Nobody Told Me FF8 Had Some of the BEST BOSS MUSIC in the Series 

Please check out Nier:Automata soundtrack 🙏

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cpJwyd0AEvA.html Listen to the FF14 version its mental

And it's a crime, that FF8 did not get FF7 reboot treatment.

i was just bout to say that.

He did the same thing in 7 with Birth of God

naa its underneath the normal battle theme

@@pabloguzman8472 there is a slower rhythm that is similar, but it’s not THE traditional rhythm, which is what appears in Ultimecias theme. It’s very intentional.

@@gogdog52 yea but if you dont mention that it is there on the normal battle songs you would think that those songs has anything to do with the motif

Yeah ff8 is heavily understated for those i agree.

fav game and soundtrack...might be biased but oh well

Ultimecia had a reason for doing stuff? I remember in the first Dissidia game she had a unique item that implied some trauma or loss but... See, someone told me once that there actually is a backstory behind everything that happened in FF8, something about some goddess(?) and her dead knight? But since I didn't 100% the game and Ulti herself only has like... three lines in the whole game, I got to the end extremely confused about what was happening and just enjoyed all the wacky spectacle.

@@Sticksnstones77 First of all, keep in mind that everything a certain character in Discs 1 and 2 says is actually Ultimecia talking (I'm not naming that character to avoid spoilers for third people, but to anyone who has played the game, it should be obvious who that person is). Ultimecia has plenty of dialogue, it's just not obvious it's her at first. Anyway, short version, the entire game is one giant self-fulfilling prophecy. On Ultimecia's side, she is from a future where sorceresses are actively being hunted town and prosecuted. In response, she tries to do all the things she does in the game in an attempt to create a world where she and only she can survive (while it technically also allows her to rule this new world, it's a bit pointless to 'rule' over a world where nothing else can even exist). The problem is that this very action is what led to her prosecution in the first place; the combination of multiple Sorceresses trying to take over the world coupled with one that wants to destroy all of reality let to humanity becoming a lot more pro-active about things. Add in weird time travel shenanigans, and you end up with a villain who is a victim of both her own machinations and the way this universe works. The rest of the game follows similar logic. Squall's victory over Ultimecia and the subsequent events are what set his own past events in motion, and ultimately guarantees Ultimecia's defeat. FF8 is full of things like this: Ellone attempts to send people's minds into the past in an attempt to change the past, only to cause these very same events to fold out in the same fashion. Ultimecia tried to change the past to save herself, only to cause her own defeat. And since every point in time is the 'past' from a later point in time, it follows that you cannot change the future either. Ultimecia *will* rise and she *will* cause massive amounts of destruction, and nothing can possibly change this. In short, everyone in the entire game's universe is a victim of fate, forced to do those things they were destined to do.

​@@neobullseye1Which leads right back to the title theme, "Liberi Fatali" (Children of Fate).

It always bothered me that we never got to know what her ambition and motive is meh

@@Sticksnstones77 There is also some theories pointing that Ultimecia is Linoa having lost everything, hence why she is able to summon Griever, her knight, Squall. Pointing to the Liberi fatali, the tragic fate of 2 lover losing themselves and fighting in a neverending loop

Thank you for watching Jaden!

Everything about FFVII is overrated. The Extreme is much better than One Winged Angel. The whole FFVIII OST is superior btw.

@@AlexanderPR2 the only Good thing about 8 is literally the soundtrack and that's it. Ergo Why FF 8 should have had the remake instead

​@@raulrojas9253that's a bit of an exaggeration. I love FF8, and not even I can say it's perfect. But "the only good thing is the OST"? No, just no. FF7 is a game I don't like, yet I wouldn't dare say it's a bad game. A little overrated at that, but someone has to know when to recognise when something's good, despite personal preference.

​@@razielvalentine4076FF7 and 8 are fantastic, for their own great reasons. They just feel different. Its hard to describe. But I do think ff8 has a slightly better overall soundtrack.

I've honestly given up choosing a favourite and I haven't even played them all 😂

I love FF8, too, but some of my friends say they don't like it much. They don't like the junction system and the "school/romance elements". 😅

@@Aya_Albion that’s funny. I actually enjoyed that and the goofy parts. Gave the game life for me. And honestly it’s typical story lines and behavior from a lot of your anime’s. So I still don’t get it, but each their own I suppose 😊

As someone who played FF8 a few years ago, I can answer why some people like myself don’t like the game. The junction system is certainly unique, but it incentives a kind of grinding that isn’t fun. Other FF games encourage grinding, sure, but at least you get the rewarding feeling of your character growing stronger with each level attained. The junction system, meanwhile, forces you to draw literally hundreds of magic spells from monsters to increase the stats of every party member, and at the same time incentivizes players to keep their level low to keep monsters from leveling up as well. So you have a game where leveling your characters with experience can hurt you, and the only way to really increase your stats is a boring play loop of drawing magic over and over and over while choosing to never actually use that magic because using it decreases characters stats and…ugh, it’s a mess of a system that sounds good in theory but doesn’t work in practice. As for the story…it’s not my cup of tea, but I don’t hate it as much as some people do. I do admit the whole group amnesia plot point was incredibly stupid, but I’ve seen worse story beats in other games. If you want to see true hatred for FF8, hunt down Spoony’s old review of the game…and even he took back all his criticisms because he found FF13 much, much worse in every regard.

@@Arxane Those are fair points. But I have felt that grind frustration with all the FF games. FF6 comes to mind the OG before the fixed the grinding need. You would spend hours and hours grinding to be able to fight and not die in certain areas. And junction system could have been better but it wasn’t a game changer for me. I still loved the game, and everyone has different ideas of what they want or like in a game. Thanks for your input.

​@@ArxaneThe trick to FF8 is you DONT grind. It's the only FF that rewards you for thinking outside the box and playing pacifist. Turn the monsters into cards instead of killing them and mod the cards instead of drawing magic from them.

Indeed. And the man with the machine gun!

I love Maybe I Am A Lion

That's no the final boss

Seymour is in FFX. BUT. Fight With Seymour is still one of the best Uematsu's work so far.

Fun fact! If you ever wondered why that track sounded so familiar, give "Assault of the Silver Dragons" from FFIX a listen. For YEARS I wondered why the final Seymour battle music sounded so familiar and couldn't place my finger on it because I naturally assumed it was using a melody from FFX.

I've played FF7. I love all of these themes! A video on these tracks would be cool indeed.

@@DaviVasc Well, I think reaction videos more interesting when the person is discovering it ! I would then strongly recommend the Lost Odyssey track. I'm telling you : it's a journey 😆 Thank you for answering my comment ! Best of luck with your channel !

Yeah, her speech to the masses in Deling is one of those things localization ruined. Its arguably the greatest piece of dialogue in the entire series.

What's the ffx puzzle?

The hymn of the fayth prayer makes no sense until you write the lyrics down and read them vertically, it's in Japanese.

The junction system can really be difficult to wrap one's head around at first. But, thankfully, when you do figure it out its a quick and easy way to raise your stats. Only downside is that it makes magic effectively useless since you have to keep it to have higher stats. For when you get it that point (minor spoilers) When Rinoa unlocks the Angel Wings limit break. Keep Full-Life, Ultima, and Meteor junctions to HP, Spirit, and Vitality and no other spells in her inventory. It makes life so much easier.

Once you get the floating garden you can go to cactaur island to farm your GFs fast

Modulation is moving from one key (or one chord) to next adjacent one, up or down, to change the tone of the music. Works like this: You have a low, ominous key for the beginning. This creates a "dark" tone in the music. (4:44 in this video, for comparison) Then, after a few beats, you move the key up once and the tone changes to a less dark, more hopeful tone (9:00). Or you have a happy, bright tone, and then you lower the key to turn it darker, more melancholic. As you can see in the two examples in the timestamps I give, the music... "raises", grows brighter. Pay attention to you left headphone/speaker, and you'll catch the increase in modulation. That's what Davi means when he says that there is a "story telling going on" in the music. That's what modulation is capable of. It can ramp up or lower the tension without having to change the rhythm. And it's not just the key changes, but the contrast created by them throughout the track. Same with the chords. 16:38, what Davi is explaining is another example of modulation. The "feel" of the chords can also be used to modulate the music and create that "back and fore". To sum it up: it's a planned change in tone, either by changing the keys or the chords, that increases or decreases the "feel" of the music.

@@zennvirus7980 Great commend, dude! That helped a lot! Thanks 👍👍