The Spoony Experiment

Final Fantasy 8 Finale (Creator’s Commentary)

by Spoony on July 19, 2009 · 124 comments

Just thought I’d put a link to the commentary on the front page! I hope you’ll find it…illuminating.

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HeartBurnKid July 20, 2009 at 5:41 am

@Omi-san: Since when? He does movie reviews as James Rolfe, but the game stuff he still does as AVGN.

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Mike B July 20, 2009 at 6:50 am

I started watching your stuff about a year back when i accidently came across your final fantasy 8 review searching for the name of a song to add to a project of mine…never stopped watching since. Ive noticed a huge change in you since you started out and im not quite sure if i prefer the old spoony or the new spoony, still love your vids…theres just something about the old way you used to do things and i cant put my finger on it…

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wolfen198 July 20, 2009 at 7:28 am

hey spoony.. um.. you said in your commentary that you said you felt kind of ill, did you also suffer from any insomnia perhaps? cause i experienced all of what you said except for the headaches, i hadnt slept for over 3 days straight and was starting to get insomniatic physocosis, thats when i panicked and took a sleeping pills… thats really weird dude… and scary, ….. *government conspiracy que*

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Slasgd July 20, 2009 at 7:50 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCxhcEZDQg

“eyes on me” asian singing. not super funny, but still funny.

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ObieWanCoyote July 20, 2009 at 7:55 am

Good luck w/ the new place Spoony. And don’t feel bad, I’ve been in and out of the nest more times than I care to think about and it looks like I’m heading back again.

But I have to ask, Burton’s ok right man, tell us he’s ok =P?

And I only cried during FF7 because I named Aries after my wife and Tifa after an ex that you’d recall from our card table days. “There’s no escape… =P”

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Ryguy987 July 20, 2009 at 9:02 am

Good Job Noah, You made it through the storm. Now you just need to get past the incoming hurricane and earthquake. You always make top quality internet entertainment and so we all thank you for how much Bullshit YOU put YOURSELF through just to keep us, the fans, happy. You are the World Wide Web’s last, best hope of good content.

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julie July 20, 2009 at 5:02 pm

been watching you for years, from the very begining and im sad to see it end. awesome job and though i love playing this game, i also love to hear you rip it apart! when i saw the ending i did notice the screw up with the whole raine/julia thing as well, and you do encounter raine for quite a bit of time actually, the whole scene when your in winhill fighting “giant caterpillars” the chick in the pub with the little girl (ellone) is raine. the subplot that squall is laguna and her son is only hinted at but it is implied.

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Evil Chuck Norris July 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Spoony, I can’t tell you how great it is to watch your videos! I love all of your video game commentary, and can’t wait to see what’s next on the roster.

Also, as highly lauded as the Final Fantasy series is -especially since seven, all of the faults are usually overlooked. Thanks for the view on this game -and especially pointing out just how BAT SHIT CRAZY this plot is. I remember how much of a struggle it was to finish at the time, and How I never wanted to pick it up again afterward. This game was a total chore to finish. So thanks again showing us -I laughed out loud with every episode. I can’t blame you for ending this early, after all this really was as thorough as it needed to be. Besides, there was no need to drag it out and make this as pointless and boring as the game itself was to finish. So really, thanks so much. You’ve really made this entertaining, and a BLAST to watch! Keep up the great work, man!!

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The_Jerk July 20, 2009 at 10:09 pm

Glad to hear that your coming back…can’t wait to see your new stuff

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tnt July 20, 2009 at 11:44 pm

You need to advertise yourself more.

I actually found you by accident (I think it was hillarious text review of Dungeons and Dragons movie). And turned out you are one of very (I mean it) very few persons, who has real entertainer talent (maybe TGWTG main guy is eqvivalent). so you need some more advertising or something.

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O´Brian July 21, 2009 at 11:51 am

Oh my god, I thought, this FF 8 thing can´t get better after the first audition of Dr. Insano….

But now…”Rinoa and Cifer: The (w)hole story” I nearly laughed until I was crying.

Absolut great…You´re a genius

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TorashiChishio July 21, 2009 at 2:09 pm

if you need any more sites with dojinshi (japanese fan comics, usually porn) then try rule34. don’t ask me how i know this

(it was one HELL of a bad dare…but addicting. you can find anything, but your childhood innocence will be utterly destroyed)

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Justin Hurkman July 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Am I the only one having trouble getting the video to load off the website? I’ve even tried using Internet Explorer instead of Safari and it’s still not loading.

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Justin Hurkman July 21, 2009 at 3:57 pm

I’m watching it now, but I had to select the WMV formatted version because the default FLV one wouldn’t load. Liking it so far.

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Jazzjazzjj July 23, 2009 at 8:37 pm

@dicemaster

I can’t remember nine, but XII had to be the worst character personalities (IMO). I’m I the only one that think’s that? What do you think…..

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mishi83 July 24, 2009 at 4:09 pm

Hi Spoony!
I really love and enjoy your work,including the ones about FF8;but FF8 still remaines one of my favourit game ever(and i really enjoyed Transformers 2 as well),even with all of it`s annoyance.
bye

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JousterRed July 25, 2009 at 9:21 pm

LOL man that sound effect is like ALL OVER He-Man!

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Dinodain July 26, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Good luck with the move Noah! Will miss the old room, but hey, when you have to go, you have to go. However there will always be something special about that room. To new beginnings, and a nice placing end to the Final Fantasy Review Series. Yay….

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nolz2112 July 31, 2009 at 9:05 am

I just played 4 hours of final fantasy x and I would understand if spoony doesnt want to review it because that game is fucking horrible. 100000000000 times worse than 8.

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Brandon Phillips August 1, 2009 at 11:29 am

Your fans want more final fantasy spoony!! Bend to their will!!!!!!!

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Shackel August 3, 2009 at 9:02 pm

A spinny thing? You mean a “Floatation Ring”! I don’t know why they just didn’t use a Catapult Turtle to fling their Jet Motorcycles and Flying Mechs into it to cause it to collapse on top of Squall & Co. :D

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laura September 23, 2009 at 3:09 pm

haha, the perfect finale!
you’ve got to do some more final fantasy reviews. or at least some other equally ridiculous rpg series… star ocean perhaps? :P
keep it up, spoony.

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Blazearmoru November 7, 2009 at 4:14 am

First off, I love how you break down everything in a sort of cruel yet hilarious way. I’ve always loved criticism like this because I simply hate plot holes and randomness and things that are obviously unrelated and unimportant, or worse, unrelated yet crucial. I’ve always loved beautiful stories and complex plots. I realize alot of “stuff” I see today are horrible, just shit people pull out of their asses. They arn’t even trying anymore. But I noticed that YOU noticed alot more problems in Final Fantasy 8 than I did, and you hated 10. I personally liked 10 so I’m here to ask you to consider doing a video review of 10 to bash it so that I can see what I missed. Another thing I want to ask you is to look at the storylines of Fate/stay night and break that down as well because I found that story beautiful, (except for a few obvious problems… of course… >_>). I’m not demanding you to, I’m simply asking you to consider doing it if you have time. If you have any tips and warnings for someone aiming to be a novelist in the future. Please and thank you! Btw, your work is really funny. xD

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Jlawac November 16, 2009 at 9:30 am

I actually think you should do a review of Advent Children, as it would be a fairly small review that would get a lot of views and you already said that you could do a whole review on why it sucks.

Spoony for Advent Children Review!

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