#Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

[zambogirlpiano]

Final Fantasy VIII - "Julia" - Piano Tutorial [BEGINNER]

🍥This is a #synthesia #tutorial of “Julia” from #finalfantasy8

📻Source ▶Video Game: Final Fantasy VIII

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[aleheartilly]

Sculptor says Squall has a great heart, even though he's a foreigner.

Well thanks a lot Sculptor, apparently to have a great heart you don't need to be a Shumi. Who would have guessed?

[angrybatgaming]

One (or two, technically) of my Christmas gifts. Never finished either one of them, but I know how they end. VIII bothering me the most.

Also, before anyone even thinks of asking, my fave Final Fantasy villain will always be Kefka from VI.

[magicmalcolm]

Just think that it wasn't that long ago that the idea of these games being on Nintendo Consoles was unthinkable. Anything is possible!

[flying-princess]

Episode 18 of my Final Fantasy VIII Remastered let’s play is here!

Following through with Laguna's plan, Squall and the gang confront Seifer for the final time but he is the least of their problems of foes to face.

[amygoldman90]

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered 100% Pc (Finale) [HD]

[lochness-tess]

"I want to hear your voice."

[ethernalium]

crisis core getting the remastered/remake/whatever ff8 truly deserved what the fu---

[jigo-ku]

Why do they have to make it so sexy

[stuff-of-legends]

FF8 remastered early thoughts.

FF8 remastered is a fun time but I wished it got a remake to tighten up some of its story's themes and gameplay mechanics.

The game does give you optional dialogue but I wish they did went full choice based like lnfamous or later Personas.

A smaller scale social links system would be interesting. For example-Zell is the Chariot, Quistis is the Empress, Irvine is the Magician, Selphie is the Lovers, Seifer is the Hanged Man, Rinoa is the Star etc.

My intro to Squall was KH so it's surprising to hear people found him a divisive character when he first debuted.

a compilation full of sequels, prequels and crossover would be fun.

I thought of a prequel where a kid Squall meets Mickey (FF8 x Epic Mickey) but forgets and an interquel where Squall competes in the Reaper's game (FF8 X World ends with you). ;)

My pitch for FF8-2 would be similar to God of war 2018. It would deal with Squall struggling to be a mentor to a new character.

[ohshitthisbloghasothercolors]

Lol don't mind me, I'm just back on my ff8 bullshit

[aleheartilly]

So Squall gets to talk about Laguna with the Elder. The main interesting thing about this conversation is when the Elder says you only had to look into Laguna's eyes to see what he was thinking about (Ellone and his friends) and then he asks Squall if he understand. And Squall says that maybe he does.

I like to think Squall is already changing a little and this is another (not-so-subtle) hint to that.

[maryse127]

Last semester I read a paper that used the Final Fantasy VIII guide being a best seller book as an argument for people wanting additional materials supplementing fictional worlds and I thought that was bullshit because Sir, have you tried playing FF8 without a guide?! And I am trying to help a twitter mutual with the game right now and he is struggling hard and this is once again proving my point

[admiral-craymen]

I like that there’s a photo mode in the PS5 version of FFVII Remake.

[angelosearch]

here is a weird little ramble about how weird and obsessive I am about this damn videogame.

You know that quote from Laguna at the beginning of disk 2 where he is like, "Oh, please let it be this room when I wake up! Please let me be in this puny bed when I wake up!"*?

I get that feeling sometimes. When you finally feel safe and happy and loved, it's hard to believe it will stay. Sometimes it's hard to believe I even deserve for it to stay. So I start and end each day with the fear of it all disappearing, and it's hard to hang on to gratefulness when you're doing that.

Right now I have so much joy and fun and creativity in my life. I spent so many years in a deep depression that I forgot I could be excited like this. I didn't know I could still feel so strongly about things. And while I spent a lot of 2023 seeing all of my mental health treatments/work paying off, I didn't feel truly whole until I rediscovered Final Fantasy VIII in July.

And my "puny bed" is just that - being engaged with Final Fantasy VIII. I get scared that one day I will be uninterested. But I never want to be unobsessed again.

I have loved Final Fantasy VIII at least since I was about 11, but I think I loved it since the first time I watched my brothers play the demo. It has been an important part of my life - playing the game influenced all my interests going forward; making fanfiction taught me how to write; going on forums to discuss the game helped me learn how to socialize online; and honestly I could go on.

But I've gone through cycles. I was very obsessed from 11 to 13, then someone made me a cake with the Griever necklace on it for my 16th birthday (WHICH WAS SO COOL) and all I could feel was embarrassment. My interest had gone completely dormant. It reemerged at 19 with the help of my Final Fantasy XIII roommate in college and went on long enough for us to go to see a Distant Worlds concert together, but faded again when she left for Amsterdam.

The first five years of my young professional life I am not sure I had any interests at all, being so busy and detached from myself, so Final Fantasy VIII was nowhere in my vocabularly. Which meant my wedding had not a drop of FFVIII in it. Even though my husband suggested it. Even though we learned how to dance for it, and could have done the waltz for the moon.

Strangely enough, about two days before the remaster dropped, I was inspired to look up FFVIII for some unknown reason. It was as if I felt the new opportunity to play in the force and when I found out a remaster was coming out, I absolutely had to play it.

And I did. And I enjoyed it. But that was when I started to fall down a dark spiral. The love was very quickly strangled.

When I was at my very worst, I kid you not, I could not even bring myself to think of FFVIII. I very clearly remember one December night in 2020 I spent manic in a psych ward, scared and uncomfortable and unable to fall asleep. I tried to focus on fanfiction ideas so I could maybe be relaxed enough to doze, instead of spending hours in the darkness wondering if my meds would ever work, if my heart was going to explode, if I would ever be "normal" again, while people opened my door at random intervals to shine a flashlight on my face. I tried to conjure Squall's face, or quotes from the game, and it all collapsed into nothingness.

And that was how it was. From then until mid-2023, FFVIII was shut away from me by the tomb of my own illness.

Then, I think it was March or April, my therapist and I were talking about ways to tackle my insomnia that didn't involve additional medication. It came up that I used to make "fake bedtime scenarios" about characters in this videogame I liked and that would not only help me fall asleep, but make me excited to go to bed.

"Why don't you play the game again?" She asked. I know I said "I can't" but I don't remember why. But it was enough to plant a seed (SeeD?).

As the spring continued, I started listening to the music from Final Fantasy VIII. Then I started going on the Reddit. I found this "State of the Arc" podcast that reviewed FFVIII. I listened to it on a roadtrip and, while I enjoyed it, I also found myself yelling at the dashboard because I disagreed with the hosts about something.

When I reached my destination, I found I could not fall asleep. I turned over a lot of things in my brain. I thought about Squall being a high-functioning depressed person with a lot of repressed feelings, like I once was. And how as your brain develops and you have issues like that, especially with CPTSD, it sometimes doesn't matter if your life is good now - the pain demands to be felt and the body remembers what you thought you forgot. And then I wondered, what if he was happy and with Rinoa after FFVIII but had a massive mental breakdown in his late 20s? And so, for the first time in three years, I could think about Final Fantasy VIII to fall asleep again.

After that, I was hooked again, and in a big way. I played the game again and found Reddit wasn't enough anymore. I may be even more obsessed with the game now than I ever was. So I joined Tumblr, and I guess you guys know the rest.

Since bringing this amazing videogame back into my life, I've been happier, more easy-going, and just... able to sit with myself. It makes me want to write, and draw, and sing, and play card games. I find that when my anxiety gets the best of me, I can shift to thinking about Final Fantasy VIII as a way of thought-stopping. And then I've met some amazing people on here that are so interesting and talented and supportive. I literally look forward to coming on Tumblr.

Today I was out and about a lot because I am with my in-laws and I am sort of on vacation. Because of that, I wasn't on Tumblr all day, and, more significantly, I didn't think/talk about Final Fantasy VIII. I mean, it wasn't completely absent from my day as I wore my "Compression of Time" tanktop and Squaket... but irrationally I feared I was somehow "not doing enough FFVIII" today.

And that is silly, of course. And I think in the big picture I am most afraid of being that disconnected and lost again. I could probably find joy in another fandom... maybe.

I just want to keep waking up here, in this cozy place that makes me feel connected and at home.

*btw in google this quote I found out Laguna is a brand of bed frame???

[amygoldman90]

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered 100% Pc (Part 18) [HD]