Final Fantasy VIII

Original title: Fainaru fantajî VIII

Video Game
1999
12

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8.7/10

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Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance Sci-Fi

A group of students at a military academy rescue a mysterious girl, who some say is the sorceress who wants to govern the universe.A group of students at a military academy rescue a mysterious girl, who some say is the sorceress who wants to govern the universe.A group of students at a military academy rescue a mysterious girl, who some say is the sorceress who wants to govern the universe.

Director
- Yoshinori Kitase
Writers

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IMDb RATING

8.7/10

6.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Yoshinori Kitase
Writers

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins total

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Final Fantasy VIII

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Trivia
A real-time rendition of Final Fantasy VIII's signature "ballroom scene" using the Playstation 2 graphic engine was created to show off the new console's power.

Goofs
After Squall is dressed up in his uniform, he leaves his dormitory room located in the North area first floor of Balamb Garden and he leaves the North area. But when Quisits calls for Squall at the First Floor Lobby. Squall approaches from the South as though he's entering the school from the front gate.

Quotes
Squall: [after a Laguna dream sequence] I dreamt I was a moron.

Crazy credits
During the end first half of the end credits we see a few minutes of "handheld video camera footage" taken during a party after the team's victory over the sorceress. At the end, just before the camera's battery runs out we see Riona outside pointing towards the sky. After the credits are done there is an additional scene.

Alternate versions
Because it is illegal to posses Nunchaku in the UK, it is also illegal to have them shown in movies and on television shows. For this reason, Selphie's weapon of choice has been reclassified in the UK version as "Sticks of Death".

Connections
Edited into Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box (2012)

Soundtracks
Liberi Fatali
Music Composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Lyrics by Kazushige Nojima
Latin Translation by Tarô Yamashita
Orchestrations by Shirô Hamaguchi (as Shirou Hamaguchi)
Conductor: Katsuaki Nakatani
Soprano: Komaki Miyabe, Matsue Hamauzu
Alto: Chie Sasakura, Hitomi Kaga
Tenor: Hirokazu Takiguchi, Jun Suzuki
Bass: Katsuyuki Nakanishi, Takeshi Yamagami
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Kenji Nagashima
Assistant Engineers: Yasuhiro Tsurusaki, Yasuo Iijimma
Recording Coordinator: Yûji Saitô (as Yuji Saitou)
Recorded at Sound City, Tokyo

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Featured review

9/10

Outstanding and unprecidented!!

Final Fantasy VIII is the apex of fantasy RPGs. Not only does it take place in a world we can believe and understand (a somewhat futuristic world that is fairly peaceful but still militarized), but it features characters we can feel akin to, for the first real time in the FF Series. These characters are very real; they have problems, ambitions and fears. They love and hate. They experience real hope and true despair. Final Fantasy VIII is truly the last great love story of the 20th Century... a story for the ages.