Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
Welcome to the long-awaited resurrection of my review of Final Fantasy VIII: the game that has plagued my existence for years.
Production Notes
- This will probably be the last time you’ll see the “Break Me” intro in its current form. I’d like to update it to include new moments from my latest reviews.
- If you’re wondering about my t-shirt, it’s similar to the one worn by Matt Damon early in the movie Dogma.
- “I AM A MAYUNN!” is a reference to Linkara’s brilliant series of videos called Atop the Fourth Wall, hosted on That Guy With The Glasses. You should definitely check him out if you haven’t already. I probably should have given him a credit at the end– an oversight for which I apologize.
- This is the first ever use of chromakey in my videos, and I’ll be the first to admit it’s very amateurish in execution. My room is a poor place to set up a green screen, and proper lighting is nearly impossible. Hopefully soon I’ll have some more room to maneuver, maybe get myself a studio!
- Fu Manchu was supposed to be wearing a Chinese-style wig, but unfortunately I went cheap and bought one of those wigs-in-bags things, which is always a horrible idea whenever you’re dealing with hair more than a few inches long. I don’t know why, but when I tried the wig out, it was little more than a matted, greasy lump.
- It was deceptively hard finding good Election 2008 video. I’m still amazed I was able to find anything related to Dave.
{ 1 trackback }
{ 314 comments }
← Previous Comments
how much do you want to bet that half of those people pissed off at you and writing comments, if not more, were the ones who love to cosplay and draw sick FF porn.
I somewhat enjoyed FFVIII (that is to say, I thought it was “okay” when I was in my early teens when it came out…), and yet I have to agree with this. I barely got around to finishing it because it just kept dragging on and on and on, and the characters I just… didn't care about. And though I was able to ignore all of the metaphysical BS involved in the game, I thought it was too complicated, whatever happened to just leveling up, or maybe just giving me points I could give to my characters in a more traditional style?
And whatever is wrong with normal swords, be they Longswords, Katanas, or Rapiers, that nobody seems to use them anymore in these games?
Thanks a lot Spoony :-)
I admit I really sucked for liking it so much back then. What there they (and I) thinking? I guess the magic System from FFVI wasn't good enough so they had to invent the drawing crap.. and why should I get Money from dead soldiers when I get a wage. Ahh, the comfort of regular income.. And screw all the Weapons and Armor which I could buy for money when you can junction the devil to the hairs of my ass! oO
After your reviews I am healed! Final Fantasy VI is just as good as it ever will get! time to finish the series as it was meant to be in the first place :-)
“And you can stop emailing me about it, okay? Moving on!” Freaking awesome. I have to say that one of the best things about this set of reviews were the flame wars that accompanied it. Hilarious! (Yes, I know that it's only really fun if you're sitting on the sidelines but… hell, did you SEE what some people wrote?)
And I have to agree, FF8 was the beginning of final fantasy's slide downhill. Fast slide. I mean, I actually liked FF7 – or more to the point I liked finding new ways to break the game and skip the boring parts – despite the annoying characters (the only ones I ended up using were the fucking tiger, the vampire, and the robot (they were the least hitting-head-against-wall worthy)). FF8? Nuh-uh. *Sigh* I miss the days of FF1 (sheds a tear of nostalgic remembrance).
On a side note, I agree that cosplayers (well, a fair majority) and porn fan-fic give us anime fans a bad name. A REALLY REALLY TERRIFYINGLY BAD NAME. I once innocently linked to a 4chan thread… for 3 days I sat in a corner with a gun, a bottle of white rum and a swath of antipsychotics, terrified that the internet was going to come screeching out of my laptop to murder me.
I'm not kidding.
Really.
4 chan = psychotic break. DON'T GO THERE IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY!
//End rant. (moral of the story: beware the internet, kids).
do you know what's really sad about Seifer's seduction? A really shitty girls cartoon called Winx club actually had a similar seduction that WAS MORE CONVINCING. The idiot teenager gets seduced by a really slutty teenage witch named darcy using mind control and her own sex appeal in addition to ego stroking that's actually more convincing. What does it say about the game when the trollopy girls cartoon actually does a better job with a similar plot device? Sad really
I actually enjoyed this game a great deal and hated FF7 with a passion, but I have to agree about the drawing thing. After a few runs I made one when I used a code to assure that I always draw 100 magic. MUCH more enjoyable.
However, the story was awesome, and many of the characters were really enjoyable, plus it was beautifully told. Unlike FF7, ugh, that one made me cringe.
cya
Raziel-chan
Really, one must have an incredibly fragile psyche to have a reaction like this.
Yes. I do.
…
… the image boards still haunt my nightmares. *whispers* they never leave. *cue creepy movie from the exorcist playing in the background*
You have some serious tunnel vision to get over man, I couldn't even watch the rest of this video.
Fuck yourself.
It's all fun and games until he disses something you like.
Final Fantasy VIII is one my favorite RPGs of all time. I've always thought the characters,storyline and over world felt very real.
Final Fantasy VIII is one my favorite RPGs of all time. I’ve always thought the characters,storyline and over world felt very real.
I almost cried to when i heard you say that theres 3 more disks left
I’m not sure why you feel the need to get 100 of every spell for every character. If the programmers didn’t cap the stock number at 100, how many would you require then? 150? 200?
← Previous Comments
Comments on this entry are closed.