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Nice list even though you cheated a little bit with Dark Souls. Here is where I disagree: 1996 Wild Arms 1998 Xenogears 1999 Chrono Cross 2003 Nocturne 2004 Dragon Quest VIII 2005 Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance 2006 Persona 3 2008 Persona 4 2009 Dragon Quest IX 2011 The Last Story 2012 Bravely Default 2013 SMT IV 2014 South Park: The Stick of Truth 2015 Stella Glow 2017 Fire Emblem: Echos 2022 Triangle Strategy 2023 Sea of Stars

When I first got to play FFVIII I thought it was a sequel to FFVII! 😂

Those cutscenes man.

Why are you speaking this way

A lot of the things people hated about it were because it was so different from FF7 and fixed some of FF7's major issues (leveling, being overpowered by leveling early) Now that time has passed, I think these differences are actually what makes this game special. The leveling/junction systems are crazy but SO fun to manipulate and exploit.

This game need a remake

I never played the Complete version of Lunar. I did have Lunar 1 and 2 for the SegaCD. These games and their characters had charm. Lunar 2 Eternal Blue's intro I still adore.

I loved this game, part of the last group of great games on 16-bit before the arrival of Playstation and Saturn consoles of the next generation. The only bad thing I had with the game was that it came to an end. I really felt like I could have kept on going much longer because it was fun. I owned Phantasy Star 1, 2, and 4. A good friend of mine had 3 and played his copy. 3 was indeed the worst of these and 4 had to make up for it. Phantasy Star 1 makes me the most nostalgic but 4 was the best of the original mainline games.

First JRPG I played was the original Super Mario RPG, but I didn't get hooked on JRPGs on FF7

This is my favorite console SRPG. (I never finished 64 because I only ever knew one person who owned it and he sold his copy while I was mid run.) I wish square would re-release the Ogre Battle games instead of remaking Tactics Ogre once a decade or so.

All I remember from this game is spam draw, spam limit breaks and play triple triad.

I recently was itching to play this game. I started it once like 5 years ago. But never got to play the rest. I finally tracked down a copy that wasn’t 80 dollars, waited 3 weeks for it to be delivered to my apartment. Popped it into my ps5 to learn that the ps5 can’t play ps3 discs. So disappointed lol. They need to rerelease this game

Also, Man with the Machine Gun.

Always loved this game despite the hit and miss of the junction system. Although you sell it really well.

I'm so glad BOF3 is in here!

Great review! I really need to try and beat this one! Been bugging me for years!

Awesome video and I am so glad you mentioned the community thing with Torna! UGH!!!

I played the original version on my ps1 way back. seeing this and getting a chance to play it was so nostalgic. i love everything that they added and the guild quest will surely guide you with all the game mechanics that I have never bother doing on my first time playing so2 in ps1. good job for this. its makes me 20 years younger when I played it.

I just want some strong recruitible characters thats not a god damn wifu..

Also my first RPG and one of my favorites to this day. I love this game!

The enemy scaling was flawed and broke the game, junction or no junction. Enemies do not scale proportionally to your character so if you level up and gain +100hp, enemies will gain +1,000hp. So basically after 5 levels, you will have gained only +500hp while the enemy bosses will gain +5,000 more hp. This makes it impossible to defeat some bosses if you are over level 80 since they will have such a substantial amount of hp compared to if they were at even a few levels lower. This is why most people do not want to level up because the game punishes you for grinding, the complete opposite of other RPGs. When this game came out, it was this mechanic that was being talked about everywhere on the internet and gaming magazines.

The draw/junction system is not great.. I had few problems with because I didn't grind. Leveling up causes the game to become more difficult, while drawing everything you encounter is a tedious bore and exploiting the junction system makes anything the game throws you a negligible joke.

Somehow this game could fit into both DmC & Jojo verse 😂

I’m a simple guy, I see a FFVIII video and I like. So take a like!

Love VIII, hated Drawing though but yeh like u say many tricks later to reduce that. So lazy what they did with the Remaster though to the point I refuse to buy it lol. I think the older version looks better in most areas + I think you can mod it and AI upscale it

My school years! Exactly 21 years ago I played it Summer 2003 / finishing it December 2003! First time trying it was back in 1999 as my big brother had it and 7 at the time 😊🙌 Loved it a lot tbh

Loved this game as a teen, especially Squall & Rinoa plot, used to be my favouirite jRPG, but it's been losing its flair with each replay. Last time I replayed it when a remaster came out. Have to admit I don't really like FFVIII game mechanics. Drawing magic is ridiculously tedious, even with a speed up feature. Junctioning magic to stats completely discourages using magic in battles. Alternate ways of getting magic spells from items and cards requires checking guides all the time, which isn't fun at all. Why even have a levelling system if the best experience with the game is to not level your characters? You can get overpowered with GF junctioning and get progressively weaker with levelling as enemies become more damage resistant and gain enormous amounts of HP while you're stuck with 9999 damage limit. Abusing multihit limit breaks helps, but sitting at low HP is annoying with main characters and impossible with side characters that you're forced to play as in many sections of the game. Constant GF swapping between characters upon party swaps is tiresome. Have to admit that I probably won't ever replay FFVIII again.

I love the story and all the characters. Yeah, I know Squall & Rinoa take lots of space in the plot and the other characters are less developed, but if you do all the side quests you can still appreciate the other characters. The nostalgic and the love atmosphere are amazing and you can feel the atmosphere if you're a teenager or if you're in your 30s... Best OST in FF, with 2 epic songs! Fantastic card game! And lots of other things to mention... but well you know better than me if you played it.

4>3>2>1>5>6

I'm 37. When i was a kid i had a NES, a Genesis, Gameboy. But i was never into gaming. I got bored easily with plataforms and action games. In 1998, during summer vacation i went to my cousins house and he was playing FF7. Fighting the Emerald Weapon. Watching that fight hook me on the spot. Seeing Ultima, KotR, Bahamut Zero, Omnislash, i couldn't believe what my eyes were witnessing. I asked my mom for a PS1. When she finally could aford to buy me one FF8 just came out. And i got my PS1 with FF8 instead of 7. And since that day FF8 is my favorite video game of all time. Call it nostalgia or whatever, but i still lice that game to this day with the same passion. I know how much people trash on it but i must have played it to completion 15 times during my life. When i'm sad, when i'm bored, when i'm in a gaming slump i can always count on FF8 to get me out of it. Not only it is my favorite game but it also made me a fan of all kinds of JRPGs, to this day.

FINAL F'N FANTASY VIII *in the style of Catalina Wine Mixer*

Ah, one of my fondest titles too. The tracks "The Extreme", "Movin'", "Compression of Time" and "Premonition" live rent free in my head. Also have fond memories of the Neoseeker FFVIII board, and the RP that we set up back in the day.

I’m hoping to play this game this year probably after XenoGears or FFVI, I’m be playing this game on Steam with Mods.

It's awesome to revisit and review your gateway to JRPGs! Well done!

This is a really cool idea for a review! Especially considering your thoughts from back then compared to now. Shame the remaster doesn't seem to live up to the original 😅

FF8 is also my first jrpg, it's a masterpiece and i will forever love it, this game is pure art ❤

this was my first RPG too 😭

Always love to see gaming channel give love to this title. Nice work, as always!

I was in the middle of a playthrough of the pc version of this game when this remaster released. The mods that I was running looked better than this version looked at that point. There are mods for the backgrounds so that it blends better with the character models

So glad to see love towards ff8 for once. It's like a meme to hate on it. Ff8 was my introduction to the series and rpgs as a whole. I was 9 or 10 when i watched a family friend play and he popped off a lionheart on a Behemoth. I was fascinated. Then my friend recommended ff7 to me and I recognized the series name from watching my other friends play 8. So I got 7 and 8 around the same time and fell in love with both. I never did beat 8 though unfortunately.

My favorite too, as you and I have discussed over the years. Completely biased 10/10 from me.

FF VIII was my first Final Fantasy game and still one of my favourites.

This is the ONLY Final Fantasy game I hated, playing it again I dislike it I do not think it deserves the hate it gets. Was nice to see it through the eyes of a fan

I’m really excited to watch. I’m currently playing FFIX (I have played the first 7 as of this summer) and decided to wait on VIII because it seems so convoluted. I still plan to play it this year but yeah I’m intimidated by it compared to the rest of the games.

i dont like the chars :/

Dude if you love FF8, check out the Echo-S 8 mod that is currently in development.

I was never a huge fan of this game. It was fun, but the plot especially the memory and time travel aspects never really meshed for me. But I think its biggest problem with popularity was coming right after FF7. Expectations were impossibly high for this game, so every fault was magnified. Had it come first, it might have been a different story. But at least the flack this one got gave us FF9.

It was my very first JRPG too! And it was when I was 8 years old, what makes it craziest. I remember getting the other FFs was a quest on its own and I played them in such a bizarre order. When I finished with the PS1 FFs, I began my search for other similar games and thank god for that cause it made me find my very favorite JRPG (Valkyrie Profile), and many other amazing games (Xenogears, Star Ocean, Breath of Fire, Legend of Mana, Koudelka, and many others!)

This was the first rpg I ever owned holds a special place in my heart despite everyone's hate 😂

I LOVE FFVIII! It's always tied with VII as my favorite FF, and never understood the flack it got... At the time I was just blown away by the story, FMVs and overall feeling and don't recall any particular feelings about the battle system... it was just another puzzle to figure out to progress. Although we became more skeptical of war and the financial interests behind them with age, my brother and I were very into military stuff as kids... so at the time, the aesthetic of a military academy, going on missions, and interacting with cute girls was really an irresistible combination. (See also Full Metal Panic, which made us laugh so hard we had to pause to be able to breathe - but that's neither hear nor there.) I believe FFVIII was also the last FF to overlay gameplay on top of pre-rendered FMVs; and did it best - interactivity which I find sorely lacking in modern games. Also, I did know about low health and switching turns to activate Limit Breaks - It seems like a mechanic to me, as you are increasing risk and taking time in which you can take damage or fall behind as a fair tradeoff.