This was the first "Spoony Experiment" I ever saw, and this made me love the series! It's sad that he is no longer doing "The Final Fantasy Series", I figured he was going to do Final Fantasy X. But I still love his new reviews, Dirty Dancing was great, and so was this, all you "That Guy Friends" will LOVE this anthology!

This is one of the first Spoony's I saw and even though I never played FF (nor cared for it much) I loved this.

But beware: one of the episodes - the 2nd one I think - is pretty painful to watch (the demonstration of spell drawing or something), which was kinda the point, but I guess some could give up on the "series" because of that. My suggestion - don't, you'd be missing some really great stuff. Also, I'm sad Spoony never really made a "Conclusion", the series just stops suddenly.. :(

Huh. I searched for "U Mad" on google.
This post was the first result.

I've already seen this vid on spoon's .com. It's a great review, had a few goodl augh and I really enjoyed it

"I'll be in my bunk."

You win, sir.

Indeed.

I was actually hoping you would use that quote, what with the music and all.

umm the way you make talk about the game of course its going to look shit especially this is how you really see the game. I can do this to any of the best games of all time and it will make it look like shit. Your really trying to hard, but I got to admit it was pretty funny. I just hope you werent serious. I mean I understand somethings that can be annoying but the Gunblade? really? Like there has never been 1 million weapons just as crazy and you spent like 3 mins on it. Now FFVIII probably itsnt the best FF (FF6 is!) but its one of the best for sure.

The gunblade never made sense to me. Doesn't help the barrel of the gun part seems to be non-existent... I mean, wouldn't pulling the trigger on a bullet which had nowhere to go be dangerous?

The magic system is... Stupid. On the one hand, it is just as annoying as it sounds to draw all that magic. But on the other side... Once you have 99 of some of the spells, you're never going to want to cast again because you've essentially turned your character into an invincible god powered by arcane magic and strange summons.

And I admit its been about eight or nine years since I've played the game... But I could swear that once you summon something once, you could maybe not skip it, but get an abbreviated version of the summon.

The gunblade works like this: It's loaded with shells that, when the trigger is pulled, release a blast of energy that pulses down the blade. This increases its damage immensely.

I cant believe u actually did this game finally some one else feals my pain i cant believe the creators of 8 thought any of what they did was a gud idea i wanted to kil myself trying to draw all that magic ugggh it was horseshit 7 was way better comparibly

This would be one of my favorite spoony videos xD

I love the part about the hot teacher lol

I hated Final fantasy 8. The graphics are awesome for being on a PlayStation but I hate the game play so much. I also didn't like the plot very well, I didn't get that far because of the really bad game play. About the game play, the game play is really wrong and I really hate that you have to drain mana from your enemies. The summons are too weak and too common, and for example Ifrit is just as strong as Fire 2/Fira as in other games. There's also too much running around, and the things the other people tell you seems sometimes unimportant. Then its also a bit hard to know where you are supposed to go.
About the other FF games. FF7 and FF6(same as 3) are some of the best games I ever played so I don't have much to say about them here. FF9 was also really good but I had to rush trough the game as I borrowed it. FF10 was kinda good, but there some thing I don't like about that game tough. I never accepted FFX-2 as a FF game and never played it, and never played FF11 as well as its online. I just bought FF 12 this summer and I don't like they got rid of the old turn based and turned into a wannabe-MMORPG like game, but I managed to play with it and the plot seems interesting.

One thing I never got: they let you name party members...but only like half of them.

I can't listen to this. What the fuck have you done with the sound? Is that your idea of editting?

I'm a final fantasy nerd and I I love most final fantasies. But I gotta admit this game had no end to the annoying factors. I wanna know what he says about the card game.

I couldn't agree more with what you said, and I even forgot about the stupid card game system. I never got past the first disc of FF8, mainly because I played it at a friend's house and the game froze at the final cut scene, but in a way I'm glad I never saw the rest of the game because the first disc was just bad enough. You might as well have your GFs be your fighting characters because standard weapons don't do jack.

i never knew so many FF fanboys were located on this site judging by some of the comments. I'l give FF its due, the series is a pretty solid series (im mentally blocking 10 through 12) but it aint Jesus people. FF8 really is the weak link in the chain. the levelling up/ junctioning system is just so god-awful, i was a fan of FF when i played 9 and i wanted to check out the rest of them, but 8 just didnt stick with me at all, probably proof that cutting edge graphics (at the time) didnt make an enjoyable game.

and maybe i was wrong about the TGWTG community being in general higher brow than youtube, well done to the minority who are spoiling it, you have proved you are closed minded to opinions.

I loved watching this series on Spoony's site. I mostly enjoy the Final Fantasy games (I started with 9 and revisted some of the past ones) but I'll never say the games could do no wrong. (Who though the god-awful draw system was a good idea?) I guess you could say I'm a Final Fantasy fan, but not a fanboy.

My GOD. I remember watching this for the first time when I was introduced to your reviews, and this was what sold me to your superiority among video game reviewers. I had thought that you were going to complete the entire game, but then again, if I had nearly the frustration that you had playing this game (...actually, I did), then I'd have stopped as soon as possible too!

I'm hoping to see very similar "epic" reviews of this caliber by you sometime soon.

suddenly, i don't feel so bad for being the only one in my clique of friends that DIDN'T like FF back in junior high/high school.

whew.

your voice is only coming out one side of my speaker set.. I checked and yeah its not my setup.. might want to look into that.

It's one of his first reviews, and yes I do know about it, and there is nothing we can do right now unfortunately. :( I just wanted to showcase this review series on this site.

Spoony, you are a comedic god! wish you would've touched one Quistis's whip though. Bet she could get real kinky with that.Teacher, i've been a bad boy...how bout you give me detention and break out your whip, cuz i'm naughty...She ever tried chocobo style? Oh, and Cloud ftw!!!

it's no biggie just wanted to point that out haha.

I almost want to go for the ironic dick move here.

"This review was okay, but you should continue doing FF8!"

Ah, now that's out of the way, this review was pretty good. A lot of people are hating, but for a first time watcher of these critiques, this was damn entertaining. People are going to hate on this video for the sure purpose of hating on it, but nuts to them!

This is the best use of my internet ever. Seriously, you guys defending drawing, suck dick. It's a terrible design flaw whether you had to use it or not, and you can't defend it by saying "you can refine magic" because refining magic turned FF8 into an entirely one-sided and unbalanced game. Either it was boring because you had to grind too damn much, or it was boring because you looked at all enemies and they died. You never even have to level up, just junction Death to your status attack and you're set forever.

One of my all time favorite Spoony reviews :3 I really hope you continue it or at least review another FF game like you did with FFVII (which was also an epic hallucinatory review ).

I also find it hilarious how some people are getting butt hurt over this. This is FUNNY. Who cares if he's "right or wrong" about what he's saying? Aren't reviews purely opinionated anyways? By complaining about how wrong he is or being a jerk only proves you are one of those creepy fanboys that Spoony mentions throughout the run of the reviews.
I also think it's a little unfair to say "I'm never going to watch any of his reviews because of audio issues". I'm not having problems at all :|

Never seen so many low rated comments before........guess lampooning Final Fantasy games will do that.