Final Fantasy VIII Relaxing Music 

I played this game when it came out. I didn’t grind and level up enough the first play through. In FF8 the enemies level up with you. Anyway, I got to the final boss and couldn’t beat her because my characters weren’t leveled up enough. So I started over and this time leveled everyone up to 99. Got to the end again and blew through the final boss and all her forms. Just so I could see the ending of the story. I’m 35 now about to turn 36 soon. So many great RPG playing memories in my youth. Hope all is well for any one reading this, and that this music fills you with happy memories as well.

These songs send me right back to a time when the people you loved most were not just blowing in the wind! RIP Grandma and Grandpa this was played under the beautiful roof you raised me in ill never forget that!❤ 35 now the music still hits the heart!

FF8 is still to this day one of my favorite games

Damn... this hit me hard. Played this game when I'm in my middle school. Now almost 40, married with two kids, barely had any time for gaming. When the balamb music kicks in, it immidiately teleported me back to those days. I got tearry eyes now, because there are many great things at that time, mainly my mother still alive and well, keep nagging me to take a break or eat my dinner If I'm playing too long. Miss her so much, didnt even have proper good bye when she's gone..... Love the art too by the way.

FF8 was my first FF game to play and complete. I played FF7 after FF8. FF8 was then all those years ago and still is, my favorite game of all time. The story line was so good, I can't imagine if they made a remake how it would be with actual graphics. I know everyone loves FF7 the most and FF7 is an insanely good story too, but FF8 will always have my heart.

This game defines my childhood. Literally spent years trying to beat it. Listening to these beautiful songs is like catching up with a dear old friend. Thank you

Balamb Garden tune has buried itself into my heart.

Feel like being 12 years old again every time I listen to these music...

FF8 is such an underated Final Fantasy. It always gets overlooked by 7 and 9. Don't get me wrong all these are masterpieces but 8 holds a special place for me as It was the first one I played and mastered.

I was dream that one day I would grow up and become a member of seed on this world. 🥲😂 Final Fantasy 8 is my first Final Fantasy adventure, Balamb Garden is my first school, Squall is my first love. Listening to this wonderful music, everything seems to go back in time. Thank you

Makes you realize, how short years are- 36 here. ❤ Truly gavee vibe of another world.

This game was foundational to my adolescent years. Squall was my hero, and I lived through this game.

FFVIII is the misunderstood GOAT of the series. The magic and levelling systems are perfect, every fight is an opportunity to harvest magic and become stronger. Aside from a few repetitive dungeon maps and odd story pacing, it's a masterpiece.

FF8's Liberi Fatali is hands down the greatest video game soundtrack in history of gaming. FF8 has the greatest intro as well. Nothing beats it.

You see, the piece Ami (piano) is still the ringtone of my cellphone and it has been over 20years... It's already part of my life.

Over 20 years later still get goosebumps when I hear any song from ff8, still remember every single song and name of them too

I can't believe its more than 20 years already since I first played the game. So many memories kept pouring in as the music played. Instead of relaxing music, it more like sadness brought in from nostalgia.

My first FF. This game shape my life, encourage me to learn English and become Software Engineer (to develop beautiful game like this). Its melody bring back happiest years of my life under happy family roof.

I've probably put 500 hours into this game and beat it plenty of times. My only regret was not 100% it. I completed everything except getting eden to level 100. I got him to 96 and started playing some other games and lost that memory card save. The music, the experience known as Final Fantasy will awlays remain in my heart! I'm glad to see many others whom feel the same, thanks for the upload! 😁

For those wondering about the ending, the intro of the game represent Squalls memories returning to him when he is lost in the time loop, so everything resolves and the storyline does have a happy ending, such an amazing game!

Final Fantasy 8 is by far my favorite and I never even beat the game. My 3rd disc was too scratched up lol.. This music is so nostalgic holy moly.

Man, I can only hope for FFVIII remake on PS6. :)

I ended this game five times on my childhood. I'm brasilian and needed a dictionary to translate the options. Only on the last year, with 36, that's when I really understood the history. And it's still fantastic, as they were in my fake memories. ❤

The first song literally brings a tear to my eye and a longing in my stomach.

The nostalgia is heavy with this one😢😊❤

That picture during Julia touches my soul.

People who came here, bless you and have a wonderful time in your 30-40s

My absolute favorite entry in the series.

My First FF and my favorite, for all time... The way each character just go so smooth with the story, the way Squall gets more and more open with Rinoa and his fellows friends, and how the music punch you every single time....

I love this game!

Man... this took me back to my childhood and so many memories...Life is so short.

The Eyes On Me piano version in this video is beautiful 03:22

I'm listening to this while working, and I'm amazed at how beautiful the music on this game is. I remember FFVII's music being incredible, but I feel much of Nobuo Uematsu's best work is actually found here. These compilations are incredible, thank you.

Childhood/nostalgia incoming: recommend /cry /feels and /happiness.

I wasn't able to finish FF8, got stucked at disc 2. I was hooked on playing the card game lol

FF8 soundtrack is by far my fav non vocal FF OST, very relaxing and it has a soul in it while playing. even in battle.

I will always remember FFVIII, and my experience with the final boss. Battled her, slowly losing party members until eventually, it was just Squall left. Somehow, I managed to endure, he continued to stand his ground. Got to the points where she started giving her dying words. I now know that if I had just attacked her one last time, I would have beaten the game for the first time at that exact moment, but no, she used Hell's Judgement (or whatever it was called, the attack that reduced the entire party to 1HP) and in a panic, I cast curaga, not realising that I was under the effect of Reflect. I healed her, and all she had to do was give me a love tap and I failed and game over'd when I was right at the gosh-darned finish line of the game. Yes, my most vivid memory of any Final Fantasy game was the story of how I failed at the zenith. And yet, those are the kinds of memories that I feel are better. The memories you can learn from; it was a weird detail that somehow I'd never clocked on before that moment how the humble Reflect spell could be used not as a defence but as an offence of the most insulting kind. The fact that Ultimecia beat me after I wasted my opportunity to heal myself and ended up healing her was just icing on the cake. It was a learning experience for my younger self, and it was something me and my best friend, who had been watching the entire fight were able to reminisce about long after the fact. It's a memory that wasn't forged by the narrative but by our experiences in such a way that couldn't be planned out. I will always remember how I was deprived of the almost cinematic climax, Squall as the last man standing, enduring where his five friends fell, only to stumble at the last moment because of the humble Reflect spell being cast upon him by Ultimecia. She knew what she was doing, she mocked me as she gave Squall that love-tap that finally felled him.

This game blew my mind when I played it in high school and to this day I absolutely love it. Now I am an adult, it's actually crazy when I look back and realize that a great part of my taste in characters and stories was 100% shaped by this game. If SE ever announces a remake, I will combust on spot from excitement. Every picture and piece of music from it makes me so happy!

RU-vidのオススメリストが久しぶりに良い仕事してくれた！ 全てのFFシリーズの中で最も好きな作品、子供の頃に必死にお小遣いを貯めてサウンドトラック買った日を鮮明に覚えてる

Love the artstyle

FF8 is the best FF soundtrack ever.

Where did Nobuo Uematsu get the magic from to produce such amazing music? He produces amazing music in everything his name is affiliated with. Chrono Trigger, FF7, FF6, Hanjuku Hero to name a few. These games were destined to be successful in their own right, but his music elevated them to iconic status

Fragments of Memories is legit one of my favorite music pieces not just in music idk why it's so bright but also has hints of melancholy in it like you're trying to remember a better time in life.

Final Fantasy of my life. I love this histoy

Squall face made my day haha

i really like the art in this video! I think it captures the *vibe* of just hanging out in ff8. (also i was pissed they got rid of Squall's puffy pants in the remaster, tsk tsk)

I played this game because my dead father bought it for me on a whim when he bought the PS2 for me on one day i 2002. I was not expecting such a powerful story. From the very beginning I knew the quest I embarked on was one of incredible magic and wonder and discovery. As such, the soundtrack only sounded just as majestic. Most of my beliefs and emotions were shaped by the ideals of this game. Strength through solitude. Forgetting important memories. Growing up with friends who are no longer there. It is one of those few stories which actually demonstrate what living truly means because it does not have the spectacles and glamour of a game.... but rather of real life. I hope it gets remade in time before I die.

amazing artwork. Love ff8.

FF8, what a story... Eyes on Me takes me back. The Squall Rinoa love story was next level - the space scene and Squall marching in on Esthar Soldiers to rescue Rinoa was so memorable. Also, the game lowkey hinting Laguna was Squall's father, but never really telling you was awesome storytelling as well.

It is a game that got released when video games were great!

The art is beautiful - I love Julia looking at Laguna's silhouette in the audience.

I was around 15 when this game came out. So it's a big part of my youth. I loved how I grew up in this time period. Final Fantasy 7/8/9. Super Mario 64, Zelda Oot, Metal Gear Solid, Goldeneye, Tony Hawk, etc. I really feel for these kids today who are growing up with iterations of what I grew up with. They'll never be as mind blown as I was when I first saw Mario 64 in a Toys R Us kiosk. Or seeing the FMV sequences in Final Fantasy blend in with the real time graphics. I hope they still have fond memories to look back on.

ff7 was always the best for me but ff8 is on another level, unique and memorable

To this day I have incredibly found nostalgia from the first Disc of this game. I've probably played this game all the way through a dozen times, but every time I boot up a fresh new save and experience the opening 10-20 hours it just hits home in such a great way. This game will forever have a place in my heart as time I'll cherish having done something I loved and the first disc of this game is probably my favorite opening mutli-hour segment to any game I've played. Cheers everyone!

I got a huge tub of skittles the year my brother got this for our playstation for Christmas. He sat and played it all day. I still hear this and taste skittles.

My first Final Fantasy i have played and it always takes a special place in my heart. Such an amazing game ❤

This game is really unlike anything I’ve played. Not to say it’s the greatest but there’s such a surreal, melancholy vibe and the music is a big part of that. It feels/sounds like putting on a happy or brave face while something deeply troubling is going on beneath the surface.

The fan art adds depth to the characters. I feel like I got a better sense of them after watching.

I have beat this game twice. Once when I was a child with absolutely no comprehension to its story, The second time during my early teens, where I can barely grasp the emotions. Soon I'm going to play and beat it again as an adult, with better comprehension and a deeper understanding. I might even make a retrospective documentary out of it if/when i have time, but who knows. The only thing I'm sure about is to enjoy this game again to its fullest extent.

Final Fantasy VIII was the first game I ever pre-ordered (at Electronics Boutique). It was the first Final Fantasy game that I ever completed. Great memories exploring the world and fighting epic battles. The music is so beautiful.

Final Fantasy 9 next? 👀 I listen to this everyday to relax while I work :)

Best FF = 9 and 8

FF8 is still my favourite game even to this day. Always be my no.1

omg that art is awesome

My first JRPG ever

Oh man. This brings back so many memories. I'll never forget playing this in the winter of 99. Good times. Still my all time favorite Final Fantasy game to this very day.

i'm so grateful hear this. thank you

One of the best Final Fantasy playlist i listen in a while, thank you so much. I will eagerly wait for FF IX and X playlists. Have a nice day LennY, :).

I remember studying all night to the music of FF8, the day after I had the most massive headache I ever had, but boy, the music still sound amazing.

I put this soundtrack while working, trying to relax and focus. I had to stop working, I was overwhelmed by memories and could't think about anything else but good memories from my childhood. Thanks mate

balamb garden has got to be one of the most chill songs of all the ff games.

很久沒有深夜聽曲，聽到my mind哭了～一晃，已是四分之一世紀的事情了！謝謝！

I went to see Distant Worlds and they told the story about how they didn’t save anything from game development in those days. They had to recreate all of the sheet music for Balamb Garden. Hearing a live orchestra play it was amazing. Still my favorite FF soundtrack.

I was 18 when i played this on the PC (1998). it got ported in this weird 4 disc format. I remember getting off the wrong train stop, and i thought i had to walk all the way to Dollet lol I was so lost that the world background music stuck with me. I also got lost looking for that white SeeD ship, and I remember not eating the entire day. I remember liking the graphics of the game, but when it got the space station, the love story between Rinoah and Squall just hooked my adolescent brain so much, that i became a loyal fan of Final Fantasy VIII specifically - to me, they have become the original characters (despite the fact that FFVIII borrowed a crap-ton of stuff from FFVII in terms of character and design). I love this compilation of quiet and updated versions of the music in FFVIII ... they remind me of simpler times. And they also make me appreciate the fairy tale and happy ending of the characters. Stories like that bring me feelings of optimism in this world where it's really easy to be cynical.

Wasnt expecting this art but i like it and now i want a whole remaster in this style. I bet the card game would be cool in this style

I played FF8 in 1999, when it was released. I was 12 years old, and received it for Christmas that year. I will always cherish the memories I have of playing this title, and particularly of endless games of Triple Triad, still the best card game in a videogame I've played!

This was my first FF8. Completely changed my view of video games. Never had i played a game with such refined, story, gameplay and music... I was obsessed with it. Must've spend hundreds of hours on it, playing in secret till 3 am, trying to make less noise possible when turboing the G-Forces lmao,...

I have not played FF8 yet, but my favorite soundtrack must be "My Mind." It is a beautiful piece.

How can one game bring back so much memories and emotions 😢 the most beautiful music ever

It's been 20 years and I listen to this game's soundtrack regularly. This was my first FF, the one that opened the door for me to enjoy the rest of the series, and while I can objectively say, it's not the best, FFVIII will always have a special place in my heart. This game is the equivalent of my first love. No matter how much time passes, I will always remember it fondly.

I have an unwavering bias for this game. The first video game I ever played was FF7 thanks to my uncle who is still an avid gamer. I couldn't get past the first boss so I gave up and never touched a video game until my first year of middle school. That game was Final Fantasy 8 which was also introduced to me by my uncle. I played and completed the game way too many times to be considered healthy. The original soundtrack is practically branded into my brain and soul. I still have the original playstation disk case with all four disks sitting on my bookshelf.

These tunes are so nostalgic. Absolutely beautiful.

Beautiful! Can't wait for FF9 music too!

The piano version of Ami is almost completely faithful to the original version, while the piano version of Julia was spot on to the original.

Always warms me up with some sadness, wonderful game.

I remember playing through ~70% of the game before I gave up because it was too difficult. Ten years later I learned that you can boost your Guardians during their cutscenes. Still impressed I got so far.😅

come back every few years after a few wines and remember I still have two hard copies of 7 and 8 plus my old memory cards in a draw, one of them is from when I finally got a golden chocobo on NYE 1999 - 2000......I was 13 lol im 36 now

How nostalgically beautiful, the accompanied artwork adds to the melodies. Thank you so much for sharing, it all takes me back to such sweet carefree times.

OMG u really made it!!! Thanks so much for granting me this wish! I hope your videos can reach more people!! Ff8 was the first game I played, and it has always been a special place in my heart! Thanks Lenny!

lovely memories of my childhood playing when my parents were alive. Used to see me battle and summon the guardian force and the ending was a true masterpiece to behold. good times then.

This is some of the coolest final fantasy content on RU-vid. I love seeing highlights of the game while peaceful music plays.

I miss how bright the Final Fantasy series used to be. Am I the only one who's noticed the increasing grittiness of the series?

The game that got me hooked to the series all thanks to the demo disk included with Brave Fencer Musashi ^_^ loving the music all over again

This was my first RPG I ever played. I always wanted a more mellow soundtrack to these old songs thank you very much its really peaceful and helps me unwind at the end of my shifts.

My favs are Fisherman Horizon theme and Balamb City Theme. I played this game on PS1 when I was 11 (I'm 35 now), it really brings nostalgic feelings.

Maravilhoso! Nostalgia! Final fantasy 8 é um épico e deveria ter mais notoriedade. Obrigado por compartilhar algo tão belo.

Very nice and nostalgic playlist, thank you for this

Such a great playlist for such an underrated FF game!! Love the artwork too!

Nothing lengthy, but FF8 was my childhood man, best one.

ppl hated on Junction System, I enjoyed it a lot!