacting with everything enough, Griever and Ultimecia-on-Griever go by very quickly.

Great comment. What I really liked about FF8...is everything...the relaxed beginning at Balamb where you are merely a student...the satisfaction you get when you win your first cards, beat ifrit at fire cavern....the relaxed first mission where you go to Timber by train...and the slow and steady climax until the grand finale....

Exactly. Best opinion here.

It is almost on par with fighting Kafka in the end of FF VI.

@@lower_than_furries9727 6 is much better than 8. 8 kind of felt all over the place its story wasn't that great to me.

@@samyazaazazyel7701 I need to beat FF8, I just need to figure out the junction system, it confuses me. So far I’ve beaten FF 6, 7, and 9.

@@lower_than_furries9727 Yeah, if you don't revive any party members before the phase ends, they get replaces with another, based on the order you make. Here, she just takes the favor of selecting your starting party for you. She literally wanted to throw everything in your face from what you have been doing the whole game. I always wondered what was blowing away the junctions. Maybe just an over exposure to the time compression, Idk.

​@@kingdoge69junction system is very logical. The only downside of it is the grinding you need to do if you are aiming for perfect walkthrough. With card mod ability everything gets much easier though.

Without making a single appearance...sure

@@TheGrandRevo eden is, not so much Ultimicia

Big ff14 fan, really enjoyed all of the Eden raids :)

@@raventheredpanda7047 "Artemisia" is a possible romanization of Ultimecia's name (and is apparently used in the DE/IT translations), so while she didn't appear directly, the final boss alludes to her by name!

@@Teratrain to be fair the Japanese name is much closer to Artemisia than to Ultimecia. Like Artemisia is a proper name but the hell is a Ultimecia

Wouldn't have beaten the game without her imo!

last two years...

Probably never. For a lot of reasons. Of the Ps1 trilogy this games would be the hardest to translate to a 2021 game.

In the Japanese version, Ultimecia was probably clearly traumatized by people hunting sorceresses and wanted a perfect place in time, so she does have etc. issues. Only translation issues prevent that and she is basically some harassing force from the future.

Nah, is only bad translation. In Spanish and i think Japanese she speak like a normal person

whiskers of ruination

She was my magic caster in my play throughs. I always gave her 100% zombie for her Status-J to make her reliable, and spam healing magic. Yeah, this never worked on most bosses. Other than that, I made her the White/Black Mage. Her Slot was just her being a troll after being trolled in battle. She was reliable.

That’s what I was gonna say XD the most op character and NEEDED for ultima weapon silly defeat.

speaking of, I always had a theory of my own. Many fans believe Ultimecia is Rinoa for obvious reasons...but what if she was Quistis? Quistis OUTRIGHT STATES on multiple occasions that she was once deeply infatuated with Squall, even thought she was in love with him, and detested Seifer; plus, she was the only true blue mage in the game, i.e., the only character, PC or otherwise, who could mimic opponents' seemingly exclusive Limit Breaks, and is even shown to be capable of two should-have-been-impossible attacks: mimicking Ray Bomb, which was a mechanical maneuver, and using Shockwave Pulsar...which is a maneuver not introduced by its "originator" until the final battle, and is used by Griever, who was originally created by Squall...and is now controlled by Ultimecia.

3 Months late but every enemy in the game levels up as you do, so, if you're level 20 by the end of the game, Ultimecia will be level 20 or similar to yours.

@@dilan2988 i have a question. In PS1 version Omega was always in level 100, in Steam version it was the same level as you, in this version in wich level is it? If you speak Spanish i prefer talk in that language

@@La-hora-del-terror En la versión de steam o los remasters Omega se ajusta a tu nivel, así que también puede ser de cualquier nivel.

@@dilan2988 Entonces el remaster estaria basado en la version de steam?