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Irvine: "It must have been because of Junctioning that you all forgot we grew up together?"

Squall, with his fiftieth self-inflicted concussion, awkwardly side-eyeing an unconscious Zell and Quistis: "Uh... Yeah. Whatever."

ultimecia's greatest gambit was making rinoa learn angelo strike while puppeting her in space

I had no idea you could input Zell' s Limit Breaks without getting the magazines first.

I love the idea of the crisis level. Should've taken it to the extreme.

"And then Zell found out that his shoelaces were open, so his crisis level increased."

"Selphie had a nightmare last night, so her crisis level increased."

"Rinoa accidentally put on two different socks, so her crisis level increased."

"Irvine didn't have time to wash his hair this morning, so his crisis level increased."

"Squall woke up happy and he caught himself smiling in the mirror, so his crisis level increased."

I love how, ironically, this is one of the few runs that makes the Final Boss harder to defeat than the Superbosses.

I expected this to be a boring cheese-fest involving getting attack to hit for 9999 every time. Instead I got a gripping journey involving complex maths, specific movement patterns prior to a boss fight and a bizarre RNG manipulation to trigger a very rare spell - amazing work!

Fair play for only resorting to The End when all other avenues were exhausted

Did not know that the first Edea fight could be skipped if Squall is just dead. Learn something new every day.

Funny how Raijin went from "I'm not gonna hit a woman" to just becoming a mad man by the time they meet him again in Pandora

Subtitles at around 50:00 are comedy gold! "...to create a new weapon for Renault. Squirrel and Christus are both down..."

There is no way I don't "do over" The End limit break pressing it that fast. Well done.

I mean this with the greatest of respect. I've clicked on this video and "watched" it at least 200 times. For whatever reason, whenever I start this video, without fail 15/20 mins in, I'll always fall asleep. Just wanted to thank you for this video, it's absolutely 10/10.

If you hold square down as you walk into the Centra Ruins, it skips the puzzle and warps you directly to Odin's chamber.

Love that every character gets their own chance to be useful in this run!

I am a huge FF8 fan, but I never knew that Zell could use unread combinations from the start before collecting them!

I love how every character has a specific mean in the run

Zell: Gravity attacker
Selphie: Magic attacker and one shotter
Rinoa: Invincibile buff
Irvine: Debuffer
Quistis: Oneshot mobs, debuffs, magic attacker, Gravity
Squall: phy dps and long time animation

It's obv that zell and irvine are the less relevant but Quistis at the start can't do all that roles and in some parts of the game having 2 magic attackers or two gravity users it's good and still, both zell and irvine got their times to shine

The most importants one are Rinoa, Selphie and Squall (absurb that long animations Squall limit break are one of the secret to clear the final boss)

An Incredible run and i am really happy that a crazy one like this can be done here, in my fav game <3

Rng manipolation of steps for random party select, extreme manipolation of table random magic, manipolation of crisis status, just wow, JUST WOW

P. S. I also love that Quistis can do most of the roles, in classic blue mage fashion, it's also so grest to see a monk that can use gravity hits, very interesting and wanna talk about Irvine that just shot posion gas shots? XD every character it's beautiful

I've seen people fail seemingly far easier challenge runs and thought this was doomed from the start.

I'm amazed that a) it's possible and b) you managed to achieve it; then you did the super bosses as well.

I'm in awe. The biggest congratulations to you and thanks for uploading!

So when I first played this as a 9-year-old back in '99 I 100% did not follow or understand the Junction system at all so I ignored it (junctioning magic to stats that is). As a result I mainly made it through the game by spamming GF summons for every boss and a lot of normal enemy encounters. I made it to the start of disc 4 until the fight with Adel stopped me as I couldn't summon without killing Rinoa and wasn't good enough to beat the boss normally. Flash forward to my late teens when I replayed FF8 actually following the junction system and I breezed through it without issue.

The coolest part about this run is needing to find/farm the actual monsters for their rare drops instead of just card modding them. Never really thought about it but it makes quistis progression feel more impactful rather than just being given it for free basically. Nice run!