The Final Fantasy VIII Retrospective

After the international success of Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi would abscond from game development to focus on directing a Final Fantasy movie. Before moving on, however, he would tell director Yoshinori Kitase that he and the rest of the FFVIII team could make the game their own. The inmates were now running the asylum, as all eyes were now on Square to see whether they could live up to the lofty standards set by FFVII.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
1:19 - Part I - Great Expectations
7:12 - Part II - Come Together
14:32 - Part III - Commitment
25:47 - Patreon
26:02 - Part IV - Final Fantasy VIII
37:11 - SeeDs in the Garden, Blooming into Flowers
45:27 - Cards, Draw, u0026 Junction
1:05:10 - Retooling Standards
1:18:40 - A Party of Supporting Characters
1:30:44 - Squall Leonhart
1:39:59 - Rinoa Heartilly
1:46:52 - Laguna Loire
1:55:31 - Surface vs Subtext (or, How Themes Drive a Story)
2:10:07 - Themes, Pt. 2: The Orphanage
2:22:20 - Squall is (not) Dead
2:29:53 - Music
2:49:24 - The Love Story
3:01:03 - Lunar Why u0026 The Humiliation of Seifer
3:09:24 - Ultimecia, Time Compression, and the Succession of Witches
3:15:22 - Ultimecia's Castle
3:20:11 - Ultimecia, Lost in Translation
3:26:15 - Rinoa is (not) Ultimecia
3:31:14 - Climax, Compression
3:40:05 - Personal Thoughts
3:43:21 - Part V - Succession of Ports
3:57:30 - Part VI - Black Sheep, Dark Horse
4:09:00 - Epilogue u0026 To Be Continued...

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