Final Fantasy 8 Analysis (Ep. 1) | State of the Arc Podcast

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  @ResonantArc · 5 years ago · pinned

  We are bringing our podcast back to the main channel! This new format--where we do multi-episode, long-form analyses of a single game's story--is one that we think will fit among our other content on this channel. We've put a ton of work into this, and hope you'll find a newfound appreciation for the games we'll be looking at!

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  @Chamele7n · 5 years ago

  Who the hell asked for hours upon hours of ff8 story talk? In 2021?<br><br>Because thank you. I am so here for this.

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  @TheBeird · 5 years ago

  Hey YouTube algorithm, this is good shit. Recommend it to more people!

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  @GregoryAlanBaileygamereviews · 5 years ago

  Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX felt like sibling games. They all had pre-rendered backgrounds, they all had Nobou Uematsu&apos;s iconic synthisized music, they all had overworlds, they all had airships that you could control, they all had turn based combat, speech bubbles, male lead characters with long hair. They were all three masterpieces, and we&apos;ve never seen a triple of games from one franchise as magical as those three games. It was an absolute honor to grow up playing those three games with my cousins.

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  @johnnyrico3515 · 5 years ago

  I love that he is actually critiquing the story beats and what couldve made it more dramatic instead of &quot;I dont like drawing&quot;. FF8 was my first final fantasy, in fact my first RPG. Still my #1.

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  @SeraphJo · 5 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s funny that people complain that the intro section to FF8 is boring or has no hook, because it was my absolute favourite hook until Koda Kumi whispered &quot;What Can I Do For You&quot; and invented hooks in FFX-2<br>I dunno the whole school setting, the balamb FMV, the chill conversation with Quistis in the conversation, it&apos;s... almost a Ghibli-esque hook<br>The game starting from the Dollet mission would entirely dissolve the chill highschool feel

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  @markeyestone9980 · 5 years ago

  The Wilhelm scream in the edited Dollet scene really sells it for me

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  @smithtimothy93 · 5 years ago

  FF 8 is my all time favorite. &nbsp;The music is unbelievable.

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  @LCardosed92 · 5 years ago

  Shulk and Reyn analyzing Final Fantasy VIII. I am really feeling it!

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  @mbe102 · 5 years ago

  Finally, a freaking podcast that isn&apos;t just a fixed picture, or two talking heads. This is good stuff :O

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  @lexintegra · 5 years ago

  I know I’m in the minority, but FF8 is my favorite of the series and I’m looking forward to listening to this on iTunes

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  @Gulandro · 5 years ago

  About the intro: I think what you overseen about that it FF8 is more of the product of the time than any previous FF game. Because around that time the youth, and probable in the creators&apos; youth music videos were the biggest things. And that intro cinematic is in fact (or was) a really good hook at that time when everybody was fascinated with music videos, music channels etc. I think the idea of that the whole game is like a meditation or afterthought about what can happen after a music video or what kind of a world can that be was in the mind of young minds. Personally it was in mine. I was 13-14 at that time, and it hit me directly. Many of us was fantasizing about different music videos stories, backgrounds, and what ifs ... so I think it is appropriate to appreciate or at least appraise the whole thing from this angle.

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