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F I N A L F A N T A S Y V I I I
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Final Fantasy VIII (US. Version)
By �mer Taner SARPER
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Table of Contents
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1. Basic Tutorial
[1.1] The Basics
[1.2] Playing the Game
[1.3] Basic Configuration
2. Walkthrough for Disc 1
[2.1] Familizing yourself with Balamb Garden
[2.2] Fire Cavern - The Field Test
[2.3] Dollet Dukedom Parilament
[2.4] The Night at Balamb Garden
[2.5] The Train Trip - Mystery and Murder
[2.6] The Sorceress at Timber...
[2.7] Laguna's Dream Sequence #2 - Centra Evacuation Site
[2.8] Galbadia Garden
[2.9] Quest at the Tomb of Unknown King
[2.10] Assassination Plan
3. Walkthrough for Disc 2
[3.1] Winhill- Laguna's still alive!
[3.2] Held Captive
[3.3] Galbadia Missile Base- Prevent the Launch!
[3.4] Balamb Garden - War between Garden and SeeD Academy..
[3.5] Arrival at Fisherman's Horizons
[3.6] World Tour for Disc 2
3.6a Card Quest at Balamb Garden
3.6b Zell's Love Quest
3.6c Deling: Still as busy as a bee
3.6d Dollet: It has become a busy town!
3.6e Timber: A mysterious jounery...
3.6f Winhill: Still as quiet as ever...
3.6g Shumi Village
3.6h Centra Ruins
3.6i Chocobo Guide
[3.7] Balamb under Galbadian Occupation
[3.8] Trabia - Childhood Memories at the Orphanage
[3.9] The Garden Crash
4. Walkthrough for Disc 3
[4.1] Edea's House - Truth Revealed!
[4.2] Trabia Canyon - Laguan's 4th Dream Sequence
[4.3] White SeeD Ship - Trip to Legendary Esthar
[4.4] Great Salt Lake - The Gateway to the Legendary Esthar City
[4.5] Laguna's 5th Dream Sequence - At Esthar
[4.6] Esthar City - Seeking Treatment at Lunar Base
[4.7] Esthar Under Lunatic Pandora Attack!
[4.8] Lunar Base - The Lunar Cry Incident
[4.9] Sorceress Memorial Hall - Rescue Rinoa!
[4.10] The Great World Tour for Disc 3
5.10a Lunar Base Crash Area
5.10b Obel Lake Mystery
5.10c UFO Sighting Incident
5.10d Ultimate Weapon Upgrading
5.10c Cactaur's Island
5.10d Centra Ruins Revisited
5.10e Deep Sea Research Center
5.10f Deep Sea Deposit
5.10g Shumi Village - Laguna's statue completion.
[4.11] Esthar Revisited - Meeting President of Esthar
[4.12] Final Showdown at Lunatic Pandora
5. Walkthrough for Disc 4
[5.1] The awakening of the Sorceress
[5.2] Ultimecia's Castle - The Sealed Truth
[5.3] The Battle of Destiny
6. Frequently Asked Questions
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1.0 Basic Tutorial
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Here you will find broad guideline to guide you begineers in great
players for this epic RPG game. If you already understood, skip this
section and proceed to the main walkthrough.
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Basics stuff that you should know...
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_____Playing the Game from the Beginning_____
Point the cursor at the first Option [NEW GAME] and enter your decision
with the X button. You will need to press any button to skip the Staff
Introduction Movie to proceed to the title screen.
_____Continue from Save Data_____
When you want to play using SAVE DATA to continue from the previous
point, select the 2nd option [Continue] and press X. You will be
brought to the Save Menu. You can only save up to a maximum of 15 slots
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_____Changing Disc Warnings_____
As you proceed through the adventure. Do NOT turn off your Playstation
Console. Just open the Playstation Lid and pop in the next disc and
the game will automatically resumes itself.
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Playing the Game
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The Main Menu is a very important section as it allows you to use
items, view stats of your characters and GF, saving your game, adjust
game settings, etc. Read this if you have any enquires about the game.
_____MAIN MENU_____
Here is the brief explaination of the functions of the sub-headings of
the main menu.
Junction: Allows you to set up your Guardian Forces and abilities
Item: Allows you to use items or rearranged your items
Magic: Allows you to use and trade magic with other characters
Status: Allows you to view the stats of your characters.
GF: Allows you to view the Guardian Force's level and to develop your
monsters' job skills.
Abilities: Allows you to use the abilities learned by the G.F.
Party Change: Allows you to change your party at the World Map or at
the Save Point.
Cards: Allows you to view the cards that you have.
Configuration: Allows you to adjust your game settings.
Tutorial: A very precise learning guide on how to play FF8.
Save: Allows you to save your game. This option will only be selectable
if you have approached a Save Point and at the World Map.
Junction
Item
Magic
Status
GF
Ability
Switch
Card
Config
Tutorial
Save
Well, recently just discover this... You can actually change your
characters' formation. Squall is not necessary needed to stand in the
middle. Just select the character that you wished to switch and you can
have some fun!
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Junction Menu
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What is their purpose?
### Strength ###
This factor affects the attacking power of your character. The higher
the stats, the more damage your character will inflict with the Attack
Command.
### Vitality ###
This factor effects the defensive power of your character. The higher
the defensive stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your
opponent.
### Magic ###
This factor effects the magic attacking power of your character. The
higher the stats, the more damage your character will inflict when
using magic.
### Spirit ###
This factor effects the magic defensive power of your character. The
higher the stats, the lesser the amount of damage inflicted by your
opponent when it uses magic.
### Speed ###
This factor effect the speed of your time bar or ATB (also known
Active Time Bar). The higher the stats, the faster the ATB is.
### Evasion/Evade ###
This factor effect the rate whether your character will escape from an
enemy's attack [causing a MISS in the opponent's attack]. The higher
the stats, the more chance your character will dodge from an attack.
### Hit ###
This factor effect the rate whether your character will hit your
opponent with the Attack Command. The higher the stats, the lesser
chance that your character will miss an attack. Gunblades have 255%
hit rate.
### Luck ###
This one I not quite sure. But I think that it will effect the rate
whether the Odin will appear. It also effect the rate whether your
character could escape from status ailments such as death. If you have
the luck stats of 100+, you will be able to see the Gilgamesh in
between battles! I guess it also affects the critical hit rates.
### Status Attack ###
This is similar to FF7's Elemental combo on your character's weapon
Your character will inflicit damage and also causes status ailments
on your opponent. For example if you want to cause Sleep with your
character attack, junction Sleep to your Status Attack with ST-Atk-J.
The above mentioned combo is the key to survive for this game.
### Status Defense ###
I myself prefered this than status attack. This works like FF7's
Elemental combo on your character's armor. Your character will receive
protection against the status that you have junctioned. For example if
you want your character to be protected against Confuse, junction
Confuse to your status defense (ST-Def-J)
### Elemental Attack ###
This is rather USELESS. If you want to do more damage against Fire-
based monsters such as the Bomb, junction Blizzard to your junction as
Blizzard works well against Fire. However, ice-based monsters will
nullifies the attack, thus you are helping them to restore lost HP!
The Elem-Atk is pretty helpful if you know about the BOSS beforehand.
### Elemental Defense ###
This is much preferred against Elemental Attack. As you can recieved no
damage from elementals or nullifies it and restore your HP. This
ability could make your life easier. If you junction 100x Ultima to your
Elemental defense, you will be able to nullify any kind of magic. For
example if you want your character to protect well against Fire,
junction Fire to the character's Elemental Defense. (Elem-Def-J)
Well, since you already know what the abbreviations stands for, I will
now proceed to the sub-menu headings:
Press X and choose the "Junction" tap. The top tool bar will have the following
options:
- GF -
This allows you to set the GF monsters that you would like the character
to use and this will lead to the Auto and Ability Menu. After selecting
this command you will have the following screen:
Diagram 2.2D: Guardian Force selection tab.
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| Well, let's get started.
G.F Page No. 1 G.F Page No. 2 | Here is the layout of
_________________ __________________ | all the GFs. []
|Quezacotl [] | |Brothers | | represents a character
|Shiva | |Diablos | | has already picked the
|Ifrit [] | |Carbuncle | | GF If you point the
|Siren | |Leviathan | | cursor next to it, you
|_________________| |__________________| | will see the name of
| the character that the
G.F Page No. 3 G.F Page No. 4 | GF is currently
_________________ __________________ | equipped with. Press
|Pandemonium | |Bahamut | | D-Pad right or left
|Cerberus | |Cactaur | | to change pages. Press
|Alexander | |Tonberry | | X to select the GF and
|Doomtrain | |Eden | | Press Circle after you
|_________________| |__________________| | you have equipping your
| Guardian Forces
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< Magic >
If you have acquired junction abilities [icons with "UP" sign], you will
find that you can junction magic to bolster your character's stats. This
is rather difficult and here is a part of it. Press X and you will see
the Magic Inventory Pages on the right of character's photo.
Diagram 2.2E: Magic Inventory fused with Junction Menu
A portion of the screen...
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| | |Magic P1 Num | I have "cut" the screen to a small
| Photo | |Fira 100 | part as what I am saying will be
| of | |Blizzard 100 | focusing on within this area. For
| Squall | |Thunder 100 | example if you want to junction 100x
|________| |Blizzaga 100 | Fira to your Strength [provided that
________|__________________| you have acquired Strength J]. Select
| <-- Elem-Atk/Elem Def | Str and select the magic from the
|___________________________| character's magic pages [1~8]. Press
Left and you will see the following
screen [below]. You will also see a
"[]" next to the magic.
Elemental Attack/ Defense Junction Window
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___________________________ Tip: Press Left to change back to
|<-- ST Atk/Def ABILITY >| Status chart. Press Right to
|___________________________|_____________________ Return..
| Fire 100% Poison 0 % |
Elem-Atk ----- | Ice 0 % Wind 0 % |
|>Elem-Def Fira | Thunder 0 % Water 0 % |
Elem-Def ----- | Earth 0 % Holy 0% |
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Status Attack Junction Window
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___________________________ Tip: Press Right to change back to
| Elem Atk/Def-->| Elemental chart.
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| Death 0% Zombie 0% |
|>ST-Atk Silence | Poison 0% Sleep 0% |
ST-Def ----- | Petrify 0% Slow 0% |
ST-Def ----- | Blind 0% Stop 0% |
| Silence 100% Confuse 0% |
| Berserk 0% Drain 0% |
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Status Defense Junction Window
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___________________________ Tip: Press Right to change back to
| Elem Atk/Def-->| Elemental chart.
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| Death 0% Zombie 0% |
|>ST-Atk Silence | Poison 0% Sleep 0% |
|>ST-Def Confuse | Petrify 0% Curse 0% |
ST-Def ----- | Darkness 0% Slow 0% |
| Silence 0% Stop 0% |
| Berserk 0% Confuse 100% |
| Drain 0% |
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Ocassionally, if you junction 100x of a spell to the characters'
attributes defense, you will see a green-colour star. This marks that
the spell being cast on the equipped character will be absorbed. A
green star marks 100% protection against the spell [which means it does
0 HP damage.] Over 100% will instantly absorb the spell.
Thanks to fuuie for his precise guide on magic junctioning.
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Removes all the spells are set using the Junction Menu. Your character
stats will change back to it's original. The numbers of the stats also
decreases. You will be given a message box, if you have junctioned
magic to the character's maximum HP through HP-J.
Removes all equipped Commands [GF command, Magic command, Item command,
Draw command, GFs command such as Recover set that is by using the
Junction Option. And of course the magic spells that are junction to
your character's stats. It removes the equipped GFs. This option works
well when you want to transport all GFs to another character.
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Optimizes the spells by configuring according to the attacking power.
The character's attacking stats are the highest by using the best
spells to Str-J (if avaliable)
Optimizes spells for the highest magic attack and defense. Junction
better magic [also giving you better results] to the Mag-J (if
avaliable)
Optimizes spells for highest defensive power. Junction the better magic
[also giving you better results] to the character's Vit-J (if avaliable)
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This option is the only way to configure what other actions, that your
character could perform besides the normal attacks and special attacks.
Once you have equipped a GF, you will have 4 four commands being set.
Here is the list of "Basic" commands [all GFs have it and mastered
them!]
Allows your characters to cast the spells that you have drawn from
opponents or Draw Points. Must have the draw command in order to
draw magic!
Allows you to summon the Guardian Forces. There you will see the HP of
the GF replacing the HP of the commanding character. There is a time
bar in blue. The monster will automatically being summoned as all the
blue bar has been used up. This can be cancel if the monster's HP
reaches zero, being under Confuse/Silence/Sleep/Berserk status.
|One of the most important commands used in the game. With this command,
|you can "draw" magic such as Fire, Fira and much more from enemies.
|NOTE: You must have this command in order to draw magic from the Draw
| Points [purple translucent bubbles].
|----[Stock]
|Saves the magic for later use. Up to the maximum number of 9 spells
|that can be drawn, this will depend on the level of your opponent, the
|level of your character and your luck. It will work better if you tap
|X repeatedly (it works for me..)
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|----[Cast]
|One charge can be drawn in this way, but the spell will immediately
|expelled. The spell is being used at half of the damage. But this
|situation is good for if you want to cast a spell that you have not
|drawn before. There is a high possibility of failure for you to draw
|hidden spells from enemies.
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Allows you to use items such as Potions, Phoenix Downs when engaged in
combat. This are pretty handy when your character is unable to use
magic [e.g. being silenced]. Also allows you to summon some special
monsters such as the Phoenix.
For the usage of other commands, refer to Part II for more details.
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I t e m
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Items apparently are one of the most important factors in FF8. They
will help you to restore HP, cure status disorder and helps in battles,
allow GFs to learn new abilities, get GFs etc. I have classified them
into six major groups
MEDICINE : Healing items such as Potions, Phoenix Downs and Elixirs.
JUNK : Items such as M-Stone Piece, Magic Stone and Screws.
These items can not be use through the item command, however
some of them provides some Limit Breaks for Quistis. These
items are also important for Weapon Upgrading. They can also
refine into magic through Magic Refinement Menu Abilities
like T-Mag RF
GF : Item used in restoring GF's lost HP or Life and allows GFs
to learn new abilities. Provide that you have enough space..
BATTLE : Items that are only useable through the item command. One
good example is the Gyshal Greens.
FIELD : Items that are group-based type, and only useable at Save
Points, examples are Tents, Pet Houses and Cottages.
BOOKS : Useful booklets which tells you requirements on Weapon
Upgrading, new moves for Rinoa and new moves for Zell.
AMMO : These items are only use battles through Irvine's Limit
Break, Shot. Most of them can be gotten through Ammo-RF
Drawing a full ASCII Art of the Item menu requires time, so I have only
draw out the Tool Bar.
Diagram 2.2F: Item Menu
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