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  • Apparently, 15 people are just pissed because they couldn't beat the game so they watched this vid, and they're blaming wil2130 for their own incompetence to complete the game.

  • i wish i could forget that i played Final Fantasy VIII just to have this feeling again when i played it first and every Second was just Awesome New and you had no clue what comes next

  • Love how the ending is the same as the beginning. The game's story gets repeated over and over again because of the time loop.

  • The music is so perfect for this ending. Also, the cameos of each character is SPOT ON. This game still holds a special place in my heart.

  • CREEPINESS Q.Q

  • I bawl my fucking eyes out at this...every time..

  • I still get teary-eyed from this, and I never even finished the game!

  • I just played through for the second time after 8 years... I didn't remember the castle that much neither the ending movie. The scene where Squall can't figure out Rinoa's face is creepy and at the end when the space suit's helmet explodes and tears running into Squall's eyes that is some heartbreaking moment. :'( I cried at the end of the game.

  • The thumbnail for this video looks like XP background.

    That is all.

  • Wow, that's kinda creepy.

  • Holy crap, 4:23

  • SQUALL IS DEAD

  • @dearlyblvd1 Yeah. Just to expand a little on my last comment. The places that Squall and Rinoa are in are both symbolic in their own ways as well. Squall is in some barren, lifeless desert. While Rinoa is in a grassy field with flowers. One the epitome of death, and the other of life. I think all signs point to squall dieing and being revived.

  • looks like a pokeball

    

  • EPIC!!!!!

  • the 1 thing FF7 lacked was a real ending but the way it's story went it didnt really set itself up to have one, they jus killed Seph and waited to see what would happen. If FF7 was a bit different it's ending prolly woulda been comparable to 8's but yeah 8 has an amazing end. I wonder if they'd let Seifer back into Balamb Garden after the end, he seemed to mature enough.

  • The ending is never clearly explained, but I believe that Squall actually died. It really looks like Rinoa's "Angel Wing" revived him and restored time at 5:56. I know a lot of people really just think he was on the brink of death, but I don't really think that's true. When she tried to wake him and said something to him, he didn't move and she burst into tears. It's only at about 6:11 that it looks like he moves again and that she finally smiles.

  • that is an AMAZING ending

  • GO SEIFER!!! You may have failedto become a SEED but you can become an excellent pokemon trainer! So go catch some aqua type pokemons with the fishing pokeballs! And not only that! You won't lose your memory as other still use GFs!

  • sooo explain this please? and what lead up to this (sorry my games broken and i wanted to know how it ended)

  • @beautypop12 Ultimecia is collapsing all kinds of times periods so u travel to her time and kill her after that time gets all messed up and everything kinda dissapears and all thats left is white everyone but Squall is running around the white unsure of whats going on (i guess its just all the collapsed times fixing themselves) then u see Squall at Edea's orphanage and Ultimecia shows up as she has to pass on her sorceress powers b4 she dies Edea takes them so she doesnt give em to the kids then

  • @beautypop12 ... Squall sorta transitions to this barren wasteland (i cant remember how but its not important) and then u get this ending which starts off in the place Squall told Rinoa he'd wait for her at. if i missed something jus ask in a reply

  • @zimmizzimmiz so edea still gets the powers in the end and thanks a lot that mustve taken forever!!!

  • @beautypop12 yup it just shows you how she got her powers to begin with due to a weird time paradox and no problem concerning the explanation it just sucks you couldn't finish the game yourself :(

  • @zimmizzimmiz thanks so much!!! and ya it really does makes me wanna cry!! haha

  • Possibly the best ending in the history of the medium.

  • This ending confused the shit out of me. I know it's all the time compression & the promise but the first part of this is some serious mindfuck material!

    By the way isn't Balamb Garden supposed to fly over Seifer as he looks towards Fujin? Bugged me a bit that it skipped but otherwise good quality.

  • Impressive ending, broken gameplay. The last series of bosses is so ridiculously overpowered that even though I had very powerful chars all at low levels I still had to cheat. I boosted everyone's str stat to maximum and despite that it still took three tries to finish off the bosses. Scaling is the most retarded thing ever invented in RPG games :D

  • @fedaykin6 if you had that much trouble with the ending, you were doing something significantly wrong

  • @oaknairb

    No. The bosses were just overpowered.

  • Final Fantasy VIII was WAAAAY better than VII. Never could get into it. The best Final Fantasy was and still is Tactics. That being said, the ending to VIII actually gives one the satisfaction of having spent 50+ hours playing it. I love the fact there is only music too.

  • were laguna and raine squalls parents?

  • @mikeyrw Yes

  • I just wish that Final Fantasy 13 had a longer ending but every time i see Final Fantasy 8's ending it still is one of the best games ever and the awesomely best part about this game is the last bosses Ultimecia and Griever they are just super easy to beat when you Limit Squall to Hell another hilarious thing about this game is when griever uses shockwave pulsar then you can have quistis cast it back at him that's just HILARIOUS PERIOD!!!!!!!!

  • His mind does that because he's a very insecure person, terribly afraid of losing all he cherishes. People like that usually rewrite reality in their own minds, lying to themselves in a way to cope with failure and frustration. It's no wonder why he's so rude to people who try to befriend him (Quistis).

    With Rinoa, it was apparently different. She was the only one who succeeded in getting closer to him.

  • Squall had to find an explanation as to why he ended alone instead of being with his friends and the woman he loved.

    His mind went into a severe conflict, because he couldn't figure it out, and it rewrote everything that happened to him, finally concluding that the real timeline was that Rinoa had died in that dreaded episode in sideral space. In this manner, he had never lived the events leading to Ultimecia's destrution and would never see her again.

  • @loucohomicida I thought it was teh GF's that made Squall's flashbacks of Rinoa all blurred :/

  • @UltimaRoxas99 Time compression is erasing her from his mind. This scene had a strong effect on me as just when the mask broke my nose bled.

  • Laguna Kiros and Ward is the best party in the game >:D

  • @LEGENDOFANIMA

    is square enix fault :(

  • This ending is the best most EPIC ending ever animated in a video game and Final Fantasy 8 is to me a truly amazing series in fact to me Final Fantasy 8 comes in 1st place while Final Fantasy 10 comes in at a close Second place not to mention Final Fantasy Dissidia in third but still this game is by far one of the best Final Fantasies i have ever played!!!!

  • @onaga2406 fucking agreed at 8 being the best. my absolute favorite FF along with 6

  • The only thing that made sense to me was Laguna proposing to Raine. The others I went "Huh?!" and "Hehe" on the Seifer part...

    Unfortunately for me...I never got pass the final boss(so freakin hard!)

  • @gothich8tred just stockpile aura at one of the last areas and just keep it cast and limit his ass to hell makes the battle last like 2 minutes if that

  • (Read this comment with a stoning Mario voice)

    Wow, dude, I'm tripping on ! What the hell is this shit ?

  • Thanks for uploading!!!

  • so beautiful...ive finally beaten after 10 years i first played this game..surely my favorite over the whole series!!!

  • i don't understand this game.. it's so different from the rest.

  • 4:23

    I never saw the Squall Hole face before until someone pointed it out. Jesus Christ that creeped me out.

  • Holy...! I didn't notice it either until you mentioned it. Reference to Ultimecia's last form? So hilariously creepy. XD

  • Holy shit, that scared me too, lol!

  • i dont get the ending exactly..why did the island Squall was on get smaller when he looked behind him...does that represent him feeling alone somehow?? Great game none the less just beat it again and am currently watching the ending

  • 6:36 & 6:53 WTF????

  • Faltan partes

  • Wait does he actually fucking die or something?

  • So...I've never played this game, want to, but still havn't, but is the ending all music...no voice? Or is it suppose to be all music for effect.

  • Its supposed to be all music, for effect

  • I'm a music person and I like that but I still say lame lol, I wish there was talking just to see what they'd say you know.

  • Well then go check out the FFVII ending.

  • i think games werent as advanced when this came out dude.

    might just be a final fantasy thing, glad they didnt doadvent children like that lol

  • Literally just finished the game, and i can only say ITS THE BEST. The fact the final boss ios near impossible only makes the feeling greater when you've beat the game :) This makes my whole year!

  • ah the laguna bit makes me teary :(

  • why when squall tries to remember Rinoa at 4:14 to 4:18 apear 3 images of Ultimecia?

    maybe Rinoa is Ultimecia?

  • lol rai and fu

  • with ultimecia defeated time begins to return to normal. but squall is still trapped in the compressed time. rhinoa finds him unconscious and then completely destroys the time compression with her powers (by accident) thus saving squall and everything is returned to normal.

  • this ending was confusing. could anyone explain to me what the hell is going on.

  • This was the very first Final Fantasy I had ever played. Thus, my most favorite.

  • same here mate

  • 6:23

    Seifer and his pokeball.

  • :')

  • 5*

    In my favorits

    And a comment: SUPER VIDEO AND SUPER GAME AND BEST GAME EVER!!!

  • This was the best game!

  • i have a man crush of squall

  • me too,but I'm a girl so.

    just look at him,he's so hot.

  • lol i know

    hrmm

  • Bizarre, but excellent final movie :)

  • its bizarre IF you havent played the game IF you have then it makes perfevt sense and isnt bizarre in anyways, this game is my world!

  • I played this game hundreds of times and I like it, but that still seems strange end, but good ... I did not say it with bad intentions, you know? ;)

  • ohk my bad lol

  • ok, ok... XD

  • By far my favorite FF game.

  • I loved it too, but I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on sometimes.

  • I love that song.Wat is it?

  • Eyes on me

  • Just beat this game right now squall looks so much like his mother :P

  • Man I almost got an seizure from this vid lol

  • Laguna was my favorite FInal Fantasy VIII character.

  • my party in 8 was squall, zell, and selphie.. gotta love full heal :D

  • this game has pretty awesome graphics for being a playstation game.

  • Soreskia, in 7 my party was cloud, barret and tifa. in 8 my party was squall,rinoa and zell.

  • To jimbobharrigan

    my party was squall selphie and rinoa

  • I use Squall, Zell and Rinoa

    Quistis but Quistis has blue magic which can be fatal to the enemies lol

    Irvine well he's very dodfy in combat

    And Selphie is Kinda Weak BUT for some reason can do alot of damage with magic and summons GF's Fast even before the compatability goes up

  • irvine has a really good limit break tho

  • not really cos his most powerful one is pulse ammo and still it is pretty ptitful i mean c'mon he's got a gun lol but still yer it goes alright haha FF8 FOREVER! hehe

  • nah and here you are wrong :D

    if you set your skills right you can get him to do about 4kdmg with maschiengun and faster shooting will get pulse easy stupid 9999 dmg cap -.-

  • i dont like irvine that much so i never really tried to level him up or get him to that extreme point hahaha but thats awesome, the more i talk about this game the more it makes me wanna play it, i know, i shall go play it now hahaha lol

  • I wasn't a huge fan of anyone other than Squall, but I somehow managed to get Irvine and Rinoa (of all people :/) to decent levels for the final battle. This saved my ass, since I was doing about 50,000 points of damage with every one of Irvine's limit breaks. Add in Squall's Lionheart limit break and Rinoa's invincibility limit break, and I actually had a chance against the final bosses.

    Still took me two tries and a combined time of four hours to defeat them, though.

  • i use zell rinoa and squall all up to level 100 and use the GF abilities to up there strength to the max of 250 and there health to 9999 and there other stats nearly maxed out and i love lionheart limit break 9999 everytime it was insane haha it took me about 5 tries to beat it only like 2 hours though

  • they must've had fun editing this all together :P

  • I still dont know the plot to this game, and the ending made me say wtf just happen?

  • lol wow

  • this is the best FF ending

  • Defiantly!

  • Wonderful,

    Timeless,

    Final Fantasy...

  • rinoa is so gorgeous  3:41 my jaw dropped lol

  • 4:23 is scary.

  • I haven't seen this in a good 6 or 7 years, but that spot with the helmet shattering and Squall dropping to his knees is still one of the most troubling and chilling things I've ever seen out of a video game.

  • No mention of void-faced Squall?

  • that scares me. oO

  • ok...when the video started to play the siren from the fire company began to shout...i was like...Incoming!

  • OMGWTFBBQHAX!

    Whats with the two skips at the scene with Seifer Rajin and Fujin?

  • for people who didn't understand the ending -- time compression screwed time. existences got screwed. so that the party doesn't fade from existence, the party must "remember" each other to make sure they all re-exist together. poor Squall must've doubted everyone at the last moment, and he got stuck in time compresssion. hence, the "desert" he dropped into and the "fading" memories. he couldn't find his way to Rinoa's promised place (the flowerfield). lucky for him Rinoa fought hard to remember.

  • the only thing i understood bout the ending is how laguna proposed to raine lol GENIUS cheap and effectice no wedding bells just got merried at the night lol

  • this irritated me so much! when i first beat this game everytime it gets to a certain point it freezes up! luckily i think it was 2 birthdays or christmas's ago i got a new FFVIII and i finally got to see the ending! =D i didnt want to look it up b/c i wanted to be surprised o.o

  • lol thats funny that happened to me too

  • i hope you we'rent talking about the video, cause that would be scary

  • lol no, its just that durind the ending, the part when they are recording inside balam garden the game just freeze. I had to buy another copy of final fantasy VII to finish watching the end

  • lol i lost count of how many copies i went through due to it getting stuck!

  • pretty good game this, my fav is ffx but i liked this ending. eyes on me is such a great song!

  • a confusing ending i nvr beaten 8 my disc freezes at end of disc 3

  • just how did Squall die? That didn't seem to make much sense...

  • He didn't die, apparently. Haven't had a chance to play it, but someone said he was in a comatose state because he was caught in a time paradox thing.

  • so whats gonna happen to seifer? is he gonna keep fishing forever and stuff? i can't see him doing that

  • for everyone that played 7 and 8 who was your party for 7 mine was cloud vincent and red 13 and for 8 mine was squall rinoa and irvine

  • can't remember for 8, but for 7 it was Cloud, Vincent and Cid... Cid kicks ass :D

  • 7 never played...

    Riona Xell and Squall

  • Cloud Vincent Tifa

    Cloud Zell Rinoa

  • for FFVII it was Cloud, Cid and Yuffie

    for FVIII it was Squall, Irvine and Zell

  • you know rinoa is kinda the true heroine of FF VIII. was it not for her they would have defeated ultimecia but the world would have remained f***ed up in time compression.

  • it's been a long time since I played FFVIII. I remember the ending being one of the best though!

  • whos the guy in the cowboy hat?

  • Irvine

  • This is like being on several drugs at once. Rinoa's face, like, exploded.

  • Quick and easy, squall learns who Rinoa really is. The two backgrounds interfuse as well as Rinoa and Ultma's face. When his observatins are confirmed, one tear falls from his face. He's basically stuck in time because he realizes he killed Rinoa/Ultamecia. Rinoa doesn't really see Squall at the end, schizophrenia. This is the reason Rinoa/Ultma despises seed. She understands that squall will kill her, and she despises him for that; everything is her train of thought, or an illusion.

  • what about the part at the very end where he and rinoa are on the garden balcony and kiss? you cant say that didnt really happen either.

  • and what the hell do you mean schizophrenia? squall isnt a schizo. true, rinoa and ultamecia might both be sorceresses, but at the very end, rinoa is still alive.

  • you're right dude. rinoa is ultmicia. rinoa turns into ultimicia, it is inevitable. she wants time compression because she lost squall (stuck in time.) ellone's flashbacks to laguna show squall his parallel. their loves had to die. it doesn't change anything though, because rinoa will go crazy and start the cycle where she ends up passing her power to matron, edea. squall stuck in time is the sacrifice he makes, why he keeps forshadowing the alone message.

  • not to argue with you, but square has long since confirmed that rinoa is not ultimecia. the theory seems extremely plausible, but if the creators of the game say it isn't true, then it probably isn't. i do like the theory though.

  • exactly..the theory doesnt even make sense they leave out a lot of important parts in the game. like the space scene wen ultimecia leaves rinoa to die in space if rinoa was ultimecia y wud she kill herself? And y wud she try to kill squall if she wants to compress time to get squall back..stupid theory

  • you know i was against the rinoa theory till I saw dissidia where she wields rinoa's weapons. but now that you brought the space thing up i am against it again. you are completely right on that one :)

  • ... Wow, I had totally forgotten just how utterly incomprehensible this ending is. Just what the hell?

  • great game voice acting woulda been nice in the FMV scenes but whatever was great either way

  • Laguna is probably the best Final Fantasy character ever. His part at the ending brought me to tears. I mean, the guy just tries his best to stay optimistic and happy even through all the bad times, like when Raine dies. Well, at least he still has Kiros and Ward and Ellone.

  • whether u believe squall dies or not, either way rinoa brings him bk, because of the promise they made "i'll be here, waiting" and all that lol, brilliant game in my top 5 with all the other FF's lol

  • Top of my list so far

  • squall does not die !!!!! you see them at the end on the balcony together . not many people actually sat through the credits i bet and thats why they thinked he dies . but they are together at the end.rinoa brings him back because after ultemcia squall gets lost in time compression and rinoa finds him because they made that promise to meet each other. ff8 is the best and has a good ending i leave it at that !

  • E-XCE-LENT !

  • Squall's high

  • It's tall,not high

  • what i can't believe is softsquareis reviving ff7 and not 8.

  • when i watched the screwed up ballroom scene i thought my computer was malfuctioning and was practically praying that the ROM wouldn't freeze or something

  • Lol, and I thought I was stupid for doing the same thing back when I was a kid!

  • do they ever talk in this one???

  • not in the cutscenes

    and outside the cutscenes you can only read what they say since there's no voice acting (which is a good thing if you look at the crap FFX voices...)

  • thankfully, no

  • so.. did squall die or what? im really confuse -_-" i didnt get the chance to play FF VIII

  • Basically after the group ensured that the apocalypse occured, Squall gets lost in the fabric of space time. Rinoa using her powers somehow locates Squall and they end up back in Edea's house's garden. Their Airship/school comes to pick them up and they celebrate absolutely nothing.

    I am completely serious about the apocalypse thing

  • he didnt die. when you play thourgh the game there is a sequence after the rendered outro where squall is standing next to rinoa. would be hell lot worse if they made it easy to understand ^^

  • Uh, I'm not too sure about the whole apocalypse thing, but Squall does die.

    Rinoa brings him back with her magic/sorceress powers.

  • You know, when I first watched this after finishing the game I thought that my playstation broke and I actually started hitting the console...luckily I realized it wasn't about 30 seconds later ;]

  • GAH! Final fantasy 8 is the best one of all! Best storyline...best bosses...best sidequests...best cgi cutscenes.(Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this game is awesome because of its graphics, but they're a nice bonus and I'll always say that Final fantasy 7 has amazing graphics for its time).

  • I have a new parasite eve 3 trailer! i promise i wont disaapoint you! ;)

  • I love Parasite Eve! Can't wait for the 3rd Birthday on PSP!

  • i found vii better than viii but viii was still fun

  • why squall is in the middle of nowhere???

  • Time compression. He's stuck in Time Compression

  • he's stuck in time compression. he's supposed to meet Rinoa in the place Promised but he cant get to it.

  • That part when Squall was remembering all of what happened was hurting my eyes. and also why did that happen? Reminded me of Crisis Core at the end when the pictures on the DMW started dissapearing.

  • Its hbis hallucinations. He can't remember who Rinoa was, and why he was where he was.

  • The girl waving to him was Ellone, Squall's sister. As for Raine, Laguna loved Julia, but never saw her again. (Julia eventually married General Caraway and they had Rinoa fyi.) Laguna ended up on Winhill, andhe fell in love with Raine. They had 1 child, who was Squall. And I believe Ellone was Raine's daughter from another man.

  • Ok then if Laguna and Raine had Squall. Then would Squall's name be Loire instead of Lionheart?

  • Well...we don't really know Raine's Maiden Name....maybe Squall take the name from his mather,cause the village didn't like Laguna :look: however there's no doubt that Laguna is Squall's father...you can understand it clearly when he is on the Ragnarock XD

  • what i can't believe I didn't know that or didn't even think about it. geeeezz what an amateur.

  • Laguna's hot and Raine reminds of Aerith or Lucrecia.

  • Wait i'm confused whose the girl at the end thats waving at him? And who is Raine anyway, I thought he [Laguna] loved Julia? I've never played the game but I know only a little bit about it. And also they skipped some parts on here.