I Finished Final Fantasy 8 

A masterpiece of storytelling. Especially how Squall & Rinoa are basically the completion of the love story started by his dad & her mom.

This game needs a remake before i die.

The thing i love about this ending and their love story that the game doesn't 100% spell out for you super clearly, is that even tho circumstances pulled Julia and Laguna apart, fate brought both of their respective children Rinoa (Julia's daughter) and Squall (Laguna's son) together so that they could experience the love that Julia and Laguna never could. I dunno why, i just love that. Also the nice touch how "Eye's on me" is effectively Squall and Rinoa's love song, and it is the song that Julia wrote about Laguna. I just love this beautiful game.

I say we start a movement for a ff8 remake, I love 7 but 8 is my favorite!

Yeah, Squall smiling for the first time in the entire game is pretty much the moment when we all lose it.

I clicked this on a whim because I love FF8 and it just happened to show up in my feed. I did NOT expect to be bawling along with you at the end. Your great voicing of the characters elevated everything. Instant subscribe from me.

Seeing your reaction to the ending with Laguna was emotional. Such a truly amazing character

I absolutely loooove this Final fantasy ending, I believe it to be the best in the series. Squall's memories getting lost outside time and space and Rinoa passing through time and space to find squall and bring him back is just so well done (look Interstellar, ff8 did it first haha) and then the camera after credits showing everyone happy and healthy it's just perfection 👌👌👌 this game is ♥️

Even after all these years, I still cry at that ending.

The story of 8 has always made it my favorite game, a broken guy finds the strength to trust and depend on others, finds the love of his life, and finally knows what it means to be happy.

I like the symbolism in the last sequence of Balamb Garden leaving towards the moon: Rinoa as the moon (Sorceress powers) and Squall as the shape of Griever carved on it. Both as one.

My favorite Final Fantasy. One of the best endings. By far the absolute best use of the Main Theme during the credits with the handycam footage. This ending is so satisfying and triumphant.

This Game is so beautiful. I remember it first playing 22 years ago. This music burned into my brain. Will never forget those memories. Just beautiful. Thanks for reviving this in 2022! I had really great memories and yes I also cried. My favourite Final Fantasy.

FF8 caught a lot of flack over the years, but it's always been my favorite FF game and it has the BEST characters.

What a game. One of the best of all time.

and that's how you end a game. one of the best ending sequences of all time.

PS1 FF endings just hit differently - so good!

FFVIII was my first and favourite FF. It's so underrated and gets way too much hate. I hope more people come around to it after watching your videos!

Lol that gilgamesh reaction was pure gold

This was my favorite final fantasy. Reminds me of my Teen years, holds a special place. Glad you gave it a shot. The ending with laguna at his wife’s headstone always fucks me up.

To see Squall finally smile like that was very powerful.

This is why the early Final Fantasy's transends any other game. It's an experience. A gift that you'll NEVER forget... but even still... after watching watching someone go through those exact emotions is another kind of experience. We all get to relive it in a way. Thank you for this gift.

Did you realize that Rinoa's mother was Julia, Laguna's first love interest? Eyes on me was Julia's song to Laguna. The song describes Julia's night with Laguna. FF8 is by far one of my top FF games for the story alone. They're all great, but this one was so different and memorable. This game reminds me of High School, I was a bit of an introvert and my high school gf pulled me out of my shell as well.

Love this. I love that you sang Eyes on Me at the end. Beautiful voice you have. You should make a separate video for that song.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who cried at the end of VIII. Fun fact, Squall was based on River Phoenix, the Brother of Joaquin, who sadly died.

The way Laguna and Julia couldn't end up together but their kids did 😭❤️ AND YOU BETTER SANG BIH! 👏 Aretha whomst?

FFVIII is one of my most favorite games of all time. Watching you play, enjoy, and experience the emotions of the game was just a wonderful watch! Thank you!

That Rinoa voice seems so perfect for what she should sound like when they remake this game. Cast Frankie for this role please Square.

I love how Seifer had a good ending. Underrated character

The ending we were all hoping for: Zell ❤ Hot Dogs

This story really hurts alot when you realize that squall and rinoa reignited the love Laguna and raine lost. 🌹 Such a beautiful story.

Woah that was a badass cover at the end there. Old school FF fan here to see a new generation enjoy these classics. I'm glad they're still getting the attention and respect they deserve.

This game for me is a masterpiece! I just started crying too at the end hahaha! Thanks for playing this game!

Congrats! That ending is scary and beautiful when I was young.

21:02 I've never seen anyone so happy to beat up their cat but I guess there is a first time for everything.

This is my fav FF game. Sure it's not as popular and well recieved as FF7 and FF10 but I enjoyed every bit of it. I really love Rinoa and Squall love story.

Great series. Thank you. FF8 is my fave and it's nice to see new players bawling to the final scenes 😂

Perfect Ending for a perfect Game...

So good to see you got to the end and being so emotional... Some hate FF8 for its weirdness. Replaying it after 20 yrs (being in my late 30s now) is just pure emotional ride for me too. Time waits for no one just like Ultimecia said. Timing is everything. Isnt it beautiful that faith of Julia and Laguna could be finally fulfilled by second generation, their kids... Thank you for playing. GG

forever my favorite Final Fantasy game, the music, characters, story although at times confusing still loved every minute of it, glad you enjoyed it.

Omg! You sang it! You made me cry! Thank you so much for this. I love FF8 so much.

It was great to watch somebody experience FF8 the way I did 25 years ago

FFVIII remains my favourite single-player Final Fantasy - so great to see someone appreciating a timeless classic!

Never seen this channel before and I'm glad I stuck around till the end of this!

This was recommended to me randomly and I’ve never seen her content before. But the surprisingly accurate voice acting was a beautiful surprise. I can’t believe you can do that Zell voice and the perfect Rinoa, also while being hilarious.

Omg that Odin's reaction is one of the best highlights of this video. Oh, and you defeated Ultima Weapon with "The End" 🤣🤣

I cried to this when I was 14. Now I'm 38. Good thing I can revisit it anytime. (never forget you can play this in any PC in HD and more).

I love seeing people enjoy FF8 so much. This game was my childhood. We had it on PC, and had the chocobo minigame on it as well. Was such a great piece of narrative. If not a little spooky for little 8 year old me. Loved this game. Loved the emotion is had in its story. I would put a lot of my youth's romanticism to this game's influence.

This was such an incredible joy to watch, Frankie. I'm really enjoying your adventures through the world of Final Fantasy, as someone who's grown up with the series. FF8 is so dear to my heart and always gets a lot of unwarranted hate from people who didn't give it a chance to see it's one of the most incredible stories I've played - and a really fun gameplay experience at that. Personally, it's my favourite Final Fantasy soundtrack and I feel it's Nobuo Uematsu's best. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Ff8 gave me some of the best childhood memories.... End of the day Ff8 was a best friend, a introduction into romance, an adventure, a crew, the future, the past, an escape.... I would live in this game if i could bad guys monsters and all

Is it weird that I only cried when Zell finally got his hot dogs? 🤣

Laguna and Raine in the field is the most emotional moment in the entire game IMO.

What an amazing game. From start to finish. Also I loved the junction system gives so much freedom and creativity in the w customization of your characters

Thank you for the cover at the end :) We appreciate it!!

Thank you SO much for putting this out! I'm sure it was a crazy amount of work with the editing but I love this format of edited down playthroughs. It was amazing. :D

when I played this and the scene at the end with Laguna came on I was nearly crying. great watch. I love how you get so invested in the story and characters

Always love your videos, and I'm glad you seemed to enjoy this beautiful story ^^

ty for that last couple of min, that was amazing.

I watched all the vods months ago because I couldn’t wait to see how you continued to experience my personal favourite game of all time. However here I am watching the finale again, grateful for your FF8 streams I hadn’t enjoyed FF8 so much since the first time I played it. Had to sub your twitch, well done and ty Frankie.

seeing gilgamesh being the last guy tha got summoned on as a last save to defeat seifer is poetic remembering what happen to him in ff5

My favorite Final Fantasy game. It was awesome to see the reactions someone else has with it. The Raine and Laguna part is still a hard gut punch every time.

great series! I know there were technical difficulties but you persevered! well done!!!!

Thanks for sharing your journey and your great reaction to my favorite FF for me this game has the best direction and ending of all Final Fantasy games, I love you

The difference between Seifer and Squall becoming Sorceress' Knights is that Seifer's 'romantic dream' to become a Sorceress' knight is born not from any care of the sorceress, but from his own ego; while Squall becoming a Sorceress' knight is a sincere vow of love to his sorceress- to Rinoa 🥺

I love these videos. Especially the reactions. It's always fun to see someone react as entertainingly as you to scenes that made me love this franchise. Keep up the good work!! Subcribed!!

aww man i was 11 when i finished FFVIII , i'll never forget the first time i watched the credits scene , is so perfect .

As a personal favourite and great deal of nostalgia, seeing you play and genuinely react to the story and moments of the game has brought endless joy to me! I've started following you after this and I am really happy you enjoyed the journey! Hopefully Square might consider a remake similar to FF7's for this great work!

I loved, enjoy and feel this video sooo hard, thank you for make me feel that again. I’m a ff lover and you just unlocked some memories I had lost. You won a new sub.

Congrats on beating my favourite FF! 👍And yes, there absolutely should be a remake this.

Still, after 30 years of gaming, this is the most satisfying ending sequence I have ever seen. I can't think of any other ending that made me this happy I completed a game. This truly felt like a reward for all the hours you put into playing.

Loved your reaction to the ending, brought back the tears that i've been holding back since. :D I love eyes on me as well. Very well done :)

Thank you for this. FF8 is my favorite game of all time and it was really refreshing to watch someone have a genuine positive reaction to it. Your singing voice is amazing, and this is 100% what I needed today.

Final Fantasy 8 is so great! I love the original version character style better than the new character versions. The older style had darker eyes and looked more exotic. Square's decision to make them more "boy bandy" is a disappointment. The exotic look made them look more mysterious and romantic. Rinoa and Squall original images 💘

I rarely comment on videos but this was so entertaining I had to say it. I caught this randomly on recommended and watched it all having no clue what was the context 🤣 amazing job on the narration don't know if you make up those voices on the fly or not but it makes the characters feel alive. Keep it up I will definitely tune in and watch more. Once again great stuff 👍

Playing this game in my adolescence was a formative experience for me, and watching it again with you was like reliving those moments from so long ago. I shared your emotions, and I enjoyed feeling those feelings again. Thank you. Subbed.

has one of my the best beginning and ending to a game will always be one of my favorites. by the way love the voice overs could listen all day with a smile great job 🤘🤘🤘 loved ur cover at the end

Sadly it was confirmed by the Devs that a lots of Laguna stuff had to be cut out due to the game already being on 4 discs. It was meant to go deeper into Laguna and Raine relationship and to definitely confirm that Squall is his son.

I am GUTTED I only just saw this. Yet I am so happy that just one more person could be as moved as I was the first time I played it over 20 years ago. FF8 story wise is easily as good as FFX if not better and it pains me so much it did not get the recognition it deserves. It is a beautiful story with some enthralling characters and an artistic masterpiece!! Thankyou for playing and for the video. I would LOVE to hear you review it!

These three videos were randomly recommended to me and I'm glad that I clicked. This was really fun and entertaining to watch. Thanks Frankie for taking the time to create these shorter RU-vid videos for all of us to enjoy. I am looking forward to your other videos as well!

Omg this video was randomly recommended to me and I was so excited to see someone play this for the first time! I’m so happy you loved this so much!! It’s one of my favorites ever and it means the world to me to see more people fall in love with it. Thank you for appreciating it and crying over so many emotional moments, it reminds me of how I felt enjoying this ages ago!! Subbed now for sure haha

Man, Eyes On Me always makes me cry. FFVIII doesn't get enough credit.

This isn't my favourite FF and looking back parts of it are daft but.... Goddamn it took me on a journey as a kid....and that soundtrack is a masterpiece. Even now when I hear "the oath" it takes me right back

Thank you for this. I played and finished this game when it first came out. All these years later, watching someone else see the ending really brought me back. Like I get to relive a small piece of seeing it for the first time again. Thank you.

Great surprise! Love you Frankie!

I'm not crying! You're crying! Dammit I love this game

FF8 and FF9 are so massively underrated and i never understood why

Final Fantasy VIII is perhaps one of the greatest Fantasy Romance Novels disguised as a video game ever, It left a mark on me when i played it. The music and visuals where enthralling and despite what others may say i enjoyed the new junction and draw system, as well as the best card game ever 'Triple Triad'. Final Fantasy VIII is a masterpiece of a game, even 22 years later.

So much intense pain in my heart listening to "Eyes on Me". Makes me cry every time I hear it.

It reminds me a lot of when I played the first time, I also cried watching the ending, it's a sea of ​​emotions :')

FFVIII has always been my favorite, I love the card game TripleTraid!! I can’t believe your characters were so low level going into the end !! Haha, eighteenth way fun to watch!!

Thank you for sharing your journey and the emotion with us. It's remind me the reason why this game has a special place in my heart. :)

It was super endearing to see someone else's genuine reactions so fully like this for a game so dear to my heart. You even brought me to tears with you. Thank you for this. And your singing of Eyes On Me had me tearing up even more; seriously THE prettiest I've heard. Stay awesome and never lose your heart cause it's so beautiful, I LOVE how much love you've shown for this beautiful game. Thank you for supporting it 🖤Ps, I LOVE your voices for the Characters let alone your reactions! 💗

"You're being gaslit by that girlboss, Seifer!" lmao this is where I really lost it Honestly I've been binging your videos all afternoon and your stuff is so delightfully melted lol, I adore your editing and your narration and I'm just having the best time today because of your content, thank you SO much for bringing all this joy

so i had a terrible bad day today. Then i came home to this. This just makes it al worth it. Frankie just makes it worth it. Then our Frankie sang. OH MY DAYS. unbelievable amazing voice. Frankie hopefully sees this comment and hopefully Frankie you need to sing Beauty and The Beasts, tale as old as time. It would be amazing. Keep it up Frankie we can't get enough have a good day and to everybody else in the comment section have a nice day :P

Ohhh the feels, love everything about this especially you singing eyes on me that was such a nice touch!

I'm so happy you played and enjoyed this!! This is the FF I grew up with, so it has a special place in my heart! Played it so many times..

Beat this game back in 1999 when it came out, because i always used my brothers PS1 it was a no brainer to which my mother bought me my own PS1 and tv, and she got me FF8 timely right after my birthday because i kept seeing the tv adverts so i was bouncing across the couches like a made feral child because i played the ever loving hell out of FF7. December last year i had the opportunity to play this game all over again with the HD Remaster, my core reason? to bring my now ex fiancee into the world of final fantasy. every moment hit her in every way i had hoped, she was in love with the story and the romance, eyes on me made her bawl her eyes out, the ending though? priceless reaction i'll never get back. this lead me to completing FFX with her also. sadly she gave up on our relationship of 3 years and engagement, the timing for her just wasn't right sadly, i lost my everything and seeing this really hit me emotionally to see someone else play this game through, those memories etched. i made her a playlist on Spotify 3 years ago when we first talked and met, safe to say the past two months have been horrible, but i slid eyes on me into her playlist i made for her.

Damn I remember the scene where you figure out Laguna’s son and Julia’s daughter get together after they miss out their own love, that was a nice ‘big brain’ moment. Pity you didn’t edit that in here, but regardless always love your FFVIII reaction video. Also extremely happy that you just love the WHOLE cast instead of just Squall & Rinoa. The character development of other character in FFVIII is rather lacking and thus the characters often come off underwhelming. But regardless I always love all of them and glad you do too. And Laguna’s ending scene with Raine is one of the most bittersweet moment in gaming ending, I remember crying when I realise Raine is dead (I was too young to piece things up together, pretty sure Ellone already mentions about her death), he’s such a tragic hero you can’t just not love him

When I first beat it in 1999 I was like wtf this was a badass experience. Legendary.

I was expecting Toad to sing Eyes On Me at the end there, lol. Fantastic singing, had to watch that a few times.