The Curious Case of Final Fantasy VIII-2
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Final Fantasy 8 is a firm part of the "golden generation" of Final Fantasy games, but it has never seen any kind of expansion, via either supplemental video games or other entertainment mediums. This video explores why that is, and what a hypothetical Final Fantasy VIII-2 might look like.
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Writers: Darryl, Lindsay
Editors: Joe - Ігри
As a kid I was at Toys R Us playing in a Pokemon card game tournament, and after I lost and was waiting for my mom to pick me up, I promptly took my Christmas card money and purchased my copy of FFVIII. I brought it home, booted it up, and immediately forgot all about the sting of my elimination from the tournament.
That is one of the most circa 2000 paragraphs I've ever read. I love it. 👍
Ironically, I found out about 8 from an abandoned Manual on the ground. The one you get with the disc.
Played it off and on for 10 years
That Balamb Garden tune is so calming. It was a nice change of pace for me after all the sneaking around and claustrophobia of Metal Gear Solid.
Nice, that's good stuff
Better times right there
That's interesting to hear about the influence of Wizard of Oz on FF8. I'm surprised I never noticed it before. Laguna is the Wizard of Oz, becoming the leader of the Emerald City of Esther.
Rinoa is Dorothy, complete with her dog Angelo as Toto. Squall with his Greiver necklace might seem like a stand-in for the cowardly lion, but his character is more like the Tin Man, being seemingly cold and emotionless, and needing to find his heart. Zell is more like the cowardly Lion, full of bluster but unsure of himself. And the scarecrow might be Selfie, who acts like a ditz, despite being the brains of the group.
There's even a scene where the characters fall asleep in a forest, like Oz's deadly poppy field, and the Shumi Village is reminiscent of the land of the Munchkins.
Oh and the reveal of master Norg in the garden basement is very like the man behind the curtain...
Yes! The reveal of Norg in the garden basement always gave me a weird feeling of deja vu. It's almost like the man behind the curtain was the scary big face of the Wizard of Oz which freaked me out so much as a child.
Wow thank you for this, I think I need to watch the movie now
Who's Quistis then?
@@newtypefuture6065 I don't think it's a full-on 1-to-1 retelling of the Wizard of Oz. I thought about characters like Quistis and Irvine, or Ward and Kiros, but couldn't really find a analogs in the Wizard of Oz.
The again, I've only ever read the original book and seen a few of the Oz movies. There's a whole series of Oz books that might have provided further inspiration.
@@ZanderWarren still fun to think about that stuff and find parallel storytelling elements. Oz would have been crazy with a Train-napping or parade sniper scene lol
god what i wouldn't give for an 8-2 or an 8 remake
I'd hate to see what woke broke crap a remake would turn into. As a person that was born before the NES was even released.... the7 remake. just.. ffs.
@@buufan9544 Squall was -dead- gay the whole time!
What was woke about FF 7 Remake?@@buufan9544
@@buufan9544 WTF are you actually talking about?
@@thembill8246 He's just angry because Tifa has enormous tits, and not gigantic tits.
8 is one of my favorites out of the whole series!!!
Mine too.
It's so good and catches so much hate over its junction system.
Mine too! 🥇
Its a great game but the last part is terrible, storywise
It’s my absolute favorite!
Final Fantasy 8 had that peak y2k fashion aesthetic that still gives me so much inspo! I'm wildly thankful for it!
This, they need to go back to that I fear. It's so nostalgic.
Yesssssssss. It captured that surreal feeling so well!
It's so hard to watch your videos without getting distracted by that nostalgic soundtrack in the background😂 ff8 soundtrack has always been my favorite🥹
I always loved FF8 more than any of the other titles, it just resenated with more more at that time of life. The story and characters are all incredible. I desperately want a remake in the style of the new FF7 games, I really hope SquareEnix can do this from the success of the remake trilogy.
I feel like FF8 definitely appealed very strongly to the late-90s teens and preteens. It certainly did for me since the game released when I was 13.
@@fattiger6957 Very much so. As a socially awkward kid, Squall was very relatable and Rinoa was incredibly appealing.
If you would love the OG as you state you do then you would never ask for ANY remake. Use a remaster mod for the PC version or just move on with your life. Stop asking for moneygrab garbage remakes.
Remakes are basically watered down pointless spinoffs that next to no one sane asks for ...
Most of you "oh I love this and that give me a remake" make me sick ... You love NOTHING and have a slight clue wtf you are even talking about.
@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy What a bizarre thing to get angry about. Not everyone has access to or can afford multiple consoles or PC's so that isn't always an option. There have been many fantastic remakes that lots of people have absolutely asked for and asking for them does not mean you do not love the original but that you simply want to bring forward to a new generation looking as good as it possibly can. I wont be devested if a remake never happens there as there are so many games out there to play but there is nothing wrong with wanting it and it doesnt mean i am betraying the original like i am cheating on it or something.
@@fattiger6957agreed I was born in 90 and Ff8 was my second FF to play and I loved the game so much, squall is my hero at that time. 😊😊
Ultimecia stole her plan from Garland. Chaos!
Nobody:
Absolute nobody:
Jack: CHAOS?!?!?!?!?
KURSE ALL SEED.
I Absolutely Love *Final Fantasy VIII* SO much from my Childhood Years! Squall Leonhart and Ultimecia and the characters of this Game are all Super Epic and Amazing!
FF VIII Remake is and will ALWAYS be one of my biggest Dreams! Give me that i cry for a Week!
Totally understand that man, for me it was Final Fantasy 9. I heard rumor the remake was in process but when it was announce for real i am gonna cry like baby
I love FF7R to death but all the alternate timeline stuff would be perfectly suited for a FF8 Remake
Seeing what they've don't with 7, god no
If they could do a Remake and do what was planned and expand on Laguna's journey, that would be amazing.
Same here!
8 is my favourite of all Final Fantasy games. It was the first one I ever played and got my hooked on the series. I would love to see a remake and another game in the series both, and while I do like the Laguna sequences, I don't know if that's the way to go, but it would certainly be interesting to explore. But I know that I will probably never see either as much as I would like to.
If they did, they would also have to give 8 new concepts to make it stand out. Seven rebirth took triple card triad from 8.
I'm partial to 8 because that is the final fantasy I first played to completion
Same! It was my first FF, and I remember having a corrupted memory card and had to restart disc 1 like 2 times 😆
same for me too!! Watched my older brother play ff7 (still a HUGE ff7 fan) so when I got my own ps1and ff8 felt for my bday beating it made ff8 even more memorable for me.
@@thealpha2549 I ran into cinematics skipping and stopping problems because of the discs were getting scratched so I had to buy disc 2 a couple times lol
I am very intrigued by the original parallel time plot that was was originally envisioned. That would have been neat.
Also, that little detail on the entry of the moombas makes the whole 'Laguna! Laguna!' thing (which I never knew before) certainly helps fills in how to natively figure it out along the way :)
And yes, I would absolutely love a Laguna themed game.
*Man with the Machine Gun INTENSIFIES*
that music immediately takes me back
If Laguna's half of the story had been there, FFVIII *might've* had 8 disks!
Timber never got liberated and that sucks.
Final Fantasy VIII-2: The Liberation of Timber
Now that I made that joke, I kinda want to see it actually happen
That's because the train model was too shabby looking
Looks like Squall, Balamb Garden and Cid are still bound by Rinoa's open ended contract then! LMAO
What do you mean not liberated? The Galbadian army leadership was destroyed, by proxy, you would assume the army had to have retreated back to Deling, as there was no commander
Atleast the owls are still around.
I remember playing this game in Puerto Rico on my cousins PlayStation and he was too dumb to figure out anything. I was about 7 or 8 and I started progressing his gameplay. The rest of my trip with my family consisted of us only getting to disc 2 by the time I left. I went home and saved my birthday money to buy this game. Years later it’s the only nostalgia game I go back to and play it through. ❤❤
I had a friend like that, he let me borrow ff7 because he thought it was dumb and impossible. I ended up getting to disc 2 and all of a sudden he wanted his 'property back'. He really just wanted to show he wasn't dumb and try the game again.
I always thought the designs of the sorceresses were SO COOL. So, I've always wanted them to show up again in any way possible. A sequel, prequel, or remake would make that possible 😆
Check out the TCG game have some awesome artwork of her. Last one that dropped and a few other ones from series before
its not much but there are some cross world spin offs with ff8 characters like dissidia, kingdom hearts, ff mobious...
I would personally crowfund a VIII-2 if there was the slightest chance of seeing it happening
Directed by Nomura with multiverses and alternate timelines etc 🤣
would be better to remake the whole thing instead
@bumpotato1922 as long as they don't change the combat system. I hate the open combat like the remake of 7 and later installments. Turn based gameplay is what set FF apart from other games. It's part of what makes FF, FF.
@@Molotov_Milkshakeit would fit FF8 like a glove tbqh
@@slayer1156 yes, but leave nomura out of it lol
FF8 needs more love. A remake would be awesome. Maybe they could test the waters by making a prequel mainly featuring Laguna first, and if reception is good, move forward with an 8 remake? That would be great!
I’d be down for a prequel I’ll even though out my idea for a name for such a title Final Fantasy VIII - Memories in the Wind
.....Someone promote this man
For some reason, Square seems much less proud of FF8 than they should. Maybe they listened too much to all the (way too loud) haters who act like it is the worst game ever.
@@fattiger6957 I mean, mechanically it was weird, and it's a timetravel plot that's actually executed fairly well, so that's a massive chunk of the audience just checking out right off the bat because they can't be bothered using their brain... and a TONNE of people hate Rinoa for... being the love interest, so far as I can tell... It was deserving of some criticism for the mechanical weirdness (seriously, the optimal stratagy was to draw the best magic you could get, shove it in your stats, and just use attack/limit breaks and healing items and pretty much Nothing Else in combat, so far as I could ever tell, but there was a lot of room to do all sorts of other crazy things if you wanted), but the other critisms say a lot more about the person making them than the game... though it must be admitted that the basketball court scene/reveal/whatever was a bit rough.
They could do without Laguna in my opinion. The game would be even better with a Laguna-free content.
There are love themes in final fantasy viii. Most obvious and easily seen one are between Squall and Rinoa and they have a good ending at the end of the game. Zell and the schoolgirl and Irvine and Selphie are cute pairs too. Most unfortunate one are Laguna and his wife as well as his former love interest.
Laguna gets shorted on the love spectrum
That would be a great thing to explore in a sequel. Maybe Squall is having problems in his relationship with Rinoa and Laguna (as his dad) tells him about how he lost Raine.
Love FF8. Played it several hundred hours as a child and would love to see a remake of some sort. Cheers
I would LOVE to see an expansion showing more of Laguna’s life. So much potential here.
Whenever the subject of what game to "remake" after the FF7R trilogy is done comes up, I'm always in the camp of giving FF8 some more love. I feel like a remake that allows the devs to show off more of the world (not just the Laguna parts) would be very cool.
Great... now I want a Remake of VIII, too.
Daryl! Thank you for this! Your level of research in every video is outstanding. 8 is one of my favourites and I never knew this! It’s great to let my mind wander with possibilities - such a nostalgic feeling. Thank you thank you thank you
A prequel with Laguna would be awesome
Lagunas story was inside the game what do you mean?
@@petebagwell6666 they meant more like how crisis core gave more backstory to Zack...
only they'd do the same concept with FF8 using Laguna
@@DarkFrozenDepthsbut his story was in the game 😂
@@omensoffate There are a bunch of Laguna parts that got cut from the main game though.
That would be like FFVIII's very own Crisis Core. Start the story when he joins the Galbadian Army and then follow it all the way until he becomes prez of Esther. That would be amazing really
Would love to see a Final fantasy 8 showing Laguna's story. He had such small parts in the original Final fantasy 8 but was one of my favorite characters.
It was the first FF I played. It was a random block buster rental. After getting into it I bought it and finished it, then bought and beat FF7, pre-ordered FF9, and then started playing the older games using Nesticle and ZSNES roms. FF8 will always be super super special for me.
I will hope for more FFVIII until the day i die. This was my first one when i was a kid and holds a special place in my heart.
FFVIII was the first actual FF game I owned. The story and characters were great, and would benefit for an expanded in game universe. There are so many side stories in the game, not just Laguna's journey, but all the different cities.
I'd sell some vital organs if needed to buy any new VIII games.
Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy VIII are my favorites. VIII to me though was so original in thought. The Laguna dream sequences, getting tossed into space, one of the best musical scores in ALL Final Fantasy games...this game really is a masterpiece in my opinion. Instead of a prequel or sequel...I feel a remake with all the missing content the original staff wanted to add involving Laguna along with adding just enough to clear up some of the various fan theories would be more than sufficient.
Ff8 actually feels like a modern final fantasy, yet also feels very fantastical and almost perfect in the way the story palmed out.
the game was way ahead of its time in my opinion. Too bad a lot of people of issues with it.
this game was light years ahead of time!! still my favorite of them all
@@JackSparrow-ct4mh mine as well, being my very first FF experience :)
@@VandalHeart26 did u play it on og ps1?
@@JackSparrow-ct4mh I played the PC version back in 2000 or so. After that I played the PS1 game on my newly bought PS2, along with 9 and 10. I didn't own a PS1 back then
Final Fantasy VIII was my very first rpg game and, ultimately, the reason why I love rpgs so much today
I would love a sequel for this!
I'd love them to Remake 8. The Graphics of today would suit it so well and I am dying to see Esthar City in todays graphics lol. I actually didn't really like the Laguna parts of VIII though!
Honestly dollet, might be my pick... then again balamb... then again galdabia is great too... with that arc of triumph... hmmmm but most importantly i want to see the third garden intact >..>
You know they'd screw it up though. Couldn't possibly limit themselves to a substantial graphical/art overhaul and rebalancing the junction system so the optimal play wasn't 'draw and junction magic, only use attack/limit break and healing items in combat' for basically every fight. It's an actually functional time travel plot with a stable time loop that Works... Which makes fiddling with it Very difficult to do without breaking it (part of why there's a lot less FF8 fanfiction than one might expect, I suspect). ... and you Know they'd insist on trying. And fail.
@@thehatred94 true, all of them would be great to see!
@@laurencefraser haha I actually love just attacking and the junction system. Hate drawing magic tho!
@@laurencefraser who said there was any rebalancing or whatnot to do with the draw and junction system tho? Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it. It's a solo game to boot, so wether you want to cheese it or kick yourself in the balls by playing it normally, is up to each players xD
Me and my stepfather both played through that game back then, without caring too much about that stuff. Now as to wether they see it the same way would depend on how many people whine/ask for that to be changed/improved.
But honestly if you ask me they totally could focus on a graphism overhaul, expending maps/cities/locations and of course modernizing the rest of the stuff. And laguna's stuff. Aaaaaaaaaand just maybe an alternate ending where we break that loop bs that if you ask me was the only complain i had about that game >..>
FFVIII is my personal favorite game of the series. I would want a full blown remake with 2 separate games. One from Squalls PoV and the other from Laguna's PoV. Ideally released at the same time but that's probably asking too much.
Of all the final fantasy games, FF8 is the one I feel has the most material to work with for a direct follow up. It's to the point that I'd rather FF8 got an FF8-2 over a remake of the game. I know Kitase and many others would like to see a prequel focusing around Laguna, but I have trouble thinking anything super unique narrative-wise can really happen when we already know how their story ends. Rather I'd like to see what happens next for all these characters. There's plenty of ways a story could go in the future of FF8's world. Galbadia (one of the world's major military powers) has lost 2 heads of government in a short period of time, Squall is the defacto leader of SeeD and Garden and is still technically under contract to Rinoa and the Timber Owls to liberate Timber, meanwhile Laguna is the leader of an isolationist nation that is otherwise the other main major military power of FF8's world, and Rinoa is now a Sorceress; which makes her both potentially facing prejudice from others; but also one of the most powerful beings in world too. I could easily see a political drama forming out of a much more destabilized Galbadia who still controls pockets of colonies around the world (or at least Timber), If Squall and Garden are too open about trying to release Timber from Galbadia's control then I could see the Galbadian nation retaliating to try and wrestle back a sense of control they lost. Galbadia has lost major parts of it's leadership and that could lead to new people who are ambitious, promising easy solutions to the confused populace, and without morals to suddenly rise up in the ranks of an already pretty morally dubious government. Galbadia already has all the excuses it needs to claim a conspiracy just by pointing out the connections SeeD has with Esthar and Sorceresses.
Frankly as someone who played and fell in love with FF8 like 5 years ago, I kind of wish it hadn't been an FF game lol! I'm convinced it could've become it's own franchise if it was divorced from the FF series and was seen as it's own separate thing, but that might be too simplistic thinking.
FFVIII was my first final fantasy and has always had a special place in my heart. It's the one I've played the most and always a comfort game for me.
I would give anything for a sequel of some sort or remake.
FFVIII is the forgotten gem of SquareEnix
This was the first Final Fantasy I became seriously invested in, and I would LOVE more, prequel, sequel, remake (done right, of course)!!! I still play it to this day!!!
FFVIII is the game that made me a gamer. I was so excited when the remaster was released. I would love a prequel telling Laguna's story. I would love a sequel that explores the lives of the characters post-main game. I would love a full remake that did or did not incorporate either or both.
I'd be up for a Laguna focused FFVIII game.
I'd do anything for a new Final Fantasy VIII ANYTHING. Just take me back to that world!
I would LOVE to see a sequel, spinoff, or remake game, but with the recent restructuring and mention of how Square wants to essentially take less risks, I don't have any hope we will see one for FF8. They specifically said HD projects that had previously been approved are now cancelled and I don't think FF8 ranks high on the priority list for Square.
I love FFVIII! It is my favorite FF game and my fav game of all time! It was my first ever rpg back in November 2001. I really wish all the originally intended content would have been implemented. It was supposed to be 6-8 disks with a 80 hour main story! I'd have loved that sooo much! If they remake this lovely, beautiful game PLEASE SQUARE implement all of the original ideas!!
3:25 brighter and more cheerful, like a bunch of orphans losing their memory, and the protagonist being cut in the face...
A Laguna spin off would be great. There's enough story there for a full game. And the party members should be Laguna, Kiros, Ward and a random moomba.
I would ADORE a prequel focused on Laguna and his life
I loved FFVIII so much. I played it as a teen, and later as an adult in my early 30's. Interesting how my perspective on the dialogue changed so much over time. I would love to revisit the world and the characters. I also liked the controversial junctioning system ^_^
I always felt a sequel would focus on Rinoa struggling to maintain control of her powers, with Ultimecia trying to mind control her body. This with the lingering can we trust Seifer question
That wouldn't be a bad premise, especially if they run with the Rinoa is Ultimecia theory.
could be cool, yes! And some more of Quistis would make an interesting game in my opinion
I would definitely LOVE to learn more about Laguna Loire!
Thank you for this video...this isn't one of my favorite, this is my FAVORITE of all the series. It's such a beautiful game. The nostalgia, the OST, the chills, the story....everything about it. I Love it. Every time Laguna visits Raine's grave I just...I can't hold back the tears. Each and every time.
VIII was the best of all the Final Fantasy games.
It deserves a full overhaul and sequel.
We need more emo Squall and gunblades in this world.
I agree that 8 is the best. But i don't agree with him been emo. He tries to keep his feelings to him self which is the opersite of emo. People maybe see as emo possibly because the game shows you what he is thinking and people judge him from that rather than how he might apear to other characters.
No thanks to the "we need more emo Squall" in the world... Terrible protagonist, they should have just had someone likeable like laguna.
It's one of the easiest and worst mainline FF games.
8's story and characters are great.
It's mechanics are fun, but have rather major issues.
Here's the biggest problem with a remake of 8 though: It's actually spectacular as it is. And if they ever try they'll make it an action RPG and screw up the plot.
@laurencefraser its weird, i played this when released and after final fantasy 7, i played this and it just was underwhelming. It felt empty when i beat it. I remember going back into 7 to do so much but that just wasnt the case for 8. It does have some good characters, but at the time of release, they just felt like discount versions of many of the characters in 7. The story was just to random for me. I understand there was some cut content, but having played the other final fantasy games, it was just all over the place.
FF8 is the first Final Fantasy I ever played and the game which introduced me to JRPGs.
I can't tell enough HOW much FF8 meant to me when it was released! My first FF and I still play this game through every year!
A Laguna centered story maybe the only thing that brings me back to the FF series for a last time.
Final fantasy VIII was my very first final fantasy game i played and my introduction to the Final Fantasy game series during the PS1 era
I would be super happy gamer if maybe one day Final Fantasy VIII gets a remake or something!
Same.
This was the first Final Fantasy game I played. I liked how dark and scary it was (for a child).
It does seem like they had a lot of cool design ideas. A game that integrated the time travelling aspect more would have been so interesting !
Still to this day my favorite RPG of all time. Everything about this one was so unique and different from all others and then was never revisited. The junctioning system was ahead of its time, CGI cutscenes were ground breaking and still memorable to this day, and the storyline was soo deep and intricate with its jumping through time. Seeing FF7 get countless spinoffs, movies, remakes is kind of heartbreaking to us FF8 fans who feel like we are always left out and ignored by Square.
A case could be made that Laguna is my favorite character in all of Final Fantasy, and even failing that he's strongly in the top 5, so I'd certainly play a game starring him.
I am one who never picked up that Laguna was Squall’s dad when I played. It wasn’t until I saw some Final Fantasy Father - Son fan art many years later, then I just 🤯!! I remember calling my sister and telling her, it was awesome.
Tip for those who don't like to spend time drawing magic early in the game. Learn the item refine ability in your GF ability list. You get lots of magic and a big stat boost very early on in the game.
I might be because of the fact 8 was my first FF game, but I loved it soo much and it hit me at just the right age for me to really connect with it. Plus it got me into playing all the other FF games.
For SE to release a new title related to 8, would be a small dream come true!
8 has always been my favorite I feel like 7 only became more popular because it had more likable characters but the gameplay and story of 8 was way better to me.
This was the first Final Fantasy game I ever played and I still replay it occasionally as I really enjoyed this game
8 was one of my favs! Love Triple Triad too, would be fully here for a remake or a continuation of the story or a prequel
VIII deserves the VII-R treatment. Maybe not full compilation level but at least a rework of the parallel Laguna story we missed out on.
I always felt a whole 'lotta whiplash with the story because of these scenes cuts between Squall/Laguna, I'll admit.
This was my first PSX game and my first Final Fantasy game. 25 years later, I have almost all of them on various consoles and regret nothing.
Amazing video
It is by far my favorite episode of the serie.
It's a good thing FF VIII's writing team pulled back on the Laguna flashbacks. Flashbacks are incredibly hard to pull off in narrative writing, noted for slowing down the main story. This was especially true in FF VIII's case, where the flashbacks often took us out of the present action and threw us in to random scenarios throughout Laguna's life that largely dwindled the urgency and impact of the main narrative.
FF8 with the lost content, prequel, sequel, or all of the above, would def be awesome. Id buy, & play, no matter how long. Was always sad that the content was cut.
The Oz books by L. FRank Baum are my favorite book series ever...and Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite Final Fantasy game...maybe there is a connection there I never realized.
I think Square Enix learnt from Dirge of Cerberus that a third person action shooter-RPG doesn't work, so a game revolving around Laguna would most likely be a first person CoD style shooter, with Kyros and Ward being KH:ReCoM style power-up summons to support you. I personally think it could work.
I just hope a remake is coming in my lifetime. It could be next year, next decade, or three decades from now. As long as i get to experience a modern version before i die.
Like FF7, I'd love for SE to remake 8 again based on how they originally wanted to do it with the Squall/Laguna split story. It would be incredible!
Very interesting idea the dual-timeline. Thanks for the info!
FF8 was one of my favorite games as a teen. Now I play A Realm Reborn and I've liked how BU3 has included previous titles in the form of a raid. Rabanastre was a cool place to travel to. I've always wanted to revisit Ultìmecia's Castle or Lunatic Pandora.
I got my first FF (7) at 10 years old, and it was a very hard game for a 10 year old to get into, especially because that the guard scorpion was actually quite a hard battle. It took a while but I was eventually hooked to the point where it was the most important thing in my life. I loved it, but I really connected with 8. I was 12 when 8 came out and I spent my high schhol years replaying those 2 games over and over. I connected with Squall and his introvert nature (Cloud too, just Squall is deeper and more complex). With FF8, I connected with the adventure of growing up into an adult and the thought or idea of university, the adventure of leaving the nest and exploring the world, getting a job and being paid, finding love and finding myself. It was a game that dragged me up, in respect to maturity. The adult theme of 7, and more so 8, are what make them special to me.
FF8 is my favorite Final Fantasy game, it's also probably just my favorite videogame period. A continuation of the story could be great, either a prequal like Laguna's life (including the sorceress war) or even a sequel where he and Squall spend time together. Though I must confess, I also have some misgivings.... its been so long, and it would all depend on what they want the story to be...
This is by far my most favourite FF in the series. A love the junction system and wished later installments would reintroduce it. But the graphics and story were brilliant. And the card game tetramaster was so much fun. FF7 was equally awesome but 8 just holds that special place in my heart. Particularly the nostalgia since I played this in my final years of highschool.
I'd be over the moon about anything from that game. It shaped me!
8 is the game that never got love but hits the soul i want a sequel and a remake
I love this game so much, my favorite of the whole series! So many memories. I really need a remake! This game deserves it! Thanks for this video!
Of course you had to open with my favorite track from FF8 😭
It's been awhile since I've played FF8 seriously, but I do remember the Laguna bits being high on my list of favorites from the game. I like the idea of doing more with those characters. One interesting idea that comes to me on that front is doing kind of a mirror image of the original, where Laguna, Ward and Kiros are the main characters for most of the game and wind up doing interludes as Squall and other members of that party. From the sounds of things, that may have been part of the original idea for the game we actually got.
-Laguna was not a clown but a very emotionally intelligent man because he knew how not to succumb to despair.
-We already had a second FFVIII related game reimagining Laguna's story and it's called FFXV (which I've just finished playing two days ago).
8 is definitely one of, if not, my favorite. I was pretty depressed hearing the rumors about FF9 remake. Why would they skip over this game!?!
Well, if they were actually compitent and reasonable I'd put it down to the whole combat system being kind of a mechanical disaster and the difficulty of adding anything meaningful to a stable time loop plot that already works without breaking it.
But given that they've apparently decided that a full on genre shift to Action RPG and everything I've heard of FF7's remake's handling of That game's story, I'm not sure either of those would stop them.
As astounded as we all were with the graphical presentation of Finl Fantasy VII, be it during battles, the world map and of course, the CGI FMV sequences, Final Fantasy VIII took it to levels that I, as a kid, didn't know the PlayStation was capable of, let alone Final Fantasy IX...
Yes! That would be nice!
having a remake of my first FF VIII would be a dream come true
FFVIII was the first one I played to completion and I still absolutely love the game and story to this day. I'll never be mad about getting more story for those characters.
A FFVIII sequel where you get to play as Laguna searching for Squall after the events of FFVIII would be unique but pretty cool. A prequel would be even cooler though. Getting to play through Laguna's whole arc from the time he joined the Galbadian Army up until he becomes president of Esther would be like FFVIII's equivalent of what Crisis Core is for FFVII.
I would like to see a Laguna/Squall story with Laguna's past with Squall's screentime previously as Squall set after FF8 with the smaller story
A sequel for FF8 would work if focused on the origins of Ultimecia, she is still a mystery and a game about FF8 world in a post-apocalyptic future sounds fun.
Because even if the game ended nicely, Ultimecia will eventually exist either way in the future...
We could even see the origins of the the Eden GF!
I think Ultimecia is both great as she is now and also needing some expanding, as you said.
I actually enjoy how she is a secretive mastermind who's really not unveiled until the very end, I think that makes her "realistic", in the sense that such a character would simply hide away and plot in secret until it's too late to stop them, and it very nearly is too late to stop her, she really is good at achieving her goals. But as the villain from a story, it really is a shame that we understand so little about her, the mystery is appealing, but it would be nice to have a bit more insight into who she is and what she is doing.
@@NiiRubra and that is exactly what I think. The mystery is ok in the main game, and the best way to go about it is in a side story
or a prequel about Quistis :)
In a theoretical VIII-remake which really follows the dual protagonist/time period 50-50 structure I would love to have Ultimecia's Castle be a kind of convergence point for the two. As in the past Laguna's party and present Squall's party intersect due to Ulimecia's time compression shenanigans and we get a more elaborate final dungeon scenario where both parties matter. It would give the timey-wimey aspect of the plot more actual relevance, if nothing else.
Some of my deepest memories are attached to going to Toy's R Us as a kid in the summer time (shortly after the game released) and paying $20 to have my life and taste level change forever. i didn't get too far out of Balamb as a child lmao but i specifically remeber playing FF8 with my window open and the sun on 110% brightness w/ a nice cool breeze...man. I'm grateful and would collapse over a Remake annoucement !
A special story about Laguna as a follow up to Final Fantasy VIII would be interesting.
yeah, the battle with Adel would be cool to see
We NEED a remake of FFVIII! 😭 or a second installment! Something at least!