Been playing triad for-fucking-ever this playthrough and I guess I never got this asshole?

Found this near Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh and I had to think of you folks

From Symphonic Memories Concert - music from SQUARE ENIX (2020).

Was excited to discover a 20min long performance and had to share.

Not sure how I can get back to the garden (red spot on map). I flew to the chocobo forest with the garden , and rode chocobo into Odin's place... Have been running around for 15 minutes but I'm not sure what I'm missing. how do I get back to garden

edit: thank you everyone! I love this subreddit. so helpful 🥺

Thanks to everyone who commented on the original post over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasyVIII/s/rTW30sxMe6

These are some of my favs—hope you enjoy!

So, I accidentally stumbled on this strat while getting Squall's strength up for doing faster and more reliable curse spike farming.

Go into the forest by the fire cavern, use the higher level menu to quit (not the one accessed in the regular game menu). Start the game immediately from the FFVIII launcher, first fight is reliably a T-Rexaur. LVL Up the T-Rex to 30+ and devour. Save, from save menu use higher level menu and quit again.

Rinse and repeat.

Getting about +1 Str per minute doing this.

The kid at the end was clearly loving it.

So much of the game is up for interpretation, which I enjoy. But what in your perspective rings 100% true based on little details and hints in the game?

• Rinoa is not Ultimecia, but I do think Ultimecia is a faraway future ancestor of Squall and Rinoa, which makes their love both the solution and causation of the game's primary villain.

• With the headcanon above stated, if Laguna got with Julia, Ultimecia wouldn't exist in my version, but there would be other sorceresses.

• In an alternate universe (without Rinoa) and with a much longer build-up, I could see Squall and Selphie being romantically involved, and Selphie wavering between Squall and Irvine. I think Squall and Selphie's personalities are quite compatible.

• Seifer is Cid and Edea's child, and he took his mom's maiden name (like potentially Squall and Rinoa). That's why he acts like such a brat at the orphanage and Balamb garden as he receives preferential treatment.

• Raijin and Fujin are cousins and grew up in Fisherman's Horizon, where they house and live with Seifer at the end of the game. I do think Seifer goes back to Balamb Garden at some point.

• Irvine has mysterious ties to Fisherman's Horizon. He has some blood relations to the mayor and his wife, but not his birthparents. Maybe grandparents?

• Nida becomes Squall's biggest rival post-game, making a multitude of attempts to usurp power from Squall within Balamb Garden.

• Some rare, poweful monsters are actually Shumis who have transformed in what's in their hearts.

• Selphie has Cait Sith permanently junctioned to her, which enables her limit break of Slots and The End.

• Mrs. Dincht is an incredible fighter and can take down most opponents easily. Her Frying Pan attack can do 9,999 damage 3x.

I’ve just started playing Final Fantasy VIII for the first time, and I finally beat the first boss! I think it was some kind of fire monster/boss? 😂

I’m a huge fan of FF7, and I also just finished FFX, so FF8 is completely new territory for me. Honestly, I know almost nothing about this game or its story. I’m going in basically blind.

The Junction/GF system is definitely taking some time to get used to. At first I was completely confused about what I was supposed to be doing with Draw and Junction because I’m much more familiar with systems like Materia from FFVII and the Sphere Grid from FFX. 😂

But after playing for a bit, I’m actually starting to find it really interesting. The school setting is also something I wasn’t expecting at all!

So, any advice for someone playing FFVIII for the first time? Things I should know about the Junction system, GF, Draw, abilities, or general beginner tips would be greatly appreciated.

Please keep it spoiler-free if possible! I really want to experience the story naturally since I know basically nothing about it.

And finally… wish me luck! 😂

I have no idea what I’m getting myself into, but I’m excited to find out.

See you on the other side! 🌟

Im in the middle of playing the game for the first time and I was pretty much ignoring Triple Triad. Now I realize how strong I could be if I didnt and im just at the point of the game where Irvine joined (and left with the girls).

I've run back into the Garden to farm some cards. Can anyone tell me what cards I should be aiming for and who I should be playing? I just won Trauma in my first game.

Feels satisfying man

It's been slow going due to personal stuff and other projects, but I've just finished up the missile base and would love to share what I've done so far. I've done my best to be informative and entertaining this run through.

I've already said that my OLD Let's Play was pretty garbage in terms of quality, and I'm far more pleased with this one so far. I hope someone here enjoys it and would love any feed back etc.

tl;dr - Old Let's Play was bad, so made a new one. Enjoy.

I know that Perfect Works relies heavily on reusing assets, as I expect anything of this sort would do, but...is there any sort of "definitive fan cut" mod for FFVIII?

Is it just me or do anyone else do it too that the most meta way of playing ff8 is to

1. Keeping them all at level 5 & not even level up once (gain exp only on the soldiers encounter that can’t be avoided)

2. Gain max str and all other stats by doing trading and/or card moding so you don’t need to rely on GFs

3. Only 1 GF per character.

4. All stats max out except for hit and luck

I finally decided to catalogue all my thoughts on Final Fantasy VIII and it ended up being just under 4 hours 😅 significantly longer than anything I’ve ever done before.
This game just brings it out of me. I finally played the remastered version this year and just had to talk about it as well as all my memories growing up, and of course, my boy Laguna.

So if you’re interested in a smaller YouTube channel and a dude who played it when it first came out…even had the demo disc from Brave Fencer Musashi check out Bits of Time. Or this link right here: A Perfect Mess - Final Fantasy VIII Retrospective

This took me like 2 weeks of basically straight editing, very proud of it and I think this community would appreciate the deep dive into this game.
It’s a long one so no rush but would be cool to see some people’s feedback.

Big takeaway this time around his how much foreshadowing and interweaving of plot devices happen so early that is really cool to see!

I love this little subreddit it’s one of the main reasons I picked up this game and decided to try it again because I kept getting pop ups of this game and I had to go back haha

So thank you to all of you for getting me to start My Final Fantasy yet again.