Final Fantasy VIII HD Remaster - Top 5 Tips and Tricks Most People Dont Know

Final Fantasy VIII HD Top 5 tips and tricks that nobody know's. I bet there are a few here you dont know! (PS4 Pro, PS4, Steam, Xbox 1, PS1) Showcasing all Boss Fights,optional Boss fights, Sidequests, Cutscenes, Endings, Secrets, Grinding Spots,how to get Ultimate Gear and trophy Guides along with all news and updates - No Commentary
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[@PowerPandaMods]

Here's a basic one that most people don't know: Your draw rate is affected by your Magic stat. Junction Cure to Magic, and you'll be drawing 8-9 magic each turn instead of 2-3.

[@Primalliquid92]

thats actually explained i believe in the tutorial

[@Livingvapour]

Yet no one knew it cause no one read it or understood the Tutorial back in the 90s lol

[@ricosalvaje8131]

BleuVII I didnt know that. That tutorial was long and boring.

[@Primalliquid92]

Well yea rico draw is affected by your magic stat and the enemy's magic defense stat. In other words even if you junction a good spell to magic if the monster you want to draw from has stupidly high magic defense you're still going to be drawing 1-3 at a time.

[@ChevaliersEmeraude]

I don't remember that part being in the tutorial, actually. And I always read it! And not just the explanations that pop-up mid-game, all the tutorials from the menu! But I don't mention the fact that Draw is linked to the magic stat to ever be mentioned. Nevertheless, it's an easy one to figure out! Early in the game, you have Quetzacotl, Shiva, Ifrit and Siren as your GFs, only 2 of which have the Mag-Junction ability. Yet there are 3 characters. So at this point, only 2 out of 3 characters will have good Drawing ability, and it'll be easy to figure out why!

[@rejvaik00]

Such a beautiful game. Especially the sound track. Im glad it still is being played even after 1999

[@etherraichu]

Its sad that more people don't like it. I blame its bad US reception on FF7. Since 7 was the first game in the series a lot of people played, they didn't quite understand that new final fantasy games were not sequels and were always very different from previous games. Long time fans knew this of course, but not new fans.

[@reda_valle]

Just played it last year and still loved it

[@lightrex2942]

rejvaik its a weird game but i love it

[@BrunoEspadinha]

i bought it from steam 3 months ago,love this game. :)

[@christopherhall5361]

i'm glad it was remastered, because god forbid Square-Enix put out content of the same quality ever again

[@iggy9790]

Someone in the Garden tells you to not deviate from the road

[@Ninjahankin]

I really like how FF8 is so unorthodox with its leveling system, items, and combat. Sure, things end up being really unbalanced but it really makes you think outside the box which many modern games lack with their safe design and mircotransaction model.

[@danielessex2162]

You mean from the fact thst grinding can actually screw you over in boss fights? That magic needs to be attached to stats and never used? Oh items you mean the same ones that appear in nearly every other FF game aside from ethers which are not used in 8 and that stupid card game? Or much like FF6 where you can just repeatedly use the chars special skilla over and over again yet in 8 you can just keep using limit breaks over and over again? Then the story......starting with the mercenary rip off from FF7 to this school where they teach kids how to be hired killers for money inwhich it is all so some dude can fight his exwife....with chars that are mostly so bland and 1 dimensional it's hard to forget they are all teenagers sent on a bunch if mission that lead them to saving the world from and unknown enemy? Oh and the gil system is also stupid getting paid based on a time limit versus paid by the fight......yeah because cheating your way through every test to get maxed Seed rank at the very start of the game. Getting weapons not from purchase but by building them. And flying gardens because who needs airships? Oh wait you do still need airships?

[@bud9450]

@@danielessex2162 😂

[@PisaroOne]

@@danielessex2162 nah, final fantasy 8 is MUCH better then 7

[@DusKnight7th]

@Manek Iridius you did not need to be so rude. From what I understood, he meant that FF8 unorthodox system is better than nowaday's safer systems which may as well account for microtransactions alongside those.

[@wardensurana8336]

@@PisaroOne . Lol, of course not. Don't exaggerate either.

[@britishmetaltv2462]

Ah man...I'm getting the itch to play FF8 again :P

[@theerealatm]

British Metal TV same. Been having the itch for about 2 or three months now. I want to get a psvita though.

[@rcjm31034]

Playing right now!!! hahaha after 8 years OMG!!! I love this game!!!

[@JmDGamez]

I'm currently downloading epsxe and the ff8 ROM :P

[@Artofficial1986]

There's a cream for that

[@FreeTheJambon]

I play it every summer 🌞

[@theworld1739]

Complete all the SeeD quizzes at the beginning of the game, you'll be rolling in Gil just for walking.

[@dragonprinceHP]

I could have swore you can only go so far in the SEED exams for a while and if you JUST walk, you'll lose SEED rank - you need to fight things or else your seed rank will slowly go down. I don't know if you can run away if that counts but I know fighting things regularly will keep the SEED rank up.

[@user-bd1yv8gd5x]

The World That a horrible strategy. The best way is to fight to get it to go up and keep it up. If you don’t your Seedrank will start plummeting fast. You need to grind your ass off you can’t use GF I believe if your GF gets the final blow can you won’t get any seedpoints. If you completed all of the exam and your Seed rank is going down faster then the Titanic you’re fucked it’s not like you can retake the exam to get your Seed rank back up.

[@satyris410]

Just use the infinite gil trick...

[@thedarkness125]

Except that you cant do that. The game literslly wont let you

[@karljohnston1936]

Nar my strategy is to keep the players low level until disc 3 when you get jumbo cactuar. Draw 100 of each magic from island closet to heaven and hell.. then junction jumbo with the stat bonuses on plus your strongest magic and raise each player to 100 one at a time... you have base level stats of like 180... then on disc 4 play cards against the card queen and the cc group and card mod the stat increases. Or you can just junction magic to raise to max. But it allows you to ability junction the good abilities instead of wasting them on stat increases

[@Alwaysgrim]

Back when it came out I found by accident there's these card guys in the moomba prison that gives you items for playing them and I got Rosetta Stones from them that give 4 equips which let's you equip strength, vitality ,etc ups .good times 🙂

[@dwasp27moto41]

zell's limit break finale. u can use it even without reading the manual. u just have to know the correct pattern for his finales. it works even in the steam and remastered version, try it!

[@dragonexpert8323]

Junctioning Ultima to your elemental defense gets you immunity to all elemental attacks as long as you have enough Ultima.

[@2956derbyful]

@Jonny Croxville how do you junction a spell to more than 1 stat?

[@2956derbyful]

Jonny Croxville oh. Really not interested in a glitch.

[@matthewmacrow8142]

@Jonny Croxvilletriple is the best for speed and hit % stats and i think full-life is the best hp stat but i could be wrong about the last one

[@allgoodnamesaregone0]

Put 100 ultima and 100 Life on your elemental defence and you start healing from all elemental attacks. Also I like to junction drain to status attack and simply leech the life out of enemies

[@matthewmacrow8142]

@@allgoodnamesaregone0 does that also work with full-life?

[@Makoto03]

Thank you so much. I wish Square would port this game to PS4 like FF 7 and 9.

[@Primalliquid92]

i imagine they will sooner or later

[@Asad-dc5wl]

With actual HD textures maybe

[@Primalliquid92]

no asad i doubt we would get HD textures, at best we would just get the steam version ported over.

[@Asad-dc5wl]

:(.... Well there's always mods

[@armandozertuche4054]

Asad Mannan like how they did with IX?

[@mogerus]

For number 5, Quistis actually tells you this before you go to the Fire cave with her. She also advises you against going to the forests.

[@TurkeyDuck88]

FF8 has been my fav Final Fantasy since I was a kid! Never knew there were these tricks. I guess I have to boot it back up and try it again! Thank you :)

[@ShamanNoodles]

wow man i really didnt know some of these! FF8 is super underrated. thank you so much for making these awesome videos!

[@ShamanNoodles]

im waiting for the ps4 version to playthrough again. its going to hit me in the feels ;(

[@Primalliquid92]

yea its a really good game, the junction system is one of the best in idea but poorly implemented sadley. The story is also quite good but again slightly poorly explained and relies to much on sidequests for important information.

[@ShamanNoodles]

i agree. for me, i love sidequests so it fits like a glove :D

[@VirginMary1.0]

Feel free to check what I added in a post yesterday on how refine system was made in junction to that system! (You will see that everything junction! Even my 2 posts! Maybe you will find a new love in Junction after this!. If you are afraid to use a spell because it is junctioned! Just look at the actual bonus you get from spells for 99% of the game. It change absolutely nothing to cast them. Maybe 2 dmg or something if it even does a change.(Most spells dont even change stats outside of a 5 increment+ of the spell) Really, take the hints! Dont be the person that see numbers without understanding what they do! Will help you a lot! Once you do, you will see that unlike the poor experience most get, FFVIII has less grinding for learning everything then any other FF. System was abandoned for 1 reason. People did not try to understand a simple crafting system that was made to prevent what ppl hated. FFVIII was made to avoid grinding(repetitive action of fighting 1 monster) which is totally annoying! It come in the form of farming monsters for Items, Magic, Money, Gears, XP, AP With downside of resting. Once you read the following, you will know freedom like never before! Farming xp resolved! Because monster adjust to your level, you can fight the monsters outside Balamb to reach lvl 100 if you want (They give more xp each time you level!). You do not need to go to A location, B spot or C. Yes, they even added 2 islands with high level static monster if you want to level even faster! Farming Items resolved! Because many monsters drop X items! ---> Refine into Y Because many card players have X card! ---> Refine into Y Because many monsters can be mugged for Y items Because they have Y in a form or another right away Rare are the things you can get in only 1 place. Hell, you can have lionheart disk 1 (Trust me though, if you look at numbers you will realize it's only impressive because of the limit break! The damage isn't that much more then all the other swords...) Farming AP resolved! Plenty of monsters give good AP. Beach monsters tend to give a lot of AP and often very good items. There also a few other places including Cactuar island you can reach as soon as Garden is mobile. Farming Magic Resolved >Rarely draw!< (I draw about 20 life and 50 full-life total and I have tons of leftover items that can create those 2 spells while still capped.) Monsters often drop items that refine into magic. Even Bite Bug with the worst drop of the game have Magic stone(5xlvl1 magic) to Wizards Stone(5xlvl3) Many monsters give items that refine into 20 spells and if not, they give many items which refine up to 20 spells! Shop items refine into magic in 95% cases Spells refine into stronger spells! There is 236 draw points in the game with about 1/3 being on world map! Cards refined from DROPS! (without carding), carded monsters, from games.(Kept it last to show it was NOT that big of a way) There is draw... Which I dont really use... What's the point of sit and draw ? Too many other options that are much faster. Farming Items Resolved They are everywhere and refine allow you to go back and forth with so many items... Farming Gears Resolved From monsters, to card, to boss.. So many options I can name 3 other ways not mentioned to get lionheart and other last weapons in cd 1 aside Irvine Farming money resolved (Gil) It's gone! No more issue! They even added intended money maker by buying/selling by making sure the profit stay less profitable/take more time then most things that can be done within the game! In the end, when you learn those mechanics you realize how FF8 had one of the best system implementation. But what can I say, it was tested by people who had to learn the system. Not people who find the easiest way(Draw) and end there finding it very boring(Agreed!) Draw was meant for 1 simple thing! The first time you see the spell shell, protect, etc... It can be useful to have 6-20 in stock until you can start crafting them.. At which point you can get 600 easy and draw become useless! Most of us who know the mechanics will play FF8 and the only spell they really draw more is Full-Life or a few early protect to fight Sacred and Minotaur. All the good guides will say to STAY AWAY FROM DRAW and if you cant help yourself, just use the highest magic character to draw and fight with others... (Oh shit! Sqall and Zell used draw and collected 1 spell each!) Yeah... Even if they get more.. Stay away from that... If you use Squalls offensive magic or to cure, you have it wrong.. GF dont care about stats. So even if you have 255 MAG it wont do more dmg then if you had 1 MAG. So play like it's meant to be. They can all cap everything later anyway if you must see the numbers by end game... Im always amazed at how ppl trash cans on the ground worth 5c because they dont care or dont pick it up knowing its only 5c while not caring about environment but do such inefficient behavior in games where it does not help anyone! Not even themselves! It's much faster my way. Yes, using Draw in FFVIII is like picking consigned cans in a virtual world where there will never be pollution regardless of your actions. Sure, it bring in reward. Just the worse one.

[@VirginMary1.0]

Most of the story can be found out by sitting down and learning to put the pieces together like any good old FF games. Just a few hint for Squall parents: Ellone: "I wanted Laguna to go back to Raine." Ellone: "She was calling his name and wanted to show her new born son" Now, who was that son ? Hum, as always... Squaresoft love name origins! Laguna(Lagoon) Raine (Rain) Tell me something! How do you call a strong rain on a lagoon ? I believe it's a Squall right ? :p Final Fantasy games do not only make you play the game! They make you research it, understand it and take PART of the RPG! They dont call their hero "Superman" or "Spiderman". They call them: Cid : Cubic Inches Displaced! CID is a term for people who work on engines! What is Cid in every version of the game ? :p A few of the heroes: Cecil : Means "blind" and "dim-sighted". That is really what Cecil is in the game. Blind to everything but his purpose. Cloud : Cloud judgement IS clouded and cloud do not move by themselves. They are moved by the other elements surrounding them. Thats our Cloud! Squall: Not only refer to his parents(or his parents name were based on his name), but also refer to his temper! In FF, EVERYTHING has a reason to be and they even take political stance! Did you know that Squaresoft was sued quite a lot ? They had to slightly change the name of a monster! Malboro is actually from the cigarettes Marlboro and it is why it use BAD BREATH attack which cause plenty of BAD AFFLICTION! (Often being the most annoying monster!) They had to remove an ability in the japan version of FFVII after making an ability because they wanted to make a msg against suing them. Coin Toss was originally called "LAW" in FFVII because the message was "Giving your money to lawyer is like throwing money away". Of course, Japanese law firm wasted money and sued Squaresoft! The ability was removed from the gameplay, but left in the code! With cheating, it could be used! :p Now, if you ever wonder why old school gamers known that today gaming sux... You just have 1/10 of the picture of how deep gaming was before and how empty it is today! (Even Ether is a drug that was used by people who would end up believing they could do magic :p) Hope it was a good read :p

[@Psymon1471]

Card all enemies to avoid EXP and you still get AP. Level up your GFs to become super strong whilst enemies stay low level.

[@Primalliquid92]

your GFs wont level up without EXP. The only thing AP does is lets them learn there abilities.

[@Urasims]

There are two areas in the game where you can level your GF without getting any EXP for your party. The first is before the tower in Dollet. You have to equip all your GF to Seifer and kill Squal and zell. You can safely grind there for hours getting the GFs you've gotten so far to max level. The second area is when you get Edea in your party on the way to Esthar. Same thing here. Except now you have a ton of GFs to level. There's more preparations to this one. You need to be immune to several debuffs or it's a game over. If you want to focus on leveling one GF at a time, you'll have to put that GF solo on the person that's killing. Since EXP is shared between all GFs equip to a person.

[@nefilim5800]

Urasims You don't need to junction them all to seifer, even if a character is dead the gf that is junctioned to that character still gets the exp

[@Urasims]

oh, right. It's been over 15 years since I played. Lapse in memory I suppose.

[@themadmachinist8637]

GF's don't need to level. Its the junction abilities that make you a boss. Between them and carding/ modding for high end magic its best to keep your characters low level till you get Catuar and all of his +1 at level traits. I kept my whole team at level 10 till After I got the Ragnarok. I was literally God by the end of that run.

[@gru7006]

I'm proud of myself I figured out almost all of this myself with no guidebook or online tips and I was 12. Good o days.

[@mrcokez1]

this video is brilliant, i was thinking about revisiting this game and since i basically forgot everything about it this video helped me out, cheers

[@Einhander09]

Pro tip: ONLY USING ANGELO SEARCH, Cast Confusion on a tortapod when it closes up, and watch your inventory screen fill up for an eternity.

[@rengeki8710]

Yep. Easily the best ability in the game

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Do you find ribbons this way?

[@walfreysimporios]

How to use angelo search?

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

@@walfreysimporios it happens randomly.

[@AnthroFox99]

I never used the card command, so I didn't know about that you can get boss cards form the normal enemies, hopefully that won't be nerfed come the release of the remaster. I never did the card queen side quest, but in one of my many playthroughs, I did take on and beat the CC group.

[@krypticavalanch]

so much go in to your vids. such dedication. keep it up mate.

[@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex]

Thanks for tips, mate) I'll be sure to use couple of those in my next play through of Final Fantasy VIII

[@fernicusmaximus9282]

Probably one of my fave FF games. Cant wait for the remaster on the switch.

[@akiinmoonlight79]

saaame😭♥️

[@krystlesmith982]

Same. Tuesday can't come fast enough!!

[@Alucard6921]

Too bad it's a completely shit remaster.

[@wardensurana8336]

@Senior Partner just wait 50 years more and MAYBE it will happen.

[@irvinFF]

Can't wait to start to play it again, but on ps4!!! So looking forward for it. 💕

[@Arbron]

Funnily enough I knew all of these, yet what I did *not* know about was the draw point in the train tunnel behind Balamb. Very interesting!

Just started FF8 on my mobile, played it when it first came out in 1999. This video you’ve made of GLORIOUS!!!

[@cavedon.felipe]

I rather get it with Grendels bellow level 30. Just keep your general party level down turning everything possible into cards and exploit both getting the stats up abilities. You can also save a LOT of time with rune armlet and force armlets, as well as with turtle shells and the other one I just forgot to give Vit 20 and 40 and Spt 20 and 40 to get the Spirit Up and Vitality Up a bit faster. You also forgot to mention that using Direct with Card Queen anbd losing to her a rare card while getting one at the SAME game, you can actually manage to keep her on spot, speeding up her Quest A WHOLE LOT. Cheers man, nice video :)

[@OfficalFlameInc]

I knew about chocobo world. It was on the PRE-STEAM PC version back in like 2000. It was amazing.

[@reloadpsi]

And delightfully exploitable once you knew how to copy and paste the save file. But who would do that? ;)

[@KryptKicker5]

That’s awesome man! Thank you for the tips!

[@joshuamoore178]

Just started my first playthrough, and I'm loving it

[@KoltAir]

Did you finish it?

[@YautjaPrime_WYC]

Another way to get dragon fangs is from Grendels after the Laguna dream. Run along the left wall of the canyon and pretty much all you fight are Grendels. They drop/rare drop them when you're roughly around lvl 17. I always choose to card them so I don't go over and mess it up. Adimantoise drop adimantite after lvl 33 by the beach outside Dollet city. Another way to get what you need. And you can also get Rinoa's cardinal weapon as soon as you get off the train in Timber. Triple Triad makes it all easy lol

[@tasselhoff1293]

The Artistic Frenzy they dont drop dragon fangs..your thinking dragon skin..dragon fangs are prominently held by blue dragons outside trabia garden

[@fangykesshai5211]

You're correct with both Grendels and Adamantoises. I do want to add however that easy(ish) way to get Pulse Ammo is to fight Belhelmels on the brown non-grassy part next to Galbadia Garden. As long as they're lvl 30+ (contain Thundaga instead of Thundara) they have a chance of dropping a Laser Cannon which you can Ammo-RF into what you need. Easy way to farm them is keeping Rinoa on low hp with high str-junctioned magic (like Tornado) and just spam her combine limit break for Angelo cannon which usually one-shots them. Sorry for replying to a year old post, just thought I'd leave this extra for people who randomly browse info. :)

[@AdCosmo]

Card abilities!? Wow. I completely skip every card thing when I play. I had no idea.

[@drewhanson6648]

I literally just recently bought ff8 for psp and didn't know about the extra early lion heart! will try that one

[@Jennifer-jt9cb]

i know im a year and a half late on this video, but I just ant to say that I never would have thought of the mega potion gil trick. I just made over 20 million gil by doing that while I watched this video. THANK YOU!!!

[@AnthroFox99]

I did remember, one nice tip if you missed some of the drawable GFs, is on disc 4 once you can use draw inside the castle, you can get some of the GFs you missed if your draw early enough and know what boss has the GF you need, like you can draw eden from tiamat.

[@omgmrtea]

Wow didn't know that or forgot.

[@Ted_Bell]

Just in time for them to die right at the final two bosses. Lolz. Great tip 😃👍

[@devinewynder5443]

Great video even though I known all these tricks but I did play the game 100% like 20x this is my favorite FF title it's not the best one but it holds a place in my heart because I got this game for my birthday in '98 and it was all I played from that October through the whole holiday. Also I love the characters, story and gameplay.

[@KoltAir]

can we be friends

[@Faiiltrain]

seems unlikely since it came out in 99' but as squall would say "whatever..."

[@randomplayer1250]

It IS the best one.

[@wardensurana8336]

@@randomplayer1250 . It ISN'T.

[@NamChin846]

@@wardensurana8336 X best VIII second. 3rd is shared by the rest ;)

[@HeroikKK]

another tip i found when playing the game years ago is the beginning section outside the garden the beach has fish mobs that give 3 ap per mob. Its such a fast way to lvl gf abilities so u can get early junction effects and other useful abilities. U can leave that area with chars having 3khp+ and other stats stupidly high lvl

[@zer00rez34]

This is a good video. I remember getting this game when it came out and getting to the part where you could play Chocobo World. Of course, I was never able to play it but I really didn't want to anyway but it looks like it's worth doing.

[@iceviking8280]

good stuff, thx for the video my man. Also !@#$ the Random Rule. First played FF8 on PC version (Not on Steam) it came with Chocobo world, I remember getting the Solomon's Ring and all the other awesome stuff.

[@Art_Codex]

You can also obtain all missable GFs from every Ultimecia castle boss. Forgot who carries who though.

[@dragonprinceHP]

The problem is that from the first boss, you don't have draw - so you have to pick and choose who you want to fight first and then get draw so you can draw the rest. I usually do the one right at the top of the stairs as you first come in the mansion/castle first then go to the one in the wine cellar 2nd but I don't unlock Draw until the 3rd or 4th one, usually it's GF, then Magic, then maybe Draw or it might be Item, then Draw, then I go from there but Save is always the last one and Revive (or whatever it's called to allow you to bring back a KOed character) is 2nd to last. Usually right after getting Save I can save at that one save point right around the armory with Catoblas(sp?).

[@DSK2007]

Liked and subscribed. I really didn’t know most of these. How have I been living my life.

[@leonleon2021]

I played this game like 15 years ago on my ps1, can't believe there are still people who still enjoy the game! Glad youtube recommand me this video.

[@tsama]

FF 8 is my favorite FF and I never knew about any of these tricks. Lol. I'm ashamed, I think I'll do a playthrough using all these exploits.

[@nickthaskater]

Ever stop to think that cards aren't "broken" and are rather an alternative strategy that's merely part of what makes the Junction System uniquely interesting?

[@Apfelx]

Ehm, making op magic to deal 5k on the second Boss isnt broken?

[@dragonprinceHP]

@@Apfelx How does one refine to that 5K damage mage before the 2nd boss? To what spells are you referring and what refinement skills are needed to refine them on what GFs?

[@canalultimateattack3169]

No magic can deal 5k before Elvoret... And only people who already know the game know how to do the better junctions, first time players end up killing Rinoa in Adel's battle because they only used their GFs.

[@dragonprinceHP]

@@canalultimateattack3169 That's not true about killing Rinoa - The first time I played and got to that point (I say got to that point because I played it a few times before then and stopped playing at various points earlier) but when I first got to that point, I was going to use GFs but realized that it would do damage to Rinoa too when it targeted her too - the only GFs I may have used (It's been a long time so I don't remember anymore per se) were Carbuncle or Cerberus - more likely Cerberus as Carbuncle may have hurt Rinoa. Chances are the first time playing I didn't even use GFs at all but just wailed on Adel w/ my weapons and limit breaks. Maybe 'some' use GFs and kill Rinoa but not all new players are so naive and bad at that.

[@Bynk333]

@@Apfelx No, its still better than STEAM cheat 9999 damage per atack on FFVII and FFIX. :-)

[@The_Bumblefreak]

Great video, man!

[@ronald2197]

Love how u say "however"

[@Hushoo]

Here's some useful tips: you can fight Ruby dragons in the forests around Edea's orphanage to get meteor, you can fight grendels in the forest by galbadia garden by hugging the cavern walls. Reflect magic plus excellent items Cc side quest fast tracks end game stat maxing via modding and re-winning certain cards.

[@lilyking8285]

There's a dropout by the docks who plays Triple Triad by the basic rules. If you've been to a region with new rules, play against him to prevent rules from spreading. Makes getting rare cards much easier.

[@GremDisaster]

I knew all of this, but FFVIII was my first FF so I played it non-stop for a long long time! And using a gameshark you could get the ChocoWorld items. But great vid, well put together, I’m a fan! Off to watch other vids.

[@TheFluff89]

A few days. Can't wait

[@iceviking8280]

Disc 4. Go to Deep Sea Research center and get Bahamut. You get the Bahamut card as well. Then refine the Bahamut card into 100 Megaelixirs and you are set. When you get to Ulimecias castle you can unlock items and be set for healing. It always made the game a breeze.

[@0Raik]

The game is actually a breeze. I only died eight times I think in my first playthrough and mostly because I didn't knew what I was doing (in battle) or I was hunting for GFs. It's the encounter rate that makes this game a little painful. Love Chrono Cross and Digimon like where you can see the enemies and dodge if you feel like it. At least LoD let's you know when a fight it's coming.

[@knowledgevoyage8828]

Several things that changed my experience of the game 1) Card ability, cards have critically important items 2) Using 6 AP per attack on the beach near Balamb 3) Use Seifer to level up GFs 4) Not killing strong enemies/bosses straight away but drawing powerful magic first

[@Rhainee]

Unbelievable that you're still making videos for classic games. Subbed.

[@Primalliquid92]

i have more fun on most older games as apposed to newer ones.

[@Diassad]

Thanks! 😁

[@etocadet]

FF8s refining is so vast I remember finding an ability that no GF could learn automatically (it gave the equipper the ability to reflect 1/4 of all damage dealt. It wasn’t a great ability, but the fact that all the items you find easily only teach abilities other GFs know or will know eventually I was shocked.

[@truindividual]

Also, did you know Fury Fragments refine into Auras? Yes, so going into the Deep Sea Rresearch Center is quite handy in farming the item. Also, speaking of Auras, the third and final Seifer fight is the only battle where u can draw Aura from an enemy.

[@voltronjr1]

Great stuff

[@Markosmirel32]

I can proudly say this is the first time I've watched a video like this and actually knew everything. FF8 is the best!

[@Ototsu-Yume.]

He's called Boko.

[@Arcanua]

Indeed it is! Boko's the name for all the birds~

[@jamescorey3516]

The Chocobo World was originally released on PC in 1999 when it was first released on 5 discs instead of the 4 CD of the PS1. Also, usually with the Chocobo World, once you've collected the items, it's gone. Wrong! Make a copy of your chocobo file on your desktop, make plenty of other copies. Then once you've ported the items in your FF8 games, copy and paste one you didn't use and start over again grinding endless Godly Items.

[@kogoderonius7635]

Love this game. Surprisingly good stuff in this video. A true fan you must be!

[@Primalliquid92]

Im a fan of all Final Fantasy's :) they all have good things and bad things about them but i still think its one of the best JRPG series going.

[@ViralForceMarketing]

barr breaking down some of the card things you can do, there wasnt anything hear thats not already covered, but decent fast guide for the card tricks. give you that.

[@michaelbrown4023]

I knew about everything in this video!!!

[@NPC-00361]

Ff8’s card game was soooo much better than ff9’s trash.

[@danielessex2162]

That card game was and still is a retarded waste of time. Do not know why they added it in FF ARR......

[@kevincusbaXD]

The card game is good. IS very good (For a minigame is very good).

[@MultiWilliam15]

wait... did i just play ff9 while missing out on the card game or is it just that forgettable?

[@owenwalker1774]

IX GAME BAD!

[@greenhowie]

When the tutorial in IX said "card battle" I had visions of an actual fight between monsters... got my hopes up only to be let down so, so bad.

[@fflover13]

All of this i know before. Thanks pro

[@joshualewis794]

Hmm, nice list. I was hoping to see lvl99 squall balamb garden disc 1, before getting first GF from Quisitis :) i liked the fact the monsters in the training area leveled up with you, vs the static levels on the over world map but again, i love your list! keep up to great work!

[@Primalliquid92]

Monsters on the overworld DO level up with you, the only creatures with Static levels are some bosses and the island of heaven/hell mobs

[@tobycat5799]

begging of the game, you can draw water from fish on the beach. junction it to be op af . with cards you can turn the belehim saw creature into death stones. and junction it to a sta attack to Insta kill 99% of enemies. get the seifer card to refine 100 aura stones! basicly makes you a boss killing machine!

[@BYERE]

Not forgetting that Mog and Mumbaa summons are only available through Chocobo World

[@Lishamisha22]

BYERE yup!

[@Braver-Seven]

I only knew the first one. Had no idea you could get lion heart so early! Gonna try that next time I play

[@jeneden3492]

aside from no.1, never knew the rest back then games hardly took you by the hand and moslty the only way to learn these kinds of things was through the chit chats at school :D Very nice, FFVIII is quite a complex game from the story to these little hidden tricks, but at the same time is why is so unique and likeable! Thanks for taking me back! :)

[@PEneoark]

I actually ordered a PocketStation from Japan when it came out. It was a clear shell one. I had it for two weeks when my dog decided to rip The PocketStation out of the Playstation and destroyed the hinged part. Oh well.

[@gjtrue]

Would've been a deceased mutt too...

I don't know if you knew this but a long time ago I discovered a glitch (sort of) with Chocobo World. If you send your items Home from the menu (like you did in your video of preview) and send him again WITH THE CHOCOBO GAME PLAYING the items don't vanish. And as grade A, B, C and D are randomized you get infinite items in seconds. This means that once you stock up a few As and Bs you can just send him home and back to the world (WITHOUT CLOSING THE PROGRAM OF CHOCOBO WORLD) and after Boko gets an event it resets and can send him home again and get all the items you had. Rinse and repeat and that's it.

[@VirginMary1.0]

Careful with that! If choco get 1 item before you send him back you will have this message "There is already a chocobo in the world". Which mean you wont be able to send him back and you will have to restart.

[@shotgunninja543]

Trance is right. You actually don't even have to encounter an event. If you send Boko back to the world and leave both games up (I used to do this by just hitting ctrl+alt). hit the key to make Boko walk and you only have to go one second, pause it, open ff8 screen again and bring Boko home again. Best stuff in the game without the grind. Especially when you play chocoworld a bit and you have like 8 A's and 20 B's banked. HFGL

[@JanusZeal11]

You can also just find the save file for Chocobo World copy it, import it, leave, past the copied version, and repeat. The items you get aren't generated until import so you can get different items every time.

[@tripwirecreator25]

I didn't know the spider fight grinding for GF skills, What I did back then was using Level Up on a T-Rex after casting Meltdown, Blind, and Bio then watch it die for big XPs n' some high-level spells that can be learned from it, caan be done on some monsters but it's also risky if they're immune to Blind or Bio. Thanks for the vid.

[@Josh-Jalbevelle]

Maybe someone already wrote this, but on the PC version it was possible to repaste the Chocobo world save in the right folder to not have to constantly have to keep playing Chocobo world for more items. It was fantastic.

[@BearsnBrews]

Knew all these and I have another one for ya. Unlimited items from chocobo world: once you have a nice stockpile of items in CW, open FF8 and CW at the same time. Go to a save point. Bring Boko home, collect items, send Boko back. Switch to CW, open and close the menu. Switch to FF8 bring Boko home. Boom, you get the items again. You can do this indefinitely.

[@turtle5607]

This is 1 of my all time favorite RPG favorites of all time especially for the Final fantasy series!!! I appreciate the remastered edition of this game and I am really enjoying the nostalgia factor of this game. If they did a remake version of this game, I would happily pay $60.00 if they put in the same effort and work into it as final fantasy 7 remake!!!

[@ironheadrondo5596]

Yeah, I wish they had chocobo world though

[@andrewparente9853]

the walking on streets for no enc is obvious but i never knew about the card trick thats pretty awesome!

[@danielthecritic88]

I found the Mug ability on a 30+ Elastoid for 3 Laser Cannons in the 2nd dream sequence, then refine into pulse ammo, a much less grindy and more fun way when going for Lion Heart. Just get Diablos as soon as you can and learn Mug for 200AP, ensure your team is high enough level to spawn level 30 Elastoids, then run on that yellow bridge in the dream. Every second spawn it will appear. 1 Laser Cannon = 5 Pulse Ammo with the Ammo refine ability from Ifrit.

[@hatsuneelissu5924]

heres my tip and still using it till this day! *Try NOT to level up UNTILL u get the "+1 bonus" things from gf's* abit annoying because you need to card every encounter or run from every battle untill then.

[@nguyenhuyduc9151]

The worst part of this is when you did it right, the game become much more easier than we thought!. Lol

[@hatsuneelissu5924]

@@nguyenhuyduc9151 yea, but once u do u wil have around 200+ strenght at lvl60-70!

[@nguyenhuyduc9151]

@@hatsuneelissu5924 and after we feel much stronger than normal boss, we will quit soon. That is the reason i never go till disc 4 after many tries. Lol

[@zannek9766]

One of the things I do to prevent other characters leveling up is I knock them out and then focus on one character at a time. Since you really can’t take Squall out of the party, I start with him. Once he’s level 100, I keep him alive while leveling up another character.

[@kingmasterlord]

carding every enemy early on is what you would want to do anyways, build up a stock for card mod

[@Art_Codex]

I discovered the non encounter on road/track when I was 12 and that was back in 1999 XD

[@Bersilus]

Actually the in-game npc also tell you to stay on the road to avoid monsters

[@danielessex2162]

@@Bersilus beat me to it

[@TheDjbz]

I’m like 99% sure I got encounters on roads and rails..... Just not as often as anywhere else

[@kielplays14]

My favorite Final Fantasy series

[@907CoolBoy]

I know I'm late to the party on this one but you can also do some funky alt-tabbing to send Boko's items over multiple times. And since the actual items for each grade aren't determined until the Chocobo World data is imported to the main game, you can farm all of the items with it. Just wait until Boko like 4 or 5 of each the B and A grade items.

[@noelienoelie8425]

Soon as I hear the music get all fuzzy. I think il start a play.

[@Jimknopf-1960]

Did you finish it? Be honest!

[@noelienoelie8425]

@@Jimknopf-1960 I've finished it twice since then.

[@Jimknopf-1960]

@@noelienoelie8425 Legend haha 😂 Rly did it 2times and answered 2years later Thank you dude made me smile Have a beatiful day

[@Nobody-ve6dh]

My favourite practical trick was to get Punishment before the SEED exam by farming Zell's mom for cards.

[@Patrick_The_Pure]

Hey Zell, i've been playing with your mom a bit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@AndrewTheTransformer]

aha but the animation for blasting zone takes forever compared to the other 2 and i find blasting zone happens more often with that sword lol

[@andrewt6044]

Being a bit nosy but I saw Agarest War Zero and I appreciate finally seeing someone else play it, I thought I was the only one 😂

[@Primalliquid92]

Agarest is an amazing series, Its such a shame we only got 3 of the 4 titles released here in the west. And an even bigger shame that they dont seem to be carrying on with the series :(

[@andrewt6044]

Primalliquid I know, I feel like it’s such a good game for people with strategic minds and to see it not being continued is kind of sad. :(

[@Primalliquid92]

yea, they have tried other games with a battle system thats almost the same but nothing can really compare.

[@waterlily43]

Chocobo world is also available in the PC port originally. It is totally OP to get those items. Final boss fight gets ridiculously easy.

[@dejavu8982]

Glad to say that after hours of gameplay and late nights, I was able to finish this game when I was 6. A bliss moment in my life

[@greenhowie]

If you rename Squall to "like" and Rinoa to "mon" you unlock Geordie and Jamaican accents for characters talking to them.

[@thehoodybadger3402]

Go home, EGM. You've been out too long with Bo Rai Cho again.

[@bvbvjghjkjkj]

I learn more about business than an econ class. Good job video maker.

[@quantumrazer3774]

I really love this channel

[@Primalliquid92]

:)

[@Ghostly8895]

I’ve been playing this game since I was kid and still playing it now on my PS Vita and I hardly knew any of this :o I’m glad the fan base for this game is still so good 19 years later 👌 I got the full Triple Triad cards set in real life to by the way :D they’re my gem

[@Primalliquid92]

the fan base for FF8 is actually the worst of the entire series tbh, most of them are actually quite toxic. (You wont belive how many comments i delete daily from this video) just go take a look at the FF8 forum on Gamefaqs if you want to lose faith in humanity.

[@Ghostly8895]

Primalliquid for real? Whaaatttttt that sucks man... I’m kinda glad that I thought I was one of the only fans for all these years xD everyone I know/meet never played this game but always FFVII/FFIX/FFX and I always wished people loved FFVIII as much as I do but now you’ve said that, imma keep away from other people who like this game e.e

[@Primalliquid92]

There are still a few decent fans out there (Just read through the comments haha) but the toxic ones ruin it for everybody.

[@mindforgecollective]

I'm actually surprised to hear that. FF8 has always been one of my favorite rpg's of all time.

[@graysonbrown9778]

@@Primalliquid92 they are just haters… like over ripened fruit… they are bitter about a game they once loved and cannot accept it for what it is. I think 8 is the best FF because it felt real, grounded, and cerebral… all the other ones are out dated… even 7 that’s why they had to remake it.

[@Collin255]

I used to be a perfectionist for these Final Fantasy games back in the day. Actually I still am lol like I've gotten every single card in this game, killed omega weapon, got everyone to lv 99 etc etc. In FF 9 i got the Excalibur II, did the HORRENDOUS 1000 jump rope jumps in a row etc. In FF 10 did the stupid 200 lightning strike dodges, maxed out my perfect blitzball team (got them all to lv 99 with pretty much every ability, a few of them like stupid drain tackles were extremly hard to get and pointless anyways) maxed out every characters stays by erasing every sphere grid stat that wasnt the highest it could be with every character and got everyones ultimate weapons in all games. Yuna and Lulu would do physical attacks on strong enemies and it would do 99,999 damage lol. Same deal with FF Tactics, FF 6, FF7, FF 10-2 and FF 12. Did absolutely EVERYTHING you could POSSIBLY do in all of these games. And for most of these games I've done it all multiple times lol. Btw I knew about all of these lol but nice video nonetheless. Btw again, we NEED to get a FF Tactics and FF8 port to the PS4 with trophies just like they did with 7, 9, 10, 10-2, and 12. Especially FF Tactics, which just might be my favorite game of all time. Definitely in my top 3.

[@hlc5410]

I remember as a teenager I was playing ff7. Me and my mate used to play it a lot. A few years later I started playing it again. I was fighting Emeraled Weapon and was spamming NOTR at him. I was pretty sure my party was dead when I cast mimic (or whatever) one last time. Looked away from my screen knowing that I was doomed, until I heard that enemy death sound and looked over to see the faint red glow where the Weapon used to be. I called my old freind in excitement to tell him what had happened. He called me a fucking geek and then I heard the dial tone. You're right, nobody gives a shit XD

[@pristineentertainment6157]

lol you just rerun it dude

[@southpawlibranine3511]

Is that why you're still a virgin

[@esteveguineueta2328]

Sorry, I think I'm the only one crazy enough to have maxed every Aeon's HP/MP and stats by killing the arena foe getting 40 spheres per battle thanks to overkill. I didn't really count the spheres I need, but they may be hundreds of thousands. I could just stand not seeing them 99999 / 255...ahh, I also completed everything else, even maxing the Yojimbo hype to the max. But for the characters, I was really picky about letting them all stats 255 + MP 999. Then the rest of the free sphere grid was dedicated to HP, reaching the 60-70k. I was tempted to leave them at 3k MP and lower the HP, but I thought it is prettier to see 999MP, anyways with three stars MP is almost infinite. FFX is BY FAR the FF I played most, but my second one is FFT. I still consider it the best tactical rpg game of all times due to its versatility in battles. The most amazing tactics I've ever played :)

[@esteveguineueta2328]

@bd3n21 jaja, I never cared about the order in the sphere grid because I forced myself to put a sphere +4 of the same type where the sphere +1,+2 or +3 was. I only played random with the empty places. I also don't care what party I use for main, I always have on the front Auron, Yuna and Tidus, and rarely swap them because: 1- Wakka is ugly, 2 - Lulu is my favourite but her limit break burns up my dual shock, 3 - Khimari is ugly and 4 - Rikku is very flat chested and I either like blondies. The stats paranoia can't be helped, 255 must be placed everywhere even being worthless. The worst part to complete was Blitzball, because I don't like sports at all. I had very hard time raising all the players to level 99 and getting all skills, even the infamous antidrain on Tidus and Wakka. I dunno why but many people complains about those being bugged in US version of the game, I played the PAL international and I had no issues getting them with the correct steps. It remembers me a little the keep trying over and over with zodiac spear in FFXII, not difficult but time consuming. I don't really know how many hours I spent exactly in the gameplay, since the clock stopped at 999:59 :( The one I really want to be continued or expanded is Type-0. I admit I had no hopes in any modern FF till I saw Type-0, a truly amazing game. Enjoy life :)

[@shuragear5259]

I had my own more personal ways to break the game without going as far as some online tricks suggest, but by now its more of a memory thing. Seeing this makes me want to start playing and see how much I can break the game, since I plan to do my first playthrough on the ps4 in a clean way

[@UnholyBahamut]

I have one tip, get the GF Siren in the first mission, make it learn "L Mag-RF", buy 10 tents, turn them into 100 Curagas, junction them to HP stat. And now you have one character with over 3500HP in the first hour of gameplay. Junction the Curagas to Magic stat instead, and you can draw 9 magics from any enemy (Tornado/Demi from Diablos for example, just with 2 hours of gameplay)

[@saedt]

THERES AN ESUNA DRAW POINT IN THE TRAIN TRACKS??!?! WTF

[@endymallorn]

That's what I love about FF8 - we're over here talking about Disk 1 Lionheart, Card Mod, etc, and it's the little things like the hidden draw points that people don't realize they overlooked. Also, yes, there's an Esuna point at the end of the train tracks. There are a couple other hidden draws around Balamb too, if memory serves.

[@truindividual]

the Treatment ability pretty much makes it moot

[@ell6442]

@NotJo that's why i used Diablos's enc-none ability - no random encounters, and i stocked up on that magic. junctioning ultima and full life to elemental defense makes u immune to elemental magic

[@ABaumstumpf]

FF8 was released in 1999 - on PC, With Chocobo-World included.

[@ashofoblivion]

Dragon fangs can actually be gotten easier if you dont intend to mug elastoids in lagunas dream sequence. The grendels drops them frequently along the west edge of the forest that youd encounter the same laguna dream sequence but only if your party average level is under 20 i believe? That makes farming the adamantine a tad harder though because it only drops I believe above average level 30 from adamantoises. But using that method you dont ruin your stat potential by being near max before you have GFs with the stat plus abilities. Since T-Rexaurs dont drop them before like level 60 or so. The elastoid farm method however requires a party average level of i believe 70. So you can have lionheart before deling city and under level 45

[@lootgoblin989]

You earned yourself a sub buddy!

[@Primalliquid92]

welcome :)

[@DaemonRiku00]

The junction system is a nightmare for me. I ended up not using any magic at all because I dont want the value to go below 100.

[@marnea1]

Yeah, Chcobo world was a pretty cool concept. I'm actually a bit of a purest, I absolutely have to play games on their original consoles. So I actually imported a Pocket Station many years ago so I could get the legit experience. Plus it's just a cool peripheral to actually own. I seriously lucked out too, since mine has an I.D. number of 222, not the best, but it is the second best and actually gives me a decent shot at the column A items in Chcobo world. Most Pocket Stations, seriously over 90%, are completely unable of receiving column A items without trading I.D.s with another player. So I'll take my 1% since it's at least possible. There are a ton of Chcobo World exclusives though, like the Mog Armlet. With is the only way to heal your GFs in battle and it's power is tied directly to your Mogs level in Chcobo World. This goes for your Chicobo as well, which you can summon in FFVIII with Gysahl Greens.

[@Primalliquid92]

oh you imported? does it actually run on EU/NA discs or did you need to import FF8 aswell?

[@marnea1]

Yup, it works completely fine on non-Japanese hardware with the english game, it's not region locked at all. And since Sony was planning to release it globally, but just never did and never told developers, just about all of the games with Pocket Station functionally had it localized, like Legend of Mana, Saga Frontier 2, and the Misadventures of Tron Bonne. In fact, the Final Fantasy 8 manual has a whole section on the Pocket Station, complete with pictures of the device. I remember looking for one in stores as a kid and never finding it. Another reason I had to grab one.

[@Primalliquid92]

oh wow i never actually knew it had uses for other games, i always thought it was only an FF8 add on.

[@warailawildrunner5300]

I sadly lost my pocketstation, which made my save file useless as it was active at the time so my save file couldn't be retrieved. Even worse was I had the ribbon items as well

[@WhiteboyUltima]

I imported a PocketStation too, back in the day. I still have it. It works perfectly with my PAL UK Final Fantasy VIII, and like you said, even the instruction manual talks about it. For all intents and purposes Square was expecting it to be available worldwide, or at least built in the functionality to make it work. Sony must have cancelled the worldwide release pretty late into the PocketStation development

[@manbeast47]

Definitely didnt take your time to break it down enough. Last time I played this game I was 9 and I just fought hard and potion spammed until I almost beat the game (the no-magic-allowed castle) and would love a slower in-depth explanation.

[@slg_scribblz]

I feel slammed with mesmerizing information