Breezy + Balamb town ambiance (HQ) - 1 hour - Final Fantasy VIII

Breezy + Balamb town ambiance (HQ) - 1 hour - Final Fantasy VIII
I couldn't find anything like this on KZbin so I decided to put this together myself and upload it for everyone to enjoy. This is my favorite video game song and it holds a special place in my heart, so it felt only right to include the calm ambiance of Balamb town with it.
Feel free to download this video to listen to it offline at your own leisure. I don't monetize my channel so there won't be any ads, a fact your ears will surely appreciate. Enjoy!
Recorded using OBS through the ePSXe emulator.
Audio plugin: Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41
Video plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 GPU core 2.0.0

[@malformedmalice7517]

To the legendary people who chill out to this song after all these years, I salute you 💜

[@Chabal117]

And I you.

[@seamusoneill5765]

Likewise to you, a SeeD salute!

[@AngelIsland88]

Hi🙂

[@CraigPeds1]

To the extent I learnt to play it on Guitar so I can chill to this even in the absence of electricity.

[@msadids]

maybe this good memories never ends

[@francesconuma]

Back in 2000, cancer took My dad, playing this game helped me not thinking about that. Bye dad I still love u.

[@friendlybucket7268]

might he Rest in Piece, life is sometimes a sad weird thing to someone, im sorry brother/sister, hope you are well :)

[@PacSkivities]

This is my son's bath music. The nostalgia of this game while experiencing fatherhood is everything

[@zeo1087]

I hope you and your son are both doing well

[@VoidWatchers]

I just saw this comment a year late and believe it or not this is currently my shower music

[@rach1473]

This is also my go to bath music! Brings back memories of long ago for me ❤

[@achilles8356]

​@@VoidWatchers Yep had this as my bath or shower music many times. Now time to play this while in my living room reading a book.

[@darkones4370]

A very good down time music and vibe.

[@chazsimpson6899]

This is how a Sunday afternoon should sound everytime ☺️

[@Topher_Toaster]

RIIIIIGHT?!

[@m74568]

If you live near a beach

[@Topher_Toaster]

@@m74568 we are preteeeending to live at a beach 🏝 shhhhh lolz

[@DCUnderdog3000]

Lol yea after a weekend of fooling around and now you gotta go to work tomorrow but just want to have a relaxing sunday.

[@nimazsheik5152]

What a coincidence, I was just chilling while going through my first ever playthrough of this game on a Sunday ☺

[@andrewbautista7941]

ff8 had everything. light, dark. romance, comedy, hate, jealousy, politics, friendship, time-travel. this game is a gem.

[@VoidWatchers]

Yeah and the music is some of my favorite in FF and means a lot to me, though there's a lot of good tracks in all of Final Fantasy

[@herdplattn691]

You forgot the card game to get addicted with!

[@ChainxBlaze]

@@herdplattn691wanna play cards?

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

Yup yup! Just doing a re-run these days, I'm on disc 3! The complexity of the plot was novel and legendary in video games at the time!

[@结实反流]

Premature amnesia

[@dylancardone932]

This right here is a good reason why FF8 is my favorite game in the series

[@danielpratama6065]

One fine and hot day in 1999 at the beginning of the school holiday. Still remember clearly when I reached my living room, just throwing away my bag and playing this game until 6 without changing my uniform. My mom's screaming was the only one that could stop me from playing. Just another day in 1999 as a student in Jakarta, Indonesia.

[@danallery8207]

lol sounds like a great memory :)

[@dentis8661]

saya main ini sekitar thn 2000-2002, beli game guide nya untuk koleksi. 😢

[@monicahull9369]

My almost 3-year son fell asleep to this song on our road trip to visit family. Kind of a full circle moment. Final Fantasy’s music is unrivaled.. such nostalgia from playing all the games when I was a teenager.

[@IlTerry89]

Same here, I used this song for my son, after my first playtrough when I was 9 or 10…it really feels like a full circle moment❤

[@stupedcraig]

I wish to do that too. But I also want him to hear this song while playing the game so he can have a similar memory to me.

[@Mogry51]

You both are legends 😊

[@zekeshadow4153]

I'd play this game sixteen hours straight back in the early 2000's until falling asleep in this town just standing around. I'd run the game time up like crazy without a care.

[@Jayzzz-l3f]

@@jaxed1890 kinda ironic you falling asleep during the dream/flashback sequence XD

[@Mrgreenbrixx]

I played IT 100 hours First week 22 hours of Play 2 hours sleep than Play 😜

[@danallery8207]

This is how games are meant to be played - not checkboxes like they are now.

[@fabio.g.3259]

I feel you my friend.. played the game more than 50 times untill 10 years ago... starting the first time in 1999 with a pirate CD1... spent thousands of hourse playing FF8....the only thing I never did because I never knew was to trigger the Instructor Aki scenes... I just came to know about that last year only....

[@2012Ascenscion]

When I die, my Heaven is literally gonna just be me waking up in Final Fantasy 8.

[@Cacophaton]

... You mean not being able to walk out of town without being attacked by monsters, in a world where most adults died in an occult war some 15 years ago and on the brink of extinction because some sorceress from the future wants to reign on spacetime itself ? ... Just kidding, if I could chose to be reborn in any world, it'd probably be this one too.

[@alvarowwx]

@@Cacophaton lol, i thought the same. But yeah, I'm waking up in that world too

[@theneybahoodvillain7958]

This place does not exist unfortunately

[@c0nstipat3d]

Aka My Final Heaven

[@yeeeuphiiim2498]

Then you will die again because of monster there are soooo alot 🤣🤣🤣

[@shivur5073]

Imagine a peaceful world where people were walking around your humble town being friendly and generous to each other. The few bad seeds were known and avoided but never treated like a lessee human being only treated the way they're deserved. Everything is peaceful and no one is scared to be out in public or alone in public. A world where people can enjoy others company and be genuinely happy with their lives instead of feeling the need to grind their lives to death just for some green paper. The oceans are calm the skys are blue. You can wake up without anxiety of the everyday stresses. Wherw happiness comes from the heart rather then the dollar. The real happiness. The world I want to go yo when I die

[@luckyleosthoughts4277]

Sounds like a world without coronavirus lock downs. Sounds nice.

[@frijidcrushhd]

I imagine that as the Island of Sodor 😌 iykyk

[@RaimonTarou]

that sounds heavenly

[@alexross4648]

that world can begin being BUILT from within FIRST

[@terrodactyll]

Sounds like a normal day in a scandinavian country

[@thrusteavis]

My heart...

[@AlleywayJack]

Special shout-out for the screenshot used. The opening scene of Squall in the infirmary with birdsong floating through the breezy window creates such a positive tranquil vibe!

[@soegengsoeprijanto45]

aah,my teenage days. back then,i never worry about times running out.

[@khwkar8268]

This game had the most beautiful soundtrack and ambience that i ever heard. It was like a dream.

[@VoidWatchers]

yeah I like it a lot

[@leonardofabbri2329]

Ff8 is a masterpiece and Breezy has something magical in it, the add of the balamb pier background its just amazing. Awsome work!!!

[@VoidWatchers]

thank youuu, was just a simple recording in balamb tho

[@lubu7777]

yes🥰😃

[@tunnilautama5262]

I still remember when 2 of my brother playing this ff8.. I like to watch only bcoz of the soft n breezy music..when both of them still teenagers.. Now both of them alrdy 30s.. Really miss tht time when we are still stay together wth family..

[@ChuckErsatz]

you just broke my heart for remembering the same.

[@michaelluciano1980]

Aw ❤️‍🩹

[@Altitudes11]

wow does this ever bring back memories of being too tired to turn off the playstation on summer nights back in the day. and just going to sleep to this exact soundscape. sometimes i'd wake up and play for a little bit and save my game before getting breakfast

[@VoidWatchers]

Nostalgic feelings like that are exactly why I uploaded this. That's a nice little snapshot of life you described

[@frshkmyfrzl]

that's a lovely little piece of memory.. which I'm sure many of us PlayStation players used to have in the past.. thanks for sharing. I felt a playful nudge from my heart from just reminiscing :)

[@stupedcraig]

It was an awesome feeling moving on to the next disk. Like turning the page to a new chapter. One step closer to beating the game.

[@HollyAtTheNaturista]

This game is officially an antique this year. This summer I introduced it to my daughters. The next generation of FF fans has sprouted.

[@deanusmore7145]

cant stop crying while listening to this its so beautiful

[@VoidWatchers]

Aww, it makes me feel really comfy. Probably nostalgia

[@deanusmore7145]

@@VoidWatchers it is. i played this game together with my brother when we're young now we play almost every year just once to relive story :)

[@VoidWatchers]

@@deanusmore7145 that's really sweet

[@IronBrotherhood4]

Fisherman’s Horizon does that for me 🥲, especially the remaster

[@tcost86]

Sitting here in the office on Thanksgiving holiday, alone, chilling to this

[@fernando3061]

I love this comment.

[@daniele.parentmradamgamera2500]

I remember. I had only just recently got this game. The sheer beauty of that coastal town. I had had a fight with a friend recently, I thought that friendship would be over. This song made me ball my eyes out. It convinced me to message that friend. I still am friends with him now. It inspired me to take action. I am forever grateful for this small costal town right down the road from the balamb garden.

[@retcon1991]

Disc 1 of FF8 may be the best FF has ever been. Balamb garden and town are such realised visions. The whole thing goes off the rails a bit in the late game IMHO. Good thing I never managed to get beyond disc 2 as a child.

[@phoenixrising1426]

Absolutely love breezy, used to leave my playstation on for hours in town just so I could here this play over and over, now that we have music streaming I listen to it on repeat on my phone to help me sleep, but now that you put this video out with perfect balance of music and ambiance this will work wonders

[@VoidWatchers]

I'm so happy! That's exactly why I wanted to share this with other people, so they could hear it like it sounds when the game is running without actually having to do that. I just recorded it straight from the game so it wasn't all that difficult to make this but I couldn't find anything on KZbin with the ambiance included and I love this song too. I felt like it was my duty at that point to do something about it, lol. I'm glad you enjoy it!

[@phoenixrising1426]

@@VoidWatchers haha well fantastic job, I plan to pick up the revitalized version on xbox as soon as I can, theres very few final fantasy games I dont have, those being the iterations for the Wii, PSP, and old gameboy versions. I still have my original working copy of FF7 and 8 for PS1, just no way to play them sadly

[@VoidWatchers]

@@phoenixrising1426 Ah. I just emulate them nowadays. Definitely made it way easier to record for this, lol.

[@phoenixrising1426]

@@VoidWatchers I would emulate as well, but at this moment no computer :/

[@VoidWatchers]

@@phoenixrising1426 Yeah that's a predicament, lol. If you want I could suggest budget PC parts if you ever feel like getting into PC gaming or just having a decent PC to use for whatever. It actually doesn't have to cost as much as you might think to get something much more powerful than the consoles out there right now. Just offering because I enjoy playing on PC so much and want others to have a wonderful time too.

[@ArgentIcon]

Ah... not sure how I ended up here, but it feels like a summer day in the early 2000's 😌

[@michaelluciano1980]

The best ❤

[@squallleonheart937]

I love this song very much. It's a part of my life. I've been listening for decades Until now.

[@kirbyeatsyou5248]

I beat FF8 for the first time recently and I loved pretty much every minute of it. The music especially

[@andrewcruz1931]

So beautiful, fresh and cool. Like spring afternoons .

[@yourcanadiansenpai4478]

I just started this game and I stayed in this town to just listen to the music while I did house chores. I don’t know what’s going to happen yet, but I hope I can still come back to this peaceful town and listen to it’s music. ❤️

[@ff8masterc]

First song I learned on guitar.

[@FinalFantasyFan300]

Same!!

[@bagingospringo4396]

I agree. This song makes me feel the feels lol. Lots of time in this game helped me escape a pretty shitty child hood

[@ricm3633]

Same here me and my younger brother would play it late into Friday nights in 1999..oh the memories

[@rezaalfarizi4664]

when i listen lofi music for relax our mind, and find the melody similar this song bring me here. love this !!

[@maruyama-or8hq5iu4w]

暖かな休日の朝から聴きたくなるようなBGM　最高です！

[@DruidsCalling]

Reminds me of simpler times♥️

[@AceOfSpadesX]

I used to listen to this song when I couldn't fall asleep, playing some rounds of yahoo pool. This song to me is the definition of nostalgia

[@desrinaqiu9688]

Thank you Hamasaki san for uploading this music including the seagull & ocean wave sfx. Plus you dont monetize this. What an amazing people you are. Very appreciated

[@Neakob]

I guess almost everyone can relate to that song in some ways. It's the sounds of coming home, to our small village where we grew up. We remember where we're from who we used to be and who we are now. A sweet mix of memories and melancholy and yet, a place where we will always belong. Thanks for the upload :)

[@TheGroundedAviator]

One of the greatest "chill out" themes ever!

[@scarlatti222]

After all these years i can speak proudly and brag that FF8 got the most unique OST in all FF History . 😁💙👍🏼

[@danallery8207]

I do love FVIII OST, but I think VI a Chrono Trigger are just a mm ahead. You might have b eonto sometihng with the uniqueness (I take that as meaning diversity!)

[@themystery8977]

I played alot of bgm from ff8 to my baby girl when she was in moms belly now this is what she loves to go to sleep to. My life is complete I’m so happy I get to share this with the kids

[@psy0m934]

The best jrpg ever made. I miss games like that

[@m0-m0597]

this was the best, second was Legend of Dragoon

[@KyranSparda]

Sunday afternoon, outside on a hammock in the beach with a book.

[@AngelIsland88]

The first time I played this game, I instantly fell in love with it, the soothing relaxing music, the way the characters looked, the scenery and background, everything was perfect in my eyes, I simply love the elegance of it all, so peaceful.

[@AngelIsland88]

@@BookofGates I have a feeling it will but not for a long time 😐

[@ricm3633]

I listen to this while I cook breakfast in the morning and think of being in Balamb town, a small peaceful town.. A place I’d very much like to end up someday..

[@danallery8207]

Just listening to this song conjures up the smell of the room I used to play this in (I think my Dads aftershave??), new Dragonball Z episodes straight afterschool, knocking on freinds houses seeing if they could come out and play footy (soccer, to the yanks). Such a wonderfully peaceful and striaght forward existence.

[@Chocoboloft]

Almost 2022 and still chillin out to this song

[@prism_bolfox25]

Wanna listen from the start? 0:00 also, nice to listen to when your alone or can’t sleep! I wasn’t even born when this game came out, but I got to admit, the soundtrack of old PS1 games are nice to listen to!

[@LyntzbartzkyPerez]

I was literally born when the game was 9 years old

[@ndck76]

Been listening to this since it's release till now nearly every since day. Never gets bored with this. It helps me to relax and puts me to sleep. It may sound simple but to me it's a masterpiece.

[@Fueyer-Foxloyal-heart4heart88]

why did sleep so important?

[@pupunoob]

My fave game of all time. I put this to go to sleep. It's lovely.

[@sharabletexas1533]

I really want my eventual nursing home to sound like this

[@VoidWatchers]

Aww, that sounds really comf

[@zekeshadow4153]

I wonder if it is legal to setup a nursing home specifically for old retired Final Fantasy gamers (like avoiding descrimination lawsuits). I'd put the soundtracks of every Final Fantasy on loop.

[@sharabletexas1533]

@@zekeshadow4153 We'd let anyone join the nursing home, so it would avoid lawsuits. But, it would be advertised and marketed as the final resting place for those who love FF. "Your Final Fantasy awaits you at Balamb Town Nursing Home"

[@zekeshadow4153]

@@sharabletexas1533 I'm good with that.

[@hendryang5890]

​@@zekeshadow4153 I'll make sure it's next to a beach and the head nurse's name is Edea!!

[@jillian5394]

This theme represents my thoughts after leaving my old home. Where I can finally be myself and live the life I want. To finally experience being the person I want to be and to express my personal emotions clearly. The boy who loved this game is now the free girl who loves this theme

[@VoidWatchers]

After leaving my parent's place and living how I want with people that love me I can say it's pretty awesome, even if there's hurtles on the road. It's like a new chapter of life, where we have the chance to grow into confident and strong-willed women. I wish you luck in your journey 💖

[@jillian5394]

@@VoidWatchers I wish you luck on your journey as well!

[@banjokazooiesbuddy]

I need this as a 10 hour loop I can fall asleep to. Can guarantee good dreams if I hear this in my sleep.

[@riekoche]

Its everything you didn't know you needed and then some.

[@thelastofitskind3034]

Ff8 was one of the best final fantasy games ever made hope we get a remake one day before I die if not well it was fun while it lasted

[@VoidWatchers]

Yeah it's one of my favorites. Some parts are good like the music is my favorite of the FF games probably, but then the gameplay I guess presents the most interesting questions because of how experimental it feels I guess, even tho it has tons of issues. Games like that other people can look at the interesting ideas and make more refined versions of them and get a better sense of good design. It's definitely gave me many ideas

[@themystery8977]

I wanted re make but I feel like us that played the original should get to just keep this as a classic game for ourselves. #notafanofff7remake

[@MiguelAlburquerque]

If my childhood had a ost it would be this one.

[@LyntzbartzkyPerez]

thank god for Uematsu im so happy he invented music

[@ssjzx]

OMG How Have I Not Found This Until Now?! I’ve been looking for a really long loop of this exact track with the ocean, wind, and birds in the background! ✨Thank you So Much for this loop! ✨

[@VoidWatchers]

You're welcome, I was playing FF8 one day and couldn't find something like this so I decided to just make my own

[@ssjzx]

@@VoidWatchers I wanted to do that same thing for the longest time, but I don't have the resources or knowledge to do it! I mean, lots of people just remake the music alone which is nice, but I've missed the sounds of the environment in the background! Understandable that a lot of people would only want the music alone, but the additional background sounds just gave the song More Life! in my opinion. Now on those days off when no one is home and the neighborhood is empty, I can just play this loud, lay back, and let myself doze off!

[@VoidWatchers]

@@ssjzx I was playing using an emulator so I just recorded the audio from Balamb and of course recorded something else for the visuals and looped in a video editor

[@rdor011]

I can barely remember the details of the story now since I played this through only once way back in 99, but the music, locations (and card game!) are burnt into my mind. FF6-9 were the pinnacle of JRPGs IMO.

[@VoidWatchers]

Definitely has some unique elements in the gameplay department, tho also severe flaws at the same time. But when it comes to music, visuals, and everything else it definitely sticks in my mind

[@cofa4011]

Time to get the rom and dive in it once again then ;)

[@TheThunderbird63]

pretty much the theme for the summer of 2000. God I miss those days.

[@guypho]

why can I feel the breeze and the water splashing in my face. Just so relaxing.

[@BHFFS]

Finally someone included the birds and waves!!

[@VoidWatchers]

Yeah it's my favorite part about visiting Balamb, and I realized I couldn't find the same thing on KZbin so I just took it upon myself lol.

[@victoriannorman]

Loved this game as a 12 year old. Fast forward 23 years and I'm now playing this to soothe my baby daughter during night feedings.

[@SurvivalSpheres]

This image... is it really from Balamb town? I think it's in the infirmay in Balamb Garden, where Squall woke up right after the intro. Why I do remember that? Something about that moving curtain... and the gentle breeze... EDIT: Just checked, it IS the infirmary. The fact that you chose this image literally makes you my soul mate.

[@VoidWatchers]

Aww lol, yeah I thought a swaying curtain felt most appropriate for the song so that's what I searched for

[@HittokiriBattousai17]

Possibly the most loopable song in history

[@ElBandito]

Can I go back to my childhood? In a way, yes I can. Thank you for this. :)

[@pretzelpop]

i remember I would spend hours sitting in the town just to hear this music. makes me so happy and peaceful. :)

[@mauricioflores5227]

Tantos recuerdos al escuchar está canción, mi juego favorito sin dudas. Gracias

[@jpeezyyeezy8128]

I really like listening to this in the morning

[@VoidWatchers]

mhmmm same

[@jas.digitalnative]

So much I love about this! Beautiful background image too, wish someone more talented than myself could recreate the images inside Garden. They're so beautiful.....

[@MrAngmartinez1]

Thank you for this

[@Topher_Toaster]

Anyone else totally pass out on the couch while at Balamb Garden as a teen? Lazy Saturdays 🍃

[@oneprizeonegoal]

Balamb town or fisherman’s horizon seem like comfy places to live and retire in

[@dangusmomangus3003]

I played this song for my hs guitar class final. Thanks for the A Nobou Uematsu!

[@VoidWatchers]

That's pretty sweet, this song is the first I learned on guitar back in high school

[@dejoh7166]

Great Uematsu sensei who was made this sound

[@acejinwoo]

Just what I needed

[@nathanjay2042]

I enjoy the tempo Im not a nostalgia junky, I click on these videos to leave a note. I still have the game and I can always listen to the song. The Algorithm is the most competent manned tool we have in the tool box right now

[@supercruiser4925]

Omg why does youtube have everything..i love this peaceful sound track.

[@VoidWatchers]

Yeah I made it because I wanted to hear this but realized I couldn't find it lol

[@Squall.Strife87]

Currently playing through this again in the hardest time of my life up to this point. Theres a comment in here that says the music feels like a dream I resonate with that. The whole game feels like a dream. It has quickly become my 2nd favorite in the series.

[@Joe_334]

Can't hear this without remembering when Galbadia was occupying Balamb, In order to get inside the hotel, you had to track down Raijin who was supposably sleeping somewhere. Then, you find that he used Zell's residence kitchen to cook the fish that he caught. Also I think Lulu and Wakka from FFX was reminiscent of Fujin and Raijin.

[@myplaylist7007]

Just chilling laying in bed or looking out at the ocean and not giving a care in the world.

[@CozyButcher]

This is Cozy's jam. Nice to listen to this in the mountain cabin, away from people, staring at the mountains. Is super cozy. Thank you fren for posting this, it makes Cozy's day/night.

[@Jose-tv2pl]

best music to chill out

[@Shred007]

Incredible isn’t it after all these years 1999 what a time for gaming man ….. the ps1 days I miss so bad I hope when we die it resets and we wake up to play this in those moments again. 😢❤

[@Nooreazy]

Thank you for this amazing job.

[@VoidWatchers]

Aww thank you, though it wasn't too much work

[@Nooreazy]

@@VoidWatchers no you don't understand the significance! I was looking for music specifically background music inorder to read with comfort! But how to read Friedrich Neitzche with comfort? I knew not u till I had found your video. Blessed is this ether!

[@VoidWatchers]

@@Nooreazy oh, well, enjoy I guess XP

[@MetaLeir93]

It's all about love, man This song is all you need

[@awendigowithinternetaccess4400]

This is amazing. Thank you so much for this.

[@VoidWatchers]

OMG thank *you!* I'm glad you like it!

[@jrkanaan]

Sitting in my room at 2am wishing i could do it all over again.

[@HVTNZ]

wow... that beach ambiance is unmatched

[@keva5144]

Thanks for making this video.

[@TheGellerBing]

This is great. Breezy is one of my favourite tracks to listen to while I'm doing work. Thank you so much for the upload. Cheers!

[@VoidWatchers]

You're welcome! Hope your work is nice and relaxing with it!

[@TheGellerBing]

@@VoidWatchers It has been super relaxing for the past 5 days! The original town ambiance really made a huge difference.

[@VoidWatchers]

@@TheGellerBing Yes, I really love that part too! Especially the seagulls ^w^ Glad you're getting some nice relaxation!

[@0000GrayFox]

C h i l d h o o d

[@omae_wa_mou_x]

This song always puts me at peace...

[@Hadokane]

Please accept my deepest thanks for putting this together!

[@VoidWatchers]

of course, this song and game is really important to me and I wanted a way to listen to it whenever I wanted

[@Hadokane]

@@VoidWatchers Same here! Super grateful you took the time to upload this.

[@nikolasweischner3560]

What a great choice of gif, lovely.

[@opticaller]

I miss all the comments in those deleted ff8 breezy extended videos

[@WinVisten]

"Eden" is a fitting name for this channel because if you were to translate a word into an ambient sounds video, THIS video would be what you got by translating the word "peace".

[@OverlordViciousKiwi]

Shout out to the 90's kids who survived y2k with a copy of ff8 lol

[@RichardMendoza-hr3bn]

I’ve always had a thought since I was young when I heard this music to retire to a small town like this just live my life enjoy fishing, some good beer and friendly company. That’s what this song reminds me of.

[@EminAnimE1]

This just makes me so happy

[@xavierzlotorowiez316]

i hear footstep while hearing this song :D

[@VoidWatchers]

That's spoopy