Learning to Appreciate Final Fantasy VIII | Retrospective (PS1, 1999) | Gaming Through the Years

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• WO

  @Wolf_Pounce · 1 month ago

  Thank you so much for this. It has always been my favorite. It struck a cord with me and even though I love a lot of the others there’s just something cozy, playful, serious and delightful about eight.

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• MI

  @MikeHunt91-m8h · 1 month ago

  So glad to see loads of people have 8 as their favourite too

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• SW

  @Sword_Qf_Michael · 1 month ago

  This game has aged very well. Making it a successful and impressive attempt at following up the impossible task of VII

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• MI

  @milkweedreflections · 1 month ago

  FF8 has always been one of my favorites. Great video!

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• AM

  @ameneon_ · 1 month ago

  Bro, this channel is so so underappreciated. Thank you so much for what you do, greetings from Norway ❤️

• JU

  @juanandrade2998 · 1 month ago

  That FF6 strategy guide 👀👀

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• JO

  @JoeyintheAM · 1 month ago (edited)

  Woah! Never thought I&apos;d come across another &quot;in the AM&quot; 😄<br><br>Fantastic video!! What I love most is your framing in the end that the FF series&apos; identity being reinvention. I never really thought about that point before and that makes perfect sense.

• AT

  @ataxius · 1 month ago

  8 has always been my favourite, always will be, and it’s not even close for me. &nbsp;No disrespect to other entries in the series which are equally iconic and legendary.

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• JL

  @jlcdavenport6268 · 1 month ago

  You&apos;re probably entirely right about FF8 subverting how RPG mechanics worked and that throwing people for a loop. But, I&apos;ve always found the oft-repeated statement of &quot;People struggled with FF8 because they defaulted to grinding and then got punished&quot; to be massively overstating things. FF8 is not a SMT game, it&apos;s not particularly hard.<br><br>When I was a kid, I was shocked to see that FF8 had a flat experience amount to get to every level, I couldn&apos;t believe it, so I happily grinding my heart out and was super excited to get to lv99 before the end of Disk 2. I had absolutely no idea that Level Scaling was a thing, I wouldn&apos;t have even known what that was. And even after grinding to lv99 I never noticed it (I did notice that I wasn&apos;t steamrolling the game like I&apos;d expected, but I didn&apos;t think much of that). <br><br>The only JRPGs I&apos;d played before then were probably FF5 and FF7, and I&apos;d used savestates for 5 so I was far from particularly good at the genre. But I still got through 8 without any issue, because it just isn&apos;t that hard. There&apos;s zero chance I was junctioning &quot;correctly&quot;, my GF assignments were almost certainly not optimal, and I know that I remember that I never did Triple Triad at all, but I was still able to figure out junctioning well enough to make myself strong enough to get through the game, with my entire party at lv99. <br><br>Imo: If someone really did get walled from FF8, it wasn&apos;t because they grinded, it was because they refused to interact with the game&apos;s mechanics even as much as I had as an untrained child.<br><br>FF8 is still one of my least favourite FF games, but that&apos;s almost entirely beause of the story.

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• TR

  @treetheoaks · 1 month ago

  Just want to say love for JRPG videos and it&apos;s great your channel is monitized again!

• ST

  @steelcurtain187 · 1 month ago

  This was such a refreshing game when it came out. It was massive and people were dying to find out anything about it after FF7. I remember the demo disc being so exciting 😎 the card game was addicting. Nice job covering it

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• JI

  @JimmyPageTV · 1 month ago

  picking a favorite is like picking tour favorite child 😂 but this one got a special spot for