Final Fantasy VIII Review: The Finale

Wow. I guess that I enjoyed this game in hindsight because I was able to blank out the parts that did not make sense to me.

I loved the game, loved the whole thing but I also loved this series of vids even though he bashed on it. I just thought it was fun to see someone sort of narrate the game even if its negative. Didnt bother me.

Just to clear something up about some stuff you didnt get. Laguna and Raine are squalls mom and dad, Sorceress Edea wanted Elone so she could go back and stop from becoming a sorcorress (I think...), and the Laguna thing was basically just establishing squalls past. Thats why squall was always laguna.

Whoa, nice cosplay there Spoony. (Hey, for a guy who doesn't like FFVIII, you sure have a lot of merchandise. Don't those doll things cost piles of real can-buy-tacos-with-it dollahs? No snark, just curious.) Anyway, once you cosplay Squall, be it for reasons of comedy or whatever else, you check in your balls at the gates of the internet. Nothing to be done about it. Join me in pussyland, friend. It's not so bad.

Which reminds me. If I'm already (mostly) a woman AND I got a little teary about Eyes On Me, does that make me the One Pussy To Rule Them All? The most gaping walking vagina to ever sprout thumbs and handle a controller? A walking breathing anti-ball anomaly? Because that would be pretty cool. Or do I just shoot right of the scale and emerge on the other side as a being of pure testosterone-filled ballsy goodness?

Either way sound pretty cool.

Anyway, great review. I have to admit I love Final Fantasy VIII (and the Forgotten Game, FFIX). It was the first real game I ever played after Duck Hunt and Duke Nukem, so I guess I like it for nostalgic reasons. So I was a little apprehensive about watching this review, but I loved it. It's not every day I can watch someone tear something I like a new asshole (over ten episodes no less) and still have a genuinely good time. That makes you a seriously funny dude, I guess.

Thanks for the review!

It seems to me like the game itself isn't the problem, just the fans. Most Final Fantasy games I've played were very enjoyable, some of the best gaming experiences I've ever had, but the fans can get so worked up over the games because they can be so personal to the player.

When I played Final Fantasy VIII, I primarily focused on the gameplay attributes rather than every little thing that didn't seem to make sense. After all, this doesn't take place on Earth and it IS a video game, so I couldn't help but take all of your complaints as looking waaay too far into things to get a point across. That point being your hatred of Final Fantasy fans, or at least what seems like it. Fans are going to go too far with anything and everything, and just because they act like complete idiots doesn't mean the thing those idiots adore is of any less value on their behalf.

I say all of this because of your claims that anyone who liked this game sucks and the obvious bashing of everything Final Fantasy. And not only is it unnecessary, but it also has to do with a blatant disregard of the fact that it's not American. I found myself pointing out the times in which you would make fun of something for being retarded when all it's doing is "being foreign." I will agree that this wasn't my favorite Final Fantasy game, and honestly it doesn't live up to the two former games in the series for me, but it still delivered, and if it's not for you, then you probably shouldn't be delving into a genre that isn't suited to you. And not liking the JRPG style isn't enough to convince me that this game was terrible.

This is so gay! You obviously have no good taste in video games. Final Fantasy VIII was ONE of the best Final Fantasy's out there next to VII and X! You need a better taste in games, and you need a life as well. Do, something interesting with your life how about going out and getting a girlfriend instead of being an asshole? I would LOVE to see you make a better game than ANY of the Final Fantasy's and I understand that hate mail I will get for this but if ya can't deal with it oh, well to fucking bad for all you assholes. Oh, and call me a fanboy as much as you want and I will not deny it I am a fucking fanboy and proud of it. I love all Final Fantasy's this guys got to get rid of his pussy and find his cock already. Now come on I'll be waiting for the massive amount of hatemail you shitheads will be sending me. As for you "Mr.Spoony" Get that cock out of your ass cause the faces you make look like your taking one right up there buddy. Later Fuckheads :3 byee!

Sincerely, NightmarexGaara <3!

"Final Fantasy VIII was ONE of the best Final Fantasy's out there next to VII and X!"
HA! That's a good one. Thanks for the chuckle.

"You need a better taste in games, and you need a life as well."
Well considering the fact that he gets paid to do this AND won the 2009 Mashable Open Web Awards as the "Funniest Person to Follow", I think he's doing just fine and doesn't need a so called "life".
Oh wait a second, isn't "having a life" having a job to support yourself and having a social life? Well even though he has a job (making videos about reviewing games, movies and so on) with a bonus being that not only does he enjoy his job but is also making a nice living out of it and has done many crossovers with others and is featured at numerous conventions, I guess that doesn't count as "having a life".
In that case, will you please define me what "having a life" means?

"Do, something interesting with your life how about going out and getting a girlfriend instead of being an asshole?"
He does have a girlfriend. He's had one for quite some time. And since when does expressing your opinion make you an asshole? If I say something like, "The Bouncer is a terrible game in my opinion and here's why I don't like it at all," am I an asshole for having personal opinions?
If anything, you're the asshole for insulting him because he has an opinion and voices his opinion. Learn to accept other opinions and if you don't agree with those opinions then that's fine. But insulting someone for having an opinion different from you is a real dick move.

"I would LOVE to see you make a better game than ANY of the Final Fantasy's"
So in order for someone to be a criticize something they must first make a product that is better than what they want to criticize? Well, I guess it's time for video game reviews, movie reviews and book reviewers to give up their career because even though their job is to voice their opinion on a certain subject, apparently it should not matter.
So I guess when people tell me that "E.T." for the Atari 2600 is one of the worst games of all time, I shouldn't give two shits about they say because those people never made a video game before. When people tell me "Plan 9 From Outer Space" is one of the worst movies of all time, I shouldn't listen to them because they never directed a film before. Forget the fact that they give me reasons and explain themselves thoroughly. If they never made a better product, then fuck what they say! I mean, that makes a lot sense, right? ... Right?

"I understand that hate mail I will get for this but if ya can't deal with it oh, well to fucking bad for all you assholes"
Just like you couldn't deal with someone criticizing a game you enjoy. Well TOO (you spell with two o's, not one) fucking bad for you then.

"Oh, and call me a fanboy as much as you want and I will not deny it I am a fucking fanboy and proud of it."
Which immediately deems any opinion you have on someone criticizing Final Fantasy pointless.

"I love all Final Fantasy's this guys got to get rid of his pussy and find his cock already."
WAAAAAHHH! WAAAAAAHH! HE DOESN'T LIKE A GAME I LIKE! WAAAAAHHH! WAAAAAHHH!

"Now come on I'll be waiting for the massive amount of hatemail you shitheads will be sending me."
Technically I'm not sending you hatemail. Granted you will be getting an email about this message from the site (not from me) but I'm not looking in this as hate. Just someone criticizing your way of criticizing others.
In other words, this is me writing a message not from hate but ensuring how immature you're acting and just pointing out your flaws in your argument, the biggest flaw being you not able to handle with someone criticizing thoroughly on FF8 which results in you insulting him for having an opinion.
Actually, I think that's the only flaw in your statement, because that's the only thing you basically wrote. Nothing about you criticizing his review nor is there anything that you said that can be looked at as a debatable statement. Just a paragraph of you cursing out Spoony.

"As for you "Mr.Spoony" Get that cock out of your ass cause the faces you make look like your taking one right up there buddy."
Even though he isn't, what if he was a homosexual? What if Spoony was gay? So now you enjoy insulting gays? What if he did enjoy cock? So what if he did? Oh wait, because making fun of gay people is funny and mature. Right?
Real classy sentence I must say.


All in all, it seems to me the only you've proven was that Spoony was right that a lot of Final Fantasy fans are immature and insult you if you have an opinion against any of the games. So because of this paragraph you decided to type up, you've proven Spoony was right all along and now I like Spoony even more now because he is entirely correct about that fanbase.

PS: Naruto sucks. It sucked in 1999 and it sucks right now. Now go and write a paragraph of me taking it up the ass because I have an opinion.

Classy

Edit: Why don't you go play something with at least a half baked story.

That Dr Odine fellow you were talking about (the one with the umbrella looking thing around his neck) looks more like a bird who swallowed a plate to me.

Also, one thing you probably know about that angers me as well is how damn laid back the whole world seems. I mean, everyone in every town is laid back and easy going.

Also, Sephies home gardens students are morons as well. I remember one scene where a girl was going around asking for donations to help rebuild the garden, but she'll only accept donations from people who live there...Some stupid motto of "help oneself". This means that even if the entire world offered billions of dollars to help rebuild their home, plus lets not forget urgent medical treatment for the wounded, they'll refuse, stating "nah, we want to help ourselves...even if we cant afford it...meaning that we'll die in agony and be homeless"...how pathetic! Shame the missiles didnt kill them all as they'll end up that way anyhow.

Another thing is that during the Missile quest as sephie, you can actually cause a game over cut-scene by failing to return to the computer and adjust it. I think you need to enter 10 - 20 minutes as the countdown for self destruct and after the dying soldier restarts the missiles again, instead of returning to fix it, just run outside. You'll see the missiles fire and Selphie will drop down and cry. We're then treated to a FMV of the missiles reaching Blamb Garden and blowing it up in a vaporizing explosion (naturally killing everyone inside, including Squall and his buddies..and possibly even Seifers friends as they havent left yet)

i thought for sure he was gonna do that "good shot, mr green!" when he was collapsing against the bed, ala clue.

How can Insano look through those googles? Oo

For some reason most of the 1st discs of FF8 have a problem with the game so i cant get past the end of disc 1 in my new game!

For some reason the creators put some of the song eyes on me in mostof the other songs.

nailed it :D

In the credits the Julia Heartily thing is really fucked up its not Julia Its Rane Leonheart.
No Bull i looked it up.

I spent like an hour drawing fucking spells from fucking Seifer. I get really bored so i just pause it and do some thing else for a while. It takes so long but it does pay off in the long term run.

The Irish Jig thing Didnt happen ehith me they where playing a rock song. Wierd.

there are 2 songs you can make during that mini game depending on the instruments you pick

Ok, wait, who, what, was it Julia or Raine who died from Soap Opera Disease in the fake/real/manipulated/real past?

"But that’s no reason to use sadistic speech picking on people’s weight, looks, religion, ethnicity, or anything else. I simply can’t believe that we live in an age where people are capable of such pig ignorance and shallow hatred."

This is something Spoony posted recently, I just can't help but read this and then remember that he basically does the same exact thing here in this review, I don't really like Final Fantasy 8 but some of the things Spoony says in this review about the fans can be really hurtful, and he seems to just be a hypocrite in the review.
I like Spoony a lot, but is he really surprised, about the hate comments when he seems to have such a hatred for the people who might like a certain song or love scene?

Who's dis cody u bitchin about, asmerom? Is he yo BF?

Rotflol

Hey, just thought I should say that I really enjoyed the review series, had me laughing myself silly. Especially what had the potential to be a completely boring video, the one where you showed how long it took to draw 100 of each spell near the start of the game, if only at how insanely frustrated your comments got. I can sympathise, fairly sure I made all those comments myself.

Personally, I really did love the game though. Sure, I can certainly understand the faults - I still think the junction system was a completely horrible idea - but I liked the story (dumb though it was, I liked the music and LOVED Eyes On Me in particular, and more importantly I have always adored the characters. Others don't, and I can see why; as well as being hilarious your explanations of why you hated various aspects were perfectly clear, which is always nice.

Lastly, a general note to some of the other commenters here (only some!), the ones turning this into a back and forth flamewar; GET A DAMN LIFE PEOPLE!!! People are allowed to have differing opinions on a bloody videogame. It's pathetic if you need to resort to name-calling against everyone who disagrees with you. Seriously, grow up.

Considering who's that's coming from, that was actually kind of funny.

If it's one thing I learned about fanboys, it's that speaking to them is as effective as talking to a wall. My mind has become so weary to the point I'm giving up the fight against them. But I've got faith, that the people will take care of them. I'm going back to playing games that don't cause me to bleed. Please don't respond to me.

Cody...just stop.

U think anybody who loves games dat U don't like are fanboys, son. 4 example if U don't like call of duty 4, then basically u'd b sayin 94% of ppl around the world who play dat game are fanboys. If ur gonna bash somebody, at least make it sound right, boi. U just makin yoself look stupid.

"Despite the spoony being wrong about ff8, he is one funny-ass dude. He should do reviews for epic masterpieces (call of duty 4, uncharted 2, modern warfare 2, san andreas) or reviews for dissapointingly overrated games (half-life, half-life 2, grand theft auto 4, fallout 3)."

If you were trying not to look like a fanboy, you failed.

"Despite the spoony being wrong about ff8, he is one funny-ass dude. He should do reviews for epic masterpieces (call of duty 4, uncharted 2, modern warfare 2, san andreas) or reviews for dissapointingly overrated games (half-life, half-life 2, grand theft auto 4, fallout 3)"


yh doesnt sound like ur own opinion sucks ass at all lmao

stupid fantard

Despite the spoony being wrong about ff8, he is one funny-ass dude. He should do reviews for epic masterpieces (call of duty 4, uncharted 2, modern warfare 2, san andreas) or reviews for dissapointingly overrated games (half-life, half-life 2, grand theft auto 4, fallout 3).

FF8 is just.....indescribably epic; so we're 7 & 9. I have a feeling dat FF13 will be the shit!

Great FF8 reviews! I don't want to sound like a fan boy but I love FF8 and I lol'd at every single flaw you found, meaning the whole damn game. I can't explain why but I love this game like Quest 64, everyone hates Quest 64 but it's alright in my book. Keep up the good work.