Final Fantasy VIII Review: The Finale (Commentary)

How appropriate that the last we see of Zell is him choking on wieners!

I've always liked FF8, but it has gotta be the most annoying FF I've played, with the spell drawing and ridiculous plot points. You really need to turn your brain off to play this otherwise you end up nitpicking everything.
Although I do like the game and characters, and have even considered it my favourite in the series, I find myself agreeing with everything you say in these videos, and since watching them you've become one of my favourite people to follow. Good luck for the future Spoony.

Very upsetting. Having absorbed all the AVGN shows, I ended up here. FF8 being my favorite, I looked at that review first. It pissed me off. So I looked at spoony's other reviews to see if they would piss me off too. They didn't. They seemed reasonable. I like Spoony's reviews, but he seemed so wrong about FF8. And this proved it. If you didn't know who Raine was then you didn't pay attention. She was OBVIOUS (in plain sight if you need a definition).
You really made me feel bad about myself, thank you. I really needed that. I hope you got the attention you wanted.
MST3K had an antagonist that wanted to rule the world. You can repeat that if you want. But if you want to do something original, get a washed up emo like me. I'd like to subject you to the things that you can't overlook.

I actually think you should do a review of Advent Children, as it would be a fairly small review that would get a lot of views and you already said that you could do a whole review on why it sucks.

Spoony for Advent Children Review!

First off, I love how you break down everything in a sort of cruel yet hilarious way. I've always loved criticism like this because I simply hate plot holes and randomness and things that are obviously unrelated and unimportant, or worse, unrelated yet crucial. I've always loved beautiful stories and complex plots. I realize alot of "stuff" I see today are horrible, just shit people pull out of their asses. They arn't even trying anymore. But I noticed that YOU noticed alot more problems in Final Fantasy 8 than I did, and you hated 10. I personally liked 10 so I'm here to ask you to consider doing a video review of 10 to bash it so that I can see what I missed. Another thing I want to ask you is to look at the storylines of Fate/stay night and break that down as well because I found that story beautiful, (except for a few obvious problems... of course... >_>). I'm not demanding you to, I'm simply asking you to consider doing it if you have time. If you have any tips and warnings for someone aiming to be a novelist in the future. Please and thank you! Btw, your work is really funny. xD

haha, the perfect finale!
you've got to do some more final fantasy reviews. or at least some other equally ridiculous rpg series... star ocean perhaps? :P
keep it up, spoony.

A spinny thing? You mean a "Floatation Ring"! I don't know why they just didn't use a Catapult Turtle to fling their Jet Motorcycles and Flying Mechs into it to cause it to collapse on top of Squall & Co. :D

Your fans want more final fantasy spoony!! Bend to their will!!!!!!!

I just played 4 hours of final fantasy x and I would understand if spoony doesnt want to review it because that game is fucking horrible. 100000000000 times worse than 8.

Good luck with the move Noah! Will miss the old room, but hey, when you have to go, you have to go. However there will always be something special about that room. To new beginnings, and a nice placing end to the Final Fantasy Review Series. Yay....

LOL man that sound effect is like ALL OVER He-Man!

Hi Spoony!
I really love and enjoy your work,including the ones about FF8;but FF8 still remaines one of my favourit game ever(and i really enjoyed Transformers 2 as well),even with all of it`s annoyance.
bye

@dicemaster

I can't remember nine, but XII had to be the worst character personalities (IMO). I'm I the only one that think's that? What do you think.....

I'm watching it now, but I had to select the WMV formatted version because the default FLV one wouldn't load. Liking it so far.

Am I the only one having trouble getting the video to load off the website? I've even tried using Internet Explorer instead of Safari and it's still not loading.

if you need any more sites with dojinshi (japanese fan comics, usually porn) then try rule34. don't ask me how i know this

(it was one HELL of a bad dare...but addicting. you can find anything, but your childhood innocence will be utterly destroyed)

Oh my god, I thought, this FF 8 thing can´t get better after the first audition of Dr. Insano....

But now..."Rinoa and Cifer: The (w)hole story" I nearly laughed until I was crying.

Absolut great...You´re a genius

You need to advertise yourself more.

I actually found you by accident (I think it was hillarious text review of Dungeons and Dragons movie). And turned out you are one of very (I mean it) very few persons, who has real entertainer talent (maybe TGWTG main guy is eqvivalent). so you need some more advertising or something.

Glad to hear that your coming back...can't wait to see your new stuff

Spoony, I can't tell you how great it is to watch your videos! I love all of your video game commentary, and can't wait to see what's next on the roster.

Also, as highly lauded as the Final Fantasy series is -especially since seven, all of the faults are usually overlooked. Thanks for the view on this game -and especially pointing out just how BAT SHIT CRAZY this plot is. I remember how much of a struggle it was to finish at the time, and How I never wanted to pick it up again afterward. This game was a total chore to finish. So thanks again showing us -I laughed out loud with every episode. I can't blame you for ending this early, after all this really was as thorough as it needed to be. Besides, there was no need to drag it out and make this as pointless and boring as the game itself was to finish. So really, thanks so much. You've really made this entertaining, and a BLAST to watch! Keep up the great work, man!!

been watching you for years, from the very begining and im sad to see it end. awesome job and though i love playing this game, i also love to hear you rip it apart! when i saw the ending i did notice the screw up with the whole raine/julia thing as well, and you do encounter raine for quite a bit of time actually, the whole scene when your in winhill fighting "giant caterpillars" the chick in the pub with the little girl (ellone) is raine. the subplot that squall is laguna and her son is only hinted at but it is implied.

Good Job Noah, You made it through the storm. Now you just need to get past the incoming hurricane and earthquake. You always make top quality internet entertainment and so we all thank you for how much Bullshit YOU put YOURSELF through just to keep us, the fans, happy. You are the World Wide Web's last, best hope of good content.

Good luck w/ the new place Spoony. And don't feel bad, I've been in and out of the nest more times than I care to think about and it looks like I'm heading back again.

But I have to ask, Burton's ok right man, tell us he's ok =P?

And I only cried during FF7 because I named Aries after my wife and Tifa after an ex that you'd recall from our card table days. "There's no escape... =P"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCxhcEZDQg

"eyes on me" asian singing. not super funny, but still funny.

hey spoony.. um.. you said in your commentary that you said you felt kind of ill, did you also suffer from any insomnia perhaps? cause i experienced all of what you said except for the headaches, i hadnt slept for over 3 days straight and was starting to get insomniatic physocosis, thats when i panicked and took a sleeping pills... thats really weird dude... and scary, ..... *government conspiracy que*

I started watching your stuff about a year back when i accidently came across your final fantasy 8 review searching for the name of a song to add to a project of mine...never stopped watching since. Ive noticed a huge change in you since you started out and im not quite sure if i prefer the old spoony or the new spoony, still love your vids...theres just something about the old way you used to do things and i cant put my finger on it...

@Omi-san: Since when? He does movie reviews as James Rolfe, but the game stuff he still does as AVGN.

@ 96:
"PS. Sorry for my bad english, I’m from Poland." stop apologizing, your english is fine and you know it!! you don't want to be like the germans, do you?

For the record, Spoony, I always figured those FF8 figurines on your desk were donations. I can tell how much you hate the game and would never purchase those.

... That said, kudos on purchasing the costume. It was absolutely hilarious.

" Although I like the Guy With The Glasses and AVGN and the rest, I do find Spoony to be particularly entertaining for one reason: When those other guys do a video, you can tell they’re playing a character, but when Spoony does a video it feels like it’s more or less his “real life” personality and that’s a lot harder to pull off, IMO.
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AVGN's latest reviews were done as James Rolfe. It seems like he dropped the angry nerd persona.