Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII 19: Cowboy Aesthetics [D-District Prison Escape]

It’s time to play the action movie.  This time we’re following monsters to find Squall, fighting other monsters in jail, suffering exploration monotony, beating a man for his Battle Meter upgrade, improving Squall’s humanity, concocting a…

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Final Fantasy VIII 20: What’s a Smithereen? [Missile Base]

I don’t want to die, there’s so much in life I want to enjoy. On this episode we’re ramming a car into a mountain, leisurely ignoring imminent missile attacks, shaking down Caraway, bullshitting our way into a base, tricking idiot soldiers,…

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Final Fantasy VIII 21: I Love Clockin’ In [Return to Balamb Garden]

What’s on your mind, old man? Maybe it’s loafing amid a crisis, fighting faculty members, doubting the dawn of time, refusing to swear an allegiance, having a meltdown, suffering hot dog denial, falling for a hologram, taking a knee, arguing…

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Final Fantasy VIII 22: Alien in the Basement [Return to Balamb Garden, Part II]

I sent my students to kill my wife. And yet, we’re eliminating symbiotic organisms, transforming our school into our car, admiring the balcony vista, setting out to open sea, thinking too much, half-assing a tour of our school, experiencing…

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Final Fantasy VIII 23: Lonely Twerp [Fisherman’s Horizon, Part I]

Hi, I’m done crying. Today we’re learning about a sea monster, listening to Selphie’s thoughts, hearing the reality of Garden’s origin, exploring the paradox of Edea’s SeeDs, using Ellone to bridge time, toiling in bed, ramming our military…

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Final Fantasy VIII 24: This MF (Master Fisherman) [Fisherman’s Horizon, Part II]

If you can drink every day, you must be in good health. This time we’re visiting a sullen expatriate, apologizing to a pissy mayor, accepting we’re beacons of violence, deducing cigarette etymology, watching diplomacy fail, calling for the Iron…

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Final Fantasy VIII E25: The Ballad of Wimbly Donner [Garden Festival]

We must heal the trauma of war with music. On this one fourth of one hundred episode we’re planning a show, arranging a score, selecting instruments, becoming the cowboy, watching Squall sleep, wearing our Sunday best, trapping our dick, absolutely…

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Final Fantasy VIII E26: Nida is the New Bingo [Centra Ruins]

Let’s play for fun, from now on. This time we’re becoming Commander, taking down Card Club cardsters, meeting the true CC King, piloting army school across the world map, surviving twenty minutes, observing an octahedral frame, appreciating lost…

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Final Fantasy VIII E27: Non-Traditional Looking Sentient Beings [Shumi Village]

Specialist is surprised they let you in. Tonight we’re going to an isolationist village, paying five G’s for Ultima, going 323 meters underground just for fun, listening to diegetic Julia, reading at a bad time, finding a god damn Laguna statue,…

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