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Final Fantasy VIII remastered

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  • #52
    Squall Leonhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Its been well over a decade. Remind how to break the game early on?

    I remember getting to the end (I think), fighting some witch in a castle, but I wasnt strong enough, or right weapons or something but the world map was locked. Was disgusted ha ha


  • #53
    Daith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭Daith


    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    Its been well over a decade. Remind how to break the game early on?

    Keep a low level and use GF abilities to refine items like cards, into magic and junction them.
    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    I remember getting to the end (I think), fighting some witch in a castle, but I wasnt strong enough, or right weapons or something but the world map was locked. Was disgusted ha ha

    I hated that the world gets closed off.


  • #54
    Evade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Evade


    Squall Leonhart wrote: »
    Its been well over a decade. Remind how to break the game early on?

    I remember getting to the end (I think), fighting some witch in a castle, but I wasnt strong enough, or right weapons or something but the world map was locked. Was disgusted ha ha
    Learn these abilities as soon as you get the GF

    Quezocotl: Card > Card Mod> T Mag-Ref
    Ifrit: HP-J > Str +20%
    Shiva: I Mag-Ref

    Play some cards and get 5 Abyss Worm cards. Turn them into Windmills with Card Mod and then Tornado magic with T Mag-Ref. Use I Mag-Ref to turn Fish Fins, Fastitocalon-F on the beach have them, into Water magic.

    Junction Ifrit to Squall. Put Water in HP for ~1000 HP early on and put Tornado into strength for ~70 Strength. Leave Squall at less than 25% HP and tap triangle on his turn to refresh the window until you get Renzokuken. Junction Str +20% whenever you get it too. That'll get you 4+ 500 damage hits per turn with Squall.


    Other good early game cards to watch out for:

    Grendel > Dragon Fin > Double
    Armadodo > Dino Bone > Quake
    Use Diablos' Time Mag-Ref to get the magic

    Gayla > Mystery Fluid > Meltdown
    Tri-Face > Curse Spike > Pain
    Use Diablos' St Mag-Ref to get the magic


  • #55
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Oh god, stat juggling.

    Is it possible to succeed with FF8, sticking with the "beating the enemy with a blunt or sharp object" tactic, or is this GF card voodoo necessary?


  • #56
    Evade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Evade


    You can play without refining any cards, you'll just have to draw all your magic or refine it from enemy drops. I'd always suggest having the GFs learn the stat junctions and magic refines before the GF boosting stuff though.


  • #57
    Manning3000
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭Manning3000


    How does the remaster look on PS4? Just bought it on the App should be downloaded for the time I am home tonight.


  • #58
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,882 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Oh god, stat juggling.

    Is it possible to succeed with FF8, sticking with the "beating the enemy with a blunt or sharp object" tactic, or is this GF card voodoo necessary?

    Yes you can. Just remember to draw as much magic as you can and focus on GF abilities that allow you to junction magic to stats and also to refine low level magic to high level magic (this becomes essential later on as you only have a set amount of different types of magic and will need to offload the crappier magic).

    Just whatever you do don't rely on using GFs. You should not be using them at all. You'll end up underlevelled and stuck once you reach a certain third disc boss.
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  • #59
    Evade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Evade


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    a certain third disc boss.
    Which boss?

    EDIT:
    Is it the Sorceress that's trying to absorb Rinoa?


  • #60
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,882 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Evade wrote: »
    Which boss?

    EDIT:
    Is it the Sorceress that's trying to absorb Rinoa?

    Yep, the noob destroyer.
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  • #61
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Hmmm interesting. I don't think I ever finished FF8 back when I played it as a teen; suspect not knowing how the system works I got to that cliff-face.


  • #62
    Evade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,805 ✭✭✭Evade


    I definitely fallen into my old habit of playing cards too much. I ended up having Squall's Punishment going on the SeeD exam.


  • #63
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭Underground


    The x3 really takes the misery out of grinding (cue Mrs Doyle meme).


  • #64
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭Underground


    The stuff you don't pick up on when you're a kid. Only when playing through this now does it dawn on me how much of an incompetent idiot Headmaster Cid is. He's actually infuriating.


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