I'm beginning to wonder if there's some sort of subgenre or some label to put on this, there's been a few people drop by recently that say they've now got children but find themselves pining for this. Is this nostalgiacore?
You can even encounter this kind of music even at a grocery store. I remember when I went to Hong Kong Supermarket way back in 2006, Balamb Garden was playing in that background. Someday, if you take your kids to any supermarket, you might encounter this kind of song. Sometimes, you find strange music in strange locations.
@@JDubDotEXEShoot, with a place like that, I could do So much. I'd want combat training, herbal gardens for days (poor folks, veterans, refugees, orphans, and just about anyone helping out), classes on herbalism, classes on Magick/witchcraft, music, meditation circles, just about anything to help heal the body/spirit, etc.
I like to listen to this music when walking through the corridors of my university campus, it gives me the feeling that everything will be alright and I will be able to make it through even the hardest of times
Came to the comments to see if this music hit others as hard as me. Wasn’t disappointed. This game was maybe the best I ever played. The soundtrack was perfection.
Like everyone, i miss my childhood. So carefree, able to just get lost in a game. I am also grateful to grow up in a time when games like these came out. There are so many games out now, no one plays the same game anymore, its hard to connect.
@@JDubDotEXE Shiiiit, I'm playing it...again... now, and if you don't have 100 tornados, quakes, and meltdowns to junction by the time you hit Galbadia Garden, you've done something wrong.
This is a lifesaver for studying. I chew through so much video game music to focus and I definitely have been needing something new. This is a track I used to leave my PS1 on just to listen to while I did other things, so it's been perfect. Here's to 2 months before graduation!
My "real world" job is in a university, and I hear a few students say they enjoy longform video posts like this for the same reason. I'm glad it's helping, and good luck with graduating!
@@metalstnick6664 It is common to see every student carrying their phones and headphones around. So of course, you can walk around campus with any song of your choosing and listen to it while walking in campus. If you can do that in campus, you can do that anywhere. You can do that when you grocery shop, walk in the streets walk in the park etc.
What I think is particularly great is that Uematsu knew that you'd be hearing this track a *lot* during gameplay, so made sure it was one of the best compositions he made for the game. Although saying that, the whole soundtrack is bangers!
Crazy question but can you do this type of loop for the Galbadia Theme? I feel like all the extended versions for it don't exist anymore and the only one I can find will loop back to the beginning portion instead of it looping properly.
Hey there! I don't tend to do multiple tracks from the same soundtrack when I'm making videos, but I did recently do a set of 25 tracks from Hollow Knight as a collection, so never say never? I guess keep 'em peeled, I might do a Final Fantasy set at some point... 👀
I remember actually hearing this song 1 time at Hong Kong Supermarket. I know songs like this happen once so I consider this a rare song to listen to. I mean I would not expect to hear this song the 2nd time I go to Hong Kong Supermarket. So anyways, this song is part of a reason why I tend to shop at Hong Kong Supermarket. Weird right. We all hear this song from strange places. Just like the university you graduate from, you ended up hearing that song when you least expect it because who would of thought any university would like to reference one of the FF8 theme song?
They're both excellent for different reasons, but VIII edges it over VII for me too. I think part of that might be that Uematsu had more experience writing for the PSX sound chip for VIII, whilst he originally started work on VII for the SNES before moving to the PSX. I don't know how much he had composed/completed at that point, but it's definitely food for thought!
@@JDubDotEXE VII is a very close second. For me it’s the incredibly emotional songs VIII has that makes me love it. This game’s soundtrack has always just resonated with me more than any other game
i remember when i was a kid, and my parents where guests over a good friends house. they where talking and chattin, and i was allowed to play the only game that was on the house. ff8 on ps1. i'm german, and the game was all english. i've never played a game for such a long time. they didnt stop talking, so i was able to play the game almost the whole night. now i'm 30, and i still play this game. sometimes on the road, i use an emulator. sometimes at home, on my ps4. sometimes just for fun. both of my parents are dead now, but they shared the same dream - to never forget your fantasy. and that my friends, is final.
I made a list of why Balamb Garden is better than Hogwarts (pls don't take this too seriously both franchises are cool) 1. Balamb garden has the nicest people in existence there (minus Seifer, but everyone hates him anyway). and a lot of people at Hogwarts is really mean :c 2. Balamb Garden has fun groups like the garden festival committee or the CC group. Wtf does Hogwarts have? 3. Balamb garden is GORGEOUS theres plants and water everywhere and fountains and rings all around it. Hogwarts looks like a dirty, old, stinky, castle. 4. The people that go to Balamb Garden are hot 5. the instructors in Balamb Garden are great. Quistis literally has a fanclub because people love her so much. only like 50% of Hogwarts teachers are nice 6. Hogwarts houses are problematic, it makes kids rival eachother. Garden doesn’t have that. 7. Balamb Garden is such a pretty name, it’s like a place where students can grow cuz it’s a garden and in Balamb! Hogwarts sounds gross 8. Balamb Garden is in this beautiful little island. Hogwarts is In Britain where you only see the sun about 3 times a year. 9. Balamb Garden can FLY. You know…like a plane. You're just trapped in Dipshit nowhere Britain for 9 months at Hogwarts 10. Balamb Garden is known for thier card players. You can go around and play cards. everyone loves cards. Hogwarts just has quidditch where kids get super injured at like every single game. 11.Balamb Garden takes in literal orphans and makes a home for them. they don't care who you are or where you came from. Hogwarts takes in “chosen ones” who are just random white kids 12. Balamb Garden will PAY you. you get paid for going to school. 13. The Garden will give you giant, powerful mythical forces to help your scrawny ass. Hogwarts will give you a stick and a broom and say “good luck” 14. Balamb got all kinds of ethnicities. Hogwarts has like all white kids. 15. Hogwarts is haunted, Garden is not 16. Garden doesn’t require uniforms unless your trainer asks you to change. Having the option to wear a uniform is nice. Hogwarts requires robes as uniforms all the time, theres no fashion there 17. Garden’s uniforms look really cool, especially that SeeD uniform. Hogwarts requires lame ROBES 18. Garden gives you sexy ass weapons like gunblades. Hogwarts give you carved sticks 19. Garden gives you these nice dorms with all this room for your shit (especially the rooms for SeeDs) You have to share rooms in Hogwarts. 20. Garden will boost up your SeeD rank depending on the good decisions you make. The higher your SeeD rank, the more money you get. Hogwarts will give you points when you make a good decision and whatever house gets the most points….gets a pat on the back and bragging rights. 21. Balamb Garden has delicious hot dogs and donuts in the cafeteria for students. Hogwarts has british food 22. Hogwarts teaches people about magic and potions and herbs. Balamb Garden does all of that and way more. They teach you magic, GFs, how to defend yourself, how to work with guns and swords. 23. you can literally bring magic and guns and swords in the building and nobody will stop you. If you could bring guns into Hogwarts, the entire series would have ended two books in. 24. Garden’s location is great, it’s on a nice little island with limited monsters (that you are trained to fight) and a cute little town. Hogwarts is right next to a go-in-and-never-come-out forest 25. Hogwarts burned down. Balamb Garden survived A MISSLE ATTACK thank you for coming to my ted talk
My 1st and favorite FF and PS1 since 1998. I randomly searched the PS store when I got my PS5 and God blessed me with the remastered. I was grateful to finish the game I started back then when I lost disk 4. So many memories and nostalogia while playing.
Ah man, losing the final part of a game is a killer - I had the same happen to me with Lost Odyssey, ironically - I'm glad you got to finish the story!
This kind of song can appear in random place which is a place where you least expect. I will even tell you a story about the time I went to Hong Kong Supermarket in USA. That Balamb Garden song was playing in the background while I shop at Hong Kong Supermarket. That can only happen once. So it does not have to be just Japan. No matter where you go, you randomly encounter this no matter where you go.
I guess it was around 1990's that time passed since my encounter with this game. Although I did not finish it, it feels good to playing the game. I wish, someday, I would. It would be an honor, knowing it would save the world.
I don't care what anymore say FF8 was the best FF game, I ever played in the whole FF series. I have more fund memories of this game then any other FF game.
My childhood summarised in one ost, alongside with A place to call home of ff9. I can almost here the footsteps of the characters... Thank you and greetings from Italy
I was at Toys R Us participating in a Pokemon card game tournament. I lost. To alleviate my loss I searched for a new video game to buy. I bought FFVIII and all was right in my world again.
I come back to listen to this song to suffer. I yearn so badly for the peace, comfort, and innocence I felt when this song would play as I watched my brother play Final Fantasy 8. I was still too young to understand, I couldn’t ever make it past Ifrit’s Cavern. It physically hurts my body and soul to hear this, knowing there was ever a period in time I could feel this happy. My brain has warped this memory so strongly it almost feels like I haven’t smiled a single time since then. I’ve been struggling to find a reason to live, to be honest. I spend every waking minute drowning in a pool of deep nostalgia, knowing I could never hope to be even a fraction as content and blissful as I was in my childhood. Why continue fighting this losing battle? I have never met a single person that could give me one valid reason to stay alive.
That's some pretty deep emotional damage right there. All I can offer is some small solace that the peace and comfort will be here whenever you need it...
I agree. I've been in a state of emotionallessness.... if there's such a word. But with some odd turn of events. If just an hour of complete bliss and peaceful music. Makes my day if just for a moment. Totally worth it. 😊
That's childhood for you. All our childhoods are so nice. Our young brains don't even know we are being abused unless the abuse is really bad. We felt love and safe. I think in adulthood, the path to feeling grounded and at peace is to find something you want to do and do it. Could be a profession or a hobby. Something that gives meaning and purpose and joy.
I feel your pain bro. This point in .y life my brother and i played this amd legend of dragoon and it was the only time my brother and i ever bonded. Life seemed so simple in those moments. Im hoping you can find some happiness in this mundane life! Im rooting for you!
Had a bad day all day. Soo I remembered the good old days. This music of FF8 popped in my head. Always puts a smile on my face. Thanks FF8. Definitely one of my top 10 games ever!!!
I think if you were to level up Quistis and Rinoa (and everyone tbf) whilst having Squall KOed all the time it might be doable? I'm relatively sure I read that the enemies only scale in level to Squall, with the exception of some bosses, so I guess just having the handicap of one less party member is the challenge!
@@JDubDotEXE Thanks ☺️. Someones I became good friends with in the group started learning to draw for real and would draw eveyone's characters, so I put my limited mspaint skills to use and would draw everyone's weapons 😁. I'm glad I saved most of the pictures since I cant find the yahoo group anymore 🫤
You're mostly right, the pass through of Balamb Garden itself right at the beginning is part of the scene the music first plays from. But it was far to short to make a loop from for an hour so I used the intro video as well 👌 (It's also not the only video on this channel I've messed with things like that either, for similar reasons 😅)
I'm loving the VII remake, and excited to see where it goes, but would love VIII remade too. Walking around Balamb Garden with 2024 graphics would be awesome. Thanks for putting this together my guy! Got yourself a sub
listening to this whenever i feel lonely. bring backs my inner early teen days. just sitting playing ff8 on a saturday morning. so calm and peaceful era.
I just beat the original FF7 for the first time before playing Rebirth. But since I can't really buy it now I figured I'd play FF8 cause I liked Squall enough in Kingdom Hearts. I'm only a couple hours in but this music stuck out to me immediately, it's really lovely. Thanks for this!
You may even encounter this even if you leave your house and your video game and go out shopping for food. To give you an example, in 2006, all I did is go grocery shopping at Hong Kong Supermarket and Balamb Garden theme song was playing in the radio. All the customers shopping can hear it. This accidental encounter most likely happen once. So even if you leave the world of video games and leave your house, even video game theme song might randomly follow you.
The only final fantasy game I ever played growing up and as til this day as an adult a cousin of mine had it I popped it in and fell in love with the balamb garden and that song playing man 😢 so nostalgic casually listen to it while working to relax and remember a happy time in life with no worries and hours to explore
This game literally saved my life back in my teens. My teenage years were rough, to put it mildly. But FF8 completely pulled me in and away from real world problems for a while, such an amazing experience. Timeless music. This game deserves a remake too.
My infant falls asleep to this song and some more from this game soundtrack. The music from this game is composed so heart-warmingly: its hard to forget. It tugs at your soul like a cherished memory
