Can You Beat Final Fantasy 8 With ONLY SQUALL?
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- Can Squall do it alone?
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Challenge Rules:
1. If Squall is in the party, he is the only one who is allowed to do damage to enemies.
2. The only action other characters can take is to attack themselves or other party members.
3. Until all other characters are dead, Squall may not take any action except attacking his party members.
4. Squall may only junction GF's that he acquired from enemies as well as the GF's he starts with at the beginning of the game
5. No gifts from other characters may be used unless they are required to advance the game.
6. Card mod can not be used to acquire magic beyond what is already available at that chronological point in the game.
7. No chocobo quests (that's a friend. We don't like friends.)
8. No invincibility (come on. It’s a challenge!)
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We JRPG fans consider not having friends so novel and unusual we happily watch long and intricate videos about it
Saving Rinoa isn't so much about being her friend, it's more about pissing off everyone in the world, and it's against her wishes, so win win?
Against her wishes because Squall is a douche and causes her to lose hope. She gave up because Squall had no idea how to say I love you and I'll be damned if they take you away.
Thanks for supporting my quasi-joke
Because I always draw GFs from bosses first thing I never realized that they gave them perks like Auto Reflect. Very cool little detail.
huh you wot???
@Aeris Gainsborough He says it right in the video. The Iguion (I probably butchered the spelling) have Auto-Reflect until you draw Carbuncle from them and then they lose it. Because I always Draw GFs first I never knew.
@@rpproductions6241 huh...just scrolling the comments and STILL finding new things out...I thought I was the BIGGEST geek at this game but...
@Aeris Gainsborough I thought I was fairly knowledgeable about this game myself but there's always new things to learn. Then again I haven't done challenge runs on this game yet myself so I'm not wholly surprised I never discovered this.
Does this happen to all the bosses with gf? Like does edea get something for having Alexander?
What I truly appreciate most about your solo character challenges is that you make them truly challenging. I know for a fact anyone could blow through this game with any single character if I play the way I normally do.
Cool video. Seems you have a challenge idea that you can apply to a lot of RPGs. Cloud Only, Tidus Only etc 👍
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I feel like a chance was missed by not asking, "What happens when Squall's friends actually go talk to walls and leave him by himself?" 😂
It’s not like hed care
some hidden part of this challenge seems to be that Tantacles doesn't use limit breaks, doesn't use cheat items, and mostly uses Magic attacks only :o
Challenges should be challenging!
It helps that enemies level based on the average party level, makes doing a solo squall run comparatively easy to some other titles in the franchise, specifically older ones.
Great run, awesome finale. Love your problem solving!
Love to see you branching out. All this recent growth is so deserved! Please just never stop being you, its refreshing to have a creator seem comfortable actually being themselves.
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Yay! I’m so happy that you do a video about the 8. I’ve been enjoying your content a lot lately and ff8 was a game I wished to see you do content on.
He carries the goddammit game even more so if you get lionheart in disc 1 with ungodly amounts of grinding
Another banger of a video! I love that you always include classic songs and themes from some of my favorite jrpgs in your videos. Tantacles content is best content!
Great video 👍
Just started watching your videos, and I'm loving it ❤
Thank you!
Nice one.
I like the limitations you put on yourself to stop it being a cakewalk.
Well done.
Thank you! Based on your profile pic, seems like I might need to do some Pokémon…
I died during that drill part on two play throughs as a adult. I thought I was a cut scene and I forgot about it the second time I played it…and thought it was a cut scene again 😂
I always love seeing your challenge runs. Wonder what your next one is. I would love to see you come up with a different FF6 one from the typical challenges.
For my next challenge I will get rid of all of my real life friends as fast as possible
"Can you beat FF6 WITHOUT turning all your party members into Ultima cannons?" (I can't)
Love the sudden realizations of stuff to make it work, great use of the Ace Attorney track
Sorry I can’t not… Squall isn’t affected by Blind. Like ever. His base accuracy is 255. He physically cannot miss a physical attack…. Even with Blind…. Just saying…
That aside… I love these challenge runs, honestly they’re so fun and you’re brilliant, I legit love your videos. Been a long time since I’ve seen videos that made me laugh out loud like that 😁
Blind does have an effect on Squall, it disables his gunblade trigger, so he loses the 50% damage increase he gets from that on his normal attack. In Exchange his limit breakers get even stronger, and honestly, its an excellent trade.
@@mauricesteel4995 you're right I should've been clearer, I just meant that he won't miss his straight attack. His trigger won't... well .. trigger, but his actual attack command will always hit.
ff8 is my favorite game. Super glad you did this!
i get the feeling that everyone who played final fantasy in their childhood ended up clinically insane later on in life.... that is, of course, operating under the assumption that any of us subscribe to clinical psychology
impressive journey you did. Also, this was nuts, especially the final battle which has as many main phase as there are PS1 Discs holding the original game
The music portion actually effects the conversation Squall and Rinoa have in that section, you can either make a bad mismash, eyes on me or an irish jig by assigning the right instruments.
Do other card players count as friends? If they don't, this challenge should be a cake walk
as someone who plays trading card games IRL i cna tell you they are not your friends many will shittalk and steal from you if you dont pay attention.
I’m so glad people are still playing this game in general
I never knew I needed Final Fantasy videos with Drag Race references and clips, but here we are.
Keep up the awesome work.
*tongue pops*
Been waitin' on the FF8 stuff. Hell yeah! 🤙
I applaud the use of World Revolution from Chrono Trigger at the end
You know, if you missed the GFs earlier you can draw them from the bosses in Ultimecia's castle. The only one I remember off the top of my head is Bahamut from Tiamat.
Any of the none-story & non-zone optional related Guardian Forces can be obtained through Ultemica's Castle. Eden, Alexander, Siren, Bahamut, Cerberus, Pandemonia, Leviathan, Carbuncle. Tonberry, Doomtrain, and Diablos (If you delete or sell the magic lamp) cannot be obtained in the final act, but Cactuar can if you beat the giant cauctar.
Hold up... I thought Tiamat gives you Eden. You still need to go that abandoned sea lab thingy to get bahamut and you can even do it on disk 4
@@adventureoflinkmk2 Okay, I looked it up and it's Siren from Tri-Point, Carbuncle from Krysta, Leviathan from Trauma, Pandemona from the Red Giant, Cerberus from Gargantua, Alexander from Catoblepas and Eden from Tiamat. Bahamut can only be gotten from the Underwater Research Lab.
@@noahhobson4521 interestijg.. didnt know you can draw cerberus on disk 4. Learn something new everyday lol
I say this on any ffviii video I watch.
My favorite part of 8 is paying more attention to the dialogue from anyone other than Squall's point of view.
Let me explain>
There is a scene where Seifer is being sentenced to death for the attack on the president.
Squall and friends are sitting around and talking about their relationship with Seifer. you got quistis talking about how he was a disruptive student but was in general a good person. Rinoa dated him and even though they are broken up she wonders if she had loved him. Zell hated the guy but he was 'one of us, y'know?' and then there's Squall. Leaning against the wall and listening to everyone talk about Seifer. Talking about how he WAS this and he WAS that. and as Squall put it 'talking about him in the past tense' as if he had already been executed.
We as the player, who gets to hear all of Squall's inner monologue get to 'hear' what Squall is really feeling about the situation and can relate to Squall in some way. He starts to wonder if others will talk about HIM the same way when he dies. He WAS this he WAS that. and this truly upsets Squall. Eventually these feelings bubble to the top and he shouts out " I will not be talked about in the past tense" and runs out the room. This makes sense since we got to connect with Squall in only a way the player can.
Now remove his inner monologue and look at it from everyone else's point of view.
One of their crew has just been sentenced to execution and now are talking about the person he was and their relationship with him. Friend, Frenemy, Lover. When suddenly, Squall jumps up and yells " I will not be talked about in the past tense " and runs out the door.
It's absolutely hilarious.
"Is he off his junctions?"
There are so many interesting views to look at with this game because of Squall’s internal monologue, it’s really cool. But it’s not like Squall’s reaction is in the spotlight when he freaks out, everyone thinks hes being a whackass too because Selphie springs up and yells “are you MAD?”. Also its worth mentioning that Rinoa never dated Seifer, she just had a crush on him. She says she doesn’t know if Seifer ever liked her back
@@LyntzbartzkyPerez I do agree that it was probably just a crush but there was a small hint they could have gone out at least once or twice. I had to search for a script for the words but right after she was questioned if he was her boyfriend she wondered if it was love and wondered how he felt then said " It was last summer... I was 16. Lots of fond memories... " Which don't necessarily hint much but in a later scene Seifer tells her " remember a year ago we... " and then gets interrupted. They could have just hung out and been good friends with a potential romance in the future or he could have known how she felt and was saying this to manipulate her in some way ( As this was once he became the sorceress' knight and this was right before one of the fights you have to have with him )
This video was fantastic squallity keep up the good work
Thank you!
I love your channel so much. XD
26:32 Final Fantasy 1 had the flying fortress, which turned out to be a satelite in orbit. The moon in FF4 as you mentioned, and in FF7 taking the huge materia to space.
If you think this is insane, Beat Nocturne on Hard with no extra press turn with Demi-Fiend only would send you to an Asylum. LOL
You just made my day a bit more interesting
You combined Final Fantasy 8, Drag Race memes and Persona 5 music in the background all into 1 video and for that alone I will subscribe
My schtink finger thanks you
60+ deaths. Thats brutal. lol You should live stream on youtube every now and then. I like to watch you actually doing these runs live.
I just discovered your content and I am rolling xD
Final fantasy and Drag Race references? I've found my people 😍
Great video, impressively done.
To answer your question, yes, I have died in the sequence where the prison is going back into the sand. I've also managed to die during the sinking sandship sequence in Xenogears.
Being honest Squall with just auto attacks and the multi attack junction ability can result in you casually dealing over 20k damage a turn with max stacks of the right draw magic applied to stats.
I don't trust what you say because you're a cat.
Love the videos man just found this channel and I'm loving the rpg runs and would like to see a xenosaga challenge run if anyone has heard of that game
The submerging jail killed me as an adult - there were many times i didnt understand i had control, but thought i was in a cutscene. Oops.
#metoo
I feel what you said about FF4. Going to the moon just feels like another cave or underground section.
9:03 "Of course I have a terrible Memory"
Yeah, like forgetting that Squall has 255% Accuracy and CANT MISS, even while blind.
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In classic, you could skip the tutorials once they actually started by holding cancel as the menu came up. Not sure if that functionality ported, but try it out
You can... skip them by pressing B (Xbox, i think its Circle on Playstation)
CUH-TOE-BLEH-POSS he says (catblepas)?! dude this was an insane video, love it! especially chaotic
You know me so well…
Thank you
"How did I mess that up?"
That's a question I ask myself on a daily basis. haha
i just blow the like and subscribe button, nice run!!
I, too, died at the submerging jail. It gave no indication I was supposed to move.
Final Fantasy + Drag Race = One more subscriber Love the videos
Damn. That looked HARD AF
In the Balamb Garden civil war part of the game, you dont need to fight the T Rexaur. If you fight the enemies on the left and dorm, head back to the lift, and it skips the other 3 fights
WHAAAAT
@@tantacles old trick I remembered from my childhood, fight enemies at infirmary, stage, cafeteria and dorm, skips the carpark, training centre and library. Nifty for speedrun 😊
oh I definitely died during the submerging jail part.
Like how was I suppose to know that it wasn't just a cutscene?
I was a child!
This probably shouldn't be too hard. You can become broken so early in this game
Still possibly my new favorite creator
This old thing? 💅🏼
@@tantacles abso positively you better believe it.
You can use a Phoenix down on the president’s zombie form because he’s undead and instantly kill.
Literally died to the easiest boss in the game 😅
N00b moments, Tantacles edition
Best name for Rinoa; Go Away haha
omg i gagged " I have a terrible memory .. " Ru paul XDDD
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I suppose if you really wanted to you could make use of Eden's Devour command (or do the pupu quest for the 1 item that can teach devour) and oh so slowly raise most of Squall's stats to max without any magic junctions. At which point you have a bunch of junk magic in your stocks to protect your major offensive spells like meteor
Oh man this'll blow your mind, if the menu pops up in a tutorial just press triangle, can skip all of it.
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Every time boats are mentioned, I feel like there’s a reference to an argument you and your bf had about owning a boat 😂😂😂 it sounds SO personal lol
DO NOT BUY A BOAT
There are two days every boat owner remembers. The day they bought the boat, and the day they sold it.
Did you know if you go in and out of the area that raijin spawns when fight him the first time a certain amount of times he will just be there without doing the puzzle
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SERIOUSLY
@@tantacles Yeah try it
@@tantaclesI just checked the amount of times you need and it's 17
If you want easy Ultima spells there's a draw point outside Shumi village. You have to pay but it's not that much and it lets you get Ultima fairly early and without needing late game areas or abilities. Put it on elemental defense and you become immune to all elements.
ehh i like the idea that everyone looks like crap and squall just happens to be the best of the bad🤣
If I wasn't already subbed, I would sub again. For two reasons.
1:You're playing my first and favorite FF game.
2:You used Legend of Dragoon music for your channel plug. XD
I'm easy to impress. >.>
When I first played this game, I accidentally basically did this challenge. If you get early Diablo and just use Darkside Squall just deletes most enemies very quickly.
With the leveling system, this makes it much easier to play with only one character, it's the only way I play it, but I junction everything and only use other characters when needed. I like being overpowered
I would actually argue that squall and decider are quite close. Especially at the offset, they know each other more intimately than any other two characters.
Beating the game with other character than Squall would be good to see
I'm a little late to the party on this one (we were on our honeymoon!), but this challenge run was really impressive to see. Definitely a lot to account for in FF8, but seeing you adapt and overcome, finding solutions to the problems that came up was really cool, and all without breaking the rules! Side note, it was cool of you to put the footage of you playing in the corner, your reactions and facial expressions were great and you could see just how seriously you were concentrating towards the end of the run. Were you livestreaming this somewhere or just recording yourself for the video?
Thank you!
I was just recording myself this time. I plan to eventually stream these runs (and gameplay like it) on CZcams, but I want to make sure I have an audience for that first. Streaming to no one is exhausting business, and I know that because I’ve tried it!
@@tantacles Totally understand! Keep up the awesome content!
This is the greatest video ever
I did this when I was a kid. Love this game.
There is something so charming in the edginess and grindfest that is FF8, is far from my fav FF title, yet is my most replayed one. It's hard to explain... whatever
haha apparently i never finished the video so im back. i guess the failsafe is play the game as low level as you can and then at the end of the game use the stat plus abilities and level to 100. you can get to the point where you wont need to junction much and have much better stats. you can be level 100 and because of team members the average level will be around 40. As enemies are +/- 20% of your party level 32-48 will be the target levels and your stats will be insane lol. its possible that later because squall will be solo with no other team members the forms will be max level. but Ultimicia caps at 65 and later 30, so it wouldnt be much harder.
You can actually skip tutorials in FF8 by pressing the cancel button, circle by default.
The Kandy Muse cameo at the beginning really took me off guard 😂
I'm going to watch this, I'll edit comment once I finish. Reaction to the tittle "Of course he can, he's Squall "
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Zell is literally male Tifa gameplay wise. I like the dude he'll punch anything
21:30 Jokes on you, I'm already subscribed.
Man this video highlights how great FFVIII's combat system could've been if the game wasn't rushed and had more time to be balanced.
It had potential but its way too easy to exploit and become op.
@Account2-ng6hr true, tho I found that to be a charm in itself it def robs the experience of noticing subtle stuff like how drawing the GFs changes the dynamic of fights because I'm either steam rolling bosses on a casual playthru or spamming limits in desperation on a challenge run.
"He denies this cute little twink a handshake". Squall is all about big guys or skinny girls.
Side note: I love the Persona 5 and FFIX songs vibing in the background.
Word, a challenge run I actually wanna do myself.
Most other runs seem just annoying.
Wow. You piss off alot of people off. Definitely a refreshing change of pace lol
An annoyed viewer is a happy viewer, I always say! 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼
I subscribed once...took it away and re subscribed again it was that great. Keep it up bud. Cheers
Not every video can be for every person, but I really appreciate that you tried watching another one.
Mallow only on Sunday.
Not a single complaint. You good bro
I did indeed die during that one prison eacape scene when I was a kid.
I too died on the rails at the desert prison. And I had/have the guidebook. I actually went the wrong way the first time lol.
I love how Blue Dragon is clearly green
I enjoy these, and I get that it's more fun and a little bit of speedrunning as opposed to trying to squash the challenge as hard as possible - but I'm pretty sure you could beat the game with solo-Squall much more convincingly. I can't remember which release it was - maybe PS4 - but one of the releases of the game even had a trophy for completing the game at initial level, which makes sense; 95%+ of the player power in this game comes from the junction system, with the arguable 'easiest' way to get magic and items for it being from Triple Triad and cards.
I guess it's ultimately the tight-rope of making an entertaining video - min-max too much and it's too easy and the video is boring, but don't do it at all and the challenge might barely get passed, if it does at all.
Absolutely. And cards were banned for this challenge!
@@tantacles Ah, fair enough. Keep up the entertaining content! Currently working my way through the old stuff, very enjoyable!
Squall being blind doesn't make him miss... 255 percent accuracy from jump...
Just a note if youre ever stuck in a tutorial again. Hold circle, it skips the tutorial.
Thank you!
You go to space in FF4, FF7, and depending on how you see it the the Sky Castle/Floating Castle in FF1 some argue is in space too, but at the very least FF4 and FF7 you go to space even if briefly.
My answer: YES.
However, even before facing off against Ifrit, I already have Punisher, Squall's second most powerful weapon, and powerful junction spells by ABUSING the CARD ability and card mod. Worth it.
Card mod? In a challenge run? Absolutely not! 😉
Most canonical run ever
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good stuff tantaces, but the Hero item make you invincible to all attacks, including shockwave Pulsesar(I think you get it from fighting Seifer)
Too easy. Challenges should be challenging.
@@tantacles Well you taught me about SPR. I didn't know if you knew about the Hero Item. I love FF8 and great video
You can skip Quistis's tutorials :) Just press cancel when the first text box pops up and it will take you out of the tutorial.
Loving you posting more and more RPG content. I'm all for your Joke-aholism. Thanks for having fun with your videos and challenges too, it shows :).
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Unfortunate when I was a kid my friend and I gave each other scars BECAUSE of this game right where they have them.... My mother was pissed but to this day you can see the scar which is hard to explain lolol
But did you take the day off of school…
@@tantacles *Heisenberg* You're God damn right
Thats kinda emo
This is gonna blow your mind, but the tutorials at the beginning are skippable