Final Fantasy VIII DEMO - PSX / PS1 - 16:9 Widescreen

Re-uploaded. As featured on the Pizza Hut Demo Disc #1 (1999). Shrink your browser screen for better quality.
#FinalFantasyVIII #FinalFantasyVIIIDemo #FFVIII

[@caragio]

2:08 the seamless transition from CGI to pre-rendering blow my mind back in the 1998

[@Peter_1986]

This game makes those transitions all the time; it really added a unique immersive feel to the game. You can even have Squall walk into the cutscene that plays right after Quistis has picked him up at the infirmary at the beginning of the game.

[@trollingisasport]

This should've been the start of the game. Would have been waaay better

[@skeppy8925]

Agreed, the actual beginning of the final game dragged, could’ve been told in quick flashbacks

[@internetexplorerchan2697]

@@skeppy8925 Yeah, I love the " Immediate action cutscenes at the start" kind of such as FF6 and FF7. But its just my opinion.

[@jcdenton6577]

NOPE. You have got to build the tension first! This start would not make sense at all.

[@trollingisasport]

@@jcdenton6577 Tension building works too but they don't accomplish that either. I think they just wanted the intro of the game to be that cutscene so they fit it in the way they did. Look at every other FF. They almost all start in medias res to some extent. But whatever. I just feel it was a missed opportunity.

[@RyanPyfferoen]

THANK YOU!! First and only FF game I ever played. Been looking for this demo for years (whenever the FF7 remake was announced)…erroneously thought this was FF7, not FF8. 10-year-old me never completed the demo, instead spent countless hours hopelessly fighting that damn 4-legged spider then switched back to Tony Hawk. Appreciate the nostalgia trip.

[@Tamales21]

Looked this up just to watch the amazing intro. Takes me back. Thanks for the memories.

[@3rdeyefocused]

I still have this disc in decent condition to this day!!

[@miki_mao]

FF8 demo was fire. Loved this version of the music from this scene better than in the release.

[@vanillacokejunky]

They removed that totally awesome song in the beginning from the real game

[@sanchezpunchez3823]

They had to, because the music was somehow similar to the music from the movie "The Rock" and they got copyright problems. So they recreated it.

[@3rdeyefocused]

That sucks because I really enjoyed it

[@dark_messenger]

The Landing also good theme song.

[@ubergamer2010]

Really a shame, the demo music created an amazing atmosphere that just wasn't present in the original. I remember being heartbroken that they took it out and that Rinoa wasn't actually in that section

[@VaatiOfDarkness]

@@ubergamer2010 I honestly don't see what the unused music adds that The Landing doesn't do better - it may be just be because the Landing was the first version I heard and I'm not sure if this demo actually came out in the UK, or if we perhaps got a different version that was closer to the final game

[@Keikogi]

Seifer actually seems like much less of an arrogant douche in the demo lol

[@Kerzian]

The only question i have about the demo is : Was the pizza good?

[@3rdeyefocused]

Hell yeah!!

[@rtgunzboi]

Nothing like it is now. Idk what changed but it is not the same at all

[@jsdlgjgojaosdjgoj8555]

@@rtgunzboi I don't think so. FFXV is awesome and reminds me of this. Same tier, vii, viii y xv. x was good but hadrdly remember it.

[@HoraceInkling]

@@rtgunzboi ok boomer.

[@iqueda1420]

Pizza Hut always been trash.

[@noyoucantnoicantnowecantsostop]

45:05 Demo Rinoa really ran for her and said "Screw that i can go back with Seifer"

[@RobertStarr-bt4vf]

This track and the demo version of the time station in Ape Escape 1, thank you Pizza Hut...

[@tdestroyer4780]

AHh so pizza hut is where they came from. I forgot they gave demos away.

[@RobertStarr-bt4vf]

@@tdestroyer4780 It was when they first launched stuffed crust pizzas! xD

[@montyl.8232]

The iconic Selphie look back scene at 45:14. It really fit Rinoa in this moment.

[@juhanipihlajainen4275]

Wow. There's quite a few changes. Did Rinoa even say anything?

[@SeFu2006]

Lol no

[@BlueSpeedsFan92]

Interesting to see so many differences in the demo. The draw magic animation is different. No jumping off the cliff. Rinoa being there instead of Selphie. Seifer being a lot nicer and acting more like a leader.

[@busnut33]

Im praying they remake this one.

[@dreamer6737]

Wow, it sounds so retro compared to actual release version

[@michaelluciano1980]

Music sounds so much more in the vein of FF7 but still great!

[@Jed-Rix]

I like the sound of their footsteps. It’s more realistic.

[@Lyzen999]

wow can't believe I found this. Watching this brings back so many memories. I played this back when I was around 6 lol . Had 0 clue as to what was going on but its so crazy how everything comes back to me watching this.

[@ronaldreyes6805]

Thank you for the upload

[@FaheemProductions]

That Mecha Spider killed my party during the 3rd encounter from escaping. Only 7 minutes were left.

[@ZUZAINFINITY]

I loved this game but man, I could never make it past the dragon thing after Biggs. I’m glad I watched this to see what happened.

[@oblivion85]

You also?

[@getwetgary]

Pretty sure it was supposed to be unbeatable

[@airthefallen]

Made it past the winged dragon thing in the demo (Elvoret?) but no matter how much I tried as a kid, I couldn't get past the spider; it'd end up killing me before I could get away.

[@iqueda1420]

Idt that's a dragon..

[@TheDarkProdigy]

i have this memory of Squall telling Zell to leave when you do the Limit Break on the Robot. On the official game it doesn't happened. Can you confirm this? It's suppose to happened mid limit break. It gives you the option of fleeing but zell says no, not sure if you can flee tho.

[@jeremyhall2727]

I was so happy when i got this demo disc. I had no idea it was going to come with our pizza. It was the first time i really got into final fantasy. I played part 4 when i was like six...😑 I was six. I had to ask my older sister what a wird means every three or four minutes. And she got tired of that. I got to the desert area 😅 i rented it.

[@Evangelista13]

I get this demo was fire! Best music!

[@Wolf10media]

Bruh, that demo select beat though.

[@BlueGuise9]

3:22 I love that hit sound!

[@adhmrr_]

i had the same reaction, why didn't they keep this one ?

[@Omgaboo]

this was the first FF game i ever played, the demo haha only recently i started playing FF14

[@Plasmawarrior]

Epic into song... missing the epic boss music. Oh well.

[@MugiwarasNakama]

I just thought of something. What if originally there weren't suppose to be levels and experience points in FFVIII o . o. If that were the case the junction system would make a whole lot of sense. Maybe they got cold feet about changing the basics so much and added Exp and levels at the last minute. O . o

[@keithh273]

Interesting question!

[@Maverick.D.]

The demo was cooler than the game.

[@Evangelista13]

Fr!

[@mrnobody2683]

I kinda want to reimagine this story as if this is where it started

[@EliteV1llain]

song went hard, nobuo had to make a different banger because copyright or something lol

[@eduardo007F]

Could you up the ISO of this disk?

[@RP14_Music]

biggs and wedge huh? should of been luke,leia, and han as a squad then

[@Samurai-no4wu]

So was selphie supposed to be squal romantic interest then? O.o

[@Jade_birb]

What's more likely is Rinoa was in a more finished state compared to anyone else. Anyone could have taken Selphie's place.

[@VDL]

Also because she's on the game cover. She's important in the game so she got the spot where Seifer/Sephie were in without spoiling enough of the story.

[@ridankrad]

I'll add that similar to this, Aeris was featured in the FF7 demo that was packaged with Tobal No. 1. The FF7 demo featured the bombing mission. Aeris was not in the party for that in the final game, but was there during the demo (and had the Leviathan materia on top of it!). I think Square just packaged things in the demos that would be interesting to people viewing the demo, even if there was no intention for it to appear that way in the final game.